After 20+ years of diverse experience across the length and breadth of banking, business management, and strategy for global brands like Citibank, Jaya realised that enabling and channelising people to achieve their personal and professional goals is what drove her towards the true purpose of her life.

At the peak of her career - In 2014, Jaya decided to pursue her calling and transformed into a Leadership and Executive Coach. Since then, she has spent over 2000+ hours prepping New Leaders & CXOs to achieve their potential and create significant impact in their organisations.

With intrinsic factors like self-acceptance, clarity and courage at the core of her practice, Jaya passionately mentors and empowers women to pursue their untapped goals with her engaging process-oriented approach.

She is currently on a personal evolutionary journey to become a Somatic Experience Practitioner, to help overwhelmed, uncertain and confused individuals - access, understand and re-integrate different dimensions of their own selves.

When not remoulding people's careers, Jaya loves travelling, oil painting, spending time with her cats, and running a remarkable book club.

An alumnus of the University of Madras, Anupama Verma, is currently one of the key members of 360 ONE Wealth spearheading their growth strategy and propelling the company's wealth operations, especially in the West.

With over 22 years of experience managing wealth, Anupama has worked at Kotak Mahindra Bank as an Executive Director and Regional Business Manager at Citibank for over a decade, respectively.

If that wasn’t enough, she is also a Chartered Accountant and holds an all-India rank in both her intermediate and finals.

One of India’s most notable voices on business, design, leadership, workplaces and mental health, Aparna is an accomplished author, columnist, public speaker and educator.

Her popular column in the Mint - Head Office looks at leadership through the unique perspective of workspace design and management workstyles and has featured close to 100+ Indian and Global CEOs. This eventually resulted in Aparna publishing her first book - Working Out of the Box: 40 Stories of Leading CEOs.

Her recent book release - Chemical Khichdi: How I Hacked My Mental Health, talks about her experiences of living with a serious mental health condition for the last two decades.

She has also previously contributed to the UK’s Financial Times Weekend and is a visiting faculty member at the Anant National University in Ahmedabad, where she teaches a module called ‘Netflix and the Art of Design Writing’.

The Former CEO of BP Ergo, Aparna began her journey studying Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford University, followed by an MBA from Harvard Business School.

With a vision to make screen time valuable and safe for today’s kids, Anshu and her husband, Anupam Dhanuka, launched Kiddopia in July 2017 with a goal to create world-class edutainment apps for preschool kids that are both educational and engaging.

Since then, Kiddopia has become an award-winning app, COPPA Certified by kidSAFE, and consistently ranks amongst the Top 5 Kids' Apps in the US, according to the Apple App Store.

With lover two million active users across the globe, the brand is changing the lives and habits of kids at a time when digital media consumption is inevitable.

Backed by her strong design skills and creative direction, Anshu is responsible for building Kiddopia’s content, design, product features, innovations and marketing strategy.

Her core knowledge and drive come from her first-hand experience of being a mother to a young child and her MA in Finance from Nottingham University Business School.

A passionate nutritionist with a sharp focus on holistic and sports nutrition, Bhagyashree is a social entrepreneur at heart; where she counsels educational institutions, companies and labs on managing and improving the nutrition, health and well-being of their workforce.

Taking her mission - to support initiatives that solve real-world problems and transform lives, a step further, the Co-Founder of Damera Ventures, Bhagyashree, recently invested in Khelo More - a digital platform that brings together young athletes and coaches/academies online for an exceptional performance off-line; and Rhapsody - an initiative that takes music to children through an integrated approach within and outside their school curriculum to help them become a better learner across disciplines.

Bhagyashree leads with empathy and deeply understands real-world challenges to decode and resolve them effervescently.

A Global Business Leader with a successful track record spanning over 20 years across several functions in the Transport & Logistics Industry - right from Sales, Pricing, Commercial Strategy, and Operations to Finance and Profit & Loss.

In her current role as the CEO, Kinjal is driving the growth of supply chain solutions that cover freight forwarding, contract logistics, container shipping, rail and road transportation, and infrastructure development for her new and existing clients.

Recognised as one of India’s Leading Tax Controversy Advisors and Woman Tax Leaders by the International Tax Review for the last 7 years and with over 20 years of experience in the field of Transfer Pricing and International Tax, Manisha has been a part of Deloitte Transfer Pricing team since 2009 and currently leads the Global In-house/Capability Centres (GIC/GCC) initiative for Tax, APAC Transfer Pricing Technology and India Transfer Pricing Technology Media & Telecom.

