Rajeev Roy
Professor, XLRI
Rajeev Roy is a Professor of Entrepreneurship at XLRI and is the CEO of its incubator XCEED. After completing his PGDM from IIM Ahmedabad, he was an entrepreneur for about 9 years and he spent the next 14 years as an entrepreneurship educator and startup mentor. Over 1000 startups have attended his workshops and he has been involved in entrepreneurship development in 14 countries across the world. He has also helped set up 6 incubators in 4 different countries. He believes in open innovation and has worked with several large companies in their open innovation programs.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajvr/Rajeev Roy
XLRI
Ambar Srivastava
Founder, Wrig Nanosystems Pvt. Ltd
Ambar Srivastava is the founder of a Wrig Nanosystems, an applied research & development organization with diverse interests across a range of upcoming interdisciplinary scientific areas. Before founding Wrig, Ambar worked extensively in bioelectronics in different assignments and projects in different research labs in India and overseas. During his technical assignments, he has dealt with challenges ranging from controlling the placement of DNA nanowires to evaluating the extent of corrosion induced by seawater microbes. Apart from technical experience, Ambar has worked with private equity firms and management consultancies. In his corporate assignments, he has been involved in financial planning, valuation of various companies, development of business processes and designing business strategies. He won the ‘Young Innovator Award’ by MIT Technology Review India for novelty and impact of research work. Ambar is a dual degree graduate (Bachelors & Masters) in Biochemical Engineering & Biotechnology with a focus on electrochemical Immuno sensing platforms (electrochemical biosensors), from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ambar-srivastava-79b6147/ Ambar Srivastava
Wrig Nanosystems Pvt. Ltd
Kapil Bharati
Co-founder and CTO, Delhivery
Kapil Bharati is Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at SSN Logistics Private Limited (also known as Delhivery) and served as its Head of Technology. Kapil Bharati is a First Generation Entrepreneur with over 11 years of experience in IT. Prior to SSN Logistics Private, he worked with Fortune 100 clients in multiple industries including E-Commerce, Logistics, FS and Telecom and founded two start-ups – 11 rupees and Contify. https://in.linkedin.com/in/kbhara Kapil Bharati
Delhivery
Manish Khetarpal
Founder, WaterBridge Ventures
Manish is an Angel Investor and Venture Capitalist with more than 19 years of experience investing in startups across USA and India. Mentor by nature, he has managed/served in various company’s BOD or Advisory boards like Dalmia Bharat, Idea, Halonix, Spectranet etc. He is a mechanical engineer from IIT Delhi and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. Manish Kheterpal is a Founder and Managing Partner at WaterBridge Ventures which is an early-stage VC firm serving as a catalyst for Tech Entrepreneurship in India. Prior to this, he was a board member of Spectra which offers broadband services to home and offices. He remained an angel investor for many startups like edukart.com, proper food, MyVR for more than 5 years. He graduated from IIT Delhi in mechanical engineering and did his masters from Stanford Graduate School of Business. https://in.linkedin.com/in/mkheterpal Manish Kheterpal
WaterBridge Ventures
Kshitij Chopra
Vice President , Delhivery
Kshitij is Vice-President at Delhivery, India’s fastest growing logistics company. He has an experience of more than 10 years in product management, sales and operations. In the past, he has worked for well-established names like DELLEMC and Brain & Company. He did textile engineering from IIT Delhi and MBA from Northwestern University Illinois (US). https://in.linkedin.com/in/kshitijchopra Kshitij Chopra
Delhivery
Gaurav Agarwal
Co-Founder and CTO, 1mg
