Her Story
About KOMAL
Komal Ekanath serves as Senior Staff Technical Program Manager at GE Healthcare, a role she assumed in 2023 after nearly 19 years with the organization. She began her career as a developer and advanced through roles centered on radiology products. In her current position, she leads comprehensive program development from initial concept through commercialization, coordinating cross-functional teams across marketing, sales, engineering, quality, regulatory, legal, and security functions. Her notable contributions include driving the transition of products from on-premises deployments to cloud-based solutions, improving ease of use and data compliance for healthcare providers. Ekanath earned a bachelor's degree in telecommunication and a master's degree in computers and software systems. She maintains certifications as a Certified Scrum Master, Scrum Professional, and AWS Cloud Accredited. She attributes her professional success to the self-satisfaction of applying her skills to meaningful work that supports patients globally and emphasizes values of integrity and accountability in her patient-centric field.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with KOMAL
01What do you attribute your success to?
Success to me is more about self-satisfaction, to apply what I've learned and skills to some useful things that it can be transferred to. That's what gives me a sense of achievement and success, that at least whatever skills I've been developing, it's being used for certain things. And that's the success criteria for me, that I am inspiring or helping people around the world who have been using our product and transforming things.
02What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
The advice is primarily more of hard work. I think that truly does matter, the effort and being in the industry, learning the technologies that are required to help you be where you are. Hard work definitely pays off. When we are doing something, always think from a customer's point of view. I think that's a very important key factor as well.
03What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
Greatest challenges is a lot of technology updates that are happening, and everybody moving towards the face of AI era, cloud era. Every other field is transforming of using multiple newer technologies, newer tools, a different way of working things, simplifying things, being more faster. Trying to keep up with the things that are ongoing, I believe it's a challenge, and to keep up to date.
04What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
I think it's more about integrity and accountability, because this being a very patient-centric and very critical for the customers that we do, I think it's being more accountable, it's very important. And being compliance in what we do, thinking of the patients that we save lives, so that is very important in our profession, as well as personally to me as well.
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