Shaherose Charania

Shaherose Charania was the CEO & co-founder of global media company Women 2.0, the first for-profit content, community and events company for women in technology and Founder Labs, the first pre-team, pre-idea incubator. Shaherose built these brands organically and grew their influence and impact by connecting 100K women and helping 1000+ startups with coaching and investor connections. Women 2.0 hosted well-known Silicon Valley investors, executives and founders on its stage with the engagement of top technology and Fortune500 Companies as corporate sponsors.

Prior to Women 2.0, Shaherose developed expertise in user-driven product strategy and marketing as the Director of Product and Product Marketing at Ribbit (acq by British Telecom), Talenthouse and JAJAH (act by Telefonica/O2). She advises early-stage startups that span agriculture-tech (CropX), mobile security (Authy acq. by Twilio) and e-commerce (Pickie acq. by RetailMeNot) on product strategy, marketing strategy, and company culture.

She is a sought after speaker at conferences and is frequently featured and interviewed on Bloomberg Television as well as in articles in the Wall Street Journal, Techcrunch, Huffington Post,USA Today,BusinessWeek and others commenting on diversity in technology, company culture and forward-looking technology trends.

Shaherose sits on the Board of Directors of Oakland-based non-profit, Good World Solutions, that provides technology to factory workers in China, India and Europe. She hails from Vancouver, Canada and completed her Bachelors in Business Administration with a Minor in MIS in 2004 from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario.