
Dharti Arvind Desai
Co-Chair, TiE Women
New York, USA
Co-Chair, TiE Women
President, TiE New York

Jesse Draper
General Partner - Halogen Ventures
Jesse Draper is a mother of 3 boys, founding partner of Halogen Ventures as well as creator and host of Emmy nominated television series, The Valley Girl Show.
Draper is a 4th generation venture capitalist focused on early-stage investing in consumer technology companies led by female and co-ed teams. Among her, 65 portfolio companies are the Skimm, Carbon38, HopSkipDrive, The Flex Company, Squad (acquired by Twitter), Eloquii (sold to Walmart) and This is L (sold to P&G).
She stars on SET's television series Meet the Drapers currently in its fourth season.
Draper was listed by Marie Claire magazine as one of the ‘50 Most Connected Women in America’. She has been a contributor to Marie Claire, Mashable, Forbes, and is a regular investor and tech personality on shows including TLC’s Girl Starter, The Katie Couric Show, Fox’s Good Day LA, CNBC’s Who Wants to Be the Next Millionaire Inventor & Freeform’s Startup U.