AI Leadership Council
The AI Leadership Council brings together visionary leaders, researchers, and advocates to ensure women help shape the future of work and answer critical questions:
- What if this is the moment we, as women, have been waiting for?
- What if AI could actually be the force that dismantles the structural barriers women have faced in the workforce for decades?
- And what would we have to do, right now, to make that real?
Together, we’re advancing research, sparking critical conversations, and translating insight into action so AI expands opportunity, leadership, and power for women across the revenue ecosystem and throughout their professional worlds.
Meet the Council
This Council unites leaders from across business, technology, research, and the Women in Revenue community. Their expertise and influence help set the agenda, challenge assumptions, and turn bold ideas into practical pathways for a more equitable AI-powered workplace.
Urvashi Batra
Building an AI-powered customer success engine, with prior experience in project management and teaching at Harvard.
Diana Brunelle
20+ years of corporate HR leadership, now applied at an AI-native security company. A firsthand view of AI reshaping hiring.
Daniela Gorza
A builder’s mentality and firsthand experience shipping AI products. Brings the practical, ground-level view of what AI actually does inside a company.
Dina Habib O’Mara
With 25+ years across cloud, security, AI, and enterprise solutions, Dina builds go-to-market strategies that scale emerging technologies and drive customer transformation. She’s especially focused on the thoughtful integration of AI into how teams work, with responsibility, inclusion, and trust at the core, and is a dedicated advocate for women in technology.
Briar Harvey
Helps companies navigate AI as a collaboration tool rather than a pure efficiency play. A distinct, human-centered lens
Mindy Honcoop
Decades of HR leadership and coaching experience, plus deep community involvement. A grounded read on how organizations actually change.
Emily Leahy
Building AI and wearable technology to help women in sales perform more predictably. Firsthand experience of AI as a career accelerator.
Sirisha Swahari
Enterprise technology operations experience paired with active involvement in women’s and youth advocacy work.
Amanda Van Nuys
Leads product marketing strategy inside one of the world’s largest AI-forward companies, with a front-row view of how enterprise AI tools reach the market.
The People Behind the Council
Sally Abdelnabi
Sally is a product and growth marketing leader with over a decade of experience driving B2C and B2B2C growth at some of Canada’s best-known online marketplaces and SaaS platforms, including Kijiji (eBay Classifieds), FreshBooks, and Workopolis (later acquired by Indeed).
But that’s not where she started. Sally’s career began in international development, working at the World Bank to help create impact in developing countries. An MBA at McGill University set her on a new path, one where launching a national brand, reviving a dormant user base, or growing a vertical against a shrinking market became the kind of challenge she couldn’t resist. What she loves most is what those years have shown her: real impact comes from bringing people together, across product, marketing, finance, analytics, sales, and support, to rally around one goal and make the impossible possible.
It’s why she’s excited to join the WIR AI Council: a chance to bridge that experience with a community shaping what’s next.
Cherilynn Castleman
Cherilynn Castleman is Co-Chair of the Women in Revenue AI Leadership Council and Managing Partner of CGI Coaching & Training, LLC. She coaches and trains revenue leaders at Salesforce, LinkedIn, Amazon, T-Mobile, Walmart, Spotify, and Experian.
She teaches at Harvard in three capacities: professional sales coach for Harvard Business School MBA students, instructor at the Division of Continuing Education, and guest speaker for Professional & Executive Development.
She is a LinkedIn Top Sales Voice, a Salesforce Top Sales Influencer, and the bestselling author of What’s in the C.A.R.D.S.?
Her mission is to help one million women reach the table of their dreams by 2030.
With Co-Chair Ginna Santy, PhD, she leads a body of senior practitioners and PhD research fellows examining how AI is reshaping the pathways women have used to build power at work. The prevailing narrative says AI will widen the gap. Cherilynn believes it can close it, but only if women are in the room while those systems are still being designed.
