ISG Women in Digital Awards
Timeline
Nominations Open
Nominate a woman who inspires you or has made an impact on your life.
Nominations Validated
We will validate all nominations received. It's at this point we may get in touch for additional information if needed!
eBook Released
Get to know the 2026 ISG Women in Digital Award Finalists in the latest eBook!
Judging Begins
Our teams of judges will evaluate all nominees and select the regional winners.
Winners Announced
Join us as we announce the ISG Women in Digital Award Winners across the globe.
The Americas – Sept 10
APAC – Sept 17
EMEA – Sep 24
Congratulations to our 2026 Winners and Finalists!
Meet Our Team
Kimberly Tobias
Partner
Kimberly Tobias
Kimberly has responsibility for business development and relationship management for the Eastern US in the Utility and CPG & Retail industry verticals. With experience as both a client and an advisor, Kimberly has a broad base of knowledge to assist clients, from assessing their current operations, developing their future state strategy and implementing that strategy to governing their ongoing operations.
Lois Coatney
Partner, Banking, Financial Services and Insurance
Lois Coatney
Lois Coatney leads ISG’s Banking, Financial Services and Insurance industry practice. She serves as a trusted advocate for Fortune 500 clients, helping them maximize the value of their service providers and supply chains. With more than two decades of experience as a service provider herself, Lois brings a unique perspective to every engagement.
In addition to her industry leadership role, Lois is a member of the ISG Executive Board, where she oversees Global Sales. As an executive at ISG, Lois focuses not only on financial results but also on how ISG can strengthen its market presence. She combines a deep understanding of client needs with a clear vision of ISG’s strengths to drive business growth. Lois is also committed to mentoring ISG colleagues, helping them build strong client partnerships and career growth. Her passion is to be an advocate for bringing more women into technology both inside and outside of ISG. She launched and serves as Executive Sponsor of the ISG Women in Digital program, the Global ISG Women in Digital Awards Program, and mentors many women across
the globe.
Eleanor Matthews
Director
Eleanor Matthews
Eleanor Matthews is Commercial Sector Lead
and Head of Sales for the UK, Ireland and Nordics region at ISG and one of the
sourcing industry’s most respected change leaders. With a career spanning the
full evolution of outsourcing and advisory, she combines deep commercial
expertise with a relentless focus on outcomes that genuinely transform
organisations.
A pioneer of “Positive
Outcomes” within the FutureSource methodology, Eleanor has built her reputation
on delivering change that works in the real world. She has led high performing
advisory organisations across Europe and is a three-time GSA Advisor of the
Year winner as well as a 2025 Stevie Silver award winner for Trusted AI Advisor
for Business Transformations.
Beyond her client work, Eleanor founded and runs the League of Extraordinary Women, a growing network dedicated to championing, connecting and elevating women in the industry. As a podcast host, speaker and mentor, she is a visible and active advocate for greater confidence, opportunity and leadership for women in sourcing.
Direct, energetic and insight driven, Eleanor gets things done and inspires others to do the same.
Namratha Dharshan
Chief Business Leader, ISG Research
Namratha Dharshan
Namratha Dharshan leads Global Content for Services within the ISG Provider Lens® program, bringing more than 22 years of extensive research experience with a focus on BPO, GCC, AI and Analytics and CX. The ISG Provider Lens® program is designed to deliver research on service provider intelligence. As part of her role, Namratha directs a global team of analysts and is responsible for content delivery of more than 50 Provider Lens® research reports. She is also a principal analyst, authoring thought leadership and service provider intelligence reports with a strong emphasis on BPO, particularly CX and contact center services, and GCC. Her portfolio also includes horizontal service line reports such as finance and accounting and industry-specific reports for insurance. In addition to her research leadership, Namratha is a member of the Senior Leadership Council for India Research, representing ISG’s India-based team of over 120 research professionals. She is also a co-speaker on ISG’s flagship quarterly ISG Index call, offering insights into the health of the outsourcing industry, with a focus on BPO and GCC.
At ISG, Namratha is the product owner of the Star of Excellence program, an initiative that analyzes enterprise feedback on providers. The CX program recognizes providers that deliver exceptional experiences to enterprise clients.
Namratha is also a strong advocate for women employees. She served for four consecutive years as a judge for ISG’s Women in Digital program and now acts as a regional sponsor. She was instrumental in launching She-Rise, an internship program for women returning to work after childbirth and freshers from college.