Over the years, Manisha has provided transfer pricing services to leading Indian and Foreign multinationals in Technology, Media and Telecommunication sectors and assisted them with planning their business model in India and in settling their audit controversies.

A member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, Kinjal has developed a strong reputation in the area of tax controversy management, contributed numerous articles on transfer pricing to various journals, and is a regular speaker at various forums.

An ex-Banker & Financial Professional turned Entrepreneur with 18+ years of experience at HSBC Bank, DCM Shriram, Disney, a few NBFCs, Intellecap (a start-up ecosystem builder), and Private Equity & VC funds both nationally & internationally. Meenakshi has a proven track record of achievements in diverse industries, entrepreneurship, innovation and building ecosystems for early-stage businesses.

Over the last decade of her career, she has strengthened her experience scaling sustainable ventures with the aim of creating a significant bottom-of-the-pyramid impact and has worked with/mentored more than 100+ SMEs to help them scale. Meenakshi has also worked closely with several ecosystems & industry leaders to create physical & virtual environments to support the ‘investment readiness’ of social entrepreneurs and innovators locally and nationally.

In 2016, Meenakshi moved from Mumbai to Agra to set up her own organic farm but ended up establishing a “Sustainable & Regenerative.

Agricultural Farm”. Her regenerative farming techniques improve nutrition in farm produce, make farming sustainable and earth-friendly, increase farmer income, and build food security.

She is currently building knowledge corridors to share ‘Emerging Research on Food & Nutrition’ and bringing awareness to ‘Sustainable Habitats & Zero Waste Living’ - to safeguard the future of our planet.

An engineer by education, a researcher and a thinker at heart, Puja’s passion lies in building products, teams and communities. Since she joined Spocto, the company has successfully managed to execute a disruptive transformation by creating a world-class debt management infrastructure that humanises and destigmatises collections for the consumer.

A leader in the field of technology for close to 20 years, she has held leadership positions at General Electric, Regal Beloit Motors and Oberoi International School. Puja considers herself to be fortunate to have taught Computer Science at IBDP for two years and found that to be her most challenging venture yet.

A mother of two teenagers, who believes in unlocking today's potential for a better tomorrow, Puja respects diversity, upholds equality, ensures inclusion and truly believes in equal rights for all and supports any movement that strives for the same.

An exceptional career spanning over 25 years, Rochelle has been instrumental in setting up the Streax Professional Division as she continues to shape their strategy and long-term growth for new product development in India and international markets, including the US, UK, Middle East, Africa and South-East Asia.

She began her career at HRI as the R&D chemist, innovating and developing brands like Vasmol Kali Mehndi, India’s Largest selling Kali Mehndi and Streax Hair Colour are used by more than millions of consumers every month. During her tenure at the company, she also developed and launched a dynamic line of hair colours and various care and treatment products under the Streax Professional range of salons, which cemented the brand’s positioning across strategic markets.

In 2005, she shifted her portfolio from a technical field at R&D to heading sales and marketing at Streax Professional Division. Her passion and dedication helped HRIPL become a 600 crore+ company, with her division contributing more than 100 crores, leading to Economic Times recognising Streax as the ‘Brand of the Year’ in 2019.

To keep up with the hair care business trends, she trains technicians, creates education modules and educates salon partners through workshops, seminars and master classes.

She is passionate about setting up a technical academy to expand the influence of HRI in cosmetics and hair care. and supports social causes through the HRI Foundation.

A strong believer in the fact that the world needs more women leaders and that conditions for all women will improve when there are more women in leadership roles, Sapna is a powerful voice with an aim to eventually break the gender stereotypical culture.

An engineer and a management graduate with work experience spanning over 20 years, Sapna believes that success lies in living a purposeful life with integrity.

With an undying passion for wellness, Sapna is also a Health and Life coach, believes in spirituality and is a curious follower of the developments in the field of quantum energy.

An alumnus from Harvard Business School with over 3 decades of experience in operations and strategic roles across industries, Seema is currently setting up a family office to create a robust structure that ensures a smooth transition across generations as well as grows the corpus.

She has been working with young founders from diverse industries like F&B, Retail and Healthcare to create purposeful organisations that are based on a foundation of values to enable a relevant culture for their businesses. Her passion for this work is a result of her desire to help Indian organisations become adept at navigating the changes in the environment quickly and consistently building great workplaces and robust business models.

