Rashmi Sinha is an
Indian
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businesswoman and
CEO of
San Francisco-based technology company
SlideShare
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. In 2012, ''
Fortune'' named her No. 8 on its
Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs list. In 2008, Rashmi was named one of the World's Top 10 Women Influencers in
Web 2.0
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by ''
Fast Company
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History
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In January 2015,
The Economic Times
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listed her as one of 20 "most influential" global Indian women.
Early life and education
Rashmi Sinha was born in
Lucknow
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,
India
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, grew up in India, and earned a PhD in cognitive neuropsychology at
Brown University. There, Rashmi took computer science courses with
Andy van Dam, so she had some exposure to the HCI (human-computer interaction) way of thinking. She took a course in designing educational software. Rashmi Sinha went to
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...
for a postdoc where she switched her focus to human-computer interaction.
She also earned an M.A. and a B.A. in Psychology from
Allahabad University
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Business career
She then left academia at the University of California to start her own user-experience consultancy. Deciding that she enjoyed practical problems more, she co-founded Uzanto, a user experience consulting company and worked on projects for companies like eBay, Blue Shield, AAA etc. Her first foray into products was with MindCanvas (a game-like software for customer research) released in November 2005.
Simultaneously, Rashmi and her husband, with the help of her older brother Amit Ranjan, built SlideShare, a site for people to share presentations online, in just six months. Since its launch in 2006, more than 9 million presentations have been uploaded to SlideShare, helping professionals connect through content. LinkedIn acquired SlideShare for over $100 million in 2012.
Personal life
Sinha is married to Jonathan Boutelle, who is the co-founder and
Chief technology officer of
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. They live in San Francisco.
In 2008, Rashmi was named one of the World's Top 10 Women Influencers in Web 2.0 by Fast Company.
Management philosophy
Rashmi writes about social software and entrepreneurship at her blog; Rashmisinha.com. She is involved in the HCI community, was one of the founding members of the Information Architecture Society, and co-chairs the monthly BayCHI talk series.
See also
*
List of Indian Americans
Indian Americans are citizens or residents of the United States of America who trace their family descent to India. This article is a list of notable Indian Americans.
Academics
Nobel Prize recipients
* Har Gobind Khorana (1922-2011), Nobel ...
References
External links
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Indian emigrants to the United States
Brown University alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Businesspeople from San Francisco
Living people
American people of Indian descent
American women of Indian descent in health professions
LinkedIn people
Businesspeople from Lucknow
Businesswomen from Uttar Pradesh
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women