Shalini brings more than two decades of experience across entrepreneurship, strategic consulting, academic innovation, and organizational leadership. Her career reflects a deep commitment to helping students, founders, faculty, alumni, and institutional partners move from ideas to meaningful impact. Grounded in empathy, data-driven curiosity, thoughtful communication, and strategic vision, Shalini brings a leadership style well aligned with Venture Lab’s next chapter of growth.

As Founder and Managing Director of EvidaSolve, she leads a strategic advisory firm that works with founders, executives, and institutions to strengthen leadership, organizational culture, and growth. Previously, as co-founder of ProPhounD, she helped expand access to entrepreneurship, leadership, and career development programming for students and emerging leaders.

Through these ventures, Shalini has supported:

• More than 5,000 students
• Over 150 organizations globally
• Entrepreneurship and leadership programming across distributed academic and professional ecosystems
• Founders, executives, and institutions navigating growth, culture, and strategic change

Before founding and scaling ventures, Shalini served as a consultant at Boston Consulting Group, where she led complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives across industries.

One notable example includes her work coordinating a global healthcare transformation effort involving:

• More than 40 stakeholders
• 25 organizations
• Collaboration with the World Economic Forum
• Cross-sector alignment across healthcare, strategy, and institutional leadership