Reema Poddar

Chief Product & Technology Officer | Top 50 Women in Tech| Top 50 Diverse Leaders| Hall of Fame Inductee - Top 100 Asian American Leaders | Board of Directors at Optimeyes.ai

San Diego

Strategic software business leader with a proven track record of building and delivering innovative products (SaaS/ PaaS) with excellent customer & user experience driving growth, operational efficiency and market share.

"When our customers succeed, we succeed" - Reema is a passionate leader who strongly believes in servant leadership and builds and grows world-class global teams delivering tangible business outcomes with the ultimate goal of solving unique and complex business problems for customers across the globe.

A highly successful executive with 25 years of experience in the software industry, Poddar is a respected thought leader and authority on Digital, Business, Product & Engineering transformation. Her expertise includes Product Engineering, Product Management, Platform as a service, Software as a Service, On-prem to Cloud business transformation, data & analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, cloud services, and the industrial internet of things (IIoT).

Active in the global community, Reema has been a mentor for Women Engineers and Technologists and has dedicated her time to philanthropic causes. She actively encourages and works with young women to consider & pursue a career in STEM and technology roles. She promotes diversity and inclusion by supporting Women’s Networks such as WITI, North and South Cal Tech, Athena, etc. She is an honored public speaker and panelist.

Poddar holds a master’s degree in computer science and a master’s degree in physics (specialization in nuclear physics and electronics).