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:
Oluwatofunmi Awodiji, Technical Product Manager
Goldman Sachs, London, United Kingdom
Oluwatofunmi Awodiji is skilled in Salesforce Sales and Service Cloud, CRM Business Process, Products and Pricing design and implementation strategies, Requirements Analysis, Business Process Design, and Salesforce.com Consulting.
Shiva Chandrashekher, Head of Product
Amazon, Seattle, Washington, United States
Shiva is a product and business innovator who has built several products with AI-driven experiences at Amazon. He created off-Amazon ad programs, launched customer favorites like Alexa Grocery Assistant and Amazon Glow, and guided global product strategy for Amazon Rufus (Gen AI Shopping Assistant). Shiva also mentors senior talent and emerging leaders in tech.
Khaled Elnems, (Q.C.) Industrial Design Innovation
Parsons & Founder EGY Inventors Society, MBZ City, Abu Zabi, United Arab Emirates
Khaled, a UAE-based Q.C. Innovations (R&D), works with International Consultants and is a jury member on the Committee for International Engineering Innovation Exhibitions, a Co-founder (Vice President) of The Egyptian Inventors Society (Syndicate), Head of Delegation for Young Inventors in Egypt and UAE. He supports cooperation with women and marginalized inventors.
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.
Jan Harling, CEO
Virtus Asia Consulting, Hong Kong, Greater China
Originally from Germany, Jan has spent over 15 years in Asia and has successfully developed and implemented holistic data-driven campaigns for world-leading brands of various industries throughout China, Asia Pacific and Western Europe. He is an expert in communications and marketing and has had local, regional, and global roles in both international 4A agencies.
Venkatesh Kanneganti, Senior Quality Assurance Manager
Gilead Sciences, Dublin, California, United States
Venkatesh is an experienced quality and validation expert, and a published author in life sciences. He has over 12 years’ experience leading digital quality systems, compliance frameworks, and enterprise transformation. He combines technical depth with strategic insight to support innovation and regulatory success across global biotech and pharma environments.
Jimmy Katiyar, Senior Manager, Product Management
Sirius XM, Fremont, California, United States
Jimmy is a Salesforce AI Certified Senior Product Manager with a demonstrated history of working in both Functional and Technical roles in the information technology and services industry.
Sahil Khullar, Senior Product Manager
UBS, New York City, New York, United States
Sahil Khullar is a customer-obsessed, data-driven product manager who delivers high-impact technology products for leading finance and tech companies, driving digital transformation, innovation, compliance, and growth for world-class firms.
Nivedita Kumari, Data Analytics Customer Engineer
Google, United States
Nivedita Kumari is a Data and AI expert at Google, she empowers businesses to leverage data analytics & cloud-based solutions. With a Master's in Technology Management and 9+ years of experience, she's passionate about democratizing AI, she actively shares her expertise through content creation.
Ohm Hareesh Kundurthy, Director, Application Development
Santander Bank, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
With over 18 years of rising responsibility across India, Australia and US, Ohm Hareesh has led critical IT and Data architecture Initiatives in top Financial institutions. He drives regulatory compliance and digital transformation. His impact in RegTech and platform modernization positions him as an extraordinary Contributor to US financial resilience and Innovation.
Mohneil Lobo, Head of Data Science, Google Fi & Google Store
Google, Mountain View, California, United States
Mohneil is a data science leader with 15+ years of experience in quantitative analysis, experimentation & business intelligence. As Head of Data Science at Google Fi & Google Store, he leads teams driving clear data driven decisions. Previously at PwC & Deloitte, he holds a Masters degree from Carnegie Mellon University.
Sri Rama Chandra Mandava, Director, Sr. Treasury Product Manager
Bank of America, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Arvin is a seasoned & versatile professional with significant experience of more than 20 years in Digital Transformation, Innovation & Delivery primarily focused on Banking & Financial Services. He defines roadmaps, designs solution architecture, and drives implementation strategy for digital payments ecosystem in global banks to partner institutional clients.
Ankitkumar Patel, Senior QA/QC Specialist
MAK Pharma USA, Randolph, New Jersey, United States
Ankitkumar Patel is a professional senior QA/QC Specialist with 15+ years’ experience developing products and helping the pharma industry. Ankit founded his own pharmaceutical packaging company, where he collaborates with clients internationally and across industries—from leading pharmaceutical companies to nonprofit organizations and national big retailers.
Shaheen Shah, Group Product Manager
LinkedIn, Sunnyvale, California, United States
Shaheen Shah is a senior product leader at LinkedIn, known for building high-performing teams and delivering impactful marketplace and payments solutions. With prior experience at McKinsey and Meta, she brings a strategic, human-centered approach to product development and is passionate about mentoring and growing inclusive, mission-driven product organizations.
Deepshikha Shekhawat, Business Intelligence Program Manager
AMD, Austin, Texas, United States
With over 12 years of experience as a high-impact leader in business intelligence, supply chain analytics, and semiconductor operations, Deepshikha demonstrates a proven track record of driving multi-million-dollar efficiencies and strategic transformations. With expertise spanning data analytics, program management, and decision intelligence she has successfully optimized financial planning, and business processes for Fortune 500 companies.
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.
Maalika Tadinada, Director of Engineering
Electronic Arts, Inc, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
At Electronic Arts, Maalika leads teams that build virtual economy platforms that add depth to gameplay and drive player engagement & monetization. She has expertise in developing strategies for technical transformations to align the technical vision of the product with business needs, and develops mission-critical services that put customer empathy at the heart of building large-scale systems.
Roshan Tathed, Chief of Staff
Fusion Transport, East Rutherford, New Jersey, United States
Roshan has 7+ years of experience in supply chain, strategy, and AI product development. At Fusion Transport he has led multimillion-dollar pricing, operations, and sales transformations. At Amazon, he built an AI-powered agriculture app impacting over 10 million farmers. Earlier, he spearheaded India’s pharma supply chain recovery during COVID-19 and led a $100M health-tech platform launch.
Sathyanarayanan Veeramani, Business Systems Architect
Cisco Systems Inc, Milpitas, California, United States
Sathyanarayanan Veeramani is an award-winning Business Systems Architect at Cisco with over 18 years of experience leading digital transformation in global supply chains. A Stanford LEAD graduate, he specializes in quality systems, data-driven innovation, and enterprise solutions that deliver measurable business impact, and is passionate about excellence and thought leadership.