Ruth Whalen is the Director of Customer Integration at Sinch. She is responsible for successfully migrating customers onto consolidated messaging services (text messaging, push notifications, emails, and social messaging) for Enterprises such as banks and between telecommunication carriers. In addition to managing projects across the company, she is also a Diversity and Inclusion and is a certified career coach.

Ruth earned her B.S. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from University of California at Los Angeles, where she was named the Outstanding Bachelor of Science student for the School of Engineering. She continued her studies and received her M.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts. Ruth started her professional career as the 3rd employee of a startup company focused on computerized patient records. That company grew to 1300 employees and was bought by Sybase in 2001 which was later acquired by SAP in 2011. In November 2020, Swedish company Sinch purchased the SAP Digital Interconnect division and Ruth moved into a role to help with integration. All these changes have allowed Ruth to try varied technical roles and has reinforced the importance of flexibility and a willingness to change.

As an empty-nester mother of 3, she lives in Denver, Colorado in the United States with her husband Peter, 2 dogs and a cat. She loves animals and volunteers at the Denver Zoo.

Mary grew up in Mombasa, Kenya. Her circumstances motivated her to study diligently and she was one of the first girls to join the Global Give Back Circle, an organization that guides at-risk girls to complete their educational journey, gain employable skills, and transition into the workplace. Joining this organization pivoted Mary’s journey and set ablaze her desires to achieve more.

In 2010, Mary received a full scholarship to the American University in Dubai (AUD), and became the first African woman to be elected President of the Student Government. She graduated with honors and pursued a Master’s in Business Administration on a full scholarship at the same university.

Mary’s unwavering desire to succeed has given her the opportunity to share the stage with U.S. President Bill Clinton, attend a training championed by former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the Women in Public Service Institute at Bryn Mawr College, and be a Youth Advisor for Microsoft’s YouthSpark Initiative, and selected out of 6000 applicants as one of Women Deliver’s Young Leaders. Mary is now working at Johnson & Johnson as a Marketing professional Managing Women’s Health brands for Africa, Middle East, and Turkey. Mary is on a continuous learning journey and her vision is to see to it that she can meaningfully contribute to the making of innovative, dynamic, and fair economies/societies for all, and especially for the most vulnerable of communities.