# Ally Zhu

> Head of Product at Playbook

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/allyzhu

allyszhu.com

## Work Experience
### Head of Product @ Playbook
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Associate @ EY-Parthenon
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States
Software Strategy Group

### Lead Venture Partner @ Contrary
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022

### Venture Partner @ Contrary
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Providence, Rhode Island, United States

### Published Illustrator @ Penguin Random House
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022
- Copy-edit and illustrate economics professor Oded Galor's "Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality" (Penguin Group, 2022)
- Illustrate parts of Professor Erica Durante’s "Air Travel Fiction and Film: Cloud People" (Palgrave Macmillan 2020)

### Developer @ Develop for Good
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
Develop for Good builds software for socially responsible organizations.

### Business Analyst @ Arthur D. Little
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States
1) mapped out blockchain market and developed NFT strategy for a US publishing conglomerate; 2) helped a leading surgical robots manufacturer standardize their European sales process

### * @ Unknown
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
All I ever wanted was the World: a Coloring Book and Curation of Showerthoughts. A book of lined drawings paired with writings, excerpts, perspectives. Whimsical but also thoughtful, and aims to provoke thought about existence, political issues and the biggest challenges of our time.

### Product Designer @ Area28 Technologies Limited
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Hong Kong SAR
Area28 Technologies is a cloud-based collaboration platform empowering game development teams to connect in real time. Funded by Alibaba and Vectr Ventures.

### Venture Capital Analyst @ Vectr Ventures
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
www.vectr.co

### Business Strategy @ Epicenter Stockholm
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Stockholm, Sweden
Epicenter is Scandinavia’s largest startup incubator and co-working space.

### Co-Founder @ SAshare
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Shanghai
Built a platform that allows students to download exemplar work created by past students, and also receive payment for uploading their own.


## Education
### BSc in Computer Science
Brown University

### Parsons School of Design - The New School

### International Baccalaureate Diploma
Shanghai American School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/allyszhu
- Website: https://allyszhu.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-08