Saidah Nash Carter ’96
Saidah Nash Carter ’96
Cape Town, South Africa
Saidah is a trailblazing, global leader with a corporate career spanning two decades and marked by expertise in global data product innovation, corporate social responsibility and intrapreneurship. Beginning her career with Reuters NewMedia during the early days of the consumer internet, Saidah played a pivotal role in developing multimedia news products for global media and tech giants like The New York Times and Google. Many years later, as the former senior vice president of Africa Innovation at Thomson Reuters, she launched the flagship Data and Innovation Lab in Cape Town, South Africa, with award winning innovations in financial inclusion and risk management for small commercial farmers.

Saidah is known for pushing the boundaries of corporate thinking and championing social innovation and intrapreneurship within large institutions. Notably, she served on the Junior Achievement Board of New York and facilitated one of the earliest conversations on Race in Corporate America at Thomson Reuters New York City Headquarters in 2016.

Her standout accomplishments also include a mobile financial data co-creation program between Vodafone and Thomson Reuters, which fundamentally expanded the company's partnership and IP ownership paradigms and resulted in leading-edge, data product innovation. She is passionate about fostering intrapreneurship and collaborates closely with the League of Intrapreneurs as a global catalyst. She has been recognized with awards such as the Inspiring 50 Women in Tech Award and the United Nations Voices of African Mothers Innovation Award.

In 2019, she co-founded Bright Insights Global (BIG), a boutique consultancy that partners with companies at the intersection of innovation, inclusion and impact. Soon after, she founded BIG Labs for Good as a platform for data-led social innovation and community initiatives like Ask An Elder, which encourages storytelling as a pathway to intergenerational partnership for positive futures. She is a devoted wife and mother to her daughters, Zoe and Maya Haley, and exemplifies passion not only in her professional pursuits but also in nurturing the next generation.