Company / Organization, Achievement & Sustainability Awards Judging Committee

Chair:

Mary DiMaggio-Finley, President & CEO
Legato Communications Etc., Inc., Columbia, Maryland, United States

Ms. DiMaggio-Finley has more than 25 years of experience in strategic multi-media corporate and health communications for consumer products, social marketing, Federal Government health, and brand management. She also has extensive experience managing cross-functional communications and publications teams for implementation, organization and supervision of building client core branding needs, public relations plans for cross-promotional strategic delivery and providing consumer retention communications models. Some of the corporate communications client programs have included InterActive Corp, Time Warner, The Red Cross, Arthritis Foundation, BioCentric, Inc., Lifetime Television for Women health initiatives, and Procter & Gamble. Federal and Regional government client programs include the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC), United States Department of Agriculture, National Institutes of Health, The Food and Drug Agency/Office of Women’s Health (FDA/OWH), and Health Resources Services Administration. Mary has managed several Executive Branch health initiatives, which have included The President’s Council on Fitness and Childhood Obesity with the program Let’s Move, and the H1N1, Ebola and Zika Pandemics.



Ms. DiMaggio is the President and CEO of Legato Communications and consults with small business organizations that provide medical and health communications with pharmaceutical clients, Federal and Regional government health clients, non-profits, health and social media influencers, and self-help authors.  She was the Chief Strategy Officer and also the President of HMA Associates, a multicultural health communications small business in Washington, D.C., where she provided strategic oversight of all government and corporate accounts within the company. She managed client corporate relationships which included Ogilvy, MSLGroup, Westat Communications, and Edelman.  In 2013, HMA was selected by the Stevie Awards for Women in Business as the Gold Stevie winner for Multicultural Communications or PR Campaign of the Year.



Developing culturally appropriate and innovative medical and health communications programs for corporate, government and non-profit clients has included an award-winning web novellas series, patient journey stories, sponsor management, and engaging corporate leaders in providing PSA support such as multi-sector partnerships for the CDC related to The National Influenza Vaccination Disparities Partnership, the National HIV/AIDS Partnership, and the FDA Office of Women’s Health. She has led business development and program teams with clients both internally and domestically to focus on creating programs that enhance healthy lifestyle resource sharing and funding for sponsorship programs.  She has also developed new multicultural communications initiatives for pandemic awareness and education, safe medicine use, diabetes prevention, immunization, prenatal care, and obesity. Ms. DiMaggio is an advocate for Small Business owners who are seeking new revenue growth opportunities with corporate and government clients, and she supports global self-help social media influencers and authors to develop content. She has been a keynote speaker for the Gallup Small Business Government Summit, Johns Hopkins Business School-Meet the Legends, and has been featured on CNN and in The New York Times business section for corporate client programs. Public relations programs have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and USA Today.  She has been a Stevie Awards judge since 2014.

Nurkamila Akisheva, CEO and Founder     
Aaron Tax And Advisory LLC, Parkland, Florida, United States
Nurkamila, FCCA, CIA, a professional in the field of accounting, taxes, and finance, holds a Master's in Accounting and Finance. With extensive expertise spanning more than 15 years, she's acclaimed for her leadership at AARON TAX AND ADVISORY LLC, and her contributions to international taxation and corporate governance in Central Asia.

Trent Allan, CEO       
WayGrowth, San Diego, California, United States
Trent is a business growth expert, someone with a unique set of skills that include technology (both Web2 and Web3), strategy, operations, and marketing. He has started, scaled, and sold several well-known startups and knows what it takes to build companies from nothing, to something.

Anish Kumar Arya, Director
PricewaterhouseCoopers, Apex, North Carolina, United States
Anish Arya is working as a senior-level director of advisory services with one of the big four consulting firms, PwC. He has 20 years of experience as a business and technology transformation leader across the globe with Fortune 500 companies such as PwC, Deloitte, SAP, and IBM.

Rajeev Aswal, Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Robotic Parking Systems Inc., Clearwater, Florida, United States
With 23+ years of global work experience in the USA, UAE, and India, Rajeev serves as the Chief Technology Officer at Robotic Parking Systems, expertise lies in ROBOTS, IoT, SCADA, PLC, and Control Systems Design. He led the team to achieve the Guinness World Record for the World’s Biggest Fully Automated Robotic Parking. 

Suramya Bakshi, Director     
Cyderes, Sacramento, California, United States
Experienced leader in information security, focusing on Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Identity Governance & Administration (IGA). Suramya is currently the Director, IAM, at a Global Cybersecurity organization with a Master of Science in Information Technology—Software Management from Carnegie Mellon University.

