"Aamod has over 20 years of experience working in silicon valley with global giants like PayPal, Google and Meta (Facebook). Aamod’s area of interest is primarily in the technology space with specific applications of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. Aamod is an expert in adtech, fintech and the emerging field of Metaverse and its various applications. Aamod loves to engage early stage startups to help with their product strategy, PMF and data fundamentals."
Abhay Tandon heads Digital Innovation at TVS Motor and in the past has led innovation in India for Lowe's, AbInBev and Target. He has executed over 30 deep technology projects with startups and other innovation stakeholders across the value chain of retail and FMCG. Prior to that, he has also worked in startups, VC and consulting roles ranging across functions. ; ; Abhay is an angel investor, an official global member of the esteemed Forbes Technology Council, a Charter Member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) and a contributing author in varied publications including Times of India, Forbes etc. Abhay is also recognised as a ‘Super Mentor’ at AIM iCREST, an Incubator Capabilities enhancement program by NITI Aayog, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Wadhwani Foundation. He has been associated with multiple startup incubation and acceleration programs in the past in the capacity of a selector and mentor. Abhay is an alumni of SP Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai and IESEG School of Business, France. ; ; Apart from being passionate about Innovation, he enjoys spending his time watching Sci-Fi shows and travelling.
At Endiya, Abhishek focuses on investments in technology, and comes with over 16 years of experience in founding, early-stage investing, operations and technology. He sits on the Board of Steradian & Cell Propulsion. Previously, he was on the Board of ShieldSquare (Radware), Hansel (Netcore) and Incnut (istyle). Besides that, he has played a vital role in the exit of Little Eye Labs (Facebook).
Addison leads ThinKuvate’s India operations and looks after the deal flow, investments, investor connects and portfolio management across South East Asia. Key sector focus includes HealthTech, FinTech, IoT, Cloud, AI-ML Start-Ups, Deep Tech, AR/VR and InfoTech; ; Led Pre-Series A Investments in (1) Rentickle; (2) LetsMD; (3) SignCatch; ; Has 14+yrs of experience related to Venture Capital, Private Equity Infusion & Valuation, Mergers & Acquisitions within the Diversified Sectors. Previously involved in Investment Banking, including M&A, IPO, Private Equity Deals.; Key sectors covered included Automotive, Chemicals, Cement, Infrastructure (Ports, Toll Roads, & Airports), Transportation, Real Estate and Clean-tech (Solar); ; Worked on International Business Development, Structuring of Overseas Direct Investments along with Project & Corporate Finance activities
"CORE ""Me"" : Happiness follows me. Knowledge and experiences are one of my superpowers which allow me to reflect and explore the infinite variants of myself. I use the wisdom I pickup along the way to help companies and people grow. A more professional and corporate version: A thought leader, mentor, advisor and coach with a rich techno- business experience ranging from market-gap analysis to product/service conceptualization, GTM orchestration, board management, to overall P&L. Superpower: I help build moats for businesses I am involved with"
I'm an engineer having 35+years experience with Indian Air Force in the field of aerospace engineering and maintenance management ; After superannuating in 2016, I with three like minded partnerers founded a company namely General Aeronautics Pvt Ltd for design & development of drones and their technologies; Presently, I'm Specialist Consultant with ADA, Bangalore on mechanical systems & maintainability for their combat aircraft programs.
"Part of the investment team at pi Ventures, looking at the deal process end-to-end, from sourcing to completion. Close to 7 years of experience across early-stage startups as an operator and with Goldman Sachs as an investment banker. In my spare time, I also contribute as the Director for the South India region of Headstart - an NGO dedicated to helping the startup ecosystem in India. Involved with preparing sector agnostic theses, sourcing relevant startups that have stellar founders, deal evaluation, investment decisions, and portfolio work."
I have more than 22 years of experience in software industry, currently leading new age technology - cloud, AI CoE for Hughes Systique. I am responsible for designing new offering, get customer buy in for new PoVs and scale the product from PoC to real deployment. I have experience in starting organization from scratch and scale them.
"As the first employee in Milkbasket, I grew the company 4x in 3.5 months. Then as Head Alliances I built relationships with top FMCG companies like Amul, MotherDairy, Nestle, Danone, Reckitt, ITC, Procter & Gamble, HUL, Colgate, Pepsi, Coca-Cola, etc. within 8 months. At Masai as VP of Growth, within 3 months, I grew student acquisition by 10-25% across programs. Samsung Electronics, I was responsible for South East Asia. LG Electronics, accountability of localisation of Korean components. Videocon, I built three businesses: Flat Panel Displays (Plasma Display Panels) International Sourcing and Procurement, d2h vertical and mobile phones division within 5 years, as Executive Assistant to President Videocon. Vedanta, commercially headed the 1.2 Billion USD greenfield turnkey LCD Panel Manufacturing Project in India."
"Digital SaaS Platforms Growth Leader | Partner Ecosystem (GSI/BPO/Managed Services) | Global Markets | Startup-2-ScaleUp | Recognized Growth leader to drive new revenue incubation and scale for Digital Transformation leveraging NextGen SaaS Platforms with Top Tier GSI / BPO / Consulting Partners and G2K customers to deliver Enterprise Transformation across Americas, Europe and Asia | Strong business rolodex of established CEO/CXO industry relationships | Recipient of numerous performance excellence awards |"
"- Over 20 years experience in executive roles in Engineering and Pre-sales
- Ex VP Global Solution Engineering TIBCO Software. Driving License revenue 100+ million annually. Expertise in Analytics, Integration, Workflows and Enterprise
- Startup experience as Cofounder at sapper.ai (exit via acquihire)
- Currently MD/VP at Productsup (60 mil series B received recently). Heading the India teams as well as global insights and digital shelf analytics"
Anant Sood has 20+ years of experience in Operations, Management consulting. He has worked in North America, India with short stints in M.E, Asia. He has gained startup experience since 2013. He is currently coFounder of worxogo, an Ai+neuroeconomics b2b startup. His role is in expanding worxogo's reach and building channel partnerships.
Ananth Lazarus is the Founder & President of Partner Plexus. His experiences span 30+ years and he has held several senior executive positions at Microsoft, IBM and Compaq among others. He is a technology executive with deep expertise in end-to-end management, P&L, sales and marketing, and has helped burgeoning tech companies break new ground in Asia Pacific and achieve scalable and sustainable growth.; With his rich experiences and learning’s he is now doubling down on helping technology companies land, launch and scale in APAC and worldwide to drive sustainable growth.
"Digital SaaS Platforms Growth Leader | Partner Ecosystem (GSI/BPO/Managed Services) | Global Markets | Startup-2-ScaleUp | Recognized Growth leader to drive new revenue incubation and scale for Digital Transformation leveraging NextGen SaaS Platforms with Top Tier GSI / BPO / Consulting Partners and G2K customers to deliver Enterprise Transformation across Americas, Europe and Asia | Strong business rolodex of established CEO/CXO industry relationships | Recipient of numerous performance excellence awards |"
"Anita Rehman is Partner at GSV. Anita’s experience encompasses roles as an entrepreneur, investor, and advisor to global companies in the Technology sector. Prior to GSV, she was an investment professional at Vantage Point Capital Partners and an investment consultant at The Three Cairns family office where she invested in early to growth stage technology companies across the Consumer, Enterprise and Energy sectors. Anita is also the founder of a retail startup, an invaluable experience that contributes richly to the perspective she brings as an investor and advisor. Anita is a graduate of Manipal Institute of Technology, where she earned an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering. Following Manipal, Ms. Rehman graduated from the MSEE program at Stanford and later earned an MBA from the Wharton School of Business."
