Meet Dashini Jeyathurai

Dashini Jeyathurai is the Director of Development and Employee Experience at Upstart. At Upstart, her focus is on enabling Upstarter’s to do great work in a digital-first environment.

Prior to joining Upstart, Dashini spent 9 years at Google. She began her career at Google in customer service operations and vendor management but her passion for learning and development led her to Google’s People Development team where she had the opportunity to work on onboarding, ongoing development, as well as manager and leadership capability-building.

Dashini has a Master’s in English Language and Literature from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor’s in English and Women’s Studies from Carleton College. She is originally from Malaysia and currently lives in Oakland, California, with her husband, daughter, and thirteen-year-old pug.