Over the years, executives and incredible technology industry leaders have joined EWiT, transforming it into a mentoring, learning and exchange platform. Browse this page by regions and countries and get in touch with each of these inspiring women.
CIO
Adtalem Global EducationDirector, Product Marketing & Strategic Business Development
WorkdayCPCC, Founder and Head Coach
The Lens LeadershipCo-Founder and Head
MT>Ventures, a Division of McCarthy TétraultTechnology Manager - Engineering (Mobile, Payments, Fraud, B2B)
LululemonProduct Design Director
MetaChief Digital Transformation Officer & SVP
SE HealthCEO & Founder
Bee TouchFundadora e Diretora
GautéHead of IT strategy & Payments Business Supervisor for EURO
Société GénéraleCIO
TIM BrasilCTO
Alen CorporationVP, Buyer Experience & Focus Categories
eBayDiretora de Produtos e Transformação Digital
YduqsUser Experience Director
CitibanamexTech Recruiter
SicrediVP of Engineering
BitlyPresident
ORCA AGSVP, Product Development
OracleFundadora
EstrategicaMente ConsultCEO
Agência Curitiba de DesenvolvimentoExecutive VP Organization & Transformation - COO
HEC School of ManagementDirector, Digital Ops & Strategy
The SourceVP, Global Technology & Operational Enablement
Thomson ReutersDirector of Digital Solutions
St. Joseph's Healthcare HamiltonCTO
AffinityBuie People Practices Partner
EarnInCEO
A2C AcademySVP Digital Innovation
InVision CommunicationsIT Leader
Pacific Gas and Electric CompanyHead of Digital Transformation
Bison & BirdCo-Founder & CEO
PairUpCIO
Teranet Inc.CEO & Founder
Mercer-Mackay SolutionsDirector of Engineering
IntuitData Operations & Governance Director
AllstateVP US AI & Sustainability Strategy
MicrosoftSenior Director of Engineering
Course HeroHead of Engineering, Consumer & Growth
OpendoorSenior Director, Global Executive Search
Box, Inc.Vice President of Strategy and Operations
CiscoGlobal VP of Design & Head of Adobe Practice
Avenue Code Creative DivisionInformation Technology Director Western Europe
RocheCIO & EVP of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
OracleAssociate Vice President of Info Security Risk & Business Engagement
Eli Lilly and CompanyVice President, Lending and Payments Technology
Equitable BankPresident and CEO
Westario PowerDirector of Engineering / COO
SephoraVP of Engineering and Operations
PlayStationFounder & Mentor, Women's Wellness Circles
Brain Fitness Expert & Wellness AuthorityEngineering Director
MetaHead of Production Design
Cornershop by UberPartner
Borden Ladner Gervais LLPSr. Director, Technology Excellence
AutodeskSr. Director, CIO Technology Solution Marketing
WorkdayGlobal VP, Digital Solution and AI Transformation
Avenue CodeVice President, Cloud Compliance & Assurance
OracleFounder and Chief Leadership Coach
ACCELLE Inc.VP Payment Systems Engineering
Change HealthcareChief Data Scientist, AI Markets & Innovation
MicrosoftChief Marketing Officer
SurePoint TechnologiesVice President Engineering
SalesforceChief Information Officer - Group Functions Technology
ManulifeExecutive Director, Oracle Women's Leadership
OracleDirector of Customer Experience
ImpervaDirector of Engineering
CiscoSenior Map Designer
MapboxIT Director - Global IT Project Management Office (PMO) Lead for LatAm
CargillExecutive Communication + Camera Presence Coach
Michele Moreno ConsultingCTO
Walmart CanadaBusiness Directress
Google CloudSenior Staff Software Engineer
GoogleVice President, SaaS Engineering
OracleSVP & CIO, Canadian Technology and Enterprise Architecture
SunLifeIT Infrastructure and Operations Lead and Corporate Delivery Lead
Worten PortugalHead of Design
Aurora InnovationAuthor, Co-Founder and Chief Global Head of Product Delivery
