In her role as Chief Product Officer, Radhika is responsible for the vision, strategy, delivery, as well as the product P&L's for all Hitachi Vantara products and solutions spanning data storage, data management and analytics, and IIoT software. She leads the product development, product management, and product marketing functions for the company, in addition to go to market for Hitachi's Lumada SaaS portfolio. Radhika possesses a unique combination of deep technical expertise and business acumen, and extensive end-to-end P&L experience. She previously held leadership roles at Lenovo, HP, Cisco, NetApp, and Nimble Storage, incubating and scaling several businesses.
Before joining Hitachi Vantara in September 2020, Radhika was executive vice president and general manager of 3D Systems software workflow business.
She has a bachelor's degree in electrical and electronics engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, as well as a Masters in Business Administration from San Jose State University.
Betsy Sutter joined VMware in January 2001, where she has shaped the culture and employee experience while leading all aspects of VMware's people strategies and functions. In this role, she leads the hiring, development and engagement of the best and brightest, as VMware has grown from 100 employees to more than 38,000 globally.
As the developer of an ever-evolving human resources organization, including innovative expertise centers, service delivery channels and a modernized HR partnering organization, she has aligned the people strategies with the business goals. Sutter has also built (and re-built) a world-class staffing organization and has overseen the successful acquisition of more than 60 companies. In 2008, Sutter founded the VMware Foundation, redefining citizen philanthropy in the corporate world. She is also passionate about bringing inclusion and diversity away from the edge and into the core of VMware's priorities and operating model.
Prior to VMware, Sutter held senior management roles at Silicon Gaming, Digital Equipment Corporation, Aehr Test Systems, General Electric and Intersil. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in history from the University of California, Berkeley.
Jason Sobel joined The New York Times Company as chief technology officer in August 2021. In this role, Mr. Sobel leads our Product Engineering team to build quality software, evolve our technical standards and empower our teams to achieve engineering excellence. He reports to Meredith Kopit Levien, chief executive officer of The Times Company.
Previously Mr. Sobel was at Airbnb serving as head of infrastructure from April 2019 until March 2021. From April 2016 to April 2019, he was Airbnb's engineering director and global head of trust and safety operations, leading the team that developed the technology Airbnb uses to combat fraud that keeps hosts and guests safe.
Mr. Sobel was vice president of engineering at Quantifind from September 2013 to November 2015. Prior to that, he spent six years at Facebook, where he worked on its backend platform to help steer the company through a massive growth phase.
Mr. Sobel earned an undergraduate and master's degree in Computer Science from Brown University.
Fiona Tan is Wayfair's Chief Technology Officer, and oversees a global innovation team responsible for creating market-leading experiences through its world-class e-commerce platform. Prior to Wayfair, Fiona served as senior vice president of U.S. Technology at Walmart where she was responsible for innovation and engineering execution spanning its site, mobile app and all associate and merchant-facing technology across its e-commerce and stores business in the U.S. Her prior roles at Walmart include senior vice president of Customer Technology and vice president of Engineering. Prior to Walmart, Fiona served in a number of leadership roles at Ariba, where she led a global engineering organization responsible for the strategy, lifecycle, and delivery of the Ariba Commerce Network, as well as TIBCO Software. Fiona has a master's degree in Computer Science from Stanford and a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from MIT.
Summer has over 20 years of experience in IT ranging from enterprise software development and testing to professional services and customer success. Her current role as Chief Client Officer at Testlio has allowed her to return to her greatest passion: software testing. She has a passion for problem-solving and fully believes that technology enablers must be combined with business value outcomes to support successful customer adoption.
Fun Fact: I worked on the Space Shuttle Columbia MSL-1 Mission.
As Chief Customer and Partner Officer, Lara Caimi leads the Customer and Partner organization for ServiceNow. Lara took this new role in July 2020, after serving as ServiceNow's Chief Strategy Officer since joining the company in December 2017.
Lara's organization—which includes customer outcomes, customer experience, alliances and channel ecosystem, and our training & certification organization—provides our partners and customers with best-in-class guidance and capabilities to drive successful digital transformations and realize quick time-to-value. Before joining ServiceNow, Lara was a partner at Bain & Company, where she worked for 17 years. While at Bain, Lara advised technology companies on topics of growth strategy, go-to-market strategy, and M&A.
Lara joined the board of Confluent, the event streaming pioneer, in February 2020. She is also a member of FirstBoard.io, whose mission is to increase female representation on corporate boards and at the highest level of corporate governance and management. Lara holds a bachelor's degree in economics and English literature from St. Olaf College, a MIB from the University of Sydney as a Fulbright Scholar, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
As Chief Marketing Officer at Velodyne Lidar, Sally Frykman oversees the strategic development and execution of global marketing and communications programs that advance the company's innovative vision and goals. Since joining Velodyne in 2017 as its Communications and Education Manager, Sally quickly ascended through the organization to her current position, previously serving as Director of Communications, VP of Communications, and Chief Communications Officer. Her multifaceted role encompasses a wide array of responsibilities, including promotion of the Velodyne brand, thought leadership development, and robust sales lead generation fueled by highly engaging digital marketing. Additionally, Sally leads Velodyne's comprehensive public and media relations efforts.
Sally is deeply committed to advancing Velodyne's mission of transforming lives through safe mobility and smart communities. Her dedication to advocacy and education has spanned the entirety of her career, with previous positions in public school administration, classroom teaching, and social work. She earned a bachelor’s degree from University of California, Santa Barbara, and a master's degree from San Francisco State. A California native and nature lover, Sally enjoys hikes around the Bay Area with her husband, their children, and dog.
Fun Fact: Sally's dedication to advocacy and education has spanned the entirety of her career. Previously she was an educator, starting as a high school special education teacher and ending as an elementary school principal.
Kavitha Mariappan is a seasoned go-to-market executive with a penchant for rapidly translating technology into customer-centric value, mobilizing global teams and operations, and transforming them into high-growth businesses. Over her 20+ year tenure spanning enterprise software and service providers, she has held various high-impact roles spanning marketing, product management, and engineering at industry-leading companies, including Databricks, Riverbed, Cisco, and Philips Electronics. She most recently served as CMO at Split Software, a venture-backed startup where she built the company's go-to-market engine from the ground up and was instrumental in defining a new category for product decisions. Kavitha is responsible for driving global transformation and innovation across all facets of Zscaler's business, customers, strategy, products, and operations, with a strong focus on customer value creation.
Monica Bajaj is a seasoned results-driven technology leader who is very passionate about Engineering innovation, engineering effectiveness while continuing building cool products. She currently serves as a VP of Engineering at Auth0( Acquired by OKTA) in Silicon Valley. As an Engineering leader, she has always been focused on building high performing globally distributed Engineering teams aligning with developer productivity, product delivery, and customer satisfaction. For the last 4 years, she served on the board of Women in Localization driving their Technology Programs as a Board Member and Chief Compliance Officer for Women In Localization, a global non-profit organization focused on Women mentorship and localization activities.
Monica is an active speaker and a blogger on the topics of diversity and increasing female leadership in the workforce including the upcoming generation. She holds an MS in Computer Science from IIT Mumbai, India. Outside of work, she is very passionate about mentoring and giving back via several platforms such as Plato , Everwise and Divhersity. She is also a proud scout mom where she gets to see diversity and inclusiveness across the board
She believes in: "In order to challenge yourself, it is important to be comfortable while being uncomfortable at times."
Sneha Narahalli is a technology leader driving transformation in the industry through product innovation and simplicity. She has grown up in a family of writers, both her parents being noted literary writers in India, and has always used creativity to drive focused results. Having moved to the United States to pursue her masters in Carnegie Mellon University a decade ago, she has been leading next-gen strategy for companies such as Sears, Walmart and Sephora. Currently, at Sephora she leads all of product including digital, stores, data & marketing technology. She strongly believes that awareness is the first step towards making a change and hopes to raise the consciousness of the basic biases that women face in any environment and ensure we can not only overcome the same together but works towards eradicating it. They say that "a pen is mightier than a sword" and she intends to keep it that way!
Fun Fact: Ran a marathon on the Great Wall of China
Anu Ramraj is Vice President cloud solutions at Unisys and is responsible for cloud platforms, partnerships and portfolio management. Her charter includes accelerating digital transformation for client globally using AI, application and data modernization and ensuring cybersecurity is addressed for enabling secure cloud journeys for clients. Prior to joining Unisys, Anu held senior leadership positions with Hewlett Packard, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and DXC. As director at DXC, she was responsible for leading and scaling out Cloud practices and established credibility with global clients and partners. Anu led operational engineering efforts for Hewlett Packard Enterprise's cloud business and launched several successful products during her tenure with HP Software. Anu holds a master's degree from the California State University at Chico. She has 3 patents and multiple cloud and agile certifications.
Fun Fact: Founded a non-profit to support daughter's efforts with STEM and robotic outreach globally. I am based in Northern California with my husband and daughter and have 2 mini-dachshunds who believe that they are huge guard dogs
As Regional Vice President of Sales for Strategic Accounts at Trace3, Dawn supports a high performing team responsible for some of Trace3's largest accounts. Her team's vision is to "Deliver Exceptional Customer Service Every Day." Their focus is on developing long-term relationships with their clients and helping to solve business challenges of all sizes. Her roster of clients includes technology leaders that have been with her during 20+ years of her career.
Dawn's team is closely aligned to Trace3's corporate vision, which is "to always be an innovator in the industry with a commitment to business value realization for our clients." Through creativity, active listening and continuous engagement, her team has saved their clients tens of millions of dollars and countless hours – giving their clients time back to spend with family, friends and loved ones.
