Sushma Rajagopalan

Sushma is a global leader who is extremely skilled in scaling companies and passionate about entrepreneurship & innovation. She is a Partner with Rittenhouse Ventures Fund III in Philadelphia. Rittenhouse Ventures is an investor in emerging growth software companies focused in HealthTech, PharmaTech, FinTech, HRTech and general B2B SaaS. Her framework for success rests on designing and executing strategies that result in rapid scale up, building an innovation ecosystem, driving a high-performance culture, staying ahead of technology trends and globalization through effective partnerships. Her management style can be described as strategic, entrepreneurial and inclusive. She leads with 4Cs - Clarity of thought, Courage of Conviction, Charisma to carry the team and True to Character always! Sushma was the CEO of ITC infotech, a global technology solutions company that is a wholly owned subsidiary of a $10B+ leading consumer product goods company ITC in India. She has more than 25 years of experience as a Chief Strategy Officer, and CEO/President of technology companies in the US and India including LiquidHub (Wayne, PA), Larsen & Toubro (Edison & Mumbai) Igate ( Pittsburgh), Citibank (Mumbai, India) and CMC (Mumbai, now a TCS company). Sushma has an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University, specializing in entrepreneurship & strategy, in addition to a Master's degree in Personnel Management & Industrial Relations from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India. She was the Chair of IT Services @ the National Association of Software Services Companies (Nasscom). She also serves on the boards of several technology companies in New Jersey, Philadelphia, India & California. She actively mentors companies and women entrepreneurs and CEOs in the US & India as a member of Harvard's mentorship program, PACT & 1Crowd. She is on the board of Jenkins Arboretum & Gardens in Devon, Pennsylvania and WISH Foundation, USA.