Our leadership

Renée La Londe founded itD in 2005 with the vision of forging a new paradigm in tech consulting. In 2019, itD added SaaS to its expertise by launching three first-in-class SaaS products, an accomplishment that led to her being named Tech Innovator of the Year by Golden Bridge Awards in 2020.

Renée’s groundbreaking contributions to the industry through itD have won her company more than twenty Stevie® Awards, two Forrester Groundswell Awards, five Lithy Awards, two Best in Biz Awards, the Cisco Diversity Award, and many other accolades.

Renée La Londe has devoted herself to helping women find their voice in the tech industry and closing the gender gap in STEM throughout her career. In recognition of her efforts in this area, she was named Most Inspiring Executive in STEM by Women in STEM.

She is the founder of GLAM (Girls Leadership Academy Meetup), a nonprofit initiative that teaches girls aged 8-12 business acumen, leadership, and computer coding skills, to address the root causes of the gender gap early in life.

Renée was named one of the Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Tech by the National Diversity Council, is the recipient of an Enterprising Women of the Year Award and the National Mentoring Awards STEM Mentoring Award, and was named to the prestigious CRN Women of the Channel List. She also won a Stevie® Award for Female Entrepreneur of the Year, and participated as an expert speaker at Global Telecom Women’s Network and Women4Tech during Mobile World Congress, among other industry conferences. She co-wrote the book, Social Knowledge: Organizational Currencies in the New Knowledge Economy.

Fred Walters leads itD’s digital transformation efforts. Prior to joining itD, Fred held a variety of senior management roles at Apple, Sun Microsystems, Cisco and Interwoven, where he led implementations of numerous customer-facing applications ranging from CRM and ERP to complex e-commerce systems.

After establishing a proven track record with well-known high-tech companies, Fred founded Before the Call, an integrated sales intelligence solution – an inaugural Salesforce.com AppExchange Partner.

Since joining itD in 2007, Fred leads strategic and transformational practices in social collaboration, big data and business intelligence, mobile apps, and cloud.

He is co-author of the book, Social Knowledge: Organizational Currencies in the New Knowledge Economy.

Caleb joined itD in 2000 as a technology consultant and in 2005, after successfully holding various business systems consultant roles at high tech giants Cisco and Network Appliance, he joined the itD corporate operations team.

His past experience as a hands on client consultant plus his success in various operational roles in itD, over the past 10 years, gives him the broad perspective required to partner with our clients and to provide a great environment for our employees. His team is responsible for the day to day operations and ensuring customer and employee satisfaction. Caleb completed advanced training for maintaining a high-performing minority business at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.

Raju is the Chief Executive Officer and leads the itD Hyderabad Development Center. He is responsible for building digital competencies, driving technology strategies, and delivering trusted secure solutions to its customers. He is an ambitious individual with a portfolio of passion for organizational development, team leadership, and management.

Raju achieved his Master’s degree in Software Engineering at Osmania University in 1998 and comes with an outstanding experience of over 23 years in technology and enterprise software. Raju held various positions at NetApp, he has formerly worked in various sectors ranging from enterprise solutions architecture, project management, software development, and customer self-service enablement. Raju believes that the best organizational culture and attention to detail are essential to creating marvels.

Leslie Ottavi is Chief Transformation Officer at itD. She connects your business vision to transformation execution by listening, learning, and adapting to infuse change agility into your organization’s DNA. She is passionate about delivering sustainable business outcomes, applying 20+ years of experience with global Fortune 500 clients in breaking down silos to accelerate and elevate transformational change.

Her thought leadership in enterprise change leadership has culminated in itD’s Change as a Service (CaaS) model and the ChaMa change management cloud solution, an AI-driven SaaS product, to empower clients to lead change smarter, together.

Valerie is an accomplished technology leader, delivering business development and innovation through technology planning, management and architecture consulting. After working at First Union National Bank, she pursued a consulting career that focused on business and technology requirements and architecture, as well as technology process, development, integration, deployment, planning and management for Fortune 500 companies. A few of these include BB&T, Duke Energy, Kimberly Clark, and Lowe’s.

In 2004, she founded her own business focused on assisting Fortune 500 companies with technology initiatives. She also implemented technology planning programs for a variety of localized businesses such as municipal non-profits, as well as executive recruitment, M&A, legal, medical, life sciences and technology start-ups.

Since joining itD in 2013, Valerie continues to provide technology and strategy direction for Fortune 100 organizations as the Enterprise Content and Collaboration Practice Leader. She demonstrates remarkable technology and business acumen, understands the value of process management, and has an ability to lead efforts in situations of ambiguity, shifts in technology, and organizational change.

Peter is a highly accomplished, dedicated technology leader with over 15 years of experience at start-up, mid-level, and complex Fortune 500 companies. His breadth of expertise spans business and technical strategy, program/portfolio management, agile product development, release management and business intelligence.