Senior Director of health-tech accelerator with Fortune 5 company. 16+ years global experience across US, Asia and Africa. Well-rounded professional with deep expertise across multiple domains: private equity, consulting, business development, digital transformation and operations. Raised $200Mn+ from global investors, delivered $80Mn+ hard savings and $4Bn+ soft savings. MBA from ISB and BS (High Honors) from Rutgers University. CFA ® charter holder and Certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt (CLSSMBB).
Anuj is a Chartered Accountant, with a flair for strategic thinking and molding operational structures to suit legal and financial capabilities.Before Founding AnBac Advisors, he has been a renowned name while working in Big 4s, Top 5 brands across the globe, and worked on high profile M&A, restructuring, Due diligence for investors, and much more.The Founder has a tremendous experience in International tax structuring, fund raising, mentoring startups, legal advisory, audit and book keeping and other aspects pertaining to startup and SMEs.
"Anuj Gupta is a seasoned executive with 18+ yrs of experience in running end-to-end AI efforts at CXO level. He is Founder & CEO of Gradient Advisors, advising/consulting with a bunch of organizations & startups, helping them get AI piece right. He also co-authored a major book in machine learning; endorsed by AI leaders from UCSD, CMU, DeepMind, Google AI, Microsoft Research, Amazon research, Meta, Spotify, Airbnb to name a few. The book is already translated into 4 languages and is being used by over 40 universities around the globe."
Anuj is the Co-Founder and CEO at Omanvat Web Services since June 2016. Omanvat is a cloud SaaS solution reselling company based in Bangalore working with some of the largest b2b providers from across the world like Zendesk, Citrix, RedHat, IBM in helping them expand their India presence. Previously, Anuj was Head of Technology Partner Ecosystem - India at Amazon Web Services from 2012-2016. In this role, he helped Indian and Global Independent Software Vendors(ISVs) like SAP, Infor, Symantec, TrendMicro, Apigee market their products locally and globally. Anuj was one of the first hires for AWS in India in 2012 and built the India System integration channel for AWS and oversaw the growth of business. From 2010 to 2012, he was a Solution Sales Manager- System X for South Asia at IBM where he led a team focused on IBM''s X86 server sales in the South Indian and Sri Lankan territory. Prior to that, Anuj worked as National Sales Manager at Sun Microsystems from 2007 to 2010. He also spent some time at Autodesk India as Sales Manager in 2001. Anuj has done work in IaaS, PaaS and SaaS space with specific focus on Cloud economics, TCO and ROI on cloud projects. Anuj has also been part of projects on big data and analytics as well as large scale implementations of Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning. Anuj has been part of projects involving due diligence of companies involved in Data center design and operations. Anuj has over 22+ years experience in the IT infrastructure space and outside of work is a motivational guest speaker in the area of health and fitness, author of a book and also a fitness trainer helping companies keep their leadership teams healthy and fit.
My focus is on helping companies to grow by "applying technology innovations that drive tangible business value", by leveraging my more than 35 years of global experience with US and Indian companies in the areas of business consulting, technology licensing and alliances, fund-raising, software research and development, and operations. My recent stint of over 14 years with world’s premier industrial research Lab, IBM Research has further strengthened my skills, that include: Identifying, assessing and deploying advanced technology from idea to business ; - Driving innovation and research programs to address unique cross-industry business problems; - Making investment decisions on new technologies; - Maximizing revenues, optimizing costs and enhancing profitability; - Aligning business development strategy, technology roadmaps, alliances and equity investment plans; - Leveraging collaborative business models to take innovations to market, through enterprises, startups and government agencies in India and globally
Anurag is a global Product, Technology & Business executive whose mission is to build: Purpose-driven organizations, high-impact teams & products that help 100s of Millions of people make better decisions across the world.; ; Currently, he is the Group Chief Product Officer & part of the executive management at Jubilant Foodworks Ltd, that runs Domino’s Pizza, Dunkin’ Donuts & other food brands in India & South Asia.; ; Over the last decade, Anurag has helped build & scale digital businesses, platforms & market-leading products across domains such as Mobility, Health, Education, Used good marketplaces & Food delivery. During this time, he has played leadership roles across fast growing Internet businesses & some of the world’s leading brands such as OLX (Naspers), Microsoft & Nokia.; ; In his spare time, Anurag advises and mentors technology startups.
Anuroop is the Founder, MD of Cogknit Semantics - one of the leading companies working on AI in Defense focusing on ISR - since 2015. ICOG.ai is his North American focused b2b AI in upskilling play. His organisation was competetively selected by the PSA’s office to deliver a solution of strategic importance to the forces. Anuroop holds 7 patents at USPTO and 9 pending at India PTO. Prior to Cogknit, he used to be an Analog Signal Processing Staff Engineer at Broadcom working on Chip Design. He is an Alumni of BITS, Pilani and RV College of Engineering.
An efficient leader and Information Security professional with proven experience of 16 years in Security Architecture, Cloud Security, Data Loss Prevention, Internal audits, Endpoint Detection & Response, Security Operation Center, Risk assessment, Risk Remediation Services. Certified with Industry standard certifications as ISO 27001 Lead Auditor, Project Management Professional and Information security certifications as C.E.H, CCSA, CCNA.; I would like to provide solutions to improvise security posture and strengthen businesses.
"An experienced leader with an entrepreneurial mindset and ability to setup centers and scale technology. Interested in diverse verticals ranging from eCommerce, supply/demand chain, edtech, healthtech to finance. Especially interested in startups exhibiting a clear ""double topline"" - opportunity for revenue and technology enabling community.
Ashok Veda has been mentoring startups and students in the Netherlands (Amsterdam) as an innovation consultant and now in India with several universities and AI startups since 2007. He has built a good network of investors and researchers across Netherlands, UK, and India. Given the opportunity, he is willing to spend time to contribute to this initiative in mentoring startups.
Ashwin have set up and manages an early stage deeptech focussed fund called the Bharat Innovation Fund, which has invested in 7 deeptech startups across pre series A to Series B rounds. He invest across sectors. He earlier set up and ran Indias first deeptech fund called the India Innovation Fund, starting 2009. He is an early stage tech investor, venture capital fund manager, Have executed a full fund cycle from creation to exit. Institution builder, startup advisor, public policy contributor and shipee. He is Deeply involved in India's start-up ecosystem for over a decade.
