Dr. Ankita Singh. Senior Vice President & Global Head of HR, IT, Travel & Admin CIGNEX Founder: HR ASSOCIATION OF INDIA Linkedin Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ankitasingh1402/ Senior Vice President and Global Head of HR at CIGNEX She has over 22 years of progressive experience in managing and leading various aspects of Human Resources spanning across high paced business domains of ITES. In addition to all functions of HR, Ankita overseas other enabling functions like Administration, Travel and Resource Management. Ankita holds a PhD in Management and is a Gold Medalist in BBA as well as MBA. She has done HR and Business Strategy related Executive Management Programmes from IIM-A, ISBHyderabad and XLRI. She is a certified PPA (Thomas Profiling) Practitioner. She has excelled in establishing innovative and competitive initiatives and institutionalizing a strong performance driven culture at CIGNEX Datamatics which has resulted in the company being certified as a “Great Place to Work 2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20 & 2020- 21”. Recently, she has been awarded, for the third time in a row, amongst Forbes India’s Top 100 Great People Manager by the study conducted by GMI India. Apart from this great recognition, Ankita Singh has also successfully completed one of the most prestigious certification from Harvard Business School Online – “Sustainable Business Strategy”. Her expertise includes transformational change management and M&A initiatives. She has extensively worked in all facets of HR with special interest in the field of leadership Development, Organizational Behavior, Culture Building and Employee Engagement. She has been recognized in different prestigious platforms for her contribution and excellence in the field of HR and leadership. She was awarded “CHRO of the Year 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018 and 2017” “Women Personality of the Year 2019 and 2018 by Femina” , “Business Person of the year 2020 , “Most influential Corporate Personality-2019”, “Indian Business Woman of the Year 2019”, “Indian HR Champion of the year 2019”, “Women Leader of the year 2019”, “Inspiring personality of the year 2019”, “Most Influential HR Leader of the year 2019” “Best employee engagement project designer of the year 2019” just to name a few. She believes in driving organizational culture and values through PEOPLE, not processes alone. Apart from her professional excellence, Ankita is very active in supporting social causes by working closely with various NGOs’ on Child Education and Development. She is an avid traveler, and a passionate photographer. Volunteer Experience and contribution:  Founder: HR Association of India  NATIONAL PRESIDENT, HUMAN RESOURCE COUNCIL, Women’s Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (WICCI)  Speaker at Vibrant Gujarat 2021  Trustee and President XENA INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION  Corporate Advisory board : Poornima University  Corporate Advisory board : GLA University  Advisory Board Member :Tann Mann Foundation  Advisory Board Member : Yuvaleades Foundation  Advisory board of The Unicorn people  Corporate Advisory Board Member – Laddoo Foundation  National Jury Advisory Member – Master Trainer Pride of India  HR Management committee Della Leaders Club for Ahmedabad Chapter  Master of Mentor of the Master Union business school  President of Gujarat : IDYM Foundation  Mentor of AES Education Group  Guest lectures and Visiting faculty in 5 IIMs, 3 IITs and other recognized colleges  Jury / Mentor for : i. Economic Times HR awards ii. Kamaikaze HR Awards iii. IIT Mumbai Start ups iv. Transformance Women Leaders Award  Publications: Regular contributor to the below mentioned: 1. People Matters 2. Human Capital Magazine 3. Business Manager 4. SightsinPlus 5. Corporate Review 6. HR Success Talks 7. Corporate Citizen 8. Silicon India 9. Consultants Review Magazine Awards & Recognitions 1. Awarded by Forbes India and Great Manager Institute as Top 100 People Manager in India 2021 (Awarded for last 3 consecutive years 2019,2020 & 2021) 2. “World book of record Power Women Achievement 2021” – Lead India Foundation 3. “40 Under 40 for the year 2021” – The Indian Achiever’s club 4. “Woman HR Leadership Awards 2021” – Awarded by Ms. Kiran Bedi in Observnow HR summit 5. “ILDC AMP Women Excellence Award 2021” – IDMBA Hyderabad 6. “Jury as Workplace Excellence Award – 2021” – by INFHRA 7. “Jury as Human Excellence Award 2021” – by Kamikaze 8. “Leadership & Summit Award 2021” – MORPHEUS 9. “Recognized Among 99 Women Achievement of INDIA for the year 2021” - The Indian Achiever’s club 10. “APJ Abdul Kalam National Award 2021” - International Internship University 11. “Global women Award 2021” – Global Triumph Foundation 12. “Women Achievers Award 2021” – Indian Archives forum. 