Sep 22-26, 2025
Los Altos High School
Janaki Akella
Senior Executive / Board Director
Pivoting to follow your passion
I’ll cover 2-4 pivotal moments of my career - how I started as an Engineer, then pivoted to Strategic Consulting, then Operational Leadership and now Corporate Governance
Meet the Speaker:
I enjoy Corporate Governance as the sitting Board Director at Southern Company, a $100B market cap public Gas and Electric Utility, Fractal.ai, a company poised to go public, Akamai and Sallie Mae.
I am humbled to have been conferred the Distinguished Alumni Award by my alma mater, CEG, Asia’s oldest Technical Institution
I am a seasoned executive with unique experience blending technology background with global strategy consulting as McKinsey & Co Partner, Operations leadership and Digital Transformation as a Google Executive and executive management as a Public Board Director
I have successfully driven large scale business transformations having been privileged to lead 100+ consulting engagements at McKinsey working directly for the F100 C-Suite in High-tech Growth strategy, Business and Digital Transformation in North America, Canada, Europe, and Asia.