Geethu Sivakumar

Geethu Sivakumar is an entrepreneur, technologist, and Founder & CEO of Pace, an IT services and products company headquartered in Kerala. Her technology journey began during a fellowship at the Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology while she was in school, and she later became the Best Web Developer in Kerala State at the IT Fest organised by Kerala IT Mission and Technopark. The Government of India also selected her as a student ambassador to Japan.

While pursuing Electronics and Communication Engineering at Government Engineering College, Barton Hill, she became the first female student entrepreneur to register a startup in the college’s Technology Business Incubator. She later built Pace into an international technology company serving clients across multiple countries.

Geethu has received several recognitions, including the Best Young Woman Entrepreneur Award, Amazon Entrepreneurship Summit Spotlight recognition, Google Hall of Fame, UN Women Hall of Fame, and the Red Shakti Award 2024. She also founded Ricardo Coffee and launched a hardware distribution business in 2025.