CEO & Co-founder, OptimizeGEO.ai | Ex-Partner, SoftBank Silicon Valley | Founding MD, Meta India & South Asia | Global Client Partner, Meta HQ | Board Trustee, Syracuse University

I’m a builder, turned investor, & now back to building 🤸‍♀️. CEO, Virtualness. Driven by the mantra “When businesses succeed, livelihoods flourish.” Building: ♦️Started career as an engineer at Silicon Graphics. Part of high-performance-computing technology shift ♦️As product leader, at the forefront of the mobile shift w Good Technology (acquired by Motorola) ♦️As business leader, led SaaS consumer security product line at Phoenix Technology (before SaaS was a phenomenon!) (acquired by Absolute Technology) ♦️Managing Director, Facebook India & South Asia for 6+ years, starting as their first employee in India — Started one of four global operations offices that now serve 3.6B+ people; built APAC SMB business & then focused on India revenue — Grew India business to several $100Ms annual revenue & got investment buy-in for path to $1B. The team has since surpassed $2B — Subsequent experiences at Facebook focused on emerging and high-growth markets ♦️Co-founder Liftery, social impact initiative focused on stepping up careers of ten million moms Investing: ♦️Founding Investment Partner of F7 seed fund ♦️President, Athena Tech II, third in series of all women-led SPACs bringing talent, access to capital & transaction experience to enable a market leader to access public equity capital markets ♦️First female Investment Partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers (SBIA), manager of the $130B+ SoftBank Vision Fund — Deployed $1B in new investments, led a portfolio of $5B+ across 9 investments, two new unicorns, three companies publicly listed — My focus was fast evolving sectors like quantum computing, additive manufacturing, enterprise, health tech, gaming & web3 — Served on IC of Emerge, global accelerator for brilliant companies led by underrepresented founders Board roles including: ♦️WeWork (joined as part of biz turnaround), Fungible (acquired by MSFT), Collective Health, Pear Therapeutics ♦️Chair, Stanford Business School Management Board ♦️Dean’s Leadership Council, Syracuse University College of Engineering ♦️Teach For India US Advisory Board ♦️YPO Alcatraz Communications Chair My work has led to recognitions like ♦️Fast Company’s “Most Creative People in Business ♦️Fortune India’s “Most Powerful Women ♦️Lifetime Stanford Associate recognizing university’s most dedicated volunteers Passionate about K-12 education, next-gen diverse leaders, mental health advocacy, tech for good & entrepreneurship I’m a (slow) runner. Ask me about my next half-marathon. I love the outdoors & have hiked Mt. Everest Base Camp twice