Anushka Verghese

Anushka Verghese has held a variety of roles in the past decade. In 2011, they began their career as an Analyst at Mphasis. In 2014 they moved to NTT DATA Americas as a Senior Associate. Anushka then joined Cisco in 2015 as Manager, where they were the youngest member of the Cisco India Leadership Team and managed internal and external strategic engagements. In 2017, they became Co-Founder and CPO at Smarten Spaces, and later Co-Founder.

Anushka Verghese has a varied educational background. Anushka started their education in 2007 at Army Public School, followed by a Diploma in Hospitality Administration from Institute of Advanced Management and a B.A. in Hospitality Management from Edinburgh Napier University. In 2013, they completed a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management from SVKM's Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), majoring in Marketing and Operations. In 2016, they obtained a Certification from Indian Institute of Management Bangalore in Strategy. In 2021, they completed a Data Science and Machine Learning degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, focusing on Machine Learning and Algorithms in Product Development. Anushka also completed a Design Thinking degree from Stanford University Graduate School of Business in 2021, with a focus on Product Design and Development.