STEM

Wonder Woman in Business, Sumathi Pundit

Sumathi Pundit

Sumathi Pundit is a trusted leader in the business intelligence domain for professional services firms. In 2004, Sumathi founded Evalueserve Canada, the Canadian agency for global market intelligence and analytics firm Evalueserve, where she led the initiative to set up offshore market intelligence teams for the Canadian arms of two of the Big 4 accounting firms, among other clients.

Following the sale of her franchise back to Evalueserve, Sumathi continued to act as an advisor to business development and knowledge management teams across the legal services spectrum.
It was while consulting to a top law firm in Canada that she had a lightbulb moment that the current siloed technology landscape of Content Marketing and Business Intelligence vendors meant that client-facing fee earners didn’t have ready access to high-quality sector and company-specific insights that they could use to support proactive outreach to clients and prospects.

Sumathi founded Kaitongo in 2018 to develop an AI-powered sector, client, and market intelligence platform to help sellers turn business insights into meaningful conversations, building deeper relationships and, ultimately, generating higher revenues.

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Sumathi Pundit

Connect with Sumathi

Sumathi Pundit (she/her/hers)

Founder and CEO

Phone: 416-544-1443 X2001

Website: www.kaitongo.com

https://calendly.com/sumi-pundit/30min

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Wonder Woman in Business, Vanessa Kuroda

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Vaness Kuroda

Girl on Fire! A scientist who started her journey as a dancer but channeled her passion and discipline as a creative to excel in computer science, electrical engineering — at NASA.

Yes, it is rocket science!

Vanessa Kuroda is an electrical systems engineer for a well known commercial space company, working on a heavy lift orbital rocket. She was previously the Staff Telemetry and (RF) Communications Engineer for Stratolaunch Systems, which builds hypersonic aircraft from the ground up. Vanessa is an experienced aerospace communication systems engineer, with wide experience across the aerospace industry, including NASA Ames Research Center, Airbus’s Silicon Valley center A^3, JPL, and more. 

She earned her B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California with an emphasis on Communications Systems. After internships at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems, and Northrop Grumman Mission Systems, she became the primary Spacecraft Communications Engineer in NASA’s Ames Research Center Engineering Systems Division, where she performed integration, test, and operations for LADEE, the Lunar Atmosphere Dust Environment Explorer, which orbited the moon, performed science experiments, and demonstrated the fastest laser communications link in space at the time. She was also selected as one of 40 across all of NASA to participate in their FIRST leadership development program and during her tenure at NASA, was chosen by Silicon Valley’s Business Journal as one of their 40 Under 40 Rising Stars. At Airbus, she was their Wireless and Comms Architect on UAS Traffic Management (UTM), and helped to create the wireless communications ecosystem needed to safely integrate unmanned aerial systems (UAS) into airspace systems globally.

In addition to her engineering work, she stays active in engineering organizations, the CLUB Incubator, and participates in STEM activities as much as she can. She is also a hip-hop dancer with a talent agency in San Francisco where she got to perform with Bebe Rexha and previously at USC, where she performed as a backup dancer for the Black Eyed Peas at the Kids’ Choice Awards. She also loves to spend time with her husband Theo and their new puppy Apollo.

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Vaness Kuroda

Connect with Vanessa

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/vkuroda

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Wonder Woman in Business, Neha Kunte

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Neha Kunte, CEO

MNK Infotech

Neha Kunte has over 20 years of work experience and over 15 years as an entrepreneur.
Recognized as a business leader, Neha can quickly apply marketing and business concepts to project management decisions. She is a strategic/tactical/creative thinker and a proven negotiator. With almost two decades of cross-cultural (professional work experience of India, Japan, and USA) and bilingual background, she finds it easy to break the barriers and also educate business leaders around her. Some of her lunch and learn workshops offers topics of:

  • Unconscious bias

  • Global leadership

  • Cultural diversity

Neha speaks six languages, holds a degree in Indian Classical dance, and is a Henna Artist. For over 25 years, Neha has created a wide array of designs and has developed strategies of diversity and inclusion through art.

Neha is a passionate business owner, trendsetter, and lifelong learner. Apart from that, she is a proud wife, mother of two and tries to keep a healthy work-life balance.
With a warm heart to help others and make a difference, she also possesses the strength to make tough business decisions.

