Humayun Latif

President Strategic Systems International

Last Reviewed: September 28, 2026

Executive Summary

Humayun Latif is President of Strategic Systems International (SSI), a software development, AI and advanced analytics services firm with development operations in the United States, Germany, the UAE and Pakistan. A long-tenured SSI executive, he was promoted from Senior Vice President to President in June 2023, when the company said he had spent more than 23 years at the firm. His focus is commercial and operational: driving business growth, overseeing key client relationships and running account management for a firm whose clients have included Thomson Reuters, BASF, Newsweek and Kraft alongside venture-backed startups.

Career Highlights

• President of Strategic Systems International since his promotion in June 2023, charged with organisation-wide initiatives to fuel growth and enable global expansion.
• Previously Senior Vice President at SSI, overseeing key relationships and delivery of services.
• Leads client engagement and account management at a firm that reported 42% revenue growth in 2022 and a 40% annual revenue CAGR over the preceding five years.
• According to his company biography, has taught software engineering at Harvard University and mentors at technology incubators in the Chicago area.
• Holds an M.A. in Information Networking from Carnegie Mellon University and a B.S. in Commerce and Computer Science from McGill University.

Professional Journey

Latif studied commerce and computer science at McGill University and went on to a master’s degree in information networking at Carnegie Mellon University.

His career has been built at Strategic Systems International. SSI was founded by Shoaib Abbasi, who started it in Northwestern University’s incubator and grew it into a services firm working for Fortune 500 companies and technology startups, with global delivery centres. By SSI’s account, Latif’s work there has spanned client engagement, product development, architecture, delivery and the scaling of development teams, and he rose to Senior Vice President, overseeing key client relationships and the delivery of services.

In June 2023 SSI announced a set of leadership promotions. Latif moved from Senior Vice President to President, with responsibility for organisation-wide initiatives aimed at growth and global expansion; Shahab Ashraf became President International, running the international development centres, and Abbasi stayed on as Chairman, focusing on strategy, strategic clients and partnerships. The company said at the time that it had grown revenue at a 40% compound annual rate over five years, and earlier that year it had reported 42% revenue growth in 2022 and more than 500 employees globally.

Since then SSI has repositioned itself around applied AI. In May 2026 it announced an exclusive partnership with Cross Country Healthcare to offer its Optimé workforce optimisation platform through Cross Country’s Intellify platform, and in September 2026 it was named an OpenAI Select Partner in the OpenAI Partner Network. SSI also reports ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification. As President, Latif continues to lead client relationships and account management.

Outside his SSI role, his company biography says he has taught software engineering at Harvard University and serves as a mentor at technology incubators in the Chicago area.

Education

Carnegie Mellon University

Master of Arts (M.A.), Information Networking

McGill University

Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Commerce and Computer Science