After a successful corporate career of 27 years at NSDC, Citi, HSBC UAE, Barclays Kenya and Tata Motors, I am now a registered mentor at IIMC Innovation Park. I have previously supported Start-ups incubated at IIT Kanpur and Ashoka University. I consider myself fortunate in acquiring work experience in some of the best-in-class organisations in Skill Development, Renewable Energy, Public Speaking, Marketing, Customer Service, Banking, Operations, IT led transformation, Fraud Control, Impact Assessment and Team Management. In 2016, I found my calling in advising startups and social impact organisations in skill development, renewable energy and education. As a public speaker, I hosted 18 knowledge sharing sessions during lockdown in 2020 on 'ABCDE' (Academia, Business, Consulting, Development, Entrepreneurship) on behalf of 'HR@8PM'. I was part of a unique 'crowdsourced' book called 'A Chapter Out of My Life'. 19 of us from various IIMs shared a real life story from our lives in this book.
- I am a deep tech professional with vast industry experience in both startups and high tech MNCs. Have worked in both USA and India for many years.; ; - I help companies build cutting edge technology products leveraging cutting edge technology and low cost, high skill engineering talent.; ; - I am an advisor and mentor for startups. I am deeply involved in helping startups build their products and scale them (from ideation to building MVP/EVP to commercial grade release). ; ; - I help companies build timeless software that is scalable and delivers high performance.; ; Summary: Software Development Services, Architecture Solutions, Product Design and Strategy, SDLC, Building Scalable Systems, Mentoring Engineering and Management teams, Improving Organisational Efficiency, Corporate Training (technical and non-technical), Marketing and Pre-sales.
I am a Founder & CEO of a B2B cyber security product company “Progist” which serves 150+ customers across industry verticals. Have managed a sustained growth of 35% CAGR since our inception (5+ years) through direct sales and channels partners in India and Middle-East. Have acquired for “Progist Email Secure Suite”, our country leading SaaS platform, clients including Fortune 500s, Industry leading Banks, Insurers, NBFCs, Stock Exchanges, Telcos, Health Care, E-commerce platforms, Manufactures, Conglomerates etc. Prior to setting up Progist, was a Deputy CISO for India’s leading private sector Bank by virtue of which I have a hands-on experience of 20+ years for cyber security strategy, implementation and monitoring.
"Berkeley HaaS | Enterprise Sales | GTM | Growing Conviva in APAC | Ex Singtel | Ex Airtel | Ex Times Talks about #ott, #social, #experience, #technology, and #advertising Business of Delivering Analytics & AI/ML Optimization in Asia Pacific for every OTT/MVPD, every stream, every event, every frame and every pixel. Managing Sales, Business Development, Partnership & Account Management along with localisation of our products for APAC market Goal: Conviva must be the guiding force of every decision making process and will be available in every stream, every device of this world."
I grew up in Delhi and Singapore. Was a biomedical engineer (bachelors/masters) from Johns Hopkins University (US). Worked as an R&D scientist at Medtronic in the US, then as a strategy consultant with Bain & Company in Singapore, South-East Asia and Middle East. I did my MBA at Wharton and then did 10 years of private equity investing in India with Bain Capital and KKR. Focused on healthcare, pharma, sustainability, education. Joined Ultrahuman (wearables, metabolic health startup) as the Chief Business Officer in end-2021 and am leading all the business aspects along with the founder.
Based in Bengaluru, Bipin is a Doctoral Scholar at the Swiss School of Business & Management, and pursuing his master's in Business Law at NLSIU, Bengaluru. He is an alumnus of Harvard Business School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Global NXT University, and holds a BS in Computer Science from Bengaluru University. He is currently managing the India operations of CData Software and had been responsible for setting these grounds up. Bipin is currently overseeing product engineering, Customer Success, Technical Support, Strategic Partnerships, and Sales for most of our product lines in India, APAC, and middle-east. Prior to CData India that he incubated in 2018, bipin had a wonderful 17+ years of industry experience in Product Engineering, Enterprise & Engineering Mobility, Telecom & Media, Education & Publishing domains managing leading edge product development for key customers.
Chandrashekhar Bhide is a Co-founder at LithionPower (Real-time, intelligent energy management for Electric Vehicles); Advisor/mentor with multiple startups & consultant (esp. Banking/Financial Services/Payments/Fintech). He has rich experience across energy management for Electric Vehicles, Banking, Financial services, Payments, Telecom & IT in ; •Consulting, startup advisory, new business setup; • Product management, go-to-market planning, strategic alliances, merchant acquisitions, marketing; • Corporate strategy, financial planning, business viability study; • Regulatory liaising & compliance, legal contracts, commercial negotiation.
Dayakar Puskoor is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of Dallas Venture Capital (DVC). A serial entrepreneur turned visionary investor, Dayakar had the foresight to launch one of the first tech focused venture fund headquartered in a post-telecom Dallas that invested in several pioneering early stage startups in cloud, AI/ML and mobile technologies in Dallas, Silicon Valley, Seattle and India. Dayakar is passionate about mentoring founding teams of startups and operates with a philosophy to Invest, Engage, Collaborate, Grow & Exit.
Dharmendra Singh is Senior executive with 24+ yrs of extensive global experience in area of Corporate M&A development and software product development mainly in India,US and Europe. Dharmendra lead the India R&D center and build a global team of 1000 employees company.He build several complex global software products and solution capabilities in india center. ; ; Extensive experience in formulating and articulating vision and strategy, building leadership teams .He serve as a Chairman of the board of MergerWare and a regular speaker and panelist on VC, PE, and M&A topics at industry conferences & other events sponsored by internationally recognised association worldwide.
Dhruv Khanna has a leadership position across Sales, IT Consulting, Cyber Security domain. He is enriched with 20 years of experience with 360 degree hands-on experience across Team Mentoring, Business Development, International Sales, Digital Channels, Client Acquisition, P&L Management, Project Delivery, Product Management, Solution design, Tech Marketing, Business Finance, Investor Relations & Fund Raise. In his professional experience he has helped organizations to build and execute business models from nascent level. This experience involved working with Start-ups, Early stage companies to global MNCs. He has helped companies to scale businesses multifold I.e. Substantiated by leading industry accolades and awards. Accomplishments in current role: Product evangelisation/Conceptualisation – Insider Threat Management/UEBA; From pre-revenue company to Multi Million dollar profitable company in 5 years.; On-boarded 200 customers, across 20+ sectors, across 4 countries; Executed Revenue Routes Across Channel Partner / Distributor eco-system / Digital Sales; Executed Revenue Routes Across Cloud-Based eco-system / OEM White-labelling; Executed Revenue Routes Across Digital Channels; Executed Revenue Routes Across OEM Engagement and Cross-Integration; Scaled Company Revenues Internationally; Managed cross-functional teams across geographies; Process automation from opportunity identification to billing to support; On-boarded funds - German Angels, IDFC - Parampara Capital, Munjal Family Office
Dr.Dinesh Chandrasekar (DC) has around 24 years of progressive technology & consulting experience in Enterprise Applications ( ERP & CRM ) , Advanced Analytics & Digital Technologies ( Cloud, AI ,Intelligent Automations & IoT ). A Strategic technology leader who believes in enabling Human-Centric Intelligent Digital Platforms and Solutions for his clients . In his current role, he spearheads the Business Strategy for Pactera EDGE in the capacity of Chief Strategy Officer & Vanguard member of Leadership.; ; Dinesh is a seasoned Digital Solutions leader & enterprise Digital Strategy evangelist with a deep expertise in driving transformation initiatives that helps businesses to revolutionize their offerings, create new experience, & gain a competitive advantage with improved solution velocity.; ; In his earlier stint with Hitachi, GE & Citigroup he was instrumental in building CRM, Analytics, Master Data Management, Cloud & Innovation practice. In his professional journey, Dinesh spearheaded the delivery of over 150 + medium to large scale technology projects & solutions implementations across the globe (APAC, China, EMEA & US). He also has the penchant for innovation & instrumental in building over 50+ innovative Solution Accelerators. For his accomplishments in the Technology field over the last 2 decades ,he was commended with 40+ awards & accolades as a recognition.