Dawn McCale earned her undergraduate degree in Sociology: Organizational Studies from UC Davis and her MBA from Santa Clara University. She participated in the Santa Clara University Women's Corporate Board Readiness program. She serves on the Board of Directors at her alma mater, Presentation High School in San Jose.
Dawn has two children, a daughter graduating from USC and a son graduating from Bellarmine College Preparatory this year. She has a miniature lionhead rabbit named Mufasa.
Vrushali is an internationally recognized expert in the ESG/sustainability field having worked across the globe advising corporations, government agencies and mentoring early-stage startups. As a Managing Director with Accenture, she leads the ESG Measurement, Analytics & Performance practice in North America. She has a strong track record of helping corporate executive teams navigate ESG led transformations through strategy development, risk management and leveraging technology solutions to deliver on their sustainability agenda.
She started her career in the automotive sector, where she discovered her passion for integrating traditional business and sustainability through working on diesel emission solutions and solar energy systems. Subsequently she worked in the policy and advocacy space as an advisor for International Integrated Reporting Council to accelerate the adoption of non-financial reporting. Her most memorable experience has been crisscrossing across S.E Asia delivering sustainability training and continues to support that network as part of the judging panel for Asia's Sustainability Reporting Awards. A global citizen at heart, she currently lives in the Bay Area with her children.
As Managing Director Sam is responsible for supporting the expansion of Sheffield Haworth's Americas business. She is aligned to our Technology, Consulting and Services team and specializes in the Technology market. Her focus is on senior executive search and talent advisory solutions for technology companies, working in partnership with a range of clients including Fortune 50 leaders, and venture backed start-ups.
Sam has a notable track record of executing senior searches across several different functional and specialist areas, including Product, Engineering, Corporate Strategy and Business Development as well as at the C level. Sam joined Sheffield Haworth in June 2020 and before that led the Professional Search Technology Practice in North America for Korn Ferry.
She has lived and worked in the UK, Canada and the US and brings a global perspective to her search and talent advisory work. Sam is a Board member and LA Chapter leader for UPWARD, a global not-for-profit dedicated to building and supporting a powerful network of executive women around the world. Sam holds a degree in Politics and International Relations from The University of Reading.
Suzanna Khatchatrian is a Senior Director of the Data Engineering team at Slack. She is responsible for running Slack's data warehouse, advanced analytics dashboards, and other data services. Prior to that, Suzanna built a brand new engineering team within Product Security that is focused more on proactive security measurements by delivering secure by default libraries and services for Slack. Suzanna is also an active participant in evolving and shaping Slack engineering leadership team and its culture via internship and career development programs.
Prior to joining Slack, Suzanna worked for IBM for almost 20 years. In her last role at IBM she was in charge of Watson Data Platform Security and DevOps teams. Suzanna has also played a critical role in the design and development of various IBM Analytics software products. She has several invention disclosures in the areas of Business Intelligence and Data Management.
As one of the founding members of the Armenian International Women's Association (AIWA) San Francisco affiliate, Suzanna currently serves on the AIWA SF board, where she is leading the scholarship committee and internship programs.
Suzanna holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and an M.S. degree in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon.
With extensive experience in Networking, Cybersecurity and Collaboration, Anu has helped businesses solve issues and drive profit by leveraging technology and data driven decisions.
Steeped in product development knowledge, IT network infrastructure background and dealership experience, Anu brings a fresh perspective of how a modern, secure and intelligent IT environment can help maximize the value of technology to provide a seamless and secure experience in a more agile environment, helping dealers stay competitive and deliver the best service.
Anu developed her skills in the IT network market and the automotive sector. As Senior Director of Product Marketing, Anu leads the development and execution of product marketing and the go-to-market strategy for IT Solutions and Salty embedded insurance for CDK Global, launching new technology products and services for dealerships in the automotive retail industry.
She was also Regional Sales Director of Global Markets Advanced Enterprise Solutions for AT&T and was Business Principal and Agent for Roberts & Roberts Insurance in Portland, Ore.
Anu is a graduate of Oregon State University, earning her Bachelor of Arts degree.
Jennifer Caukin is VP of Analyst Relations in the Communications team at RingCentral. She's had more than 20 years in various comms roles in companies such as eBay, Skype and Microsoft where she led public relations, social media, and many other exciting facets of the communications role.
Fun Fact: Jennifer loves what she does for work, but in spare time she's skiing or snow-boarding, walking dogs, handling kid pick ups, and on the side beginning to run a short term rental vacation property for both fun and income.
Ericka Tate is a Director, People Business Partner at Roku where she partners on the strategic people function of the organization. Previously Ericka has held People related roles at Accenture, PG&E, Google, and Simply Hired. She has a passion for DEI initiatives as a founding member of the Black Googlers ERG and recently completing Cornell University's DEI certificate program.
Lilit Yenokyan is a engineering leader and self-proclaimed geek. She is the Director of Developer Experience at Roku. The mission of her teams is to enable engineers at Roku to be their most productive selves, through enhancing engineering workflows through a metric driven approach. Prior to joining Roku, Lilit worked at Meta, Netflix, Microsoft and number of startups. Lilit started her career as a software engineer, and has had multiple roles in engineering, including engineering management and technical program/product leadership. She is passionate about helping women establish and progress in their careers, and re-enter tech after a career break.
Preethi Narayanan is an experienced engineering leader with several years of experience in shipping consumer electronics products. She is a Sr. Director at Roku, leading teams that work on launching products that users love to stream their contents on. Prior to Roku, she has worked at eero, Intel, Amazon, and Motorola and has helped launch innovative products and features to the market. She started her career as an engineer and spent several years in that role before moving to management roles. She holds bachelors and master's degrees in engineering. She is passionate about helping women excel in tech careers and partnering with others to achieve that goal.
Evandra is passionate about that intersection of Customer Experience and Product Engineering, driving hard to ensure that each and every cloud customer trusts Oracle. In her current role, she is tasked with transforming culture, structure, and practices around the customer lifecycle, including customer success, service and support, elevated engagement, as well as solutions and reliability engineering operating models.
Katty helps women working in male-dominated environments create a personal brand image that boosts self-confidence, propels their careers forward, and empowers them to positively lead and influence.
As a Marketing and Human Resources professional turned Personal Image Consultant, over the years, Katty has met countless career-driven women who are brilliant at what they do and yet struggle with confidence, fear, imposter syndrome, and confusion on how to step out of their comfort zones to truly make a statement with their Personal Brand and enhance their professional appearance.
Her mission in life is to help women rethink their relationship with personal image, and learn how to manage and leverage its influence over the way we think, feel and act so they can reach their full potential.
More recently she decided to expand her capability to serve more women, specially in the Tech Industry, by developing specialized trainings in Personal Brand and Authenticity for companies as a way to help the industry and all women feel included in tech, avoiding alienation and the consequent abandonment of the field.
Katty has over 10 years of styling experience working with corporate brands, media, and everyday women. She has collaborated with a variety of organizations, including Lean In Latinas, The Expat Woman, Santana Row, Univisión 14, Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley, among others.
Aneesa leads strategic operations and customer experience across ServiceNow's Customer and Partner organization. She is focused on working across organizational functions to drive fast time-to-value for customers and a holistic go-to-market experience. She also works with her customer experience team to gather and act on customer and partner insights from across the company with the goal of creating great end-to-end customer experiences.
Aneesa joined ServiceNow as chief of staff to the then-CEO in April 2019 from Bain & Company, where she had served as a manager in the San Francisco office. While at Bain, she ran strategic projects with technology and media companies across topics including product strategy, go-to-market optimization, organization design, and integration management. Prior to this, Aneesa worked at The Economist.
Aneesa holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Arts from Wesleyan University. She is based in San Francisco, California. She is passionate about enabling companies to digitally transform, cultivating great leaders, and traveling with her family.
Maira has been dedicated to the technology sector for over two decades playing instrumental roles in engineering organizations for over 10 technology companies. Currently, she is the Sr. Director of Engineering at Change.org. She's managed many different teams over the years, such as Computational Programming, Recommendations Platform, Search, Music Tools, Content Operations, and Growth and Retention. She is currently building teams responsible for the organizer empowerment at Change.org and the Communication and Integrity teams.
In addition to her professional life, Maira is a published author, lyricist, classically trained pianist, mother of a biochemical engineering doctoral student, and an avid knitter. Her exposure to music and the arts has informed her thought process regarding software development and management. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Statistics from U.C. Berkeley and a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies from Mills College in Oakland.
Natalia Birgisson, MD is Director of Strategy at Doximity, where she helps build and scale tools that over 80% of U.S. physicians use. Prior to joining Doximity, Dr. Birgisson spent 12 years at Stanford University, where she completed her medical training and served as a frontline physician during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Birgisson experienced firsthand how the pandemic opened new opportunities for disruption in healthcare, and she has committed the next stage of her career to bringing the power of advanced technology to physicians, so they can better serve their patients.
Dr. Birgisson has clinical experience in mental health and resilience. She has served as Chief Medical Officer of a pre-seed stage mental health tech start up and advises Hopelab Ventures on early stage investments that focus on LGBTQ+ and BIPOC adolescent mental health. In her free time, Dr. Birgisson volunteers as a mentor for teens in foster care.
Fun Fact: I was born in Iceland, at the National University Hospital in Iceland, where I later helped care for patients as a physician myself.
Regina Lawless is a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Leader and Organizational Development expert with 17 years' experience in the HR field. In 2020, she joined Meta as the Director of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion for Instagram and is now the DEI Leader for Meta’s suite of apps.
