Poornima Shenoy is the founding President of IESA. In this role, she oversees IESA operations and works as a member of its Executive Council on strategic issues relating to the Indian semiconductor and systems, design and manufacturing industry

She has over twenty years of experience as an entrepreneur and a business professional. She has participated in governmental committees and is an invited speaker at both national and international seminars. Her special area of interest is in encouraging women professionals both at the graduate school level and in the corporate world.

Poornima has been awarded the prestigious Chevening Scholarship for Women in Leadership & Management by the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office. She is co-founder of the group Women in Business & Technology (WBT).

Poornima is an Economics graduate from Mount Carmel College, Bangalore and holds an MBA from TAPMI, Manipal.

She can be contacted at president@isaonline.org