Silicon Valley Board Members​

Divya Ashok

Position: Director
Categories: Silicon Valley

Divya Ashok is a leader with 12 years of experience building and scaling global initiatives from the ground up. As Vice President of Strategy and Innovation, Divya will lead the strategy around Salesforce’s India business and champion initiatives around India in San Francisco. Prior to her new role, Divya was in Product Management. Her teams led Salesforce’s efforts around scale, where she championed and delivered over 500+ unique product enhancements. She led product readiness for 50+ of Salesforce’s largest and most complex customers globally. Divya’s passion for the empowerment of women and children led her to co-create the Salesforce Women’s Network. While she was Global President, membership increased by 350% to over 9,000 allies and expanded to 48 chapters globally. As for her accomplishments, Divya has been selected to join Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Next Gen global community 3 times to exchange ideas and perspectives with a select group of trailblazing women from across the world. She is a life member of the American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin in Silicon Valley and also serves on the nonprofit’s board

Divya Ashok

Director
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Rashim Mogha

Position: Vice President, Silicon Valley
Categories: Silicon Valley
Rashim is a best-selling author, speaker, and technology leader known for her influence in leadership, innovation, women in tech, and enablement. A frequent global conference speaker, her insights have appeared in Forbes, ATD, and Thrive Global. She has held leadership roles at Skillsoft, VMware, AWS, Oracle, and Automation Anywhere.

Rashim is founder of the eWOW (empoweredWomen of the World) initiative. Recognized by Business Chief USA as a woman to watch, Rashim is a recipient of Women Empowerment: Game Changer, WIT- Woman of the Year, Women Tech, and Silicon Valley Woman of Influence awards and was inducted in Alameda county hall of fame in 2020

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Rashim Mogha

Vice President, Silicon Valley
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Srilekha Akula

Position: Advisor
Categories: Silicon Valley

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.

Srilekha Akula

Advisor
Surbhi Paul

Surbhi Paul

Position: Advisor
Categories: Silicon Valley

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.

Surbhi Paul

Advisor
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Laxmi Patil

Position: Advisor
Categories: Silicon Valley

Laxmi Patil

Advisor

Srujana K

Position: Director
Categories: Silicon Valley

Srujana brings subject matter expertise in driving business value through productizing Generative AI applications and machine learning algorithmic deployments with more than 15 years’ experience with a focus on developing scalable data products with a global reach. Srujana is highly regarded for her expertise developing and deploying Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) products in marketing and customer domain. Excels at developing commercial grade data products for achieving organization digital identity vision through Customer 360 initiatives. Drive development of data science products focused on search, personalization, entity extraction, conversational recommendation engines. She brings expertise in AI powered recommender systems. She has industry experience in hardware IoT products, enterprise solutions, consulting, eCommerce, CPG, and retail. Srujana has a proven capacity to clearly and effectively communicate to audiences from a variety of cultural, educational, and economic backgrounds. Srujana has held positions with Walmart, Accenture and Hewlett Packard all in data & AI leadership capacities. She has had numerous articles published in The Harvard Review and INFORMS among others. With a winning personality and approachable manner, Srujana is well-regarded for serving as a champion for teamwork and collaboration. With Doctoral Program ( Data & AI Innovations), Master of Business Administration degree in Operational Research & Marketing, an international certification in project management , an Executive graduation in Analytics Strategy Management from Harvard University, and Executive Program certification for Women Leaders at Stanford University, she brings plethora of knowledge and expertise in AI leadership.

Srujana K

Director
Bishwajeet Paul

Bishwajeet Paul

Position: Director
Categories: Silicon Valley
Bishwajeet Paul is a technology leader and platform architect with over a decade of experience building scalable systems and enabling engineering excellence in large organizations. As a board member of ASEI, he is passionate about fostering community, mentoring emerging professionals, and creating platforms that bring people together to learn and grow. A frequent speaker at global technology conferences, Bishwajeet enjoys sharing insights on innovation, leadership, and the responsible use of AI in modern engineering. He is deeply committed to community building and believes in empowering individuals through collaboration, knowledge sharing, and collective progress.

Bishwajeet Paul

Director

Renu Motwani

Position: Director
Categories: Silicon Valley

Renu is a technology executive with more than two decades of experience shaping data, analytics, and enterprise software products. She currently serves as the Chief Product Officer for Data and Analytics at EverCommerce, a leading SaaS platform provider serving over 700,000 global service SMBs. In this role, she drives product strategy and innovation to deliver impactful, insight-driven solutions that elevate business performance across EverCommerce’s portfolio.

 

Her prior leadership roles at Broadcom, Oracle Corp, Sun Microsystems, Myriad Software, and IBM span data platforms, APIs, AI/ML-enabled systems, infrastructure management, and enterprise software. This breadth of experience has given her a deep perspective on how data, APIs, and AI underpin the modern enterprise IT stack and unlock new opportunities for operational excellence and digital transformation.

 

Renu holds a BS in Computer Engineering and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. A frequent speaker at industry conferences, she is passionate about advancing the conversation on technology’s role in shaping the future of business and enjoys connecting with leaders who share that vision.

Renu Motwani

Director

Swati Saxena

Position: Director
Categories: Silicon Valley

Dr. Swati Saxena is a senior technologist and thought leader in the Aviation Systems Division at NASA Ames Research Center with more than 15 years of experience in Aerospace Industry. She is passionate about the use of AI in Aerospace and teaching. She has held adjunct faculty positions at University of California, Berkeley and Santa Clara University. Her research interests include AI/ML applications in aeronautics and aviation operations, high-fidelity modeling and simulation, aerodynamics and computational aeroacoustics. 

Before joining NASA, Swati has worked at Ansys Inc. as the Technical Director for Aerospace & Defense and at GE Aerospace as Lead Research Scientist. A frequent speaker at conferences and technical events, she is a lifetime senior member of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), holds two patents and is a published author with more than 35 technical publications. She holds a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University and B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur in India. She is excited to join the ASEI Silicon Valley Board and contribute to the ASEI mission.

Swati Saxena

Director

Surendra Saxena

Position: Director
Categories: Silicon Valley
With over 46 years of IT industry leadership, I am a dedicated Digital Health Strategist passionate about transforming modern healthcare through technology. As a seasoned Founder and Co-founder of multiple startups, I bridge the gap between entrepreneurial vision and large-scale enterprise success.

My career is highlighted by my tenure at Cisco, where I led Healthcare Advisory Services for the Healthcare solutions unit , turning complex business challenges into technology-driven triumphs. Beyond the boardroom, I am a published Author and a committed Advisor and Mentor, guiding the next generation of innovators. .

Surendra Saxena

Director

Shelialla Stokes

Position: Director
Categories: Silicon Valley
Shelialla is an AI and Data leader with over 25 years of experience spanning Data, Analytics, AI, Risk, and Product.  She began her career as a developer after earning a degree in Computer Science and has since built a dynamic career across professional services, pricing strategy, corporate strategy, platform and product management, and data and AI leadership.  

Over the years, she has contributed to a wide range of organizations – including Cisco, PayPal, GoDaddy, and Marqeta – where she has consistently united strategy and execution to turn emerging technologies into sustained business impact.  Shelialla currently serves as VP of Data, AI, and Risk at Wex Inc, helping the organization harness innovation to stay ahead in an era defined by AI-driven transformation.

Shelialla Stokes

Director
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Surbhi Kaul

Vice President

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Rakesh Guliani

Director - Stem & Youth Internships

Tushar Kant

Director

Lakshmi

Laxmi Patil

Advisor