Regina is also the Founder of Equality Defined LLC, a boutique coaching firm providing career development services to women of color. She is a graduate of California State University, Sacramento in Communication Studies and holds a Master of Science degree in Organization Development from University of San Francisco. She is a founding Advisory Board Member of the University of San Francisco Engineering Program and joined the Board of World Woman Foundation in 2021.
Regina is a California native and currently resides there with her family. In her spare time, she is an avid reader, loves listening to music and practicing yoga.
Tripti Sheth is a seasoned results-driven technology leader passionate about Engineering innovation, engineering effectiveness while building modern infrastructure. She currently serves as a Director of Engineering at Salesforce in Silicon Valley. As an Engineering leader, she has traversed through journeys in Product Engineering and Infrastructure engineering. She has always been focused on building high performing globally distributed Engineering teams aligning towards product innovation, efficient delivery, and customer satisfaction. She has sustained both mature teams and built new teams to lead product innovation which currently includes automating analytics for various datasets and enabling data driven conversations
In addition to her professional life, Tripti is a mother of 2 girls, with her elementary schooler being a published author and writer herself. She considers her 10 year old daughter to be her inspiration in writing and authenticity. She has a Bachelor of Technology from National Institute of Technology in India and was 1 of the 2 girls having chosen Computer science growing in High School.
Kelly is currently serving as the Director of application security for RingCentral, with a focus on Security and Privacy by Design (SPbD) within the product development lifecycle. Previously Kelly worked at IBM for 21 years in a variety of roles within hardware research, hardware development, product release, and product security. In her last role at IBM, Kelly served as the Quality Assurance leader for IBM Infrastructure Services (risk assessments, architecture reviews, and penetration testing).
Kelly holds a PhD. Physical Chemistry. She has also received CISSP, CISM certifications, and has 42 issued patents with the United States Patent and Trade Office.
Fun Fact: Kelly is a Master Inventor, and enjoys mentoring women and early career employees in developing intellectual property.
Heidi Williams is Director of Engineering for Grammarly Business and Grammarly for Developers, our newest product offerings for professional teams and organizations and developers.
At Grammarly, Heidi is inspired by the potential impact the product can have as a platform, with the opportunity to help reduce conflicts and misunderstandings in communication and educate people on how to be more inclusive and equitable.
Before coming to Grammarly, Heidi served as VP of Platform Engineering at Box, founded WEST Diversity and Inclusion, and was co-founder and CTO of tEQuitable, a confidential platform addressing issues of bias, discrimination, and harassment in the workplace. Heidi was at Adobe for 17 years and most notably was a founding engineer on Dreamweaver, which democratized web development in the late 1990s.
Heidi volunteers as a technical advisor for PaymentWorks and Raise For Good and is a mentor for FastForward.org’s tech nonprofit accelerator program.
Heidi studied at Brown University, where she earned a BS in computer science. She also attended Stanford University’s Executive Institute.
I was passionate about computers since middle school and have been in various IT roles throughout my career spanning 20 years. I have had the privilege to work in various industry sectors with a focus towards improving business outcomes via technology solutions. Currently, I lead the engineering teams accelerating multi-cloud adoption at Box, a leading provider of secure cloud content management solutions.
Fun Fact: I have hiked from the highest peak in Jungfrau, Switzerland to the highest altitude serviced hut at 3650 meters. The weather was great and the walk was around 45 minutes but the lack of oxygen challenges your physical fitness. The up and close breathtaking views of snow covered Switzerland mountains were unimaginable.
Tatiana Zander is a Director Technology Innovation, responsible for innovation and thought leadership across Ericsson North America. She drives and streamlines innovation and lab strategy across all operator and enterprise customers, while always looking for the next disruption.
Tatiana began her career as a software developer and has worked with all Ericsson business areas since. Originally from Germany, she has had assignments in four continents.
Tatiana earned a BSC in Scientific Programming from University of Applied Sciences Aachen, MSC in Operations Research and an Executive MBA from Maastricht University.
She currently serves on the Advisory Council of California State University East Bay. Outside of work, Tatiana is a former competitive gymnast and currently trains to complete a full Ironman.
Tiffany Poeppelman is the Director of LinkedIn's Business Leadership Program. She applies emerging and classic talent development approaches to over 100 early career talents annually and supports their diversity hiring and selection efforts that impact the global business organization. She has held key roles at some of the most disruptive companies in tech, and has lived in three different countries across Europe and North America. Tiffany serves on the Executive Board for the Society of Industrial-Organizational Psychology. She is a professional speaker to global audiences and mentors professionals and early career talent. She received her Master's Degree in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from Northern Kentucky University, and her Bachelor's Degree in Psychology from Bowling Green State University.
Marla Sofer has led partnerships at high growth Fintech companies since 2015, driving partner-related revenue through integration, collaborative marketing, co-selling, and corporate development initiatives. Before diving into Fintech, Marla led institutional partnerships at BlackRock and J.P. Morgan quantified in billions of dollars. She has been a champion of gender diversity, founded two employee women's networks, and served as a non-profit leader dedicated to social justice.
Ellen Wong is VP of Engineering at Calm, where she leads their B2B Product Engineering and Backend Platform. Before that, she was at Periscope Data By Sisense, where she led their product integration post merger. She prides herself in building happy and productive teams and believes that teams work best when they are having fun. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and pup, and loves nothing more than snuggling with her pup on a beach with a glass of wine
Kavitha Venkataswamy is a Director, Digital Product Security supporting Enterprise Platforms and Products. Her areas of expertise include Threat Modeling, Security testing, DevSecOps integration, Vulnerability and Risk management. In more than 20 years of her career, transitioning to Cybersecurity from a software engineering background, she has experienced both Building and Defending Systems and been part of the digital transformation journey.
Prior to Capital One, Kavitha has been part of Macy's Tech, leading product security for website and mobile applications. Her earlier roles include working for WellsFargo, PG&E, Walmart and GAP in developing large scale web applications.
She is part of the Committee for Capital One "Women In Technology" San Francisco Chapter supporting the mission of women to 'Get in and Stay in Tech!'. She is also leading "Women in Cyber" at Capital One to network, collaborate, share knowledge and create opportunities, shine light in advancement of women in cybersecurity.
To advocate for more women to consider cybersecurity as a possible career path, she mentors new graduates, conducting workshops and given talks at various non profit organizations like Women Who Code, Grace Hopper and Day of SHEcurity. Kavitha lives in San Francisco, enjoys hiking and is the mom of a 5 year and 2 year old who are a handful.
She can be reached on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/kavitha-venkataswamy-90b23ab/
Swapna Savant is Engineering leader at Headspace Health and currently leading the engineering teams responsible for expanding the platform capabilities for Fortune 500 companies and enterprise partners.
She has 15+ years of industry experience in building large scale systems and high-performing teams. She started her career with multi-national companies and later decided to move to start-ups to feed her creative mind and have a significant impact on the success of the business.
She is highly passionate about improving diversity and inclusion in tech and helping professionals trying to step into their new roles. With that in mind she recently started and is a founder of adaptUp, a community that helps people step into new roles.
Fun fact: When not working I like to spend time hiking and exploring different places with my husband and dog. Before the pandemic I climbed Kilimanjaro and I dream of being on top of Mount Everest some day.
Shiva is the Director of Data Technology and Infrastructure at 23andMe where she works between researchers and engineers to power drug discovery at 23andMe. Her role is focused on building data products for data scientists and researchers. She was previously the Director of Data Science at Zymergen Inc., a molecular technology company in the Bay Area focused on generating new chemicals. Prior to Zymergen, she was the CEO of BioSymetrics Inc., a biomedical machine learning startup in New York, where she was initially the Chief Product Officer. She has a PhD (DPhil) in Computational Biophysics from the University of Oxford and a HBSc. in Computer Science and Human Biology from the University of Toronto.
Padma is an experienced technology executive currently leading product management for #1 ERP System, NetSuite at Oracle Inc. She is responsible for the vision, strategy, and delivery of the NetSuite Platform, specifically in the areas of foundational architecture, access management, and internationalization. She previously held leadership roles at Cisco Systems and Nokia. She has strong track record of leading SaaS product and service transformations, partner management, and go to market activities.
She also serves as board member for The Grateful Garment Project contributing to strategy and growth of the organization.
Padma holds an Executive MBA from Ross School of Business, University of Michigan and M.S. in Computer Science from Wright State University. She is passionate about encouraging women in technology, STEM education for girls, early childhood education, and mentoring. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with friends and family, gardening, and traveling.
Elnaz Moshfeghian is Director of Engineering at Alto Pharmacy. She joined as the third engineer on the team and grew with the company as it scaled from a local pharmacy in San Francisco to serving 20% of the US population. Today she leads a scrappy group of three managers and twenty+ engineers that ensure patients get their prescriptions quickly, at the best price, and delivered to their door by courier for free.
Fun Fact: Elnaz lived in eight cities across five countries before graduating high school.
Ana has built a career in Data Science in Brazil, Mexico, and the United States. She has been leading Data Science and Analytics teams for the past 8 years and has recently welcomed her first son in her life.
Fun Fact: 3 years of triathlon training sometimes are not enough a fitness base to accompany my 1-year-old to an afternoon in the park.
