Beena Ammanath is Executive Director for Data Science Products at GE Digital. She works across the GE businesses and external customers to accelerate data science leveraging big data technologies on Predix, GE’s Industrial IoT platform via revenue-generating data and analytics products.
She is a seasoned technology leader with over 23 years experience building core big data/data science competencies and leading high performance teams from the ground-up, scaling 0 to 150+ geographically distributed global teams with a sharp focus on strategy and successful execution of industrial scale data science products and services. Beena has held engineering and management positions at recognized international organizations including British Telecom, E*trade, Thomson Reuters, Bank of America and Silicon Valley startups. She holds a Masters in Computer Science and MBA in Finance.
She has been a featured speaker at various industry conferences on the topics of data science, big data, technology transformation and women in leadership. Beena is dedicated to supporting diversity in technology both within GE and beyond. Outside of GE, she is on the Board of Directors for the non-profit organization, ChickTech.