Atomic Conversations

Ayesha Khan is the CIO and CISO of Treasure Data, a cloud-based analytics platform for data management. She has over 20 years of experience managing IT and security at Fortune 500 companies. She has also successfully built and led Technology, Security, Compliance, Risk, and Ops functions from scratch. Aysha is also an important technology leader in the Bay Area where she's an advisor with Sil...

Nipun Soni is the CFO at Picarro, an environmental services company based in California.  Why are we talking to a CFO on an IT podcast, you may ask?  Because Nipun is in charge of not just Finance at Picarro, but is also the CIO, and leads Legal and HR too, which is exactly why we wanted to hear his perspective on IT and its role in this organization.  Nipun is an industry veteran with decades of...

Charlie is an IT veteran who has written three books and hundreds of articles on technology. He published The Digital Experience Report, and founded and writes for The Institute for Digital Transformation. Before becoming an analyst, Charlie ran technical ops for a billion-dollar healthcare org. He has also run large-scale technology and digital transformation programs as a consultant. If you get...

Stephanie Denino is the Director of Applied EX practice at TI People – an employee experience consultancy (EX). Stephanie works with leaders who are eager to shape and apply the practices that will allow them to systemically improve experiences for and with their people.  Through her work, she helps organizations chart their path toward excellence on EX, improve critical work experiences, and buil...

Yvonne Tan is the Chief People Officer of Dentsu South East Asia. She is a richly experienced HR leader with long stints at organizations including UBS, mining giant BHP, PwC, and Dentsu.  Though Yvonne has worked in every aspect of modern HR, we wanted specifically to speak to her about something she is personally invested in - scaling emotionally intelligent leaders. We also spoke about organiza...

Amarnath is a seasoned IT leader, with over 14 years of experience in support and delivery. With a strong focus on customer service and customer satisfaction, he has led IT teams in companies like ValueLabs, before becoming the Director of IMS at HighRadius. Amarnath is also an ITIL expert, leveraging its frameworks to make sure processes in HighRadius run smoothly.   We spoke about digital transf...

Suzanne Lucas is a writer and consultant, best known by the moniker, Evil HR Lady. She has over 20 years of experience in HR, working for companies like Marriott, IBM, and Sun Microsystems. Suzanne began her career as a recruiter but quickly moved into other areas including training, employee relations, and performance management. In 2005, she started writing a blog called Evil HR Lady, where she...

Sidu Ponnappa is an entrepreneur, technologist, and investor. In 2015, his startup C42 Engineering was acquired by the Indonesian behemoth Gojek. At Gojek, Sidu served on the Board of Directors and held several roles including Managing Director at Gojek India, and later served as SVP of Internal Products globally. Ponnappa has spoken at various tech conferences, including AWS re:Invent and Google...

Trish is the CEO and Principal Analyst for H3 HR Advisors, a renowned HR consultancy. She is a seasoned HR executive, and specializes  in technology selection and implementation for organizations since the last 20 years. Naturally, she was the perfect guest for our episode on HR tech. She is also the co-host of the most listened to HR industry podcast, the HR Happy Hour. In this episode, Trish tal...

Alan has over 3 decades of rich experience in IT development and service management. In fact, he is a pioneer in the Managed Service Provider space. Naturally, he was the perfect choice as our first guest to know employee experience from an IT lens. Alan likes to call himself as one of world's oldest 'digital native', and there's a great bit at the end of the episode about remo...

Ranked as the #1 management guru by Business Week, profiled by Fast Company as one of the world’s top 10 creative people in business, and a top 5 coach in Forbes, Dave Ulrich is famously known as 'The Father of Modern HR'. In this, the inaugural special episode of Atomic Conversations, Dave talks about the major problems HR is facing today, including uncertainty and the need to create va...