Women Entrepreneurship

Farah is uniquely focused on unlocking courage in leadership and in life, to allow people to bring out the best of themselves each day. She is a Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF), Executive Coach (ICF) and Founder of Interact Consulting with more than 25 years of experience in the field of leadership and cross-cultural competence.

She is passionate about coaching senior leaders to become confident, influential leaders, who lead with purpose in today’s every changing global workplace. She believes that everyone has the potential to make a difference and her role is to inspire change and realize this potential.

Ms. Preeti Chaudhary is the Founder of LinkedInLocalIndia & Creator of pan India LinkedInLocalIndia Community – a LinkedIn property, Online-Offline-Online series of knowledge and networking events in India. Preeti single-handedly introduced this global concept to India in Nov 2017, spearheaded and led it from the front and further fine-tuned it to suit an Indian context, recruited and collaborated with Co-Hosts and scaled it up to 18 cities pan India between Dec 2017 & March 2018. She is currently building this Community amongst Tier II, III & IV Professionals & College + School Students in 12+ cities of Bharat & counting!

Co-Founder TwinConnect Solutions

Born in mid-west US, Ms Pagano graduated with a BS in Finance from Central Missouri State, MBA from Webster University & MIT and pursued her academic and professional experiences in St. Louis, Chicago, New York, and Miami.

In the last 25 years, as a female P & L leader in a male dominated tech industry, Ms Pagano has worked at large Fortune 30 companies, such as Motorola, AT&T, GE and tech starts up in many capacities with a focus of driving and building new businesses and revenue, valued from $100M to $3B.

22 years working in mental health mostly in a management capacity across all sectors , recovery, probation services, youth , learning disabilities,
International best selling author
TEDX speaker x2
Co founder Adult ADHD NI, CEO Mental Wealth International

She is a powerful Indian woman who has exhibited exemplary courage, determination and grit to prove her mark in multiple challenging fields. For her outstanding achievements, she has been felicitated with 13 awards including Rani Laxmi Bai Bravery Award, Outstanding Global Woman Award, Global Excellence Award, Global Icon Award, The Real Super Woman Award etc.

Paulina is an entrepreneur, an angel investor, a TEDx speaker and a founder of GrantTree, started with a purpose to help tech startups navigate the complex world of government funding. Since 2010 the team grew organically from 2 to over 50, and raised over £200m for more than 600 technology startups and scaleups using solely government funding schemes. GrantTree is also an open culture company which pioneered a self set salary scheme, and an empowering culture governed by holacracy.

Dr. Maja (Maya) Zelihic is a Fulbright Specialist, Full Professor, and a Department Chair of the Advanced Management Studies at the Forbes School of Business and Technology. Dr. Zelihic is a Global Dialogue Partner at NAFSA, the world’s largest nonprofit association dedicated to international education. Dr. Zelihic serves on the Board of Advisors of the International Fellowship Program in Arbitration and Scientific Assessment, the comprehensive global academic review platform. She also serves as an industry advisory member at the Amity University Novel Communication Lab (AUNCL). She is an expert in e-learning development and implementation in the developing world. Dr. Zelihc is a Board member at the Center for Women’s Leadership at the Forbes School of Business and Technology, launched in June of 2020.

Vash Naidoo is the Founder & CEO of The Wonder Women Club, a global community that believes in community over competition. She coaches and mentors women in business, helping them overcome challenges so that they can move forward with inspired action, and live their most joyous life. Her time spans between her business ventures, as  Financial regulatory consultant and her passion for merging technology with human experience as a Scrum Certified Product Owner and Agile Business Analyst.

Since 2010, Ms. Sâadia Lakehal’s mission has been to propel and promote Canadian industries on the international scene.
Strong experience in industrial networking and knowledge of the sector, she improves the competitive positioning and the level of
competitiveness of the manufacturers it supports.
Interesseted by the place and impact of women in the industrial sector, she initiated the Global Women in Manufacturing Summit and the
magazine to promote diversity and inclusion in the connected industry.

Wan Fara Ayu is a Venture Capital (“VC’) entrepreneur who focuses on shariah compliant investments and developing start-up companies. She has 15 years experiences of which 9 years in VC and 6 years in entrepreneurship. She has screened over 1,500 companies from diverse sectors and stages. She has
acquired the end to end experience of the Venture Capital Value Chain, from working with General Partner (Fund Management), Limited Partner level (Fund) fund of funds to being an entrepreneur herself.  She is currently the Co-founder for Kanzun Ventures Management Sdn Bhd, a Venture Capital Fund Management Company also involved in nurturing and developing promising SMEs/start-ups

I am an experienced creative Italian business woman. Having held high-ranking positions within European leading entertainment, media, telecom and fashion firms, launching a high-end brand of my own was the next logical step. The current sanitary crisis also pushed me to think thank other initiatives for the community linked to entrepreneurship, mentoring, learning, sharing, women empowerment. Thus I created Willow Thrive an initiative which gathers entrepreneurs from different backgrounds to promote diversity and encourage resilience.

Bianca Tudor, Founder & CEO Elite Business Women & Elite Business Women Investment Fund.  I started my career at 19, working for a multinational company. My interest in leadership, young leaders, and female leadership started to take shape around the age of 22, when I joined the global organisation – Junior Chamber International. My drive and commitment have allowed me to become the Training and Personal Development Manager/Director of the organisation and later, one of its board members.