Hyderabad Software Enterprises Association gets its first woman president

Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Software Enterprises Association (HYSEA) elected its first women president at the 30th annual general body meeting.

Manisha Saboo, the centre head of Infosys, Hyderabad SEZ, will be the new president of HYSEA for the term 2022-24. She takes over from the outgoing president Bharani K. Aroll, CEO of Infopeers.

Manisha represents Infosys in HYSEA. As HYSEA CSR forum lead, she steered HYSEA COVID relief activities. She has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry and as the centre head of Infosys HYD-SEZ, she ensured stellar contribution of Infosys in Telangana by building a symbiotic relationship with academia, government, and the IT industry.

As a woman leader, Manisha is committed to helping other women build careers – be it inspiring young girl students to pursue career, enabling young women returning to work, or guiding mid-level women managers with their career aspirations, read a statement by HYSEA. The Telangana government has honoured her with the "Women Achiever Award" for leadership in the corporate world.

As president of HYSEA, her vision is to further strengthen HYSEA's value proposition as a primary association of the IT industry in Telangana through building an ecosystem where member organisations flourish by fostering collaboration, nurturing innovation, synergetic interactions with start-ups, product companies, GDC and IT services organisation, fortifying partnership with government, joining hands to promote IT industry growth in Telangana, and changing Hyderabad IT landscape by bringing more inclusivity and develop more women for leadership.

Along with Manisha, the other office bearers include Firstsource president and COO Prashanth Nandella as HYSEA vice-president, Auropro Soft Systems president Ramakrishna Lingireddy as general secretary, and TalentSprint MD and CEO Dr. Santanu Paul as treasurer.