Meet CELP Cohort 5 Mentors
CELP Executive Mentors Cohort 5
As Chief Operating Officer (COO), Alan Reyes sets the operational strategy and leads the delivery of high-impact programs and services to troops and their families. He proudly serves alongside hundreds of staff members and tens of thousands of USO volunteers to strengthen America’s service members and their families every day and around the world through the USO’s global network of centers and programs.
With active and reserve service totaling over 32 years, Alan retired from the U.S. Navy Reserve as a Rear Admiral in 2022. During his Navy career, deployed multiple times to the Middle East in command of logistics and customs missions, to Haiti in support of disaster relief operations, and across the Pacific aboard a fast attack submarine. As a flag officer, he served as the commander of the Navy’s expeditionary logistics forces, as the reserve director of logistics for the U.S. Pacific Fleet, and as the deputy commander of Naval Supply Systems Command.
Alan graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1990 and from the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business in 2000. He completed the Harvard Business School executive education program for strategic non-profit management in 2012.
Beverly Janson Ho is a Managing Director in the Deloitte Audit & Assurance practice with over 18 years of experience leading audits of global financial institutions, as well as large domestic and multinational companies in the financial services industry, investment management and not-for profit, companies. She also has extensive experience with SEC filings, first year audits, and emerging markets. She also brings a global perspective as well as connecting global specialists to solving cross border accounting/tax/operational client issues and providing value added insights.
She completed a secondment with the Deloitte UK IFRS Global Office and IFRS Center of Excellence in London. In that role, her responsibilities included dealing with complex technical audit and accounting consultations/queries from audit and other teams, monitoring the Executive regulatory and standard-setting activities, and writing technical communications and thought leadership pieces on the latest accounting issues and developments.
She currently co-leads Deloitte’s Greater Washington (GW) Board Ready Program and serves as an Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) Champion. She also serves as the GW Audit DEI Leader and McLean Inclusion Council Champion and is passionate about championing creating the culture and the systems that help empower everyone to thrive as their exceptional selves and reach their full potential.
Beverly has a Masters of Science in Accountancy from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and a Bachelor of Commerce with First class Honors from the University of New South Wales. She is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and is a licensed CPA in Illinois, DC, and Virginia. Prior to joining Deloitte’s Greater Washington audit practice, Beverly served as the Business and Law faculty advisor and lecturer for the Fiji Campus of Central Queensland University.
She enjoys travelling and experiencing new cultures and the culinary arts and being a fun Auntie and a fur Auntie.
Bhavini is currently VP, Chief Marketing and Revenue Operations Officer at CoreLogic, which acquired Roostify, a fintech, B2B SaaS company, where she helped lead the organization through a period of rapid growth, maturing business operations and setting them up for future success.
Prior to joining Roostify, Bhavini held senior roles across business operations, sales, marketing, and strategy across a number of Fortune 500 companies such as: Freddie Mac, T. Rowe Price, Bank of America, Vanguard, Northwestern Mutual, and Merrill Lynch.
Bhavini has an MBA in management and marketing from Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor of Science in finance and international business from the University of South Carolina.
Candice Ling is the Vice President of the $2.2B Federal Civilian Business, a Strategic Missions & Technology Team. She drives the strategy and execution of sales and delivery teams as they support and transform 14 Cabinet level agencies of the US Government and Tribal Nations. Prior to joining as Federal Civilian Lead, she was the Chief Operating Officer (COO), in Microsoft US Regulated Industries (USRI). In that capacity, she led the strategic operations team supporting a $16B business. Before USRI, Candice was part of Microsoft’s worldwide team, where she led their government industry business in Asia.
Passionate about creating a positive societal impact, Candice played a key role in enabling $2.1B in revenue, Asia Public Sector field organizations to differentiate Microsoft through transformative mission-led interactions with government stakeholders.
Before joining Microsoft, Candice was a Senior Vice President at CGI Federal, serving as business unit manager for a portfolio of US Government civilian agency accounts. She had full P&L responsibility for strategically growing and positioning CGI with Federal regulatory agencies. In addition to driving customer engagement, Candice led the implementation of transformative strategies and agile solutions in the areas of digital enablement, user centric design, data analytics & visualization, cloud migration & IT modernization. Prior to serving the US Federal market, Candice led key accounts in the American Management Systems’ (acquired by CGI) Financial Services portfolio, commuting between NY/NJ and VA.