A well-rounded professional spanning over 34 years focused on contribution towards IP assets creation demonstrated through proven expertise in developing & implementing Transformation Models, architecting, building & implementing enterprise class Platforms/ products, Business Process Reengineering & Consulting, and Opns Mgmt. Passionate to innovate and build next generation software solutions and transformation models that help companies/institutions “Measure-Monitor-Manage-Analyze-Plan–Optimize” their information flow to gain and sustain distinct competitive advantage. First class Mechanical Engineer followed by PG in Industrial Engineering from one of the premier Indian Management Institutes viz., NITIE with specialization in Operations & Systems and a Ph.D. with core concentration on Business Intelligence
I'm a Senior Analytics innovative leader with over 21 years of experience in the field of Data Strategy, Analytics, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence. I'm a sought after thought leader with experience of leading and growing world class data science teams. Along with my technical contributions to the field, I'm also a leading voice at a global level for advocating for ethics and diversity in AI and STEM and have received numerous awards and recognition for my work. I have been He named as Top 50 influential AI Leaders in India and Top 40 under 40 Data Scientists. I also spend time mentoring aspiring Data Scientists and have also been recognised as Top Five Data Science mentors in India. I also serve as an academic advisor to various colleges/ universities across India and have authored more than 15 papers on various subjects related to Artificial Intelligence and advanced Data & Analytics. I have delivered expert talks at more than 100 national and international events."
An energetic scientist, avid researcher, subject matter expert in dealing with innovations, startups, accreditation and regulatory testing for Biotechnology derived and In-Vitro Diagnostic products, LIMS and Regulatory Intelligence. Research on upcoming segments relating to medical devices by supporting establishments associated with Research & Development, Innovations, Prototyping, 3D printing, manufacturing sector, strategy creators, Information vaults, and go to market. Regulatory guidance, through exchange of specialized information and bringing key and intelligent cooperative energy of logical offices and organizations to commend endeavors on mechanical advancement in the medical devices sector. To carry and promote expanded admittance, well being to citizens and a flourishing medical devices manufacturing segment in India. Expert panel member of Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council, Department of Biotechnology (BIRAC - FIRST-HUB) committee, a Facilitation Cell for the Start-ups/ innovators and for those who want to take up R&D in pharma and devices. Core strength areas are QC & QA of In-vitro Diagnostics, Biologics, Development of Reference standards, application of relevant Data standards, Biobanking/Biorepository, Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), Quality Management Systems (QMS) ISO - 17025, 13485, 15189, 14971, 17034 & 33, OHSAS & QHSE.
Dwarka Srinath is a business focused IT Leader responsible for all aspects of IT and digital platforms as CIO for Tata Sky DTH . He has overall 23 years of experience comprising - delivering strategic IT programs, setting up Greenfield IT Stacks/functions, building digital platforms of use, building IT Roadmaps, Enterprise Architecture, Program management & IT Budget management. Strong believer of simple and sustainable architecture at right cost, IT as a huge business differentiator, team empowerment, active talent management and capability reuse. ICMG Digital CIO Award winner 2019, ETCIO Award 2018, CIO 100 Power List 2018-Core Media, CIO 100 2018 Digital Innovators Award CIO 100, 2017 Award Winner for Digital Innovation-IDG.; Conceptualize, build, fund and own Digital platforms of value to Business. He has a successful track record of Building Huge digital platforms with new age partners to create business value at Right cost. Technical interest and know how to see big picture and execute at development/operations team levels. Brief areas of past delivery and success :-; 1 - Mobile sales force automation & Lead management– 260 k+ dealers, 80 % new Acquisitions; 2. Analytics - Customer viewership analytics, Text Analytics & Visualization - Big data & Data Lake – 7 m Subscribers, Customer 360 View – 7 Million Subscribers, Tableau visualization.; 3. Omni channel Bots & WhatsApp Business Enterprise – Customer Interactions – 4 Mn+ subscribers; 4. AI/ ML Based Microsoft Image recognition – Field Service – Quality control, Sales PoS Material management – Live with 30k + Partners, Sentiment analysis; 5. Social CRM and Brand listening – Live since 2016; 6. Built and delivered java based services to ensure minimal cost, high agility and a new set of agile hi speed partners; 7. High scale resilient B2C Systems: - Delivered Service oriented – 17 millions subs, Microservices architecture for huge scale – 1 million orders, 3 million orders per day – Using Opensource; 8. B2B and B2C Cloud lead management – 500+ acquisitions per day; 9. Chatbots for customer interactions and processes – Facebook Messenger; 10. RPA – UI Path – Corporate customers setup automation, 10 Bots/Processes Live; 11. Microservices based Portals with > 11 million subs on Cloud and Opensource; 12. Omni channel Offer and products platform – Extremely High GTM, build once and deploy at Huge scale – No Contact Centre Model, > 82% Self Service for all critical transactions via digital channels 3 million orders/day; 13 - Tata sky labs with 7 sustainable startups to build projects of business value and scale (listed above)
Ganesh Chandrasekaran has 25 years of experience in digital transformation with vast experience in Product Management, introducing New Product & Services, Product Marketing and Marcom, Content Strategy, Management and Operations, building Strategic Partnerships & Alliances and introducing analytics based personalized product and services for local and global markets including conceptualization of new products ideas in emerging tech that includes UWB, AR/VR, Drone, Mobility space as well. Create and manage Communication related process for organization both external and internal public, Web and Mobile, Marcom, provide Analytics based Insights, Social media, Start-ups and help build Communities across various domains that includes 5G, Communication Services, Healthcare, Media & Entertainment, Web and Mobile Services, Intelligent Services, IoT, Analytics and emerging tech.
Ganesh Jayadevan is a accomplished leader with over 25+ years of international experience with an extensive track record and varied experience from product development, implementation, and growing technology organizations. He holds an MS (CS) from Texas A&M University and completed exec programs from IIM-Bangalore. As part of lifelong learning, He is pursuing another Master’s degree at IIIT-Bangalore. He has worked in marquee companies such as AT&T Bell Labs, Cisco Systems, Mahindra Comviva, and start-ups. Prior to taking on senior leadership roles, he contributed to technology as an engineer, designer, and architect for over 14 years in Telco, communication, and internet domains. In his career, he has created intellectual property and have 5 patents (USPTO) and 2 pending with the India Patent Office. His core strengths lie in technology, product management, managing large teams, running P&Ls. At Comviva Technologies, he has a track record of transformation, creating 5 new products from ideation till rollout and monetization, managing Tech, Products, pre-sales, and growing technology organizations (P&L) from $5 million to $35 million USD. Some of his other notable initiatives and responsibilities include - managing SaaS platforms used by fortune 250 clients and increasing Digital footprint and transformation across the organization for clients worldwide, in Africa, Europe, The Middle East, South East Asia in the US, and the Nordics.
