My Story
Every Woman's Career Journey Matters
Numbers were my first language. Growing up in a family where trade and enterprise filled dinner table conversations, I was drawn not to abstract equations, but to the pulse of real money, real decisions, real stakes.
Yet for all that early curiosity, I was never the star student. For years, I drifted — a post-graduation degree, marriage, and then the quiet unraveling of an identity crisis. I kept asking myself the same question: Who am I, and what am I here to do?
The hunger to become something was fierce. But the vision? Nowhere to be found.
I turned to teaching — guiding CA Foundation students — and found genuine joy in it. Yet somewhere beneath that joy lived a truth I couldn't silence: I was meant for more.
Rock bottom has a way of forcing clarity. Burnt out, broken, and stripped of pretense, I finally stopped running from the life I actually wanted.
Then came motherhood — and with it, an unexpected awakening.
At 29, I made the decision that would rewrite everything: I sat for Chartered Accountancy through ICAI. Not the conventional path. Not the safe one. But mine. That choice gave me back myself.
What followed was three decades of climbing — CFO at Sandvik Asia, CFO at NRB Bearings, Executive Director of Finance & CIO at Bridgestone India. Each role earned with pride.
Today, I channel everything those years taught me into one purpose: "Empowering women in finance" — so they never have to wait as long as I did to find their wings.
