Suchi Mukherjee (Limeroad)

Some Lesser Known Facts About Suchi Mukherjee

• Suchi Mukherjee is an Indian entrepreneur and is known for being the founder and CEO of LimeRoad, an online shopping website for women and local retailers.

• Suchi’s first job was at Lehman Brothers Incorporation as Senior Associate, Corporate Finance in 1998. Ever since, she has switched to prominent companies like Virgin Media as Director of Change & Business Development (2003), eBay Inc as the head of the Business Seller Programs and CS (2005), Skype as the Director & Member of the Executive Management Team at Skype (2006), and GumTree as Managing Director & GM at GumTree (2009.)

• Suchi, Ankush Mehra, and Prashant Malik founded the company LimeRoad in 2012. However, Prashant sold his shares in the company but Ankush is still part of A.M. Marketplaces Pvt. Ltd. (the parent company of LimeRoad) and holds the position of director in the company.

• Suchi Mukherjee is the first Indian to receive the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Scholarship for studying Economics at Cambridge University in 1994. Besides this, she is also a Chadburn scholar, an elected Member of Newnham Associates at the University of Cambridge in 2008, a British Chevening scholar at LSE, and holds a University record in Development Economics.

• The idea of LimeRoad came to Suchi a month after delivering her second child. It was her inability to buy a piece of jewelry that she liked in a magazine that made her realize the need for a platform that could connect women and local vendors.

• Bollywood actress Neha Dhupia holds the position of Art Director at LimeRoad since 2014. She also has a few stakes in the company and withdraws a monthly salary.

  

•  In 2015, she shared the stage with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and gave a speech at the Startup India – Standup India event in New Delhi.

• Suchi admitted in an interview that she was raised as a tomboy in her childhood. ^[2]Dainik Bhaskar – YouTube

• She is a fitness enthusiast and follows a regular schedule to strengthen her body, soul, and mind. She follows conscious living and has brought it up in many instances during interviews.

• Her father wanted her to be extremely independent and even made her learn how to drive a car when she was just 13 years old. Suchi admits that although it was not a good decision, it made her realize that one should learn from mistakes. ^[3]Dainik Bhaskar – YouTube

• After completing her secondary education, her mother wanted Suchi to take up engineering because of how wonderfully she had scored in her exams. However, Suchi gained some interest in economics and finance by reading The Financial Times at her home, and she chose to study economics and finance instead, a decision that her father supported.

• She taught Development Economics to third-year students for nine months at St. Stephen’s college after returning from abroad, which made her the youngest professor to teach in the institute. ^[4]Dainik Bhaskar – YouTube

• Suchi’s husband introduced her to golf, and she has now been practicing it for several years. For her, it is a deep meditative experience. ^[5]Your Story – YouTube

• Her mother would make Suchi and her sister watch a lot of movies in their childhood to make them learn from other people’s mistakes.

• Suchi has some fixed rituals in her life like taking a shower before bed no matter the season. She finds that rituals are very purposeful and that everyone needs to have them in their lives to be successful. Thus, she also likes her employees at LimeRoad to follow some daily and weekly rituals at the workplace.

• The best way of finding the solution to any problem for Suchi is to consciously talk to herself and her mind before she goes to bed.