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Co-founder
Shweta Malekar
Co-founder of COvia and a senior administrative business partner with 15+ years supporting C-suite leaders at Google, Citi, Credit Suisse, Nomura and DuPont.
- Experience
- 15+ years
- Background
- Google · Citi · Credit Suisse · Nomura
- Based in
- Auckland
Shweta Malekar is a co-founder of COvia, which partners with founders and hiring teams on executive office talent, and a senior administrative business partner with 15+ years of experience supporting C-suite and senior leaders.
Her career spans Google, Citi, Credit Suisse, Nomura, DuPont and Stroz Friedberg (Aon), across Mumbai, Pune, Hong Kong, Bengaluru and Auckland.
At Google (2020 to 2024) she managed calendars for three senior leaders across 600+ annual meetings, ran leadership offsites and team events for up to 500 people at a 95% satisfaction rate, and won the Bangalore Site Citizenship Award four years in a row. She writes The EA Edge, a LinkedIn newsletter on how executive assistants can evolve alongside technology, and is a co-founder of Giftwork Solutions, a bootstrapped corporate gifting business.
Her approach is anticipation, agility and execution: bringing clarity to chaos, structure to complexity, and trust to every interaction.
- Executive leadership support
- Business operations & events
- The EA Edge · AI-enabled ways of working