Nadya Ichinomiya,
WiTH Foundation Chair and
Vice President, Head of Agile Transformation,
Enablement & Operations,
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Nadya serves as Vice President – Agile Transformation, Enablement, & Operations at Sony Pictures Entertainment working with teams, executives, and the C-suite to improve their speed of execution in an industry tackling vast amounts of disruption.
After graduating from the USC Marshall School of Business, Nadya cut her teeth at IBM in sales management.
At 27, she leveraged her intimacy with the umlaut (aka her fluency in German) becoming VP of Electronic Data Systems Germany with full $33 million P&L responsibility and 150-person department, shattering a glass ceiling as the company’s highest ranking woman in the region & youngest VP worldwide (117k employees.)
From Tech to Entertainment, she rebooted her career in the realm of nurturing/developing Creativity, both as a Hollywood TV producer for Bonnie Hunt (ABC’s “Life With Bonnie”) and Literary Manager for author Kelle Hampton whose memoir Bloom: Finding Beauty in the Unexpected debuted #11 on the NY Times Bestseller List.
Nine years ago, Nadya co-founded the Women In Technology: Hollywood organization (WiTH) and serves as Chairwoman of the non-profit foundation 501c3. She leads a board of directors with members from Amazon Studios, Disney, Lionsgate, Paramount, Riot Games, NBCUniversal, and Gracenote/Nielsen. WiTH is a cross media & entertainment initiative with 7000+ members from the major studios, with 6 committees, 100+ active volunteers and over $165,000 donated to local charities to build a pipeline of girls, women, and underrepresented people in the tech sector of entertainment. WiTH members create impact through being technology-career role models, mentors, and bold leaders.
Nadya is also a founding board member of GAAD, (Global Accessibility Awareness Foundation), a nonprofit organization whose mission is to disrupt the culture of technology to include accessibility as a core requirement. She also serves on the board of Warrior Films (makers of Hoop Dreams), filmmakers who inspire social change through transformational solutions.
