Mastering Company Finances
This panel, featuring Laura, Eleanor, and Vidya, will equip leaders with essential financial literacy skills to navigate company finances effectively. Ruchi will draw on her finance background to explain how to understand financial metrics for companies of all sizes, from analyzing cap tables and business metrics in private companies to interpreting SEC filings for public ones. Eleanor will share her experience from Oracle, highlighting how factoring in company performance and financial metrics influenced her decision-making. Sowmya will offer insights from the startup world, providing a perspective on engineering management, using this percpective, in dynamic, fast-paced environments.
By becoming P&L aware and understanding major revenue drivers, leaders will learn how to leverage financial knowledge to make informed decisions and become true business partners. This session aims to transform your approach to financial decision-making, empowering you to drive organizational success and achieve strategic goals with greater confidence and impact.
 |
Laura WrisleyCHIEF REVENUE OFFICER VAYU ROBOTICSLaura Wrisley, Chief Revenue Officer at Vayu Robotics, is responsible for overseeing sales and business development efforts. Before joining Vayu Robotics, she was SVP of Worldwide Sales and Marketing at Velodyne Lidar where her teams were focused on long-term strategic partner relationships and sales in emerging markets, including robotics, intelligent transportation, automotive, mapping and more. Laura brings 15 years of experience in tech-related leadership and management, with expert knowledge in sensor solutions for autonomous mobility, software to enable the movement of robots, and full-scale robot-as-a-service solutions for last mile delivery. As a business development and sales executive, Wrisley has consistently demonstrated the ability to develop and articulate a strategy for her teams. Her mission is to inspire others to collaborate, perform and execute against the strategy. |
 |
Eleanor MerittSENIOR VICE PRESIDENT ENGINEERING ORACLEEleanor Meritt is senior vice president of product support, sustaining engineering, and IDM development at Oracle. Over her Oracle career, she has worked at various product development, sustaining engineering, and product support leadership positions. She has been recognized as one of the Power 50 Technology leaders, Top 50 Women in Tech, and Top 100 Women Technology Leaders to Watch. Passionate about positive customer experience, she applies that to all aspects of her work. Eleanor is an agile learner, something which she attributes to her cultural background, having grown up in Ireland. She sees every day as a new opportunity for growth and loves to share experiences with other women in technology. |
 |
Vidya EashwerCHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER FORGE GLOBALVidya Eashwer is a seasoned technology leader with 20 years of experience in creating and executing innovative fintech technology strategies. She is currently the Chief Technology Officer at Forge Global, where she oversees the company's global technology strategy and roadmap, focusing on creating an integrated tech-enabled experience for all stakeholders in the private market. Before joining Forge, Vidya was the Head of Technology, Edge Systems, at Intercontinental Exchange. In this role, she led overall program delivery and management for software development and data sciences. She also spent six years as Managing Director of IT at the New York Stock Exchange, managing software development across the U.S. and Europe. Vidya holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Mumbai and a Post Graduate Diploma in Software Technology from the National Centre for Software Technology in Maharashtra, India. |