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Rupangi Faldu
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Rupangi Faldu, P.E. currently serves as Environmental Director for Pioneer Natural Resources USA, Inc. headquartered in Dallas, Texas. With 20+ years of proven track record as strategic visionary and executioner of environmental stewardship to yield operational efficiencies, Rupangi has provided innovative and sustainable solutions to complex environmental issues for clients across Oil and Energy, Manufacturing, Building Materials, Paints, Food & Beverages, and Public Entities.
Rupangi holds Masters in Civil Engineering from The University of Texas at Arlington and currently licensed as Professional Engineer in Texas. On volunteering front, Rupangi currently serves as board member for ASEI, VP for Diversity & Equity for Pioneer, and Advisory Council Member for The Kay Bailey Hutchinson Energy Center.
Dev Kannabiran
Dev Kannabiran is a senior presales leader with a proven track record of driving revenue growth and profitability at multinational companies like Dell, TIBCO, and CSG. He is a Data Integration & Analytics professional with over 17 years of extensive experience managing diverse, cross-functional teams. Dev holds a Masters degree in management information systems from Oklahoma State University. Dev has authored books, and technical blogs and run multiple webinars on the topics of data management, data science, AI/ML, and ModelOps.
Rebecca Caleb (Becky)
Position: Co-President
Categories: Dallas
Rebecca Caleb is a Technology Executive leading Enterprise Transaction Services which includes Cash Servicing, Merchant Operations and Testing Technology. She has overall responsibility for several enterprise applications driving Global Technology Strategy, Solutions Engineering, Architecture modernization, Products Management, Portfolio Delivery Management Execution, End to End Testing including Testing Automation for various product domains, Risk and Audit management. She is also responsible for leading Cyber Resiliency and Operational Excellence efforts across key critical services.
With an extensive background in Information Technology, Business and Management, she has held various senior leadership roles implementing strategic enterprise-wide transformations aimed at maximizing ROI through application of new technologies, driving digital innovation engineering, product management, portfolio delivery management, process improvement, promoting enterprise business agility, modernizing infrastructure, testing strategies and business process reengineering at the bank and in prior organizations for creation of better products and providing the best client experience.
A passionate advocate and champion for diversity, equity and inclusion, empowerment of women leaders – Becky is the Executive Sponsor for the Asian Leadership Network – North Texas at Bank of America (with over 1500 members). She is actively engaged with multiple internal networks and external organizations as advisor, sponsor, mentor – Leadership, Education, Advocacy and Development (LEAD) for Women, Women in Technology & Operations (WIT&O), Women’s Leadership Coaching program, Girls Who Code, Grace Hopper, Year-Up and Better Money Habits efforts. She has been instrumental in launching various impactful North Texas programs such as Mentoring in North Texas and establishing the local Asian Business Council at Bank of America to promote business integration while developing strong partnerships with the broader community and local universities/schools promoting financial literacy for students.
She is the Advisory Board Member for ASCEND North Texas and American Society of Software Engineers (ASEI) in Dallas, TX – a renowned speaker and panelist at several industry conferences including Women in Technology International, National Association of Asian American Professionals, ASCEND, Technology Innovation conferences and more driving the culture of innovation and excellence forward.
She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Engineering, Master of Science degree in Management and Information Systems along with many other industry certifications. Becky lives in Prosper, Texas with her husband and two children.
Rebecca Caleb (Becky)
Senior Vice President, Technology Executive
Global Technology & Operations – Bank of America
Suresh Iyer
Dr. Suresh Iyer is a senior engineer/technical director with GHD. His primary areas of focus and expertise are in the field of air quality management. His contributions to the air quality management field include development of methods to monitor and model spatial distribution of ambient particulate matter, indoor air quality and its effect on asthma symptoms, and development of methods to test emissions of criteria pollutants from new advanced high efficiency stationary combustion systems. Dr. Iyer has published over 20 peer reviewed journal papers and presented over 30 peer reviewed conference papers.
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