BOSTON—She was an educator, mother, and wife until early 1992. Radha Jalan unexpectedly became the President and CEO of ElectroChem Inc., a Woburn, MA-based electrochemical company after the sudden death of her husband in February of 1992. She successfully ran the company until 2020 when she closed the business and retired.
In an exclusive video interview with INDIA New England News, Ms. Jalan talks about her journey to the United States in 1968 as a student wife. To watch the full interview, please click here, or on the image below.
In 2022, Ms. Jalan published her autobiography entitled “From Calcutta to Concord: The Journey of an Independent Woman.” The book chronicles her journey from a little girl growing up in Calcutta to getting married and moving to the dream land of the United States of America.
In the book Ms. Jalan remembers the time when she realized she was a woman of tremendous inner resourcefulness. “It happened with an incident of domestic violence, when my husband struck me for the first and only time in my life,” she recalls in her book. “It was as if at the moment his hand made contact with my skin, a new personality jolted into existence. I knew that I would fight for myself from that moment on.”
On April 26th, 2024, Ms. Jalan will be honored with the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award at the 21st Annual Woman of the Year Awards gala at the Burlington Marriott Hotel in Burlington, MA. The event will be attended by over 400 community leaders, social activists, entrepreneurs, academicians, and philanthropists.
To register for the gala, please click here.
