Here It Is! The Official 2021 Women Leading Tech Shortlist Has Arrived
The time has come to announce the shortlist for our second ever Women Leading Tech awards!
Over here at B&T, we’re incredibly excited to share our shortlist of incredible women shaping the tech industry.
The event is bound to be a brilliant one, and we can’t wait to celebrate all of our nominees.
If you don’t have tickets to the Women Leading Tech awards yet (shame on you!), you can buy them here – this year’s awards are taking place on the 20th of April.
A massive congratulations to all of our brilliant shortlisted finalists – if you didn’t make the cut this year, now is the perfect time to start prepping for your 2022 application!
Without further ado, here is B&T’s official 2021 Women Leading Tech shortlist:
Advocacy
Art Processors
EML
Envato
F5
Hype & Dexter
Lenovo ANZ
Pegasystems
Sourced Group
Ultimate Edge Communications
Data Science
Alexandra MacDonald – 10 ViacomCBS
Elakkiya Ramarajan – Workit Spaces
Faye Chen – Atomic 212°
Lisa Green – Telstra
Milly Kc – Finder
Monmayuri Ray – GitLab
Nagita Mehrseresht – Nearmap
Nerida Jenkins – The Media Store
Piroska Bisits-Bullen – Mable
Sandhya Iyer – Latitude Financial Services
Tess Guthrie – WhyHive
Xin Liang – Eliiza
Design
Amy Vijayakamur – Concentrix Tigerspike
Bridget Noonan – August
Bryony Weiss – Levo
Diana Adorno – ThoughtWorks
Gina Karlikoff – NTT
Jessa Jakovljevic – 86 400
Laura Cibilich – RUN
Mary-Claire Monsalve – ABC
Mel Huang – AKQA
Sami Sloane – Device Technologies
Education/Research
Dr Jenine Beekhuyzen OAM – Tech Girls Movement Foundation Ltd & Adroit Research Pty Ltd
Dr Rachel Hay – James Cook University
Hannah Beder – Creatable
Paola Magni – Murdoch University
Venessa Paech – Quiip
Yolande Strengers – Monash University
Engineering
Camila Acosta – AKQA
Harini Sudarshan – Ping Identity
Jyothi Kothur – Pegasystems
Kiruthika Samapathy – ThoughtWorks
Kruti Patel – Super Rewards
Lakshmi Easuwaran – Telstra
Magdeline Ng – MNF Group
Ranjani Nagarajan – Rokt
Sasha Grushko-Iarova – Rokt
Theresa Neate – Slalom
entrepreneur/Founder
Alice Williams – Ovira
Azadeh Williams – AZK Media
Christine Khor – Peeplcoach
Fatima Said – eWave
Jodi Stanton – Rush Gold
Laura Keily – Immediation
Mina Radhakrishnan – :different
Teresa Aprile – Brandcrush
Tricia Martin – Virtual Intern
Zoe Condliffe – She’s A Crowd
executive leader
Ineke Bulle – Matrak
Juliette Stead – Magnite
Katarina Dulanovic – Allianz Australia
Kelley Yohe – Westpac
Lauren Oakes – Megaphone Marketing
Lynette Clunies-Ross – SAS
Lynwen Connick – ANZ
Michelle O’Keeffe – Engaging.io
Rebecca Niemiec – Janison
Sian Whitnall – OMD
Suzanne Steele – Adobe
Vanessa Doake – Art Processors
Zsofi Paterson – Loup
Marketing
Andrea Dixon – DocuSign
Azadeh Williams – AZK Media
Bridie Smith – OFX
Catherine Bowe – Facebook
Iris Chan – Seismic
Jessica Box – Linktree
Michelle Stephenson – Adobe
Nicki Dewhurst – Sophos
Rebecca Mason – Google Australia
Stephanie Brown – Intuit Australia
Mentor
Jade Meara – F5
Joely Scott-Thomas – VMware
Julia Knapp – NewsCorp Australia
Kate Toon – StayTooned
Kylie McKenzie – NTT
Monika Jansch – News Corp Australia
Pia Rueda – Lenovo
Sarah-Louise MacDonald – Pegasystems
Sophie Wright – NTT
Stephanie Famolaro – The Trade Desk
product
Alison Ritchie – ReadyTech
Bec Nguyen – Telethon Kids Institute
Christine Sou – Wise
Clare Dlugosz – MediaCom
Emmalee Fagerstrom – Verizon Media
Kimberly Dowsett – Tyro Payments
Mahin Sonia – Civica
Sian Whitnall – OMD Australia
Suryabala Shenbagamurthy – WooliesX
Yvette Sitters – Manage My Wedding
sales
Andrea Rule – LinkedIn
Clare Nash – Snap Australia
Hayley Spence – TikTok
Julia Sinton – Lenovo
Lauren Escalona – Datto Inc
Nicole Bence – Seven
Puneeta Chellaramani – Accenture Australia
Shaye Thyer – MindBridge
Sophie Hicks Lloyd – 10 ViacomCBS
Stephanie Famolaro – The Trade Desk
Phew! That was a lot of names. If there are any spelling errors or changes to make, please contact riin@themisfits.media by close of business April 6th – there’s nothing worse than having a misspelled trophy displayed on your mantlepiece/bookshelf/windowsill above the toilet.
You can find all of the 2021 winners here.
Thank you to our Women Leading Tech sponsors!
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