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Hema Sundaram

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Division Chief Information Officer at Portland General Electric
📍 Portland, Oregon, United States

Hema Sundaram is the Division Chief Information Officer at Portland General Electric, bringing over 20 years of experience in data and analytics. She spearheads the development of a Gen-AI platform to boost productivity and was recently a finalist for an HCLTech Women in Technology Award.

She is actively involved in her community, serving on the boards of the PGE Foundation and OREGON STEM, and as an advisory board member for Oregon State Universitys College of Business. Hema is passionate about creating fair hiring practices and has developed an app for bedtime stories.

Unique fact: Hema champions a hiring process that masks candidate names, colleges, and experience levels to mitigate unconscious bias.

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Experience
32 Years
Current Role
Division Chief Information Officer
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Generative AI in Utilities
Currently leading the development of a Gen-AI platform at PGE and has been a featured speaker at conferences focused on AI in the energy sector.
Data Strategy
Her career has focused on creating enterprise data strategies, managing cloud data platforms, and democratizing data through data science to drive business decisions.
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Career

Work history

1-2024
Division Chief Information Officer
Portland General Electric
10-2017 - 1-2024
Director
Portland General Electric
9-2014 - 9-2017
Senior Manager, Business Analytics Competency Center
Southern California Edison (SCE)
2-2012 - 2-2014
Industry Principal
Infosys
7-2002 - 1-2012
Manager, Enterprise Systems
Southern California Edison (SCE)
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Portland General Electric, Hema Sundaram wins in the 2024 Stevie Awards. Featured in YouTube
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Education
5-2022 - 5-2024
Master's degree
University of California, Berkeley
1988 - 1992
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science
Sathyabama Engineering College
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