Nupur Srivastava has 20 years of experience working for Microsoft, Google and Cigna and other companies in Financial Services, Pharmaceuticals, and Consumer Products. Her immense customer focus and her work experience in leading teams, business and technology with resilience have guided her career journey. She is a Director Technology Strategist, as Client facing CTO leading one of the largest customers for Microsoft. She Engages with Business and Technical leaders helping them digitally transform their business with the next generation innovation. She has a deep technical expertise in Big data and AI and has been a chief architect for several large-scale platform implementations like customer 360, ML and Data fabrics. Nupur speaks in various conferences like MS Inspire, Digital Transformation Academy, Women in AI guiding on individual career Transition journey. Nupur is an Electrical and Computer Engineer and has an executive master's in technology management from Columbia University.
"My Purpose is to overcome social barriers by building allainces and by empowering individuals and organizations to achieve more through Inspiration, Innovation and Impact."
Fun Fact: I love to Ski and I am able to ski down some of the most difficult terrains today, but I fell over a 100 times while learning it five years ago!
Sreeja is a Director of Product Management at Qualcomm. She is responsible for defining the product roadmap, go to market strategy, customer engagements and P&L for the Wireless Infrastructure and Networking Enterprise segment. In her role, she interacts with Wireless Enterprise Providers to align their connectivity needs with Qualcomm’s prolific wireless portfolio. She is excited to play her part in defining the features and use cases for the next generation of connectivity solutions which are laying the foundations for enterprises, IOT and Smart Homes.
Prior to Product Management, Sreeja started her career at Qualcomm as an intern in the Wireless connectivity team and grew to be an Engineering Manager.
She has a Masters' Degree in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech and has 2 patents in the fields of Wireless and Display technologies.
She is a 2020 YWCA Silicon Valley Tribute to Women Honoree, an award honoring exceptional women leaders' in Silicon Valley. In 2019, Sreeja was recognized as Qualcomm's Global D&I Champion for her leadership in championing D&I at Qualcomm and in the community. She has been a speaker, panelist and emcee at the Watermark Conference, IEEE WIE Lead, Women in Silicon Valley Conference, Products by Women events among many others prestigious events.
She is extremely passionate about mentoring new college graduates and building a pipeline of girls for the STEM field. She actively works for the cause by volunteering for various groups and events including IEEE WIE Santa Clara Valley and NCWIT Bay Area.
Melinda Yee Franklin is a thought leader and strategist with a sustained track record of successfully enhancing corporate reputation to generate sales revenue and drive business development. She has cultivated a global network of high-level corporate, government, non-profit, and civic leaders
which enables her to execute business initiatives. Through her various leadership roles, she has demonstrated strong expertise in Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG), risk and crisis management, public policy, strategic development, and international affairs.
In January 2021, Melinda was appointed to serve as the West Region Executive, Community Engagement/Corporate Responsibility at JPMorgan Chase. She is responsible for the development and execution of the firm's Corporate Responsibility strategy and Community Engagement efforts
throughout the Western United States, including California, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Utah, and Wyoming. In this capacity, she leads her team’s efforts to shape business initiatives and investments to support local communities and to drive the firm's impact.
In 2021 and 2019, she was named one of the most influential women in Bay Area Business by the San Francisco Business Times. She is the current Chair of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce and sits on the boards of the San Francisco
Opera, the National Association of Corporate Directors Northern California Chapter, and the Hotel Council of San Francisco.
Sheree Haggan is Wayfair's first Senior DEI Business Partner supporting Technology as well as a Board member for Lesbians Who Tech & Allies. She joined Wayfair one year ago after having spent almost 6 years working at Google. At Wayfair, she partners heavily with Fiona Tan (CTO) to build out and implement Wayfair's cross-functional DEI strategy.
As a Black, Hispanic, and Indigenous Lesbian woman from Southern Idaho, with 10+ years of experience working across mental health, tech, and academia; Sheree is able to empathetically and strategically dismantle and rebuild systems to create inclusive work environments.
Shweta Saraf is a seasoned results-driven technology leader who is passionate about driving transforming business outcomes by delivering robust technology products while building the best environments where people can do their best work. She drives engineering excellence, building customer driven products/platforms and fostering inclusive, happy teams. She currently serves as a Head of Engineering at Equinix Metal. In this role, she is responsible for the teams building and operating the bare metal cloud which includes everything from hardware to the API/Portal, in 30+ locations across globe and growing. Prior to joining Equinix Metal, she was the VP of Engineering at Packet which was acquired by Equinix in 2020. Prior to Metal, she has built and scaled remote first teams at DigitalOcean in areas of Cloud Networking and Storage. She also led various teams and products at Cisco.
Shweta loves to pay it forward and actively mentors other senior leaders and new to career engineers through platforms like Plato and PowertoFly. Shweta is also an advisor at Next Moca, a mentoring platform startup.She holds a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Southern California, Los Angeles. She is a proud mother of a preschooler son and a furry daughter.
Fun Fact: I set up and run a wood fired pizza restaurant with my husband, located 8000 miles away in India, entirely remote!
Kamini is the Head of Infrastructure at Airbnb. She leads several key pillars for Infrastructure including Developer Productivity, Data and Cloud Platform and the Search Infrastructure team. Her teams enable productivity of engineering teams, provide end-to-end data offering for customers to build and scale products and applications and also enable Search Infrastructure for Airbnb. Prior to Airbnb, Kamini spent 6 years at LinkedIn where she was leading the infrastructure and productivity engineering team for the flagship app for LinkedIn. In addition to her domain expertise, Kamini is a champion for diversity and belonging in the workplace
Lia Fetterhoff is the Head of Product Design at Lumanu, and was previously at Nest and Google. She serves as Board Vice President of Capitol Creative Alliance, a non-profit supporting creatives in the Sacramento region. Lia also creates content for and about women of color who thrive in work and life over at swishie.com. She lives in Roseville, CA with her husband and two kids ages 5 and 7.
Fun Fact: Lia is currently working on a contemporary romance novel.
Tanu is a passionate AI Strategist and Evangelist, bringing in years of experience running complex Digital Transformation Initiatives. She likes to work at the intersection of Business and Technology. She holds an undergrad degree in Computer Science and an MBA in Strategy and Marketing from Indian School of Business.
Danielle Cass is a serial networker who has built communities across Silicon Valley, the tech industry and the Global South. She is Activation Lead on the Microsoft Ethics & Society team where she helps drive Responsible Innovation across the Cloud + Artificial Intelligence engineering organization. She co-founded an AI ethics / responsible tech community of enterprise and consumer tech companies, civil society and academia to share resources for ethics training and implementation She is a member of the World Economic Forum Steering Committee for the Ethical Design and Deployment of Technology Project, and was named on the "100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics" 2020 list by Lighthouse3. Based on her community-building in Silicon Valley, she was recruited by the Obama Administration to drive tech sector engagement for the U.S. Agency for International Development, where she was a lead organizer of President Obama’s 2016 Global Entrepreneurship Summit at Stanford University.
Alexandra Osborn-Jones is the Director of Growth at AppLovin, where she leads growth strategy and operations for the company's studio partnerships. Beyond this, she also plays a key role in supporting corporate development and M&A efforts for studios.
As the first hire on the Growth and Partnerships team, Alexandra now also oversees the AppLovin and Lion Studios App Store and Google Play relations. Prior to AppLovin, Alexandra spent four years at information services firm AlphaSights, where she last served as Manager, Private Equity Group supporting enterprise technology and consumer technology-focused investors during their due diligence.
Alexandra graduated from Yale University where she was on the pre-medical track and lettered all four years in the D1 basketball program. In her free time today, Alexandra enjoys cooking, strength training, and finding the best New York-style pizza in California's Bay Area.
A Fun Fact: Alexandra is an animal lover, currently with two cats of her own – one of which is 22 pounds!
Based in San Francisco, Dr. Marily Nika is an AI Product Leader that has worked for Google and Meta, leading the development of various products in the AR/VR space. Marily is also an Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School. Marily holds a Ph.D. in Machine Learning from Imperial College London and outside her day role, she mentors entrepreneurs, serves as an advisor to early stage tech startups, and also empowers people that want to break into tech & product in multiple ways.
Marily has co-founded 3 women in tech communities and has received international recognition after delivering 3 TEDx talks, receiving a Woman of the Year 2018 Award and the Women in Science and Engineering Influence Award 2015 for her contributions. You can find Marily on Instagram @marilynika where she posts tips about tech & product management.
Fun fact: I once voice acted for my favorite computer game, the Monkey Island - because of my thick greek accent I was casted as the exotic voodoo witch character!
Hina Dixit is a Software Engineering Leader & a Venture Capitalist with 12+ years of experience. Hina currently heads all investments in the field of AI at SamsungNext. Hina led a team at Apple for around 8 years with a focus on multiple projects varying from Security, iCloud, Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools & Data Integrity. With her experience at Apple as an expert in AI, App Development, Backend & Cloud, she has led various cross-organization projects and some of top features on iOS and macOS.
Hina holds multiple patents through her work at Apple. She is also an angel investor for EventTow, AI/AR-based app to book event management services, and Aryahi Inc., which focuses on No-Code solutions.
Fun Fact: Hina is a mentoring enthusiast. She started the first women mentoring initiative at Apple that has more than 50 women now.
Anusha is a principal software engineer at AWS with 6+ years of industry experience. Working with AWS S3, she leads the design and implementation of a distributed storage service that operates cold storage technology at extreme scale. She has a master's degree in Computer Science from University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from College of Engineering Guindy, India. Anusha is passionate about helping women grow in the tech community. Outside of work, she volunteers for Girls Who Code, and is also a scratch programming teacher for middle school and high school students
Tiffany Zheng is a data-driven leader with years of management and technical leadership experience in the IT and FinTech industry. She has been leading data science, business intelligence, machine learning, and big data analytics for both high-growth mid-sized companies and mega-cap enterprises.
