Combining expertise in AI, IoT, SaaS, and cyber security with market insight, Chaitra Vedullapalli, has driven billion-dollar expansion for Microsoft and Oracle. She founded Meylah, a thriving cloud services/technology company, from the ground up, and has grown and optimised businesses through large-scale digital transformations across complex, global environments.
Chaitra was recruited as an Oracle consultant. Her journey at Oracle helped her understand technology in all its glory, from development to licensing. She was responsible for drafting a Software Licensing Guide for Oracle software, still in use. However, she wished to work with Microsoft since they were able to impact a billion lives with technology.
“When the opportunity came calling, it was beyond exciting since there was a sheer enthusiasm to learn about creating a billion-dollar strategy, which Microsoft mastered,” says Chaitra. The shift from dismissing technology to now operating in the largest industry has been extraordinary. Today, at Meylah, her husband and Chaitra are striving to build an enterprise ready business to serve our customers with cloud and AI solutions.
Below are the highlights of the interview conducted between World’s Leaders and Meylah:
Describe Meylah’s offerings that address the need of your customers.
Meylah Corporation is a premier Microsoft Gold Cloud Solution Provider that helps customers migrate, innovate, and grow with cloud solutions. Our mission is to create economic access through digital transformation and empower communities to leverage technology for sustainable growth.
At Meylah, we believe that all businesses should have access to digital opportunities to grow their bottom line – it’s as simple as that. Through providing education and easy-to-implement technology, we ensure that our customers, both big and small, can enter and thrive in the digital space as they look to grow their business.
One of our focus areas is economic development via digital transformation. We have executed several projects in smart retail, smart tourism, and digital transformation supporting SMB’s. Our ecommerce marketplace platform supports over 10,000 SMBs across the globe. For over a decade, Meylah Corporation has been supporting SMB’s in their digital transformation. Our goal and passion is to create affordable, effective, and transformative solutions that benefit all. Meylah has a significant depth of experience in building cloud-based applications with a specific focus on economic empowerment and digital transformation.
What are the challenges you and your team at Meylah come across in your day-to-day operations?
There are three areas of challenges stemming from the world we are operating in. The three areas where I put a lot of my energy are:
- Remote Workforce Management – recruiting, nurturing and building their identity.
- Customer Acquisition – building right kind of marketing and sales funnels.
- Raising Investment – how to jointly raise investment to do co-selling with customers and partners.
What people, what books, what life factors have influenced and impacted you?
I read one book a month. Atomic Habits, Leading Executive Conversations, Anti Fragility, Think like a Monk, and Emotional Agility are some of my favorites. I listen to a lot of TED talks. I invest a lot of research around Economic Access and how it gets impacted.
Describe in detail the values and the work culture that drive Meylah.
Access and Inclusion in all walks of our effort:
Ecosystem Development – collaborating with Fortune and community brands to build scalable networks for innovation Marketing Innovation to digital transform Co-selling via Cloud Marketplaces by leveraging data, campaign, content and events
Where do you envision yourself to be in the long run and what are your future goals for Meylah?
Every company in the market supports digital transformation. The key to being successful is to differentiate your offerings and service. I defy you to compete on the basis of price and capabilities. Value, impact, and access are our core pillars, looking to benefit purpose driven leaders and companies that drive inclusive growth and impact in the marketplace.
Hence, at Meylah, we focus on 3 core things:
- SaaS Solution offering for enabling digital transformation within days instead of months.
- Invest in public-private opportunities to build smart communities to accelerate economic development.
- Enterprise ready services to help enterprises to digital transformation their business through Blue Ocean strategies.
What would be your advice to budding business leaders?
The technology industry has not only taught me to adopt change but also embrace the rate of change. The rate of change in the industry is increasing by the hour and demands constant oversight of current trends. To combat stress and feeling overwhelmed, there are three key traits I believe each business woman should possess:
Situational leadership: This leadership strategy is extremely beneficial to be present and take decisions that a certain scenario requires. A situation assessment is based on data, people, behavior and outcomes you desire. In my journey, I have been able to embrace the rate of change and also serve the customers with least exhaustion by adopting this attribute.
Economic Access Creation: Access creation is another characteristic I passionately practice to unlock economic opportunities for people around you. My mantra is to help people achieve their highest level of growth on the Maslow’s pyramid.
Ultimately, acquiring emotional and relationship currencies to understand people and unlock blockers for them to realize their ultimate potential. I believe a leaders’ capabilities and achievements lie in the contentment of the people they are leading.
