Finance Sector Inclined Towards Men, Says Seema Chaturvedi

For Seema Chaturvedi, realising that she could be an entrepreneur was very empowering. Seema, who founded the Accelerator Group,  has over 17 years of experience in capital markets and financial management. She is an investment banker and corporate finance advisor and has worked with JM Financial Services, which is an Indian affiliate of Morgan and Stanley Dean Witter.

About sexism in the finance sector, she said that there is no overt sexism but when tasked with a challenge, she needed to prove that she was able to meet it.

About sexism in the finance sector, she said that there is no overt sexism but when tasked with a challenge, she needed to prove that she was able to meet it. She added, “There was a natural inclination of opportunities to be presented to men who were not as qualified as I was.”

Seema Chaturvedi is working with TiE to bring together an initiative to mentor women in their entrepreneurial journeys

Now, she is working with TiE to bring together an initiative to mentor women in their entrepreneurial journeys. The programme, All Indian Roadshow of Economic Empowerment of Women, has received funding to promote entrepreneurship as a career option for young women in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities. The outcome of this initiative as she says is to “encourage women to start scalable and sustainable businesses so that they can then become mentors themselves, so it is kind of a trickledown and a multiplier effect”.