About Us

Neha Bagaria is the Founder & CEO of HerKey (formerly JobsForHer), an online portal that enables women to start, restart and rise in their careers by connecting them with jobs, reskilling, mentors, community and inspiration.

After graduating from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Neha founded her first company, Paragon, to bring the Advanced Placement program to Indian high-school students.

When marriage took her to Bangalore from Mumbai, she started working at Kemwell, a contract pharmaceutical manufacturing company, in the field of HR, Finance and Marketing Strategy.

Neha then took a 3.6-year career break when she had her two sons.

During this personal journey, she became aware of the difficulties women face when trying to re-enter the workforce.

She then became committed to the cause of enabling women to achieve their potential and founded HerKey (formerly JobsForHer).com on International Women’s Day, 2015.

Neha has been featured in the Forbes India’s list of 25 Women Trailblazers who are shattering stereotypes, and in the 19 Changemakers to Watch Out For in 2019 list by Deccan Herald.Neha is an entrepreneur at heart, a mother of two boys, an avid reader, a closet dancer and a travel enthusiast.

Harsh has over 12 years of rich and diverse start-up experience, having conceptualised and delivered multiple products successfully.

At HerKey (formerly JobsForHer), Harsh leads the technology initiative, and is responsible for the product roadmap and its delivery.

Throughout his career, Harsh has been actively involved with very early stage start-ups, in building teams, architecting solutions and delivering products in Education, Finance and MMOG domains across web and mobile.

In his last assignment as Co-Founder and Head - Product & Engineering at MobiCom, he was responsible for leading a team of developers to deliver a product that was already deployed in over 50 clubs in 10+ countries.

Before that, as Head of Engineering at Simplilearn, he was responsible for the design, development and delivery of all client-facing products on web and mobile.

At Sakhatech, he was a tech evangelist and led its open-source web technologies team (LAMP stack, Mongodb and Ruby), as well as the Products Development group.

He brings rich experience from his earlier stints at Guruji and Buzzgain, where he worked with very large and unorganised real-time data.

Harsh holds an Engineering degree from NIE, Mysore.

Apart from a keen interest in upcoming technologies, Harsh is a foodie and a movie buff.

He actively supports social and community initiatives, and is closely involved with LifeCraft, a not-for-profit organisation involved in creating sustainable livelihoods in villages that do not have any alternate sources of employment.

As AVP of Marketing, Priyanka Ganapathy oversees the implementation and execution of digital marketing initiatives, enhancing brand awareness and empowering all channels to grow revenue.

Priyanka works closely with both public relations and digital team members at HerKey (formerly JobsForHer) to effectively deliver comprehensive, fully-integrated campaigns.

She and her team thrive on developing creative and engaging programs to build the HerKey (formerly JobsForHer) brand and bottom line.

Priyanka brings over 11 years of experience to HerKey (formerly JobsForHer), having undertaken challenging roles at leading companies, including Biocon, Aurigene Discoveries and Technologies, and The Times of India group.

Priyanka is from Bangalore and graduated from Macquarie University, Sydney, with a dual Masters in Biotechnology and International Business, with an emphasis in Marketing.

Avinash is a senior business professional with over 18 years of experience in developing new business through relationship management, account development and sales team leadership in the recruitment, business strategy, brand consulting and people strategy domain.

His strength lies in maximising profitability within sales by segmenting markets, driving winning campaigns, maximising profitability and engaging team members.

Avinash is an exceptional mentor and coach, who combines his business acumen with innate leadership abilities to recruit, build and retain HerKey (formerly JobsForHer)’s top performing sales team.

At HerKey (formerly JobsForHer), Avinash drives new business development, offers strategic advice and insights for market differentiation, provides competitive advantage and go-to-market strategies with full responsibility for bottom-line factors, product development and client relationships.

His core competencies lie in strategy execution and management, budgetary direction, sales and revenue improvement, double digit YOY sales growth, key account management, C-Suite presentations/relationship cultivation, strategic partnerships and alliances, mentoring, brand consulting, pipeline development and high performing team management.

Schonali Rebello began writing stories at the age of 7 and became a feminist a little earlier than that.

She discovered that that’s what she was in Women’s Studies 101 during her first year at Knox College, IL, USA, as a Creative Writing major.

That class, which she took randomly for a credit, led to a deep-rooted love affair with the subject and to it becoming the other half of her double major at graduation.

A xennial constantly moving countries all through childhood and adolescence due to world events like The Gulf War, and family events like her mother becoming the EA to India’s biggest tycoon in a newly-emerging Indian economy, Schonali thrives in chaos, upheaval and turbulence.

She is an articulate, engaging communicator with finely-honed relationship management skills, who readily establishes rapport and trust with people from all backgrounds and interests.

She also brings an astute understanding of the unique perspectives and values of intercultural demographic groups, given her smorgasbord track record in the fields of sales, marketing and event management, in industries as diverse as hospitality, F&B, coffee exports, fundraising for the performing and cultural arts, and IT.

Her writing skills came in handy for them all.

With 3 career restarts, 4 country relocations before getting married , and an indefatigable fire in the belly to change the world for and with her son, Schonali is now a founding member and the Brand Custodian at HerKey (formerly JobsForHer).

Here, she and her team craft beautiful content into compelling content that sells.

A firm believer in the value and beauty of education gleaned from every experience, connection, and challenge, she has found her calling with HerKey (formerly JobsForHer), which is the perfect bridge between her capitalist mind and socialist heart — a socio-economic revolution that is encouraging women to work across India.

A self-starter, strategic thinker and an experienced media professional, Sowmya believes in driving business growth and product innovation by adopting a mix of user analyses and a creative approach.

With a diverse background in Marketing, Strategic Alliances, Communications, People Management and Filmmaking, she started her career in the space of advertising and filmmaking, where she was introduced to creative renditions of business ideas early on in her career.

The arrival of her newborn led to a break in her career and the genesis of her start-up, FoodTribe — a platform to bring artisanal food to food lovers.

Being part of the founding team at HerKey (formerly JobsForHer), she has worn multiple hats and has handled diverse functions.

Sowmya now heads Strategic Initiatives at HerKey (formerly JobsForHer).

She is responsible for building a robust ecosystem for women to grow professionally by building communities, connecting with reskilling partners, hosting events, fostering mentor networks and creating opportunities for furthering business growth for a cause that is extremely close to her heart, i.e., helping women start, restart and rise in their careers.