Ritu Narayan

Ritu grew up in India, the first woman in her extended family to become an engineer. She earned a Bachelor’s degree from the Delhi Institute of Technology and a Masters in Management from Stanford Graduate School of Business, and then held product roles at Oracle, Yahoo, and eBay. It was during her study at Stanford that she developed the idea for Zūm: a modern student transportation platform serving 4,000 schools with safe, reliable, sustainable rides using electric buses that can double as energy storage units to return power back to the grid.