Fun Fact: I am a mother of three parakeets.
Anwaya Aras is an Engineering Manager at Uber leading the consumer engagement team of Uber Eats which supports Uber Eats’ post order stack that serves millions of users across the world. With over half a decade of professional experience, Anwaya has been able to scale from a backend engineer to Tech Lead to an Engineering leader driving several impactful programs at a revolutionary company like Uber. Prior to Uber, Anwaya completed her Masters in Computer Science with a specialization in AI from University of California, San Diego. She was also felicitated as a Google Anita Borg Scholar for APAC region in 2013.
Swathi Bhumireddy is an Engineering Manager at Uber, leading several teams in Membership Organization powering Uber's flagship membership product Uber One. Along with her engineering responsibilities, Swathi also leads multiple D&I initiatives and strives to drive positive impact. Prior to Uber, Swathi has worked at Amazon and Microsoft.
Kelsey (she/her) currently manages the SRE team at Discord where her team’s mission is to defend the customer experience without sacrificing people to do it. She spent many years as an SRE prior to moving into a manager role. She made the switch to managing teams to follow her passion around enabling people to do their best work.
Fun Fact: Whenever Kelsey has some free time between work and kids, she gets in the ocean to do some surfing.
Bushra Anjum, Ph.D., is a health IT data specialist currently working as the Senior Analytics Manager for a San Francisco based health tech firm Doximity. She leads a team of analysts, scientists, and engineers to create HIPAA secure data-driven tools for over 1.8 million USA clinicians. Prior, she worked for Amazon as a Software Engineer, architecting large-scale distributed services supporting Prime membership in global marketplaces. She combines her analytics and engineering background to spearhead and execute user-centric data products, enabling organizational business goals.
Dr. Anjum is a celebrated speaker at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference, Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference, STARS Celebrations, CRA-WP Grad Cohorts, to name a few. She has been recognized by Tribune as a Top 20 under 40 Professional for career excellence with a deep commitment to community service.
Fun Fact: A keen enthusiast of promoting diversity in the STEM fields, Dr. Anjum's other volunteer activities involve being a senior editor for ACM Ubiquity and the Standing Committee's Chair for ACM-Women.
Trupti Shiralkar is a security engineering manager at Datadog. She is passionate about implementing a holistic approach to security and privacy by design and believes in scaling product security through "Shift-to-left" transformations. She holds a Master of Science degree in Information Security from Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute (JHUISI) and several security certifications. Trupti's industry experience ranges from Fortune 500s to startups, including Illumio, Amazon, Hewlett Packard, Q2ebanking and ATSEC Information Security. She holds a patent for secure and anonymous electronic polling.
Fun Fact: Trupti is also a certified meditation instructor and loves teaching meditation techniques to strike work life balance.
Giselle has worked in the gaming industry for 5 years, starting her career at Intel on the Intel Graphics Performance Analyzers team - supporting indie developers in optimizing their games for Intel hardware by organizing booths at gaming conferences, participating in talks, and hosting 1:1 optimization meetings. Currently, she works at Meta, focusing her energy on guiding VR developers through their journey.
Fun Fact: Giselle loves working out in VR and has a 4-year-old golden doodle who is her WFH partner in crime.
Erica was born Eric in the early 1970's. Sid and Marty Kroft were on every Saturday morning with random ideas that on the surface seemed completely nonsensical but on deeper evaluation they made perfect scene, or at least that is the way Erica saw things. These worlds with talking flutes and hat people mixed with weekends painting with her grandmother and a dash of ADHD where the fundamental ingredients needed to shape the way Erica would see the world around her and approach all future challenges that came her way.
Not one for ever accepting "We do things this way because its the way it has always been done" Her mother would describe her as "always marching to the beat of her own drum." This mindset has guided Erica down a career path that is uniquely her, full of fun and hair raising problems to solve.
In 2018 Erica joined PayPal to lead a small internal design team at PayPal that is responsible for all of the tools and platforms used to build and run PayPal's business. The task was a daunting one not for the weak of heart, it was just the anxiety induced problem that excited Erica most. Two years later Erica and her team have successfully changed the way the organization operate and think about the user.
Parinita has a blend of product operations & technology consulting experience. In her current role with Google, Parinita manages global partner ecosystem & strategy for Engineering product operations & services. Prior to Google, Parinita helped fortune 100/500 companies transform product and quality operations through Global consulting firms such as Deloitte & Accenture.
Over the years, Parinita was able to build successful win-win partnerships with customers and partners, thanks to her negotiation and collaboration skills. Negotiation has been an integral part of Parinita's day to day duties whether negotiating a partnership agreement for Google or convincing her 4 year old to eat veggies. Parinita has identified the lack of negotiation skills in women and is on a mission to empower fellow women in tech to get better at negotiations through proven concepts & frameworks.
An experienced engineer and program manager with a passion for system design, integration and validation, spanning myriad industries, starting from large mining machines(Caterpillar) to medical devices(GE healthcare) to currently, consumer electronics(Apple). I have worked on all aspects of a product lifecycle and enjoy working cross functionally within the company and also externally with CM,OEM and JDM partners. Currently enjoying the role of an Engineering Program Manager, with the Audio team at Apple, and have had the most fortunate opportunity to present the latest Airpods 3rd generation to the world, during the Apple event held on Oct 18th . I am a mom of a 6 year old and married to a wonderful person, who has supported me, through risks and wins.
Cynthia Long is an award winning Continuous Improvement Leader and Strategist. Over the last 20 years, her passion for Lean Six Sigma has led her to create, innovate, and be a Revolutionary Leader for Continuous Improvement. She is based in San Diego.
Aji Oliyide is a PMO Mission Lead at Google, writer, and podcaster based in Northern California. An experienced operations leader, Aji's work is focused on building systems and relationships that cultivate understanding and support 'big picture' initiatives.
With over a decade of operations and management consulting experience, Aji has solidified her expertise in operations in both educational and professional settings. After graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech, Duke University's Fuqua School of Business with an MBA, and Eaton Corporation's General Management Development Program for engineers, Aji spent several years as a Management Consultant.
Today, Aji leads large-scale operational projects for Google, a range of mapping and geographic products that include Google Maps, Google Earth, and Google My Business. Her interest in operations management is inspired by her love for innovation and innate problem-solving capabilities; it's these traits that ignite her creative, analytical mindset.
Vidisha Suman is a Partner with Kearney’s Digital Transformation practice in the Chicago office. She has
over 15 years of industry and consulting experience in the digital space, serving leading companies
navigate the complex journey to become digitally enabled and position themselves for growth through
digital, while safeguarding their business from cyber exposure. She has worked extensively across North
America, Europe, India, Japan, and Australia with leading high-tech, and asset-intensive firms. Prior to
Kearney, Vidisha worked in the tech industry in India and US with International Business Machines (IBM)
and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS).
Vidisha is an active voice for Kearney in the market on digital and cyber security strategies. She is the co-
author and leader of Kearney’s globally renowned Global Services Location Index (GSLI), a ranking of 60
countries on their potential and fit to deliver business services to global companies, based on financial
attractiveness, people skills and availability, business environment and digital resonance.
She strongly believes that engaged women leaders are fundamental to our commercial success. With
the objective of mentoring women, she founded, and continues to lead, the Women@Digital advisory
board at Kearney with senior client executives operating in the digital and technology space. Her
accomplishments were recognized with the Future Leader award from Consulting Magazine in 2019. She
is also part of the Leadership program class of 2022 run by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
Maya Mancuso manages US business relationships for Bird & Bird, an international law firm with a focus on helping organizations being changed by technology and the digital world. She works with globally ambitious companies on their expansion and growth in the UK, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific. Maya serves on the Board of Directors and as the Senior Vice President for the British American Business Council of Northern California, a UK/US bilateral trade organization. She is a passionate advocate for the advancement of women in corporate leadership and in the technology sector, serving on the leadership committee for How Women Lead's #GetOnBoard week. How Women Lead is one of the primary actors driving the change in corporate board composition in the US. She is also a member of Tech Bay Area Advocates, where she launched the Women in Tech initiative in 2018. Maya serves as the President of the University of San Diego's Bay Area Alumni Association.
Pascale Diaine is a Partner at Storm Ventures, a VC firm investing in early stage B2B software. She focuses on sales & marketing automation, AI/ML, IIoT, retail tech, AR, computer vision, and robotics applied to the enterprise space.
Before joining Storm, Pascale founded Orange Fab, the corporate accelerator of the European Telco Orange and managed cohorts including Talkdesk (today worth $3B), Wonolo, Rallyteam (acquired by Workday), Verdigris, Pixlee, and many more.
She also started an alliance of corporations piggybacking on Orange Fab’s deal-flow and helping cohorts land their first Fortune 500 customers. She holds a Master of Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Technology at Compiègne (UTC). Originally from France, she now lives in the US with her husband and two-year old son and is a big beach volley-ball player.
Rebel Brown is QCI's Vice President of Strategy & Marketing. Her deep expertise in strategy, product marketing/management and positioning has helped various U.S. and European advanced technology companies to create, enter and lead markets.
Rebel has helped leading edge technology ventures raise over $1 billion in startup funding and supported exits to companies like Apple, IBM, EMC, SGI and BEA. Rebel is a proven marketing guru who's consulting expertise for go-to-market strategies has led to dramatic results for over 75 startups and 200 high-tech and complex B2B technology companies.
