April 15 2016, 11.02 AM IST || Pocket News Alert
Ms. Geetha Panda, Director-Global centers, Asia pacific & Japan, Mobility and Workplace services at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services Elected Chairwomen for the Year 2016-17
Dr. Githa Heggde, Senior Associate Dean at Welingkar Institute of Management to be the Vice Chairwomen
Bangalore 15th April 2016… Ms. Geetha Panda, Director-Global centers, Asia pacific & Japan, Mobility and Workplace services at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services, has been elected as Chairwomen of CII Indian Women Network, Karnataka for the year 2016-17 and Dr. Githa Heggde, Senior Associate Dean at Welingkar Institute of Management will be the Vice Chairwomen.
Geeta Panda
Githa Heggde
Ms. Geetha Panda is the Global Service Desk Director for HP Enterprise Services, managing Service Delivery for India and Malaysia, supporting global accounts in IT Infrastructure industry. With 20+ years of industry experience that spans across the technology/ ITeS/ Customer Service industry, Geetha has excellent success in creating customer centric teams and optimizing operations cost across different HP businesses. She holds three patents in service desk processes and as a world-wide Service Excellences head, was pioneer in deploying various best practices within HP’s Global Service Desk organization.
She was appointed as member of NASSCOM K-Nights and was also one of the panelists for group discussion held by ‘Women in Technology’ in US. She had been identified as one of the four key women leaders in India in 2000 by BBC.
Geetha holds a management degree from IIM, Bangalore with professional certification as Six Sigma Black Belt and COPC – Certified Registered Coordinator
Dr. Githa Heggde is the Senior Associate Dean and Chair, Marketing, at Welingkar Institute of Management, Bangalore and Country Director, India, EuroMed Business Research Institute. She is also a Member of editorial board of International Journal on Emerging Markets, Emerald and Core Member at the Centre for Emerging Markets, IIM, Lucknow.
Dr. Heggde has over 25 years of teaching, consultancy and industrial experience. She has conducted several training programs for senior marketing and sales executives at Airtel, ITC, Infosys, Murugappa group, Pricol, HDFC, Infosys, EY, Biocon. She has authored books on Applied Marketing and presented several case studies.
About Indian Women Network
The Indian Women Network (IWN) is an initiative by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) to provide an exclusive platform for Career Women (Professionals and Entrepreneurs), to network, learn, share and seek better opportunities. IWN aims to create gender parity for women in Indian business & Society. CII recognizes that professional women require a structured network for them to discuss their experiences and challenges to become better professionals at work.
This network is also extended to final year graduate students as well as post-graduate students, to guide them through career options and provide them an opportunity to be mentored by successful women achievers.
IWN is currently present in 11 states and 2 zones across the country with more than 1500 members. Over the last 24 months, IWN Karnataka had taken up various issues like Gender Parity at work place, Prevention of Sexual Harassment at work place, and conducted workshops and training programmes in leadership building, empowering women through finance, social well-being etc. IWN has reached out to over 2000 women through various activities in Bangalore.