About Speaker Shivani Siroya…
Shivani Siroya is currently the CEO and Founder of Tala. Tala is a mobile technology company providing simple credit scoring and accounting tools to the >4 billion people across the globe currently lacking a formal financial identity. Tala’s work has been recognized by USAID, TED, Economist Vodafone, Bloomberg, and Forbes.
Ms. Siroya has a wide array of professional experiences in global health, microfinance, and investment banking. Prior to InVenture she worked in health costing at the United Nations Population Fund and Mergers & Acquisitions at Health Net and Citigroup.
She is a 2013 Ashoka Fellow, 2013 TED Fellow, 2011 Echoing Green Fellow and 2011 Unreasonable Institute Fellow. She is also a blogger for the Huffington Post, and on the board the LA Chapter of Young Women Social Entrepreneurs. Shivani holds a M.P.H from Columbia University and a B.A. from Wesleyan University.