Accordingly a twenty years ago sheela was a housewife while her husband KochousephChittilapally managed a successful company V-Guard, an electrical appliances manufacturer based in Kerala.
Today, she is one of the most successful woman entrepreneurs in kerala with aRs 75 crore (Rs 750 million) business.
Her company, V-Star is one of the leading lingerie brands in kerala, slowly expanding to the other southern states while 20 per cent of her business is from the Middle east market. V-Star has 180 employees and around 2,000 people, mainly poor women from remote areas of kerala who work indirectly as tailors.