The Women Entrepreneurship Summit and Awards (WESA) is an exclusive initiative of BW Disrupt in association with BW Businessworld that celebrates exceptional women entrepreneurs whose clutter-breaking approaches have created positive changes in the business and startup ecosystem in India. BW Disrupt is keen to acknowledge and enable women founders and achievers who have opened up new avenues for themselves and also for others. BW Disrupt WESA endeavours to acknowledge and appreciate women leaders who are paving the path not only for themselves but others as well.
Jury Deliberation
The esteemed jury panel included Padmaja Ruparel, Co-founder and President, Indian Angel Network (IAN), Bhuvana Ravi, Director, Drishya Education Scholarship Foundation and other notable leaders. The process of finalising winners took place under the supervision of jury chair -- Meena Ganesh, Cofounder, MD and Chairperson, Portea Mewwwdical.
Around 800 nominations came in from across the sectors and industries which were then brought down to over 300 post the first screening round. Subsequently, after the second level of deliberations, nominees who were shortlisted and invited to present before the power-packed jury panel. Given on the right-hand side of the page is the list that includes women who are on the mission to achieve aspired goals by breaking all the ceilings and biases.
BREAKING BIASES
Additti Jain ,Founder and CEO, IKI CHIC
Akshita Gupta, CEO, ABL Workspace
Amarpreet Rai, Co- founder and Director of Operations and Development, Sanrai Med India
Anooja Bashir, CEO ,Ourea
Aradhana Minawala, Co-founder, The CAI Store
Arpi Mehta, Co-founder and CEO, Toothsi
Chytra V Anand, Founder and CEO, Kosmoderma Skin, Hair and Body Clinics
Devi Kondapi, CEO, MSRCosmos LLC
Divya Jain, Founder and CEO, Safeducate Learning
Eshanka Wahi , Founder , Eshanka Wahi Entertainment
Gauri Agarwal, Founder, Seeds of Innocence -IVF and Surrogacy Centre
Jaspinder Bhatia, Co-founder, ibentos
Liberatha Peter Kallat, Chairperson and MD, Dreamfolks Services
Manisha Dhingra, Co-founder, WiZ Care
Manisha Matanhelia, Co-founder and Director, Syenergy Environics 16 Mayurakshi Das , Founder and CEO, ElixirAi
Meghna Agarwal, Co-founder, Innovent Spaces
Meghna Krishna, Co-founder, bMultistream Technologies
Mugdha Pradhan, Founder and CEO , Thrivetribe Wellness Solutions
Naina Ruhail, Co-founder and CEO, Vanity Wagon
Neha Motwani, Co-founder and CEO, Fitternity
Pavitra Shankar, Executive Director, Brigade Group
Priyanka Gill, Co-founder, The Good Glamm Group
Rachna Jaiswal, Founder and Director, AKJ Industries
Rakhi Wadhwa, Co-founder , Knorish
Ravina Jain, Founder and CEO, The Skin Story and The Beard Story
Roopa Kumar, Founder and CEO, Purple Quarter
Runam Mehta, CEO, Healthcubed India
Shilpa Khanna Thakkar, Co-founder, Chicnutrix
Shruti Aggarwal, Co-founder, Stashfin
Sonia Kararha, Founder and CEO, ReVeRa Learning and Solutions
Srishti Bhatia, Founder, Fresh for Paws
Sunaina Harjai, Founder and Director, Hats Off Accessories
Sushma Singhvi, Founder, Gunjan Foundation
T.M. Supraja, Proprietrix, Vahanthi Consultancy
Taniya Biswas, Co-founder, SUTA
Vaishali Gupta, Co-founder and Head Brand Marketing ,Pep Technologies
*The list is in no particular order*