Shuree Gootiiz

Chairperson & Board Member, Tech Education Fund

Shuree Gootiiz is the Chairperson and Co-Founder of the Tech Education Fund, bringing over 15 years of global leadership experience across AI innovation, international trade research, and large-scale development projects. A graduate of Cornell College, Johns Hopkins SAIS, and Carnegie Mellon University, Heiz School, Shuree has dedicated her career to building data-driven, people-centered solutions that create opportunity—especially for underserved communities.

Shuree currently serves as an AI Solutions Lead at Cencora, a Fortune 10 enterprise, where she helps design and scale cutting-edge AI applications across healthcare and enterprise operations. She leads cross-functional engineering and product teams, develops long-term AI strategies, and builds tools that improve efficiency, data quality, customer insights, and decision-making across the organization.

Prior to her work in corporate AI, Shuree spent nearly a decade at the World Bank Group, where she led influential international trade research projects across 100+ countries. Her work produced globally recognized data on services trade policy and informed negotiations and policymaking at the highest levels. She also managed multimillion-dollar research budgets and collaborated closely with international lawyers, economists, and government agencies around the world.

Shuree previously served as Managing Director of SDC Consulting in Mongolia, leading teams of over 60 professionals across government, agriculture, and regional development initiatives. She has secured major grants, advised policymakers, and created programs that strengthened local economies and expanded opportunities for rural communities.

Her professional journey—from growing up in Mongolia, to receiving life-changing support from mentors during her college years, to becoming a global expert in trade policy and AI—shapes her passion for TEF’s mission. Shuree founded the Tech Education Fund to ensure that talented, low-income students have access to the STEM education that can change their future, just as educational access transformed hers.

At TEF, Shuree leads strategic planning, fundraising, university partnerships, and long-term vision. She is committed to building a sustainable, high-impact foundation that empowers the next generation of scientists, engineers, and innovators—especially students from underserved communities in Mongolia and beyond.

She speaks English, Mongolian, and Spanish.