Lakshmi Vaidyanathan
Founding Partner, Jivass Technologies
Lakshmi is a Founding Partner of Jivass Technologies which focuses on commercializing university/lab technologies and innovations and supporting small/medium enterprises in automation, she has extensive experience in technology-led startups and incubation ecosystems. She helped in setting up PayPal’s Star Tank Chennai Incubator as Consultant Manager and prior to that she was Director of IITM’s Rural Technology and Business Incubator for almost 6 years in Chennai. Worked for brands like Wipro for roughly 13 years as Program Manager, she is B.Sc. in Physics from Anna Adarsh college and IISc pass out.
https://in.linkedin.com/in/lakshmi-vaidyanathan-34913b7 Lakshmi Vaidyanathan
Jivass Technologies
Saurabh Mittal
Senior Advisor, IIT Mandi Catalyst
Senior Advisor, IIT Mandi Catalyst
Saurabh Mittal is Senior Advisor at IIT Mandi Catalyst. He has extensive global experience over two decades of working with senior executives in defining strategy, providing thought leadership, creating new business solutions and leading large multicultural, cross-functional teams to implement improved business processes in global businesses. He is also the Head of Leadership Development & Coaching at Fractal Analytics. Mr. Saurabh Mittal is an IIT Delhi alumni and has completed his MBA from the University of Oxford- Said Business School.
Saurabh Mittal
QYON
Raj Bhat
Practice Head – Entrepreneurship Education, Wadhwani Global University at Wadhwani Foundation
Raj manages the entire knowledge management initiative at Empower, involved in mentoring promoters in building up the organization and strategy for growth. He is an Engineer and has done his MBA from We’ school. Raj is a technopreneur for 20 years and served as chief mentor at NEN Global, a Wadhwani Foundation initiative for entrepreneurship development
Raj Bhat
Ex - Wadhwani Foundation
Dr. Kaustubh Dhargalkar
Founder, Potential & Possibilities
Dr. Kaustubh is a Design Thinking Trainer/Coach and an ‘Innovation & Strategy’ Consultant. He is a serial entrepreneur since 1990. Founded four companies and working on two more ventures. In 2006, he sold his commercial interests in the first 3 companies and plunged into academics and research. Dr. Dhargalkar relishes the challenge of ‘Enhancing the Innovation Quotient’ of an organization, by helping create new offerings to tap existing as well as new markets. Visualizing unique & sustainable Business Models is his forte. His few associations include big names such as Mercedes Benz, Citibank, HP, Mahindra Group, YES Bank, Amazon, L&T and many more. https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaustubhdesignthinking/ Dr. Kaustubh Dhargalkar
Potential & Possibilities.
Vivek Venugopalan
Ex-Co-founder and CTO, Fantain Sports Private Limited
Vivek is a technology advisor and decision-maker for various clients around the globe in the Retail, CPG and transportation industries, bringing in over 30 years of experience in the IT industry, helping clients determine the best technology solutions to drive their business efficiently. Retail Technologies, E-Commerce, Multi-Channel Retailing, Large scale distributed systems, and Cloud and Grid computing are his areas of expertise.
Vivek Venugopalan
Ex - Fantain
Saloni Malhotra
Vice President, Paytm Ads
Saloni Malhotra is the Co-founder of Reboot-Wellness, an ecosystem for mental health in India. She has founded DesiCrew, India’s first rural KPO and is currently in its Board of Directors. She incubated DesiCrew right out of college and took it to a 5 year old company employing 350 people. Later she joined Paytm as Vice-President where she built a USD 45 million Greenfield education business, for India’s largest mobile payments company. She is on Board of IIT Mandi Catalyst, Goonj and advisor to various incubators in India. She is an Industrial Electronics engineer from Bharati Vidyapeeth and Lund University, Sweden alumnus. https://in.linkedin.com/in/salonimalhotra Saloni Malhotra
Paytm Ads
Varun Rattan Singh
CEO, Development Logics
Varun is the CEO of Development Logics, which works with a mandate to use IT and management skills to solve developmental challenges faced by masses. It works with a mission to build one of the largest WIFI networks in Himachal Pradesh offering Internet service in remote rural areas. He is also founding curator-Dharamshala Hub for Global Shapers community – a network of city-based Hubs developed and led by young leaders between 20 and 30 years old who want to develop their leadership potential towards serving society. https://in.linkedin.com/in/maverickvarun Varun Rattan Singh
Development Logics
Dr. Amarjeet Singh
Co-Founder and CTO, Zenatix Solutions
Dr. Amarjeet is Co-founder and CTO in Zenatix Solutions, a data-driven energy efficiency company. He has a keen interest in exploring technological innovations for addressing sustainability challenges at scale. He is currently on teaching leave from IIIT Delhi, where he is working as Asst. Professor in the CS Department.He holds a Ph.D. and an M.S. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a B.Tech from IIT Delhi.
