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Chitra Nayak

Independent Director at Infosys

Chitra Nayak has over 25 years of experience in go-to-market, general management, and operations leadership roles at various organizations. She currently serves as a Member of the Board at Invitae, a medical genetics company; at Morneau Shepell, a tech-enabled HR services company; at Forward Air, a freight and logistics company; and at Intercom, a messaging platform company. She also advises startups on go-to-market strategies. Most recently, she was the Chief Operating Officer, overseeing the go-to-market strategy at Comfy, a real-estate tech startup, and prior to that she was COO at Funding Circle, an online SMB lending marketplace. Chitra has been in leadership roles at Salesforce for eight years as COO, Platform and Senior Vice President, Global Sales Development. She was earlier part of AAA, Charles Schwab, and the Boston Consulting Group.

Chitra has a passion for empowering women in the workplace. She is the co-founder of Neythri.org, which supports South Asian professional women. She was also the co-founder of the Salesforce Women’s Network initiative. She has co-created and taught an MBA class on ‘Women in Leadership’ at California State University, East Bay.

Chitra holds an MBA with Honors from Harvard Business School, an MS in Environmental Engineering from Cornell University, and a B.Tech in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology.

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Infosys

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Infosys provides digital services and consulting to thousands of customers all over the world. With over four decades of experience as a digital services leader, they became the first IT company from India to be listed on NASDAQ. Today, they have roughly 335,000 employees and operate across more than 50 countries worldwide. Infosys manages the systems and operations of global enterprises, and more specifically, makes sure that they are headed in the right direction on their "digital journey". They cater to Aerospace & Defense, Agriculture, Automotive, Chemical Manufacturing, Communication Services, and just about any other industry you can possibly think of. With each enterprise they work with, they hope to foster innovation and provide them with the new realities of business technology today. For those industries, they are experts in Digital Marketing, Digital Workplace Services, Applied AI, Blockchain, Enterprise Agile DevOps, Salesforce, Cybersecurity, etc. Their main services are in the categories of Application Development and Maintenance, Business Process Management, Consulting Services, and Incubating Emerging Offerings. Their services help accelerate productivity and optimize business performance. More specifically, their suite of products within these services include EdgeVerve, Finnacle, Cortex, Meridian, Panaya, Equinox, Wingspan, HELIX, and Polycloud. These platforms help businesses achieve digital transformation through AI and Machine Learning. Overall, Infosys is constantly working to transform organizations by augmenting their core digital capabilities. Infosys helps organizations become better equipped to respond to disruptions in the market as well as move forward effectively whether that is seeking out a new business model, innovation, or advancement in their current operating model.


Headquarters

Bengaluru, India

Employees

10,000+

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