His accomplishments since joining itD in 2006 include impacting over US$3 billion in total purchase volume as the lead for PayPal’s C-Level initiative (Voice of the Customer), establishing a technical Project Management Office, successfully deploying Cisco’s largest business intelligence release, and launching itD’s first service-delivery transformation project, which spawned itD’s award-winning Enterprise Collaboration practice.

He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering with a minor in Business from Santa Clara University. He loves spending time with his family and spends his spare time involved in sports leagues as well as coaching kid’s football & basketball.

Cecilia Landeros leads Human Resources as well as ESG and DEI efforts throughout itD, with a strong focus on creating positive impacts in our communities. Prior to joining itD, Cecilia held a variety of management roles at Apple, Infraworks, and SystemOne Technologies. Cecilia is also the Director of Operations for Girls Leadership Academy Meetup (GLAM), one of itD’s two non-profit organizations.

GLAM is a global nonprofit organization that offers two-day in-person and online STEAM education and leadership development programs which are free to attendees through corporate sponsorships and donations. GLAM events provide girls aged 8-12 and young women mentors aged 13+ with empowerment, inspiration, and support to believe in themselves and reach for their goals in business, STEAM, and leadership. GLAM’s award-winning curriculum includes the tools and scaffolding to help them find their voice, build their business acumen, and gain skills they need to become future global leaders! By learning from high level female leaders, participating in lively Q&A sessions, and exploring their superpowers in hands-on STEAM activities, attendees and mentors engage with positive role models and experience what’s possible for them, regardless of their socioeconomic circumstances.

Vikas has 25+ years of experience in providing architectural, technical & functional leadership in development, configuration, delivery of CRM, integration, custom application, business intelligence & enterprise search, for global organizations like Netapp, HP, Finastra, Global Foundries and other hi-tech companies. He brings extensive experience in delivering solutions from conception to production using global teams.

As the VP of Product Engineering at itD, he is responsible for shaping and implementing the product vision, strategy and design. He is passionate about adopting technology to solve business problems. He holds a Bachelors of Engineering degree in Electronics from University of Mumbai, India.

Purpose-driven and collaborative, Kevin Yee brings over 16 years of experience as a technology consulting leader. He has passion for partnering with the world’s most influential organizations to solve their most pressing challenges. Kevin operates at the cross-section of strategy and execution with a demonstrated history of client satisfaction across numerous enterprise initiatives. Kevin and his team have been the recipients of multiple client awards for delivery excellence.

As VP of Business Operations, Kevin’s goal is to bring the best of itD to clients through developing client relationships, delivery management, and client and Ambassador satisfaction. He is responsible for aligning itD’s operational functions to set goals, design scalable processes and ensure business are on track.

Kevin joined itD in 2018 after 7 years at a global consulting firm. Some of his most recent accomplishments for a leading retailer include standing up the enterprise data platform to enable marketing segmentation and personalization initiatives, program management of ML models for customer insights, establishing agile practices across technical projects, and deploying point-of-sale upgrades to over 450 stores in North America.

Kevin holds an MBA from Chicago Booth and Engineering degrees from the University of California at Davis and the University of Southern California. He resides in the Bay Area and loves spending family time persuading his kids to try different cuisines and then perfecting new recipes at home.

Ramesh has over 15 years of IT experience. Prior to joining itD in 2015, Ramesh held a variety of senior technology roles at Digi International, Effone Technologies and Sharper Logics, Inc.

His outstanding technical knowledge in the software industry, combined with his managerial skills, enables him to build successful development teams that can deliver positive results. “Get it done” is his mantra at work, and he influences the team at Hyderabad Development Center with the same energy.

Ramesh has a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Andhra University.

Ryan leads a global team of data professionals who help clients unlock the value of their BI, Data & Analytics solutions. With over 20 years of experience in management consulting, he has an extensive track record for incubating and scaling new capabilities with clients across several industries; most notably, retail, high-tech, life sciences, biotech, financial services, insurance and higher education.

His specialties include defining data strategies, building high-performing teams, overseeing the delivery of business objectives, and providing thought leadership on emerging data and AI trends. Ryan is passionate about creating data-driven cultures, enabling data governance, driving business intelligence, adopting AI and machine learning, and exploring new generative AI, GPT, data mesh, and data fabric design patterns.

He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business from Illinois State University. He enjoys fly fishing, exploring other cultures, and spending time with his family.

Jess Erickson is the Director of Operations for the Office of the CEO. She is responsible for supporting Renée La Londe with overseeing itD’s overall operational functions. She serves as a strategic advisor, driving cross functional initiatives and ensuring alignment with executive priorities.

Jess was a former Senior Program Manager at Google with a background in supporting research and operations. Prior to joining Google, she helped build Meta AI’s first master’s-level curriculum in deep learning. While at Meta, she also supported and sponsored research collaborations, partnerships, and diversity-focused initiatives with universities across the United States and Europe.

Before joining big tech, Jess ran Geekettes, a European-based organization that unites, mentors, and promotes women in tech worldwide. She also served as Director of Marketing at 500 Global, the world’s most active investor and accelerator program. Jess holds an MSc in Media and Communications from the London School of Economics and an International Relations degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.