In her previous roles, she has been a part of the start-up teams for Mcdonald's and Domino's in India, where she has worked across Restaurant Development, Supply Chain, Product development, and Operations. Her extensive knowledge and experience have resulted in the expansion of the McCafe business in India, raising it from 5 units to currently almost covering 70% of the system. She also completed an extensive course in Communications across International Business from the University of California – Berkley is a certified trainer in Situational Leadership from the Blanchard Institute and has attended several leadership development programs conducted by the South Asia region from NUS.

With close to two decades of global private equity experience in the US and India at top funds, including GE Equity, Lightyear Capital and IDFC Private Equity, Shivani has helped shape strategy at market-leading companies through board-level involvement and has been instrumental in generating exceptional returns for her investors.

Today she leads India Alternatives, a reputable mid-market private equity platform focused on investing behind transformational themes in India, such as women becoming more empowered as consumers.

Shivani is also an Independent Director at Emaar India, one of our country's largest real estate developers, and at HIKAL Limited, a highly innovative company working across the life science value chain with over 2300 employees and a market cap of over $943 million.

Shivani received an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in Economics from Mount Holyoke College (Phi-Beta-Kappa, Magna Cum Laude, Sarah Williston Scholar) and has received several awards and accolades for being one of the Top Indian Women Leaders in Finance.

With an endeavour to promote and ensure the all-round development of the youth, Vrinda is driving Patrika In Education - the education wing of Rajasthan Patrika, to reach out to thousands of children and young adults in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh through its year-round seminars, workshops, camps and competitions.

She has also been actively involved in the curation of The PATRIKA Gate, a unique monument built in today’s era, as a contribution from our generation to the cultural heritage of the city of Jaipur. Vrinda is passionate about art, has studied jewellery design, and has a Diploma in Interior Designing from Parsons New York. Channelling her passion into an actual wonder, she designed and curated a luxury homestay property in Jaipur known as The Rose’ Amer.

Vrinda is on the Board of Advisors of The Museum of Gem and Jewellery, the first of its kind in the country, has been awarded the YFLO Entrepreneur of the Year (2018) and is also actively involved in the activities of ‘The young Presidents Organisation’ and ‘Entrepreneurs Organisation’ as a member spouse of the Delhi, Rajasthan and Mumbai chapters respectively.

Vratika’s journey began in Saharanpur, post which she graduated from NIFT and completed her post-graduation at Pearl Academy of Fashion, Delhi. Right after her education, she worked with fashion labels like Manish Malhotra, Anju Modi, Renu Tandon etc., and always aspired to launch her own label. She finally did so in 2012 and ran it successfully for six years.

While working on the interiors of her new residence, Vratika had her moment of truth when she was smitten by the world of interior design and decided to shift her career and started an interior design & development firm in partnership with her brother.

During the pandemic, she joined hands with some of the most coveted & creative brands from across the world and brought them to Indian homeowners with her new retail company, Maison Sia. With a mission to solve the problem of accessibility of fine home accessories and luxury decor, Maison Sia will represent an array of the most prestigious brands worldwide.

Their brand portfolio includes some of the most creative artists from all across the globe, like Guadarte, Athena Jahantigh, Pascale Moraine, Petri Firenze Italia, Pinetti, Riviere Boca Do Lobo, to name a few.

Asma Chimthanawala is a CA who is passionate about learning and expanding her knowledge. To enhance her skills, she has pursued several diploma courses, including Information Systems Controls and Audits, Business Valuation, and Forensic Audits and Fraud Detections. Her interest in business ecosystems has led her to work on niche consultancy assignments, where she has helped Promoters with capital market transactions, both primary and secondary.

As a Project Manager, Asma has worked closely with syndicates, merchant bankers, councils, industry experts, statutory auditors, industry analysts, and other professionals to make these transactions successful. She has also assisted Promoters who are exploring listing on the stock exchange. Her team orchestrates timelines, requisition lists, and data flow between syndicates and management, making the process of drafting various documents for the listing process seamless and effective.

Asma's focal strength lies in her ability to work in harmony with multiple experts and drive the listing process for Promoters. She is also a Partner with H. H. Chimthanawala & Co., Chartered Accountants, a leading expert in Income tax advisory and assessment cases. As a team, they specialise in internal and concurrent audits, creating real value for businesses and strengthening decision-making processes.

Asma's network of investment bankers, auditors, PE funds, family office managers, and lawyers enables her to bring trust and expertise to the table. Her passion for learning and understanding business ecosystems has made her a successful leader in women's entrepreneurship.