Sheila Lodhia

Sheila Lodhia is Vice President of Business Technology, Application Development for Card.

Ms. Lodhia has more than 15 years of experience in delivering business strategies and technology solutions for Discover Card.  Prior to Application Development in 2000, she was part of the Internal Audit Department responsible for corporate finance, operational and systems audits located in New York, Illinois and across Discover Card’s Operation Centers.  In recent years she leads the agile transformation across Card’s value streams driving higher productivity and better products for the customer.

As a technology leader, she is an enabler between people and systems with a proven track record of unlocking customer value thru transformations in the way business and technology work together, and modernization of legacy applications to current technologies. She sees technology as an enabler to deliver the end product to the customer faster and, as a result, Discover is able to impact a customer’s experience by making it more relevant, personalized and timely – all characteristics required for Discover to be the leader in the financial service industry.

As a people leader, she encourages teams to continuously challenge the 'status quo' and learn to improve current ways.  As a result, they are able to attain new skill sets and better Discover’s processes and technologies.