Three generations of women. Three ceilings shattered. One legacy that Ena carries forward.
Ena grew up in Dehradun, surrounded by women who refused to settle for less.
Her grandmother, an Indian refugee who came and settled in Dehradun after the India-Pakistan Partition, was the first in her family to get a formal education. She self-funded her learning, completed shorthand training, and went on to work as a transcriber and personal assistant to the Director of the Forest Research Institute. At a time when fewer than 20% of urban Indian women held office jobs, she carved out her own path.
Ena’s mother followed suit, breaking into and rising through the ranks in corporate India.
Watching both of them, Ena made an early promise to herself: “I’ll break the next ceiling.”
She became the first-ever female state topper in commerce in both Class 10 and 12 from her school, an achievement that earned her a seat at SRCC, one of India’s most prestigious commerce institutions.
There, she balanced case competitions and consulting prep with another passion: theatre as activism. As director and actor in her college’s theatre society, Ena led multiple performances, one of which particularly advocated for LGBTQ+ rights in the months leading up to the repeal of Section 377. It wasn’t just about art. It was about shaping the world she wanted to live in.
To help younger kids develop their own voice, she joined Slam Out Loud as a Yes Foundation Fellow and travelled to villages in Rajasthan, under “Voice for All” programme, wherein she worked with ~50 kids from disadvantaged communities to build creative confidence and communication skills through digital arts courses and in-person workshops.
After college, Ena began her career at Auctus Advisors, a boutique management consulting firm, where she led strategic projects with senior leaders across India, and Philippines, spanning aviation, infrastructure and financial services. She advised clients on million dollar investment strategies and optimized multi-billion-dollar capital expenditure plans. Ena also evaluated new business ventures and market entry opportunities using ROI-driven analysis. In addition to strategy, she supported implementation, driving revenue growth and operational improvements across engagements.
Her consulting background led her next to HighRadius, a B2B SaaS leader in accounts receivable automation. There, she joined the corporate development and strategy team and helped execute the company’s first-ever acquisition, a multi-million-dollar deal in the U.S. AI SaaS market. Ena didn’t just support the transaction, she led post-merger integration, aligning teams across geographies and delivering on critical sales and customer goals.
She also co-launched HighRadius’s first intrapreneurship program, enabling employees to pitch, prototype, and launch new product ideas internally. One such idea broke into a new market entirely, proof that structured creativity can drive real growth.
With hands-on experience across consulting, strategy, and M&A, Ena felt that to contribute to India’s growth story in a more meaningful and impactful way, she needed to build a solid leadership toolkit and decided to take a shot and apply to top business schools.
With acceptances from ISB with a 50% merit scholarship and Ross, and waitlists from Wharton, Chicago Booth, and NYU Stern, she decided to go ahead and join ISB’s 2026 cohort with a clear focus: to contribute to India’s growing AI ecosystem, whether as an investor or operator. She’s currently exploring both paths — but knows one thing for sure:
The bar set by the women before her isn’t a limit. It’s just her starting line.
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