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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.