SpectrumNorth | NutcacheVice President Human Resources, Digital & Technology Engineering
Albertsons CompaniesDirector of Digital Operations
CignaLeader, Technology & Software Engineering
Capital OneVice President - OCI Technical Operations
OracleHead of Platform Content Design
AutodeskVP, Enterprise AI & Automation
NVIDIAHead of Data Science
GustoStanford Women in Management Group Facilitator
Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessFounder & CEO
Yellowbricks.invoDirector of Engineering
OracleHead of Corporate Technology and Enterprise Asset Management
Interact CorpVP of Technology
Coca-Cola CanadaDirector Of Engineering
eBayProgram Lead
PinterestDirector, Cloud Platform and DevOps Engineering
BoxVP, Global Application Services
PVHCorpSenior Engineering Manager
WorkdayExecutive Vice President, Digital Transformation, and Chief Information Officer
Niagara HealthRetail CIO and Founder
Twinkle AcademyVP of IT and CISO - Run the entire IT Dept and Cybersecurity for Corporate systems
Nashville Electric ServiceVice President, Product Management
FanaticsSVP, Developer Platform
OracleDirector of Product Marketing
LinkedInVice President
VMware Research GroupVP, Global CX
Juniper NetworksSenior Director of Data Engineering
SlackDirector of Engineering
Headspace HealthVP of Analytics and Automation
Brookfield Asset ManagementDirector, Solution & Process Engineering
Maritime Ontario FreightlinesCEO North America
Avenue CodeChief Information Officer
MetrolinxSVP, Head of Digital Innovation
LPL FinancialSVP of Product & Marketing
CleoDirector Technology Innovation
Thomson ReutersBoard Director
Arista Networks, JFrog, Rubrik, Forrester
User Experience Director
CitibanamexHead of Production Design
Cornershop by UberIT Director - Global IT Project Management Office (PMO) Lead for LatAm
Cargill
Head of IT strategy & Payments Business Supervisor for EURO
Société GénéraleExecutive VP Organization & Transformation - COO
HEC School of ManagementInformation Technology Director Western Europe
RocheIT Infrastructure and Operations Lead and Corporate Delivery Lead
Worten Portugal
CIO
Adtalem Global EducationDirector, Product Marketing & Strategic Business Development
WorkdayCPCC, Founder and Head Coach
The Lens LeadershipCo-Founder and Head
MT>Ventures, a Division of McCarthy TétraultTechnology Manager - Engineering (Mobile, Payments, Fraud, B2B)
LululemonProduct Design Director
MetaChief Digital Transformation Officer & SVP
SE HealthCTO
Alen CorporationVP, Buyer Experience & Focus Categories
eBayVP of Engineering
BitlyPresident
ORCA AGSVP, Product Development
OracleDirector, Digital Ops & Strategy
The SourceVP, Global Technology & Operational Enablement
Thomson ReutersDirector of Digital Solutions
St. Joseph's Healthcare HamiltonCTO
AffinityBuie People Practices Partner
EarnInCEO
A2C AcademySVP Digital Innovation
InVision CommunicationsIT Leader
Pacific Gas and Electric CompanyHead of Digital Transformation
Bison & BirdCo-Founder & CEO
PairUpCIO
Teranet Inc.CEO & Founder
Mercer-Mackay SolutionsDirector of Engineering
IntuitData Operations & Governance Director
AllstateVP US AI & Sustainability Strategy
MicrosoftSenior Director of Engineering
Course HeroHead of Engineering, Consumer & Growth
OpendoorSenior Director, Global Executive Search
Box, Inc.Vice President of Strategy and Operations
CiscoGlobal VP of Design & Head of Adobe Practice
Avenue Code Creative DivisionCIO & EVP of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
OracleAssociate Vice President of Info Security Risk & Business Engagement
Eli Lilly and CompanyVice President, Lending and Payments Technology
