"Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude."

Anastasia Abuya didn't set out to build a career in technology. She stumbled into it — first as a Computer Resident Assistant at Wesleyan College, troubleshooting blue screens of death for a dormitory full of students, then at a logistics company where joining tables in Crystal Reports sparked something she hadn't expected. 

 

That spark sent her down the street to Loyola University - Chicago, where a full tuition scholarship and a Masters of Science in Information Technology confirmed what she was beginning to suspect: technology hadn't found her by accident. It had been calling her all along.

 

What followed was a career defined by a single pattern. Give Anastasia a blank slate, a hard problem, and the autonomy to lead — and she will build something that didn't exist before. 

 

At GE Healthcare, she conceived a mobile app from scratch that saved 2,000 engineers 90% of their manual processing time. 

 

At Dell, she set the north star vision for the customer personal computer onboarding experience and owned an AI product portfolio projecting $108M in new revenue. 

 

At Disney, she defined the transition strategy for an $18M Computer Vision program and launched two products that sold out within the first week. 

 

The industries change, but Anastasia’s pattern of success does not.

 

Before Anastasia leads, she learns — though in practice the two are inseparable.  She gets deep enough in the subject to build the strategic foundation herself - or to know exactly where to strengthen the one that’s already there.

She also learned something growing up in Trinidad and Tobago that she carries into every room she walks into: the quietest people are usually some of the sharpest. She makes a point of bringing them in — because a room where only the loudest voices get heard is a room leaving value on the table.

 

Outside of work, Anastasia reads thrillers like they're a reward, paints artwork she gives to friends as pieces of herself, and keeps close company with a circle of strong, smart women. Anastasia also has two little ones, she and her hubby enjoy experiencing the world fresh through their eyes.

 

Anastasia is currently focused on her next chapter: product management leadership, where the blank slates are bigger, the stakes are higher, and the thing she builds next hasn't been imagined yet.