Dhivya Suryadevara is an

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executive and the current

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of Stripe, an American e-commerce payments company. She is the former Executive Vice President and

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Early life and education

Suryadevara was brought up in

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along with two sisters by her mother, who worked in

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in Chennai. Suryadevara studied in St John's Senior Secondary School in

Mandaveli Mandaveli (also known as Mandavelli or Mandavelipakkam) is a neighborhood in Chennai, India. It is also termed usually as Mandavelipakkam which in the Tamil language "Mandhai" is 'herd of cattle' and "Veli" is 'grassland'. Location Mandaveli is ...

, Chennai. She did her bachelor's degree in commerce from the

Ethiraj College for Women Ethiraj College for Women is an arts and science college for women in Chennai, India, managed by the Ethiraj College Trust. It was founded in 1948 by the barrister V. L. Ethiraj of Vellore. History Ethiraj College for Women is an autonomous col ...

of the

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. She later went on to pursue Chartered Accountancy at the

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. She is also a chartered financial analyst, and has an MBA from

Harvard Business School Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It is consistently ranked among the top business schools in the world and offers a large full-time MBA p ...

Career

Suryadevara started her career at

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while attending the

. She then interned at the World Bank in 2002 and went on to

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as an investment banker. She joined General Motors in 2004. In 2013, she was appointed the CFO and chief investment officer of GM Asset Management. In 2015, she accepted a role as Vice President of Finance and Treasurer. In 2017, she became the first female Chief Financial Officer at General Motors. On August 13, 2020, Suryadevara resigned her position as chief financial officer at General Motors to work as Chief Financial Officer for e-commerce payments company, Stripe. Suryadevara was named to Fortune's 40 Under 40 in 2015 and 2018.

References

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