Vandana Malaiya

Been in the IT industry for over 30 years. Have lead several large scale strategic business transformations and change management programs in the areas of Process and Quality and innovation.  Have been at the helm of design, development and deployment of software products in the area of Cognitive Automation, Knowledge management etc.  Have lead several cross functional multi-national teams of 1000+ professionals for application development management services to Fortune 500 clients

Been an entrepreneur, was co-founder for EximSoft technologies Pvt Ltd and have gone through the complete experience from start-up to exit through acquisition.

I am currently an independent consultant helping clients find outsourcing partners in India and providing oversight to their projects executed through me.

I am also actively enagaged with multiple organizations in the social sector primarily in the area of empowerment of women in the rural areas and education of girl children.

I started my career as a hardware engineer, moved to embedded software and then software product development, moved on to become an expert in Software Process Engineering and ISO 9001 and SEI's Capability Maturity Model. Became an entrepreneur and then moved to a corporate.

I have a Bachelors degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences and have done my Executive General Management from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore

I live in Bangalore with my lovely family - husband Kannan and son Anubhav.

Besides work, I enjoy gardening, art and crafts ( embroidery and painting), cooking, reading and travelling.