Myleeta AgaWilliams is spearheading upGrad’s expansion plans across APAC, EMEA, and North America. She brings over two decades of experience in global and digital businesses and is a proven change-maker with a passion for lifelong learning. As CEO International for upGrad, Myleeta leads the end-to-end international operations for creating region-specific product pipelines to drive growth and revenue. Her background in scaling businesses through strategic interventions across content and global distribution for broadcast and streaming media is a key accelerant for upGrad’s global expansion plans.
Previously, Myleeta has managed diverse product portfolios and led marketing and sales teams across geographies at Netflix, BBC Studios, Discovery, and UTV amongst others. In her role at Netflix as the Director of Content for Southeast Asia and Australia, she led teams while commissioning originals and programming content across Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, and Australia.
Before joining Netflix, Myleeta spent over a decade in senior roles at BBC Studios, where she was briefly charged with the P&L of the company’s operations across Asia following her leadership of South and Southeast Asia – including channels, TV and digital sales, production, consumer products and Global News distribution, as well as BBC Player – an authenticated SVOD service. She also supervised the production of several BBC formats in the region including “Dancing with the Stars”, “The Office” and “Criminal Justice”. Prior to joining BBC Studios, Myleeta helped Co-found TV guide channel, ‘What’s On India’. She has also worked as an Executive Producer at Discovery based out of Washington DC for eight years, overseeing multiple factual and entertainment series from conception to execution. During this time, she earned two Emmy nominations for her work as executive producer on Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations. Myleeta has an MBA from Georgetown University, Washington D.C.
Myleeta started her new role as CEO – International at upGrad in August 2022 and is presently based out of Singapore. upGrad is an integrated LifeLongLearning tech company with 3M+ total registered learners from 100+ countries. It offers online higher education programs to everyone within the age bracket of 18 to 60+ years and boasts a program completion record of 85% through its high engagement curriculum, also backed by a further 80%+ career outcomes-guaranteed performance.