Debjani Deb
Senior Counselor

Debjani is a co-founder and managing partner of EmPower Research, LLC, a Business Research and Information Consulting (BRIC) firm headquartered in New York City. Its value proposition is “highly customized time critical, cost effective and consulting firm quality research that focuses on providing insights rather than just data.” Its offshore business model has attracted the interest of dozens of senior corporate communications executives. As a senior counselor at PulsePoint Group, Debjani focuses on market intelligence and leveraging research for business results. She has worked with such clients as Honeywell and Moody’s, among others.

Prior to founding EmPower Research, Debjani spent three years with WPP’s GCI Group as Chief Strategy Officer. In this role, she was advising the CEO and management team of the company. She was also partnering with GCI General Managers across the country and Europe to drive best practices while driving nationwide organizational realignment to implement sector focus and draw on scale efficiencies.

Debjani also worked at ONI Systems as Director of Strategic Marketing where she worked with the executive team to define next generation product strategy. Before moving to ONI, Debjani spent a year as Director of Product Strategy & Business Development at Mayan Networks. At Mayan she led many key initiatives, one of which was to assist the executive team with overall company direction, 2-5 year business planning, which included M&A strategy and identifying and doing due diligence on prospective acquisitions/acquirers.

Debjani has also spent several years at Booz-Allen and Hamilton as a Senior Associate. Here she led key strategy initiatives for multiple clients. Debjani began her career as a project manager at AT&T Communications Services where her stellar work won her the AT&T Merit Award.

Debjani holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University and an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.