Shavini Fernando ( Entrepreneur | VR Designer & Developer | TedX Speaker | Member of Mindshare ) – Selected for the Washington Business Journal 40 under 40 class of 2022

Source : Shavini Fernando Linkdin

It was an honor to be selected for the Washington Business Journal 40 under 40 class of 2022. It felt more special because I got to celebrate it with my OxiWear team and everyone who helped me from the beginning.

Dr Kolb. My pulmonologist from John Hopkins who took me in to treat me when I had no insurance. I was given two years to live. Thank you for keeping me alive and for pushing me to develop OxiWear. if you didn’t dare me there would be no OxiWear today.

Dr Stephen Mathai from John Hopkins for supporting me throughout and being our Twitter influencer 

Dr Evan Barba who helped me to start this as an independent study and guided me to have my first proof of concept prototype complete.

Jeanine Turner for helping me throughout at Georgetown CCT and helping me put my first pitch deck together.

Beth Marhanka for being such a cheerleader and helping me along with Don Undeen at Georgetown University Maker Hub to get this together and nominating me for Bark Tank Pitch competition.

Michael Ledecky for making me go on the fitness avenue and connecting me with Randy Wilber.

And of course my awesome OxiWear team who has been through thick and thin with me to get this out. Thank you for coming all the way to attend the event and celebrate it with me.

If it wasn’t for you all there wouldn’t be OxiWear and I would have not got this honor. So all credits should go to each and everyone here. There were more I wanted to invite but they were busy or out of the country.

Never forget how you started and who helped when you were nobody.