Gaurav is cofounder and CTO at 1mg, an e-commerce healthcare startup, he was CTO and Head of Products at Prime Health Chakra Private Ltd. He is Advisor at VH Capital , a Mauritian investment fund. He holds B. Tech in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 2001. https://in.linkedin.com/in/agarwalga Gaurav Agarwal
1mg
Chintan Baksi
CEO, Startup Oasis
Chintan Bakshi is the CEO of startup oasis. Chintan has over 9 years of experience leading ventures in the rural and the Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP) space. Chintan has been working in the rural markets since 2004, developing innovative business models to commercialize grassroots technologies, foster rural entrepreneurship, provide internet connectivity/services, enable rural e-commerce and implement mobile-enabled last mile distribution for FMCGs. He has worked extensively in the rural markets of Gujarat, Orissa and Rajasthan. https://in.linkedin.com/in/chintanbakshi Chintan Bakshi
Startup Oasis
Abhinav Gupta
Founder, PocketPills
Abhinav is the Founder of PocketPills. It is a tech-driven Canadian pharmacy that is redefining pharmacy experience for the consumer. Their innovative, online pharmacy platform is aimed at reducing cost, improving medication adherence and providing easy access to pharmacists. He was the Founder and VP Engineer at Rocket Fuel, an artificial intelligence advertising solution across all channels – display, video, social and mobile. Before co-founding Rocket Fuel, he was an Engineering Director at Yahoo! where he helped cultivate a start-up environment building the team and platform from scratch. He holds B. Tech in CSE from IIT Delhi in 1996. https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhinav-gupta-b1977a/ Abhinav Gupta
PocketPills
Vignesh Ramanujam
Partner, Spoonfeed
Vignesh is among young entrepreneurs and startup enthusiasts of the country. He is on Board of multiple startups simultaneously like ChaiCup, Younify, SpoonFeed, Medivo etc. which focuses on multiple sectors like food & beverage, social media, healthcare etc. He is BA in Economics & Politics from the University of Leicester and MSc in Finance from Grenoble Graduate School of Business, France. https://in.linkedin.com/in/ramanujamvignesh Vignesh Ramanujam
Spoonfeed
Santanu Bhattacharya
Chief Data Scientist, Airtel X Labs
Santanu Bhattacharya is Seasoned Chief Data Officer and former SVP at Delhivery, one of India’s fastest-growing e-commerce startup. He is currently working with CamCult Group at MIT Media Lab in Massachusetts for better lives of billions of people by joining the digital economy. He is a prolific blogger, writer and speaker, has given over 100 speeches and sits on board of multiple startups and think tanks. An IIT Bombay pass out, he holds MBA from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Maryland. He has worked for some well-established multinationals like Facebook, AOL and was CEO and Founder of Salorix – World’s first real-time cross channel social media engagement platform. https://in.linkedin.com/in/santanub Santanu Bhattacharya
Airtel X Labs
Saurabh Jain
Vice President at Paytm
Saurabh leads Paytm’s Build for India initiative. Saurabh is a Chartered Accountant, a technology enthusiast and has authored books on mobile technology as well. An innovator at heart, his vision is to help turn everyone into a lifelong learner in this digital age. https://www.linkedin.com/in/saurabhskj/ Saurabh Jain
Paytm
Krishnachtanya Ayyagari
Specialist Customer Engineer, Infrastructure Modernization, Google
Leading partnerships for Google Cloud startup program, he is currently working as Manager of startup ecosystem partnership Google Cloud pan India. He has been associated with cloud technology and interface for a very long time and worked for big names like Microsoft as Cloud Solution Architect. Passed out from BITS Pilani as MS in Software Systems, he believes in working with customers rather for them. https://www.linkedin.com/in/findkc Ayyagari Krishnachytanya
Google
Rajesh Jain
MD, Enhanced WAPP Systems (India) Pvt. Ltd.
