Shalini Khemka (CBE) founded E2E (www.e2exchange.com) in 2011, where she is the Chief Executive and serves on its Board.

E2E has developed into an exciting and ground-breaking powerhouse of entrepreneurs, investors, non-execs, and SME focussed corporate organisations.  

Its mission is to develop the largest and most active entrepreneurial ecosystem in the UK to enable extraordinary entrepreneurship. 

E2E’s current community consists of 24K SMEs who contribute £230bn in turnover to the UK economy and employ 1.15 million people. 

E2E has built one platform focused on making extraordinary connections for Founders, raising capital for high growth businesses, securing talent and world class NEDs. As a part of this E2E champions entrepreneurship through access to human capital, corporate services, investment capital and creates peer-to-peer communities.

Shalini is a member of the Mayor of London’s Business Advisory Board and, alongside Baroness Kramer she is on the Supervisory Committee of Kriya (formerly Market Finance), one of the UK’s leading Fintech firms.

She is a Fellow of Burton and South Derbyshire College and believes that turning knowledge into wisdom is the elixir of life.