Geetha Kannan is a versatile entrepreneurial leader and a pioneer for the Women in IT movement in India. With over 30 years of global experience spanning business, technology and people, her focus has always been to raise the bar, build teamwork and drive far-reaching impact. As founder of Wequity, Geetha’s... Read more
Geetha Kannan is a versatile entrepreneurial leader and a pioneer for the Women in IT movement in India. With over 30 years of global experience spanning business, technology and people, her focus has always been to raise the bar, build teamwork and drive far-reaching impact. As founder of Wequity, Geetha’s vision is to holistically provide high quality, integrated and accessible resources to expand equality of outcomes for women and their network supporters in technology.
Through her career Geetha has taken on growth and change roles in the corporate and non- profit sector in business strategy, operations, sales, marketing, HR, sustainability, diversity and inclusion. In senior leadership positions with Infosys and ANZ she powered these companies with technology interventions, innovative practices and leadership development. With her entrepreneurship gene fuelled in 2013, Geetha moved to head AnitaB.org in India and grew the enterprise manifold in 6 years from <500 to 5500+ coverage of WIT, <10 to 400+ tech organizations participating, and single city to pan India impact for the women’s movement in the country. She also elevated women entrepreneurs by developing the WEQ program and built partnerships with the Govt. of India (Department of Science & Technology) to provide experiential learning in Silicon Valley.
Geetha’s work on equity for women started back in 2006, where she envisioned and implemented the early stage women-enabling policies and the first ever Women in Tech conference with the sponsorship of Infosys. She then helped move these initiatives to NASSCOM for broader reach, and continued to be actively involved extending her associations to SHRM and CII to further the cause of gender inclusion in the tech industry. Geetha’s thought leadership can be experienced through her insightful articles and engaging talks. She has been on the judging panel for multiple business awards (GLOMO, Community Business, ACM India). Most recently she has been a Member of ACM India External Engagements Committee whose goal is to scale efforts to advance computing in the country.
Some of her recent awards and recognitions include:
– SheSparks of Tech award by YourStory Media in 2024.
– Top 200 thought leaders to follow by PeopleHum in 2022.
– Digital Women Award by ShethePeople in the leadership category.
– Top 5 Digital Change and Technology Strategy Speakers in India by engage4more.
– Top 7 Indian women in IT and tech by TechJockey in 2021.
– 15 must follow diversity inclusion thought leaders by People Hum in 2021.