Suhani is the co-founder and CEO of Saral Designs, a Mumbai-based start-up providing access to quality affordable hygiene products to low-income communities in Asia and Africa, using decentralized manufacturing.
Suhani is a board member of IIT Bombay’s Strategic Advisory Committee and leads the Environment Fund for ACT Grants. She has been recognized as the top 25 trailblazing women in business by Forbes India and 25 most powerful women in Impact by Business Today. She is an Acumen India Fellow, ‘Young Alumni Achiever, IIT Bombay’, recipient of India Africa Young Visionary award from Ministry of External Affairs, India, ‘Top woman entrepreneur’; at Empower, by Department of Science and Technology and winner of the National Entrepreneurship Award by Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship. She has been a guest lecturer at Vivekanand Education Society’s Institute of Management Studies And Research and KJ Somaiya StartUp School. She has also been a speaker at forum’s like TEDx IIT Bombay, UBS philanthropy forum – Switzerland, plus Acumen San Francisco chapter, Kerala Start-up Mission, Jagriti Yatra on topics of social entrepreneurship, women in entrepreneurship and social impact.
An ex-investment banker from Deutsche Bank, Suhani holds a bachelor’s degree in Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science with a minor in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay and is a CFA (Level I).
