The Alumni Meetup is a 60-minute webinar session organized quarterly, where decorated Persistent alumnus will share glimpses of their professional and personal journeys before, during, and after their time at Persistent. We will cover a host of topics from their pursuits in the technical field to hobbies and interests that have helped shape their career. The session will include a fun interactive Q&A with the audience.
We will be joined by Jayant Walvekar and Laveena Laitonjam. This session will be moderated by Persistent’s CTO, Pandurang Kamat.
Co-Founder and CTO, Falconeer.io
Jayant has close to 3 decades of experience in product engineering, architecture, and design. He has worked at Persistent for 20 years and played key roles in building the organization, product culture and next level leadership.
Founder and CEO, Rent An Attire
Founder of the business, Rent An Attire, Laveena is an HR professional turned Entrepreneur. She has over 18 years of experience in managing and leading various aspects of Human Resources and operations across many business domains of IT. Laveena is an avid traveler and an animal lover.
CTO, Persistent
Dr. Pandurang Kamat is Chief Technology Officer at Persistent Systems. He helps enterprises unlock business value through technology and innovation. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Rutgers University, New Jersey.
Jiani Zhang is President of the Alliance and Industrial Solution Unit at Persistent Systems. Prior to this role, Jiani was the General Manager of Industrial Sector for Persistent Systems. Jiani has extensive experience in management consulting, marketing, product development and technology management. She also holds expertise in building and growing a business with P&L responsibility and leading teams in business strategy, offering & product development, go-to-market, and sales execution. Prior to Persistent, Jiani has also served as Director of Offering Management for IBM Watson IoT Platform and Head of Offering Strategy for IBM Industrial IoT where she pioneered the creation of the Industrial Analytics/AI IoT solutions.
Vice President, Principal Analyst Serving CIO Professionals
Jeffrey helps CIOs and digital leaders succeed by working with them to improve their software delivery capability and by helping them assess the relevance of emerging software technologies. As a 25-plus-year software industry veteran, he’s helped clients improve their development shop culture, apply Agile and continuous delivery best practices, and build successful developer ecosystems. Jeffrey’s been a developer; managed development teams; built award-winning commercial development tools; and, over the past decade, has helped Forrester clients navigate mobile, cloud, IoT, DevOps, and low-code technologies and tools.
Previous Work Experience
Jeffrey has been with Forrester since 2006. Prior to joining Forrester, Jeffrey worked at IBM, Rational Software, and was part of Accenture’s Advanced Systems Group.
Education
Jeffrey holds a B.S. in economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.