Jaya Deshmukh

Director and CEO, MICA

Academic Area: Business Analysis and Consulting

A business leader in the field of Digital, Technology & Cloud, Ms. Jaya Deshmukh’s career spans the last 25 years holding leadership positions across the globe, in India, the Asia Pacific, the USA, and Europe. Prior to joining MICA, she served as Chief Strategy Officer and Chief of Staff to the CEO at Colt Technology Services, USA.

Her earlier positions include Head of Strategy – Google Cloud EMEA; Senior Director – Business Strategy, Enterprise Commercial, Microsoft; Senior Director – Digital Platforms, PwC Consulting Services, London, UK, and Director & Business Head – Cognizant Interactive, UK & Europe, London, UK among others.

She is one among the select business leaders with extensive experience in Strategy & Transformation, Business Operations, and Commercial and Solution Development across the full digital and data stack.

Ms. Deshmukh has served as a Jury member for the Webby’s since 2011, won a CLIO award for the work done with Childish Gambino, has numerous papers published in industry publications and holds a patent for “Fuzzy cohorts for provenance chain exploration”. Her authored chapter has been published in a prescribed textbook for MBA students, US Universities “Global and Digital Governance Handbook” published by Routledge. She is an active mentor for Women@Tech and has been selected as part of Capacity Media Power 100 2022.

She holds a Post-Graduate Diploma in Marketing Communications, from MICA, Ahmedabad, India – 1994-1996 batch and is a gold medallist in BA (Hons) in History & Economics