Awards & Recognition
★Forbes '100 Most Powerful Women' (multiple years)
★International Alliance for Women - World of Difference Award (2013)
★Wall Street Journal '50 Women to Watch'
★Business Insider '25 Most Influential Women in Wireless' (2012)
★Fast Company '100 Most Creative People in Business'
★Economic Times '11th Most Influential Global Indian' (2005)
★United States Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce Excellence Award
★YWCA Metropolitan Chicago Outstanding Woman of Achievement Award
★WITI Hall of Fame inductee (2007)
★Working Woman Magazine 'Women Elevating Science and Technology' award (2001)
Notable Facts
→Former CTO of Cisco (7 years) and Motorola (5 years)
→Former CEO of NIO USA (electric vehicle company)
→Currently serves on boards of Microsoft and Spotify
→Founded Fable (social reading platform) in 2019, sold to Scribd/Everand in 2025
→Raised $28.8M in funding for Fable from Tiger Global and Redpoint Ventures
→Has Wikipedia page documenting extensive career
→Speaking fees range $50,000-$100,000 for keynote events
→IIT Delhi and Cornell University educated (Chemical Engineering)
→Fable had 3 million users and 100,000+ book clubs at time of acquisition