Meet CELP Cohort 6 Mentors
CELP Executive Mentors Cohort 6
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.
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.
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.
Lance is a Deloitte Consulting Principal focused on strategy and operations transformation in the Health industry.
Over his career, Lance has served a wide range of clients in the provider, payer, and life sciences sectors, and brings an integrated perspective to addressing issues in the U.S. health system.
Lance is deeply involved in Deloitte’s inclusion strategy and currently serves as the Partner Champion for Deloitte’s Greater Washington Area Asian Business Resource Group.
Lance earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles and an M.B.A. from New York University.
Liz is the Senior Vice President of Corporate Growth Strategy for Kofax, an intelligent automation software provider, where she drives global corporate growth, product strategy, customer experience, strategic alliances, and internal cross-functional alignment. She focuses on operational excellence and creating enterprise value in recurring revenue models. She previously led the Conversational Artificial Intelligence practice for Deloitte across the federal, state, and local government and higher education markets.
Liz is passionate about advancing diversity and inclusion in the workplace. She has spent the last decade engaging in the Pan-Asian business community in the Greater Washington Area (GWA), currently serving as a member of the Board of Directors at Ascend GWA Chapter. She has also served as the Ascend GWA Corporate Executive Initiative and Corporate Executive Leadership Program PMO Lead and Inspiring Across Generations Conference Chair. Having had mentors and many inspirations in the Pan-Asian community, she has endeavored to support other colleagues and students in the Pan-Asian community through professional development and community programs.
She is a graduate of West Virginia University and enjoys spending time with her husband Steven, children Kinsley and Jack, two dogs, and cat.
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.
Minsuk is a Managing Director at Accenture serving as the Client Account Lead at the Securities and Exchange Commission. He has over 20+ years serving multiple Federal Government clients including Census, Postal Service, Health and Human Services, and IRS helping clients through large scale implementations, business and IT strategy and transformations, application development, and ongoing maintenance. Minsuk holds Project Management Professional (PMP).
A graduate of Johns Hopkins University with a degree in Biomedical Engineering, Minsuk is based out of Accenture’s Washington, DC Metro office and lives in Virginia with his wife and three children. He grew up in Minnesota and is a huge Minnesota sports fan.
Najam Mohiuddin is a Managing Director in Accenture’s Technology Growth Platform and leads the Salesforce Capability for Accenture Federal Services. Najam has 20+ years of experience across federal, state & local government, higher education, domestic & international nonprofit organizations/foundations and specializes in strategy and delivery of complex digital transformation across US Federal agencies.
As the Salesforce Capability lead, Najam is responsible for the development of our strategic offerings in the Federal market and enablement of our Salesforce practitioners to serve our clients. Najam was a participant in Ascend CELP Cohort 3, Class of 2018.
In 2016, he moved from NYC to Ashburn, VA with his family and loves traveling, college football (Go Gamecocks!) and trying new restaurants in the area.
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.
Rich Chang is a Managing Director in the Deloitte Risk and Financial Advisory practice. Rich has over 20 years of experience, 9+ at Deloitte, solving the cybersecurity challenges of the United States Federal Government. He has a wide breadth of skills and knowledge areas including identity and access management, biometrics, cybersecurity policy and standards, and implementation of cybersecurity tools and technology. At Deloitte, he has been a trusted advisor across the Federal Government, including the Department of Health and Human Services, the Food and Drug Administration, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
He is also involved in leading and driving large cybersecurity opportunities across the federal market. In addition to his role in the marketplace, Rich has a passion for mentoring and developing the next generation of leaders. He has taken an active role in coaching minorities internal and external to Deloitte.
In his free time, he attempts to play golf, actively searches for hidden food treasures, and with his wife volunteers for animal rescue organizations, doing their best to not be failed fosters.
Rik is the Vice President of Application Delivery and Software Development at CareFirst FEPOC. He provides technical and thought leadership on several strategic initiatives including Technical Transformation, Product Modernization, Cloud Enablement, Agile Transformation and DevOps. Rik provides engineering leadership for the development and implementation of key technology initiatives to drive FEPOC Business strategy.
Rik is responsible for developing and managing application development standards, processes, and tools. Also, Rik develops and implements the technology strategy, process automation and human capital capable of supporting a scalable, functional and reliable suite of products with a focus on innovation, emerging technologies and making recommendations on the strategic use of technology to achieve business results.
Rik provides visible technology leadership for the FEPOC to customers, partners, and vendors, as well as to the technology community Prior to joining FEPOC, Rik served as Sr Director of Product and Delivery for the Federal Employee Health Benefit Plan, where he was responsible for developing departmental technology vision and roadmap, overseeing technology operations and providing thought leadership for business transformation activities.
He played a pivotal role in transforming the FEP Bridge into a multi-tenant and innovative product suite comprised of 10 unique products that are currently used by seven Plans. Rik earned an MBA in IT Strategic Management from the University of Maryland Smith School of Business and a Bachelor of Engineering from the Delhi College of Engineering.
Additionally, Rik holds several technical certifications including: AWS Certified Solution Architect, AWS Certified Machine Learning Specialty, Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and Project Management Professional (PMP).
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.