ISG Women in Digital Awards 2025
ISG Women in Digital Awards
Welcome to the 2025 ISG Women in Digital Awards program.
ISG launched this program in 2022 to recognize exceptional leadership. Since then, the technology landscape and our industry have changed in ways we could not have imagined. Women are redefining leadership in the era of AI and delivering enormous value to their organizations.
We are delighted to present the 536 remarkable women nominated this year for their work in the Americas, EMEA, Asia Pacific and India. We are inspired by our finalists’ accomplishments and grateful to the colleagues and peers who submitted nominations on their behalf. Thank you for your support for ISG Women in Digital.
Kimberly Tobias Partner and ISG Women in Digital Program Lead
The ISG Women in Digital Awards proudly recognize the women who are leveraging technology in innovative ways to drive efficiency, value, productivity and meaningful change.
On behalf of the firm, congratulations to this inspiring class of rising stars, leaders, advocates, innovators and titans. We appreciate your participation, and we celebrate your success.
A Word From Our Executive Sponsors
Michael P. Connors Chairman and CEO ISG
Lois Coatney Partner, ISG Americas Banking, Financial Services and Insurance
Congratulations to the impressive finalists for the 2025 ISG Women in Digital Awards.
Each of these 536 women excels as a leader and creates programs that have a lasting impact on her company and the world. Perhaps most importantly, each of our nominees supports the women around her.
We look forward to welcoming our nominees to our global ISG Women in Digital community, and to networking, learning and working together to navigate new technologies and business approaches.
Meet the Americas Judges
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Staci Cross AVP, IT Strategy
Planning, Carnival Cruise Line
Christine C. Putur Director, ISG Board of Directors
Debra Fiori Chief People Officer, PROG Holdings
Kristen Bryan General Manager Business Operations, Microsoft
Rising Star
Although early in her career, she demonstrates exceptional and continuous growth in contributions to her organization, company or client(s) with increased levels of leadership, responsibility and sphere of impact.
Antra Malhotra
A graduate of Verizon’s Women of the World leadership initiative, she mentors young women in tech, evaluates computer science programs and teaches collegelevel cloud computing Associate Director
Antra possesses the rare combination of technical vision, execution excellence and mentorship, and her contributions span industry, academia and community. She led the design and deployment of fault-tolerant, cloud-native systems that underpin some of her company’s most critical network systems platforms. Her innovative approaches have been published in peer-reviewed IEEE research and integrated into university curricula.
Sr. Manager, Software Development T-Mobile
Operational Excellence Group Manager
Gold Winner Silver Winner Bronze Winner
Women’s Advocate
A guiding hand for women in the digital world, she advocates for individuals or is a key leader who promotes, supports and exemplifies diversity and inclusion values and an equitable workplace for women.
Nita Sardana
Vice President Community Outreach and Corporate Giving Innova Solutions
Nita has led Innova to partner with over 175 nonprofit organizations worldwide and to provide over $600,000 in scholarships and girls and women’s education initiatives through the Innova Foundation
She spearheaded the opening of a dedicated space in Atlanta where job seekers can build confidence, skills and independence, and she has led efforts to renovate schools, install solar power facilities and host cervical cancer vaccination drives in India.
She regularly speaks at conferences and webinars, sharing her personal journey of moving to the U.S. from India as a child.
Principal Corazon Capital
Smriti M. Jayaraman
Senior Account Director CISO Global
Tiffany Gray
Gold Winner Silver Winner Bronze Winner
Digital Innovator
Nimarta Nanda
Vice President Software Engineering Assurant
A digital innovator pushes her organization, client and/or the industry to leverage the latest digital thinking and solutions. She has made a significant impact to her organization, business or client through creative use of digital solutions. Executive Director, Technology
Nimarta scaled and governed a team of more than 40 people for the Assurant Automation Center of Excellence, building a replicable delivery and governance model for enterprise-wide application. She has institutionalized over 70 live automations, saving millions of dollars in operational costs, and pioneered reusable frameworks for enterprise-wide GenAI scalability.
Nimarta supports Assurant’s Upward program, which pairs high-potential talent with executive mentors, and has personally mentored over a dozen engineers. She serves on the boards of Access Life America, supporting underprivileged children undergoing pediatric cancer treatment in India, and the Sikh Education and Welfare Association.
