Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Ganesha Rasiah is a seasoned Fortune 100 senior technology executive with deep experience in driving a shift to recurring revenue business models and operations, emerging markets expansion and incubations, AI and software. He currently serves as the Chief Strategy Officer and member of the Executive Leadership Team at HP Inc., where he leads a global team across corporate strategy and corporate planning, business unit strategy and planning across all businesses ($53b in revenue), growth market incubations, market analysis and insights, corporate development, GTM strategy, and the office of the CEO. 

Prior to HP, Rasiah was the head of transformation at Cisco where he led the company’s shift to $23b in ARR and 44% recurring revenue. As part of this shift, he ran the P&L for Cisco’s enterprise agreement software business, growing the business by $700m YoY. Prior to Cisco, Rasiah was a partner at Deloitte where he led digital transformation and online channel development and acceleration at telco and tech clients in the US, Europe and Asia. During his tenure at Deloitte, he worked in 11 countries across 25+ different companies and ran a $300m global services P&L for the firm. Prior to Deloitte, he was a systems engineer responsible for designing and developing programmable ASICS for network processors.

Rasiah serves on the board of an early-stage mental health B2B SaaS startup called PeakMind, in support of a diverse CEO. He is a native of Malaysia and spent the first 20 years of his life there, prior to college. He speaks multiple languages and considers himself a global citizen. Ganesha holds a graduate degree in electrical engineering from Columbia University in NY, and an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from McGill University in Montreal.

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Ryan Patel is a globally recognized futurist and go-to authority on global business, political economy, and corporate governance. Currently the William F. Podlich Distinguished Fellow at CMC, Patel is an expert in scaling businesses, he's served startups and publicly traded firms. Listed as one of the “Creators to Follow” by LinkedIn Editor in Chief Daniel Roth and recognized as a “Top Voice” on Linkedin, Patel is a sought-after TV news commentator and Board Director. Patel also hosts "The Moment with Ryan Patel," featuring conversations with top innovators and executives filmed at the iconic HP Garage, the birthplace of Silicon Valley. He complements his literary talents with domestic and international keynote appearances, leading campaigns with corporations and universities such as the World Economic Forum, Davos, Mastercard, HP, Adobe, The Economist, Reuters, and more.

This Athenaeum presentation is co-sponsored by the Financial Economics Institute at CMC.