Meet Gitika Srivastava, Indian-American Entrepreneur Helping India During Pandemic

While India is fighting the battle against the life-threatening pandemic, some Indian-American business leaders have joined hands to help India.

These Boston based entrepreneurs have acknowledged the dire need for resources in the nation and wired $600,000 to India. Besides that, they will send a plane loaded with supplies and oxygen concentrators which is scheduled to depart on May 8.

The initiative was launched by Gitika Srivastava along with other business leaders and philanthropists, Naresh Ramarajan, Desh and Jaishree Deshpande, Prashanth, and Anuradha Palakurthi.

Srivastava and Ramranjan worked their connections to help arrange for the delivery of 4,500 oxygen concentrators to their homeland. While some have already arrived, the bulk will be shipped on Saturday to the Tata Memorial Centre’s largest hospital in Mumbai.

Here’s what we know about the Indian-American business leader Gitika Srivastava:

• The Boston based entrepreneur was born in Jamshedpur where she completed her schooling at Loyola High School. She is a graduate in computer science from Harvard University and later got her MBA from MIT.
• She is one of the founders of the Navya Network along with Naresh Ramarajan, a health-tech entrepreneur.
• Srivastava has been running the Navya Network for over 11 years, which is a clinical informatics company based in Bangalore created for cancer patients to help make important treatment decisions.
• After a close family member was diagnosed with cancer in 2007, she launched the network to be a helping hand for others.
• “We spend several hours on research and asked numerous questions to understand the language the ‘medical speak’. It was an ordeal to get the best of everything- information, treatment option and recommendation by the best doctor. This is where Navya was born,” she elaborated while speaking of her venture.

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