Chief Technology Officer
Banco Bradesco
Cintia Barcelos
Gold Winner
Silver Winner Bronze Winner
Rock Star Leader
She has led her organization through a major transformation, demonstrated exceptional leadership skills and had a significant impact on her organization or company.
Winnie Ling
Chief Legal and People Officer Blend Labs
Winnie helped engineer a historic financial turnaround in 2024 while leading training, leadership development and market-based compensation programs to build high-functioning teams and a more collaborative, resilient workplace culture.
She launched Blend’s early-incareer development program to create new opportunities for diverse talent. She is also the executive sponsor of Women@ Blend and Belonging@Blend and helped launch the company’s Equitable Ecosystem Initiative.
Her teams often describe her as “the person you want in the room when things get hard.”
Jenny Koehler
Chief Operating Officer, Advisory
PwC US
Senior Vice
President, Head
of Manufacturing and the E&U Business Birlasoft
Charu Kapur
Gold Winner Silver Winner Bronze Winner
AI Champion
She is driving the strategic use of AI as a catalyst to dramatically transform how a company or organization works, how a product or service performs, or how people live or work.
Ganesan
Distinguished Technologist, AI Infosys
As the first Distinguished Technologist at Infosys, Rajeshwari has 14 U.S. patents granted or filed and over 30 international publications in leading IEEE and ACM venues. She often joins the Infosys Knowledge Institute’s “AI Interrogator” podcast to discuss ethical frameworks and AI governance, and contributes research to leading institutions such as the Stanford Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence team.
She has created AI master classes that have upskilled Infosys employees, curated content for educational platforms and supported AI literacy initiatives through the Infosys Foundation.
Global Market Activation Leader
Edwina Fitzmaurice
Chief Customer Officer
Intermedia, Inc.
Urvashi Sheth
Rajeshwari
Gold Winner Silver Winner
Winner
Digital Titan
The most outstanding women in digital and a well-respected leader in her organization and her industry. She leads her organization in their digital journey and advocates for women in the workplace.
Anmol Agarwal
Senior Security Researcher Nokia
Anmol works to secure 5G and 6G wireless networks and contributes to global security standards through global groups including GSMA and the Open Radio Access Network Alliance. She published a novel machine learning approach to protect 5G and future wireless networks from Distributed Denial of Service attacks at the international IEEE SmartNets conference and she regularly collaborates with regional standards groups in the U.S. for ethical AI and AI security.
She teaches AI as an adjunct professor at George Washington University and volunteers as a mentor for women and underrepresented minorities through organizations like Women in Cybersecurity and Women of Security.
Congratulations to Our Americas Finalists
Gold Winner
ISG Women in Digital Awards 2025
APAC and India
Meet the APAC and India Judges
As Chief Business Leader of ISG Provider Lens®, Namratha Dharshan has more than two decades of extensive research experience. She leads the ISG Provider Lens charter for BPO, AI, GCC and Engineering Services, and contributes to key ISG thought leadership, including the ISG Index™, the authoritative source for marketplace intelligence on demand, pricing, talent and provider landscapes across the global IT and business services sector.
“ISG is pleased to recognize the women named as finalists for the ISG Women in Digital Awards. Their talent and achievements are driving the growth of our industry and they are an inspiration to us all.”
Namratha Dharshan Chief Business Leader, ISG
Meet the APAC and India Judges
Sonia Eland Executive Vice President and Country Manager for Australia and New Zealand, HCLTech
Nithya Subramanian Global Leader in Data & Analytics (GCC Leader), Best Buy
Nikki Symonds Former Chief Procurement Officer, Origin Energy
Rising Star
Although early in her career, she demonstrates exceptional and continuous growth in contributions to her organization, company or client(s) with increased levels of leadership, responsibility and sphere of impact.
Shereen Bajaj
Market Intelligence Analyst Network Science
Shereen is a core architect of TurinOS, one of her company’s most strategic platforms, designed to help enterprises identify high-impact AI use cases and make faster, more informed adoption decisions.
She built and leads the platform’s core intelligence engine: the Market Intelligence Unit, which houses a curated library of over 400 AI use cases and powers the TurinOS platform’s insights.
Shereen has become a trusted voice in early-stage AI adoption discussions and a key force in how Network Science and its clients structure, communicate and execute their AI strategies.
