Press and speaking.
Everything you need to write about me or put me on a stage. Use the name Mo Yusuf. For anything else, email [email protected].
Appearances and features
- May 17, 2025Watch the speech
Commencement address, Central Connecticut State University
Spoke to the graduating class at my alma mater, where I earned my degree in 2003.
- 2025Read the feature
Global Entrepreneurs Review, premiere edition
Featured as one of 25 global entrepreneurs in the magazine’s first issue, for the work behind Imoye Academy.
Approved bios
Use these as written.
Cut from the end if you need fewer words. Please do not add titles or claims that are not here.
Short bio, about 50 words
Mo Yusuf is a revenue leader, author and teacher. He is a Vice President at Oracle, where he leads a cloud sales team for North America Retail and Hospitality. He has written two books and founded Imoye Academy, which trains African professionals in tech sales. He lives in the New York area.
Full bio, about 180 words
Mo Yusuf (Mohammed K. Yusuf) has spent twenty years building sales teams and fixing the ones that are not working, in startups, mid-sized businesses and Fortune 500 companies.
He is a Vice President, Cloud and Infrastructure, at Oracle, where he leads a cloud sales team for North America Retail and Hospitality that he grew from 4 to 10 people. Before Oracle, he spent more than a decade at Vicom, joining in 2007 as a Senior IT Sales Consultant and becoming Director of Sales in 2013, then founding and running its managed services business, ProServ, as General Manager and COO.
He is the author of two books, The Invisible Path (2026) and The Effect of Offshoring on the Information Technology Sector (2011), with a third, The Thinking Seller, on the way. He founded Imoye Academy, a tech sales training program for African professionals that runs cohorts in Nigeria and launches in Rwanda in 2027. He serves on the MIS Industry Advisory Board at Central Connecticut State University, where he gave the 2025 commencement address.
He lives in the New York area with his family.
Speaking topics
- Building a sales team from scratch, and what to fix first when one is broken
- Taking over a team you did not hire
- Teaching sales as a career path in Africa: what Imoye Academy has learned
- From sales rep to revenue leader: the jump nobody explains
Formats: keynote, panel, fireside chat, classroom lecture, podcast. I reply to every request within two business days.
Name and facts to use
- Name: Mo Yusuf. Full name on first reference if you need it: Mohammed K. Yusuf.
- Title: Vice President, Cloud and Infrastructure, Oracle. I speak in a personal capacity; my views are my own and not Oracle’s.
- Also: author of two books; founder, Imoye Academy; founder, IMTLY.
- Online, link my name to drmoyusuf.com so readers can find me and the right Mo Yusuf shows up in search.
Writing about sales or booking a talk? Write to me.
Tell me where revenue is stuck. I will tell you what I would do first.