Vipul Bansal, Director
Deutsche Bank, New York, New York, United States
Vipul is a Director in investment banking practice at Deutsche Bank. He is a seasoned finance professional with over ten years of experience in investment banking and capital markets across America, Europe, and Asia. He received an MBA from New York University, where he was a Dean's Scholar, and has CFA certification.

Aravind Chengalvala, Senior Strategic Advisor      
Salesforce, Chesterfield, Missouri, United States
Aravind Chengalvala boasts an impressive portfolio of leading digital transformations for major enterprises. With over two decades of IT experience, he brings a wealth of knowledge in Enterprise and Integration Architecture. Aravind adeptly guides diverse customer groups, including CIOs and engineering teams, to enhance IT delivery and integration.

Sagar Chordia, Engineering Director            
Meta Inc, Sunnyvale, California, United States
Sagar is an executive leader at Instagram Ads and Meta, where he plays a pivotal role in contributing to Instagram's and Meta's revenue objectives. He is responsible for selecting the perfect ad among millions at the right time, in the right format, and in the right place for every user within the billion-strong user base.

Rohit Dhanda, Director         
Amazon, Bellevue, Washington, United States
Rohit Dhanda is the Director of Strategic Sourcing at Amazon. He leads a team of hundreds of engineers, operations research and machine learning scientists, product managers to develop large-scale systems for automating and optimizing Amazon’s supply chain. Rohit has 15+ years of experience in technology management and supply chain optimization.

Aadithya Francis, Senior Director    
Visa Inc, Austin, Texas, United States
Aadithya Francis is a senior technology leader with over 17 years of experience in cybersecurity and knowhow of payment security. Aadithya holds a Master's degree in Computer Science and is currently a Senior Director at Visa Inc.

Prerak Garg, Senior Director
Microsoft, Sunnyvale, California, United States 
Prerak is a visionary product leader and strategist in the field of artificial intelligence, currently serving as Senior Director within Microsoft’s Cloud & AI division. He boasts over a decade of experience in building enterprise AI applications. He holds an MBA from the Wharton School and a B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT).

Reymi Gonzalez, Finance Business Partner Unilever International - Americas      
Unilever de Puerto Rico, Inc., San Juan, Puerto Rico
Experienced Finance Lead with a history of working for more than 13 years in the consumer goods industry, managing markets across the Americas for Multinationals companies. With a bachelor's degree in administration and a solid academic background, as well as certifications in Business Strategy and Artificial Intelligence from the Project Management Institute.

Apoorva Goyal, Vice President, Investments           
Insight Partners, New York City, New York, United States
Apoorva has been Vice President (Investments) at Insight Partners since 2021. His focus areas are global high-growth fintech, internet, and software companies from Series A to pre-IPO stages. He is an operator at heart and enjoys working with founders on everything. He managed operations for a $300M+ consumer business at ITC.
 

Vinamre Gupta, DEI Specialist         
Yale New Haven Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Vinamre's professional journey has been defined by a commitment to driving change, fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I), and reshaping corporate landscapes. Vinamre has had the privilege of serving as the Assistant Vice President at Moody's, spearheading a data-driven approach to shaping the organization's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) strategy.

CarolAnn Hibbard, Vice President of Marketing      
Freedom Energy Logistics, Westborough, Massachusetts, United States
CarolAnn Hibbard, a seasoned marketing executive, has over 30 years’ experience in promoting facets of the energy industry. Her expertise spans a wide range of areas, including commodity solutions ensuring efficient energy supply and demand management, clean technology and renewable energy sources, infrastructure upgrades, efficiency services, and ESG and sustainability.

Alison Higgins-Miller, CEO  
Lightray Insights Pty Ltd, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sebastian Huelck, CEO        
tec5USA, Inc., Plainview, New York, United States
Sebastian has been the CEO of tec5USA since August 2018. He’s got more than 20 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, optoelectronics, and photonics, as well as managing teams. He’s studied Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at the Technical University of Munich, Germany.

Jessica Jansen, Senior Paralegal    
Mattel, El Segundo, California, United States
Jessica Jansen, a certified Paralegal, has provided legal support at Mattel since 2008, amassing over 15 years of experience in business legal matters.

Mahrou Kharazi, Head of Marketing
Philips Healthcare, Eindhoven, Brabant, Netherlands
Mahrou, Marketing Leader at BENELUX for a multinational technology firm, boasts a decade of leadership. With a BSc and MSc in Economics and Business from Erasmus University Rotterdam and Università Bocconi Milan, she thrives on driving impactful innovation. Her global experience spans the USA, Europe, and Africa, advocating for sustainable business models.

