Atalanta Diaries Breakthrough Women in Conversation with Enma Popli

Vennesa Van Ameyde serves as the Chief Operating Officer of Kasasa, an award-winning fintech and marketing services company that provides reward checking accounts people love, the first-ever loan with Take-Backs™, and ongoing expert consulting services to more than 600 community financial institutions nationwide. As COO, Vennesa manages the day-to-day operations, marketing, creative services, clie...

Judge Manpreet “Monica” Singh was born, raised, and educated in Houston, and earned her bachelor's degree from University of Texas at Austin and her Juris Doctor (JD) from South Texas College of Law.  Before her election to Harris County Civil Court at Law #4 in 2022  where she made history as Texas’ first Sikh Judge, Monica was a practicing attorney for 21 years. In 2010 she was runner-up for...

Jaya is a veteran journalist, essayist, and fiction writer.  An undergrad in Psychology and a software engineer Jaya made a foray in the world of writing much later, yet in her twenty years in the journalism field as an editor, columnist and reporter she has received 30 awards, most notably from the San Francisco Press Club and Writers Digest.  Jaya has also garnered 8 fiction awards including the...

Radha Kessar is a mathematician  and educator  working in the  representation theory of finite groups,  a branch of abstract algebra.  She is a professor in pure mathematics  at  the University of Manchester, having previously  been a professor at City, University of London and the University of Aberdeen. She is the only woman to have been a professor of  mathematics at the University of Aberdeen....

Dr. Meeran Chadha Borwankar is a retired IPS officer who served in the state of Maharashtra, India, from 1981 to 2017 and retired as the Director General of the Bureau of Police Research and Development.  Among many prestigious positions, Dr. Borwankar was the first woman Police Commissioner in Pune City, the first woman Chief of the Mumbai Crime Branch, and the Chief of the Maharashtra Prison Dep...

Shaheen was born in Mumbai, grew up in five countries around the world and at the age of eighteen, returned to Mumbai to do something about the unequal opportunities that children have in India. Shaheen founded the first Akanksha (“aspiration” in Sanskrit) centre in 1989 with 15 children. The Akanksha Foundation today runs 26 Akanksha Schools across Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur impacting over 14,000 st...

Nichol Ng is CEO and Managing Director of X-Inc Pte Ltd, the parent of a group of companies that has been in the food business since the 1930s. She oversees about 200 employees, more than 5,000 products, over 4,500 customers, and an annual turnover exceeding S$65 million. Together, the companies bring to life dreams in the food ecosystem – from foodservice and retail to logistics and property. It...

Sandhya is a staff attorney in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Houston Division. She conducts legal research on constitutional issues and drafts judicial memoranda. When Sandhya was two months old, she was diagnosed with a rare brittle bone disease called osteopetrosis, which caused her blindness.  Sandhya attended Rice University where she graduated Magna...

Recognized as one of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Tech for five consecutive years, Jenny is a thought leader in HR, Human Capital Management, the Future of Work, and data analytics. She is the Founder of Actionable Analytics Group, an advisory firm that supports Human Capital Management and Education Tech startups from Seed to IPO. Her first book, Data Driven , was selected as one of the top 10 f...

Meenakshi Wadhwa is a planetary scientist and educator who studies the formation and evolution of the Solar System through analysis of planetary materials including Meteorites, Moon rocks and other Extraterrestrial Samples returned by Spacecraft Missions. Meenakshi  is currently director and Foundation Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University and is a...

Abha Narain Lambah is a practicing Conservation Architect and a recipient of the Eisenhower Fellowship, Charles Wallace Fellowship (U.K.), Sankriti Award, Architect of the Year Award 2019 Architectural Digest and Architect of the Year Award CNBC Awaaz 2017. Her firm was awarded the Architectural Digest Architect of the Year in  2019 and has been included in the AD100 Architects List and the WoW Li...

Dr Monalisa Sur is a  Professor in the department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine and an associate member of Department of Oncology, Juravinski Cancer Centre and Hospital in Ontario, Canada. She is a Practising Diagnostic Anatomical Pathologist with expertise in Gynaecological Oncologic Pathology and Malignant Hematopathology and is the Chair of the Mentorship Committee in McMaster Univer...

