Kamna Hazrati

Kamna Hazrati is an Entrepreneur and Business Advisor & Consultant who has spent the past 12 years of her career building and scaling 2 of her own e-commerce start-ups and multiple other brands.

In her extensive work with start-ups, she is known for cutting through the complexity of running a business in today’s fast changing environment and building brands from scratch. She possesses proven ability to initiate & lead action, manage change, make high impact decisions, & complete challenging assignments with an ability to multitask exhibiting high level of enthusiasm, common sense, initiative, collaboration and creativity. Her real-world solutions and hands on problem solving approach, have been praised for being practical, relevant and highly actionable in current times.

Kamna’s introduction to entrepreneurship came early on in her career while working with a start-up in their turbulent times where she initially joined as a marketing manager and was promoted to a co-founder after seeing her persistence and passion to turn the business around and her first start-up ‘Giftsmate’ came into light.

She earned a post-graduation degree in International marketing from the University of Delhi, and soon after began her career with an online media publication and a digital marketing agency. When her inclination for business was discovered, Kamna was met with a lot of resistance at her home. A young middle class girl with zero business experience willing to work with start-ups and just not work but also lead them. She was not only able to successfully build Giftsmate, but soon co-founded her 2nd start-up ‘TheYaYaCafe’ in 2016. Along with her own private label brands, Kamna has also built and scaled multiple other D2C brands.

Kamna earned a business degree from Stanford SEED and currently serves as a start-up advisor and visiting faculty with Delhi university Cluster Innovation Cell while also pursuing business consulting full-time.

Progressing from her start-ups, Kamna decided to work with small businesses to help them to go-to-market effectively and build, grow & scale their businesses. With her extensive and hands-on experience in building start-ups and keen observation and analysis, she forms powerful insights that help business leaders face their toughest challenges in the areas of growth, talent development, business strategy, marketing and profitability.

She is popular for her honest feedbacks and her timely concrete advice is a powerful tool in navigating today’s uncertain business climate.

Kamna is also very passionate about teaching and has coached & mentored students across various academic institutions and platforms and is zealous about women empowerment, diversity & inclusion, education, building products and design. She reaches many more up-and-coming individuals through exquisite coaching & training programs. Her energetic, interactive teaching style has won her many accolades.