Rajesh Jain is a chemical engineer from IIT Delhi (1992 Batch) and an Energy auditor. He started his entrepreneurial journey in 1996 with the focus on PREVENTION ( WAPP stands for WATER and AIR pollution prevention ) and act as a bridge between Industry and Institutions who have technologies and know-how in the areas of Environment and sustainability which should fit the criteria of ECO-INNO-VISION (ECONOMICAL, ECOLOGICAL, INNOVATIVE & VISIONARY) and lead to the sustainable development of the society / Industry. He has promoted 3 cos. with different focusses but leading to the same results. https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajesh-jain-41420536/ Rajesh Jain
Enhanced WAPP Systems
Anshu Gupta
Founder Director at GOONJ
Anshu Gupta is an Indian social entrepreneur who founded Goonj, a non-governmental organization (NGO) headquartered in Delhi. Gupta is an Ashoka fellow and was conferred with the “Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award” by Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship. He won the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 2015. Anshu is fondly called as the ‘clothing man’, and he has taken the menacing growth of urban waste and used it effectively and efficiently as a tool to trigger large scale development work in some of the most backward and remote pockets of India. https://www.linkedin.com/in/anshuguptagoonj/ Anshu Gupta
GOONJ
Prashant Warier
Co-Founder & CEO, Qure.ai
Prashant is an expert in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning. He has architected and commercialized several data science solutions in his 15-year career. He is also a prolific researcher, author, and speaker on topics related to data science and machine learning. He is passionate about using deep learning to make healthcare affordable and accessible. https://www.linkedin.com/in/pwarier/ Prashant Warier
Qure.ai
Anshu Bhartia
CEO, UnLtd India
Anshu’s objective is to work with solutions that lead to an increase in income and reduction of vulnerability of the marginalized and under-served communities. The route will be leveraging the power of new potential Change-makers through enabling, supporting and building the Social Entrepreneurship eco-system leading to exponential impact as seen in UnLtd India’s 10-year journey. Anshu is an expert in the field of Strategy Planning, Organization Management, Project Management with stakeholders across geographies, organizations and functions. https://www.linkedin.com/in/anshu-bhartia-7729ba51/ Anshu Bhartia
UnLtd India
Sonam Wangchuk
HIAL
Mahavir Pratap Sharma
Chairman, TiE Global Board of Trustees, TiE India Angels and RAIN (Rajasthan Angels)
Mahavir Sharma, a serial entrepreneur is part of umpteen businesses and social organizations and exudes passion in angel investing, leadership and mentoring. In the past, he has also been associated as Chairman with reputed organizations such as the Carpet Export Promotion Council, the apex body of the Handmade carpet industry in India under the aegis of The Textile Ministry, GOI, Rajasthan Carpet Manufacturers and Exporters Association, etc. Mahavir has extensive experience in strategic Marketing n Branding., Global Trade partnerships, alliances and negotiations and Events planning and management. https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahavir-pratap-sharma-26476915/ Mahavir Pratap Sharma
Rajasthan Angels
Pankaj Upadhyay
Managing Director (India & Middle East) at Bricpoint Limited
Pankaj actively works at the interface of Business, Technology, and Process & Policy frameworks, interweaving his extensive experience across a spectrum of Organization forms and needs with an ability to marshal multiple domains and disciplines. Bringing a proven ability to work effectively across all levels of an organization, he specializes in crafting compelling Investor Pitches & Fund Raising, Ecosystem Diligence & Development, Deal Structuring and Negotiations, Impact Investing, Entrepreneurial Finance, Strategic partnerships and alliances, Business Proposal Authoring, and Business Valuation. https://www.linkedin.com/in/pankajupadhyay2011/ Pankaj Upadhyay
Bricpoint Limited
Raghav Gupta
Managing Director – India and APAC at Coursera
Raghav is a strategic, execution-focused and entrepreneurial business leader, with a proven track record in the consumer, internet and management consulting industries in India, south-east Asia and Europe. Have led three consumer internet businesses in India – Coursera, BlaBlaCar and Sucré Patisserie – and successfully created new spaces in the consumer domain. He has over 19 years of experience across Coursera, BlaBlaCar, Sucré Patisserie, Booz & Co and Technopak Advisors. His key skills include – business growth, business management, building teams, strategy, consumer understanding, product development, performance & brand marketing, PR, sales and building partnerships. Deeply experienced in – consumer internet, travel, food, retail, FMCG and management consulting. Passionate about consumer internet & entrepreneurship. https://www.linkedin.com/in/raghavgupta72/ Raghav Gupta
Coursera
Aakash Kumar
Director -User Experience, MakeMyTrip
Aakash is a UX Designer with close to 15 years of industry experience in Product Ideation & Innovation and Design management. He has worked in multiple companies and domains. For around half a decade he has led multiple UX initiatives at MakeMyTrip. He is responsible for UX delivery across the multiple business functions of the company. Prior to this Aakash was associated with Emantras Technologies – an e-learning company. He was responsible for setting up and managing User Experience Design as a key component of the project life cycle for Emantras. He also worked as a User Experience Designer at one of India’s largest IT service providers – Infosys Technologies. https://www.linkedin.com/in/aakashkumar/ Aakash Kumar
MakeMyTrip
Vineet Kumar Neeraj
Kobster
Vivek Sharma
Program Director, Gandhi Fellowship Program
Vivek Sharma, Core Team member of Piramal Pharma Solutions, is the program director of the Gandhi Fellowship. Mr. Sharma was previously the program director of Pratham. He had facilitated the establishment of learning enhancement programs in many government schools in Punjab, Himachal and Uttarakhand. Mr. Sharma has been a part of Indian media as a trained journalist. He has also been part of some businesses, IT and Telecom startups.
