Leila Chirayath Janah, Founder Samasource, on Being Female in a Male World

Video Interview with Leila Chirayath Janah, CEO & Founder Samasource http://www.samasource.org/about/team#leila
Leila first developed the idea behind Samasource while working as a management consultant at Katzenbach Partners (now Booz & Co.), where her clients included global leaders in the outsourcing and telecom sectors and a number of prominent non-profits. Along with Professors Thomas Pogge and Aidan Hollis, she founded Incentives for Global Health and helped produce a plan for incentivizing the development of new drugs for neglected diseases. As an undergraduate, Leila authored background papers for the World Bank's Development Research Group and Ashoka on equity and social rights. You can find Leila http://leilajanah.com/ on Twitter @leila_c http://twitter.com/leila_c & blogging @Social Edge http://www.socialedge.org/blogs/samasourcing
Thanks to Alexander Blu for music 'Cosmo' http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/149 For further info check out http://www.ezebis.com Distributed by Tubemogul. Thanks to the Four Seasons, Palo Alto for their hospitality & use of their beautiful hotel http://www.fourseasons.com/siliconvalley/

Category:

People & Blogs

Tags:

• female startups
• social startups
• philanthropy
• nonprofit
• venture capital
• funding
• women entrepreneurs
• startups
• entrepreneurs