First time with Leadership Talk having a special chapter for Women Leaders – initiated by Cohort – 17. Distinguished and esteemed women from various industries who have made significant contributions to their fields are invited for an interactive session with the students where they share their valuable experience and insights from their respective industries
Table 2: The special She Ascends Leadership speaker series coordinated by the She Ascends team members, had the following eminent personalities sharing their knowledge with the cohort as catalogued in Table 2.
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Mitali Pattnaik | Investor & Advisor (Various Startup) | Mitali Pattnaik is a seasoned product management leader with 23 years of experience building and scaling products and leading high-performing teams at LinkedIn, Google, Twitter, Yahoo, Micorosft and other silicon valley tech firms. Over the course of her career, Mitali has worked on both massive-scale consumer products serving billions of users, as well as large enterprise SaaS businesses with multi-billion $ revenues. |
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Bhanurekha Condur | Associate Vice President (Sutherland Global Services) | Bhanurekha is accomplished professional with 25 years of extensive experience in the areas of Service Delivery,Technical Support & Operations addressing Business Transformation, Strategy and Innovation. Companies worked for include ITC, Cat Computer Centre, NIIT and Sutherland Global Services with core competencies in BPO/Call Center Technology, Business Transformation and Service Excellence, Profit Centre Operations, Business Development, Client Engagement model Site administration and Contract Governance. |
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Sumreni Lala | Managing Director (Accenture)-GCC Panelist | Sumreni is Managing Director at Accenture and trusted advisor to global CXOs, helping them reimagine technology/digital/product engineering operating models, to unlock the full potential of Global Capability Centres (GCCs). Her thought leadership has shaped next-generation GCCs that drive innovation and transformation with talent at the centre. With strong track record of shaping GCC blueprints, operating models and organisations for global enterprises such as Adidas, Vertex, Sanofi and others, Sumreni brings in-depth insights on how global firms can scale, innovate and build global organisations that can stay ahead in fast-changing tech landscape. |