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Contact Neha

MNK Infotech Inc

469- 867- 8239 (Direct)
412-213-8665 (Off)
972-528-8012 (fax)

http://www.mnkinfotech.com

Woman-owned and Small Business Enterprise

Historically Underutilized Business (HUB)

www.freemanmeansbusiness.com

www.freemanmeansbusiness.com

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Wonder Woman in Business, Cathi Rodgveller

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Cathi Rodgveller

Cathi Rodgveller founded IGNITE Worldwide to help girls everywhere to believe in themselves and encourage each girl to strive to develop her abilities and skills. Cathi understands that STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) careers offer women the opportunity to make their unique contribution to society while working in high paying roles, gaining confidence and in turn each one becoming a role model for the next generation.  Cathi sees her reward each time a girl understands that she is smart and capable and gains the conviction to accomplish her special dream.  

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Our mission:

IGNITE Worldwide is the answer to achieving gender equity in STEM. We work directly with teachers during the school day to provide programming that promotes STEM education and career advancement for girls and non-binary youth from historically marginalized communities. Through hands-on events that connect students with role models who live and work in their communities, students recognize new possibilities for their futures.

Our vision: 

We envision a world where every girl has IGNITE Worldwide at her school. All girls deserve equal access to STEM education during their school day, so they are aware of STEM opportunities and have the social and cultural capital to secure and thrive in a STEM career. IGNITE Worldwide promotes economic equality and workforce development by cultivating a diverse pipeline of talent and supporting a sustainable future for girls and their families.  

How to support IGNITE Worldwide:

If you support this mission, we encourage you to become a supporter of IGNITE Worldwide by becoming a monthly donor today. Your support will help IGNITE educate more girls about their opportunities and inspire them to pursue a future in STEM. Make a donation here:  https://secure.givelively.org/donate/ignite-worldwide.

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Cathi Rodgveller

Contact Cathi

Cathi Rodgveller, M.S. Ed.  

CEO and Founder, IGNITE Worldwide

p: 206-683-3258w: www.igniteworldwide.org e: cathi@ignite-worldwide.org

Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Linkedin

IGNITE Worldwide named most effective STEM program by the National Science Foundation!Close the STEM gender gap: DONATE

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Wonder Woman in Business, Erin Twamley

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Erin Twamley

Erin Twamley

We need kids, both boys and girls, to SEE the diverse role models in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math or STEM, cultivate their STEM superpowers and imagine themselves in a sustainable STEM future. As a nonfiction children's book author and educator, Erin Twamley is working to create a new generation of Everyday STEM Superheroes. Through her education consulting company ErinEDU, LLC she shares the diverse faces of STEM with elementary students. Providing hands on encounters and writing nonfiction STEM books, she aims to empower kids to imagine and say, "I want to be an animator, robotics engineer or a zoologist," just as often as they say, 'actress/actor, singer or doctor.' Mrs. Twamley works with Parent Teacher and Student Associations to visit US schools from South Korea, to Europe to the USA.

Her latest STEM book is a leveled reader picture book called “Capturing Cow Farts and Burps.” This book shares the ways that scientists, engineers, and farmers are working together to make cows less gassy and sharing the science behind caring for our environment. This book will be released by Waldorf Publishing in the summer of 2020. Mrs. Twamley loves to travel, has 2 kids and has lived on three continents. Learn more about her STEM publications and encounters on social media or her website at erinedu.org. 

List of STEM Books

Capturing Cow Farts and Burps (Summer 2020) 

Climate Change: The Science Behind Melting Glaciers and Warming Oceans  (2020)  

Everyday Superheroes: Women in STEM Careers (2019)

Renewable Energy: Discover the Fuel of the Future   (2016)

Climate Change: Discover How it Impacts Spaceship Earth (2015) 

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Erin Twamley

Contact Erin

Erin Twamley

Educator and Author 

www.ErinEDU.org

Linkedin: in/erintwamley

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Wonder Woman in Business, Kwanza Price

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Kwanza Price

Global Health Economics and Outcomes Research

Kwanza Price moved to Silicon Valley in 2018 from NYC after being recruited by a mid-sized pharma company based in Palo Alto. Kwanza has worked in healthcare for more than a decade and has a graduate degree from Columbia University. Prior to grad school, she worked for an international non-government organization focused on development in Africa. She lived in Niger for two years helping to oversee a multi-million dollar project aimed at reducing food insecurity. Kwanza studied French and Mathematics at Bryn Mawr College.

In the community, Kwanza is part of a Black Biotech group focused on developing an African-American Art museum and Center of Inclusive Innovation along the San Francisco Bay pier. She is also in discussions with leaders in East Palo Alto to renovate the library there.

Kwanza is a health economist in her current role and has a strong interest in technological innovation and opportunities to address inequality. She grew up in Washington, DC and still has a large extended family there. This is her first time living in California and she is based in Menlo Park. 

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Enjoy the podcast.

Kwanza Price

Connect with Kwanza

LinkedIn


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