Shoma Bakre - Founder & Managing Trustee, Let’s Do Some Good Foundation(LDSG), a social responsibility platform
An achiever in her own right in the corporate and social space, Bangalore-based Shoma Bakre has a penchant for reading biographies. But taking a page from her own life reveals her successful passage as a lecturer of English literature in a small town in Assam to that of a ‘corporate entrepreneur’ and the gradual metamorphosis to her current role as a ‘social entrepreneur’Shoma co-founded EmPower Research, a business research and analytics company, and was its Managing Partner. When Genpact acquired EmPower Research by the end of 2011, Shoma stayed on with the parent company to help with the transition until December 2012. Heralding positive social change for women’s empowerment and livelihood generation, Shoma is now set on new frontiers, treading paths that also engage with causes for underprivileged and differntly-abled children in the areas of education, health, nutrition, and sanitation.
Shoma also features as one of 60 women nominated as ‘Women Achievers’ by CII Southern Region’s Women’s Empowerment Task Force, as the first woman entrepreneur to be featured in the Indian Startup EMERGEOUT initiative by NASSCOM , and in the ‘My Mentor’ series launched by Emberin Australia at NASSCOM .
A first time author with her new book, ‘When Dreams Have Wings’, Shoma is also a qualified Hindustani classical vocalist, a food photographer and a keen artist. She is a dutiful daughter and a caring mother who enjoys creative cooking too. Testimony to her culinary fervour is a compilation of recipes contributed by members of her cooking website http://lazycooksparadise. webs.com
In an informal chat with Corporate Citizen, Shoma shares her thoughts on a range of subjects close to her heart.
By Sangeeta Ghosh Dastidar
