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Reimagining Business for the Digital Age Categories, Sponsored by HCL

Reimagining Business for the Digital Age Categories, Sponsored by HCL

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Shiva Ayalasomayajula, IT Delivery Manager/Director
ProKarma, San Diego, California, USA

Shiva is a seasoned technology leader with 15 years of experience in managing strategic programs/portfolios and providing a consistent value stream delivery for companies of various sizes. Shiva currently serves as a delivery manager/director for ProKarma, a digital transformation consulting firm. He graduated from the University of San Diego with an MBA, and also completed his Masters in Computer Science (M.S) at WKU in Bowling Green, KY.

Nehal BharodiaNehal Bharodia, Senior Analytical Consultant
SAS Institute Inc., Cary, North Carolina, USA

Nehal specializes in delivering risk business consulting and technology for financial risk management. He is a seasoned professional with deep expertise in risk and finance integration. He has been in the industry for 10+ years serving various financial institutions delivering business expertise and end to end risk architecture for large scale risk and finance transformations.

Michael Cenkl, Director of Innovation and Technology
The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, Massachusetts, USA

Moonmoon ChakrabortyMoonmoon Chakraborty, Senior Consultant ERP
Cognizant Technology Solutions, Buffalo Grove, Illinois, USA

Moonmoon Chakraborty has more than 10 years of experience in professional services and dynamic consultancy on the overall design, configuration, and delivery of software and data solutions to meet customer requirements. She is also engaged in Data Management practice with a deep focus on Data Architecting, Data Modeling, Data Integration, Data Conversion, and Data Quality. She has experience working with different database platforms such as Oracle, Teradata, PostgreSQL, DevOps and in AWS Cloud. Her passion is to interact with business teams and technical team members in all stages of the implementation lifecycle, and translating client desires into a solution.  Moonmoon holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science & Engineering, and a Master Of Science in Information Technology. She has several Oracle database certifications, Prince2 foundation and practitioner, Agile Scrum Master, ITIL foundation and expert. She takes many initiatives at work, establishing strategic objectives, and makes dramatic improvements in business while meeting the project objectives and deadlines.

Basabdutta Chakroborty, Solution Architect - Customer Care @CMP 
Amway Corporation, Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
Moon (Basabdutta) Chakrobarty is a Solution Architect and Technical Lead in Global Customer Care Solutions at Amway. With 11+ years of IT experience, she has expertise in Customer Relationship Management, Artificial Intelligence, and Cloud Technology. Moon received her MS from Northwestern University, and she is also a technology blogger.

Sai Sharan Donthi, Assistant Vice President
Credit Suisse, New York, New York, United States

Sai Sharan Donthi is a software engineer by profession with 12 years of experience in building software systems for the financial industry. Sai currently works at Credit Suisse in the Risk, Finance Visualization & Analytics group. Sai brings a unique cross section of business acumen, deep technical knowledge, and innovative outlook to develop business-critical solutions for Credit Risk, Market Risk, Product Control, and Group Finance organizations. Sai has a Master’s Degree in software engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and has also worked at Accenture.

Sripathi Kannappan, Senior Consultant
Cambridge Technology Inc, Irving, Texas, USA

Tony McGuinness, Head of Customer Boarding
sales-i, Solihull, West Midlands, United Kingdom

"Tony has worked in the Software-as-a-Service sector since 2008. Currently he is Head of Customer Boarding, looking after global Data and Support teams with a major focus on the implementation of all new clients. He was responsible for growing and scaling Customer Success and Training Teams in the USA and UK. Unrivalled retention rates remain at the core of all his activities as well as commercial and general management tasks."

Sourav MukherjeeSourav Mukherjee, Database Administrator
KSN Technologies, INC, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Sourav Mukherjee is a Senior Database Administrator and Architect based out of Chicago. He has more than 12 years of experience working with the Microsoft SQL Server Database Platform. Being a Consultant, he has worked with different Chicago-based client projects. He has helped many companies in designing and maintaining their high-availability solutions and providing query performance tuning to improve the overall SQL Server performance. He is passionate about SQL Server Database and the related community, and contributing to articles in different SQL Server Public sites and Forums. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and a Master’s Degree in Project Management, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Information Technology. He is a Microsoft Certified Trainer, MCP, MCTS, MCDBA, MCITP, TOGAF, Prince2, PMP, and ITIL Certified. Sourav writes articles and blogs for scholarly journals and other social media platforms.

Ioannis SaratsidisIoannis Saratsidis, Founder
PC Pal Global, Norwalk, Connecticut, USA

Ioannis Saratsidis has been President of PC Pal Global since its inception is 1999. He has more than 15 years experience in information technology and business development supported by certification in numerous disciplines from several vendors.

Ashish Sharma,Digital Manager
Waste Management, Houston, Texas, United States

Ashish Sharma is an Information Technology leader with over 15 years of global experience in various industries including Telecom, Finance, and Healthcare. He has successfully led several multi-million dollar engagements and is currently leading a large IT transformation project for Waste Management to support the $3.3 billion contract between Waste Management and the New York Department of Sanitation. He has expertise in several niche technologies and has worked on Oracle’s Siebel implementation. He was also one of the leads on a team which developed Oracle Fusion’s AIA products, while he was employed with Oracle Corp. Ashish has also worked for IBM and Deloitte supporting fortune 500 companies with their technology roadmap.

Bharath Ram SrinivasanBharath Ram Srinivasan, Head of Demand Platforms
Hewlett Packard Enterprise, San Jose, California, USA

Marketing Professional and Technologist with over 15 years of experience building and scaling companies from startup to IPO and beyond. Right now responsible for building the marketing platforms and products at HPE and driving revenue digitally. Speaker at global marketing conferences (Marketing Nation Summit, MarTech).

Michael Ulicki, Vice President, Global Infrastructure
Johnson Controls, Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, United States

Cathy Vasilev, Senior Vice President
Red Oak Compliance, Cedar Park, Texas, USA

Cathy brings more than 25 years of compliance and supervisory expertise in independent broker-dealers, wire-house broker/dealers, and RIAs. Cathy served as the Assistant Vice President of Supervisory Systems and Controls at NFP Securities, an independent broker/dealer, and RIA. She was an Associate Manager for Prudential where she supervised 75 representatives, performing all compliance functions for the branch. She began her career as a stockbroker for Salomon Smith Barney and later moved to compliance and operations. Cathy has a Masters of Business Management degree. She is a member of the Association of Compliance Professionals; a member of National Society of Compliance Professionals; a member of Compliance and AML Professionals; and has FINRA Series 7, 24, 26, 63 and Life and Health licenses.