Equitable BankPresident and CEO
Westario PowerDirector of Engineering / COO
SephoraVP of Engineering and Operations
PlayStationFounder & Mentor, Women's Wellness Circles
Brain Fitness Expert & Wellness AuthorityEngineering Director
MetaPartner
Borden Ladner Gervais LLPSr. Director, Technology Excellence
AutodeskSr. Director, CIO Technology Solution Marketing
WorkdayGlobal VP, Digital Solution and AI Transformation
Avenue CodeVice President, Cloud Compliance & Assurance
OracleFounder and Chief Leadership Coach
ACCELLE Inc.VP Payment Systems Engineering
Change HealthcareChief Data Scientist, AI Markets & Innovation
MicrosoftChief Marketing Officer
SurePoint TechnologiesVice President Engineering
SalesforceChief Information Officer - Group Functions Technology
ManulifeExecutive Director, Oracle Women's Leadership
OracleDirector of Customer Experience
ImpervaDirector of Engineering
CiscoSenior Map Designer
MapboxExecutive Communication + Camera Presence Coach
Michele Moreno ConsultingCTO
Walmart CanadaBusiness Directress
Google CloudSenior Staff Software Engineer
GoogleVice President, SaaS Engineering
OracleSVP & CIO, Canadian Technology and Enterprise Architecture
SunLifeHead of Design
Aurora InnovationAuthor, Co-Founder and Chief Global Head of Product Delivery
SpectrumNorth | NutcacheVice President Human Resources, Digital & Technology Engineering
Albertsons CompaniesDirector of Digital Operations
CignaLeader, Technology & Software Engineering
Capital OneVice President - OCI Technical Operations
OracleHead of Platform Content Design
AutodeskVP, Enterprise AI & Automation
NVIDIAHead of Data Science
GustoStanford Women in Management Group Facilitator
Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessFounder & CEO
Yellowbricks.invoDirector of Engineering
OracleHead of Corporate Technology and Enterprise Asset Management
Interact CorpVP of Technology
Coca-Cola CanadaDirector Of Engineering
eBayProgram Lead
PinterestDirector, Cloud Platform and DevOps Engineering
BoxVP, Global Application Services
PVHCorpSenior Engineering Manager
WorkdayExecutive Vice President, Digital Transformation, and Chief Information Officer
Niagara HealthRetail CIO and Founder
Twinkle AcademyVP of IT and CISO - Run the entire IT Dept and Cybersecurity for Corporate systems
Nashville Electric ServiceVice President, Product Management
FanaticsSVP, Developer Platform
OracleDirector of Product Marketing
LinkedInVice President
VMware Research GroupVP, Global CX
Juniper NetworksSenior Director of Data Engineering
SlackDirector of Engineering
Headspace HealthVP of Analytics and Automation
Brookfield Asset ManagementDirector, Solution & Process Engineering
Maritime Ontario FreightlinesCEO North America
Avenue CodeChief Information Officer
MetrolinxSVP, Head of Digital Innovation
LPL FinancialSVP of Product & Marketing
CleoDirector Technology Innovation
Thomson ReutersBoard Director
Arista Networks, JFrog, Rubrik, Forrester
CEO & Founder
Bee TouchFundadora e Diretora
GautéCIO
TIM BrasilDiretora de Produtos e Transformação Digital
YduqsTech Recruiter
SicrediFundadora
EstrategicaMente ConsultCEO
Agência Curitiba de DesenvolvimentoInspiring stories, conversations about emerging technologies, future of work, cloud… How about staying up to date on these and other topics?
Breaking Through: The Journey from Within
Rama Akkiraju has 20+ years of leadership experience at IBM as an IBM Fellow and Master Inventor. Formerly CTO of IBM Watson AI Operations, Rama developed AI services such as Personality Insights, Tone Analyzer, Emotion Analysis, and Sentiment Analysis. She holds a master’s degree in Computer Science and an MBA from New York University.
