She is one of the founders of the company. Prof (Dr) Abha Rishi is the ex-Executive Head of the Madhya Pradesh Startup Centre (MPSC), the nodal state agency to foster entrepreneurship and innovation, is also the co-chair of the Foundation Task Force Committee from India, for Startup20 in the G20, a global platform to promote collaboration and policy support. With nearly 30 years of experience in industry and academia, she is a recognized leader and mentor in the field of innovation and entrepreneurship.
She holds a PhD, a PGDIBO, and an EEC (Honors) from Stanford University and is one of the few Indians to hold two prestigious scholarships: Chevening (University of Oxford) and Fulbright (Rutgers University, USA). A senior faculty at BIMTECH, she has been instrumental in establishing and leading the Atal Incubation Centre and the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development, along with the Goldman Sachs 10K Women global project in UP and Orissa, in BIMTECH.
She has received multiple awards and accolades for her contributions to the entrepreneurial ecosystem, especially for women and students, and is focused on making a positive impact in the world. In addition to her professional achievements, she is the President of the CSV- a Chevening Alumni Association venture for social impact. She has won Accenture’s Inclusion & Diversity Recognition Award, in March 2017, for her work with rural girls and women jail inmates in three prisons of UP. Her hobbies include reading and quizzing and she has won the Championship Winners Trophy in 2008 in the All India Women’s Quiz conducted by AIMA. An avid traveller, she has travelled extensively across 35+ countries on five continents, as part of her work and research.