Kamna Sama — CTO

Leveraging an international career spanning two decades, Kamna has led pivotal technology strategic imperatives across manufacturing, automotive and industrial sectors. As a bold purpose-driven leader, she is known for shaping technology through a business lens— converting strategy into executable actions; building future-ready teams; championing responsible innovation. Guided by the belief that breakthrough growth requires unconstrained thinking, Kamna consistently embraces a ‘systems thinking mindset’, ensuring a productive symbiosis between business objectives and technology advancement. Through decades of leadership in technology transformation, M&A Integrations, smart factory & plant realizations, global IT modernization and security hardening, she has amassed a solid history of significant outcomes across cost optimization, production efficiency and resilience, as well as software product development acceleration. As Chief Technology and Information Officer at Volkswagen Group Digital Solutions India (Technology Solution Arm serving VW Group), she has architected the AI Product & Innovation Strategy. Through forging a deep partner ecosystem she established VW’s AI Innovation-to-Growth Hub to deliver GenAI solutions for a series of Volkswagen’s iconic brands. She is recognized as one of the “Top 100 Innovative AI Leaders” by India Analytics. As Business Technology Leader at Cummins, she led digital transformation for two $B+ business segments, optimizing 10 plants through AI, automation, digitalization and data-driven strategies to boost efficiency and resilience. A champion of empowering, empathetic and inclusive leadership, Kamna thrives in multicultural environments and is deeply committed to client satisfaction and talent development. She is a frequent speaker on AI and transformative leadership and is a passionate advocate for women in STEM. Awards & Recognition : 🏆 Top 100 Innovative AI Leaders – India Analytics 🏆 Digital Samurai Award – Cummins | Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing Excellence – TCS 🏆 TCS Innovista Finalist | Synergy Award for Collaboration Excellence Key Focus Areas : AI & Innovation Strategy | Digital & Business Transformation | M&A / GCC Leadership | Cybersecurity & IT Modernization | P&L Readiness | Inclusive Leadership

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in AI-driven digital transformation within the automotive and manufacturing sectors.

Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India

Experience: 23 yrs 10 mos