Saloni Malhotra is the founder and

CEO A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a chief executive or managing director, is the top-ranking corporate officer charged with the management of an organization, usually a company or a nonprofit organization. CEOs find roles in variou ...

of DesiCrew, an IT-enabled service company that provides back-office and support services in rural areas of

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and

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, India. She has worked to establish Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) companies in rural parts of the states and employ previously inexperienced and untrained people from small villages.

Career

Saloni did her engineering from

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in state of

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. She started her career in an interactive media startup, ''Web Chutney'' based in

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. She came into contact of Professor Jhunjhunwala of TeNet group,

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and came up with the idea of establishing a BPO in Rural area. Her company DesiCrew been recognized for this innovative approach and won the Sankalp award in 2009. DesiCrew has rural delivery centers in the Indian southern states of

and

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, and employs 900-odd people from these villages. She currently is on the Board of Directors of DesiCrew.

Awards

* TiE Stree Shakthi Award (2011) * Facilitated in the presence of the

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by the CII

References

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