Great ideas come from everywhere. So does our team.

Twenty years of building Technovation has produced more than a program. It has produced the people who run it. Staff, board, a global ambassador, and a network of educators, mentors, and chapter leads across 160 countries who together carry the work.

Tara Chklovski, Founder and CEO
Tara Chklovski
Founder & CEO

Inspired by her experiences growing up in India and working as an aerospace engineer, over the past 20 years she has built an education model combining mentorship, hands-on learning, and entrepreneurship to prepare the next generation of builders.

Speaking & media inquiries

The Global Network

80,000+ professional mentors worldwide. 1,000 WTM Ambassadors running Women Techmakers chapters. 215 Chapter Leaders running Technovation programs. 210,000+ alums active in the network, many returning as mentors.

Board of Directors

Senior leaders from the kinds of companies, firms, and institutions our participants are heading into. They govern the organization and sponsor what comes next.

Sonya Park

Board Chair
Head of Western Region & MD Institutional Sales
State Street Global Advisors

Heather Knight

Vice Chair
Chief Commercial Officer
Solventum

Kate Parker

Chair Emeritus
President
Transcend

Elizabeth McDonough

Secretary
Sr. Director, Growth Marketing
GoFundMe

Kayvan Shahabi

Treasurer, Fundraising Committee Co-Chair
Strategic Advisor
Retired PwC Principal

Gabriela Burian

Fundraising Committee Chair
Global Partnerships / Multi-Stakeholder Platform Lead
Bayer

Alicia Mancheño

Governance Committee Chair
Global Product Line Director
Air Liquide

Ronit Levavi Morad

Advisory Board Member
Senior Director of Program Management, Research
Google

Birte Hoehne Mahyera

Board Member
Associate General Counsel
Scale AI

Aliki Sofis

Board Member
Partner
Quinn Emanuel

Tim Faber

Board Member
Retired, SVP & Treasurer
Bath and Body Works

Jonathan Reyes

Board Member
VP of HR and Talent Acquisition Operations
Databricks

Associate Board

The Associate Board is a cohort of emerging leaders, all of them Technovation alum, advancing the mission as advocates, fundraisers, and connectors. They build board-level experience while connecting the next generation of builders to the work, and to each other.

Emma Yang
Veena Anilkumar
Tanya Ken
Nataliia Kulieshova
Lilia Lobato
Megan Love
Shefali Netke
Hannah Rosen
Anshita Saini
Vanshikha Sinha
Ritika Shrivastava
Daria Tabunshchyk
Sana Talwar
Soumya Tejam
Pasang Wangmo

Staff

The people who run Technovation day to day across programs, curriculum, operations, partnerships, marketing, and more.