𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝-𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐫 | 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐝 - 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠

Vidhya is the 𝐜𝐨-𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐰𝐚𝐯𝐞.𝐜𝐨𝐦, a Design Thinking Led Digital Innovation company headquartered in Bangalore, India. She was named one of the '𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 100 𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚' by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and PwC, and is a 𝐅𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞50 𝐇𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐞 by the Project Management Institute (PMI). Vidhya is also an educator and 𝐔𝐗 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐲 at top-tier B-schools in India.

With over 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐬 of experience in the IT industry, she has served in various roles—from programmer to analyst, product manager, designer, and entrepreneur. In the last 12 years of her entrepreneurial journey, she has worked with 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐕𝐂 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐦𝐬 to enable their portfolio companies to go from startup to scaleup. She has solved 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 of Karnataka during COVID and 𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 1000 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 with design thinking skills.

Championing the idea that "𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫," in her leadership, Codewave became the 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐈𝐓 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚 in 2024 to win the global ZeroDX Award for its 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 of "Employee as Entrepreneur" and its ethos of 'Zero distance' between customers and employees.

Over the past decade, she has partnered with over 100 businesses globally across 10+ industries to craft digital experiences that are both engaging and delightful—while 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭.

She works with organizations at every stage—whether emerging startups, scaling enterprises, or seasoned market leaders—to navigate complexity, embrace diverse perspectives, and 𝐮𝐧𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤 10𝐱 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐭𝐡.

Vidhya Abhijith

Generali Switzerland

Senior Data Manager, Data Architecture & BI

Staff Times

Design, development and launch of a state of the art B2B cloud solution for Time & Attendance and Projects tracking.
Refining Product-Market fit. Features development & expansion.

Founder

elipsLife

Business Requirements Engineer, IT Delivery & Transformation

Zurich Insurance Company Ltd

• Establish a central planning and sense-check tool for commissions controlling
• Establish a Cost allocation query tool (CATT) for supporting IFRS 17 transparency requirements
• Generating business insights using data analytics, highlighting data anomalies, ensuring data quality, processing ad-hoc inquiries
• Supporting data marts for various finance steakholders
• Project member for work stream automation group and Integrated Finance Planning Taskforce

Senior Business System Analyst, Finance Switzerland

XL Insurance

Management Information and Operational Reporting: 
- Develop Global Business Performance Dashboards for senior mgmt
- Develop tools for Business Process optimization for select depts
- Rolling out of standard reporting tools and packs to businesses
- Ad-hoc reporting for senior mgmt

Project member, business lead and SME roles for:
- Requirements gathering for Implementation of an MIS-Layer (2001) and Insurance Data Warehouse expansion (2012-13)
- Requirements gathering for Business Intelligence data marts (COGNOS) for Property & Casualty businesses (2001-2010)
- Analysis & Design of operational reporting opportunities to India Operation Center India (2006-2008)
- Requirements analysis & development of a data quality monitoring tool & clean-up process (2006-2010)

Senior Business Analyst, XL Insurance Finance Operations

Project member, business lead and SME roles for:
- Insurance Underwriting system GENIUS integration project (1998-2000)
   - Assignment in London UK & Dallas US 
   - Core testing team (UAT scripts & release support)
   - Implementation study USA
- Training lead for roll-out of WI Global Insurance CRM system IMC in 10 countries (1996-1998)

Business Analyst, Winterthur International, Management Information Services

- Support Net underwriting statistics consolidation process (NUS)
- Project support for integration of market data with portfolio data (DnB)
- Support for IT development of Production Statistics
- Support ad-hoc data requests (SQL/DB2, D'base)

Junior Analyst, International Division, Management Services

My expertise is where the business meets IT to provide the business with solutions for better decision making, financial accountability and operational efficiency. I specialize in requirements engineering, analysis & design for major projects with experience in MI Business Intelligence & Data Warehouse implementations, roll-out of Insurance administration & CRM systems, operational transformation & offshoring as well as building ad-hoc data management, Reporting & MI tools. I enjoy working in a multi-cultural environment and I am committed to adding value.

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