4 Ordinary Indians Who Created Extraordinary Business

By siliconindia | Wednesday, 24 April 2013, 12:16 Hrs

3. Mitali Kalra
Founder, Zao Foods

Mitali Kalra holds an MBA (finance) degree from INSEAD, France. She completed her MBA in 2008. After completing MBA, she worked in corporate headquarters like Dubai and Singapore for almost one year.

In 2010, Mitali returned back to India and started working with KPMG. After leaving KPMG, she worked with Deloitte. During her working tenure in India, she was blown away with the lack of nutritious food options in India; especially in and around her workplaces in India. This was the beginning of Zao Foods.

While the idea of coming up with a nutritious food café came to her mind, she was having a well established career in investment banking. It was pretty tough for her to change her dream into reality. Even, her parents were not supportive in her initial days of entrepreneurship and asked her to get back to her corporate career.

Finally, fighting against all the odds, Mitali invested 14 lakh from her own savings and registered her company by the name of ‘Zao Foods’ in December, 2011.