Sharmila Rathinam

Gala Chair & Investment Committee

Sharmila Rathinam is a business leader focused on business and financial management. She has over 20 years of experiences on project and budget management, streamlining business processes, setting goals and helping achieve them. She specializes in driving efficiencies, optimizing cost and scaling operations of businesses. In the last 20 years she has worked with Microsoft, Axa Financial Advisors, Ernst & Young and Anderson Consulting. Her last role was with Microsoft where she was managing business operations in the Microsoft Partner Group. She is also an entrepreneur managing several real estate development projects.

Over the past 10 years she has been involved with non-profits like Pratham, See Your Impact and Indian Association of Western Washington volunteering her time and helping raise awareness and funds for these causes.

Sharmila has her Bachelors in Commerce from the University of Madras and has her Chartered Accountancy Degree from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Chennai.