Hema graduated with a Bachelor’s in Engineering at City University of London. She began her career in 2007 at Cable and Wireless as part of the Engineering Graduate Scheme, where she held several roles.

She worked in multiple teams such as Voice Engineering, IP & Data, Submarine Systems Engineering delivering projects abroad in Cancun, Mexico for over 6 months as a project coordinator. Hema completed her Prince2 qualifications and started as a project manager in 2009 working in Core Infrastructure and then moved teams to be an IT Software Project manager in 2010.

Hema joined Sky in 2011 as a Broadband and Networks Project Manager. She was responsible for projects spanning Core, Peering and Transit and Subsea cable builds delivering many high-profile projects such as building the Core and Edge network for Sky Mobile and delivery of the European Video Multicast WAN solution for Formula 1 and PGA Golf Tour which had hard deadlines depending on the launch dates. In 2016 Hema joined Facebook as a Sourcing Manager for EMEA, where she managed the IP Transit Growth for all EMEA POP sites. She created and implemented automated reporting for the global team to monitor overutilized connections with vendors across EMEA POPs, to ensure upgrades are planned and delivered before being at risk and impacting users she also developed. Hema joined Playtech as a Customer Project Manager in 2017 with Ladbrokes as her customer for UK and Belgium, deploying enhancements on their websites, and other mobile platforms ahead of the 2018 football world cup. The
company launched a new Playtech Open Platform (POP) and Ladbrokes were one of the first customers and Hema successfully deployed this in their network.

Hema joined Morgan Stanley in 2018. She spent her first two years as a Technical Project Manager within Enterprise Network Services. In 2020 she moved to the Enterprise Security Platform department as a Global Service Delivery Manager. She is leading the Web Security squad and the Tooling squad through an agile transformation, where she is responsible for the overall delivery of the squad processes, performance improvement, and client communications while also managing project risks.

Hema is also passionate about giving back and committing to diversity and inclusion she is a great leader in these initiatives where she takes part in many of them such as Women In Technology, Net South Asia Diversity Network, Mentoring programs for young kids from underprivileged backgrounds, departmental diversity groups as well as helping with apprenticeship/graduate program interviews and assessment centres.

Outside of work, Hema enjoys going to the gym regularly, drawing animals and still life, has a passion for travelling and experiencing new cultures, being an avid reader, she also runs a book club. She is very close with her family and friends and loves spending time with them. Hema is a supporter of Great Ormond Street hospital where she has raised money by participating in walks and the London 10k, she now also volunteers at the hospital at the Arts and Crafts centre.