Ms. Lakshmi comes with 16 plus years of global experience where she has taken several leadership roles in finance, technology, e-commerce and digital media at IBM(US/Canada/Europe/Latin America), Goldman Sachs(Hong Kong), jabong.com(India), Shopify(India) and most recently at DCF Ventures. During her stint as a cofounder of jabong.com, she became active in the entrepreneurship world and has been an angel investor herself having invested in companies in companies globally. Some of her investments are in the consumer tech space such as velvetcase.com, travellingspoon.com, purganics (organic women's hygiene products), driverskart that was acquired by Driveu and others.
She has an MBA from Columbia Business School, New York. She has been 22 patent filings in the United States and has been a recipient of many awards( Women Entrepreneur of the year - Rotary), a panelist at many prestigious events such as NASSCOMM, FICCI , CII, Indo-China FICCI conference , UK-IBC Conference, Techsparks , IIMs and a speaker at many MNCs.
Apart from this in her free time, she enjoys travelling, staying fit and spends time gardening. She is originally from Chennai and is currently based out of Mumbai .