Gopi Kolla, Director of Software Engineering (Chapter Leader)      
Fidelity Investments, United States

Kalyan Kuchampudi, Co-founder & CEO    
Almabase, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Kalyan is the Co-founder and CEO of Almabase, a leading fundraising software provider for universities and schools around the world. He has over 15 years of total experience and has delivered a TEDx talk and multiple presentations at conferences in the USA, UK and Canada. He is passionate about making education affordable.

Girish Kuppanda, Senior Manager Accenture         
San Francisco, California, United States
Girish, an accomplished Enterprise Business Leader with over 27 years in the software industry, excels in Technology Services, Emerging Platform Solutions, Innovation & Product Management. Besides holding MBA and Science degrees from renowned institutions, he also has a Senior Management Program certification from IIM Calcutta. Girish is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Sandeep Mahajan, Director, Data Science Product Management - Connected Intelligence
Walmart, Bentonville, Arkansas, United States
Sandeep is a Product Management leader obsessed with solving customer and associate pain points through the application of cutting-edge technology. He's currently focused on leveraging AI/ML to improve engagement and productivity for Walmart's ~1.6M associates and has previously held leadership roles with Amazon, Levi's, Sears Holdings, and Indian Oil Corporation.

Sethu Meenakshisundaram, Co-Founder   
Zluri Inc., Fremont, California, United States
Sethu, an Engineer turned Entrepreneur, is one of the co-founders of Zluri, a Series-A funded startup that has raised more than $12M in venture capital from some of the most notable investors. He works with IT leaders across the globe to help them govern their IT stack and build a healthy bottom line. 

Dr. Tyanne Mobley, Founder            
Music Grant Inc., West Hollywood, California, United States
 

Tomofumi Nakata, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer          
Qlay Technologies, Tokyo, Japan
Tomofumi Nakata is the Co-Founder and CEO of Qlay Technologies. Qlay is a generative AI-powered consumer sentiment analysis tool. Before founding Qlay, Tomofumi worked at McKinsey & Company, where he focused on growth strategy in the consumer goods sector. Tomofumi has a B.A. in Statistics from Harvard College.

Kabir Nanda, Senior Director Strategy         
Nature's Fynd, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Kabir Nanda is Senior Director of Corporate Strategy and Public Affairs at Nature's Fynd. He has over a decade of experience in scaling innovative, sustainable technologies globally as a consultant and operator and has degrees from the Harvard Kennedy School and the University of Warwick.

Raghav Parmar, Portfolio Manager  
MMA Pan Asia Fund Mgmt LLC, White Plains, New York, United States
Raghavkumar Parmar is an experienced financial professional with a robust background in portfolio management and equity research. Hailing from Gujarat, India, he embarked on his career on bustling Indian streets and later transitioned to the financial hub of New York City with expertise spanning accounting, analytics, equity research, and asset management.

Kaushikkumar Patel, Director of Data Development           
TransUnion LLC, White Plains, New York, United States
Kaushikkumar Patel is the Director of Data Development at TransUnion, a position he has held since 2013. With over 14 years of experience in data management and analytics, Patel is committed to using data to inform decision-making and constantly enhance data processes.

Pavan kumar Patibandla, Director of Engineering  
Amplitude Inc, San Francisco, California, United States
Pavan is an accomplished technology executive currently serving as the Director of Engineering at Amplitude, where he was instrumental in launching and scaling multiple product lines. With over 18 years of experience, he has held engineering leadership roles at Riverbed, Quantum, and Symantec. He holds a Master of Engineering in Computer Science.

Sudheep Pavithran, Director Critical Environment Operations       
Microsoft Corporation, Clive, Iowa, United States
Sudheep has over 20 years of leadership experience in critical operations and engineering of renewable energy, data centers, and power generation facilities. Sudheep is currently the Director of Operations at Microsoft Datacenter and was previously a General Manager in Berkshire Hathaway's renewable energy division. They hold a Master of Science in Engineering Management. 

Sharat Priya, Product Manager
Ernst & Young, Los Angeles, California, United States
Sharat is a Technology Consultant with 20+ years of IT experience. He excels in software engineering, Product Management, and delivery management. His expertise extends to the Wealth & Asset Management industry, where he has managed complex programs for large banks in the US and Europe. Currently, he is a Product Manager at Ernst & Young. 