Archana Chandra is a Board Member & CEO of Jai Vakeel Foundation & Research Centre, one of the oldest & largest NGOs serving those impacted by intellectual disabilities. She is a Trustee of SRCC, which operates the largest super specialty pediatric hospital in the country in partnership with Narayana Hrudayalaya. She is also a member of the Advisory Board of Annamrita, one of the large...

Dona Kay Rule is a cowgirl, wife, mother and grandmother and at an age when most rodeo champions decide to retire, Dona decided to jump right in and now 65 year old Dona is among the top barrel racers in the world and has qualified for the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo (NFR) four times. Dona Kay travels with her horse Valor and Rosie. It’s hard to say who is more famous, Valor, Dona Kay, or Rodeo...

Manisha Girotra is Chief Executive Officer of Moelis & Company in India. She was previously Chairperson and Country Head for UBS in India, with a career spanning 30 years with UBS in Hong Kong, Mumbai, Delhi and London and with Moelis in India. She was the youngest CEO of a global investment bank in India at the age of 32. Manisha has advised over US$ 500 Bn of mergers and acquisitions and equ...

NASA’s first South Asian female flight director, Pooja Jesrani has a unique lens on building inclusive environments in high stakes circumstances. As one of the 24 NASA Flight Directors, apart from guiding mission control Pooja is responsible for managing operations for all human spaceflight programs including the International Space Station (ISS), a habitable artificial satellite and microgravity...

Dusica H Lukac is Partner and Managing Director of DL Capital Partners. She crossed from Money Street to Tech Street after decades in investment banking and millions under management and M&A deals. Dusica has worked with multiple PE/VC funds and other institutional investors, and technology companies in the growth stage founded her own companies and invested as an angel, as well as Non-Executi...

Swati Shetty is a producer based in Los Angeles and the Founder & Director of Samosa Stories. She is a Pharmacist and MBA by education. Swati began her entertainment career at StarTV, followed by Disney. Earlier, as President of Balaji Motion Pictures, Swati put together a successful slate of films, starting with The Dirty Picture, the first-ever female-driven film that had extraordinary succe...

Ettie has served as an educator and school leader at international schools in Israel, Singapore, China, Guatemala, Spain, and the USA and has also served as Adjunct Professor for various universities. She has served as Secretary on the Board of the Academy of International School Heads and ECIS and participated on the Advisory Council for AAIE. As a consultant to internationally mobile communities...

Claude Pellerin, owner of ‘ The French Lady ’,  a charming French restaurant in Birmingham, Michigan  was born in Nord-Pas-de-Calais.  Claude is well-versed in the diverse cuisines from her home country, and  provides authentic tastes of France. Cooking, baking and entertaining are her passions and she prepares each meal from scratch with not just love and care, but with techni...

With a Masters Degree in Demographics from University of Berkeley, California, Seema is an HR Executive with over 25 years of progressive HR experience in the technology and space industry and has played a key role in Building, Transforming and Restructuring Organizations for Success through Organizational Innovation. She started her career with Sun Microsystems where she spent more than a decade...

Madhura DasGupta Sinha is a business leader and advocate for women’s economic justice and rights. She was a banker for 25 years holding leadership positions in IDFC, Standard Chartered and ANZ Grindlays Bank. Madhura was one of the 12 women across India to be awarded the British Chevening Scholarship in 2003. On the cusp of turning 50, Madhura founded her unique start up, Aspire For Her, with a mi...

DR LORETTA CHEN is a multi-hyphenate: creative producer, theatre director, professor , entrepreneur and author. She is also Co-founder & CEO of Smobler Studios, a metaverse architecture firm and established the first Sandbox Academy in Singapore. Loretta’s personal tagline is People, Purpose, Possibilities. She is on a mission to use her 24 years of hard-won, diverse experience to educate and...

Hi! I am Enma , thank you very much for taking the time to listen in. Over the years as a curious traveler of life, I went through different roles - entrepreneur, trainer and now an executive coach across multiple geographies. On this journey I have had the opportunity to meet some amazing women . Every one of them shared a unique story of passion, resilience, and success overcoming challenges in...