Fail Faster

Anusha Dwivedula is a technologist with an experience in leading global engineering and product teams. She is currently a director of product for the Enterprise data platform at Morningstar. In her current role, she manages a team of product managers responsible for the group's objective of finding and integrating meaningful investment insights by simplifying the investor journey with data discovery, packaging, and delivery. She played a pivotal role in Morningstar's journey of moving to AWS cloud by leading a team that built a centralized data platform that involves data lake, analytics platform, and data quality framework. She recently finished her MBA from the Chicago Booth school of business with a focus on strategy, entrepreneurship, and finance.

Ramya Ramanathan is a Senior Vice President at Marsh McLennan, the world's leading insurance broker and risk advisor, where she leads digital strategy and engineering for the firm's commercial insurance platforms. Prior to joining Marsh, Ramya was most recently Senior Director of Product Development at American Express driving go-to-market product strategies for consumer and commercial campaigns. Ramya holds a Bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering and a Masters's Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas. Ramya's experience with different domains has given her a keen appreciation for managing change and how to use failures as stepping stones for the next opportunity. In this episode, she will talk to you about how to use pivots as a change agent and growth accelerator.

Spyridon is a creative problem solver, innovator, and solutionist with experience consulting for financial institutions, lifestyle brands, and large enterprise-level organizations.

He was raised behind the counter of his family's diner, a local Chicago institution. Growing up and working in the restaurant business taught him the value of scrappy problem-solving and has given me insight into the inner workings of a business. It helped him to develop an understanding of the implications of decisions and their effect on the success of a business. For the last 5 years, he has been practicing UX. he has worked on various digital experiences for award-winning brands as well as a major financial service. He has a passion for XR experiences, fintech products, blockchain projects, and creative solutions that solve real problems for users. In his spare time, he enjoys martial arts, creating digital art, and playing Dungeons and Dragons.

Jack Nichols is the Vice President Of Product Management at Genesys. He shares his non-linear journey from networking to logistics to communications where he always paid attention to the customer's voice. He brought this interactive intelligence he gathered along his journey to informing product design experiments at Genesys. He is currently involved in global initiatives where his focus is to create valuable bundled products and services for his customers

Tamila Fathi is a Cybersecurity & Technology Executive and #15 in Top100 Women in Fintech Magazine - 2022 joins us to share examples of what was considered innovation 20 years back to where we are now. How to create solutions that work, the importance of defining dependencies early on, bringing the whole team in the same ring to perform their best. She is one transparent leader taking risks and re-defining the future of fintech.

Nishant Pandey is the Global Product Manager at JLL Technologies and manages a suite of technology products in the Commercial Real Estate space. Nishant leads cross-functional teams that are on a mission to make buildings smart, enhance ROI and deliver exceptional customer experiences. Prior to JLL, Nishant led large-scale digital transformation at TransUnion and Capgemini, where he played roles in product strategy, program management, and account management. An MBA graduate with majors in marketing and strategy from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management – Nishant lives in Chicago with his wife and two kids. When not working, Nishant loves to pursue his hobbies of songwriting and filmmaking.

Geetha Vidhyadhar, Director of Product Management at Accolades, a Personalized Healthcare company that puts humanity back in healthcare for employees by building relationships that connect them and their families to the right care at the right time. Geetha shares her journey coming from a family of doctors to now serving Healthcare employees powerfully. With a focus to eliminate burnout from the Healthcare workforce, she is on a path to Innovate using Robotic Process Automation and Artificial Intelligence to enable the Care Teams. Her work in providing best-in-class service through telephony and messaging channels is continuously evolving and improving to give the customers quick and meaningful service. She shares a lot of great tips for the product community and leaders to build a work environment where people want to do their best work every day.