Head of Global Brand Experience, Nium

Ayesha Mathews Wadhwa is a Brand and Creative leader with experience taking growth-mode companies to $100M+ in funding, milestone valuations, successful IPOs, and $B+ acquisitions.

She was raised in Bangalore, India, and educated in the cultural nexus of New York, Paris, and San Francisco.

A graduate of Parsons School of Design, Ayesha has accelerated and scaled impactful brand systems while driving creative innovation at Carbon Black(acquired by VMware), Talkdesk, and SambaNova AI. She's led end-to-end creative projects with brands such as Apple (while @Duarte), Facebook for Business, Databricks, Sephora, Amazon Lab 126, and The Smithsonian with her creative agency PIXINK, which was acquired in 2015.

Ayesha loves orchestrating people, ideas, products, and experiences that feel transformative, have an innate beauty, and strengthen our sense of community and positive impact.

Zaina Orbai is a C-level high-growth People Executive with 20+ years of experience who specializes in scaling late-stage startups to publicly traded companies, leading business transformation, and driving operational effectiveness. Most recently, she has been advising CEOs, founders, executives, boards, investors, and people leadership teams in rapidly changing organizations. She helps leaders create value and drive positive impact for their companies, communities and teams.

With an undergraduate degree in business from UC Berkeley, Sanjog commenced her professional career at Ernst & Young as an audit consultant. Three years later she ventured into the technology industry, first joining Ariba as a Product Manager and then as an International Marketing Manager at Ebay. In 2006 she decided to take the leap into her family business, Sukhi’s Gourmet Indian Foods.

Sanjog Singh has spent the last 17 years in marketing at Sukhi’s Gourmet Indian Foods and seen the company through its transformation from a family-run business to a nationally recognized consumer packaged goods (CPG) company.

Beyond her professional engagements. Sanjog is a mom of two teenage boys. Sanjog finds joy in spending time outdoors, hiking or kayaking with her mini-dachshund, Simba.

Raghni Naidu is the first female Indian immigrant to have founded and owned a wine brand in the United States. Raghni successfully launched Naidu Wines amidst the pandemic in 2020 and in this short span her wines have won acclaim (Double Gold, Golds & Silver) at prestigious competitions such as the SF Chronicle Wine Competition (largest competition of American wines worldwide) and the Sonoma County Harvest fair (largest regional wine competition countrywide). Her label is on the wine list at Michelin-starred restaurant Single Thread Farms, voted top 50 restaurants in the world, 2021. 2022 & 2023. She was listed as the 22 people to watch in 2022 in Sonoma County. She received her Bachelor of Business in Marketing from RMIT, in Melbourne, Australia, and has a passion for producing exceptional wine and curating memorable wine country experiences for others.