Beena Ammanath

Founder

San Francisco, California, United States33 yrs 3 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in leading global teams across diverse industries.
  • Published author on technology and leadership.
  • Board member for organizations promoting diversity in tech.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in technology ethics and innovation across multiple sectors.

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Artificial IntelligenceBusiness AcumenDataInnovationInspiring LeadershipIoT

About

Executive leader with demonstrated success at solving complex business problems with simplicity and team work leveraging ethical technology. Lead change from vision through execution at scale - across startups, large multinational corporations and M&A. Successful at building, inspiring and retaining high performance global teams across diverse industry verticals spanning e-commerce, IoT, marketing, telecom, retail, finance, manufacturing and services domains.

Experience

Uspto

Member, Nomination Evaluation Committee, NMTI

Jan 2024Jan 2025 · 1 yr · United States Patent and Trademark Office · Remote

  • The United States Patent and Trademark Office's National Medal of Technology and Innovation is the nation’s highest honor for technological achievement, bestowed by the president of the United States on America's leading innovators.
  • The Medal is awarded to individuals, teams (up to four individuals), companies or divisions of companies for their outstanding contributions to America’s economic, environmental and social well-being. The purpose of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation is to recognize those who have made lasting contributions to America's competitiveness, standard of living, and quality of life through technological innovation, and to recognize those who have made substantial contributions to strengthening the nation's technological workforce.
  • By highlighting the national importance of technological innovation, the Medal is also meant to inspire future generations of Americans to prepare for and pursue technical careers to keep America at the forefront of global technology and economic leadership.

Centre for trustworthy technology

Board Member

Jan 2023Jan 2025 · 2 yrs

  • The Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Centre for Trustworthy Technology aims to promote and facilitate safer and more trustworthy technology by improving the integrity of emerging technologies such as AI, blockchain, digital reality, quantum computing, and the metaverse.
  • The Centre for Trustworthy Technology will present opportunities to convene stakeholders from government, business, academia, and society to shape the agenda on ethical and trustworthy technology.

Aacsb

Innovation Committee Member

Jan 2023Jan 2024 · 1 yr

  • AACSB accredits the best business schools in the world. We are united to transform business education for positive societal impact.
  • AACSB International (AACSB), a global nonprofit association, connects educators, students, and business to achieve a common goal: to create the next generation of great leaders.
  • The Innovation Committee is charged with helping to empower business education providers and their partners to move deeply, strategically, and successfully in pursuit of new opportunities that positively impact business and society. The Innovation Committee explores emerging innovations and effective practices, helps to incubate ideas and a vision for business education.

Hbr: the year in tech, 2023

Book Author

Jan 2022Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

  • A year of HBR's essential thinking on tech—all in one place.
  • Easy-to-use AI tools, contactless commerce, crypto for business, the mature metaverse—new technologies like these are reshaping organizations at the hybrid office, on factory floors, and in the C-suite. What should you and your company be doing now to take advantage of the new opportunities these technologies are creating—and avoid falling victim to disruption? The Year in Tech 2023: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will help you understand what the latest and most important tech innovations mean for your organization and how you can use them to compete and win in today's turbulent business environment.
  • Business is changing. Will you adapt or be left behind?
  • Get up to speed and deepen your understanding of the topics that are shaping your company's future with the Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review series. Featuring HBR's smartest thinking on fast-moving issues—blockchain, cybersecurity, AI, and more—each book provides the foundational introduction and practical case studies your organization needs to compete today and collects the best research, interviews, and analysis to get it ready for tomorrow.
  • You can't afford to ignore how these issues will transform the landscape of business and society. The Insights You Need series will help you grasp these critical ideas—and prepare you and your company for the future.
  • https://www.amazon.com/Year-Tech-2023-Insights-Business-ebook/dp/B09Q995LWC

World economic forum global future council, future of global technology policy

Co-Chair

Jan 2022Jan 2024 · 2 yrs · Remote

  • Council mission and objectives
  • To seize the benefits of rapid technological progress, while managing its risks, it is essential to foster responsible technology governance and regulation, advance the digital transformation of sectors and industries, and promote tech-enabled solutions to serve people and the planet. How can policies, regulations and institutions be transformed to scale technologies responsibly?
  • The Global Future Councils serve as a brain trust for leaders from government, business and civil society, and support the Forum’s mission by bringing together experts bound by a shared mission to discuss the most critical issues, generate insights and analysis, and collaborate in shaping agendas.

