Nithya Ramanathan

Our Team

Nithya Ramanathan
CEO & Co-Founder
Martin Lukac
CTO & Co-Founder
Erik Fogg
COO
Anita Sircar
Head of Operations, India
Chris Mills
Head of Product
Anne Nyachomba
Head of Customer
Cindy Ntambwe-Kalala
Cindy Ntambwe-Kalala
Director of Strategic Partnerships & Engagement
Elizabeth Nave
HR Business Partner
Kevin Arts
Vice President, Operations & Finance
Noelle Sernett
Operations & Finance Analyst
Hannah Mills
Senior Program Manager, Vaccines
Diana Harper
Senior Evaluation and Learning Specialist
Nelima Otipa
Senior Program Manager, Impact
Tom Mehoke
Senior Data and Informatics Specialist
Mohammed Pangani
Senior Product Manager
Edward Gakuru
International Sales Manager
Hosea Kintu
Project and Data Manager, Tanzania
Mariam Johari
Project Manager for Vaccine Systems Transport, Tanzania
Amos Momanyi
Medical Equipment Project Manager, Kenya
Patience Mfune
Project Manager, Malawi
Adam Saavedra
Product Designer
Jill Moraa
Product Manager
Lucas Howell
Engineering Manager
Terence Honles
Principal Software Engineer
Subhasis Mukherjee
Logistics Manager, India
Terry Chern
Senior Software Engineer, Backend
Erick Mgonda
Technical Project Manager, Tanzania
Eric Wright
Data Analyst, Clean Cooking and Medical Equipment Programs
Brian Moenga
Software Engineer - Front End
Mike Gichia
Software Engineer
Dharmendra Pratap Singh
Manufacturing and Development Manager
Nagham Sabah
Accountant
Aayush Khanna
Software Developer
Chris Combs
Backend Software Engineer
Ednah Kiome
Product Insights & Program Manager
Tisaye Kalua
Impact Consultant
Audrey Lukela
Impact Consultant
Geofrey Gundah
Impact Consultant
Shaji Malik
Impact Consultant
Shannon Carr
Communication & Engagement Manager
Erin Sedita
Development Associate
Colin Groark
Software Engineer - Front End
Sushanta Pradhan
Customer Success Engineer
Nassem Mohammad
Customer Support Manager - Hardware
Anurag Mishra
Logistics Coordinator
Anant Kumar
Associate Warehouse Coordinator

Board Of Directors

Advisory Board

Radhika Malpani
Senior Director, Engineering, Google
Cecilia Weckstrom
Senior Global Director, Diversity, Inclusion and People Innovation at LEGO Group
Jim Fruchterman
Founder and CEO, Tech Matters
Wendy Prosser
Senior Technical Officer, Immunization Center, John Snow, Inc. (JSI)
Ryan Vinyard
Hardware Startup Consultant
Lakshmi Karan
Co-Founder, Future Frontiers Institute
Doug Smith
Associate, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Ben Fliegel
Associate, Reed Smith
Frank Nagle
Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School
David Watson
Chief Architect, Embark Trucks
John Dawson
Deborah Estrin
Associate Dean and Professor, Cornell Tech
Vinitha Watson
Founder, Zoo Labs
Moz Siddiqui
Director of Partnerships, WHO Foundation

Nithya Ramanathan

CEO & Co-Founder

 

 

Nithya Ramanathan is the CEO and Co-Founder of Nexleaf Analytics, a non-profit technology company that partners with countries to make sure they have the data they need to improve the health of people. Nexleaf’s unique approach brings together sensor design, data analysis, software engineering, and field engagement to identify and address big problems. Nexleaf technology currently protects the vaccine supply for 1 in 10 babies born each year. Nithya and her team have achieved this outsized impact by working shoulder-to-shoulder with Ministries of Health — rather than attempting to bypass governments — to scale cutting-edge technologies refined through close collaboration with personnel at every level of the health system, from top-tier government officials to last-mile health care workers.

A computer scientist specializing in sensor technologies and data analytics, Nithya is a tech-for-good pioneer and a leading thinker on global vaccine distribution. Nithya’s career started in Silicon Valley,  and continued as Research Faculty in sensor technologies at UCLA. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley. Her work has been published in multiple peer-reviewed journals. Nithya is a TED Fellow, PopTech Social Innovation Fellow, Switzer Environmental Fellow, and a Rainer Arnhold Fellow. She is the winner of the 2017 Hedy Lamarr Award for Female Tech Pioneer, was named a Gavi Got Life! Champion in 2018 alongside world leaders, and received the Tällberg Foundation/Eliasson Global Leadership Award in 2020.