Editor's Pick: GE Digital VP Beena Ammanath: For Most Women, STEM Is an Uphill Battle

GE Digital VP Beena Ammanath: For Most Women, STEM Is an Uphill Battle

Vivian Wagner Feb 23, 2017 12:50 PM PT
	Beena Ammanath is VP for data and analytics at GE Digital. She has worked in the data analytics field for more than 20 years and serves as board director at ChickTech, a nonprofit dedicated to recruiting girls and women into the tech workforce and retaining them once they're there. Ammanath also serves on the Cal Poly Computer Engineering Program Industrial Advisory Board. [More...]

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