Rashmi Sinha

Rashmi Sinha is an Indian businesswoman and CEO of San Francisco-based technology company SlideShare.

There, Rashmi took computer science courses with Andy van Dam, so she had some exposure to the HCI (human-computer interaction) way of thinking.

Rashmi Sinha went to University of California, Berkeley for a postdoc where she switched her focus to human-computer interaction.

[citation needed] Simultaneously, Rashmi and her husband, with the help of her older brother Amit Ranjan, built SlideShare, a site for people to share presentations online, in just six months.

She is involved in the HCI community, was one of the founding members of the Information Architecture Society, and co-chairs the monthly BayCHI talk series.