Rebel is also a passionate speaker and workshop leader, using the power of neuroscience to help executive teams align communication to drive business performance. She also holds workshops for professional women to create mind patterns that drive breakout performance in business and in life. Rebel is the founder of Unstoppable U, a non-profit organization working with kids to heal them from abuse and trauma.
Fun Fact: Rebel shows reined cow horses as her passion and hobby.
Sindhura Palakodety is a Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services. She brings in 13+ years of software experience and wore several hats throughout her career in roles such as QA, Development, Support and Technical Account Management. She is passionate about helping customers build enterprise-scale Well-Architected solutions on the AWS platform and specializes in the Data Analytics domain.
Throughout her career she worked with strategic customers belonging to different industries such as retail, utilities and financial services both on their cloud as well as on-premise deployments. She assisted customers with large-scale data migrations to the cloud and worked with them on their data lake architectures as well as application modernization efforts.
Before joining Amazon, she worked in Couchbase and Oracle and gained hands-on experience in Container technologies and Databases. During her free time, she enjoys cooking, music and spending time with her family.
Fun Fact: "I started my career as a Chemical Engineering student. While my career path has completely changed since then, I believe my desire to experiment has still remained the same."
I am Taniya - Analytics and Insights Manager at Twilio. I work on anything and everything revenue/customer analytics and process analytics. One of my core responsibilities is to solve strategic puzzles and mysteries of the business using advanced analytics and recommend the next course of action. Much like anything else, I believe data analytics follows the philosophy of ‘connecting the dots to uncover the story to answer important questions.
Fun Fact: As a kid, I considered a career in acting/journalism and did get a professional kid actor's portfolio made.
Michelle Vo is a Developer Support Engineer at Meta, providing one-to-many technical support to help virtual reality developers in their goals of publishing content to the Oculus platform. Her previous experience in the VR/AR industry spans from VR development at UCLA Library & Archaeology, Hololens development at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory for Mars scientists, and in Developer Relations at HTC Vive Studios.
Fun Fact: Michelle played the accordion in a videogame orchestra in college, and is currently learning to make music digitally.
Paridhi is a Machine Learning, Computer Vision enthusiast who works at Auro Robotics, Ridecell as Perception Engineer, Computer Vision. At Auro, she is responsible for the monocular camera 3D Perception stack. Along with her colleague, Paridhi has worked on potential ideas which leverage the gap between LiDARs and Camera based networks. They have 3 provisionals filed for their work on the same line. Paridhi has completed her Masters from Columbia University, NYC. At Columbia, she worked at Digital Video MultiMedia Lab where she worked on Compressed video object detection. Anything challenging excites Paridhi and in her own words, she loves to explore new areas, be it financial investing or cooking. Previously, she has worked for IEEE-Women In Engineering. Being the first female engineer at Auro, Paridhi believes more women should be encouraged and educated to take up this field of AI and Machine Learning, and thus loves to contribute as much as she can.
Dr. Karydis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Riverside (UCR). Before joining UCR, he worked as a Post-Doctoral Researcher in Robotics in GRASP Lab, which is part of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn). His work was supported by Dr. Vijay Kumar, Professor and Nemirovsky Family Dean of Penn Engineering. He completed his doctoral studies in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Delaware, under the guidance of Prof. Herbert Tanner and Prof. Ioannis Poulakakis.
Dr. Karydis's research program addresses foundational robotics research problems underlying applications in emergency response, environmental sensing, precision agriculture, and (more recently) pediatric rehabilitation. His research seeks to enable existing and new robot embodiments (and teams thereof) to operate in efficient and resilient manners autonomously and/or in cooperation with humans despite the presence of uncertainty associated with action, perception, and the operating environment.
Dr. Manski is a scholar of technology, political economy, commons economics and globalization at George Mason University. She studies uses of technology for popular sovereignty. Her research is situated at the intersection of global business, new technologies, and social enterprise concerning commons-based peer production, self-sovereign identity, generative value accounting, supply chain transparency, and strategic approaches for constructing a 21st century technological commonwealth. Dr. Manski is a widely cited author, speaker at technology conferences globally, advisor to VERSES.io and the Civana Foundation, affiliate researcher with the P2P Foundation and the George Mason University Center for Social Science Research (CSSR), and Expert Reviewer for the National Science Foundation's SBIR program.
Fun fact: Sarah was tear gassed and shot with rubber bullets during the anti corporate-globalization protests and she was the co-founder of the Wisconsin Wave, the first Occupy encampment in the WI State Capitol.
Margo Gaitan is a Manager for Quality Systems at autonomous robotaxi company, Zoox, where she specializes in Document Control and Receiving Inspection. She is also the co-founder of the Latinx Employee Resource Group at Zoox, which was established to engage, support and celebrate the Latin and Hispanic cultures and people at Zoox. Prior to joining Zoox, Margo was the Quality Systems Manager for Celestica Precision Machining where she led the ISO 9001:2015 certification for two sites, the first in the Western U.S. to achieve it. She has also managed quality control and quality assurance initiatives in numerous industries including torque tools, semiconductor and medical devices, and has worked in different capacities from mechanical design engineer, manufacturing engineer to quality engineer. Margo is a lifetime member of SHPE (Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers) and has her Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from Santa Clara University. Margo strives to use her positive attitude and energy to encourage others to succeed. Having immigrated from Managua, Nicaragua and being from a different background and culture, she understands facing hardships in both education and the workplace. She is inspired daily by her husband and their two daughters.
Ling has spent her career driving several successful Start-Ups and credits her success to “building from diversity.” By understanding that a team is successful, with different personalities and different backgrounds, the focus is on the mission. Everyone can get distracted. It's been Ling’s job to guide the energy and focus on the mission. Ling has led as Chief Customer Officer, Chief Commercial Officer, Chief of Staff, VP Business Development & Strategic Marketing, at companies like EdCast, Amdocs, Jive, Savvion and Nortel.
I'm an engineer by training, and after leading teams at Google and Unity, I decided to make games with my friend Andy. We started Ramen VR to work on Zenith: The Last City, a VR MMO. As an engineer, I wanted to work on hard problems, and as an MMO player/VR nerd, I wanted to create a game that I wanted to play. Working on Zenith has been a dream come true, and I'm proud of everything we've accomplished!
Fun Fact: I used to be a Shakespearean actor and light opera singer.
Nancy Hoque is a Senior Manager at Adobe, a leader within America's Digital Experience business which accounts for $4B in revenue. She is on the Board of Directors for Leadership California, a nonprofit focused on bringing women leaders from Success to Significance in California. A former solutions architect designing communications for the U.S. military at Motorola Solutions, Product Marketer in Cyber Security, and founder of a global Muslim headscarf startup, she is a woman in leadership advocate, discussing the need for more women leader role models and addressed Chancellor Angela Merkel on the topic. She is a Young Global Changer Ambassador for Global Solutions, a NextGen Leader honoree and recognized as a Leadership scholar at UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business. She is part of the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business professional faculty, teaching Audience Focused Communications.
Pranjali Dani is an Enterprise Solution Architect with AWS. She is in a customer facing role, an advocate and face of AWS. Pranjali is responsible as a key member of the account team to collaborate with the sales team , formulate and execute sales strategy through AWS adoption. This is ensured by participating in deep architectural discussions and delivering successful blueprints around various AWS services. She is an Engineer by profession and has done several industry certifications. She is passionate about helping women grow in tech and is part of the several AWS programs that are catered towards giving back to the community like AWS Military initiative that prepares veterans for new careers in technology. Outside AWS pranjali is an active member of many non profit initiatives and Associate Director for a program at Sewa International a non profit organization.
A Fun Fact: I am Sports Pilot
Michelle is currently a Senior Financial Systems Analyst at Lyft, where she is responsible for maintaining and developing Tableau dashboards for the Financial Planning & Analysis team. Prior to joining Lyft in May 2020, Michelle was a Senior Financial Crime Analytics Consultant at Crowe LLP where she assisted with data governance, model validations, and system implementations. In addition to her role at Lyft, Michelle has built dashboards on Tableau Public, claiming a Tableau Viz of the Day. She also placed in the Top 5 of the Women in Analytics Data Visualization competition in 2018 and 2019 with her Tableau dashboards. Michelle graduated from The University of Texas at Dallas with a BS in Management Information Systems and a MS in Business Analytics.
Shanelle has spent 17 years working across several industries with companies at various stages. From building the People function infrastructure from scratch to helping scale companies for high growth, her passion for people and innovation has shown through in every aspect of her roles and allowed her to help organizations build long-term value. She is currently the Chief People Officer of PresenceLearning, an EdTech Saas company with a workforce that is 75% women and 50% women at the executive level.
Fun Fact: Shanelle is a 22 year Golden State Warriors season ticket holder and shot a social media commercial with Klay Thompson.
Fatema Hamdani is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kraus Hamdani Aerospace, Inc. She is also an Executive Board Member & Chairperson, Telecommunication Working Group with the High-Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) Alliance. Fatema is a futurist, a TEDx speaker and a global citizen with a passion to solve problems with technology, specifically data and intelligence and connectivity. She has a background in building global business across various verticals, including Telecommunication, financial services, defense, and enterprise SaaS offerings.
At Kraus Hamdani Aerospace, she is focused on building a triple bottom line company with equal focus on profit, people and planet. She has a vision to create connectivity and data/intelligence solutions across sea, land, air, and space using persistent non-stop aerial and high-altitude unmanned platforms. Fatema is an engaged, curious and driven entrepreneur with experience spanning over 18 years in successfully building startup businesses to further developing large organizations. Her experience spans the aerospace, financial services, life science, travel and retail domains. She has run successful companies in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific and brings a truly global perspective to technology and innovation. She was identified as a "Mobile Women to Watch" in 2014 by Mobile Marketer and has been published three times, most recently on the topic of perpetual flight through BigThink.
