This was originally posted in the Polka Cafe
As we all know, the gender divide in the workplace continues to be a problem across the globe. While the numbers are low, there are times Indian women have proven that perhaps it’s not a glass ceiling, it’s a sticky floor that is holding people back. Here are ten women who have broken their fair share of glass ceilings and have proved that there is no such thing as a ‘man’s job.’
Rashmi Sinha, CEO and co-founder of SlideShare, inked a deal with LinkedIn for almost $200M!

CEO Jayshree Ullal leads Arista Networks to IPO

Jayshree Ullal joined Cisco via an acquisition and then oversaw 15-20 acquisitions as a Senior Vice President. She was then picked by Arista Networks to be their CEO, and under her leadership, the shares increased by 28% on opening as it raised $226M in IPO.
Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan left Google to found leading advertising platform, Drawbridge

Mumbai girl Kamakshi had the vision to re-define the way mobile advertising was being done. She left a cushy job as Lead Scientist at Google to follow her dream, and founded Drawbridge in 2010. She has the unique distinction of her work being on board New Horizons, NASA’s farthest space mission. She has been named one of Business Insider’s “Most Powerful Women in Mobile Advertising” three years in a row. In 2014, she was named one of Ad Age’s “40 Under 40”, as well as an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist.
Pooja Sankar, CEO and founder of Piazza, got invited to meet the VP of the United States

Pooja Sankar, an IIT Kanpur alumni, experienced the lack of peer learning and decided to do something about it. While in Business School at Stanford, Pooja was intrigued by the business ideas all around her, and spent the summer working on Piazza. Soon Stanford, MIT, Harvard and many others started using her product. To honour achievements of women, in 2012, Vice President Joe Biden invited her to a reception at his official residence in Washington, DC! Follow her here.
Raji Arasu transitioned from VP of Technology at eBay to CTO of StubHub

Raji Arasu started her career as a Software Engineer at Oracle and grew to the role of VP of Technology at eBay, where she led numerous technology innovations. In 2011, she made the switch to CTO of StubHub, where she leads all product and engineering functions for the company. As one of the few female CTOs at a major technology company across the industry, Raji is passionate about growing women leaders in technology, both within the company and externally. Follow her here.
Box acquired analytics startup dLoop, founded by Technical Leader and Entrepreneur Divya Jain

After a career as a Software Engineer in companies like Sun Microsystems and EMC, Divya Jain got interested in Machine Learning in 2009, and by 2010, had completed a graduate certificate in data mining and analysis from Stanford. She then built dLoop, a company that uses machine learning algorithms to sort documents by relevance. In 2013, Box acquired her company, which gave it a level of data analytics that is often a required feature for enterprise customers. Follow her here.
Padmasree Warrior became Cisco’s first female CTO

Kirthiga Reddy appointed Head of Office, Facebook India

Kumud Srinivasan runs Intel’s India operations as President

Pavni Diwanji leads Google’s initiative to make their suite of products more kid-friendly
