Etsy’s Former CTO: Don’t Reject an Opportunity Before It Exists. | Rachana Kumar

Aon at The Top: Interviewing Executives on their Paths to the C-Suite and Boardroom · Mar 5, 2026 · 49m

In this episode of Aon at the Top, I sit down with Rachana Kumar, a trailblazing global CTO, product executive, and board director with more than two decades of experience shaping the future of technology and scaling hypergrowth organizations. We dive into what it means to lead through a business turnaround, how to balance data with intuition, and why the best career advice she ever received was "don’t reject an opportunity before it exists."

Timestamps:

00:09:33 - Being the first generation of women in her family to work outside the home

00:14:33 - The 2017 Etsy turnaround

00:19:18 -…