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Woomentum Entrepreneur: Driven by the Passion to Make a Difference in the ASEAN Region – Meet Agita Pasaribu of Indonesia

A passionate, young woman with a mission to empower her country's people. Meet Agita!

Preparing the Finance Industry for the Digital Age – meet Michelle Katics of Singapore

October 16, 2018

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1. What inspired you to work in FinTech? What inspired me to work in FinTech was actually a human problem. Even ten years ago whilst working in the bank, portfolio optimization was incredibly…

Meet Pakistan’s Faiza Yousuf of #WomeninTechPK – Empowering Women in Tech through Community

Women make up 48.5% of Pakistan’s total population; however, according to the Pakistan Council of Science and Technology, their talent has been greatly underutilised. Although there is a rise in women’s…

Meet Sana Khan of Pakistan – Freelancing Full-time as a Single Mom While Running a Creative Startup

Karachi, Pakistan’s economic hub and the world’s third largest city, runs high with hopes, dreams, aspirations and daily struggles for a better life. In the midst of the chaos and…

How Pakistan’s Gulvash Zohaib, Founder of Homemade Food Delivery Service Aaromatic Does It: Start with a motivation and prepare for everything else

The Gist The story behind Gulvash Zohaib, food enthusiast and mompreneur based in Karachi, Pakistan, who transitioned from being a career woman to starting a business that she lovesHow she…