Indian-origin CEO of Match.com "Shar Dubey", deserves to be in spotlight,"

Anand Mahindra, chairman of the Mahindra Group, praised Shar Dubey, for speaking out against Texas' abortion bill

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Dubey’s company Match.com operates popular dating apps like Hinge and Tinder. She took over as the company’s CEO in March last year

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Mahindra questioned in his tweet that he had never heard of Dubey before. “Is she not often cited in the lists of global Indian-origin CEOs because the companies she leads are matchmaking sites?”

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Shar Dubey , CEO of Match.com also got featured in Forbes magazine’s list of most powerful women in 2021

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She hails from Jharkhand’s Jamshedpur, joined Match Group in 2006. She also served as Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Tinder

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She holds a BS degree in Engineering from the IIT-Kharagpur and a Master’s in Engineering from Ohio State University

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai was her classmate at IIT-Kharagpur. Dubey was reportedly the only woman metallurgical engineer that year

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The CEO is in the news again for opposing the abortion law in Texas, where Match Group has its headquarters.

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The law bans abortions after six weeks of pregnancy . Dubey also set up a fund to help employees impacted by the abortion law

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Shar told the New York TImes newspaper that she personally took a stand against the law. “The company did not take a stand,”

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