The Second Edition of the Digital Engineering
Awards is here!

Steve Hall is responsible for the firm’s Europe, Middle East & Africa region, as well as its global Digital Advisory Services business. During his time with ISG, Mr. Hall has led some of the company’s largest and most complex engagements with clients as diverse as United Airlines, Symantec, BP, World Bank, CEMEX and Motorola. He is a seasoned professional who brings considerable experience in emerging technologies to ISG clients. Prior to his position at ISG,

Mr. Hall held senior roles at a number of renowned IT services companies, including Unisys and MCI. He also led large-scale eBusiness initiatives for technology solutions providers C-Bridge and CBSI and gained deep outsourcing and offshore software development experience as a delivery executive with Covansys.

Mr. Hall co-authored Managing Global Development Risk: A Guide to Managing Global Software Development. He earned his degree in Computer Science from Regis University.

Prashant Kelker leads ISG’s Digital Advisory Services and is the Chief Strategy Officer of ISG. He offers ISG’s clients 21 years of experience in Technology Strategy & Management. He works with enterprises to shape their operating models for a digital journey and brings 25 years of expertise in all aspects of applications and platforms, from designing transformations through the whole sourcing lifecycle.

Prashant’s experience spans a range of industries, including Financial Services, Telecom and Media, Automotive and Utilities, and a range of geographies, including Europe, the Americas and India. Recently, he helped a Fortune 50 industrial manufacturing giant define its enterprise wide Digital Thread strategy. He has helped firms consolidate next-generation sourcing for applications, and execute digital transformations.

His experience spans from leading core software product development to delivering IT services for application portfolios both onsite as well as offshore – which he combines this with digital trends to bring thought leadership to his engagements.

Gaurav has more than 2 decades of experience focused on complex, transformational change across key industries, including Manufacturing, CPG, Energy, Utilities and Lifesciences and has held leading positions driving the change agenda. His experience in establishing business transformation tenets early stage, allow him to envision and define an end state strategy which can be operationalized.

As an ISG Partner, leading the Digital Engineering advisory, towards transformation programs which increasingly are assuming the shape of “Engineering led Digital transformation”, he will focus on building on the strong enterprise advisory & sourcing platform that ISG has and extend it towards the business-driven priorities.

Gaurav and his team support both our Industry/Verticals and regions towards our direct-to-client models, including onshore and offshore resources.

Debjani Ghosh is the President of the National Association of Software & Services Companies (NASSCOM) since April 2018. A veteran of the technology industry, she is the fifth president of NASSCOM and the first women at the helm in three-decade history.

She is a firm believer in the power of technology in enhancing lives and livelihoods, leveraging it for societal good. She was instrumental in developing ‘Think Digital, Think India’ strategy aimed at establishing India as a hub for digital talent and innovation. Debjani strongly believes technology will have the most impact on humankind when it’s used as an enabler of inclusive growth and that India must lead in the digital era with focus on the responsible build and use of tech as an accelerator and equalizer.

As the NASSCOM President, she actively works with the industry and Government to accelerate the growth of the Industry and strengthen India’s position as hub for Innovation and Digital Talent. Her approach has been focused on a three-point agenda - talent development and re-skilling, strengthening the innovation culture in the country and collaborating with governments across the world to open new opportunities for the Indian IT industry.

In January 2018, she was felicitated by the President of India under the auspices of the ‘First Ladies’ program, which honors exceptional women pioneers in their respective fields. In 2020, she has been honored by Vogue as the Tech Leader of the year 2020. She has also been listed among the India’s most powerful women in tech by Business Today.

With multiple feathers in her cap, before joining NASSCOM, she was the first woman to lead Intel India and the Manufacturers' Association for Information Technology (MAIT), she was also a member of the executive council at NASSCOM. She believes that learning never stops and a trainable mindset is the biggest strength one can have.

Debjani holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Osmania University in Hyderabad, India, and an MBA degree in marketing from S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research in Mumbai, India.

Suja Chandra served as Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Digital and Information Officer at CommonSpirit Health, leading all aspects of product, technology, digital and marketing for the $34B healthcare integrated delivery network.

She is a global, operations, supply chain, digital transformation, eCommerce and P&L leader. Previously, she has been a member of executive leadership teams, global chief of digital, tech and operations at large companies including Walmart, Inc, Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Nestle S.A., and The Timberland Company.

Suja serves as a board member on the boards of public companies American Eagle Outfitters (NYSE: AEO), global omnichannel apparel retailer, Brenntag SE (BNR.DE), DAX40 German listed company, Cardinal Health (NYSE: CAH), a healthcare and pharmaceutical, Fortune 15 company and Agendia Inc, a precision medicine, molecular diagnostics company focused on breast cancer research, diagnosis and treatment. Suja is chairperson of board at HealthEM.Ai focused on care intelligence, delivering total care management, value-based care, patient and provider experiences, financial and performance management for healthcare providers and payers. Suja sits on the board of advisors of SAFE Security, focused on cyber risk management and Test Dynamics, healthcare AI platform for radiology, cardiology and other clinical focuses.

Suja is the founder and chair of the board of T200 Foundations – Women CXOs in Tech, non-profit focused on developing women in tech, software P&L, AI, digital, product and cybersecurity.

She is an industry expert in cyber security, digital health, digital marketing, customer experience, eCommerce, omnichannel, artificial intelligence, and scaled enterprise digital transformations. Suja has led significant business model transformations, business & consumer technologies, people/ organizational leadership, M&A experience and global consumer and regulatory expertise.

Dr Kauffman is the Director of the Institute for Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering (AME) at Coventry University and a Fellow of the Institute for Innovation and Knowledge Exchange. He specializes in application of Digital Technologies for Manufacturing industry and has successfully led and implemented many industry led applied. research projects.

He has a strong academic background in innovation and business model transformation complemented by direct industrial experience and the track-record of successfully leading and delivering a successful large research intensive centre. He joined the AME in 2016 as Innovation and Digitalization Director. In this role he led and delivered successful cross-disciplinary R&D projects in a mixed industrial and academic setting, bringing together researchers from different disciplines and sectors to derive viable solutions to complex business problems and conceptualise new collaborative methods that explore optimality in engineering-business contexts.