Uma Thana Balasingam is Vice President of Channels & Sales, Asia Pacific & Japan (APJ) for Riverbed. She is responsible for defining the region’s go-to-market strategies including channel, service providers and alliances. As a key member of the leadership team, she plays an active role in shaping the company’s growth strategy in the region. She was recognized in May 2018 in CRN’s The Most Powerful Women of the Channel list.
Uma has 17+ years’ experience in business and strategic channels development in the APJ region. Prior to joining Riverbed, she served approximately 8 years at EMC in various senior leadership roles that included new product sales, alliances, acquisitions, channels sales, strategy & planning. She previously held roles in management at Brocade and field sales at IBM, starting her career as a systems engineer.
Uma is the co-founder of Lean In Singapore and the founder of Lean In Women in Technology Asia & Women In Technology Singapore which has >700 members today. LeanIn.Org was founded by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg to empower women to achieve their ambitions. Lean In Singapore, founded in 2016, is a community of over 2000 women & men that comes together to be inspired, empowered and educated with a focus on driving gender diversity in the workplace.
Uma has a Bachelor of Computer Science and Management Information Systems from University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur.