Payal Kadakia
Entrepreneur
Co-founder and CEO of ClassPass, a gym-like membership which offers users access to various types of fitness classes each month. She also created her own dance troupe called Sa Dance.
She's been a dancer since the age of three and got the idea for ClassPass when she couldn't find a ballet class to drop into after work one day.
Her business idea for ClassPass failed twice before she finally got it up and running.
She was raised in Randolph, New Jersey with her older sister. She attended MIT and majored in management science.
She and fitness instructor Kaisa Keranen have both made impacts in the health and fitness world.