Our Board

Sanjay Singh

President, Board of Directors
Sanjay is a business and technology leader who has had various organizational leadership roles during his career in Informix, Sybase and IBM. His last gig was a direct to consumer online venture through which he established his own brand for electronic accessories and marketed them to retail chains across America. Sanjay strongly believes in equality of rights for women and strongly supports the Narika cause. Sanjay believes that if we all look within the communities we live in and do whatever we are capable of to improve the well being of our community, we will take our communities a lot further! Sanjay likes to spend his spare time in photography, camping and mountain biking.

Shailaja Dixit

Executive Director
Shailaja holds 10 plus years in the field of domestic violence advocacy, management and leadership. She comes to us most recently from SAVE (Safe Alternatives to Violent Environments) where she served as Community Engagement Manager, working to mobilize resources, volunteers and local communities to raise awareness and support for the Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) movement. She was also instrumental in helping spearhead Project LIGHT, SAVE’s innovative Survivor Leadership & Advocacy Training Program. Shailaja brings with her a rich and varied work experience, ranging from crisis intervention and direct service to development, community engagement, education and outreach.
Shailaja believes in building collaborative networks of care and in the power of an engaged and informed community. Her vision is to build a trauma-informed, survivor-centered, culturally responsive service organization, grounded in core values of integrity, authenticity, equity, courage, inclusion and compassion.

Surabhi Jain

Secretary, Board of Directors
Surabhi considers herself an explorer who started her career as a nuclear engineer which then meandered with her stint as an environmental management consultant followed by her foray in software engineering and product management. She currently works as Payments Finance Product Lead at PayPal and is forever curious about what to try next. Her ventures on the personal side are rather timid and mostly involve travelling, hiking, and to her family's chagrin, some cooking.
She strongly believes that empowering a woman elevates not just her but the whole family and is committed to Narika’s mission to help domestic violence survivors become financially independent and self-reliant. She has mentored women entrepreneurs and professionals through various organizations and serves as Fundraising Chapter Chair for PayPal Gives Foundation. She also founded a local organization that helps community building through cultural events.

Sajeena Warrier

Treasurer, Board of Directors
Sajeena Warrier is a seasoned leader who has held numerous strategy and operational roles in the products and services business units of McAfee, Network General, and Aspect. Sajeena enjoys and actively seeks changing and dynamic environments. Sajeena's experience working in the business encompasses bringing new products and services to market to create customer and business value. Her work on business strategy has focused on portfolio transformation for growth and scale.
Sajeena holds a Master of Business Administration from the Lucas Graduate School of Business at San Jose State University, a Master of English from Purdue University, and an Honors Bachelor of Arts from Lady Shri Ram College of Delhi University.
Sajeena has an enduring interest in contributing to organizations and initiatives supporting women's careers, professional growth, education, wellness and safety.

Ranjan Sinha

Member, Board of Directors
Ranjan Sinha is the Vice President, Fellow, and Chief Technology Officer for the IBM Global Chief Data Office. He is a digital transformational leader and innovator in consumer and enterprise data and AI platforms and solutions. Ranjan is passionate about promoting a society that ensures wellness, safety, and empowerment of vulnerable groups. He has been supporting causes in areas such as female literacy, feeding the poor, digital abuse and climate change. In his spare time, he enjoys cooking, traveling, gardening, and hiking with his family.

Rima Chakraborty

Member, Board of Directors
Rima is a financial services professional with a breadth of experiences across IT finance, banking, and project management. Her entrepreneurial spirit led her to take an 8-year hiatus during the peak of her finance career to own, operate, and successfully exit a few businesses, including a luxury day spa. She later found her way back to a career in finance, and in addition to her role as a Private Client Advisor with JP Morgan Chase she now mentors young women to be savvy with personal finances and achieve financial independence.
Her penchant for travel led her to spend four years working abroad in the UK and Paris and to visit 19 countries across Europe and the Asia Pacific. She brings the influences of her travels into her cooking and loves hosting and entertaining friends in her home.
Rima is passionate about strengthening communities by empowering women to escape abusive relationships. True to Narika’s mission, she is committed to supporting survivors of domestic abuse by guiding them in matters of their financial freedom.

