Author(s)
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Sairee Chahal
Founder, CEO - SHEROES/ technology entrepreneur
Sairee Chahal is the Founder, CEO of SHEROES - a community platform for women, offering support, resources, opportunities and interactions via Sheroes.com and the SHEROES App. Sairee is credited with building up the Women’s Internet conversation in India, besides building a strong technology play to solve the problems of gender disparity in India. A technology entrepreneur, Sairee has straddled the best of both worlds in her ventures Newslink, Fleximoms and now SHEROES. Her community-meets-deep technology approach has made SHEROES a globally formidable platform, changing the game for women and their aspirations. Over a million women have been directly benefited, and under Sairee's leadership, SHEROES aims to impact over 100 million women in the next five years. An Aspen Leadership Fellow, Sairee is also the convener of The SHEROES Summit – India’s largest women's forum. With an M.Phil from JNU, and a PGDBM from IMT Ghaziabad, Sairee kickstarted her professional career while still in college before cofounding her first start-up. She went on to also work at corporates like Heidrick and Struggles and CII. Recognised for her achievements globally, Sairee is a Devi Award winner, apart from the Femina Achievers Award, Cartier Award, Editor’s choice for L’Oreal Femina Women’s Award, Business Today and Most Powerful Women in Indian Business.