Anita
Mahon
Executive Vice President & Chief Strategy and Corporate Development Officer at EXL
"Building the AI-Ready Enterprise: Moving Beyond Experimentation to Thrive in the Age of Intelligent Enterprise Transformation"
"Building the AI-Ready Enterprise: Moving Beyond Experimentation to Thrive in the Age of Intelligent Enterprise Transformation"
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Session: Building the AI-Ready Enterprise: Moving Beyond Experimentation to Thrive in the Age of Intelligent Enterprise Transformation
AI is transforming our world faster than any prior technology shift. Yet for many organizations, the journey from pilots to wide-scale impact remains stalled. Leaders face a dual challenge: envisioning the business of the future while modernizing today’s operations.In this presentation we will explore what it truly means to become an AI-ready enterprise. Learn ways your organization can integrate AI across strategy, operations, and talent. We’ll share a pragmatic roadmap for scaling AI responsibly and effectively.
The discussion will focus on how leaders can design adaptive strategies, flatten hierarchies, and empower cross-functional teams that bring business, data, and technology together to prove real value. Attendees will gain a strategic view of how to reimagine work, leadership, and growth in an age where AI is now a fundamental driver of business evolution.
Attendees will learn:
• How to define and operationalize a clear AI “north star” that connects technology investments to measurable business outcomes.
• How to redesign talent and organizational structures to foster collaboration between business and technology teams in an AI-driven world.
• How to navigate the new leadership playbook: balancing innovation with governance, agility with responsibility, and human capability with intelligent automation.
This presentation is designed for AI and business leaders who want to move beyond experimentation and build businesses positioned to thrive in the age of intelligent enterprise transformation.
Key Takeaways
- learn how to define and operationalize a clear AI “north star” that connects technology investments to measurable business outcomes.
- learn how to redesign talent and organizational structures to foster collaboration between business and technology teams in an AI-driven world.
- learn how to navigate the new leadership playbook: balancing innovation with governance, agility with responsibility, and human capability with intelligent automation.
- AI and llearn how AI and business leaders can move beyond experimentation and build businesses positioned to thrive in the age of intelligent enterprise transformation.
Bio
Anita Mahon, Executive Vice President & Chief Strategy and Corporate Development Officer, EXLAnita is responsible for driving strategic business expansion plans for EXL and accelerating growth in data and AI. Focusing on client-centric solutions and services, Anita works closely with the firm’s industry and capability teams to ensure the implementation of EXL’s long-term strategy. She is also a member of EXL’s Executive Committee
Joining EXL in 2020 as Chief Growth and Strategy Officer, Anita has led key initiatives across the business to develop and execute data-led growth strategies and to transform the execution of go-to-market priorities. Most recently serving for three years as Global Business Head, Health, she was responsible for overseeing all aspects of business strategy, client engagement, service delivery, and financial performance for EXL clients in payer, provider, pharmacy benefit manager, and life sciences organizations.
Anita has over 25 years of experience in leadership roles driving growth for data and technology businesses serving multiple large industries with complex strategic and operational needs. Prior to EXL, Anita served as Vice President, Data, Strategy and Portfolio Officer for IBM Watson Health. While at Watson Health, Anita also served as Chief Marketing Officer and led value-based care strategy and marketing. Anita joined IBM with its acquisition of Truven Health Analytics in 2016. As Chief Strategy Officer at Truven while the business was part of Thomson Reuters, Anita led the definition and implementation of the company’s corporate growth strategy and development. Prior to joining Truven Health she served as executive director for a telecommunications software and consulting business that is now part of Ericsson.
Anita holds a master of business administration from Columbia Business School, a master of science in computer science from Columbia University, and a bachelor of science in mathematics and computer science from Manhattan University.
