Baldeep K Dua
Chief Financial Officer
Baldeep brings to Kirusa extensive experience in raising capital, mergers & acquisitions,
strategic planning, improving profitability, and private placements.
In her previous position, she was Vice President and global head of finance
for MarketRx, a product enabled services company providing sales and marketing
solutions for the pharmaceutical industry. She led the initiative for its acquisition
by Cognizant Technologies. In the early stages of the company, she completed
a Series C round of funding from top tier venture capital firms, well known
industry figures and high net worth individuals.
Prior to MarketRx, Baldeep
led financial initiatives at Mformation, a provider of wireless device management
software. She saw the company through two rounds
of funding in venture capital. Before that, at Savera Systems, a provider
of web-based solutions for Telecom billing, she managed the finance and business
development activities. In her earlier years, at the Unit Trust of India,
the
largest Mutual fund in India, she held various senior positions (as head
of the trading desk in North India, head of institutional marketing, North
India
and fund manager). As a director on the boards of portfolio companies, she
played a significant role in improving the performance of those companies.
Baldeep holds an MBA degree from Faculty of Management Studies, a premier
business school in India, and has attended a program for senior executives
at the Manchester Business School, UK. She was selected by NJBIZ as one of
the "Best 50 Women in Business" of 2010. Union County Commission
on the Status of Women awarded her with the 'Women of Excellence Award for
Business' in 2009. She was honored by EWNJ (Executive Women of New Jersey)
with the ‘Salute to Policy Makers Award’ in 2008. In 2005 she was
conferred with the ‘CFO of the Year Award’ by New Jersey Technology
Council.
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