Anitab.org

Board Member

Jan 2021Present · 5 yrs 2 mos

  • AnitaB.org is a Global nonprofit organization advancing women in STEM, supporting inclusive technology. AnitaB.org is the sponsoring organization of Grace Hopper Celebration.
  • I am honored to serve on the Board of Trustees for ABI. Member of Technology Committee and International Committee.

Zero latency leadership

Book Author

Jan 2021Present · 5 yrs 2 mos

  • Zero Latency Leadership
  • Driving equity, trust, and sustainability with emerging tech
  • Level up your leadership skills to engage emerging technology empowered by the principles of sustainability, equity, and trust. Build your technical literacy and decision-making framework while overcoming any anxieties about the proliferation of new technologies.
  • How do you keep up with the rapid advancements of technology while leading an organization or business? What frameworks are available to decide what is relevant and what isn’t quite ready for launch for your company? How do you make the right decisions in the now that will honor the past and respect the future? What do trust, sustainability, and equity have to do with technology?
  • Beena Ammanath uses her experience as a global thought leader to simplify complex topics and set a context for informed and mindful decision-making about technology. Zero Latency Leadership establishes the skills and mindset necessary to make wise and timely decisions about your technology footprint including:
  • The historical perspective and what it can teach us
  • Practical examples of how emerging innovations can be used in business
  • Considerations for building strong leadership practices when approaching technology
  • How to build technological literacy
  • Which leadership skills to sharpen to get better and better at managing technology
  • Keeping your eyes on the horizon of emerging technology
  • Beena’s approach empowers readers to understand where they stand and where they want to go with their leadership in relation to technology.

Humans for ai

2 roles

Founder

Jan 2020Jan 2025 · 5 yrs

  • Humans For AI aims to increase the number of women and minorities in AI with education programs, community and partnership.
  • We are building a diverse workforce for the future by demystifying and leveraging AI. Join us!

Founder & CEO

Jan 2017Jan 2020 · 3 yrs

  • Humans For AI is a nonprofit organization focused on increasing diversity in AI.
  • Our approach is four-fold:
  • Broaden the pipeline of minorities currently in tech careers, seeking to move to careers in AI by being the go to destination for all things AI because we believe that diversity of thought and opinion ultimately builds better products.
  • Open and inclusive community of people interested in AI by facilitating interactions with experts, practitioners and thought leaders in the field.
  • Leverage AI to release a set of free products built by this community to further our mission of bringing diversity to AI.
  • Demystify AI by providing a basic understanding of the concepts, thinking and events in AI for novices and non-technical people interested in how AI will impact their lives and their jobs.
  • We are on a mission to build a more diverse workforce for the future.

Deloitte

Global Head of Deloitte AI Institute

Jan 2020Present · 6 yrs 2 mos

Trustworthy ai book

Book Author

Jan 2019Present · 7 yrs 2 mos

  • Trustworthy AI offers readers a pragmatic and direct approach to ethics and trust in artificial intelligence.
  • You will learn about the numerous factors in AI trust, the opportunities and pitfalls, and how to structure a strategy for AI ethics. You will also discover how to operationalize AI ethics within your organization and drive ethical AI planning across business units and departments.
  • A can’t miss resource for any organization developing or using artificial intelligence, Trustworthy AI brings clarity on what AI ethics mean in the 21st century marketplace and how to ensure the cognitive tools we use are ones that can be trusted.

Cal poly engineering

Dean's Advisory Committee

Jan 2019Jan 2024 · 5 yrs

  • An internationally-recognized, top-ranked, undergraduate engineering college, Cal Poly College of Engineering provides an excellent Learn by Doing education and graduate in-demand, day-one ready professionals. From the first day on campus, students are immersed in a project- and design-centered curriculum that stresses teamwork and collaboration across disciplines - Aerospace Engineering,Biomedical Engineering,Civil Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Materials Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Software Engineering

Hewlett packard enterprise

CTO - Artificial Intelligence

Jan 2017Jan 2019 · 2 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Hewlett Packard Enterprise helps customers use technology to turn ideas into value. In turn, they transform industries, markets and lives.