Noona Sankaran

Member, Board of Directors
Noona is trained as a teacher and a reading specialist and has always been passionate about causes that serve women and children. Having gone through her own struggles, she strongly believes in the empowerment of women and helping them develop confidence and build resilience from setbacks. She has worked as a teacher helping children with learning disabilities reach their full reading potential. Noona has traveled to Ecuador with Global Volunteers and worked with children in an orphanage to help them read and grasp basic concepts in math through the tactile learning model. In Atlanta, she volunteered with CARE and organized a group with high school students to raise awareness on social causes. After moving to California, she served on the Foothill-DeAnza board to help promote cost-effective education for students in the local community. Noona has also volunteered for over 10 years as a CASA. In her spare time, she enjoys hiking, meditation, walking her doodle, cooking, socializing, volunteering and entertaining.

Kalpa Chobe

Member, Board of Directors
Kalpa Chobe is the Vice President of Privacy, Security and Technology Compliance within Kaiser Permanente’s Ethics and Compliance department. She joined Kaiser Permanente in 2014, prior to which she worked at Deloitte & Touche LLP. She has multi-year experience in the areas of IT auditing, legal and compliance and risk management.
Kalpa holds both a bachelor’s degree in accounting and a bachelor’s degree in law from the University of Mumbai in India. She later received a master’s degree in accounting information systems from Texas A&M University.
Kalpa has lived in the Bay Area for more than 20 years and over the years contributed to, and been affiliated with, various causes such as homelessness, patient care and child education, here and in India. She is passionate about giving back to the community and contributing to causes specific to women empowerment and child education. Narika’s mission has inspired her to create awareness about the issue of domestic violence and make a difference in the lives of the survivors.

Astha Pandey

Member, Board of Directors
Astha Pandey is an alumni of Amity Law School, Noida. She graduated B.A.LL.B(H) majoring in Business Laws. Subsequently, she moved to the U.S. to pursue her LLM (Master’s of Law) in Business and Finance Law from the George Washington University, Washington DC, where she was offered the prestigious Thomas Buergenthal Scholarship.
She has been working with Chugh LLP in Santa Clara, California for nearly 5 years now in the field of US corporate immigration and is very passionate about helping people in the process and making a difference by contributing towards society.
Astha has always actively participated in extra and co-curricular activities as well since childhood. She has represented her schools/colleges at various competitions at university and national levels. She likes being involved in organizing and participating in events and initiatives at her workplace and in personal life.

Sarika Khanna

Member, Board of Directors

Sarika is a global C-level executive with over 25 years of experience and deep domain expertise as a Chief Product Officer in B2B and SaaS organizations, ranging from startups to multi-billion-dollar companies. She has a strong track record in P&L oversight, significantly impacting company strategy and operations. Sarika has extensive experience in M&A, with over 25 acquisitions across her career, including due diligence, product strategy integration, and product and organization integration.

Sarika most recently served as the Chief Product Officer for Medallia Inc., an almost $1B revenue-leading B2B SaaS customer and employee experience platform. Before that, she worked as General Manager of Litmos, which was acquired by SAP as part of the CallidusCloud acquisition of over $2B. Earlier in her career, she spent eight years at Oracle Corp, starting as an engineer and developing into a product manager.

Sarika is passionate about women's empowerment and has been actively involved in giving back as a volunteer in mentoring and coaching students from her alma mater and mentoring young Indian startups with a focus on women entrepreneurs. To promote women in the workplace, she chaired the Women in Tech resource group at Medallia. She has been married for 28 years, has two children, loves the outdoors, yoga, and cooking, and is an avid reader.