Pooja Songar is a Corporate Strategy and Management Consulting leader with over 20 years of experience leading growth and transformation programs by creating and executing strategy and operations in a Fortune 50 enterprise. Adept at synthesizing and simplifying complex business issues to drive alignment and enable clear decisions. Change Agent leader, strategic thinker, and planner with proven background leading and inspiring virtual, global, cross-functional teams in a matrixed and multicultural setting. Pooja is results-driven, capable of maximizing team productivity during periods of rapid internal and external changing environments and focusing operational discipline on the overall execution of strategic business goals.
Pooja is currently the Director of Strategy, Business Analytics, and Operations at Aruba, leading the vision, strategy, and execution of developing and nurturing a data-driven and insights-led culture. As part of her role, she partners with the C-Suite executive leadership team and the region and country management on short-term and long-term business initiatives geared to increase Aruba’s overall business value and driving market growth by unlocking the hidden potential of enterprise and market data that enables Aruba to connect in a new and more profound way with our customers and channel partners (distributors, resellers, and so on). Before her role at Aruba, she was Head of Strategy and M&A Integration at Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Head of Sales Strategy, Planning, and Operations. Through her various roles, she has developed strategic plans and implemented and executed sustainable comparative advantage strategies that maximized top/bottom-line growth.