Founder and CEO, Anna Consultancy LLC
Founder and CEO, DiversITy-talent
Chair Trustee, Alternative Angels
Anna Somaiya
Founder and CEO, Anna Consultancy LLC Founder and CEO, DiversITy-talent Chair Trustee, Alternative Angels
Anna Somaiya is a visionary CEO and an award-winning leader in digital transformation, cybersecurity, and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I). With over 32 years of experience, she has held pivotal roles as CIO, CTO, and CISO, leading large-scale technology transformations and driving innovation across various sectors, including finance, technology, and consulting. Anna has a proven track record of successfully executing complex digital strategies, from designing target operating models to modernizing legacy systems and integrating cutting-edge solutions like cloud-native services, automation, and microservices.
With extensive experience in digital transformation and technology leadership, Anna has led the overhaul of enterprise-wide IT services, delivering significant cost savings, operational efficiencies, and enhanced digital capabilities. She has also been at the forefront of diversity and inclusion initiatives, creating award-winning programs that promote gender diversity in technology. As a trusted consultant and advisor, Anna has helped numerous organizations transform their business models, strengthen cybersecurity postures, and enhance governance frameworks, driving innovation and strategic growth across various industries.
Anna’s leadership is marked by her ability to bring together cross-functional, global teams to solve complex business challenges. She is a passionate advocate for DE&I, believing it to be an untapped superpower for businesses, and has driven transformative change in this space across several organizations. As the CEO of DiversITy-talent and Chair Trustee of Alternative Angels, Anna continues to champion inclusivity and social impact through innovative programs and strategic initiatives.
Awards and Recognition:
Anna’s commitment to excellence has earned her numerous accolades, including the Women in Finance DEI Initiative of the Year, Women in IT DEI Initiative of the Year, MCA Outstanding Achievement Award, and Women in Tech Role Model of the Year. She has also been recognized by WeAreTheCity and Women in Banking and Finance for her significant contributions to gender diversity and digital innovation.
CEO, Syberzen Strategic
Delivery and Partnership Lead,
Anna Consultancy LLC
Pradeep Saroop
CEO, Syberzen
Strategic Delivery and Partnership Lead, Anna Consultancy LLC
Pradeep Saroop, has been working in the IT Services Industry for nearly 3 decades, driving revenue growth, margin improvements through global business operations and structuring global delivery. He has been involved in strategic planning and managing sales team in the areas of Enterprise Services, Digital Adoption, Cyber Security Solutions.
Pradeep’s understanding of technology trends has been instrumental in guiding teams to build cutting edge solutions for current market scenarios. His regular interactions with customers to provide insights into adoption of technology is well appreciated.
Pradeep loves interacting on Strategic advisory, guiding start-ups to build using emerging technology with relevance to market scenarios. He started his first start-up in 2012 in Enterprise Consulting space. His passion for cyber security has led him to start Syberzen in 2018, to build a specialized company to help customer in the space of Digital transformation and Cyber Security.
Chief Technology Solutions Officer,
Anna Consultancy LLC
Jacques Schaap
Chief Technology Solutions Officer, Anna Consultancy LLC
Jacques is a seasoned Technology Solution Officer and Consultant with over 30 years of professional experience in a multitude of sectors and industries including investment and wealth management, pensions, digital, retail and corporate banking, manufacturing and retail. He excels in managing and leading teams of all sizes to deliver and provide IT and digital transformations, legacy migrations and modernisation, architecture roadmaps, solution assurance, engineering, data and delivery at scale. His expertise spans the full lifecycle from due diligence and requirements gathering, through business process mapping and workflow design, to solution and application architecture design, implementation and testing. He has extensive experience in leading large and small teams to deliver cutting-edge solutions including cloud-native services, microservices, application modernization and componentization of complex legacy and green field application landscapes.
Senior Solution Architect (GCP),
Anna Consultancy LLC
Manish Gupta
Senior Solution Architect (GCP), Anna Consultancy LLC
Manish is an experienced Senior Solution Architect and DevOps specialist with over 23 years of professional expertise across industries such as technology, finance, and enterprise IT. He excels in automating mission-critical deployments and driving cloud transformations on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), leveraging Python, Java, Kubernetes, and Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
Manish has collaborated extensively with global CTOs to develop container reference architectures, deployment processes, and GCP-based AI/ML solutions. His expertise spans the full lifecycle of cloud and AI/ML projects, from architecture design and infrastructure automation to model training and deployment using Vertex AI. With a proven track record in leading teams, Manish delivers robust, scalable, and secure solutions, including cloud-native architectures, microservices, and the modernization of legacy systems.
