Manisha Chowdhury
	She is an electronics and communication engineer from B.I.T Mesra and has more than nineteen years of experience in IT .She has held senior leadership positions in various multinational organizations and has evolved as a specialist in multi-site distributed software engineering practices and IT service delivery management.
Prior to taking up this role she was the head of a captive offshore delivery center of Siemens Information Systems Limited in Kolkata, focused on Healthcare product development for Siemens Medical Solutions, U.S.A. Before Siemens she has served a string of reputed multinationals namely GE, 7 Technologies, RS Software, Sema Schlumberger and others. She strongly believes that no nation is any longer constrained by national boundaries but is a part of an interdependent international network for which the overall software lifecycle and human resource management processes need to be changed appropriately... She has made several publications on global sourcing, collaborative software development , agile in the context of offshore development etc.