Lifelong skilling.
Measurable impact.

Bhakti Vithalani is the Founder and CEO of BigSpring, a lifelong skilling platform with the mission of providing a direct path to employment for everyone. BigSpring was born from a decade of work in workforce development and skilling across sectors, job types and geographies. Under Bhakti’s leadership, BigSpring has garnered over a million learners globally and been selected by the World Economic Forum (WEF) as a Technology Pioneer 2020. Bhakti also sits on the Board of Governors for JA Worldwide and Co-chairs JA’s  Learning Experiences Committee.  

Previously, Bhakti worked as an Engagement Manager with McKinsey & Company leading client engagements for the High Tech and Corporate Finance practices and started her career in product development in Silicon Valley with Siebel Systems. Bhakti is a Computer Engineer with University Honors from Carnegie Mellon University (where she was among the first women from India to attend) and has an MBA from The Wharton School, where she was a Joseph Wharton Fellow.

Arun is the Chief Technology Officer at BigSpring. Previously, Arun was Director of Engineering at Uber and Site Lead for the NYC office. He helped build and scale Uber Eats which is now a large global business.

At Google, Arun was a tech lead on the Developer Platform team that enabled external developers to build compelling experiences. Prior to Google, Arun spent almost a decade at a Boston area company leading a team building a cross-platform mobile application development framework for large enterprises.

Arun has a BS in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University.

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Dave is the VP of Sales at BigSpring. Previously, he was VP of Sales at Wade and Wendy. Prior to that he was VP of Global Sales at pymetrics, a company leveraging AI and neuroscience to improve hiring. 

As sales leader, Dave has built and led one of LinkedIn’s largest and fastest growing Strategic Account teams. During a period of rapid growth, he worked with some of the biggest companies in the world to bring them the best possible candidates. Dave has also led North American recruitment for Gartner, the leading research and advisory body in the world. 
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David Foley has a Bachelor of Science from Fairfield University.

Sudha is VP of Customer Success at BigSpring. Prior to BigSpring she led customer success and operations at SAP enabling the adoption of key cloud technologies and a cohesive experience for hundreds and thousands of customers. She launched and ran the customer adoption and advocacy agenda for the mobile and cloud platform businesses of SAP to mold and showcase customers' digital outcomes.

She began her career in brand management roles at Unilever and Procter & Gamble. Sudha graduated from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science with a degree in Chemical Engineering , and an MBA in Marketing from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.

Yin is Director of Operations at BigSpring. Previously, she was a founding member and COO & Head of Customer Success at COMPAS Global, which built global expansion software for ambitious B2B startups, at least one of which has become a unicorn. She has spent over a decade in Silicon Valley holding various global growth positions in cleantech and SaaS, after starting her career with The Boston Consulting Group in Berlin, Germany and Beijing, China.

Yin is Founder and Board Member of the Qian Zheng Memorial Scholarship, which supports underprivileged female STEM students in China through funding, programming and mentorship. She attended the University of Pennsylvania and its Wharton School, where she obtained her MBA, BS in finance and BA in international studies in 5 years.