Candice holds a Bachelor degree in Computer Information Technology from Western Michigan University, and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree in Information Management from the University of Texas at Austin. Candice resides in Leesburg, VA with her husband Scott, their son Josh, Grandpa Jim (with sidekick Midnight, the cat) and their 1-year-old too-much-energy Sheepadoodle, Oreo
Dave Kwon is a Vice President within CGI Federal’s Civilian Business Unit. He has more than 20 years of business and technology consulting experience leading his clients through digital transformation, large scale implementations and ongoing sustainment activities.
For the past year, Dave has been overseeing all delivery across CGI’s Treasury and PBGC programs. Prior to that, he focused on supporting VA through its enterprise financial and acquisitions management business transformation program. Dave is also actively engaged with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) initiatives and serves as CGI Federal’s executive sponsor for the Asian American Pacific Islander Member Resource Group.
Dave has a Master of Science from Northwestern University. In addition, he holds a PMP as well as a Prosci Change Management certification.
Harish Luthra is the chief executive officer of SAP National Security Services (SAP NS2®). He is responsible for the SAP Intelligent Enterprise Cloud, SAP Industry Cloud, and the SAP Business Technology Platform (including Digital Supply Chain) for public sector and regulated industries. The markets SAP NS2 Cloud serves include United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
Harish joined SAP in August 1997 as a consultant and started the Federal Professional Services practice for SAP in 1999. He became the national vice president leading the SAP Public Services Consulting business in 2008, responsible for Professional Services sales and delivery to the Federal government (U.S. DoD and Civilian Departments/Agencies), state and local governments, aerospace and defense corporations, and higher education institutions. Harish has experience in client engagement, program management, and project implementations. As a senior consulting leader with SAP, he was responsible for leading successful program oversight, staff development in North America, and business development.
In previous roles, Harish was the liaison with SAP solution management and SAP development to ensure the success of client engagements. As the Public Services leader, he served as the executive sponsor for successful implementations at IRS IFS, USPS Human Capital Enterprise, U.S. Army Medical Material Agency SAP (TWELS), City of Portland, Commonwealth of Kentucky, and City of San Diego implementations, among others.
Harish holds an MBA from University of Maryland, College Park.
Jeannette L. Chu is Vice President for National Security Policy at the National Foreign Trade Council, the leading business association dedicated to advancing the interests of U.S. companies in international commerce.
In this role, she leads efforts to advance the interests of U.S. business in safeguarding U.S. national security and promoting global security through export controls, sanctions regimes and policy initiatives.
A recognized subject matter expert and thought leader on export controls and trade sanctions, Jeannette joins NFTC from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), where she served as a Senior Managing Director advising U.S. and multinational companies and co-leading the national security regulatory compliance practice. She will continue to hold a concurrent role as a non-resident senior associate with the Trustee Chair for Chinese Business and Economics at the Center for Strategic and International Affairs (CSIS).
She previously served as a Senior Policy Advisor at the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), U.S. Department of Commerce where she worked on export control reform, export licensing and foreign policy matters. She also served at the American Embassy in Beijing and the U.S. Consulate General Guangzhou in several capacities including as the Senior Export Control Attaché for nearly six years, conducting end-use visits to more than 250 locations across China and negotiating a landmark export control cooperation agreement with the Chinese Ministry of Commerce. She was the first Officer-In-Charge of the Immigration & Naturalization Service (INS) in China.
Jeannette received her B.A. in Political Science from American University in Washington, D.C. and is a 2020 graduate of Women in Technology’s Leadership Foundry program on preparing women for corporate board service. She serves on the Executive Board of Ascend Greater Washington and volunteers as a mentor for Ascend’s Corporate Executive Leadership Program, the Women’s Foreign Policy Group and Women in Technology.
Jessica Blazer is a Partner in KPMG’s Federal Audit Practice in Washington, DC. She has more than 21 years of experience serving clients in this industry as well as commercial clients. She is also involved with KPMG’s Federal Advisory practice.