Gaurav is a successful entrepreneur and a product management leader with 20+ years of industry experience. Besides his own start-up, he has done extensive work in product strategy, discovering unresolved customer problems, identifying customer patterns, leveraging customer insights into product decision-making, value engineering and customer advocacy. He is a coach, advisor and speaker on topics such as lean entrepreneurship, product market fit, establishing hard to copy competitive barriers and building products that provide persistent differential returns. He holds close to 30 patents.; ; Gaurav holds Bachelor’s degree from Delhi University and Master’s from Ahmedabad. His interest towards linking industry and academia took him to pursue his doctoral studies in Strategic Management and Marketing from University of Tampere, Finland during his time with Nokia.
Gayatri is a Manager at Capgemini, and is currently a Product Owner and Business Analyst for Financial Services clients across Insights and Data Practice at Capgemini.; ; She comes with several years of industry experience in Enterprise products with background in Design, Development ,Requirements analysis, Product backlog creation and management.; ; She has previous experience in Asset management, Reference Data (Investment Banking), Broker Dealers and Reinsurance.; ; Gayatri is a Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO) by the Scrum Alliance. She has lived in US and India and is fluent in English, Hindi, Tamil and Marathi.
Founder & CEO of Infrasoft Technologies, a banking tech solutions company. In my 20 years as a lesder, grew the company from scratch to 250Cr revenue/40cr EBITA, spread over 33 countries and among respected brands. Prior to this, worked 12 years in corporate in Sales & Marketing, in OA, Telecom & BankingTech. Now supoorting a start up Marketing Solutions company Hashtasy Digital, that eventually will work in MarTech or AI/ML enabled Marketing solutions in a year or so.
I am passionate about connecting people with ideas to unlock potential and achieve the impossible.; I am always super excited on each and every moment of my life because of my work (Professional & Social) and people around me.; My Mission : To Spread Hope, Peace, Joy and Love, To grow with Startup at 2x growth every month .Mentoring Startups with Potential Break even Point to surpass the sales. ; I am one of the founding members of Infilate Media Agency to set Transformation in CPA , CPL ,CPI. The aim to enrich the new Startups with there Potential Direct customers.
Seasoned technologist and divergent thinker, producing simple solutions for most complex problems. He has been architecting and providing high-performing data integration solutions to many of the Fortune 100 and implemented delivery solutions for companies in the telco, finance, credit cards, retail, insurance, consumer products, and pharmaceuticals domain.
Entrepreneurial, action driven and seasoned leader with over 16 years in Business Intelligence and Analytics. Experience in Product Management, Product development, Consulting and Crafting industry solutions for retail, CPG and Finance. Built metadata driven end to end DWH,BI and Analytics platforms and solutions leveraging deep customer understanding, functional knowledge and technology skills. Successfully conceptualized and delivered new product lines. Setup high performing teams and guided them to business growth and scale. Business development and account management experience with revenue targets and consistently achieving the targets. Implemented BI solutions & Analytics to key accounts across the globe involving enterprise wide impact.
Juby Jose is Senior Manager with Intel Corporation and has 20 years of industry experience spanning Embedded Software Engineering and Product Management. Juby is a product expert in AI solutions for Natural Language processing & Video Analytics. Her expertise areas also include Embedded SW and IoT applications. Juby is a speaker at global AI forums, and has authored multiple technical publications. Juby has completed her MBA from Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.
Kamal is a Data and AI Leader having a good track record of digital transformations leveraging Data Science and AI. With more than 2 decades of experience, he brings a unique blend of strategic thinking, consultative approach, innovation dimension, data-driven decision making, people leadership, and deep data science expertise coupled with industry experience with an open mindset to help build and scale businesses and outcomes for customers. He has industry experience in Banking and Financial Services, Insurance, Retail & CPG, and other industries using Machine Learning methods. In the last 10~12 years, Kamal has focused on building products and solved business use cases using Data Science extensively. He is recognized globally as Certified Master Data Scientist from "The Open Group". Please refer to https://github.com/kkm24132 for more details.
With a APAC wide background of Cloud Networking, Zero Trust security posture and Digital Native application landscape, i have taken up this role to further apply this knowledge in bringing Oracle Gen 2 Cloud Technology to the Forefront. Responsible of working with major industry pillars and adding Digital Native flavour to Oracle Workloads.With a APAC wide background of Cloud Networking, Zero Trust security posture and Digital Native application landscape, i have taken up this role to further apply this knowledge in bringing Oracle Gen 2 Cloud Technology to the Forefront. Responsible of working with major industry pillars and adding Digital Native flavour to Oracle Workloads.
Karthik Prabhakar is the Executive Director and Partner at Chiratae Ventures. He has supported several tech start-ups and is always eager to contribute towards building the start-up ecosystem of India.; ; Karthik has been recognized as one among the 40 Under 40 in the alternative investments space in India by AAAIF. For three consecutive years from 2016 to 2018, Karthik was recognized amongst the global top 100 Rising Stars in the venture industry by Global Corporate Venturing, held in California, US.; ; Currently, he leads worldwide efforts on fundraising and business development for Chiratae Ventures. Karthik is also a member of the Investment Committee of AngelHub, Hong Kong's first regulated startup investment platform enabling startups to raise angel money.; ; His portfolio companies include NestAway, PlaySimple, EarlySalary, Blowhorn, Living Consumer, Newgen (BSE: NEWGEN), Manthan Systems (stake sold), AgroStar and PlayShifu.; ; He has been part of the Indian tech ecosystem since 2005 with experience spanning engineering, product development, marketing, fundraising, investment advisory and portfolio management.; ; Prior to Chiratae, Karthik worked with Intel in their Ideas to Reality team, a technology incubator focused on building IoT products around the Intel Atom processor. As a tech marketing person, he played a key role in rapid prototyping, conceptualizing field trial plans and creating Go-To-Market strategies for new product ideas.; ; Additionally, he was also actively involved in recruiting and mentoring new members for the group. Prior to that, he worked in the embedded systems team building security software for network processors.; ; He has also worked on developing innovative IoT/embedded solutions and has co-authored a patent in the area of Wireless Networks.
Kaustubh Patekar founded The ProdZen in 2016 and has helped several startups and IT services companies scale their product business. He was VP of Product and Design at Manthan where he led the transformation to SaaS and helped accelerate the business. Prior to this, he held leadership roles in product, strategy and engineering management at companies like Oracle and MicroStrategy in the US. He has a US patent for his work on database and subscription technology.; He enjoys working with entrepreneurs and mentors AI startups as part of NASSCOM DeepTech Club. He regularly writes about product building, scaling and leadership.; Kaustubh is an alumnus of IIT-Bombay and Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he studied Aerospace Engineering. He enjoys running marathons, reading and spending time with his family.
