Are you in for a story of innovation, resilience, and breaking barriers?
Then you’re in for a treat. Because in episode 59 of Women Disrupting Tech, I interview Sonal Rattan. She is the co-founder and CTO of eXate and the first female CTO of a startup on the show.
Together with a diverse team, she is building the future of data protection. It’s a journey that began at her kitchen table and that involves more than just writing a piece of code.
To tune in to this magical conversation, press the play button or read more about the episode by scrolling down.
Making Data Protection Byte Size with eXate CTO Sonal Rattan | Episode 59 of Women Disrupting Tech – Women Disrupting Tech
The Magic You Can Expect in this Episode 🪄
Episode 59 of Women Disrupting Tech covers not one but two stories. The one of Sonal and that of her daughter.
Listen and learn as Sonal and I talk about
🚀 Her own journey from running technology teams at a bank to being a CTO and co-founder of an innovative Fintech startup.
💪 The resilience she and her co-founder needed while building a solution that businesses will embrace.
🚧 The barriers that the tech industry needs to break to solve its branding problem with women.
Plus, you’ll discover that men can be great models for women in tech, too.
When you’re ready to listen and learn from Sonal Rattan what the future of data protection looks like, find episode 59 of Women Disrupting Tech on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube, and hit play ⏯️.
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What makes this episode magical🌟?
Sonal’s passion, knowledge, and engaging storytelling make this episode an extraordinary experience. For example, when she shares the discussions around the kitchen table with her co-founder about her initial solution, she is told that her solution would not work. She takes on the challenge of rebuilding her solution to fit his specifications and ends up with a better product.
In addition, she is the first female CTO on the show and hopefully one of many to come.
One particular anecdote stands out – the story of her daughter’s journey into tech. It underlines the struggle that young women (and indeed young people) have to go through to get into tech. Encouraged by her mother, she took a computer science class at school only to discover that she absolutely hated it.
Then, she participated in some projects for tech companies to discover that she loved AI. This highlights the importance of making tech education more practical and engaging for young people.
“Being a CTO was always on the cards for me.”
Sonal Rattan, CTO and Co-founder of eXate
About Sonal Rattan
Sonal Rattan is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at eXate. Before founding eXate as part of ING Labs, she worked in various tech capacities for large multinational banks like HSBC and UBS. You can follow her journey and connect with her on LinkedIn.
Exate is reshaping the future of data protection to make it easy. Their solution helps multinational companies let data flow across borders while ensuring compliance with data protection, privacy, and security regulations. You can find more information about eXate on their website and follow them on Twitter/X, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
Let me know what you think!
When you’ve finished listening to this episode of Women Disrupting Tech, please let me know what you think about it in the comments.
I’m curious to learn how you view tech education at primary and middle schools. Is it practical enough? And, if not, how can we make it more appealing to young people.
By the way, if you would like to suggest a guest that I absolutely must have on the podcast, send me an email or send me a DM on LinkedIn.
What’s coming up?
Next week on Women Disrupting Tech, we’ll go on the blockchain as Connie Bloem explains how she is building the future of investing with Mesh.
After that, Asceline Groot and Wyke Potjer will be our guides as we discover how we can live a happy, healthy, and sustainable life.
So stay tuned for more amazing women disrupting tech and their male allies in season three of Women Disrupting Tech!
More episodes like this?
If you like to listen to more episodes like this one, here are a few recommendations.
– Martine van de Gaar’s startup Linksight is solving a similar problem: sharing large data sets between companies. Episode 50 features an interview with Martine.
– Sujata Dasgupta helps companies prevent cybercrime. In episode 24, we hear how she takes inspiration from the dark side while remaining an eternal optimist.
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