Nimisha Patel is a seasoned executive of 25+ yrs helping organizations transform their business for growth. She is currently the VP of Operations and Integrations for a IT services Industry based in the US. She has an entrepreneurial mindset with a heart of a philanthropist. She continues to show her deep passion not only within the professional realm, but has shown immense contribution for non-profit through her own NGO and excited to see the same momentum for ASEI.

Srilekha is a result oriented technology executive, advisor, investor, and board member. She formed and led high performing teams at startups, scale-ups, and multi-billion dollar industries solving complex customer problems. Srilekha forms high functioning teams to transform ideas to tangible business results. She inspires others to embed customer obsession and best-in-class workplace culture and values within their companies and teams. Srilekha is a thought leader on digital transformation and diversity. Mother of two daughters, she enjoys exploring new locations and terrains with her family. Srilekha is honored to be giving back to the communities and advocating for closing the digital divide. Srilekha is passionate about technology that broadens human possibilities.

Surbhi is a driven technologist with 15+ years of experience in business and technology roles. She has been involved in engineering, product management, product marketing roles at large global companies with multi-billion dollar revenues and multi-stage startups scaling from pre-revenue to $1B+. Currently, as a product marketer, she is leading the GTM of the flagship product at Portworx (Pure Storage). Surbhi has led and helped with community-based projects such as Project Udaan (Art of Living organization – rescuing and uplifting children of sex traffickers in India), teaching Science to under-privileged elementary school kids (Science is Elementary organization). She is also a passionate educator – served as a lecturer in an engineering college in Delhi, India and as a Python programming teacher at The Harker School. Surbhi has earned her Bachelor degree in Computer Sc. Engineering from Punjab Technical University, India and Masters in Computer Sc. and Engineering from San Jose State University.

Niharika Srivastav has 25+ years of experience in engineering, projects/portfolio delivery, customer success, marketing, and sales leadership in large and small companies. She is the author of the book ‘Cybersecurity for Project Managers’ which was released in April 2022 and was a bestseller on Amazon. Her second book ‘Security and Compliance for Leaders’ will be released in February 2023. I pursued my engineering at Delhi College of Engineering, MBA at Delhi School of Economics, and Executive Leadership Program at Stanford. She run a cybersecurity training and consulting company, CyberEdx helping professionals gain the security and compliance knowledge and skills in a fun and engaging way.

Piyush has been the founding President of ASEI Silicon Valley chapter. Professionally he is an entrepreneurial thought leader in emerging information technologies. Currently he serves as Chief Digital Officer & CTO at a Private Equity Backed Cloud and Digital Innovation services startup Veridic Solutions. Prior to that he was the SVP at a Google Partner silicon valley based startup SpringML. He specializes in digital transformation and drives thought leadership and devises strategies and solutions for applying data science, AI/ML, Cloud, IoT and advanced analytics to improve business outcomes. Previously, Piyush led IBM’s Worldwide Big Data & Analytics Center of Excellence for the Digital consulting business focusing on data- driven business transformation.He also built the Global Information Integrity practice for PwC and has served Fortune 500 clients in 4 continents over the past 3 decades as a management and technology executive. He earned an engineering degree in electronics and communications from Delhi University and a masters in management of technology from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He has been active in industry consortia as well as non-profits for over 25 years.