Governor launches Hysea women leaders' forum

Hyderabad: Dr Tamilisai Soundararajan, Governor of Telangana and Lt Governor of Puducherry, on Thursday launched Hysea Women Leaders' Forum virtually from Puducherry.

Speaking on the occasion the Governor said, "I am very happy to be launching this eminent forum. As someone who is an ardent advocate of women's rights, gender parity, women empowerment, and equality, it would give me immense satisfaction to see accomplished Women Leaders coming on to a platform to mentor and nurture young and upcoming women leaders of the IT Industry." Mentorship and coaching, she said are the key enablers for accelerated growth of young and aspiring women leaders in the industry.

The forum will consist of accomplished women leaders and also men leaders from across the industry, who will provide not only thought leadership but mentorship to young and upcoming women leaders of the IT/ITES industry. The forum will also serve as an important networking platform for women leaders. The forum will work towards identifying the challenges, develop programs and initiatives for the women leaders to effectively manage them, create mentoring and counselling platforms, set quantifiable targets to create leaders at different levels and continuously improve these numbers over a period of time. Earlier welcoming the chief guest, Bharani K Aroll, President, Hysea, and CEO, Infopeers, talked about how Hysea leadership has always focused and created interventions to improve opportunities for women to move into leadership positions within the industry.

Talking about the newly launched forum, he said that, it will strive to be an industry wide effort to help achieve scale. Hysea, he said will endeavor to continue its mission to promote greater gender Equality in the leadership positions. The forum is a progressive step with an able leader Mamatha leading this initiative supported by another accomplished leader, Manisha Saboo, our treasurer, Sailaja Josyula, Center head of Cognizant and others.

Mamatha Madireddy, Centre Director - GSC Hyd, Chennai, Kolkata, Vizag, HSBC will be the first to lead the forum. Manisha Saboo, AVP and Centre Head, Pocharam SEZ & Indore DC, Infosys Ltd and Treasurer, Hysea will also play a key role in the forum.

The event also hosted a panel discussion on "Women in Leadership" moderated by Mamatha Madireddy.