Female Entrepreneur: Coraline Joveneaux & Clara Kanner – Owners of Bed & Chai Guesthouse
Coraline Joveneaux and Clara Kanner – Owners of Bed & Chai Guesthouse Naora Hospitality Pvt Ltd Tell us about yourselves We are two French women living in Delhi for the last five years. Coraline is engineer and Clara went to business school. Coraline was working as a country manager for... Read More
Female Entrepreneur: Monisha Gidwani – CEO of Vimonisha Exhibitions
Tell us about yourself I am a marketing and branding consultant by profession running Vimonisha Exhibitions – one of India’s most popular designer wear and jewellery exhibitions. Armed with an MBA, with a specialisation in marketing and years of experience in product management and advertising in the corporate world, I... Read More
Female Entrepreneur: Konkana Bakshi – Director of Savoir Faire Academie
Tell us about yourself Konkana Bakshi is a well known face in india, having won the Miss Elegance World contest in 2008 and Miss India East 2009. She has made several advertisements for leading agencies and brands, including the Maruti A-star, KFC, Reliance and Skoda. She was also the face... Read More
Female Entrepreneur: Sandhya Mendonca – MD & Editor in Chief of Raintree Media
Tell us about yourself I’m a Bangalorean, born and bred. I have a Masters in Political Science, with a specialization in International Relations. I was drawn to journalism from high school as my father was a journalist in his earlier career and my first break was as a trainee at... Read More
Female Entrepreneur: Bindu Menon – Founder of B&P Creatives
Specialist Expat Relocation Management and Cross-cultural understanding (India inbound). Freelance writer for travel, culture and women’s issues Tell us about yourself and your background I was born in God’s own country – Kerala, raised in Madras that is now Chennai, lived for a couple of years in Mumbai, the commercial capital... Read More
Female Entrepreneur: Anju Arora – Founder of ‘Naari’ Women Wellness Program
I belong to a conservative business family from Delhi. After graduating in commerce, I started to work with a placement company and acquired some experience in recruiting and interviewing candidates. While working there for two years, I got married and relocated to Hyderabad. Though Hyderabad was a new city, it... Read More
Female Entrepreneur: Farah Bakhshay – Founder of Semurg Relocations
Tell us about yourself I have spent almost a decade understanding world people and assisting them to settle into Mumbai! I head Semurg Relocations in Mumbai and have an empathy for relocating business leaders and their families who come to this financial hub of India which is second nature to... Read More
Female Entrepreneur: Caroline Joire – Founder of AGALINE
I am a French citizen who came to Indian five years back. I have done business studies and I have always known I would eventually create my own company. I first came to India for an internship in Delhi with a consulting company helping other French companies to develop their... Read More
Female Entrepreneur: Fizza Kanchwalla – Founder of Fizza
Tell us about yourself As a child my mother’s needlework and handicraft skills fascinated me. I learnt very early on that I loved creating with my hands little accessories which I gifted to family and friends. Soon I started to pattern my clothes with the help of skilled labour available... Read More
Female Entrepreneur: Bindu Menon – Founder of Point Blank Advertising Pvt Ltd
Tell us about yourself I am a Postgraduate in Biochemistry and have an MBA. I began my career with GSK and have spent all my working years in healthcare marketing. I have been an entrepreneur in Healthcare Communications for the past 16 years. In 2001, I founded Point Blank, in partnership... Read More
Female Entrepreneur: Nina Bual – Founder of Chamki Nails and SPA.ce the spa
I’m from the UK and come from a family of five girls. We all grew up with the support of our parents to venture into any career path of our choice and have enjoyed continuous support from our parents. This freedom allowed us to follow our hearts as well as our heads and I ended... Read More
Female Entrepreneur: Anasuya Gupta – Chairperson & Managing Director of CICO Technologies Ltd
Tell us about yourself I grew up in Calcutta and am totally indebted to the school I went to – Loreto House – for instilling the courage of conviction in us. I trained to be a teacher but taught for only six months before I found matrimonial bliss. It was... Read More
Female Entrepreneur: Jeyalakshmi Venkatanarayanan – Founder of Universe Power Systems
Tell us about yourself and your background I am the founder and proprietor of Universe Power Systems. My educational background is in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering. I am also a qualified teacher, trained dancer, choreographer and Carnatic singer. I received management education from ISB, Hyderabad with sponsorship from Goldman Sachs.... Read More
Female Entrepreneur: Vidya Deshpande and Mimi Chakrabarti – Co-founders: Soul Purpose Travel
Tell us about yourself SoulPurpose Travel was started by two women who are passionate about travel and adventure. We realised that many women want to travel, go on adventure trips but don’t know where to go. SOULPURPOSE bridges that gap and gives women with a thirst for adventure the chance to... Read More
Female Entrepreneur: Mariam Noronha – Dollops of Sunshine
Tell us about yourself and your background I am a teacher, blogger, freelance writer, artist, designer and an avid crafter. In a word I’m a “maverick”! As far as academic qualifications go I have a Masters Degree in Commerce and I am currently working towards completion of my Doctoral thesis. I have also taught commerce and... Read More
Female Entrepreneur: Vibhuti Bhandarkar – YOLO by Vibz
I’m a professionally qualified Commercial artist and Eng. Copywriter from Mumbai but I started my career in Pune in 2004. I was a freelance Graphic Designer and Eng. Copywriter for top brands and Ad agencies in Pune in the initial years. I’d also written feature articles on a freelance basis... Read More
Female Entrepreneur: Ryna Sequeira – Quay Marketing Consulting Pvt Ltd
I was born to travel! Tell us about yourself and your background I come from a humble background with two very liberal parents who let me grow into the person I am today. Very unconventional for an everyday middle class Indian family, I had no pressures to be a particular... Read More
Female Entrepreneur: Riddhi Doshi-Patel – The Mocktail Gazebo
Tell us about yourself and your background Born into an illustrious and highly educated family, I was always focussed on my own education and career. I completed my MBA from Symbiosis Pune, did a Masters in law and I am also a Bachelor in Education. I also have various certifications... Read More
Female Entrepreneur: Aradhana Nagpal – Designer and Curator of Dhoop
Don’t ever give up what you truly believe in ….. Tell us about yourself and your background Needless to say, I love India. I guess the interest and passion came thanks to both my parents. My mom has a keen interest in Indian craft and culture and growing up we... Read More
Mompreneurs India: Business Over Breakfast | Vandana Joshil
PepsiCo CEO Indra K. Nooyi sparked a controversy recently when she matter-of-factly stated that women DO find it difficult to manage a career and their houses. She said, “I don’t think women can have it all. I just don’t think so. We pretend we have it all. We pretend we... Read More