Finalists named for Women Tech Council's 2022 awards

Salt Lake City-based Women Tech Council has announced the finalists for its 2022 Women Tech Awards. The winners will be honored at an awards luncheon on Sept. 22 at the Grand America Hotel in Salt Lake City. The 2022 awards are sponsored by Divvy, Domo, Pelion Venture Partners and Vivint.

Women Tech Council said the awards focus on women who are creating new technologies, leading technology companies, driving innovation and inspiring the tech community.

“In 15 years, we’ve seen the undeniable power that comes from recognizing the work and impact of women who are leading the technology sector, some of whom have never had formal recognition for their groundbreaking work,” said Cydni Tetro, president of WTC. “Giving visibility to these deserving women has rewritten the trajectory of our entire technology community, from innovations and new products to companies and leadership teams, and recognizing this year’s finalists will accelerate that impact even further.”{mprestriction ids="1,3"}

The 2022 finalists are AJ Brau, CEO of Wander; Alexa Kalandiak, a mechanical engineer at PassiveLogic; Amy Frampton, head of marketing at BambooHR; Amy Jo Moore, design engineering director at Northrop Grumman; Anesha McCormick,  director of product for Pluralsight; Hau Moy Kwan, associate professor of computer science at Salt Lake Community College; Heidi Anderson, chief information officer at Prestige Financial Services Inc.; JaeLynn Williams, CEO of AirMethods; Julia Silge, data scientist and software engineer at RStudio PBC; Katie Neilson, co-founder and president of Assure; Kirsten Timms, senior vice president of biomarker discovery at Myriad Genetics; Kiva Allgood, CEO and president of Sarcos; and Krista Pappas, vice president of enterprise applications at TalkDesk.

Also named were Kristina Yamada, computer science and information technology CTE education specialist for the Utah State Board of Education; Manu Sood, senior vice president of platform delivery and operations at AvidXchange; Melanie Robinson, CEO of WEBB; Natalie Birrell, senior vice president of engineering at Entrata; Pallavi Ranade-Kharkar,  director of research informatics and precision health at Intermountain Healthcare; Sarah Wiley, vice president of product development at Hightop; Steph Couzin, vice president of strategic finance and business operations for Lucid Software; Sunnie Giles, general partner at Lane Venture Capital; and Travis Anna Hallstrom, co-founder and director of marketing of PassiveLogic.

Winners will be selected by a panel of judge that includes Karl Sun of Lucid, Rob Ruecker of Sorenson Capital, Derek White of Galileo, Catherine Wong of Domo, Heather Conlan Katz of Goldman Sachs, Seraphine Kapsandoy of Centene Corp., Sujatha Sampath of TI, Jennifer Smith of Zions Bancorp and Dan Hemmert  of the Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Opportunity.{/mprestriction}