<p>Marlene Sawhney is an analyst in the Debt Capital Markets group at Royal Bank of Canada (RBC). </p> <p>Marlene Sawhney is a graduate of Cornell University. </p>
Reshma Saujani is a lawyer, politician and founder of the tech organization Girls Who Code. She was previously the Deputy Public Advocate at the Office of the New York City Public Advocate. Reshma Saujani attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she graduated in 1997 with majors in Political Science and Speech Communication. She attended the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where she received a Master of Public Policy in 1999, and Yale Law School, where she received her Juris Doctor in 2002.
Leila Janah is the Founder and CEO of Samasource, a non-profit social business that gives digital work to impoverished people around the world.
Prior to Samasource, Janah was a a Visiting Scholar with the Stanford Program on Global Justice and Australian National University's Center for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. She was a founding Director of Incentives for Global Health, an initiative to increase R&D spending on diseases of the poor, and a management consultant at Katzenbach Partners (now Booz & Co.). She has also worked at the World Bank and as a travel writer for Let's Go in Mozambique, Brazil, and Borneo.
Leila Janah received a BA from Harvard.
Lalana Janleka-Green is the Owner and President of Acorn Technology which she and her husband founded in 1993. Acorn Technology manufactures industrial drive control systems and has subsidiaries that manufacture marine electrical equipment (under the name METCO) and industrial HVLS ceiling fans (under the name Humongous Fan).
Acorn Technology has won the Weatherhead 100 Award (awarded to the 100 fastest growing companies in Northern Ohio) for four consecutive years with sales of over $5 million.
Lalana Janleka-Green is a graduate of Cornell University.
Winnie Huang is President of the Americas business for Lee Kum Kee, the leading producer of Chinese sauces. Beginning with their Premium Oyster Flavored Sauce, Lee Kum Kee now markets over 200 different sauces in over 100 countries.
Indra Nooyi is the chairman and chief executive officer of PepsiCo, the world's fourth-largest food and beverage company. She is the fifth CEO in PepsiCo's 42-year history. Prior to being named CEO on Augst 14, 2006, she had been serving as president and CFO since 2001.
According to the polls Forbes magazine conducted, Nooyi ranks fifth on the 2007 list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women. In addition, Nooyi has been named the #1 Most Powerful Woman in Business in 2006 and 2007 by Fortune magazine.
Prior to joining PepsiCo in 1994, Nooyi worked at The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Motorola and ABB.
Indra Nooyi received a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Madras Christian College and immediately entered the PGDBA (Post-Graduate Diploma in Business Administration) program at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. She also received a master's degree in Management from the Yale School of Management.
Catherine Khan works at L'Oreal and is currently the Marketing Manager for the Garnier Nutritioniste product line.
Prior to her position at L'Oreal, she worked for four years with Andersen Consulting (Accenture).
Catherine Khan received her undergraduate degree from Cornell University and her MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
Nikki Daruwala is Director of the Social Responsibility program at American Rights at Work. Prior to this position, she was Manager for Advocacy and Social Policy at Calvert, a leading socially responsible mutual fund company. Daruwala is a founding member of the Child Labor Coalition, and has served as Chairperson of the Indigenous Rights Committee and the Diversity Committee at the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility and on the Shareholder Advisory and Policy Committee Board of the Social Investment Forum. She currently serves on the Advisory Committee for the Institute for Women's Policy Research. Daruwala is a graduate of Ithaca College and holds an MS in Industrial and Labor Relations from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
Thevaki Thambirajah began her professional career in a large corporate environments. After spending a few yeears in a training program at Citibank, she opted to find a more intrapreneurial role within Revlon. When that opportunity didn't result in the level of creativity and flexibility she desired, she opted to venture out on her own as a consultant within the independent film industry. While working in the independent film arena fulfilled her passions, it failed to pay the bills. She returned to the corporate world, taking a position at Coty. She has since left that position and returned to the film world where she recently served as Production Office Assistant on the film "Heights" by Ismail Merchant and James Ivory. Thevaki Thambirajah is a graduate of Cornell University.