About

A career built between research, enterprise and policy

Dr. CeeVee is an academic, serial entrepreneur and author based in Melbourne. She builds the evidence and the enterprises at the same time.

Her work begins from a discomfort with how innovation is measured. Growth metrics reward speed and scale; they say almost nothing about who was excluded along the way. Across two decades she has built the instruments, the enterprises and the teaching to close that gap.

She holds an MBA and a PhD in Management from the School of Management Studies at Cochin University of Science and Technology, and a Master's in Psychology from the University of Madras. That pairing — enterprise strategy and human behaviour — runs through everything since: employability programmes for women, assessment frameworks for regenerative business, and now research on judgement in the age of artificial intelligence.

Her Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Fellowship took her to Stanford University's Gendered Innovations Lab, where she developed the Regenerative Startup Assessment Framework under Prof. Londa Schiebinger. She has since taught executives at UC Berkeley's Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation and joined Monash Business School as a Senior Lecturer, teaching entrepreneurship, innovation, gender and sustainability.

Alongside the academic work she founded and leads SheSight Global and ShePower Club, is building Tulsy AI, and invests in founders solving for inclusion. Her recognitions include the UNCTAD Empretec Women in Business Award, the Landecker Democracy Fellowship, and selection to the U.S. State Department's International Visitor Leadership Program.

“Innovation means nothing if it leaves people behind.”

The narrative

Born in Trivandrum
An early appetite for building
Born and raised in Trivandrum, she grew up between books and questions — an early pull towards work that changed how people lived, not just what they knew.
Education
MBA and PhD in Management, CUSAT
An MBA and a doctorate in Management from the School of Management Studies, Cochin University of Science and Technology, alongside a Master's in Psychology from the University of Madras — the pairing that still shapes her work on people inside enterprises.
2017
Founding Prayaana Labs
A non-profit employability, entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem for women. Career orientation for over 20,000 girls and women, and the Comeback 2 Career mission that brought qualified women back into the workforce.
2018 – 2019
UNCTAD and U.S. State Department recognition
Special recognition in social entrepreneurship at the UNCTAD Empretec Women in Business Award in Geneva — the first Indian woman to receive the honour — followed by selection to the U.S. State Department's International Visitor Leadership Program.
2022 – 2024
Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship, Stanford
Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University's Gendered Innovations Lab under Prof. Londa Schiebinger, researching sustainable and regenerative entrepreneurship. The work became the Regenerative Startup Assessment Framework.
Berkeley
Guest faculty, Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation
Guest faculty and mentor at UC Berkeley's Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation, teaching regenerative and ESG practice to executives.
Now
Senior Lecturer, Monash Business School
Based in Melbourne, teaching and researching entrepreneurship, innovation, gender and sustainability — while building ventures and investing in founders solving for inclusion.