Rama has co-authored 100+ technical papers, holds 50+ issued patents and 25+ pending, and has received multiple awards, including being named one of Forbes ‘Top 20 Women in AI Research’ in 2017. In 2022, Rama was named ‘USA Industry Innovator of the Year 2022’ by Women in AI and ‘AI Industry Leader of the Year 2022’ by Women Leaders in Data & AI (WLDA).
Empowering Journeys: The Path to Tech Executives
Jessica Wakefield is the VP of Engineering & Operations at Sony Interactive Entertainment. She leads globally diverse teams who deliver the PlayStation platform facilitating business operations, empowering decision-making, and providing crucial insights for PlayStation products and services. With over 100 million monthly active users, 47 million active subscribers and 15 million daily concurrent users for a $16+ billion-dollar business.
As a site leader and global lead for the Women @ PlayStation eNet/Employee Resource Group (ERG), she is also a notable cultural champion making PlayStation the best place to play and work. Prior to SIE, Jessica was with Intuit where she held key roles in the Consumer Tax Group and TurboTax Online Banking capabilities for Intuit. While at Intuit she went to USC’s Marshall School of Business and obtained her MBA, with an emphasis in Globalization.
In addition, Jessica is an active volunteer at her daughter’s school, Vice President of the San Diego Children’s Museum Board, and CEO of the Loving Amber Foundation, 501 (c)(3) nonprofit that raises funds and awareness for kids impacted by rare bone marrow and blood disorders.
Igniting Passion: Unleashing Your Potential and a New Era in Tech
Stacy Mill is the VP of IT and CISO at Nashville Electric Service, responsible for all IT strategy and execution across corporate systems, including cybersecurity. She has built global teams across several industries and has held leadership roles in the State of Kansas, Spirit AeroSystems, KAR Global, and Yum. Stacy has a background in security and serves on the boards of various organizations. She enjoys spending time with her family and mentoring emerging leaders.
Igniting Passion: Unleashing Your Potential and a New Era in Tech
With 20 years of experience leading product design, development, and strategy in Fortune 500 companies, Surbhi has built and led product and engineering teams at Google, YouTube, Netflix, and Cisco. She has launched successful products that use AI and machine learning. Currently, Surbhi leads Juniper’s Customer Experience charter, focused on creating omnichannel engagements and ML-based support capabilities. Surbhi has degrees from IIT Kanpur, Texas A&M University, and Harvard Business School. She also leads Global Inclusion & Diversity initiatives at Juniper and supports the IIT community.
Empowering Journeys: The Path to Tech Executives
Women in Leadership: Career Evolution in the Tech Industry
Sudha is an engineer and product VP in the Oracle Cloud Observability and Developer LifeCycle Services organization. She manages teams that run large scale distributed services used by 1000s of engineers every day. Her inclusive leadership has led to her directs being one of the most diverse teams in Oracle.
She is also a founding committee member of the Oracle Women’s Leadership (OWL), Seattle chapter and runs several mentoring rings. She has an Masters in Computer Science and has worked at Microsoft. She is a goal-driven leader hoping to attract more women into leadership positions.
Women in Leadership: Career Evolution in the Tech Industry
Women in Leadership: Career Evolution in the Tech Industry
Yulia Pavlova is the Director of Technology Innovation at Reuters News Agency. With over 10 years of experience in Applied Research and Development, Yulia leads an Applied Innovation lab at Reuters that focuses on AI/ML enhancements and MLOps lifecycle of enterprise products. She develops new technological opportunities to improve the company’s offerings and works cross-functionally with business partners and stakeholders to ensure business and customer impact.
One of her recent achievements is the development of a customer-facing AI tool for Reuters video content that generates automated time-coded transcripts, translation of many languages into English, and identification of public figures. This tool is part of the Reuters Connect service, which offers access to over 600,000 videos, six live streams, and 23 million pictures from Reuters journalists.
