Rekha Menon-Varma

Ms. Rekha Menon-Varma is the CEO of AltaScient, a firm specializing in artificial intelligence (AI) integration into risk and sustainability analytics for critical value chains. She is a senior leader with 20+ years’ experience at US and EU corporations and is highly effective in executing CEO and Board agendas.

Prior to this, Rekha was the Managing Partner at Vertaeon where she built the start-up from ideation to product to commercialization and positioned it for the SaaS-based enterprise analytics growth curve. Earlier at NV Bekaert SA, Rekha led global teams for growth strategy assessment, launched an enterprise risk management program (ERM), and a corporate sustainability strategy, reporting to the CEO, C-Suite and the Board. Prior to this, she worked at Lyondell Chemical, in multiple marketing, e-Business and engineering roles of increasing responsibility.

Rekha holds Masters in Chemical Engineering from Auburn University, and an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at University of Pennsylvania. She is the Chair of the Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council (SPLC) Board, and Co-President of The Wharton Club of Atlanta. Her expert speaker panels include those at US Chamber of Commerce, Risk & Insurance Management Society (RIMS), SPLC, Council for Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), and Semiconductor Industry Association SEMI, on enterprise and supply chain risk, sustainability, regulatory impact and resilience.