Dr. Sirisha Kuchimanchi is the Founder of “Sahita”, a Global Community for South Asian Women for Career & Financial Empowerment. She is an active investor supporting Women funded businesses. Her aim is to promote gender equity by empowering more women to take control of their careers and finances.

Sirisha is a Former Engineering & Manufacturing Executive with over 17 years of experience at Texas Instruments (Fortune 200) a Semiconductor Design and Manufacturing Company. She has extensive experience in leadership roles in Engineering, Manufacturing and Quality. where she invested in people development and built strong purpose driven teams. She proactively engaged with internal and external global customers (including automotive customers) at the SVP level, positively impacting customer perception. She co-chaired the Technology & Manufacturing Women’s ERG which supported over 500 women across 3 continents and 8 countries.

Sirisha hosts the podcast “Women, Career & Life”, ranked at the top 30% on Spotify, where she provides practical ideas and resources for women to further their career & life goals. She also hosts a weekly Live Radio Talk Show “Life Beats with Sirisha” on 104.1 FM which has a reach of over half a million listeners from the South Asian Community where she shares career, financial, and life advice. Sirisha is on the elected Board of Governors of The Podcast Academy which supports podcast makers and globally advances the cultural merit of the medium.

Sirisha successfully traversed her return to work after getting laid off less than a year after entering the corporate world. A few years later, Sirisha made a conscious decision to be a stay at home during which time Sirisha earned her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.