Empowering Journeys: The Path to Tech Executives
Women in Leadership: Career Evolution in the Tech Industry
Jessica Wakefield is the VP of Engineering & Operations at Sony Interactive Entertainment. She leads globally diverse teams who deliver the PlayStation platform facilitating business operations, empowering decision-making, and providing crucial insights for PlayStation products and services. With over 100 million monthly active users, 47 million active subscribers and 15 million daily concurrent users for a $16+ billion-dollar business.
As a site leader and global lead for the Women @ PlayStation eNet/Employee Resource Group (ERG), she is also a notable cultural champion making PlayStation the best place to play and work. Prior to SIE, Jessica was with Intuit where she held key roles in the Consumer Tax Group and TurboTax Online Banking capabilities for Intuit. While at Intuit she went to USC’s Marshall School of Business and obtained her MBA, with an emphasis in Globalization.
In addition, Jessica is an active volunteer at her daughter’s school, Vice President of the San Diego Children’s Museum Board, and CEO of the Loving Amber Foundation, 501 (c)(3) nonprofit that raises funds and awareness for kids impacted by rare bone marrow and blood disorders.
Igniting Passion: Unleashing Your Potential and a New Era in Tech
As Ecommerce Director for PVH, I accelerated platform delivery for a shifting eCommerce business. I led tech innovations, compressed delivery timelines, and ensured platform stability. I pioneered the agile DevOps model for packaged Websphere Commerce Suite. I mobilized platform delivery vendors and collaborated with partners to integrate next-gen machine learning solutions. I consolidated vendors, integrations, and technology platforms across PVH brands like Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, Speedo. I streamlined technology and platforms across regions to save costs and achieve synergies.
As VP of Application Engineering Services, I built a multi-tenant, scalable, and optimized Application Services Organization. I created efficient support models from complex customized apps to configurable packages like SAP, JDA, Centric, GTNexus, VMS, etc. I shifted from reactive to predictive, flexible, and responsive support, enabling self-correction and auto-healing for repetitive incidents.
Igniting Passion: Unleashing Your Potential and a New Era in Tech
Empowering Journeys: The Path to Tech Executives
Head of Digital Transformation at Bison and Bird, a top 15 Canadian professional services start-up, Emily helps companies navigate digital transformation while prioritizing user experience. Emily’s solutions may involve technology, data analysis, process mapping, customer journey maps, and change management tactics. She has won awards for her people-centered solutions and technology adoption rates, including the LinkedIn Talent Award.
Emily is passionate about elevating women in the workplace and helping companies innovate and succeed. She is known for her strategic insights, creative problem-solving, and ability to lighten the mood in any meeting.
Igniting Passion: Unleashing Your Potential and a New Era in Tech
Charmaine Tang is the President of ORCA AG, a Swiss tech company that helps global families, investment companies, corporates, and other complex entities. ORCA was founded six years ago and has clients in 20 countries. Charmaine is also an advisor to Gore Range Capital, a VC firm based in New York and Dallas, and on the Board of Advisors for Klosebuy, a Florida-based marketing technology platform company. She is based in Dallas, Texas, and is passionate about making the world a better place, especially for women and girls.
Charmaine graduated from NYU with a Bachelor of Science in Finance and Accounting and has certificates from Harvard Business School and FIT. She has been recognized for her leadership in business and civic organizations, including the Texas Women’s Foundation Board of Directors and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra Board of Governors.
Breaking Through: The Journey from Within
After 10 years, I traded in concerts and the maestro for code when I left my life as an opera singer and learned Javascript, HTML, and CSS. Now, I work as a senior leader in technology. Outside of my 9-5, I work on 2 separate things;I am on the professional board of a non-profit in San Francisco that caters to juvenile justice and foster system-involved youth and we provide the tools and support they need in order to get out of the system and stay out of the system. The second is being the COO of an art installation startup, Sonic Sphere. It is a 360-degree spherical concert hall with immersive and spatialized sound technology and a custom lights program leveraging Reaper, LX, javascript, and c#.
Breaking Through: The Journey from Within
Empowering Journeys: The Path to Tech Executives
Breaking Through: The Journey from Within
Breaking Through: The Journey from Within