Doyenne Group
Pooja Shah is a seasoned professional with extensive experience in innovation, investment, and engineering. As a Board Member at Doyenne Group since January 2021, and as an Investor at Avanta Ventures from August 2021 to March 2024, Pooja has demonstrated strong leadership and strategic expertise. Previous roles include serving as a Senior Innovation Manager at SageSure and Managing Director of the OnRamp Insurance Accelerator at gener8tor. Pooja's career in the insurance sector includes a position as AVP and Co-Founding Member at QBE Insurance. An early career in investment banking at Barclays Capital involved the successful closure of significant transactions in healthcare. Pooja holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Master’s Degree in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Doyenne Group
Doyenne is a nonprofit membership organization that provides professional development, networking, and mentoring for women entrepreneurs who are building scalable ventures. Our mission is to unleash and ignite the power and potential of women entrepreneurs. We focus on three core strategies to support women entrepreneurs as they launch and scale their dreams: —Develop the Entrepreneur: Expand entrepreneurial skills through professional development workshops and webinars, and provide public programming to highlight women entrepreneurs. —Fund the Ventures: Put dollars into the hands of women entrepreneurs and create pipelines for more women to invest in each other. —Transform the Narrative: Changing the face of entrepreneurship through our voices and the way women entrepreneurs are represented and supported within an ecosystem. Doyenne was founded in 2012 by Heather Wentler and Amy Gannon to right two wrongs. First, to eliminate the gender gap in the entrepreneurial community and second, because they were tired of asking time and again “where are all the women?” Rather than continue to complain, they decided to do something about it. Doyenne is a 501c3 nonprofit organization.