SPEAKER

Kakul Srivastava

Kakul is VP of Creative Cloud Engagement at Adobe. Previously, she was VP of Product Management at GitHub. She is a tech entrepreneur focused on building companies that empower people and create community. Kakul has helped build some of the best loved consumer tech products – Adobe’s Photoshop line of software, Flickr, Yahoo! Messenger, and Yahoo! Mail. She was the founder and CEO of Tomfoolery, Inc., a start-up dedicated to making beautiful social apps for work. Tomfoolery was bought by Yahoo in 2014. Most recently, Kakul was the CPO for WeWork, a $10B company focused on empowering millennial entrepreneurs and creators. She lives in SF with her husband and two children. Kakul is a graduate of MIT with a BSc in Mechanical Engineering, and also holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business. She serves as Co-Chair on the Board of Cure Violence, a non-profit dedicated to stopping violence in some of the world’s most high-risk communities, and is an active volunteer, advising in official and unofficial roles, to a number of start-ups and non-profits.

VIDEOS

VIDEO

GitHub Girl Geek Dinner 2015 - Opening Remarks

Bay Area Girl Geek Dinner organizers Angie Chang and Sukrutha Raman Bhadouria kick off the GitHub Girl Geek Dinner 2015 with opening remarks from GitHub VP Product Kakul Srivastava!
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