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Kalpana Saroj (born 1961) is an Indian business woman, entrepreneur and a TEDx speaker, [1] and the chairperson of Kamani Tubes in Mumbai, India.Known as Indian Woman entrepreneur, she bought the distressed assets of Kamani Tubes Company and successfully steered the company back to profitability.
The women borrowed Rs 80 from Chhaganlal Karamsi Parekh, a member of the Servants of India Society and a social worker. [8] They took over a loss-making papad making venture by one Laxmidas bhai, [ 9 ] and bought the necessary ingredients and the basic infrastructure required to manufacture papads.
Meena Ganesh, CEO and Managing Director, Pearson Education Services; Jyoti Gogte (born 1956), Indian entrepreneur; Nabomita Mazumdar, businesswoman; Zia Mody (born 1956), legal consultant, managing partner of AZB & Partners
She has also spoken with Mint Startup Diaries about challenges for women entrepreneurs, [21] and co-written an opinion article with Byju Raveendran in Vogue India about educational technology in India. [22] In March 2022, Divya Gokulnath was appointed as the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry's EdTech Taskforce Chair. [23]
In 2022, Singh also won the women entrepreneur of the year award at the Indian Achiever's Forum. [12] In 2023, Singh has been awarded Champions of Change for driving social development in India. [13] [14] [15] In 2024, Singh won the Woman Entrepreneur of the Year award at the Entrepreneur Awards. [16]
A study in India, entitled "Barriers of Women Entrepreneurs: A Study in Bangalore Urban District", has concluded that despite all these constraints, successful female entrepreneurs do exist. Female entrepreneurs have evidently more to ‘acquire’ than their male counterparts.
Chetna Gala Sinha (born 1958) is an Indian social entrepreneur working to empower women in areas of rural India by teaching entrepreneurial skills, access to land and means of production. [1] Sinha and six other women chaired the 48th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in January 2018.
Rashmi Sinha was born in Lucknow, India, grew up in India, and earned a PhD in cognitive neuropsychology at Brown University. There, Rashmi took computer science courses with Andy van Dam, so she had some exposure to the HCI (human-computer interaction) way of thinking. She took a course in designing educational software.