About:

Meghna Punhani is Chief People Officer at Eightfold AI and a business executive working at the intersection of AI, business strategy, organizational design, and leadership. She partners with CEOs, boards, and executive teams to help organizations scale, innovate, and create value by rethinking work, leadership, and operating models in an AI-first world. Over more than two decades, Meghna has held leadership roles at Google, Palo Alto Networks, DevRev, and Eightfold AI. She spent nearly 17 years at Google across People, Strategy & Business Operations, and Corporate Engineering, later served as Senior Vice President of Strategic Operations and Employee Experience at Palo Alto Networks, and now leads the global People organization at Eightfold AI. At Eightfold, she has helped position the company as its own Customer Zero, using AI to redesign hiring, talent management, and the way work gets done across the business. Meghna believes AI is not simply a technology transformation. It is a business transformation that redefines how organizations create value. Her work focuses on helping leaders build organizations that can continuously adapt, make better decisions, and thrive as AI reshapes the future of work.