BURLINGTON, MA— Sheetal Acharya, whose inspiring personal journey, leadership, and corporate world success, swinged judges to choose her as the 2022 Woman of the Year, will join Dr. Manju Sheth, MD and Mandy Pant this year to present the 21st Annual Woman of the Year Awards gala on Friday at Burlington Marriott Hotel in Burlington, MA.
Ms. Acharya, a cancer survivor, is Director of Operations and a change leader at National Grid. She currently leads the organizational enablement team for the $3.8 billion divestiture of the Rhode Island business. She coaches leaders at all levels on how to articulate the changes with empathy. In addition, Ms. Acharya has been an active community leader and supports many causes focused on women and children.
“We are thrilled that Mandy Pant will join us again along with Sheetal Acharya, our 2022 Woman of the Year Award winner,” said Dr. Sheth. “It has been an enormous privilege for me to direct and host Woman of the Year Gala since 2012 after receiving this prestigious award in 2011. I am deeply impressed by the outstanding women that get honored every year. Their success, passions, and commitment to community service is very inspirational for all. We have an exciting program planned for the Gala on April 26. Looking forward to welcoming everyone with our fantastic master of ceremonies.”
Dr. Manju Sheth, MD
Dr. Sheth is a Board-Certified Internist with keen interest in women’s health. She works at Harvard Vanguard/ Atrius Health. She was voted in the 150 ‘Women of Influence’ by YW of Boston in 2016. Dr. Sheth served as president of Indian Medical Association of New England in 2013. She has been a big advocate for empowerment of women and has been voted Woman of the year in 2011.
She has served on the Board of ATASK and as as Chairperson of Advisory Board of Saheli. Dr Sheth also serves on the DEI steering committee at Atrius Health. Dr. Sheth is the creator and host of the popular “Chai with Manju” celebrity interview series.
In addition, Dr. Sheth is president of INE Multimedia, Women Who Win, and creator of Chai with Manju, New England Choice Awards and director of Woman of the Year. Dr Sheth is also the President of Women Who Win ,global media platform to empower women. Dr Sheth has received numerous awards for her work and was first Indian woman to be recently honored by Commonwealth of Massachusetts & AAPIC/ Asian American and Pacific Islanders Commission with Leadership in Diversity and Inclusion Award.
Mandy Pant
Ms. Pant is a Lead Technologist in the Design Engineering Group at Intel. Prior to this, she was the Director of Intel’s Corporate Research Council, a body that works with leading academic researchers worldwide and senior technical leaders at Intel to seed and drive research efforts in areas of strategic importance to Intel in particular and the computing industry in general. Before this, as Intel’s lead technologist in the area of power delivery and power management, she investigated and drove several issues in the power space, particularly on-chip power delivery issues, power management and power reduction on the Intel next generation high volume server microprocessors. She has led Intel’s die power delivery company wide synergy efforts and recently driven Intel’s power delivery Roadmap program. Further, she has also been a key player in driving and deploying Intel’s internal innovation programs.
She has published 20+ technical papers in prestigious VLSI conferences and journals, has 3 issued patents and 5 pending patents.
Ms. Pant received her Bachelors (B.Tech) in Computer Science and Engineering from I.I.T Kharagpur, India, a Masters (MS) in Electrical Engineering and a Doctorate (PhD) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA. She joined Intel in 2001 as part of the Alpha team acquisition from Compaq Computer Corporation where she worked since graduating in 2000. She is a proud Mom to two daughters who grew up too quickly and are now both working towards picking up undergraduate degrees in college. Mandy additionally enjoys hitting the gym regularly, dancing, reading, doing yoga and spending quality time with her husband.
Sheetal Acharya
Sheetal Acharya is an expert in developing successful, comprehensive, and integrated business transformation strategies. Reporting to National Grid’s Chief Transformation Officer, she currently leads the organizational enablement team for the $3.8 billion divestiture of the Rhode Island Business.
She partners with senior executives to bring their strategic vision to life and develops strategies to empower and build confidence in employees to adopt new ways of working. Ms. Acharya coaches leaders at all levels on how to articulate the changes with empathy. Prior to National Grid, Ms. Acharya worked in management consulting for 15 years and led the organizational enablement practice at Publicis Sapient.
Ms. Acharya has always been an active community leader and supports many causes focused on women and children. She served as the first National President of The Network of Indian Professionals of North America. She was on the leadership committee for the Boston Women’s March for America. She completed a three-year term as President of her children’s elementary school Parent Teacher Organization and continues to serve in an advisory capacity.
Ms. Acharya received her MBA from Babson College and her Bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
