Padma Vatsavai, Founder & CEO of Vinformatix, was one of eight capital-area business leaders inducted into Baton Rouge Business Report’s 2020 Class of Influential Women in Business.

When asked about her perseverance and resiliency as a non-native minority business owner during Business Report’s celebratory webcast, Padma responded, “It meant knocking on a lot of doors that didn’t open. I had to develop a thick skin and learn to adjust, pivot, and keep pushing forward. Eventually, we developed strategic partnerships with strong local companies and built a reputation through the great work that we did with them.”

Under her leadership, and guidance, Vinformatix continues to serve as a leading representative of Louisiana’s emerging home-grown digital economy specializing in a range of technological solutions including:  custom software & web development, database services (including design, implementation and management) , data analytics and reporting . Padma also reiterated her desire for Vinformatix is to “attract more federal projects and dollars to support the rich pool of talent we have right here in Louisiana.  And I have a special commitment to creating opportunities and resources for the next generation of ambitious and geeky young women who want to pursue careers in tech.“

Vinformatix is a Certified Woman Owned Small Business founded in 2008 that provides custom software, data analysis and expert consulting to a wide range of corporate and government agency clients. The company is a GSA IT Schedule 70 contract holder, LED Hudson Initiative and HUBZone Certified and a member of the National Minority Development Council.