The Organizational Executive Impact award recognizes executives driving meaningful, measurable transformation within their organization, regardless of company size. Here’s a closer look at this year’s three finalists.
Caroline Cochran is the Chief People Officer at Candescent, the leading cloud-native digital banking platform serving 1,300+ U.S. banks and credit unions. She leads global people and talent strategy, driving employee engagement, talent development, and a high-performance organizational culture with a data-driven approach. Caroline’s career spans HR leadership, enterprise technology, and risk and compliance, including executive roles at QGenda and Secureworks, a Dell Technologies company. She serves as a Board Member & Executive Committee Member of the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) and is a graduate of the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia.
Tasha S. McCall is VP, Payments & Agentic Commerce at Synchrony Financial, where she leads emerging payments product strategy, contributing to $6B+ in YTD sales toward a $12B digital payments portfolio goal. With more than 20 years in FinTech and financial services, including leadership roles at Fiserv, Worldpay, Truist Bank, Ceridian, CheckFree, Goldman Sachs, and JP Morgan Chase, Tasha is a proven FinTech Digital Transformation executive who has launched 50+ products and enhancements and managed multi-million dollar P&Ls.
She holds degrees from Yale University, Columbia Business School, and Middlesex University, U.K. A dedicated champion for Women in Technology (WIT), Tasha serves as co-lead of Synchrony’s WIT partnership, securing ~$100K in overall WIT sponsorship.
Additionally, Tasha serves on the Leadership Perimeter Board developing impactful Atlanta community leaders through a focus on civic engagement and regional impact.
Jaga Saravanan, Chief of Technology Operations at MagMutual, is a senior technology executive with 25+ years leading enterprise transformation, reliability engineering, cloud modernization, and AI enablement across financial services, fintech, and healthcare insurance. She pairs deep technical expertise with strategic business leadership to drive innovation and growth.
At 24, she founded Vupusaki Software (Chennai, 1998; acquired 2013), built with a predominantly women technology team. At MagMutual, she led the enterprise SRE transformation reducing post-refresh defects 75%+ and burnout ~40% while governing 1,600+ annual production changes. At Bakkt, she lifted platform availability from 95% to 99.99% and CSAT from 78 to 88. She is a Georgia State Certified VEX coach and FIRST head coach (2017 VEX IQ World Excellence Award), an MIT Sloan AI alumna, and a community mentor advancing women through technology and the arts.
The 2026 WIT Awards winners will be announced October 22 at the Georgia Aquarium. See all 2026 finalists →