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Lalitha Stables

Sri Lankan born, Lalitha, has 24+ years of experience in the Tech Industry focused on helping customers and partners drive data-driven digital transformation with the power of the cloud. Currently, she is currently Senior Vice President, EMEA Strategic Accounts at Salesforce and based out of London, United Kingdom.

Lalitha is passionate about building diverse and inclusive high impact teams and devotes her free time to Diversity and Inclusion initiatives in the workplace and with external organisations to advance representation in senior tech leadership positions. People are at the heart of what drives her and building trusted relationships with partners, customers and staff underpins everything she does.

Outside of Tech, Lalitha has a keen interest in philanthropic and entrepreneurial activities. In 2002, she established a business advisory practice, consulting to recruitment agencies and their senior candidates, specialising in presentation skills. In 2005, following her success on the steering committee for the Inaugural Women’s Build Habitat for Humanity Project in Sydney, Lalitha co-founded a non-profit organisation in 2006 Oasis Africa Australia, a school in Kibera Slum, East Africa, which has educated over 8000 children to date.

She has served as a Non-Executive Director on non-profit boards since 2010 and currently on the board of The Mentoring Lab which seeks to improve the social mobility of young people from underrepresented communities.

Lalitha has worked as a professional session singer for 15 years with a strong theatre background in singing and acting and performed on a professional basis within Australia and internationally. She joined the cast of 'Buddy Holly' during their 2001 Australian tour and had the time of her life performing in a singing/acting role for 6 months.

Improving people’s outcomes and building trusted relationships is at the heart of Lalitha's purpose. Leveraging technology to further the public sector's impact is her passion.

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