Jessica is actively involved in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives, serving on the board of directors of the Greater Washington Ascend Chapter and on the national board for KPMG’s Asian Pacific Islander BRG. Ms. Blazer received her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Richmond. She is a CPA in Virginia and the District of Columbia and is a member of the AICPA. She lives in Arlington, VA with her husband and two children.
Mahwish is a Managing Director for Accenture’s Financial Services Technology practice. She has over 16 years of experience with leading large and complex transformation programs for Accenture's commercial and federal clients.
Her goal is to help clients achieve business value through emerging technology including Cloud, intelligent automation, and Agile. In addition, Mahwish leads the Inclusion & Diversity strategy for Accenture Technology South, impacting approximately 5,000 employees.
Mahwish has been recognized as a Washington DC Women in Technology Leadership award recipient. Mahwish has a bachelors from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Masters from University of Virginia. Outside of work, Mahwish is involved in STEM for Her, Mozaic (that supports refugee enablement), and Muslim Women in Technology.
She lives in the Washington DC area with her husband, two very active children, and a pet gecko.
Rakesh Bhatia is a retired partner in PwC and led the Global Business Services practice in the US. He had 35+ years of progressive leadership experience in sales, delivery, and operations for consulting and outsourcing with P&L responsibilities and working with global clients in Healthcare, Energy, Telecom, Media, and Technology industries. He was focused on the Fit-for-Growth platform and helping C-Suite clients in driving Operational and Financial Transformation, Strategy, Change management, Global Business Services, Organization Redesign and Automation benefits.
Rakesh served as the Transformation Office Leader to drive Transformation to the "The New Equation" Strategy across PwC Consulting Solutions Organization.
Rakesh has a deep experience of not only advising clients in leveraging their investments in the global delivery and shared services operations, but he has also operated delivery centers and CoEs in multiple countries to have a practical hands on knowledge of the opportunities and constraints while managing such operations.
As a PwC US partner and Service Delivery Network (SDN) leader, Rakesh had overall accountability for building scale, managing operations in multiple countries, driving adoption, resources, delivery, automation and quality control in the Acceleration Centers worldwide.
Currently, he also serves as a Global Relationship Partner for a large software industry client.
Before joining PwC, as a partner in KPMG, Rakesh was also the global relationship partner for Fortune 50 Telecom client and as Senior Vice President, led the global delivery for BearingPoint (formerly KPMG Consulting).
Rakesh also has an extensive experience in sales and marketing. He led business development organization in the US and South America for one of the largest System Integrator.
Rakesh has served on multiple boards including the Board Chair, PwC Acceleration Centers in India & China, Executive Board member of PwC Charitable Foundation (Humanitarian/Disaster Response Leader), President of Pratham DC Board, and Advisory Board Member of Ascend DC Chapter.
Rakesh has a degree in Electrical Engineering and an MBA from University of Delhi. He has been an invited speaker in many industries and universities forums for Telecom, Broadband convergence, outsourcing trends,speaker program management and global consulting landscape. Rakesh was one of the keynote speakers for the Ascend Annual convention, 2013 – “Innovative Leadership in the Borderless World.”
Rakesh lives in Great Falls, VA with his wife and two adult children.
Saad Hasan is a Managing Director with Accenture Federal Services (AFS), which serves clients across all sectors of the US federal government - defense, intelligence, public safety, health, and civilian. Since joining Accenture in 2000, he has held a variety of technology, innovation, and business transformation leadership roles, currently driving growth through technology and innovation across Accenture's Federal business.
Saad is a versatile senior executive with over 20 years of cross industry experience delivering large complex transformational IT programs, technology and innovation strategy for Fortune 100 scale client and technology services enablement. Saad specializes in emerging technology adoption and implementation, technology growth and large-scale innovation with purpose (Large scale ERP transformation, Digital transformation, Deployment of Digital technologies to improve outcomes in human centered services)
Saad is a member of Accenture’s CTO council, the Executive sponsor of the Accenture DC Asian Pacific American Employee Resource Group and a supporter across multiple Diversity, Equitable, and Inclusion initiatives. Saad is also a member of National Experienced Workforce Solutions board, The Nations #1 Nonprofit Experienced Worker Provider. NEW Solutions is proud to connect professionals, age 55+, with part-time and full-time opportunities throughout the country by providing skilled and experienced workers engaged in work to protect the environment, conserve natural resources, sustain public lands, and preserve cultural resources for this and future generations.
