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.
Board Of Directors
Bob Eng
Chairperson of the Board
Listener, Teacher, Financial Advisor
Ravi Mohan
Vice Chair of the Board
Partner & COO at Nyca Partners
Edward Watson
Board of Director
Partner at New Bridge Consulting Group
Sharon Stecker
Board of Director
Senior Vice President at Brown and Caldwell
Michael Paulus
Board of Director
Managing Director, Finance Industry Executive
Giles Nugent
Board of Director
Retired, Past EVP at PIMCO and Managing Director at Bank of America
Theresa A. Lyons
Board of Director
Managing Partner at Lyons & Associates
Deborah Bierbaum
Board of Director
AVP Tax, External Tax Policy at AT&T
Lynne Sawyer
Board of Director
Managing Director, Morgan Stanley Wealth Management
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)
Janice Warne
Advisory Council Member
Investor and Advisor
Nicholas V. Chen
Advisory Council Member
Partner at Pamir Law Group
Nilufer Shaikh
Advisory Council Member Legal Advisor
Partner at Pepper Hamilton LLP
Program Management Team
Khalid Anwar
CFO
CFO Level & FP&A Transformation Executive
Mathangi Srinivas
Social Media Lead & Community Outreach
Co-Founder at WINGS for Growth
Nitin Mahabal
Techonology Lead
Senior Technical Consultant, IT Project manager
Yuanyuan Zhou
IT Program Management Lead
NYU MS Student
Anya Berdan
Content Advisor
External Relations Manager
Shon Green
Recruiting Lead
Director, Clinical Translation at Altius Institute for Biomedical Sciences
Ivonne Mejiab
Mentoring Program Lead
IT Project Management, Sonoma State University
Patty Jessie
Program Management Lead
Proj Mngr, Business Measures, Prudential Financial
Johanna Nurjahan
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