"Tulasi is CEO, INCeNSE, a speciality incubator focused on nano, semi-conductor and other deep tech startup as well as leads the Industry Interface of Center for Nanoscience & Engineering (CeNSE), IISc. She has been actively engaged in the 'deep sciecne' based startup ecosystem activities in India. Together with her colleagues, she is also working to find ways & means to effectively translate CeNSE research & technology into the industry either by means of licensing or collaborative projects leveraging CeNSE capabilities both in terms of usage of existing infrastructure and expertise amongst the CeNSE people. Prior to this, Tulasi worked in Infosys, GE & Shell for more than 20 years in research, technology development and patent analysis after a PhD in chemical engineering from IISc. Bangalore. She also got a PG diploma in IP Law from National Law School India University, Bangalore. She enjoys problem solving, learning, and interacting with people from diverse backgrounds."
I am a leader in the Indian Army, Information Security, Consulting, Program Management & Information Technology domains, excelling at building teams & solving challenges. ; ; As a Mentor & Consultant, I have coached individuals, teams & firms on Leadership, Information Security, Careers & Financial Planning. I help individuals structure their personal finances to ensure a sustainable future. I also volunteer at & am a Trustee of a school in Bangalore.
Lubna Yusuf is an author, lawyer and a Designer. She is the Founder of La Legal and Co-Founder of FIL. She is the Co-Author of The AI Book on Fintech published by Wiley Publications. Purpose of Flowers, a bestseller Haiku book, is her first book of Poetry and Illustrations. She read creative writing at Oxford University. Her articles on AI, Law, privacy & ethics in Deeptech are published in corporate magazines and legal journals. She is a visiting lecturer of IPR and media laws at NMIMS School of Design. She is also a Mentor of Change for Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), NITI Aayog, Government of India."
I lead the data science and engineering for Oracle's flagship product in the marketing space, Unity. An engineer, MBA and a Doctorate from IIM Bangalore, I bring different flavours of experience from across corporate, government and not-for-profit sectors and start-up sector. ; In my current corporate avatar,I have been involved in data science and deep tech, software development, functional consulting across the product/market lifecycle, in creating and delivering vision and roadmap with high impact features. I work with customers, product partners and sales folks on vision alignment, organisation building and communication of customer outcomes. My areas of research include privacy-preserving and ethically aware enterprise-scale systems in intelligent behavioural prediction, trend detection from streaming data and hyper-personalisation. ; In my academic stint, I have been a policy researcher leveraging large data sets to solve real world problems. I have been involved in policy studies and impact analysis for affordable housing initiatives, land market reforms and in insolvency reforms. I actively engage with students across management and tech disciplines.; I firmly believe in equity and diversity and have been volunteering my time with women in tech organisations both internally within Oracle and externally. I invest my time with ML meet-ups and as organiser/ reviewer with various ML/deep learning conferences like the ODSC. ; Outside of work, I am involved with various universities as a visiting faculty, mentor/ advisor for PhD candidates and also as an advisor for the VC fund Arali Ventures in their DeepTech investments.
Madhu Gopinathan is currently Senior Vice President, Data Science at MakeMyTrip, India's largest online travel company. He leads the machine learning team at MakeMyTrip & GoIbibo, which has developed several innovative and value creating features to improve customer experience and operational efficiency. He has extensive experience in developing large scale systems using machine learning and natural language processing. He holds a PhD in the mathematical modelling of systems from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and an MS in computer science from the University of Florida, Gainesville, USA. He has collaborated with researchers at Microsoft Research, General Motors and Indian Institute of Science with publications in prominent computer science conferences. He also holds several US patents.
Malthi is a seasoned product leader and has led several global enterprise and consumer products from concept to launch. She comes with 2 decades of industry experience and has worked across Fintech, Content Management and ERP domain.; ; Malthi has extensively worked on Problem discovery using Design Thinking Methodologies, built technology products and PoCs in emerging technologies. She has led high performance teams across her stint at SAP, Intuit and Soceiete Generale GSC. She works closely with Start-Ups to mentor them on their business and product strategy. ; ; She also mentors product managers and is an industry speaker at various forums.She is a reviewer for Design and Product track at Grace Hopper Conference and closely works with Nasscom at various initiatives.
16+ years' experience in emerging technology leadership, digital innovation and product & program management across various industry sectors. Proven track record in leading cross-functional and multi-cultural teams across geographies. Focused on delivering value (ideation to first revenue) from digital & emerging technology innovation in the Energy sector.
"As Global Head of Cognitive Technologies at Wipro Digital, Manoj thrives at the forefront of disruption, applying innovations in Advanced AI, Human Intelligence Automation to real-world business challenges. He operates at the intersection of human and artificial intelligence, exploring the ways machine learning can drive workers’ innovation and productivity. Manoj focuses on revenue enhancement for customers using three themes, namely: Outcome Shaping, Behavior Inference, and Design for Behavior Change. Manoj is always keen to delve into the nitty gritty, whether he's solving problems for a customer or tinkering away on projects at home. A true engineer at heart, his personal interests include astrophysics, quantum physics, carpentry and long-distance running."
Manojkumar Somabhai Parmar is a experienced Senior Technologist with a demonstrated history of working in the emerging technology, deep technology, and automotive engineering industry. Responsible for designing, leading, and driving technology-oriented strategy for the organization. Skilled in Algorithms, Control Systems Design, Data Science, Machine Learning, Computing, Blockchain, IOT, Quantum Computing, and Automotive. Strong engineering and management focus professional with Executive General Management program from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. Corporate intrapreneur and graduated from the University of California, Berkley and Bosch Startup Accelerator program with the focused idea in the domain of Energy with blockchain. Filed 13 patents out of which six are industrialized. Published three research papers in IEEE and SAE Conferences with a total of 8 research papers. Mentor and Jurist for various startup events (Government and Private). Guest Speaker on a topic of Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship. Technical Committee Member of six prestigious international conferences, Reviewer of seven renowned internal conferences, and chair of an IEEE conference session.
Mao's career has been dedicated to the development and deployment of innovative software communications solutions in rapidly growing markets, transforming high potential businesses into true world-beating organizations. His track record for enabling innovation, his deep knowledge of telecom related technology and his wealth of experience in a range of operational and marketing roles provide a strong leadership base and has been instrumental in enhancing Comviva’s position as the leading mobility solution provider in emerging markets globally.; ; Since the start of his career, Mao was a core member of the Center for Development of Telematics (CDOT), where he made a significant contribution to research and development in telecom switching and continues to contribute his time by actively participating in Industry events and knowledge sharing sessions.
Milind Bhandarkar was the founding member of the team at Yahoo! that took Apache Hadoop from 20-node prototype to the datacenter-scale production system, and has been contributing and working with Hadoop since version 0.1.0. He started the Yahoo! Grid solutions team focused on training, consulting, and supporting hundreds of new migrants to Hadoop. Parallel programming languages and paradigms have been his area of focus for over 20 years and his area of specialization for Ph.D. (Computer Science) from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He worked at the Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets, Siebel Systems, Pathscale, Yahoo!, Linkedin and Greenplum, a division of EMC. Milind was the Chief Scientist at Pivotal, a spin-off from EMC & VMware. In 2014, He founded Ampool, a data infrastructure startup that built a high performance analytics platform based on in-memory computing. Ampool was acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise in 2021, where he is architecting the modern data platforms for the hybrid cloud.