Nitin Rakheja, Staff Operations Manager     
Zoox, Inc., Foster City, California, United States
Nitin is an accomplished technology leader with 22+ years of experience spanning automotive, manufacturing, drones, robotics, and digital transformation. A senior military veteran and a graduate of MIT Sloan School of Management, he currently drives the manufacturing of autonomous vehicles as the Staff Operations Manager at Zoox, Inc.

Chitra Sabapathy Ranganathan, Associate Vice President           
Mphasis Corporation, Chandler, Arizona, United States
Results-oriented, accomplished business technology leader with 24+ years of experience in software engineering and design. Proven track record of conceptualizing, architecting, and delivering reliable and scalable systems in a variety of areas comprising multi-technologies including Mainframe, Business Intelligence, Cloud, Big Data, AI, ML, Advance Analytics, and Blockchain. Managed complex engagements across multiple verticals.

Mayur Rele, Senior Director, IT and Information Security    
Parachute Health, New York City, New York, United States
Mayur Rele is a technical and strategic leader with 15 years of experience in cloud, security, virtualization, and DevOps environments. Mayur is committed to helping organizations benefit from their IT and IS investment by implementing best practices, building CI/CD pipelines, migrating to infrastructure as a code, and following Agile methodologies.

Indrajit Roy Chowdhury, Vice President     
Nielsen Media, Cumming, Georgia, United States
Indrajit is a technology leader with over 20 years of experience. He is currently working as Vice President - Technology at Nielsen. A graduate from Georgia Institute of Technology, Indrajit is passionate about designing supply chain and procurement processes to improve efficiency and reduce cost.

Prof. Mohamed Saad Atia Abdalla, Technical Advisor       
MOI, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Professor Abdalla is a technical advisor, head of the excellence team, and acting director of the Geographic Information Security System Institute (GISSI) training center at the Ministry of Interior. He is a professor at engineering colleges. He is a Fellow and Board Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

Ardhendu Sekhar Nanda, Vice President    
First Citizens Bank, Morristown, New Jersey, United States
Highly accomplished Senior Product Manager with two decades of experience in the IT-enabled financial services industry. The Vice President of First Citizens Bank Treasury Division has a proven track record of successfully managing and executing complex programs, spearheading firm-wide initiatives, and overseeing projects that encompass various aspects of the financial services domain. 

Sachin Siddhaye, Director, Product Management, Development IT           
Genmab, Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Sachin has 20+ years of experience in pharmaceutical R&D at the intersection of data, science, and technology. Currently, he is Director, Digital Products, R&D at Genmab. His technology interests span Research, Clinical Development and Pharmacovigilance. He is a published researcher in computer-aided drug design and machine learning, with 250 citations.

Balasundaram Subbusundaram, Head Of Product - Payments & Financial Services
Walmart Inc., Hayward, California, United States 
Bala is an experienced and accomplished product leader with a growth mindset that combines strategic thinking coupled with strong execution and cross-functional team collaboration. Bala heads a team of software engineers, product managers, data analysts and designers at Walmart to envision and deliver a world-class, self-serve financial marketplace increasingly powered by personalization. 

Douglas Sutcliffe, Director of Product Management           
L'Oreal, New York City, New York, United States
Douglas is an innovative product management leader with expertise in consumer marketing technology. As L'Oréal’s Director of Product Management for Data-Driven Marketing and AI, Doug has spent the last 10 years combining his expertise in both technology and marketing strategies to reshape consumer experience, advancing industry standards while accelerating L’Oreal’s global digital transformation.

Manas Talukdar, Director of Engineering     
Labelbox, San Francisco, California, United States
Manas is a senior software engineering leader in Data Infrastructure for Enterprise AI. His experience spans over a decade and a half in leadership and critical roles for leading enterprise software companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. As Director of Platform Engineering at C3 AI, the leading Enterprise AI company.

Anand Venkateswaran, Director Software Engineering      
Concentrix, Bothell, Washington, United States 
Anand is an accomplished IT leader with over 15 years' expertise in program/project management, software development, and client engagement across industries. He's led multimillion-dollar portfolios, spearheaded Agile transformations, and received awards for client service excellence. An advocate for innovation and team empowerment, he's driven impactful results in technology initiatives.

Vishal Yadav, Director of Application Development
Meridian Go, LLC, Houston, Texas, United States
Vishal Yadav, a pioneering tech leader at symplr and MeridianGo, has also transformed NIL compliance for college athletes with theLinkU. His visionary work spans healthcare, maritime, and sports sectors. As HowGptWorks.com's founder and a BCS Fellow, Vishal is shaping the future of technology and compliance.