Rohini dey biography
As founder, owner and culinary director of Vermilion, Rohini oversees the operations and culinary evolution of her restaurants and leads both her kitchen teams.
A leading restaurateur, proponent of Indian cuisine with her unique global twists at Vermilion, and zealous champion of women – former World Bank economist....
(MoneyWatch) Rohini Dey admits she's an unlikely candidate for owning a restaurant.
As a child growing up in India, her dream was to work for the World Bank. She made that dream come true by studying Economics at the Delhi School of Economics, and Management Science at the University of Texas. After managing foreign policy at the World Bank in Washington, D.C.
and traveling the world as a strategic management consultant with McKinsey & Co., Dey took a leap of faith: She quit her job and bought Vermilion restaurants in Chicago and Manhattan.
Rebecca Jarvis: What were you doing before you started your company?
Rohini Dey: I had been working for ten years (in academia, teaching business & economics during my PhD program, worked at The World Bank on infrastructure privatization and published with them, and at McKinsey & Co.
management consulting, primarily growth and business development across hi-tech. My only exposure to restaurants was through dining out compulsivel
