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Rashmi Sinha is an Indian-American businesswoman and CEO of San Francisco-based technology company SlideShare. She has done PhD in Psychology from Brown University. She has done M.A. in Psychology and B.A. from Allahabad University.

Early life
Sinha was born in Lucknow, India.

Rashmi grew up in India and earned a PhD in cognitive neuropsychology at Brown University. There, Rashmi took some computer science courses with Andy van Dam, so she had some exposure to the HCI (human-computer interaction) way of thinking. She took a course in designing educational software. Rashmi Sinha went to UC Berkeley for a postdoc where she switched her focus to human-computer interaction. She then left academia to start her own user-experience consultancy. Deciding that she enjoyed practical problems more, she co-founded Uzanto, a user experience consulting company and worked on projects for companies like eBay, Blue Shield, AAA etc. Her first foray into products was with MindCanvas (a game-like software for customer research) released in November 2005. Simultaneously, Rashmi and her husband built SlideShare, a site for people to share presentations online, in just six months. Since its launch in 2006, more than 9 million presentations have been uploaded to SlideShare, helping professionals connect through content. LinkedIn acquired SlideShare for over $100 million in 2012.

Personal life
Sinha is married to Jonathan Boutelle, who is the co-founder and CTO of SlideShare. They live in San Francisco.

In 2008, Rashmi was named one of the World's Top 10 Women Influencers in Web 2.0 by Fast Company.

In 2009, Playboy Magazine named her one of America's Top 10 "Sexiest" CEOs.

Rashmi writes about social software and entrepreneurship at her blog –http://www.rashmisinha.com. She is involved in the HCI community, was one of the founding members of the Information Architecture Society, and co-chairs the monthly BayCHI talk series.