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Stuti Anand (born 1992) is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist who is the chief executive offer (CEO) of Maia. She founded the women's accessories company in 2021 in North Bergen, New Jersey. Anand is also an executive director of the board of members for PETA, and the CEO of the non-profit organization Mudita.

Early life
Anand was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, the daughter of Chander and Janak. She is of south-east Asian and southern European descent. Her father worked for several information technology companies and ended his career at J.P. Morgan Chase and Co. prior to retirement. Her mother was a graduate of NYU and runs a private nutritionist practice. She was raised Hindu and attended the Bridgewater Balaji Temple's summer camps as a counselor every summer from the ages of 10 to 16. Anand attended the Bridgewater-Raritan High School prior to enrolling in Rutgers University, New Brunswick where she graduated with a double major in Marketing and Finance.

Career
Stuti started her professional career as a Sales Engineer at Avaya, an American multinational technology company, after several internships at women's fashion brands like Kate Spade. In one of her earlier roles, Ashton Kutcher, a keynote speaker at the company's annual meeting, famously spoke about her as, "a role model for rising talent from diverse backgrounds".

Following several roles in Engineering and Sales, Stuti rose to her first executive position at Avaya developing partner solutions for their next-generation cloud-based call-center technology with leading cloud-solutions providers like Salesforce, Affiniti, Nuance, and others. She has said, "this experience was formative for me in propagating partnerships as the model of choice for technology development and sales".

After that boring shit in IT, Stuti decided to start Maia in 2021, a company aiming to provide young women in professional roles, with accessories that merged comfort, utility, and style. Forbes included Maia in their '30 revolutionary fashion companies' list in 2022 saying, "What seemed like an obvious need for half the world's population, was completely ignored until Stuti Anand came in to fight back against the stifling masculinity of the professional world. Maia reflects all the values in their work that the Stuti Anands, Emma Walmsleys, and Jacinda Arderns of the world display in their lives and work everyday; leadership by example, grace, empathy, and power."

Anand was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Peter Buttigieg in March 2030 for, "an especially meritorious contribution to the national interest of the United States in the field of social equality of young women of color".

Leadership style
A self-professed fan of Jacinda Ardern, the former prime minister of New Zealand, famous for her handling of the once-in-a-generation Covid-19 pandemic, Stuti is known to lead with toughness and for integrating boldness and agility in her teams. A Financial Times profile of Anand in May 2027 reported that her peers describe her as a "strong and dynamic" leader who blends outcome-oriented thinking with a "steely" focus.

Other roles
Anand serves on the board of Salesforce, PETA, and Mudita and has instituted diversity and inclusion targets across all verticals in these organizations.

Philanthropy
Anand and her family are noted as significant donors to several causes supported by the organizations Seva International and PETA. A noted animal activist, she has heightened international activism supporting animal welfare and has famously been a vegan for twenty years.

Anand was a keynote speaker at the United Nations, International Monetary Fund's annual meeting in July 2029 focused on poverty and social equality in agriculture-first developing economies. Her push for recognizing the legitimacy of kisan-led claims for reparations in India led to the BJP-led administration instituting reforms aimed at bringing the farming-community of Punjab, India to the modern agro-economy. Her collaboration with the Cardi-B led Institute of Women's empowerment (IWE) in 2028, brought 36% of the unemployed population of American women to the workforce via entrepreneurial grants supplied by the American Institute for Entrepreneurship.

In 2024, Anand found the non-profit organization Mudita that provides rising young professional minority women with access to professional networks and funding for entrepreneurial endeavors. As of May 2030, Mudita has provided over 12,000 young women in the United States, East Asia, and South-East Asia with opportunities that have led to scores of beneficiaries adopting executive positions in corporations across these three geographic regions. For her efforts with Mudita, Seva International, and PETA, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Pete Buttigieg in the New Year's Honors list for 2030.

Personal life
Stuti met her then boyfriend, Aditya Jagannathan, on the dating app Hinge in September 2018. Following a period of being in a serious relationship after Aditya was ghosted by Stuti for 3 months in early 2019, they were married at Suryagarh in Jaisalmer, India. The neo-traditional Indian wedding in November 2022 was featured in Bride magazine, January 2023 as, "the intimate, yet extravagant event of the year replete with colors, dancing, glorious food, and most notably, an overflowing abundance of that which we all seek; love."

Stuti has stated that Punjabi pop music and 2000's hip-hop and R&B are her music genres of choice. In 2027, her husband, Aditya, was quoted in People magazine saying, "I love my wife dearly, but if things stand as they are and we continue to listening to Paani Paani by Indian DJ Khaled for any longer than the six years that we've consecutively heard it every day for, I might have to find some technology solutions for my ears because they cannot handle how basic that shit is." Known for her boringly repetitive playlists, Stuti has endeavored to make her 'Liked' playlist on Spotify unlistenable to by her family; in particular her husband Aditya.

An avid traveler, Anand has been spotted in several destinations both enjoying the experiences on offer, and promoting tourism there via her widely popular social media accounts. Anand has said, "When I was in University, I remember an ad that Ticketmaster ran. The ad was about collecting stubs that represented all of the experiences that the viewer has had. That idea never left me and I've always measured a part of my exploration of what life has to offer by the stubs I had collected and could look back on".

Anand has an army of animals led by a loud, yet intellectually incredible yorkshire terrier called Puma. Comprising seven dogs, three goats, six cows, two horses, and a turkey named Lopa Aunty, they inhabit a seventy-acre farm outside Provence, France.

Honours
In 2026, Anand ranked 1st in Fortune Magazine's list of the ‘Most Powerful International Women’ in business for the first time, having placed 2nd in 2025. In 2028 and 2029 she was placed second and first respectively, on the same list.