New Product & Product Management Awards Judging Committee

Chair:
Rajesh Kumar Mudiakal, Senior SAP Project Manager
In transit to a new company, Hounslow, London, United Kingdom

Rajesh Kumar Mudiakal is a distinguished senior project management professional with over 25 years of international experience in delivering complex enterprise technology programs, particularly within the SAP ecosystem. With a core specialization in SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC 6.0, and Analytics platforms, Rajesh has successfully led multiple full lifecycle implementations, upgrades, and transformation initiatives across the UK, Europe, India, Southeast Asia, and North America. A certified PMP, PRINCE2, and ITIL professional, Rajesh holds a master’s degree from the University of Bristol and a Postgraduate Diploma in AI & Machine Learning from IIIT Bangalore and Columbia University’s executive leadership program. He had been a Commonwealth Scholar at Bristol University. He has also presented papers in international conferences and regular contributor of thought leadership in the field of Technology and Management. Rajesh brings a wealth of cross-industry insight, strategic rigor, and an unwavering commitment to excellence and integrity in evaluating enterprise innovation and leadership.


Committee:

Harshini Gadam, Manager, Cloud EPM Finance
Staples, Boston, Massachusetts, United States   
Harshini is an accomplished Enterprise Planning Transformation Lead with over a decade of experience in Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) across diverse sectors, including financial services, retail, insurance, and manufacturing. Her expertise lies in leading financial system transformations into cloud-based planning platforms at Staples, McLarens & Dyma brands, specifically Anaplan, Workday and Oracle Cloud EPM.

Nivedita Kumari, Data Analytics Customer Engineer
Google, United States


Malcolm Summerfield, CEO
MIS Consulting Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Entrepreneur, Marketing and Advertising Expert, and Portfolio Non-executive Director, Malcolm has wide experience of many business sectors both in the UK and Internationally. He is a former CEO of McCann Erickson in London and now runs his own business consultancy.