Chicago Global Shaper
World Economic Forum
ContextMedia co-founder Shradha Agarwal has always had a passion for communication and launched her first media enterprise at age 9. While building ContextMedia from the ground up, she branded the healthcare media company as for-benefit, a successful for-profit enterprise that exists for social benefit, and focused on organizational culture architecture. Having led ContextMedia’s product development strategies for media and technology, Shradha currently designs and oversees the expansion initiatives that have doubled the company’s growth year-over-year. Shradha is also an angel investor through JumpStart Ventures, mentor at the Founder Institute & Blueprint Health, serves on the board of Northwestern Student Holdings, and a World Economic Forum Global Shaper. Shradha was recently honored as a White House Champion of Change and recognized as Tech Woman of the Year in Chicago. She was inducted by Crain’s as a 40-Under-40 young achiever in 2012. As a broadcast journalism/international studies alum of Northwestern University, Shradha’s prior experiences have taken her into newsrooms at NBC and CLTV. At NU she founded the Northwestern Business Review and served as the Editor-in-Chief developing the mission, plan and operations for the bi-annual magazine still distributed. She was featured by the NU Alumni Association as 1 of 30 most promising graduates in her class of 2,000 students. Having lived in Delhi, Calcutta and Singapore, where she attended a United Nations HS, Shradha says she’s drawn to big cities. Now living between Manhattan and Chicago, she loves the energy of the former and the friendliness of the latter. She enjoys traveling internationally and is fascinated by learning new cultures. Shradha is also a music, food and dance enthusiast.