13. “Jury As Human Capital Award” – ET HR Award 2021 14. “Kalki Gaurav Award 2021 – Kalki Foundation Trust 15. “The Most Admired Global India’s Award 2020” by Passion Vista 16. “Women Excellence Awards 2020” - IDMBA Hyderabad 17. “Business Person of the year 2020” – 12th Asaid Literature Festival – Bharat Nirman 2020 in Delhi 18. “CHRO of the year 2020” – Global HR Excellence Award 2020 – World HRD Congress in 2020 Mumbai 19. “Woman HR Leadership Awards 2020” – Observnow HR summit presence of Maneka Gandhi Delhi. 20. “Most Influential HR Leaders in Gujrat 2020” – World HRD Congress in 2020Mumbai 21. “Gujarat Best Employer Brand Award 2020” - World HRD Congress in 2020Mumbai 22. Awarded by Forbes India and Great Manager Institute as Top 100 People Manager in India 2020 23. “Make in India Award 2019” – 25th Mystique India Conclave & Expo-Bharat Nirman 2019 in Delhi 24. “Best employee engagement project designer of the year “– 3rd Edition of Employee engagement and Experience Summit 2019 in Mumbai 25. “Glory Of India Award” - 50th National Leadership Summit & Awards 2019 in Delhi 26. “Inspiring personality of the year 2019”- Leadership Summit & Awards 2019 in Mumbai 27. “Most Influential HR Leader of the year” - Future Women Leadership Awards 2019 in Mumbai 28. “Indira Business Excellence Award”-Indira Group of Institute 2019 in Pune 29. Awarded by Forbes India and Great Manager Institute as Top 100 People Manager in India 2019 30. “Woman Leader of the year”-Women Empowerment Summit and GIWL Awards 2019 in Bangalore 31. “Leader in Human Resource Technology”-Asia HRM -2019 in Bangalore 32. “Indian HR champion of the year”- Indian HR summit and award-2019 in Mumbai 33. “Indian Business Women of the year”-Indian Business Women Conference & award- 2019 in Bangalore 34. “Women Leader of the year”-Women Empowerment Summit and GIWL Awards- 2019 in Mumbai 35. “Most Influential Corporate Personality”-Indian Women Business Conference & Awards- 2019 in Mumbai 36. “Business Woman of the year”-Future Woman Leader Summit & Awards-2019 in Bangalore 37. “Top 100 HR Tech leader”-World HRD Congress-2019 in Mumbai 38. “CHRO of the year”-Making of Developed India awards(MODI)-2019 in Mumbai 39. “CHRO of the year”-HR summit and Awards-UBS Forums-2019 in Mumbai 40. “Women Hero of the year”-She leads summit-2018 in Mumbai 41. “Arch of excellence award”-All India Achiever Conference-2018 in Delhi 42. “HR and Leadership Award-Make in India Awards :Bharat Nirman Foundation-2018 in Delhi 43. “Women Leadership Awards for Contribution in Field of Global HR Services”- 44. Women Leadership Award-2018 in Delhi 45. “Exemplary Leader Award”-Gujarat Best Employer Brand Awards-2018 in Ahmedabad 46. “CHRO of the year”-Future Leader Summit & Awards-2018 in Mumbai 47. “Innovative Leader of the Year”-Asia Pacific HRM Congress-2018 in Bangalore 48. “Asia’s most Innovative HR tech leaders”- Asia Pacific HRM Congress-2018 in Bangalore 49. “Top 100 HR Tech leaders ”– World HRD Congress -2018 in Mumbai 50. “Women Icon of the Year ”– FEMINA Awards -2018 in Mumbai 51. “The woman HR Leadership Award ”– The HR Club -2018 in Mumbai 52. “The Aaryabhatt Award ”– International Hindi Diwas -2018 in Indonesia 53. “Woman Leader in HR”- Future Woman Leader Summit & Awards-2017 in Mumbai 54. “HR Leader Award ”– Indian HR Convention – 2017 in Delhi 55. “CHRO of the year ”– ASIAN HR LEADERSHIP AWARDS -2017 in Dubai 56. “Hall Of Fame Award” – Gujarat Best Employer Brand Award- 2017 in Gujarat 57. “ Women Achiever Award ” – International Blogger Awards-2017 in Malaysia 58. “Women Super Achiever Award ” – Udgam group , Gujarat in 2017 59. “Women Achiever of the year Award ” – Anupama Foundation in 2017 60. “Women Personality Of the year Award ” – FEMINA World Women Leadership Congress & Awards-2017 61. “HR Tech Strategy Leadership Award ” – HR Tech : World HRD Congress 2017 62. “Indian Women Achievers Awards for contribution in HR ” – Indian Women Convention 2016 63. “Special Contribution in field of Human Resource Industry : IT & Software” – 64. Indian Women Achiever Awards 2016 65. “Women at work leadership award” – Times Ascent HR awards 2016 66. “The 25 Most Innovative HR Tech Leaders” – Asia Pacific HR Congress Awards2016 67. “Young HR Achiever Of the Year” – Human Capital Awards2016 68. ”Most Influential Leaders in India Award 2016” –World HRD congress 69. THOMAS PPA certification in 2016 70. “Women in Leadership award 2015” –World HRD congress 71. “Excellence in Human Resource Award 2015”- Bhartiya Vidya Peeth,Pune 72. “ Young HR professional Of the year 2015” – Employers Branding Awards, World HRD Congress 73. “Women Leaders In India: IT HR” in 2015 byiiGlobal 74. “Young HR professional Of the year 2014” – Dream Companies to work for awards. 75. “Women Leaders In India: HR” in 2014 byiiGlobal 76. “Young HR professional Of the year 2013” – Dream Companies to work for awards. 77. Invited by “Counsel General of Belgium in Mumbai” for a high level discussion session on “CSR” on the occasion of the Belgium Economic Mission to India presided over by Her Royal Highness Princess Astrid of Belgium. 78. “Young HR Achiever Of the Year” – Human Capital Awards2012