Annie Ahmed
Consulting Manager
Annie Ahmed
Annie has successfully delivered strategic IT engagements. Annie provides her clients with detailed project management expertise and on the other hand on his deep technical, processual and political understanding. Annie acts not only as a project manager but also a key delivery resource who manages the interface between delivery/business organizations and their senior executive management to ensure the operational business needs are adhered to.
Shawn Anderson
Client Success Manager
Megan Arthur
Executive Assistant
Dr. Dorotea Baljević
Director, EMEA Lead - AI Advisory
Dr. Dorotea Baljević
Dorotea Baljević is a Director within the AI Acceleration Unit, enabling clients in their business, AI and data transformations while delivering value across the entire ecosystem.
Dorotea provides support and counsel to customers in their current and future digital journeys. Particularly focusing on improving and enhancing data and AI capabilities for the decision-making ecosystem to ensure healthy organisational longevity and relevance. This includes a focus on value driven outcomes, responsible use of data and AI, and shaping authentic and right-size solutions that align to the clients current and strategic needs.
Her spectrum of experience includes innovation, green-field environments, existing transformations (including building high performing teams), governance, regulatory preparation and compliance, development of digital threads and decommissioning.
Tiffany Barna
Principal Consultant
Tiffany Barna
Tiffany very passionately supports companies through transformations with change management, leadership development and training support. Tiffany specializes in the retail sector and system implementations such as PLM.
Lisa Cooper
Principal Consultant
Lisa Cooper
As a Principal Consultant, Lisa brings 30+ years of experience delivering on clients’ business value objectives through strategic digital business transformations, focused on planning, sourcing, governance, quality assurance and risk management.
Emily Gonzalez
Principal Consultant
Emily Gonzalez
Emily Gonzalez is an experienced and knowledgeable Program Manager. She is a Six Sigma Black Belt with over 10 years of Business Process, Information Technology and Knowledge Process Outsourcing and multi-provider transition Program Management experience. She is equipped with the proficiency and qualified approach to successfully support her clients in their strategic initiatives. She manages stakeholders effectively by drawing on her excellent communication skills and governance capabilities. Her comprehensive foundation has prompted a propensity for effective knowledge transfer management and transition risk management. As a consulting manager she continues to effectively manage and lead client engagement teams through Transactions, provider onboarding and transition management for large and complex multi-provider outsourcing engagements.
Lucy Hermann-Taylor
Marketing
Laura Hupprich
Assistant Director, Global Marketing
Pranjali Jha
Senior Consultant
Pranjali Jha
As a Senior Consultant at ISG, Pranjali brings 6+ years of expertise in IT solutions benchmarking, pricing, and cost optimization. She provides advisory on digital transformation strategy, sourcing, and benchmarking. With a strong focus on IT operations, Pranjali specializes in technology business management, helping clients optimize their IT ecosystems and develop effective, market-driven strategies to drive cost efficiency and operational performance.
Sheeree Jones
Client Experience Manager
Monica K
Senior Analyst
Monica K
Monica K is the senior research analyst for the internet of things, digital business transformation and cyber security studies as part of the ISG Provider Lens™ program. She also has experience in researching technologies such as robotic process automation, blockchain and artificial intelligence. Monica has been working with ISG for the past one and a half years and takes part in analyzing service provider information through primary and secondary research. Additionally, she engages in delivering ad-hoc requests from providers and advisors.
Jacie Levethan
Welcome Ambassador and Office Coordinator
Amanda Lytle
Consulting Manager
Amanda Lytle
Amanda Lytle joined ISG in April of 2018 and is currently a Consulting Manager within the Digital Strategy and Solutions group, focusing on Future of Work and Digital Transformation engagements. She works with clients to find opportunities where the future of work can help bridge digital and physical workplace by supporting collaboration and connection between people.
Lucy Mair
Consulting Manager
Lucy Mair
Lucy is an experienced Consulting Manager, who has knowledge and experience across all ISG solutions. She takes this experience and applies it to all projects, effectively working with clients to critically analyze and support Strategy setting and Sourcing Transaction implementation.
Katie Owen
Principal Consultant
Katie Owen
Katie serves clients with business solutions that best suit their individualized needs. She utilizes strategically tailored OCM tactics to help businesses thrive during times of change. These tactics aid in bringing the uncertainty of hope into a positive and embraced opportunity for their organization. Katie is an instigator in driving results toward a vision and leverages her entrepreneurial spirit to provide creative and thoughtful solutions.
Sheridan Prince
Senior Consultant
Partho Saha
Director, Global Marketing
Tishya Selvaraj
Data Analyst
Tishya Selvaraj
Hannah Stapleton
Marketing Director
Thomas Victor
Manager, Videographer
Susan Wright
Senior Business Operations Manager
