Shalini Khemka founded E2Exchange (E2E) in 2011 with the mission to develop the largest & most active entrepreneurial ecosystem in the UK to enable extraordinary entrepreneurship. E2E focuses on connecting Founders, champions entrepreneurship, creates communities and invests capital via their GBP50m facility to finance high growth companies. It's Board includes: Lord Bilimoria CBE DL, Duncan Bannatyne OBE, Kanya King MBE, Hugh Chappell and Darryl Eales.

Prior to establishing E2E, Shalini was an Investment Director at LDC, the private equity arm of Lloyd's Banking Group. Historically, she ran the Group's 'plain vanilla' International Trade Finance business. Shalini co-founded the world's first online 'bank to bank' trade finance company. She was a Management Accountant at Deutsche Bank and worked in various finance related roles for Bankers Trust, NatWest Bank and Coopers & Lybrand. Shalini is a Member of the Mayor of London's Business Advisory Board. She was appointed by the Minister for International Trade as a Non-Executive Director of UK Export Finance (UKEF). She a Fellow of Burton & South Derbyshire College.She holds a BA Hons in Economics from the University of Essex, UK.