"Milind is a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Bombay. Before his PhD, Milind obtained a B.Tech and an M. Tech also from IIT Bombay. His thesis was on Abstract Interpretation of Functional Programming Languages. Milind also has a Diploma in Practicing Management from INSEAD, France. Milind's primary research interests are AI (Natural Language Processing, Mathematical Logic, Hardware acceleration for AI at the Edge) and Interaction between Society and Technology. Prior to joining IIITB, Milind has 26 years of experience in the corporate sector, first with Sasken Communication Technologies and most recently with Tata Elxsi as the head of the Systems Business Unit. Milind has lead projects in Semiconductor, Automotive, Communications and Smart Home verticals"
A senior executive with more than two decades of broad industry experience. Possesses a balanced combination of IT delivery management and in-depth understanding of digital technologies with a special focus on Data science, AI & Analytics. In my career I have set up center of excellences from scratch, set up large delivery units, won & delivered USD 100+ million programs and helped clients across the continents succeed. Keen on working with budding entrepreneurs and young professionals with unique and valuable ideas.
QUALIFIED COACH, member of International Coaching Federation; Have coached 75 start ups and small companys across industry but mainly automotive/mobility; Currently support IITs(Palakkad) and corporates also in their start up operations; An a mech engineer from IIT Kharagpur and MBA from IIM Bangalore and been a president in Bosch India, President of Lucas India and worked in Europe(mid east,Singalore) Supporter of AIAWA and other garage development bodies Dealt with trade bodies,at global forum, on behalf of CII Inducted into Global Hall of Fame,by World Auto Forum. Qualified Leadership Coach....Eriksonian certificate holder
22+ Years in Product Management and global GTM roles for companies such as Ramco Systems, Hyperion, SAP Labs and now at Oracle. Built and taken to market several 12+ Enterprise software products including leveraging emerging technolgies in Big Data, IoT and ML space. Been an active mentor for startups in India through Google Launchpad program, iSPIRT and other community activities.
As the Chief Technology Officer at Eugenie.ai, Narayanan’s mission is to leverage AI-based SaaS solutions that enable humanity to “Thrive Sustainably”, in the face of the accelerating Climate Crisis. This includes technologies for carbon emissions reduction, and end-to-end process efficiencies across the energy, manufacturing, and mining industries. Narayanan has spent 28+ years in Technology Leadership spanning SaaS, IoT, Electric Vehicles, Data Center Infrastructure, Networking, and Telecommunications. As a Senior Member of IEEE, Narayanan focuses on mentoring students and early-to-mid-career professionals on product excellence. He is a passionate advocate of sustainable product development in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. At his previous organizations, he had had the opportunity to implement many key technology developments, innovations, and disruptions, at Nutanix, Sun Mobility (Electric Vehicles), Cisco, Infinera, and DELL. He is the holder of 10 US Patents.
Naveen Mamgain is Co-Founder & Design Head at Quick Ride. With tech/design/digital first thought process, scaled Quick Ride rapidly in the last 5 years. He is hands on professional and takes care of end-to-end product design & digital services. He loves to work with startups, mentor and learn from them. He is a strong advocate of user-centric designs and focus on processes. Previously he worked with RailYatri, Happiest Minds, CenturyLink & Hughes. ; ; He is certified CUA from HFI and his interests include psychology, fitness & cooking.
Neelesh Salgaonkar is extremely passionate about product development and solving complex problems. He is a accomplished engineering leader with experience working for early stage startup, Series A,D funded companies and large global enterprises. Proven track record of building massively scalable, highly robust and secure systems as well as setting up and growing mid to large size teams that delivered business value (top and bottom line) with agility and scale. He possesses excellent leadership and people management skills and have successfully led teams to achieve challenging targets. I am co-leading Product skills development track at NASSCOM with a mission to make India world class product development hub.
I have close to 3 decades of experience building product and services businesses in the High Tech industry. I have a mix of startup and fortune 1000 experience in product as well as services. I have spent some of my formative years working in a silicon valley startup (Arraycomm) on smart antenna based broadband wireless (iBurst standardized as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.20), as well as in the streaming video/OTT TV space at Motorola Mobility (acquired by Google). I have since held partner level positions at a consulting organisation helping them incubate practices in media, IoT/ML and Industrial space. Of late I have joined the advisory board of some startups helping them scale and also fund raise by leveraging my knowledge base and network from the Industry as well as my alma-mater network (graduated CSE from IIT-Kanpur). I believe I can add value to the Deep Tech Club at NASSCOM by mentoring appropriate mentees that can not only benefit from what I bring to the table but also help me unlearn and learn some things.
Neha Agrawal carries a professional industry experience of nearly two decades with corporate and development sector industry. After a brief foray into the world of online and electronic journalism she was heading South Asia Information and Communication for international organizations and was working with the United Nations (UN). Neha has diversified leadership experience and has successfully built a progressive company culture through MensenTock Communications by establishing credibility and authority through her work. With exceptional marketing and communication skills Neha has been advising and consulting companies across verticals and posses excellent skills in Brand Strategy, Corporate and Marketing Communications, Public Relations, Public Affairs, Policy and Advocacy Campaigns, Brand Identity and Positioning, Storytelling, Crisis Communications, Digital Assets and Strategy, International Go-To-Market Strategies, Development Communications, Influencer Outreach, Public Perception, Personal Profiling and overall Strategic Communications.
Deep biz-prod-tech acumen of building global organisation capabilities in a Deep-Tech context in AI, Blockchain, Cloud & Digital in a FinTech & FinOps context . Experience of driving world class products including experience with running Global P&L and Sales in several complex domains. Successfully been involved as Angel Investor/advisors for Global Startup’s in the past 2 years.
Dr. Nishant Chandra (Ph.D. In applied Machine Learning; Sr. Director, Data Products at VISA) is a global leader in the field of machine learning, natural language processing and AI. He has driven innovation in BFSI, e-commerce, R&D, and mobile telecom industries in USA and India. He has developed and implemented natural language predictive applications such as privilege text classification, contextual summarization, and conversational sentiment abstraction achieving significant potential impact by opening new possibilities in $8 billion market. He has received the prestigious Barrier fellowship and several other awards and recognition. The Department of Homeland Security, United States Government has classified Dr. Chandra as an outstanding researcher. He was the conference session chair for GSPx conference at San Jose, California. He has been a reviewer for IEEE transactions, served in the editorial board of Human Language Technology conference, and speaker at several international conferences. He also has five assigned patents and several journal and conference publications. Dr. Chandra is a passionate puzzler who invents puzzles and has represented India in the World Puzzle Championship at Stamford, Connecticut. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Mississippi State University.
"Nishant Patel is Founder & CTO at Contentstack™ - a leading Content Management System (CMS) and Content Experience Platform (CXP). Previously, Nishant was Founder, CEO, and CTO of Digital Experience Platform Built.io®, which German software powerhouse Software AG acquired in September 2018. Nishant is a technology visionary with an extensive track record of spotting and setting industry trends and creating software products that power digital transformation and further the rise of the API economy. Under his leadership as Founder and CTO at Raw Engineering, Nishant ran an R&D incubator to pioneer new category-forming products like Raw Engineering's MBaaS, Built.io iPaaS, and Contentstack (Headless CMS), which all became industry leaders in Enterprise SaaS. With 20+ years of experience solving complex technology problems, Nishant has become a respected and trusted technology advisor to many Fortune 500 companies. Nishant holds a BS in Computer Science from Ohio State University."
