Room: 4513 Van Munching Hall

Phone: (571)-277-0642 

Email: yazizullah@rhsmith.umd.edu or yusuf11@gmail.com

Welcome to my webpage. I am an adjunct Strategy professor at University of Maryland's Management & Organization department at the Robert Smith School of Business.

I also teach at Johns Hopkins University's Carey School of Business & Stratford University. I have taught undergraduate & graduate MBA Finance, Ethics, Strategic Management, Business law, Globalization, International Business, Corporate Governance & New venture creation courses. I have also taught at NOVA, the second-largest community college in the United States. I have been teaching adjunct since 2004.

Yusuf's professional experiences include being the global Sarbanes Oxley & IT Compliance officer at the fifth largest global Pharmaceutical Company AstraZeneca's Biologics division MedImmune. Yusuf was responsible for global compliance & IT internal controls for USA & International countries. MedImmune was sold to AstraZeneca, a UK corporation in 2007 for $16 Billion and is one of the largest Biotechs in the State of Maryland.

He is an executive management consultant & lead finance, IFRS & Sarbanes Oxley compliance at major Fortune 100 companies Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AOL Time Warner, Thomson Reuters and MCI.

At Fannie Mae, he was part of an elite task force of executive officers responsible for responding to the Regulator the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO). Yusuf was responsible for the Budget, Expenses & Controllership for the Restatement / OFHEO Agreement division. Fannie Mae's Restatement was one of the largest in U.S. corporate history $6.3 Billion.

Professional associations, I belong and encourage my students to check out include;

• Ethics & Compliance Officer Association (ECOA)
• Society of Corporate Compliance & Ethics (SCCE)
• Financial Executive International (FEI)
• The Institute of Internal Auditor, Member (IIA)
• National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD)

At FEI, he was part of a task force responsible for editing & providing comments on COSO, an Internal Controls framework utilized by majority of Fortune corporations for Testing & Monitoring their Internal Control systems.

His topics of interests include Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), Internal Controls, Compliance with IFRS international accounting standards & Stronger Corporate Governance at the Board level.

He completed Executive Education at the Harvard Business School with a strategic focus on the Corporate Governance Track. Making Audit Committees stronger in a new Era of Governance.

Yusuf holds a Bachelors degree in Finance from George Mason University's  School of Management (SOM). He graduated with Honors at Strayer University with a MBA in Management & MS in Management Information Systems (MIS).