Latha is a dynamic business leader with close to three decades of experience. She is the Vice President and head of Technical Center India of Continental Automotive and leads a team of 6000 engineers. In her role, she is responsible for engineering competence for global and local markets, focusing on Automotive Technologies that include Autonomous Mobility and Safety, and Vehicle Networking and Information business areas and several Center of excellences in the new technology areas Before joining Continental, Latha was heading the powertrain and electrification business of Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions Pvt Ltd. She has also worked with Siemens Information Systems Ltd in multiple roles which includes engineering as well as business development serving in different countries. Latha is known for her inclusive style of leadership and has played an important role in developing the tech women community for the last 2 decades. Latha has received several industry accolades including The top 10 technology women leaders in India, Solidarity Idol award at CXO level, WILL women’s choice award, top AI leaders award etc to name a few. She is also a well known speaker in the area of business, technology, leadership and diversity and has made her mark in several forums. She is part of NASSCOM E&D council, was in the exeCOM of IEEE and also contributes to many initiatives related to Indo-German co-operation in the space of innovation and technology.
Her passion is building powerful technology global teams which create value and differentiation for the business. She is also a certified coach from CFI.