Uma Thana Balasingam is Vice President & General Manager – Partner & Commercial Organization, Asia Pacific & Japan at VMware. In this role, Uma is responsible for driving the regional commercial segment strategic plan and revenue attainment, in addition to driving execution of route-to-market plans with VMware’s ecosystem across 48 markets.

She was recognized in CRN’s The Most Powerful Women of the Channel global list in 2018, 2021 and 2022 and Singapore’s Top 100 Women in IT in 2020. She was also named LinkedIn’s Top 10 Voices in Gender Equity in 2022.

Uma is also the co-founder of Lean In Singapore and the founder of Lean In Women in Technology Asia & Women In Technology Singapore. LeanIn.Org was founded by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg to empower women to achieve their ambitions. Lean In Singapore, founded in 2016, is a community of 4000 women, men and others that comes together to be inspired, empowered, and educated with a focus on driving gender diversity in the workplace.