She is a graduate of the Emerging Leadership Program through the Columbia Business School at Columbia University and she also holds an MBA in Marketing and Information Services from IMS.
Heather H. Wilson is the Chief Executive Officer of CLARA Analytics. Most recently she was the Chief Data Scientist and Head of Artificial Intelligence of L Brands. Prior to, Heather was the first-ever Chief Data Officer of AIG and was appointed to the US Treasury OFRAC in Washington, DC given her leadership and experience in leading some of the largest financial services organization data programs. Before AIG, Heather was the first female Chief Data Officer at Citigroup and promoted to the Global Head of Decision Science and the Head of Big Data analytics for the bank, where she was responsible for the billion-dollar data program as part of regulatory sanctions to architect and implement a risk and finance data architecture with associated data quality and data risk indices. Heather was tasked with briefing the mayors of New York City, Chicago, Boston and San Francisco quarterly with her team's leading economic indicators and was recognized as one of the Top Big Data Experts in the world. Prior to Citi, she was the Global Head of Information Strategy at Kaiser Permanente leading the next generation data platforms and advanced analytics and was promoted to the Global Head of Innovation at Kaiser running the Advanced Technology organization focused on next generation health solutions across analytics and digital with focuses on telemedicine, streaming data medications, operating room of the future and robotics with MIT.
Heather is a Board of Director member of Equifax serving on the Audit Committee and Technology Committee. She is a Trustee at Shenandoah University (the youngest trustee ever appointed in 2003) serving on the Finance and Investment Committees and serves on the Future Business Leaders of America Foundation Board that she started the age of 18. Heather's most recent five-year work at L Brands included advising the brand CEOs and spearheading several first-of-a-kind artificial intelligence and data analytics initiatives. She created and designed a new business model for the brands to scale their businesses and reach new growth revenue goals with the introduction of a fashion marketplace. As the CEO of CLARA Analytics in the Silicon Valley, Heather was named one of the 30 Most Inspiring Leaders of 2021, The Executive Headlines Magazine named Heather as the Changemaker of the Year for 2021. She has led CLARA to be named one of the best AIFinTech100 companies of 2021, one of the 13 best Predictive Analytics Startups in Santa Clara by The Startup Pill and one of the 101 most Innovative California-based Predictive.
As Wish's first growth hire, Frost led the eCommerce giant to become the #1 shopping app in 40+ countries with 100M+ monthly active users. Now she’s using that experience to build Social Chat, which gives brands the ability to run live video shopping, simulating an in-person shopping experience for online customers and allowing brands to retain control of their data and know exactly who their customers are. Frost has also served on Y Combinator's Growth Counsel and as an advisor to Quince, Spring, Lyft, Rappi, and Pinterest. She earned an MS in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of Michigan and degrees in Electrical Engineering & Business Administration from National Taiwan University.
Fun Fact: Frost went diving in the Maldives every day for two weeks even though she doesn't swim! The ocean was beautiful and breathtaking with coral reefs and colorful fish schools.
Priya Sodha, M.S. & Certified Gallups Coach, is the founder & CEO of Innergem, a career strategy company with the mission to help women move up the career ladder through workshops & coaching. Priya cares deeply about inspiring women to tap into their inner potential & spends her time developing content & speaking on the topic of identifying your professional brand. Her specialty lies in transformational workshops focused on guiding individuals to develop a deeper understanding of self promotion. Priya is also a certified facilitator and delivers high impact trainings to employees at companies such as PollEverywhere, Bank of America, Assemble HR & more.
Prior to launching Innergem, she was the Executive Director for the Youth Business Alliance where she spent her time addressing the opportunity gap for youth by providing students in underserved communities the resources & tools to leverage their career. In addition to her work, you can find Priya teaching yoga & mindfulness to women in C-Suite to create balance & wellness in the workplace. Priya is a certified RYT Yoga Alliance teacher, mindfulness & meditation coach. Her motto is: It's not a work/life balance but rather, a life/work integration.
Sharada Bose is a strategically focused Silicon Valley business leader. After 24 years in various roles/products at Hewlett-Packard (HP), she shifted her career to start-ups. As a founding member and Chief Operating Officer of Way.com, she has helped the company grow 10x in 4-years.. Her experience spans technology, operations, business development and growth strategies including securing funding. Sharada has seeded and grown global organizations and led high-performance teams through change, development and economic downturns.
More recently, Sharada spends a good amount of her time advising start-ups. Sharada received her BS (1984) and MS (1988) degrees in Computer Science from Oregon State University(OSU). In 2017 she was inculcated into the Academy of Distinguished Engineers at OSU and in 2020 she received the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Alumni Award from OSU. She serves on the Executive Committee for Industry Relations for the Department of CSEE at OSU. Along with serving actively on several Non-Profit Boards, Sharada is passionate about social causes including empowerment of women and elimination of racism. She lives in San Jose, California. https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharada-bose/
Fun Fact: I learnt to do a headstand (yes, without leaning on a wall) at age 59.
Teresa’s purpose is to enable individuals, teams and organizations to unleash their greatest potential. With over 25 years of corporate experience, 15 of those as an Executive, and a vast academic background, Dr. Deveaux is skilled at empowering her clients to raise the bar professionally and often, personally as well. Beyond her work as CEO of Savage Consulting and Co-Mentor-in-Chief at My Corporate Mentor, Teresa is a Professor for the MBA programs at Pepperdine and Antioch Universities. She is also an accomplished athlete, having completed 5 Ironman Triathlons and over a dozen marathons including the prestigious Boston and New York City marathons. Dr. Deveaux is thrilled to be engaging with the WOSV community for this exciting event!
Carrie and the PowerSpeaking, Inc. team are passionate about helping organizations—at corporations like Genentech, eBay, Autodesk, and Gilead Sciences—develop powerful communication skills that inspire people and get results.
"A large part of our client base is in the high-tech and biotech sectors, so many years ago, we researched and developed HighTechSpeaking®, which helps technical professionals become more clear, strategic, high-impact communicators," Carrie says. "And in 2018, we launched Confident Speaking for Women, to meet the unique challenges women face in the workplace. Both are now among our most popular programs."
Prior to joining PowerSpeaking, Carrie enjoyed more than 30 years' experience in the learning and development industry, where she led teams that made Training Magazine's "Training Top 125" 10 years in a row. Then, as now, she believes that "Our purpose is to make great people even greater at what they do every day."
Fun Fact: Outside of work, Carrie loves watching her son compete in the 800 run.
Susannah Baldwin, Ph.D. is a seasoned executive and communication coach who combines her experience as a clinical psychologist with corporate expertise to help clients lead diverse teams in demanding environments. She has a track record of 15 years working in top technology and biotech companies. She is the author of Women, Language and Power: Giving Voice to Our Ambition, a new book adapting her popular workshop for women leaders into lessons for all career stages.
Fun Fact: Hosted a weekly radio show - "Parent Talk" - interviewing authors for 7 years.
Miriam Haart currently stars in the top 10 hit series, ‘My Unorthodox Life’ on Netflix. Miriam is attending Stanford University and is on track to graduate in 2022 with a degree in Computer Science. Miriam is the youngest teacher at Stanford University. She teaches a class in the Computer Science department on Virtual Reality development. She built several skills within the fields of virtual and augmented reality as well as quantum computing. Miriam has built numerous iOS compatible apps, some of which she’s won awards for. She is the co-founder of Eazitt, a consumer goods app in South Africa. She also served as a project manager at the tech company Yewno, where she created a platform that allows students to research, collaborate, and publish articles in peer-reviewed journals.
Michaela Ternasky-Holland is a multi-racial Emmy, Webby, and Sheffield Doc/Fest award-winning XR/metaverse storyteller. Recently named as one of the 100 Original Voices of XR, she creates non-fiction and socially impactful stories by using immersive and interactive technology. She focuses on the impact of the projects to move beyond the project itself. When she isn't creating her own original projects, she consults for socially conscious companies and non-profit organizations on creative strategy and impact production. Her work has been featured by TIME, Forbes, The Guardian, Cannes Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, and The New York Public Library.
As a member of the Academy of International Extended Realities, she also works in tandem with decision-makers, committees, and boards of directors that financially support, mentor, and create opportunities for those of all backgrounds within the XR/metaverse industry.
Fun Fact: Michaela's previous employment with the Walt Disney Company sparked her interest in building worlds, and her central vision is to find the perfect marriage between the integrity of the narrative and a guest's interaction with emerging technology.
Samaira Mehta is a 13-year-old Tech Entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley, California who was recognized by TIME as "One of the 8 Young Leaders Shaping the Decade" and a "Real-life Powerpuff Girl" by Hulu for her invention "CoderBunnyz" - a board game that simplifies complex coding concepts and teaches them in a fun farmyard adventure. Samaira is also the founder of "CoderMindz" - the world's first-ever Artificial Intelligence board game that simplifies the intricacies of how AI works, and "CoderMarz" which brings together her love for coding and AI with her interest in outer space and Mars.
Mehta is a Davidson Fellow, Gen Z ambassador for Arm with their program GenArm2Z, works with the United Nations for gender equality, is a Softbank Masason Scholar, and was a finalist for the first ever "Kid of the Year" presented by TIME and Nickelodeon. She was featured on platforms like Vogue, CNBC, CNET, Business Insider, Today Show, UN Women, and Washington Post for her creations and 500+ workshops that she and her team have led, which spotlight her board games, through which she has taught over 15,000 kids to code. She has been a speaker at over 100 conferences nationwide and internationally including at MWC'19, C2 Montreal, and corporations like Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Intel, SAP, Walmart, and IBM.
