Richa Aggarwal
Board Member at Chief
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRicha Aggarwal is a private equity value-creation partner and operations-savvy leader with 13 years of experience bridging technical engineering and strategic consulting across private equity, software, semiconductor, and telecom sectors. At PwC she helps portfolio companies drive service optimization, cost reduction, operational due diligence, and complex integrations, drawing on earlier hands-on experience as a design engineer at Freescale where she led Design-For-Test efforts and co-developed a defect-reducing hardware design. Her track record combines rigorous process improvement and product-quality initiatives with organizational design and project execution, enabling measurable cycle-time and quality gains. Comfortable leading cross-functional, global teams, she has moved between advisory and board roles, including governance at Savvy Ladies and community membership at Chief. Richa’s background—MBA from Carnegie Mellon and an electronics engineering degree—gives her rare fluency in both technical implementation and high-level value creation. Outside work she signals a personal commitment to animal welfare (#adoptdontshop), reflecting a values-driven approach to leadership.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B E Electronics and Communication, B E Electronics and Communication at Manipal Institute of TechnologyMBA Strategy Operations Finance and Organizational Behavior, MBA Strategy Operations Finance and Organizational Behavior at Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business
Github Skills (68)
cms10
python10
nyc10
django10
denoising10
django-project10
user-experience10
imaging10
wagtail10
segmentation10
flexibility10
government-data9
microscopy9
transparency9
deep-learning8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
postcode/recordtrac
Jul 2013 - Jun 2014
Contributions:30 commits in 11 months
recordsrequest-managementrequest
richaagarwal/sunrisebot
Mar 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
sun
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