Engineer, IT Solutions
Gold Winner Silver Winner Bronze Winner
Women’s Advocate
A guiding hand for women in the digital world, she advocates for individuals or is a key leader who promotes, supports and exemplifies diversity and inclusion values and an equitable workplace for women. Global Head - Organisation Development & Effectiveness
Anubha has built and led multiple initiatives to foster inclusion within her organization and consistently contribute to an environment where everyone feels valued, respected and empowered.
She launched a women in technology community network that hosts regular sessions on topics including how to bridge the leadership ambition gap, be bold and overcome fears, unlock potential, achieve career excellence, and navigate maternity leaves and motherhood
Her efforts have resulted in a cultural shift and an increase in promotions and career growth for women in her organization, and her work earned her the “Diversity and Inclusion Championship Award” in 2024.
Geethanjali Suresh
General Manager VOIS Anubha Bagui
Gold Winner Silver Winner Bronze Winner
Digital Innovator
A digital innovator pushes her organization, client and/or the industry to leverage the latest digital thinking and solutions. She has made a significant impact to her organization, business or client through creative use of digital solutions
Sivapreeta Jayachandran
Head of Sustainability Platforms
LTIMindtree
Sivapreeta created and introduced LTIMindtree’s flagship sustainability platform, driving smart building transformations that leverage IoT-enabled systems for energy, emission, water and waste management.
The platform she created has been implemented by more than 100 clients as well as in 33 LTIMindtree offices, saving between 20 and 30 percent of its energy and emissions.
She also launched the first-of-itskind “Smart ESG” suite, leveraging a sensor-to-report mechanism for automated ESG reporting on global compliance standards.
CX Solutions & Transformation
Firstsource
Madhusmita Prakash Patil
Gold Winner Silver Winner Bronze Winner
Rock Star Leader
She has led her organization through a major transformation, demonstrated exceptional leadership skills and had a significant impact on her organization or company.
CEO BCT Supply Chain Consulting
Shanthi architected her company’s expansion across Singapore, Brunei, Taiwan, Malaysia and Indonesia, scaled APAC operations from a twomember team to a 550-person powerhouse with more than 100 marquee clients and tripled revenue within a decade.
She established centers of excellence in Supply Chain and Enterprise Asset Management, embedded AI, IoT, cloud and sustainability metrics into delivery models, and forged strategic alliances with leading platforms
She is the executive sponsor for her company’s Women’s Advancement, Transformation, Empowerment, and Recognition initiative, cultivating a culture of inclusion, innovation and performance and supporting women in leadership positions.
SVP Operations
ResultsCX
Salesforce Practice Head
Maria Edeliza (Edy) Estanislao
Altimetrik Jyoti
Chaudhary
Shanthi Chandrasekar
Gold Winner
Silver Winner Bronze Winner
AI Champion
She is driving the strategic use of AI as a catalyst to dramatically transform how a company or organization works, how a product or service performs, or how people live or work.
Nikita Tiwari
Senior Vice President AI, Head of AI & Analytics
Productized Services & GTM WNS
Nikita helped conceptualize and build Bhashini, India’s first GenAI marketplace for 18 local Indian languages, as well as BhashaDaan—a crowd-sourced platform that enabled Indian citizens to contribute voice recordings, translations and text in their native languages.
Her AI-led dynamic pricing solution for a global cash and carry retailer produced a significant, double-digit profit increase in key product categories within eight weeks of deployment, proving the commercial viability of AI in traditional businesses.
As an early evangelist of composite AI, language inclusion and AI-powered personalization—long before these became industry trends—she has influenced how organizations think about embedding AI in core strategies.
Nikita actively mentors women in AI and leads internal initiatives to create growth pathways in the field. She is passionate about transforming data scientists into confident, client-facing AI consultants.
Gayatri Thakkar
CEO and Founder Inferenz
Chen
Senior IT Manager,
Data and AI Transformation
Jabil
Rita
Gold Winner Silver Winner Bronze Winner
Digital Titan
The most outstanding women in digital and a well-respected leader in her organization and her industry. She leads her organization in their digital journey and advocates for women in the workplace.
Cruz
VP, Operations ResultsCX
Widely known as “the fixer,” Kath has driven the rapid expansion of the ResultsCX corporate footprint in the Philippines as well as the ResultsCX R.E.A.L. Women initiative, a network of over 11,000 members that empowers women through mentorship and resources.
