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Dipali Goenka is an entrepreneur

Entrepreneur

An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...

based in Mumbai

Mumbai

Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...

, Maharashtra

Maharashtra

Maharashtra is a state located in India. It is the second most populous after Uttar Pradesh and third largest state by area in India...

, India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

. She is the director of Welspun Retail Ltd

Welspun Retail Ltd

Welspun Retail Ltd India’s first and only organized retail company in the home segment based in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It is a part of the Welspun Group. It was incorporated in 2006, to promote Welspun products. It retails its products through its two brands: Welhome and Home Décor. It main products...

. and is one of the promoters of the Welspun Group

Welspun Group

Welspun Group is a business conglomerate, manufactures, markets, and exports terry towels, bed sheets, cotton yarn, polyester filament yarn, texturised and Line Pipes based in Mumbai, Maharashtra Its other operations includes Steel, Steel pipes, Infrastructure, Energy and Oil & Gas...

. She is a member of the Governing Body of FICCI

FICCI

The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry is an association of business organizations in India, headquartered in the national capital New Delhi. FICCI is one of the main organizations to fund and support many governmental and non-governmental educational institutes...

FLO, the women's wing of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce, and the chairperson of FLO - Mumbai Chapter.

Background

Dipali is a graduate

Graduation

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in Psychology

Psychology

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and has completed the Owner/President Management Program from the Harvard Business School

Harvard Business School

Harvard Business School is the graduate business school of Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, United States and is widely recognized as one of the top business schools in the world. The school offers the world's largest full-time MBA program, doctoral programs, and many executive...

. She leads Welspun’s retail initiative in India and has set up two distinct brands — “SPACES Home & Beyond” and “WELHOME”.

Dipali initiated the set up of Welspun Vidyamandir High School, a school affiliated under Central Board of Secondary Education and Welspun Anganwadi, a pre-primary school in Anjar

Anjar

Anjar may refer to:*Anjar, India, a town and municipality of India*Anjar, Lebanon, a town in the Bekaa valley of Lebanon...

, Gujarat, India

India

.

She is also a trained Kathak

Kathak

Kathak is one of the eight forms of Indian classical dances, originated from Uttar Pradesh, India. This dance form traces its origins to the nomadic bards of ancient northern India, known as Kathaks, or storytellers...

dancer of the “Jaipur Gharana”.

Company

Established in January 2006, Welspun Retail Limited is part of the US$3 billion Welspun Group. The company is amongst India’s first and only organized retail company in the home segment, with brands catering to distinct segments — from the elite shopper to the value-for-money seekers. Welspun Retail has set up a retail space of over 2,00,000 sq. ft. with 250 stores spread across 120 cities in India

India

as of February 2009.

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