Obsessed with growth + brands + psychology and behaviour change + motorbikes 😁 It works.

I dropped out of university to travel solo through Asia, then went back to finish what I started. Along the way, I worked, built small businesses (I shopped for execs before internet shopping was even a thing and taught spinning classes), paid my way, and learned how im😁portant it is to take responsibility for your actions.

I went on to build a career in tech (even worked for South Africa's first Facebook Marketing Partner, I mean Meta), while studying psychology and later earning a counselling degree. 

I’ve spoken to global brands about resilience, written for international publications (including Oprah), and even scaled a Whale (check out www.usewhale.io). I even upped and moved to a country where I didn't speak the language and have always chased the impossible. 

Are you ready to build the impossible?

Lisa Steingold

Engagedly Inc

✦ Work closely with the CEO and co-founders through regular strategy sessions and joint meetings to shape product design, go‑to‑market planning, lead generation, and executive hiring for the Bangalore team.
✦ Continue to advise on product development priorities and cost‑optimization strategies to maximize resource efficiency and operational impact.
✦ Assisted in integration planning for the acquisition of TheEmployeeApp, and am currently supporting the architecture and rollout of Engagedly’s emerging AI stack.

Board Member - Engagedly

PlayAblo.ai

✦ Advised CEO on the strategic pivot from a B2C app to an enterprise LMS — guiding the leadership team on market positioning, product–market fit, and go‑to‑market readiness
✦ Continue to support team on executive hiring, product roadmapping, cost‑control measures, and lead generation — ensuring operational rigor through the pivot
✦ Advise the leadership in architecting PlayAblo’s transition to an AI-ready LMS

Board Member – PlayAblo

SmartKarrot

✦ Co-founded and operated a bootstrapped SaaS platform serving global enterprises in customer success and engagement — built ground-up teams across the US and India
✦ Led all core functions outside of sales — including engineering, customer delivery, finance, support, marketing and people ops — balancing product execution with operational stability
✦ Scaled delivery, marketing and support teams in India while building repeatable playbooks for customer onboarding, implementation, and retention
✦ Navigated complex trade-offs in a resource-constrained, founder-led environment — managing scale, technical debt, and customer demands without external capital
✦ Ran a 6-year cross-border journey through pivots, scaling, and difficult shutdown decisions — gaining firsthand insight into what works (and doesn’t) when building products from scratch

Co-Founder & COO

emids Technologies

✦ Co-led Emids from early-stage services firm to a 2,500+ person cross-border organization focused exclusively on US healthcare IT — scaling delivery, operations, and people systems across India and the US
✦ Spearheaded a pivotal strategy shift in 2007 to specialize in US healthcare — built internal domain depth through a dedicated Healthcare Lab that enabled developers, QA leads, and BAs to gain hands-on industry exposure
✦ Led global operations across delivery, talent, systems, and client services — building the execution muscle needed to support scale and enterprise client maturity
✦ Drove inorganic growth by leading the acquisition and integration of Encore Health Resources — adding ~200 consultants, expanding healthcare analytics capabilities, and broadening the client base
✦ Helped drive a ~9x valuation increase through operational discipline and domain-led delivery scale, enabling a successful PE exit to New Mountain Capital in 2019
✦ Played a key role in transforming Emids from a founder-led company to a board-facing, institutional-grade platform — aligning execution with investor expectations through systems, structure, and scalable talent

Co-Founder, Head of Global Operations

Microsoft

✦ Led the first team to go live at Microsoft’s India GCC, successfully transitioning global developer product support from Redmond and setting the benchmark for future teams
✦ Recognized for operational success and invited to Microsoft HQ in Redmond to share best practices; later earned COPC® certification and audited global vendor partners as a certified Vendor Manager
✦ This early experience in global delivery, service quality, and vendor governance shaped my systems-driven approach to scaling operations in later founder-led roles

Senior Manager, Developer Products

Emids

✦ Co-founded Emids with a focus on delivering high-quality software solutions to Indian & US clients — led early delivery, hiring, client onboarding, and offshore setup
✦ Built the foundational delivery systems, networks and team structure from scratch — including tech stack selection, infrastructure setup, and knowledge transfer processes with clients
✦ Balanced hands-on technical execution with client-facing responsibilities during the company’s formative years — creating the base for what would a decade later become a scaled US-India healthcare IT platform

Co-Founder – Early Stage Buildout

Wipro Infotech

✦ Handpicked as a junior engineer to work on complex real-time operating systems (VxWorks), developing firmware components for scanner and printer products for EPSON (Japan)
✦ Collaborated closely with Japanese client teams both remotely and on-site — gaining early exposure to global delivery expectations, precision engineering standards, and cross-cultural communication
✦ Developed a strong foundation in disciplined execution, cultural fluency, and client-centric delivery — lessons that shaped my approach to scaling global teams in later leadership roles

Software Engineer – Real-Time Systems (VxWorks)

Cross-border operator. 2x founder. Trusted partner to boards and founders.

I’ve spent 28+ years building and scaling tech businesses across the US and India — leading operations, delivery, and organizational scale. I’ve co-founded two companies, built high-output global teams, and advised growth-stage businesses on operational transformation, AI-led productivity, and cross-border execution.
  
✦ Helped drive a 9x valuation expansion over 6 years at Emids — through disciplined execution, operational rigor, and cross-border delivery scale — enabling two PE transitions and a successful exit
✦ Co-founded and ran SmartKarrot — a bootstrapped cross-border SaaS platform — leading operations, engineering, and teams across Dallas, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Toronto and Singapore through a 6-year scale journey rich with lessons in product execution, global team building, and resilience
✦ Serve on boards (Engagedly, PlayAblo), advising on org design, operating metrics, and embedding AI into workflows for scale
    
I operate comfortably at the intersection of founder energy and enterprise discipline — helping teams scale delivery systems, redesign operating models, and embed AI into how work gets done. 

🔍 Now open to Operating Partner roles with PE funds (US-based, India-focused), where scaling Operations in India and unlocking AI-driven transformation are key to value creation.

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