Radhika Ghai Aggarwal is an Internet entrepreneur and India's first woman to enter the Unicorn Club. [1] She is the co-founder of online marketplace ShopClues established in 2011 in silicon valley. [2] Currently, she serves as the chief business officer of the company. [3]
Aggarwal was born to an Army family. Her father was in the Indian Army while her mother was a dietician. Her entrepreneurial venture started when her father decided to start his own health club in 1992, followed by the establishment of her own advertising agency in Chandigarh in 1997. [4]
Aggarwal has an MBA from Washington University in St. Louis [5] and holds a post-graduation degree in advertising and public relations. [6] She was also part of an executive program at Stanford University. [5]
Aggarwal worked in marketing for companies like Nordstrom in Seattle and strategic planning at Goldman Sachs. [4] She holds about 14 years of experience in the US in diverse sectors such as e-commerce, lifestyle, fashion, and retail. [6]
Droom Technology Limited is an Indian company that maintains an online marketplace for buying and selling used and new automobiles. Founded in April 2014, the company is based in Gurugram, Haryana and also operates in Singapore, Thailand, and Malaysia, besides 1,161 Indian town and cities. In July 2021, Droom became Unicorn after raising $200 Mn in a pre-IPO funding round at a valuation of $1.2 billion.
Gurbaksh Singh Chahal is an Indian-American entrepreneur who has founded, managed, and frequently sold several internet advertising companies.
Kajal A Kitchlu, known professionally as Kajal Aggarwal, is an Indian actress who predominantly works in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi films. She is a recipient of three South Indian International Movie Awards along with four Filmfare Awards South nominations. Aggarwal is considered as one of the highest paid actresses in South Indian cinema, according to various media reports.
Chanda Kochhar is an Indian banker. She was the managing director (MD) and chief executive officer (CEO) of ICICI Bank from 2009 to 2018 She resigned from her positions in 2018 due a case of conflict of interest. Subsequently, she was fired by ICICI Bank, a decision which was later upheld by the Supreme Court of India.
Rana Kapoor is an Indian former banker who was the founder, managing director and CEO of Yes Bank, an Indian private sector bank. Following a career in financial institutions, he co-founded Yes Bank in 2003, with its registered office in Mumbai. He was appointed as the president of ASSOCHAM in July 2013, and was succeeded by Sunil Katoria after serving his two year term.
Radhika Roy is an Indian journalist who is the founder and former executive co-chairperson of NDTV. She was the managing director of the company between 1998 and 2011. The company started as a news production house and became the first independent news broadcaster in India. Roy began her career in journalism at The Indian Express and worked for a period of time at the India Today magazine before becoming the founder of NDTV.
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Swati Ajay Piramal is an Indian scientist and businesswoman, she also involved in healthcare, focusing on public health and innovation. She is the vice chairperson of Piramal Group, a business conglomerate with interests in pharmaceuticals, financial services, real estate and glass packaging.
Elizabeth Anne Holmes is an American biotechnology entrepreneur who was convicted of fraud in connection to her blood-testing company, Theranos. The company's valuation soared after it claimed to have revolutionized blood testing by developing methods that needed only very small volumes of blood, such as from a fingerprick. In 2015, Forbes had named Holmes the youngest and wealthiest self-made female billionaire in the United States on the basis of a $9-billion valuation of her company. In the following year, as revelations of fraud about Theranos's claims began to surface, Forbes revised its estimate of Holmes's net worth to zero, and Fortune named her in its feature article on "The World's 19 Most Disappointing Leaders".
Priyanka Gill is an Indian entrepreneur and angel investor currently based in London, UK. She is the founder and CEO of POPxo, a digital community platform for millennial women launched in 2014 and merged with MyGlamm in 2020. She currently serves as the co-founder of the Good Glamm Group and CEO of the Good Media Co. In 2019 Gill was named onto Businessworld 40 Under 40 List.
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy is a technology executive and entrepreneur. She is the CEO of Xero amd formerly the president of StubHub, she has worked at various tech and media companies including Google, Amazon and News Corp, Yodlee (YODL), and Polyvore. In 2011, she founded JOYUS, a video shopping platform, and served as CEO then Chairman until 2017. Singh Cassidy is also the founder of theBoardlist.
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Sanjay Sethi is a mechanical engineer and Internet entrepreneur. In 2011, he co-founded ShopClues, a Gurgaon-based online marketplace for unbranded goods. He is currently the Chief Executive Officer of the company.
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