As we kick off the podcast's fourth anniversary and leap into 2021, I am excited to be joined by an "Industry Thought Leader", a friend and a woman I admire, Chaitra Vedullapalli, the co-founder and CMO of Meylah Corporation, a purpose-driven organization.
Chaitra is recognized as an Influential Business Leader with a passion to enable digital equity and access to achieve economic prosperity in our communities.
As the co-founder and CMO of Meylah Corporation, Chaitra is focused on helping customers to modernize their business with cloud solutions. She is also the Co-Founder & President of Women in Cloud, where she drives global conversations with the United Nations and top corporations like Microsoft, IBM, and Accenture.
In this episode, Chaitra and I discuss:
Her Passions and JourneyHer Audacious Mission, Work, and Focus at MeylahHer work driving Women in the CloudWomen in Cloud Digital Summit 2021 - January 28th - 30th 2021. A must-attend event - for everyone in the tech sector.
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Transcription By Otter.AI – Please Pardon Typos Below
Vince Menzione 0:30
Chitra, welcome to the podcast.
Chaitra Vedullapalli 2:22
Thank you, I'm really excited to be here and Happy New Year to you and to all your listeners,
Vince Menzione 2:29
Happy 2021 I am so excited to be able to say for the first time, Happy 2021. And so excited to welcome you to the Ultimate Guide to partnering. Our paths have crossed for many years now you have had an amazing career, we both worked at Microsoft for a period of time. And you've been a force for good in places that we both really care about, including the women in the cloud movement, our partner ecosystem. And so I'm really looking forward to this conversation today.
Chaitra Vedullapalli 2:56
Thank you, Vince, thank you
Vince Menzione 2:58
Chitra, your bio is really impressive. You have had an amazing career both in large tech giants like Microsoft and Oracle. And as an entrepreneur, and you hold several positions in board roles. I was noticing your LinkedIn profile. I'm wondering where you find the energy? In fact, can you describe yourself to our listeners?
Chaitra Vedullapalli 3:19
Because I wish I could see it in like a single line. But let me take a stab at it, I would say is the journey to Tech has been, I would say an accidental and also and I would say an opportunity. And it started with me saying no, I don't want to do technology because I wanted to be in music. But after getting married to engineer and moving here, decided like, you know, I couldn't fit into the music industry because I couldn't see myself there. Because the representation did not make it feasible to go however, I decided to go into the tech. So as a tech journey, I got into the Oracle consulting as my first role and then investing a lot with meeting with customers and doing a lot of consulting work and pricing and licensing stuff. And that helped me grow into the career very smoothly where I got to spend more time with the leadership team at Oracle, I would say the executive leadership and that's when I kind of saw what the potential of technol...