Chief Technology & Strategy Officer, Waygate Technologies, a Baker Hughes Business
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Influential Thought Leader
Arungalai Anbarasu is the Chief Technology & Strategy Officer at Waygate Technologies – a Baker Hughes company driving strategy & innovation for the company. She is an authentic, resilient, collaborative, and disruptive global business leader. She constantly challenges the technology & business boundaries to drive a profitability and growth. Aru and her team currently are also focused on the digital transformation of Waygate Technologies and spearheads evolution into a Digital Inspection Solutions provider, taking customers from inspections to insights and from insights to innovations.
Prior to her current role, Aru was the General Manager for Industrial X-ray & CT solutions business at Waygate Technologies and transformed the business to gain market leadership which has won Frost & Sullivan Award for Market Leadership in Computed Tomography. She spent over a decade in GE in multiple impactful roles in business divisions such as Global Research Centre, Oil & Gas, Power Conversion, Healthcare and Renewables. She is passionate about encouraging Women in STEM fields and continues to pursue avenues to support this topic.
She has been a panellist for NDT Inspection at Vaibhav Summit in 2020. She is a member of Forbes Technology Council and an influential thought leader.
She was recognized as Top 100 Women in Technology by Technology Magazine, 50 Most Powerful Women in Technology by National Diversity Council and International Achievers’ Award, 2021 by Indian Achievers Award. She lives in Hannover, Germany with her husband Divyang Desai and daughter Ada.