Dr Mona Mathur is a Founder, CEO at Million Sparks Foundation. Colleagues describe her as "I had the opportunity to work with Mona in a challenging project of advanced R&D in collaboration with an external university partner, and was impressed by the amount of continuous committment and hard working with passion and enthusiasm towards the goal. Mona has excellent communication capabilities, outstanding knowledge of both university and industry worlds and wide technical knowledge in multimedia algorithms and systems. She shows a very kind and friendly behavior and has the capability of building and maintaining effective business relationships, both within and outside the organization." and "Mona is a confident, composed, motivated, technical and well-directed person. She is a person with commendable multi-tasking ability and a clear vision. I must say, she is a very friendly, approachable and understanding senior. She played a very important and positive role in a phase of my life. She happily agreed to be my friend-philosopher-guide in my tough days of balancing between professional and academic lives. I sincerely wish you success in life."