Our leadership

Renée La Londe founded itD in 2005 with the vision of forging a new paradigm in tech consulting. In 2019, itD added SaaS to its expertise by launching three first-in-class SaaS products, an accomplishment that led to her being named Tech Innovator of the Year by Golden Bridge Awards in 2020.

Renée’s groundbreaking contributions to the industry through itD have won her company more than twenty Stevie® Awards, two Forrester Groundswell Awards, five Lithy Awards, two Best in Biz Awards, the Cisco Diversity Award, and many other accolades.

Renée La Londe has devoted herself to helping women find their voice in the tech industry and closing the gender gap in STEM throughout her career. In recognition of her efforts in this area, she was named Most Inspiring Executive in STEM by Women in STEM.

She is the founder of GLAM (Girls Leadership Academy Meetup), a nonprofit initiative that teaches girls aged 8-12 business acumen, leadership, and computer coding skills, to address the root causes of the gender gap early in life.

Renée was named one of the Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Tech by the National Diversity Council, is the recipient of an Enterprising Women of the Year Award and the National Mentoring Awards STEM Mentoring Award, and was named to the prestigious CRN Women of the Channel List. She also won a Stevie® Award for Female Entrepreneur of the Year, and participated as an expert speaker at Global Telecom Women’s Network and Women4Tech during Mobile World Congress, among other industry conferences. She co-wrote the book, Social Knowledge: Organizational Currencies in the New Knowledge Economy.

Karen brings more than 20 years of experience building and scaling global revenue engines across enterprise SaaS, platform, and services businesses. She has led large, complex portfolios, including a $3.5B business with more than 500 software partners, and has launched internal startups that achieved 10x growth in under a year. She is known for stepping into ambiguity, creating clarity, and aligning teams around customer-driven growth.

Karen combines strategic vision with hands-on execution, ensuring that go-to-market strategy translates into measurable results. Her leadership philosophy is simple: sustainable growth happens when teams are aligned, accountable, and relentlessly focused on delivering real value to customers. She also brings a sharp sense of humor to high-pressure environments, because building at scale should be intense, not unbearable.

Melody Po brings over 20 years of experience at the intersection of technology, investment strategy, and operational leadership. She has spent her career working alongside founders and leadership teams to translate emerging technologies into scalable, high-performing business models. With a background that spans venture advisory and institutional leadership, Melody is known for her ability to identify growth patterns and build the organizational infrastructure that supports long-term success.

She has a track record of leading complex global organizations through phases of growth and transformation, ensuring that strategic vision is backed by operational rigor and clear accountability. At itD, she is responsible for the global operational engine, focusing on organizational clarity, delivery governance, and the cross-functional alignment required to scale the company’s AI-first services and product offerings.

Melody’s leadership approach is centered on creating a culture of execution and high-performance. She is dedicated to building scalable systems that allow talent to thrive and ensuring that the organization is positioned to deliver consistent value to its clients and partners. She is a champion for mission-driven leadership and believes in the power of building diverse, high-trust teams to achieve sustainable growth.

Melody holds a Bachelor’s degree and an MBA from MIT.

Vikas has 25+ years of experience in providing architectural, technical & functional leadership in development, configuration, delivery of CRM, integration, custom application, business intelligence & enterprise search, for global organizations like Netapp, HP, Finastra, Global Foundries and other hi-tech companies. He brings extensive experience in delivering solutions from conception to production using global teams.

As the VP of Product Engineering at itD, he is responsible for shaping and implementing the product vision, strategy and design. He is passionate about adopting technology to solve business problems. He holds a Bachelors of Engineering degree in Electronics from University of Mumbai, India.

Cecilia Landeros is the Global Director of Human Resources at itD, where she leads the company’s global people strategy across multiple regions, aligning talent, culture, and operations to support scalable, sustainable growth. She oversees worldwide HR operations while driving enterprise-wide organizational transformation, leveraging people analytics and data-driven insights to inform decision-making, optimize workforce performance, and enhance employee experience. In addition to HR leadership, Cecilia steers ESG and DEI initiatives, embedding inclusion, equity, and social responsibility into the fabric of itD’s global operations. She is recognized for translating complex business needs into actionable people strategies, building future-ready organizations, and partnering with executive leadership to navigate change in dynamic, global environments.

