Wonder Woman in Business, Manisha Arora

Manisha Arora is director of a team that builds strategic alliances between technology partners and ServiceNow, reporting to the Chief Innovation Officer. She serves as alliance architect for the most strategic platform partners of ServiceNow - driving product planning, engineering, and go-to-market efforts. She is an industry speaker, platform evangelist, and trusted advisor to Fortune 500 executive partners and customers. Prior to ServiceNow, Manisha spent a decade at Microsoft in a career spanning Azure, Windows Server, and driving enterprise platform initiatives. In these roles, she built and led Technology Adoption Programs for customers to shape Microsoft product roadmaps, delivered showcases, and drove efforts to incubate and pilot new products. She also led global Service Management technical strategy and process definition at Microsoft in partnership with ServiceNow - resulting in lower costs, greater efficiency, and new business capabilities. Manisha served as President of the Board of Directors at IGNITE Worldwide – an award-winning global non-profit that creates STEM education opportunities for underserved communities, and she remains involved as a Board Advisor. She is a classically-trained violinist that had the opportunity to play in a Carnegie Hall orchestra concert at a young age. www.igniteworldwide.org