Podcast/Video Interviews by Stephen Ibaraki

A Chat with Asha Saxena: Founder & CEO WLDA, Board Member, Columbia University Professor; Best Selling Author of The AI Factor

This week, Stephen Ibaraki has an exclusive interview with Asha Saxena.

Asha Saxena is a strategic and innovative leader with a track record of building successful technology companies over the past 30 years. She is the author of the bestselling book " The AI Factor - How to Apply Artificial Intelligence and Use Big Data to Grow Your Business Exponentially" and the Founder and CEO of Women Leaders in Data and AI, a global leadership organization brining world leaders together to create a fair digital world with parity and equity.

Asha is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University, teaching graduate classes on Entrepreneurship and served as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Columbia Business School. She also served as a partner at CEO Coaching International, a management services company focused on building, turning around, and selling successful businesses.

In the past, Asha served as the CEO of a healthcare data analytics company, built an e-commerce platform, and was the President and CEO of Future Technologies. This company provided data analytics solutions to Fortune 1000 companies and was recognized at the World Economic Forum as a "Global Growth Company for 2007".

Asha earned her BS in Computer Science from Bangalore University and underwent management training at MIT and the London Business School.