Previously, Cecilia held leadership and management roles at Apple, Infraworks, and SystemOne Technologies, where she played a key role in scaling global teams, modernizing HR capabilities, and aligning workforce strategy with evolving business objectives.

Cecilia is also the Director of Operations for Girls Leadership Academy Meetup (GLAM), one of itD’s two non-profit organizations. GLAM is a global nonprofit organization that offers two-day in-person and online STEAM education and leadership development programs which are free to attendees through corporate sponsorships and donations. GLAM events provide girls aged 8-12 and young women mentors aged 13+ with empowerment, inspiration, and support to believe in themselves and reach for their goals in business, STEAM, and leadership. GLAM’s award-winning curriculum includes the tools and scaffolding to help them find their voice, build their business acumen, and gain skills they need to become future global leaders! By learning from high level female leaders, participating in lively Q&A sessions, and exploring their superpowers in hands-on STEAM activities, attendees and mentors engage with positive role models and experience what’s possible for them, regardless of their socioeconomic circumstances.

Ryan leads a global team of data professionals who help clients unlock the value of their BI, Data & Analytics solutions. With over 20 years of experience in management consulting, he has an extensive track record for incubating and scaling new capabilities with clients across several industries; most notably, retail, high-tech, life sciences, biotech, financial services, insurance and higher education.

His specialties include defining data strategies, building high-performing teams, overseeing the delivery of business objectives, and providing thought leadership on emerging data and AI trends. Ryan is passionate about creating data-driven cultures, enabling data governance, driving business intelligence, adopting AI and machine learning, and exploring new generative AI, GPT, data mesh, and data fabric design patterns.

He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business from Illinois State University. He enjoys fly fishing, exploring other cultures, and spending time with his family.

Mel is a transformative technology and cybersecurity executive with more than 25 years of experience leading enterprise modernization, global security programs, and multibillion-dollar growth initiatives. Known as the “Chaos-to-Order” architect, Mel specializes in bridging the gap between boardroom strategy and operational excellence, ensuring organizations modernize securely and drive results with precision.

Throughout his career, Mel has been a catalyst for rapid, high-stakes scaling. He has helped grow credit portfolios from $3B to $12B in 18 months, guided two IPOs, and generated over $700M in savings through security and GTM alignment. A dual-certified CIO/CISO, he brings deep expertise across technology, financial services, retail, and SaaS sectors.

Mel combines technical authority with a human-centric approach to leadership. Recognized with 13 Gartner Executive Leadership Awards and 3 LinkedIn Top Voice honors, he is a frequent keynote speaker and a #1 Amazon Bestselling Author. His philosophy is built on establishing cultures of trust and accountability, empowering teams to build what is next without compromising on security or speed.

Beyond his executive role, Mel is dedicated to mentoring the next generation of industry talent. He serves as an Executive Coach and advisor across ISSA, ISACA, and ISC², and continues to support emerging leaders through nonprofits like the Federation of Digital Guardians and ISSA SoCal.

Cody Blue Gardner is a strategic operations leader with more than 15 years of experience driving large-scale transformation and operational excellence across global enterprise environments. He is known for building scalable systems, strengthening execution, and aligning teams around clear priorities that support sustained business impact.

His career includes leading major programs at Meta, where he scaled the company’s flagship New Hire Orientation and GMS Orientation programs to support more than 500 new employees each week, strengthened enterprise vendor ecosystems, and designed operating frameworks and workflows that improved accuracy, accelerated execution, and established consistent delivery standards across distributed teams.

At itD, Cody leads both the Account Management and Recruiting functions. He drives the redesign of delivery workflows, elevates operational standards, and implements process improvements that reduce friction, increase velocity, and strengthen outcomes for consultants and clients. He also contributes significantly to the PMO Community of Practice, advancing project management capability and reinforcing operational excellence across the organization.

He is known for creating clarity in complex environments, aligning teams around the work that matters, and building the operational infrastructure that enables consistent, high-quality execution at scale.