Charu is one of the leading women in blockchain in Asia Pacific with over 15 years of experience in technology marketing and product strategy. She has led marketing for IBM Blockchain Asia Pacific in 2016 with a focus on the Asian financial services sector. Charu is now the CMO of Unique Network (an NFT Infrastructure Company) and a Senior Ambassador of Polkadot in Asia. Charu is also driving the diversity agenda in SE Asia through her position as a Regional Ambassador for the Association of Women in Cryptocurrency (AWIC).
Charu is passionate about the use cases and technology that will lead the next wave of success for NFT applications. She is leading product management of NFT interoperability using Cross Consensus Protocol (XCM) within Polkadot.
Charu has been a mentor for web3 start-ups at the Tribe Accelerator, Singapore; and an advisor to Web3 dApps in the Polkadot ecosystem . Charu is also a lead instructor at the Polkadot Blockchain Academy, Hong Kong where she has been invited to give lectures on the topics of web3 GTM, Product Market Fit and Web3 Communities.
Charu has been a speaker at top crypto events globally including CoinDesk Consensus, NFT NYC, WOW Summit Hong Kong, PayNet Week Malaysia, Vietnam Blockchain Week, Polkadot Decoded New York and more. She has also been featured in publications like EuroNews, Forekast News, HackerNoon and more.
Charu is a Mathematics (hons) graduate, MBA in finance and is now pursuing one year Chief Product Officer Course at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)