Shilpa Sharma has spent over two decades as a leader and serial entrepreneur in the fashion and lifestyle retail space. She devoted over 12 years to fashioning and driving the growth of Fabindia over a 100-store network. In 2010, Shilpa quit a full-time job to live out her entrepreneurial dreams and set up a retail advisory practice to consult on strategic business projects. 

In 2012, she launched Breakaway – an outcome of her passion for travel, this venture plans and executes bespoke Beyond the Brochure experiential journeys around India. Close on its heels she co-founded Jaypore, an online retail portal for exquisite Indian handmade and high-on-design products. She has very recently handed over leadership to a very able team. 

Shilpa entered the food and beverage sector with Mustard, a concept restaurant in Goa she co-founded with a friend in 2015. A delectable blend of her love for fine food and exceptional experiences, it offers Bengali and French cuisine and opened doors in Mumbai in August 2018.

Shilpa continues to engage with the fashion and lifestyle sector as a mentor, and advisor. A wealth of experience with the craft sector has enabled many interventions in design at the grassroots level and she participates actively in cluster initiatives committed to women empowerment and livelihood creation opportunities. Her domain expertise finds her empaneled with strategic advisory firms and also actively engaged with the IIM Ahmedabad led CCBP program for young entrepreneurs and the Young India Fellowship (YIF) at Ashoka University as a mentor. She is on the Board at AIACA and continues to engage with various for- and not-for-profit organizations in the craft sector as a pro bono advisor/mentor.