Dr. Amarjeet Singh
Zenatix Solutions
Hemendra Mathur
Venture Partner, Bharat Innovation Fund
Hemendra is Venture Partner at Bharat Innovation Fund, a company that encourages and supports entrepreneurs. He has over 20 years of experience in private equity, management consulting and investment banking across the planet. He has worked on top positions for various renowned names like SEAF, Yes Bank and Rabobank. He did his Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration from IIM Ahmedabad. https://in.linkedin.com/in/hemendra333 Hemendra Mathur
Bharat Innovation Fund
Anuj Sharma
Founder, Anuj S Sharma & Co (ASCo)
Anuj has extensive experience of more than a decade of multi-country experience (15 countries) in Strategy, International Structuring, Impact Investing, Regulatory Advisory, Due Diligence, Legal Transaction Advisory, CFO advisory, Investment Banking advisory, SDG, ESG and related fields. Prolific public speaker on varied issues relating to Impact Investing, social enterprises, Gender Lens Investment, investment readiness in emerging economies. Experience working with clients ranging from Leading multinational corporations to startups/ SMEs to non-profit entities, Foundations, Impact Funds. Significant experience working with entities such as in India (23 states in India), Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar, Mongolia, Singapore, Netherlands, USA, UK, UAE etc. Based on the experience in South East Asia in particular, he can share valuable insights with FIIs, DFI, Foundations, PE/VC funds, Development agencies & MNCs aspiring to Invest in the region. From being the founder of a market-leading transaction advisory firm in impact investing, he brings a unique unparalleled proposition to global investment funds who are looking to invest in South Asia. Have done trendsetting India’s first Masala bond privately placed for a US-based foundation for a social enterprise. Also, it facilitated varied debt, equity and blended finance structures for entities based in US and Europe while investing in India. https://www.linkedin.com/in/anujgsharma/ Anuj Sharma
Alsisar Impact
Samir Shah
Peak Venture Partners
Shantanu Srivastava
Founder, Compliance Support
Shantanu is an experienced consultant with a demonstrated history of working in the Legal Secretarial Industry. Skilled in Company Secretarial Work, Secretarial Audit, Legal Document Preparation, Negotiation. Strong administrative professional focused on Corporate Law from The Institute of Company Secretaries of India. https://www.linkedin.com/in/shantanu30/ Shantanu Srivastava
Compliance Support
Sneha Kanitkar
Founder-PatentSKy | Reg. Patent Agent IN | IPR Advisor | Mentor | Facilitator | Panelist | Jury member
Sneha is an Intellectual property evangelist with 12+ years of experience spanning across – IP portfolio management of a flagship Central Govt research institute with 3500+ active patents, Technology commercialization of 45+ research centers, Advisory roles at TB Incubators & voluntary mentorship to 750+ early stage IT-AI/ Healthcare / Materials / Engg startups on IPR protection. She founded PatentSKy in 2016, has been an Invitee Speaker at various IP dissemination programs at top incubators and educational research institutes across country, and is a Mentor to start-ups at Catalyst, IIT-M Himachal Pradesh since past 7 years.