Susan Go is Senior Director of Solution Engineering at Salesforce, the #1 customer relationship management (CRM) platform. With over 20 years of experience in enterprise software sales she helps government agencies innovate faster and transform mission delivery to better meet the demands of constituents with user-centered technology. Under her leadership, her organization has grown 6x in revenue and scale embracing innovation to provide value-based solutions to government agencies during a time of rapid change. She has spearheaded organizational pipe generation initiatives that have resulted in more than $150m in impacted revenue.
Susan believes in a diverse and inclusive workforce and community. She models inclusive leadership which puts people at the center and builds a foundation of trust to create psychological safety and a coaching culture which drives high performance for the individual and the team. She is Founder and President of Salesforce’s Asian American employee resource group for the DC Metro area, leading member of Greater DC AAPI ERG Leaders’ Network, founder of Salesforce's Equality Council for the DMV and member of Salesforce's Citizen Philanthropy Council.
She serves on the Board of Touching Heart, on the Leadership Council for DC for Upwardly Global and is a Bestselling author.
Urvi Bham Urvi Bham is the CEO and Founder of Vikara Risk and Compliance Solutions, a boutique advisory firm focused on transforming the risk and regulatory compliance landscape in the financial services industry.
Prior to starting her venture, Urvi worked at Bank of America as Senior Vice President (SVP) and Chief Operating Officer (COO) where she was highly successful in developing firm-wide risk and control strategies to address global complex issues, towards sustaining a strong risk culture within the Bank’s risk appetite. Urvi’s Executive Mentors | 2 background also includes leadership tenure with Freddie Mac, America Online and Ernst & Young LLP.
She is highly regarded for developing next generation leaders and leading diverse multi-disciplinary teams through direct and indirect influence.
Urvi is a strong advocate for her community and consistently reaches back to pay it forward. At Bank of America, Urvi sponsored the Asian Leadership Network. She is an Advisory Board Member for Ascend Greater Philadelphia Chapter, a member of the Ascend Greater Washington Corporate Executive Leadership team, a motivational speaker, and an executive coach.
Urvi holds an MBA in Finance from the University of Pittsburgh. Urvi resides in Northern Virginia with her husband and two children.
Yogesh is a Partner in the PricewaterhouseCoopers Oracle Advisory practice. He has over 20 years of experience in Oracle ERP enabled business transformations for large global organizations.
Yogesh leads the Tech, Media Telecom vertical for PwC’s Oracle practice. In this role he manages a sales and delivery team that focuses on clients in this industry. He also leads the Finance capability for the Oracle practice at PwC. He is responsible for recruiting and nurturing the best Finance talent in the industry. In addition to his internal roles, Yogesh is responsible for delivering some of their largest Oracle engagements including being the engagement partner for an Oracle Cloud ERP implementation for a global software client with operations in 25+ countries. Functions enabled include Finance and Procurement, as well as being the engagement partner for an acquisition integration project for one of the largest cable operators in the US.
Prior to joining PwC, Yogesh was in the Oracle ERP practice at KPMG Consulting and BearingPoint, Inc
Yoko Jolly is responsible for Groundswell federal health projects. As an IT executive with over 20 years serving public and private sector Clients, Yoko brings a broad understanding of IT solutions delivery, having led teams across business architecture and strategy, solutions architecture, application development, operations and maintenance, organizational change management, and business process outsourcing disciplines.
Prior to joining Groundswell, which acquired CollabraLink, Yoko led the pursuit and delivery of various programs at Accenture, including those focused on cloud-based COTS solutions, data analytics, user-centered design, agile, and DevOps delivery. Yoko has supported commercial clients at Verizon and Sallie Mae, as well as federal clients at Department of Education, USPS, Department of Homeland Security, FEMA, Department of Justice, and Department of Veterans Affairs. At Accenture, she also led development of large-scale project and program mobilization methodologies used by the company globally.
Yoko has a Bachelors of Arts in Economics from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania and is an IC Agile Certified professional.