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Today’s Woman in Tech: Chitra Balasubramanian, Chief Financial Officer, CircleCI
With more than 20 years’ experience accelerating business growth through data analysis, Chitra Balasubramanian is best known for scaling cutting-edge, innovative technology companies, starting with PricewaterhouseCoopers, RetailNext, and now CircleCI.
As the current Chief Financial Officer, and one of two C-suite females at fast-growth unicorn CircleCI, her decision-making skills and poised, resilient leadership have led the company through major challenges and successes to become the leader in continuous integration for software engineering teams.
Chitra is as impactful and inspiring in the community as she is in the business. She serves on the Board of Trustees for the Computer History Museum and mentors young female entrepreneurs helping them resolve business challenges. She is a certified public accountant and holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.
When did you become interested in technology? What first got you interested in tech?
After college I started working at PricewaterhouseCoopers and became one of the first subject-matter experts on financial auditing for its Center for Advanced Research. This division was an innovation think tank responsible for the design and development of advanced technologies that solve previously unsolvable problems for the firm’s core practice areas. As part of my role, I was offered the opportunity to work in Silicon Valley, which is where I really got to see how technology was built. I became fascinated by cutting-edge, innovative technology and have found myself in the tech world ever since.
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