Shamila Gopalan

EXPERTISE

Entrepreneurship (starting, pivoting and growing businesses), business strategy, racial issues, discrimination, funding for female founders, the media industry (global perspective), diversity especially around migrants, equality (gender and beyond)

BIO

Shamila Gopalan is an entrepreneur and corporate leader having built businesses independently and in Fortune 500 companies worldwide, from CNN to National Geographic Channel through to Fox International for close to 24 years across three continents. She has built two businesses and exited one before moving to Australia three years ago. Now on her third venture, HerWit, she keeps pushing the envelope for equality, diversity and inclusion in fostering female role models and leaders.

AFFILIATIONS, MEMBERSHIPS

MBA - CUNY, Top 50 Female Leaders in Asia - World Federation of Marketing and Asian Federation of Business.