Sneha Kanitkar
PatentSKy
Kumaar Bagrodia
Founder, CEO, NeuroLeap
Kumar is the founder of NeuroLeap and his areas of interest include brain-computer interface and applied neuroscience. NeuroLeap, India’s leading applied Neuroscience company leveraging technology for better mental health and brain Enhancement. He is a member of the national startup council of CII and is a member of the Apex Council of the India Innovation Initiative by the Government of India. He is a speaker at leading podiums including the Bombay Stock Exchange and has chaired international leader sessions. https://www.linkedin.com/in/kbagrodia/ Kumaar Bagrodia
NeuroLeap
Atul Manohar
Atul Manohar
Thought-Craft Design Studio
Sapna Arora
Sapna Arora
OLX
Bhavesh Manglani
Bhavesh Manglani
Ex - Delhivery
Vikrant Potnis
Vikrant Potnis
Fortemagna Advisors
Arun Malhotra
Ex-Nissan India
Arun Malhotra
Ex-Nissan India
Avik Bhandari
Avik Bhandari
Meesho
Saurabh Singhavi
Saurabh Singhavi
Alsisar Impact
Shailesh Goswami
https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaileshgoswami/overlay/photo/
Shailesh Goswami
Foyr
Namah Pandey
Intellect Design Arena
Namah Pandey
Intellect Design Arena
Rajesh Krishnan
Thought-Craft Design Studio
Rajesh Krishnan
Brick Eagle
Bhaskar Roy
Bhaskar Roy
Fractal
Ritesh Verma
IT Professional , mentor and coach
Ritesh Verma has done Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science. He has around 25 years of experience in IT delivery and consultancy, mostly in the Financial Services domain. He has worked with major IT services and consulting organizations like Tata, Accenture, Capgemini and Deloitte to name a few.
He has managed and executed multi-site global consulting and delivery projects with aggressive margin targets for custom development, application management, packaged software, testing services and large complex migration across Banking, Capital Markets and Insurance domain. He has vast experience in executing end-to-end consulting assignments for Investment Banking Clients. He has managed global portfolios with P&L, IT delivery and sales responsibilities having functions of HR, recruitment, finance and facilities reporting directly to him. He has designed presales and sales teams to grow top line sales through existing and new clients.
Multiple articles about Ritesh have been published in leading print and digital media. He has been a speaker and panellist at conferences supported by NASSCOM.
Ritesh had his startup in IIOT technology and he is also the founder of a cancer care initiative which is a non-commercial venture to help cancer patients (https://www.pratima.net/). This venture has been recognised and awarded at International Healthcare Leadership Award as “Most Trusted Cancer Care Platform in India ” and the “IAF Atmanirbhar Bharat Award ” has been presented on the occasion of the National Atmanirbhar Bharat E-Summit.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ritesh-verma-81ab5018
Ritesh Verma
IT Professional , mentor and coach
Gopinath Balakrishnan
Customer Engineering at Google Cloud | Cloud Architect
Gopinath is a Cloud Architect, and technology advisor who helps digital native growth stage (Series A-D) companies accelerate innovation, efficiency and scale with Google Cloud. Gopinath Comes with a strong background in product engineering, distributed systems/cloud platforms, System engineering, Networking/Security and building technology partnerships with digital native growth stage startups in San Francisco/Bay Area to support digital transformation by helping build/migrate/modernize the application/infrastructure that can scale with better economics and be resilient using Google cloud solutions with a cloud-native approach.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bgopi
Gopinath Balakrishnan
Google Cloud
Tejinderpal Miglani
Investor, Advisor, Mentor
Tejinderpal Miglani is an investor, advisor, and mentor to growing companies, helping passionate teams solve their growth challenges and achieve their potential. An angel investor for over a decade, Tejinder is a long-time member of the Indian Angel Network, a part of many syndicates, and a founding member of Climate Angels, an angel group focused on investing in climate tech. Extremely passionate about the environment, he believes that the solution to the world’s environmental challenges will be through innovation and entrepreneurship.
Tejinderpal Miglani co-founded Incedo Inc., a global technology business focused on analytics and emerging technologies. His work at Incedo has helped him understand the mind of customers, where technology trends are moving, and how technology is being adopted by businesses. He is a graduate in computer science and engineering from IIT Delhi and holds an MBA degree from IIM Calcutta.
Prior to creating Incedo, he was the founding CTO of Indiabulls, where he worked on creating an Internet trading platform that became a technological benchmark for the industry.