Her STEM initiative "Yes, One Billion Kids Can Code" and entrepreneurship academy "Boss Bizz" are ambitious but that's not her only goal. She wants to become President of the United States when she's older, giving her a bigger platform and voice to do what she believes is right for the country.
Adonica Shaw is a 3-time TEDx speaker, author, and health and wellness advocate. As an established podcaster, she hosts the Parent Pod which is currently ranked in the top 10% of parenting podcasts globally, as well as the I Surrender and Self-Care Saturday podcasts. And as a health advocate, she also serves as a Mental Health Subject Matter Expert for the Conscious Inclusion Company. She is also known for her work as both a Patient Advocate for the Preeclampsia Foundation and Momma’s Voices, and a voice for maternal health matters after surviving a "Code Blue" Hypertensive Crisis with Preeclampsia just 3 days postpartum.
Named as one of the top 136 Black Innovators in STEM + Arts by Wonder Women Tech, Adonica is the founder of the health-focused internet company, The Wingwomen Inc.. She believes women in particular, need a unique support system to break through the glass ceilings in their lives. She’s committed to providing access to valuable health and wellness information to women and empowering them to be active agents in their wellness.
Adonica is a 2021 Globant “Women Who Build” nominee, and she is also a former public board member for the Healthcare for the Homeless and Farmworkers Board in San Mateo County in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her second book, “Shatter Your Own Glass Ceiling,” is set to be published in 2022.
Tamuri LeAnne Richardson is the owner of TLeanne Speaking Pros LLC located in Vacaville, California. She is a Professional Motivational Speaker, a Certified Mental Health Advocate, an Influential Storyteller, Communications Coach, and an International Best-Selling Author of "The Power of Why II (Why 28 Women started Online Course)", “10 Steps to Becoming a Highly Effective Public Speaker”, "Powerful Affirmations for FemPreneurs", and "Trusting Someone Else's Heart".
Tamuri is the President of the Solano County Black Chamber of Commerce assisting small businesses with organizational development, structure, and marketing strategies to be successful and thrive.
She is also the Chair of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) San Francisco's Black Mental Health Committee, and a known Speaker and Presenter. She helps fight the stigma on mental illness in all cultural communities, specifically the African American community, and encourages all who are in need to seek shame-free assistance in order to have a productive, successful life. She is also an active member of The National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Inc., Oakland – Bay Area Chapter's (NCBW-OBAC) which is committed to provide programs that increase the participation of African American women in economic, civic, entrepreneurial, and human service arenas of their respective communities through education, scholarship, and collaboration. In fact, she has spoken in front of the Senate at the Capital in Sacramento, California as an advocate for mental health where she stressed concerns about legislation to Senators, Assemblymen and Assemblywomen for a better tomorrow.
She is a member of Toastmasters International since 2015. In 2018, she won an award for her speeches entitled, “Reinventing Yourself” and “Stand Up and Stand Your Ground” in the consecutive year at the International Speech contest at the Area and District levels.
Tamuri is also a TedX Coach helping TedX Speakers to have the C-A-M Effect. Captivate, Articulate and Motivate the audience.
Innovator Focused on The Human Element & Changing Paradigms Connector | Executive Career Coach | Visionary Recruiter | Ex - Fortune 10 Executive
Urvi is a Master Connector, emotionally wealthy and a nomadic personality. She is a 20 year, reformed, Fortune 10 corporate executive. (AT&T, IBM, Coca-Cola, Walmart). The consistent thread in her career is her innovative mindset. Her mindset is driven by her nomadic lifestyle and connecting dots on a global scale. Her vast network and the trusting relationships she has built over the past 20 years, continue to collaborate with her and others to build the future of tomorrow.
She is the Founder | Chief Coach of a coaching & recruiting technology platform focusing on the candidate first. Peppercorn Discovery is an online career coach guiding candidates through a journey of self awareness to develop their marketing portfolio so they can focus on finding a role, in the right company for them.
She has built her advisory services upon the passion of changing the paradigm of how we live, work and play by connecting people, places and projects across the world. She is the bridge between ideas and ... action - with a focus on the human element. She focuses on reality versus the "path" we are expected to follow.
She is a connector between the past, present and the future integrating the human element into the technological and cultural paradigm shifts happening in our world to individuals or organizations. One long term project, (20 years) is to build floating cities providing a new life platform for innovators, futurists, global thinkers and nomads.
Urvi is an avid endurance athlete completing 2 half ironmans, marathons and long distance bike rides. Urvi used to live a very nomadic lifestyle and it continues in her personality. She is based in Silicon Valley where she lives with her French partner and his kids building a new age family.
FUN FACT: Urvi loves and only wears Cowboy Boots :)
Tami Forman is the founding chief executive of Path Forward, a nonprofit organization that empowers stay-at-home mothers and other caregivers to restart their professional careers. Since its founding in 2016, Path Forward has worked with more than 90 companies, including Amazon, Apple, Comcast NBC Universal, Netflix, SAP, Walmart, and Verizon to launch, implement and expand returnships and other return to work programs for mid-career professionals. Eighty percent of Path Forward’s program graduates have converted into full-time employment.
Before founding Path Forward, Tami spent a decade as a tech marketing executive with data solutions provider, Return Path. Before that she worked in book publishing at Simon & Schuster and Houghton Mifflin and held senior-level web editorial positions at iVillage and News Corp.
Tami is a frequent speaker on issues related to women’s participation in the workforce, having presented at the Grace Hopper Celebration, DisruptHR, Tech Inclusion, and the Conference Board’s Women’s Leadership Conference, among many others. She is also a frequent podcast guest on topics related to career and women in the workplace. She writes a career column for Forbes, is a Fairygodboss VIP, and was named by Flexjobs as one of the top 20 career experts for working moms. She also works with the NYC Department of Education helping to achieve gender equity in STEM education in a school system that educates more than a million children. Tami lives in New York City with her husband and two children.
Rhiannon Payne is the author of The Remote Work Era, founder of Sea Foam Media & Technology, and product marketer at Remote (remote.com). Her path to success as a remote worker and entrepreneur has been unconventional, having dropped out of high school to move to California and eventually pursue a career in tech. Since 2015, she has been traveling the world while running her own consulting agency and recently joined the team at Remote. Her book outlines how she made her remote dreams a reality and how other women can go remote and thrive in the new age of work.
Eva Medilek is a Certified High-Performance Coach, International Speaker, #1 Best-Selling Author, and Cultural Inclusivity Trainer. She has worked with men and women in the areas of personal development, leadership, inclusive intelligence and mastering habits for success.
She specializes in helping busy professionals have more money, time, and success without sacrificing health, well-being and relationships in the process.
She uses her personal experiences along with her leadership, relationship and high-performance training to teach you how to have it all without sacrificing it all.
Jamie Martin is a Life and Leadership Coach who is passionate about partnering with people who have been going so long they lost themselves. Her 17 year career in technology at companies like DoubleClick and Google, combined with her ACC from the International Coaching Federation and intensive coach training gives Jamie a unique perspective into what it takes to make a significant transformation for her clients. Working with Jamie, her clients end up standing in their power, even when they are doing the uncomfortable things they have always dreamed of doing.
Shawna Robins is an international best-selling author of 2 books - Powerful Sleep – Rest Deeply, Repair Your Brain and Restore Your Life, and Irresistibly Healthy – Simple Strategies to Feel Vibrant, Alive, Healthy and Full of Energy Again.
Her signature program, Irresistibly Healthy, an online wellness program for women who want to reset their habits and change their lives.
Shawna is a National Board-Certified Health and Wellness Coach, a graduate of the Institute of Integrative Nutrition, and a certified Miracle-Minded coach with Marianne Williamson.
Shawna has been featured on several podcasts and in Authority Magazine, Thrive Global, and The Huffington Post.
A free download of her latest book can be found here: www.shawnarobins.com You can follow her on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.
Chelle Johnson is the CEO and Founder of her company, Best You Career Advantage, and the Denver-based networking group, Colorado Career Connectors. She has over 20 years of experience in talent acquisition and human resources leadership roles. She now helps high achievers and diversity allies discover and amplify their strengths and purpose and realize abundance in their careers and lives.
Fun Fact: Chelle is also a Zumba instructor and is fluent in Spanish
Amy is such a stellar coach and trainer, she heads up all US trainer certifications and mentoring for PowerSpeaking, Inc. In addition, she leads fundamental and executive-level presentation skills workshops for technical and non-technical audiences. She also provides one-on-one coaching for those preparing for conferences or other specialized presentations.
Amy began her career in nonprofit literacy and taught public speaking for the communication studies department of several colleges. She has a passion for working with adults and children whose native language is not English. She has developed and leads public-speaking workshops for advanced ESL students; trains elementary school faculty and students in public speaking; and coaches an award-winning elementary speech and debate team.
Fun Fact: If a swing song comes on, you can guarantee Amy will be dancing with a big smile on her face.
Dr. Potter is a women's health naturopathic doctor and leading expert in helping busy, burned-out women reclaim their health, energy and vitality. After overcoming hormone imbalance and postpartum anxiety herself, she is on a mission to help 10 million women create a vibrant, potent, juicy, healthy life.
Dr. Potter is also a speaker and has shared the stage with various CEO's and global thought-leaders from corporations like Google, Microsoft and Headspace. She has been interviewed for articles on Healthline.com. Dr. Potter is a nutritionist as well as a doctor. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and two kids.
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