In 2017, Kath launched the Makabata School Foundation program in Manila, a holistic support system for underprivileged children, offering education, nutrition and job placement for parents.
Gold Winner
She placed women in critical roles for the 2018 launch of the ResultsCX Philippines corporate headquarters, and during the COVID-19 pandemic, she personally took steps to ensure her teams remained safe and supported, including investigating housing options near work sites to keep families together and reduce commuting risks.
Congratulations to Our India and APAC Finalists
ISG Women in Digital Awards
Meet the EMEA Judges
A director in the ISG Adaptive Organizations business, Carolyn has supported more than 100 client engagements in her 18 years with ISG, helping some of the world’s largest enterprises address cost optimization, service integration and management, sourcing, transition and transformation, infrastructure, networks and software and conducting market and process studies.
“Congratulations to our ISG Women in Digital Award finalists in EMEA. Our nominees represent a wide range of industries, specialties and jobs, but they are all examples of the agility, innovation and collaboration that drive business growth. It is an honor to celebrate their success.”
Carolyn Becker Director, ISG
Eryn Peters Co-Creator, AI Maturity Index Boriana Tchobanova Chief Transformation Officer, American
Rising Star
Although early in her career, she demonstrates exceptional and continuous growth in contributions to her organization, company or client(s) with increased levels of leadership, responsibility and sphere of impact.
of Advisor Relations, EMEA
Alex established Genpact’s first Advisor Relations function in EMEA. She established the group’s strategy and structure and began driving more than $650 million of qualified advisor-led pipeline in Europe within months.
She has built new relationships across Europe and facilitated more than 400 conversations in 2025, improving the win rate in Europe, increasing the likelihood of renewals and sole-source opportunities, and helping Genpact win invitations into more large technology opportunities than in the past 25 years combined.
When she joined advisor relations in 2021, she was the youngest person in this role in the industry. She now influences all of Genpact’s capabilities - from exploring new partnership models in supply chain, to promoting HR outsourcing abilities and amplifying data strengths in the market.
Technology
Manager, Site Operations
ResultsCX
Head
Genpact
Alex Carter
Gold Winner
Silver Winner Bronze Winner
Women’s Advocate
A guiding hand for women in the digital world, she advocates for individuals or is a key leader who promotes, supports and exemplifies diversity and inclusion values and an equitable workplace for women.
Senior Operations Manager, Contractor Onboarding, Technology & Data Santander
Stella offers her time, energy and expertise to inspire women and girls globally, through individual advocacy, mentorship and public speaking, as well as her strategic role within Santander UK, where she integrates DEI principles into organizational culture and community outreach.
Stella has mentored more than 20 women in technology and leadership and accepted pro bono global speaking engagements for the United Nations, the Women’s Federation for World Peace Leadership Summit, International Women’s Day and the Institute of Water. In a TEDx Talk, she shared her journey from an impoverished background in Africa to becoming a technology leader.
Within Santander UK, she leads the Black Professionals Network, serves as a Black Advisory Board Member and as a community leader for REACH (for the Black Community).
Lidia Maria Muñoz
SW Engineering Manager
Vodafone Business
Chief Enterprise Architect
Stella Harris
Gold Winner
Silver Winner Bronze Winner
Digital Innovator
A digital innovator pushes her organization, client and/ or the industry to leverage the latest digital thinking and solutions. She has made a significant impact to her organization, business or client through creative use of digital solutions.
Nisha Purswani
VP – Consulting and Client Solutions
Nisha has pioneered AI-powered solutions that have generated over £500M in business value while delivering between 40 and 60 percent efficiency improvements through process optimization and automation of data workflows. In 2024 alone, she directly contributed to seven new client wins and 10 major projects and designed and conducted more than 35 client workshops while maintaining an exceptional, 95 percent client retention rate.
She actively participates in Women in STEM and Women in Tech Leadership initiatives, and recently completed advanced certifications in AI from both Imperial College and Carnegie Mellon.
