A fireside chat featuring Aparna Bawa, Bus Ad ’99, Chief Operating Officer, Zoom, moderated by James H. Keyes Dean of Business Administration, Andrew DeGuire, Bus Ad ’93

REGISTRATION COMING SOON

April 23, 2025, 5:00 p.m.

Marquette University Campus  
Dr. E. J. and Margaret O’Brien Hall 
Michels Family Forum (first floor event space)
1530 W. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee

Featuring:

Aparna Bawa

Chief Operating Officer, Zoom 

The June and Herman Loebl Women Business Leaders Speaker Series features distinguished women business leaders who have reached the highest levels of achievement and leadership in their professional sphere. In April, we will welcome Aparna Bawa, Chief Operating Officer at Zoom. Aparna enables explosively growing businesses to develop and operationalize strategy. Has the expertise in leading technology companies as they scale through periods of intense growth and transformation. In particular, helping businesses achieve the right balance between reward and risk when moving quickly with incomplete information. With a strong background in strategy and operations, corporate law, technology investment banking and SaaS platforms, Aparna brings a unique perspective, making critical and practical business decisions every day.

Aparna brings to Zoom an expertise in building infrastructure for rapidly growing technology companies as they scale. Most recently, she was SVP, General Counsel for Magento Commerce, the leading global provider of ecommerce software solutions. She helped sell the company to Adobe in 2018. Prior to Magento, Aparna was the VP, General Counsel for Nimble Storage (NYSE: NMBL); she was instrumental in the company’s initial public offering in 2013. Later, she was a key contributor in Nimble’s sale to Hewlett Packard Enterprise in 2017. Previously, Aparna led the legal and corporate development functions for Inphi Corp (NYSE: IPHI). Bawa began her career as a corporate and securities attorney for Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. She was also an investment banker at Lehman Brothers and Deutsche Bank, where she executed multiple IPO and M&A transactions for technology clients. Aparna is a Board member of Palo Alto Networks and Claflin University.

About the Series

The June and Herman Loebl Women Business Leader Speaker Series features distinguished women business leaders who have reached the highest levels of achievement and leadership in their professional sphere. They will share their experiences and insights in order to inspire and ignite the Marquette community. This speaker series incorporates a unique blend of presentation and interactive dialogues. In this way, it enables students, faculty, staff, and all of the Marquette University community to interact and engage with renowned women business leaders.

Marquette University’s College of Business Administration has named its Women Business Leaders speaker series in honor of June and Herman Loebl, thanks to a generous gift of $1 million to advance women in leadership within the college. The newly named June and Herman Loebl Women Business Leaders Speaker Series highlights women in business and leadership roles making a difference in the community. Herman Loebl received his undergraduate degree in Business Administration from Marquette in 1941 and served as chair of the accounting and finance department, director of the MBA program, assistant dean and associate dean during his 38-year career at Marquette. Herman and his wife, June, were deeply committed to making education available to all, in the spirit of the Jesuit mission.

For inquiries or more information about the speaker series, please contact daniel.deweerdt@marquette.edu