UPS senior leadership, on a visit to Bangalore, met with members of AMCHAM’s Karnataka Chapter over a networking session and a panel discussion at the Shangri-La Bengaluru on 9th October 2018. One of the senior leadership team is posed to possibly be the future Global CEO of UPS. The UPS leaders present were Ms. Michelle Ho, Vice President Intra Asia Strategy – Singapore, Mr. Stuart Lund, Vice President Global Airfreight – USA, Ms. Penny Nas, Vice President and District Manager for International Public Affairs – Belgium, Mr. Peter Harld, President of UPS China – Shanghai, China, Ms. Shellie Shellabarger, Director of Operations Small Packages – USA, Mr. Joel Stenson, Vice President Plant Engineering – USA and Mr. Yuri Boshyk, Facilitator Global Executive Learning – Canada.

The discussion was primarily focussed on the overview of the business climate in India, transformation of India, sustainability trends, major U.S. companies who play an important role in India, latest developments in technology and its implementation and best practices of doing business in India. The participants from AMCHAM Karnataka included Mr. Iqbal Sait, Chairman – Karnataka Chapter, AMCHAM and Head of EMEA Operations Saggezza, Mr. Amit Sharma, COO IBM India and Mr. Pradip Dutta, Managing Director of Synopsis South Asia and Group Vice President of Synopsis Inc.