Indian American Women Achievers Crossing All Boundaries With their Excellency

Indian American Women are carving their way as successful entrepreneurs, investors, and creators into the field of excellence. 

Indian American women are increasingly gaining monumental importance, be it as entrepreneurs, investors, creators, or entertainers. In a survey by Forbes—50 Over 50, elucidating an annual listing of 200 entrepreneurs, seven Indian American women gained spots as successful career women.

Led by Manjusha Kulkarni, the co-founder of Stop AAPI Hate, the listing encompasses six more successful women achievers. Her innovation serves as the leading aggregator of unfair incidents against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders on account of COVID-19. She serves as the executive director of the AAPI Equity Alliance, a confederation of community-based organizations advocating for the rights and needs of Southern California’s Asian American community. She formerly acted as the executive director of the South Asian Network, the oldest South Asian American community organization. Awarded as the White House Champions of Change in 2014, Mrs. Kulkarni is facilitating breakthrough policies in healthcare, civil rights, and violation prevention.

Revathi Advaithi, CEO of Flex, the global manufacturing supply-chain company, holds her fame in the listing owing to her role in managing 200,000 employees efficiently. She facilitates the onset of strategic direction for a company that generates an annual turnover of 26 billion USD. Her prior roles included leadership positions at Eaton and Honeywell. Besides her guidance as a CEO of a well-known enterprise, she also serves on the board of directors for Uber and Catalyst.org while holding the prestige of being a member of the MIT Presidential CEO Advisory Board.

Following these successful entrepreneurs, Poornima DeBolle has carved her space as a successful Indian American woman. Ms. Debolle is the co-founder and chief product officer at Menlo Security, a thriving cloud and network security company. She also served as a product management executive at Juniper Networks, which specializes in cloud security, management, and analytics.

Meanwhile, proving the fact that age is just a number, Anita Gupta is rising as one of the most accomplished Indian American investors via disruptive innovations with her company’s investment in 500 startups. As a founder and chief portfolio officer at Kiwitech, she facilitates growth-stage startups to build viable products, raise capital, and scale businesses through agreeable investments while training female and minority entrepreneurs to provide strategic assistance. Prior to this successful approach, she co-founded Aptara while attending graduate school, focusing solely on digital content production, publishing, editorial services, e-learning, and technology services.

Padmasree Warrior is another successive Indian American women achiever in the list, broadly known as an innovation pro, and served as a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Cisco and Motorola. She acts as the founder and CEO of Fable, a platform facilitating social reading and book clubs, and has managed to make a yearly turnover of 28 million USD. She formerly served as the U.S. branch’s CEO and Chief Development Officer of NIO, an electric autonomous vehicle company based in China.

Jayashree Ullal, the president and CEO of Arista Networks, is another achiever in the long line of Indian-American women thriving at innovation's frontiers. Managing the organization since 2008, Mrs. Ullal also serves on the board of directors of a publicly-traded cloud computing company, Snowflake, that managed to earn annual revenue of 2.3 billion USD. As one of the wealthiest female executives in America, Mrs. Ullal holds firm ground with Arista as one of the potential stockholders.

As the first woman of color and person apart from industry to hold the position of chairperson and CEO at Pernod Ricard North America, Ann Mukherjee is another native American woman nailing her achievement. She also raised various campaigns as a social activist to create awareness of responsible drinking and consent. Her #SexResponsibly campaign raises voices against perpetrators who utilize alcohol as an excuse for crimes. She formerly served as global Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) and Global Chief Commercial Officer at SC Johnson.