Vivek Sharma
Gandhi Fellowship Program
Dilnawaz (Ahmed) Khan
Founder Codesign Labs
Dilnawaz is the Founder and Chief Evangelist at Codesign Labs. He is also a Consultant & Mentor to a lot of technology start-ups wherein he enables them to go from zero to critical mass by helping them with technology, branding and marketing.
Dilnawaz (Ahmed) Khan
Codesign Labs
Anand Batra
Venture Capital Investor at Z3Partners Tech Fund
Anand is founding team member at Z3Partners, a $100M early growth stage (Series B) fund that invests in technology and digital companies. TIll recently, he worked as an Investor at IvyCap Ventures, focusing on early stage investments in consumer and technology enabled businesses. He was a Board Member / Observer at Bluestone, GrabOnRent and Purplle.com. Before starting his career as an investor, he headed up Category Management (P&L) for Pepperfry’s Home Business. Prior to this, he headed up the Strategy function, where he worked with the founder to raise $170M across 3 rounds of fundraising, apart from helping to launch a large item distribution network and managing retention marketing.
Anand Batra
Z3Partners Tech Fund
Anay Mushroowala
Partner, Head Marketing & Quality Control, M/s. Venus Engineering Works
Mr. Anay has been in the business of design, development, manufacturing, and marketing of industrial valves for extremely corrosive, extreme erosive, extreme Pressure, obnoxious gas services for the last about 12 years which is his family business. For the last 4 generations, he has experience teaching entrepreneurship and innovation at various institutions including IIM Ahmedabad, NIT’s, IIT mandi, S. P. Jain Institute of Management, Nirma University, CEPT university; Ahmedabad university to name a few in India. His international academic exposure includes teaching students at Hiroshima University, Keio University Japan, and working closely with faculties of the center for design. He has been invited by the Ministry of Education and Technology Government of Japan for consulting them on how to develop SMEs in their country. He has been awarded the “best entrepreneurship faculty” by the National Entrepreneurship network in 2016. He is currently involved as a coach at Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University Innovation and incubation center where he spends 1-day week coaching startups. His education includes a degree in mechanical engineering; MBA in entrepreneurship, Degree in law; Asnt level II in rt, ut, mt, pt & iso 9001 2015 lead auditor apart from various other international certifications.
Anay Mushroowala
Venus Engineering Works
Balaji Chakravarthi
ScoVelo Consulting
Vainateya Gavai
Co-Founder, Siriti
A trained software engineer by qualification, he has always been more fascinated in combining technology with creativity. He quit his IT job and started whyIT Solutions – a one-stop-shop for all things digital and soon was working with corporates in India and internationally as well. He is now a founding partner at Siriti, an agency championing richer living through ideas and innovation. Over the last 10 years in the industry, he has worked with brands like Complan, Horlicks, Omron, Coca Cola, Nestle, Hiranandani Group, Mahindra, Jet Airways and ACUVUE to name a few and seen success at international award shows like the Effies, Clios and the Globals.
Vainateya Gavai
Siriti
Vishwanathan S
Forge Innovation Accelerator
Apoorv Bamba
Co-Founder and CEO Ingenious Faces
Apoorv is a curriculum architect and a serial Entrepreneur. He is also a Community Council Member at Silicon Cape and Co-founder at Mashauri. He has previously founded Startup Safari (Acquired by WeeTracker) & Human Circle. He is also a public speaker and guest lecturer with previous talks at platforms such as PechaKucha, Graduate Women International Global Conference, Ashoka University, University of Cape Town, Ghent University, Bertha Centre of Social Innovation among others.
Apoorv Bamba
Ingenious Faces
Dr. Sanjay Singh
Dr. Sanjay Singh
Assistant Professor, IIM Sirmaur
Shobana Prakash
Shobana Prakash
100X.VC
Tushar Vadera
Tushar Vadera
Headstart
Taha Malik
Baari Labs
Naman Kejriwal
Naman Kejriwal
WaterBridge Ventures
Vignesh Ramanujam
Vignesh Ramanujam
Lok Capital
