Poonam Sharma is not only an author, but also an MBA and real estate developer. Her first two books focused on entrepreneurship and business, with the titles The Harvard Entrepreneurs’ Club Guide to Starting Your Own Business and Chasing Success. Sharma is a graduate from Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire and earned her bachelors degree in economics from Harvard college. After Harvard, she worked at a start-up, a nonprofit venture catalyst and a private equity firm, as well as in investment research and institutional sales in New York. She has also traveled extensively for Chasing Success, traveling around the world in search of entrepreneurs with inspiring stories. She has been featured in the New York Times, USA Today, Inc. magazine and NBC.
Sharma wrote her first novel, Girl Most Likely To, after her influences of dealing with cultural conservatism, interracial romance and high finance in Manhattan. The main character in the novel is in investment banking and is dealing with a SEC-scandal while juggling the struggles of life and love. Her second novel, All Eyes on Her, has the main character dealing with the Hollywood lifestyle as a celebrity divorce attorney, all while trying to make her relationship work with the perfect fiancé.
Poonam Sharma completed her MBA in May of 2007 at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was also chosen as the student speaker at commencement.
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