Bio

I have over 17 years of experience in analytics, data science, AI and consulting across domains and industries. My expertise is using Data & AI to help organizations achieve business outcomes as part of their digital journeys. I am currently an Executive at Avanade leading the North America Data & AI Solution Area/business which is a 350M$+ portfolio and the fastest growing business at Avanade. I work in close partnership with the regional leadership teams and am responsible for financial and non-financial performance metrics, including sales, revenue, project delivery, client satisfaction and specialized skill and capability development. Through the gathering of marketplace insights, I help shape the requirements for solution offerings, in particular pivoting our business to more AI, IoT, industry and automation led offerings and solutions. Prior to this, I led Avanade’s Azure Center of Excellence globally, which is a 100+ member team with intelligent cloud skills ranging from infrastructure, application & software development, modern engineering, data engineering, solution architecture, technical architecture, visualization, data science and cognitive automation skills. I am currently based out of Seattle but have had a truly global career having lived and worked in the UK, Netherlands, India and the US. This has helped me gain leadership skills and experience across different Data & AI dimensions. I started my career in the insurance industry prior to moving to Consulting. My consulting roles involved setting up and growing Capgemini Consulting’s offshore analytics practice from scratch to a 1000+ team in the span of a year, Data & AI pre-sales, solutioning and delivery experience, building market facing assets and setting up and growing Avanade’s AI practice in Europe as the AI & IoT offering lead. I believe people are at the heart of every business, and I am strongly committed to developing talent and increasing inclusion and diversity in technology. I am an experienced public and podcast speaker, blog author and mentor on IOT, Machine Learning, AI & I&D topics. I have spoken at multiple forums across 7 countries including the Women in Technology series, the Women Economic Forum 2018 in the Hague, Data Science 4 All & Teens in AI. In my free time, I love spending time with my family and friends, working out, watching a concert or live theatre or digging my heels into a good murder mystery or a psychological thriller.