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Top 100 Asian Stars in UK Tech 2015

Dame Zarine Kharas
Founder & CEO at JustGiving
Zarine Kharas is the founder and chief executive of fundraising website JustGiving, which
launched in February 2001 and is credited with transforming online fundraising, enabling
charities and individuals to easily raise sponsorship money over the internet. By the end
of 2008, users of JustGiving had raised £527m for 8,100 charities, and a US version has also
been launched. A University of Cambridge BA (Hons), Law graduate, she previously worked in
investment banking, and then launched the MC Securities’ operations in Warsaw, where she
was responsible for strategy and operations. She was made Dame Commander for services to
business and charity in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2015.

Shalini Khemka
Founder & CEO - E2Exchange
Shalini founded E2Exchange in 2011. Its mission is to create the UK’s leading organisation
supporting entrepreneurs and helping them accelerate the growth of their businesses in a
nurturing and dynamic environment. Shalini was an Investment Direct or at LDC the private
equity arm of Lloyds Banking Group and led LDC’s off-market origination network. Shalini
joined LDC from Lloyds Banking Group where she ran the Group’s ‘plain vanilla’ International
Trade Finance business whilst chairing the Lloyds TSB’s Emerging Leaders programme.
Prior to working for Lloyds TSB, Shalini along with three former Managing Directors of
Deutsche Bank, set up the world’s first online ‘bank to bank’ trade finance company. She was
a management accountant at Deutsche Bank and has worked in various finance related roles
for Bankers Trust International Bank, Natwest Bank and Coopers & Lybrand. Shalini is also a
Director on the Development Board of The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, a Mentor for IBM
Smartcamp and a Champion for Tech London Advocates.

Anand Krishnan - General Manager, Developer & App
Platform, Microsoft
As General Manager Developer and App Platforms for Microsoft, Anand Krishnan leads a UKbased team on sales of platform products (Azure, Developer Tools & MSDN), app acquisition
for Microsoft’s mobile and tablet platforms as well as the Microsoft Ventures Accelerator and
BizSpark programs for startups. Anand joined the Microsoft UK subsidiary in June 2012. Prior
to this appointment, he spent two years as the Global Lead & Director for Microsoft’s Cloud
Business, based in Paris responsible for launching & driving Office365 & Azure share and
revenues across 100+ subsidiaries worldwide.
Anand has spent most of his career in early-stage businesses. He previously served as Western
Europe Area lead for Microsoft’s web-platform business. Prior to that, he was at Microsoft’s
HQ in Redmond and launched Microsoft’s first product in the Technical Computing space. He
came to Microsoft after 8 years in the startup world, having held positions in sales, businessdevelopment, alliances and product-management. Anand holds an MBA from Stanford
University and a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin.

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