The Board of Directors of the Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce is delighted to announce the nomination of Suja Chandy, Sheelu Sharma and Priya Dhawan-Chahal to the Board.

Vijay Thomas, President, ICCC, said, "The ICCC has always advocated for gender equality. Recognizing the rising role of women in the Indo-Canadian Diaspora, especially as entrepreneurs and professionals, the Chamber started the Women Entrepreneurs and Professional Committee a decade ago, and began celebrating the International Women's Day. We welcome our new women Directors to the board and look forward to their contribution to take our institution to greater heights."

Profiles of the New Directors

Suja Chandy is an experienced leader and mentor, Suja’s core strength is conceptualizing and building businesses from ground up and transforming them into agile, capability centres. She possesses a unique blend of advisory and delivery experience, having worked with global consulting firms in both Canada and India, and with both public and private sector clients. Suja was Vice President & Managing Director of Nissan Digital India LLP and prior to that Vice President, Invest India, where she headed facilitation of investments across all 25 ‘Make in India’ sectors, and kick-started the development and launch of AGNIi, a national initiative to commercialize technology innovations.

Sheelu Sharma is a Senior Manager at Laksh Law Professional Corporation, a law firm based in Mississauga. Prior to this, she was the Manager at BLS International Services, Canada. She was the Director of Falcon Marketing & Management Consultancies in Dubai and Falcon Trading Company at Sharjah. Sheelu worked at the Consulate General of India at Dubai, as a Social Event planner. She graduated from Maharani College, Jaipur, India, pursued fashion designing thereafter and possesses vast experience in modelling, acting in her home state, Rajasthan, India.

Priya Dhawan-Chahal currently serves as a District Vice President at Scotiabank, leading a team of 15 branches across Midtown Toronto, and is both a program champion for the Scotiabank Women Initiative and a co-lead for Women in Leadership for Toronto Region.  She joined Scotiabank in 2016 as a Director of Customer Experience.  Before joining Scotiabank, Priya lead business and client relationship development for Financial Services at a Bay Street law firm.  She has a strong and varied background in financial services over 17 years, including leadership of a global Customer Relationship and Data Management team in Capital Markets, and leading major technology and sales strategy initiatives, in addition to roles in Commercial Banking.