Aashi Vel – Share an Idea

10 October 2021
Aashi Vel

In this episode number 45, we speak with Aashi Vel , Co-Founder of Traveling Spoon. An industrial designer and patent holder with a deep passion for problem-solving, Aashi has designed several award-winning consumer and medical products while working at design consulting firms for over a decade. She is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of the Savannah College of Art & Design and received her MBA from the University of California Berkeley. Aashi is also on the Board of Directors at the World Food Travel Association.

Find Aashi on  LinkedIn  or on  her website here.

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