Predii

Board Member

Jan 2017Jan 2018 · 1 yr

  • Predii powers innovative products for repair and maintenance, turning your available data into your greatest asset. Extract knowledge from disparate data. Augment humans with consolidated insights. Build innovative new products for the enterprise.

Iguazio

Board Member

Jan 2017Jan 2018 · 1 yr

  • iguazio is pioneering a fresh approach to the data challenges faced by today’s enterprises. The iguazio Unified Data Platform has fundamentally redesigned the entire data stack to support real-time analytics and event driven applications at scale.

Cal poly university

Industrial Advisory Board Member - Computer Engineering

Jan 2016Jan 2019 · 3 yrs · Computer Engineering

  • The Cal Poly San Luis Obispo College of Engineering has over 200 faculty members and more than 6,000 students enrolled in fourteen bachelor's and in eleven master's degree programs through nine engineering departments. The Computer Engineering program is consistently ranked in the top 5 nationally.
  • The mission of the Computer Engineering Program Industrial Advisory Board is to advise the program director and faculty on the effectiveness of current curriculum in preparing graduates for the workforce.

Sourcethought

Board Member

Jan 2015Jan 2016 · 1 yr

  • SourceThought is a big data platform based on machine learning that provides automated data shaping that lets an analyst ingest, cleanse, join and restructure data on Hadoop without ETL or programming. Disparate data is automatically combined and shaped into the requested format.

Ge

Vice President, Data Science and Innovation

Jan 2013Jan 2017 · 4 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

  • GE Digital connects streams of machine data to powerful analytics and people, providing industrial companies with valuable insights to manage assets and operations more efficiently. World-class talent and software capabilities help drive digital industrial transformation for big gains in productivity, availability and longevity. We do this by leveraging Predix, our cloud-based operating system, purpose built for the unique needs of industry.

Thomson reuters

Data Insights Lead

Jan 2012Jan 2013 · 1 yr · San Francisco

  • Thomson Reuters acquired MarkMonitor, that develops and services brand protection products to combat counterfeiting, piracy, cybersquatting and paid search scams in four categories; domain management, antifraud software, brand protection and anti-piracy. It also develops and publishes reports on the prevalence of brand abuse on the Internet.

Bank of america, first republic bank, merrill lynch

Data & Analytics Lead

Jan 2005Jan 2012 · 7 yrs · San Francisco

  • First Republic Bank is a bank and wealth management company focusing on private banking, private business banking and private wealth management, including investment, trust and brokerage services. During my time there, the bank was acquired by Merrill Lynch in 2007, Merrill Lynch + First Republic was acquired by Bank of America in 2008 and In 2009, First Republic was sold to a consortium of investors and became independent again.

E*trade financial

Director of Business Intelligence

Jan 2001Jan 2005 · 4 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

  • E*Trade is an online discount stock brokerage firm for self-directed investors. Investors can buy and sell securities such as stocks, bonds, options, mutual funds, and exchange-traded funds via electronic trading platforms or by phone. E*Trade Financial also provides banking services to retail investors, such as sweep deposits and savings products.

Helloasia.com

Head of Data

Jan 1999Jan 2001 · 2 yrs · Redwood Shores

  • www.helloasia.com was a rewards website(B2B) with its main focus on Asia.

Bt

Lead System Architect

Jan 1997Jan 1999 · 2 yrs

  • Service View was BT's e-commerce site where its major customers could register themselves online and place orders for telecom products or check the status of past orders. Telesales product aimed at providing immediate information to the operator whenever a call was received from any customer or a prospect.

Data solutions and systems

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 1995Jan 1997 · 2 yrs

Honeywell

Software Engineering Intern

Jan 1994Jan 1995 · 1 yr

University of pune

Professor Adjunct

Jan 1993Jan 1998 · 5 yrs

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Compiler Construction
  • Advanced Database Management Systems
  • Software Engineering

Education

Fergusson College, Pune

Bachelor of Science - BS — Computer Science

Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU)

Master of Science - MS — Computer Science

Masters in Business Administration

Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) — Finance

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