Miki Agrawal

Miki Agrawal (born January 26, 1979) is a half-Japanese, half-Indian entrepreneur, author, former investment banker, soccer player and film producer, and current owner and founder of the pizza venue Slice Perfect in the West Village, New York City and THINX, an undergarment company.

Career
Born and raised in Montreal to an Indian father and Japanese mother, Agrawal went on to attend and graduate from Cornell University where she played Division 1 soccer and was named All-League and one of the “Top 30 Most Influential People at Cornell” out of 18,000 students.

Upon her graduation in 2001, she worked as an investment banker for Deutsche Bank during the September 11 attacks in New York City.

New York Magic
During her time at Deutsche Bank, Agrawal decided to pursue a soccer career instead, believing there wouldn’t be more chances as she got older. She went on to play for WUSA’s New York Magic Team and made starting line-up for two years. From 2002 to 2003 she played for the New York Magic soccer team until two separate incidents involving the tearing of both her left and right ACLs ended her career prematurely. After tearing both ACLs on two separate occasions she decided to end her sports career and become a freelance television and film producer.

Television and video producer
She went on to work her way up in TV production and helped produce national commercials and music videos for clients such as Beyonce, Justin Timberlake, Lenny Kravitz, P. Diddy, Mary J. Blige, Seal, Victoria’s Secret and Helen Hunt.

Slice Perfect
In 2005, Agrawal launched a pizza restaurant called Slice in the Upper East Side, which offered organic pizza using locally sourced ingredients. Agrawal’s concept came from her personal experience of being lactose intolerant. Slice Perfect offers customers whole wheat, gluten free, soy cheese and rice cheese pizzas. With Zappos.com CEO Tony Hsieh, she opened an outlet of Slice Perfect in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was designed by Ian Colburn based on influences from Colorado and the Rocky Mountains. It was forced out of its Second Avenue location in 2011 due to subway construction work. Slice Perfect has since moved locations from Upper East Side to West Village.

In a partnership with Tony Hsieh she will be launching her next Slice venue in downtown Las Vegas in April 2013 with multiple franchises in the works. In June 2013 Harper Collins will be publishing her autobiography and self-help book Do Cool Shit, and she has been signed by the APB Speakers Bureau.

She has starred in Food Network’s Recipe for Success and ABC’s reality TV show One Ocean View. She has also been featured in The New York Times, New York Magazine, Time Out NY, The Las Vegas Sun, PMQ Magazine, Daily Candy, ABC, CBS, NBC, The Food Network, The Cooking Channel and Fox Business.

Together with Harper Collins, Agrawal will be publishing her part-Autobiography, part-How to Start Your Own business book called Do Cool Sh*t. The book will be available for sale on June 18, 2013.

Personal life
Miki Agrawal’s twin sister is Radha Agrawal, founder and owner of Super Sprowtz, a children’s education and entertainment media company. Both attended and graduated from Cornell University, and together with their friend Antonia S. Dunbar have founded a sustainable, leak and stain-resistant underwear line, THINX. The two are also partner owners of Slice Perfect.