Ginna Santy, PhD
Virginia (Ginna) Santy, PhD, is the Executive Director of Women in Revenue, a nonprofit member organization serving over 10,000 professional women globally. She is a renowned researcher, strategist, and thought leader dedicated to advancing women’s economic well-being and leadership. Her career has spanned academia, entrepreneurship, and consulting, all with a focus on creating systemic change to support women’s success.
Her academic career laid the foundation for her work in gender equity. As a professor and award-winning researcher, Virginia conducted extensive studies on women in leadership, workplace equity, and economic mobility. Her research explored the intersection of gender, business, and policy, contributing to a deeper understanding of the systemic barriers women face in professional environments. She presented her findings on global platforms, earning recognition for her contributions to gender equity in the workplace.
Her passion for designing spaces that empower women led to her entrepreneurial venture, Women in Kind, Colorado’s first coworking space designed specifically for women. This groundbreaking space fostered collaboration and support among female entrepreneurs, providing resources tailored to their unique needs.
Virginia also served as Communication Lead for Clients and Market Brand Eminence and Communication & Engagement Lead in the Office of the CEO at Deloitte, where she shaped initiatives that elevated leadership, engagement, and strategic communication at the highest levels.
Her expertise and passion for designing spaces for women led to her TEDxMileHigh talk, “How to Design Workplaces & Cities for Women.” In this presentation, she examines how the built environment—from office spaces to entire cities—has traditionally been designed for men, and how rethinking these structures can foster more inclusive and equitable opportunities for women. With a passion for innovation, equity, and transformative leadership, Virginia Santy has reshaped how businesses, communities, and policymakers support and empower women.
Meet the Research Fellows
Carla Gonzales Gemio
Carla holds a Ph.D. in Business and Social Sciences from the University of Barcelona, with an international mention from Arizona State University’s School for the Future of Innovation in Society. A published empirical researcher, her work bridges Responsible Innovation and the emerging field of Responsible AI governance, spanning sustainability transitions, innovation adoption, and the responsible integration of AI — combining methodological rigor with a commitment to ethical, inclusive impact.
Lepakshi Poonamallee
Lepakshi Poonamallee is a Researcher with the Women in Economics Initiative. She contributes to the WiE Index, which tracks gender parity in the field of economics. She has an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science. In 2026, she completed an Advanced Certificate Programme in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning at IIT Delhi. Her research interests span labor economics, gender economics, development economics, and the economics of artificial intelligence, with a particular focus on inequality challenges across these fields. She joins the Women in Revenue AI Leadership Council as a Research Fellow, contributing to research on how AI is reshaping the modern economy and gender inequality.
Kerritt Saintal
Kerritt Saintal is drawn to the space where research, public health, communications, and community meet. She’s spent her career in that mix, working across mixed-methods research and always coming back to one question: who gets left out of systems built to help everyone?
That question is what drew her to this fellowship. She’s spent recent years studying how AI intersects with health equity as an NIH AIM-AHEAD Fellow, with a growing focus on AI ethics and governance, and she wants to bring that same lens to how AI is reshaping leadership and opportunity for women more broadly. Kerritt holds a B.S. in Psychology from Loyola University New Orleans and is finishing her M.S. in Health Promotion Management at American University. She’s fluent in Haitian Creole, teaches adult ESL, and thinks in systems, but tries never to lose the human story underneath the data.
Famata Dija Sanyang
Famata Sanyang is a researcher, policy analyst, and development practitioner passionate about understanding how systems, institutions, and emerging technologies shape people’s lives. Her work has focused on governance, education, climate change, gender equality, disability inclusion, and youth participation, with experience supporting research and policy initiatives across Africa and international development spaces.
She enjoys turning complex information into clear, useful insights that can inform better decisions and create more inclusive outcomes. Over the years, she has worked with academic institutions, nonprofits, and policy organizations on research projects ranging from disability inclusion and education governance to civic participation and development policy. She is currently the Lead Research & Education Consultant at ALCA- a research firm in Nairobi; Kenya.
Famata is an incoming MSc candidate in International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Through the Women in Revenue AI Leadership Council, she is excited to explore how artificial intelligence is transforming work and leadership, and how those changes can be shaped to create more equitable opportunities for women globally.
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