Together We Build And Rise...
Unifying a distinguished talent base whose unparalleled industry and leadership experiences can be harnessed for collaboration for the greater good is possible only in a socially driven organization, fueled by its purposeful mission. It is no surprise that many stalwarts from various industries came forward to devote their time, treasure and talent to help WINGS realize its mission.
WINGS for Growth’s social impact is overseen by a Board of Directors, Advisory Council Members, Leadership team and volunteers who deeply believe in the cause of empowering more women in leadership.

VARSHA WAISHAMPAYAN
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Varsha is dedicated to creating pathways to promote women leaders. She is a gifted cultivator of talent who believes high potential women will thrive with the right guidance and a structured results-oriented mentoring program
Varsha has almost three decades of management experience on Wall Street and top management consulting firms like PwC. In addition to her long career on Wall Street, Varsha is passionate about creating and promoting women leaders.
She has worked and led nonprofits that focus on girls’ education. She is a teacher at heart and has seen her father changing people’s life from good to great by being a teacher all his life. Before stepping into financial services, Varsha was a professor of Chemistry in her previous life. During her career in financial services, she was constantly drawn to mentoring women around her and she noticed that she could make a difference with her approach to mentoring.
This led to a discovery and then new beginning of her purposeful journey. Varsha left her long successful career in corporate America and founded WINGS for Growth to pursue her father’s vision in a purposeful journey.
Music is Varsha’s muse. She is rejuvenated by music and equally loves being energized by a day at the spa. Nature in its selfless giving inspires her every day. She is ever grateful to have a wonderful family and thankful that she followed her father’s best advice “There is never a bad time to do good, it is a matter of priorities”. She lives in Bridgewater, NJ with her husband and enjoys the natural bounty of her
surroundings.
WINGS Ambassador

Kevin Cummings
WINGS Ambassador
President and CEO at Investors Bank
Board Of Directors

Lynne Sawyer
Co-chair of the Board
Managing Director, Chief Operating Officer Wealth Management at BNY Mellon

Ravi Mohan
Co-chair of the Board
Partner & COO at Nyca Partners

Sharon Stecker
Board of Director
Senior Vice President at Brown and Caldwell

Roopa Bhandarkar
Board of Director
Partner at EY

Dr. Poornima Prasad
Board of Director
Global Chief People Officer - Accion Labs

Nisha Paliwal
Board of Director
Managing Vice President - Enterprise Data and Machine Learning at Capital One

David Levi
Board of Director
Senior Vice President, Corporate Controller and Principal Accounting Officer at Vonage

Carol Lynch
Board of Director
Chief Business Officer at Sandoz
Advisory Council

Christine Larsen
Advisory Council Member
Independent Director, CIBC

Michele Siekerka
Advisory Council Member
President and CEO at New Jersey Business & Industry Association (NJBIA)

Nikki Sumpter
Advisory Council Member
Chief Human Resources Officer, Atlantic Health

Drew Vaden
Advisory Council Member
Retired, Past CTO, PIMCO

The Honorable Mary Jo Jacobi
Co-chair of the Board
International affairs and reputation, brand & crisis strategist
Management Team

Khalid Anwar
Executive Director of Finance
CFO Level & FP&A Transformation Executive

Sangram Birje
Executive Director of Digital and Insight
IT Leader | Data and Insights | Technology Transformation

Rick Lutz
Executive Director of Sales and Marketing
Senior Vice President of Business Development

Nitin Mahabal
Executive Director of Information and Technology
Senior Technical Consultant, IT Project manager

Patty Jessie
Executive Director of Program Management
Proj Mngr, Business Measures, Prudential Financial

Yuanyuan Zhou
Director of Information and Technology
Software Developer