Lead Solution Architect
Vodafone
Hema Kariyappa
Director of Global Employee Experience Platform Foundever
Kim Hanchet
Gold Winner Silver Winner Bronze Winner
Rock Star Leader
She has led her organization through a major transformation, demonstrated exceptional leadership skills and had a significant impact on her organization or company. VP
Director of Product & Systems, Corporate Systems British Broadcasting Corporation
Anna brings decades of knowledge of the media industry and its digital evolution to her work driving innovation across 140 diverse products, from SaaS platforms to ERP systems, while delivering cost reductions and enhanced experiences and value.
In 2024, she successfully led an SAP RISE migration, spearheaded the migration of processes, data and technologies from one BPO and AMS supplier to another, and leveraged existing investments and partnerships to help the BBC achieve a record year, with 20 percent year-over-year growth for the commercial sector, despite a 30 percent budget reduction.
More than half her team members are women, and she has spoken extensively at internal forums on topics such as Women in Leadership, Women in Tech, DEI and the future of technology.
& Partner, BCM Applied Advisory, Genpact
Manju Pal
Chief Evangelist
AutogenAI
Tricia Blatherwick
Anna Murcar
Gold Winner
Silver Winner Bronze Winner
AI Champion
She is driving the strategic use of AI as a catalyst to dramatically transform how a company or organization works, how a product or service performs, or how people live or work.
Wawi (Waltraud) Kantz
(Former) Director, Enterprise AI
Adoption & Enablement Pfizer
Wawi was the mastermind of Pfizer’s
Enterprise AI Champion Network
– a strong and vivid community of hundreds of AI enthusiasts from across the business – and co-creator of the company’s AI Principles and an Ethical AI Toolkit.
The Enterprise AI Champion Network equips members with training on AI skills, Pfizer’s rapidly evolving AI technology and applications, and provides access to AI experts. It presents a unique growth opportunity for colleagues to take advantage of AI, stay at the cutting edge of innovation, help lead Pfizer’s AI transformation and make meaningful connections.
She facilitated countless awareness and AI training events, co-led Pfizer’s Enterprise AI Festival, contributed to Pfizer’s “Science Will Win” podcast, and was recognized with a Tribeca X Award.
Chief Data Scientist
Napier AI
Dr. Janet Bastiman
Digital Solutions Centre Director, EMEA
Stefanini
Natalia Chiritescu
Gold Winner Silver Winner Bronze Winner
Digital Titan
The most outstanding women in digital and a well-respected leader in her organization and her industry. She leads her organization in their digital journey and advocates for women in the workplace.
Sumita Dutta
CIO B2B & Customer Operations Shell
Sumita is leading a transformative program that aims to reduce IT operations costs by 50 percent through AI-led automation and intelligent process redesign. The broader vision seeks to achieve over $100 million in annual business savings by reimagining customer service across approximately eight million interactions each year.
To guide Shell’s transformation, Sumita created a strategic framework that helps crossfunctional teams scale responsible AI, emphasizing ethical governance, human-centered design and sustainable innovation.
Gold Winner
A strong proponent of building the next generation and a fierce advocate for women in STEM, she mentors numerous earlycareer professionals, supports the Shell Asian Network, leads graduate programs and champions apprenticeship and bootcamp initiatives for underrepresented individuals in tech.
Congratulations to Our EMEA Finalists
ISG Women in Digital Talks
This LinkedIn Live series explores how technology and artificial intelligence are transforming both our work and personal lives, along with the unique perspectives that women bring to these spaces. We’re building our community by bringing the voices of leaders to the forefront, sharing their stories, wisdom and advice.
“Congratulations to our ISG Women in Digital Award finalists in EMEA. Our nominees represent a wide range of industries, specialties and jobs, but they are all examples of the agility, innovation and collaboration that drive business growth. It is an honor to celebrate their success.”
We love to uplift our community by featuring winners such as Johanna Cordovez Amador (Rock Star Leader Gold Winner ‘24 Americas), Eryn Peters (Digital Innovator Gold Winner ‘24 EMEA) and many more.
Hosts: Heli Nielsen and Lois Coatney
ISG Women in Digital Awards Committee
Stay Connected with ISG Women in Digital
The ISG Women in Digital Awards are part of the ISG Women in Digital community, established in 2018 to provide a platform to exchange practical advice and innovative ideas. The community hosts a LinkedIn page, an ISG Digital Dish podcast series, and regular events for ISG employees and the greater IT and business services industry. For more information about the ISG Women in Digital Awards, visit the program website or contact ISG.
