• Chitra RakeshNeighbor

  • Mountain View, CA

Chitra Rakesh has over ten years of experience in marketing and communications with a focus on content, creative, strategy, brand and digital media. Currently, she leads the marketing function at a mobile payments startup in Silicon Valley.

Chitra has also written for VentureBeat, Women 2.0, The Times of India and a few others. She landed her first journalism assignment at a local weekly by gate crashing into the editor’s room! She has interviewed C-level company executives, reported disruptive technologies, and covered a wide array of topics.

Inspired by the startup founders she interviewed, Chitra even found a startup of her own. Born and raised in India, she holds a bachelor's degree in economics from DU and a master’s degree in business administration from FSM, India.

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