Neeru Khosla (born 1955/1956) is the co-founder and chair of the non-profit CK12 Foundation.
Early life
Having grown up in India and England, Khosla wanted to be a doctor. She had an aptitude for science, but the prerequisite for medicine of animal dissection pushed her to pursue microbiology instead.
Khosla focused her studies in India on science and moved to the U.S. shortly after marrying Vinod Khosla in 1980. Around the time he co-founded Sun Microsystems, she earned a master's degree in molecular biology from San Jose State University. Soon, she started a job studying gene expression at Stanford University.
Career
In December 2008, it was announced that Khosla had been appointed to the Wikimedia Foundation advisory board.
[ Neeru Khosla to Become Wikipedia Advisor Dec 2008] She has been on the boards of other organizations including the American India Foundation and
DonorsChoose.
Personal life
She is married to the billionaire engineer and venture capitalist
Vinod Khosla, her childhood boyfriend.
They have four children.
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