With 22 years of varied experience in corporate and government sectors working in technology, engineering, digital, electronics, consumer products, and international trade, I am currently with Maker Village, India's largest deeptech incubator, supporting innovative and transformational startups, collaborating with entrepreneurs, industry, academia, local and global incubator network, R&D organisations, and governmental agencies to grow and sustain a vibrant startup ecosystem.
Experienced manager with strong technical background, innovative business vision and entrepreneurial experience. Worked for multinationals and innovative startups. 10+ years operational experience in Mainland China. Extensive network in TMT Industry across Europe and Asia. Fluent in English, Spanish, Business Chinese (Oral and written). 360º manager with experience across multiple functional areas: Business Development, Product Management, Strategy and Innovation Consulting and Venture Capital Investment. Consulted and worked in the following industries (B2B/B2C): IoT, Digital Technology (Cloud, Mobile, E-commerce), MedTech, Telecom, Automotive, Industrial (Machine tool and components), Tourism, FMCG. Specialties: Business Development, Technology, Innovation, IoT, Product Management, R&D, Entrepreneurship, Design Thinking, M&A, Telecom, Management Consulting, Multicultural leadership, Business Modeling, Venture Capital, Digital Business, Strategic planning,"
Plash Gupta is a part of Huawei India core team, he is heading Corporate Project Management & R&D outsourcing department spanning across 3500 members, 50+ PMs, 40+ Products, 100+ global customers and 7 leading industry partners. He is responsibe for R&D technology cooperations & partnerships, to collaborate & leverage on Indian IT Ecosystem. Additionally ,he is accountabe for establishing PPM systems, Key project deliveries & governance. In past, he has played role of vertical R&D head Enterprise business ,with the ownership of – USD 20M Revenue, Business Strategy development, Global customer management and Providing leadership to cross functional team of delivery, service & sales. He has the expertise of building & running a new R&D organization in India (Huawei-3COM India Pvt ltd), with responsibility of establishing and managing complete Engineering Processes & Systems. He is as member Board of Directors for Project Management Institute (PMI) Bangalore Chapter, Horizontal Mentor for the NASSCOM Deep Tech Club (Cohort-4). He has been awarded with IIM Bangalore Alumni Achiever (EGMP). He is the Speaker & Author for various forums and magazines for the project management and technology domains.
"Tedx Speaker, with 25+ years of Technology experience & work with companies like SLK, Vodafone, Tata & Barclays Bank Currently run a Digital Consulting company where I provide Virtual CIO & CISO as service. Have invested in 10+ of startups and work with various Angel & VC firms. Speaks regularly at Startup & corporate events. Have expertise in Customer Experience, Cloud, Security & Technology stacks & have managed large global teams during my corporate career."
A disruptive Innovator & Cognitive Technologist, has been founding brain for many disruptive AI solutions ranging from Autonomous Car and Intelligent Transport System, AI-based Music and Agriculture. He is an expert and distinguished Inventor in Artificial Intelligence and Wearables & IOT with research in AI and Ethics. As a thought leader he has been speaker at various conferences across world with a work experience of two decades. The inceptive mind behind Fisheyebox, CEO & Founder of the company currently is leading AI Of Things for business transformation & Innovation by AI Thinking using technology as a catalyst, trying to solve world most challenging problem of Road Accident, Agriculture, Privacy and ethics, Sustainability, et al."
Piyush Chowhan is a digital evangelist with a passion for transforming businesses with the use of technology. With over two decades of experience working with global consumer and retail companies, he has an excellent track record of delivering results and creating value across organizations. His vision is creating innovation-focused digital strategies to maximize today’s opportunities and prepare organizations for future disruptions. His passion for working with startups and innovation-led companies has given him the edge to create digital assets for organizations with the use of the latest technologies like Analytics, Cloud, and Artificial Intelligence. He has been a widely recognized leader in digital transformation and has been a much-wanted speaker at over 100 global events. He is an avid writer and his thought leadership is published in multiple magazines and portals.
"Prabin is the Chief Financial officer of Goods & Service Tax Network (GSTN), the technology backbone of India’s biggest tax reform. He is an award winner CFO, seasoned professional equipped with India's best financial qualifications i.e. CA, ICWA, CS and DISA. He is an active member of various Industry chambers and bodies, and contributor in various policies frameworks mainly in Finance and strategy. He is a thought leader and speaks is various forum in future of finance, digital economy and other related topic of finance, strategy and innovation. He is active investor in Startups have around 25 startups in his portfolio. Prabin is a mentor for startups and ATL lab set up Niti Ayog. He has been awarded CFO of the year in 2017 by The Institute of Chartered Accountant of India, awarded CFO Power list of 2019 in Technology by google could , recognized as top 100 CFO by CFO India ."
Prajod Vettiyattil is a hands on programmer and software archtiect, he has 24 years of expereince with distributed computing software. He has mentored many engineers and built software licensed for millions of dollars, presented at 12 technology conferences on big data, deep learning, open source software and has worked in US and India.
Pramod Jajoo is the senior vice president at Flipkart, where he leads product/tech for Flipkart's supply chain. He was former CTO of Bigbasket and led product and technology from Bigbasket's inception to market leadership scale. He was a venture partner at Kalaari Capital, a premier VC firm. He is passionate about conceiving and building world class technology and products and building and scaling high-performance organizations. He has actively mentored and advised many startups, including being a lead mentor to the DTC cohort 2 and 3.
Jagan Mohan is passionate about building great products with a well-rounded business, domain and technology experience across various functions including product management, consulting and pre-sales, Jagan has managed complex, organization-wide projects for large businesses across the globe, created new product lines, multi-million dollar revenue streams and loyal clients for Algonomy. ; In Jagan’s leadership of over a decade, Algonomy has created world-class products that are used by over 400 brands. ; Prior to Algonomy, Jagan was with Iflex solutions. He is an alumnus of NIT Warangal and IIM Bangalore. He has varied interests from robotics and terrace gardening, to marathon running.
Punit is the Co-Founder and Director of Helper4U.in, a start-up which enables the unorganized workers to get better jobs.; ; Prior to this, Punit was the CEO of Nelito Systems, a Tata Group, 1200 people software products company, focusing on banking and finance. He had earlier worked for Newgen Software and Datamatics. He was a member of NASSCOM’s Product Council and Domestic Council during 2017-20. ; ; Punit got his B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay, and MBA from IIM Bangalore. He is an avid tennis player, trekker and half-marathoner.
Over 13 years of total experience, I've worked extensively with enterprise customers, and I know how needs can widely vary. Conceptualised, defined, launched new product features based on research, data insights, customer feedback, and co-innovated with partners which increased the product adoption and helped managed customer expectations. I'm good at managing relationships with customers, forming a product strategy that takes their needs into account while building a product that makes sense for the business. I'm good at teaming up with a diverse bunch of stakeholders. When there's a complex project at hand, I'm skilled in bringing people together, forming a shared consensus and working as a powerful pod to achieve outcomes. Co-creating & working at intersections of multiple disciplines & innovators from diverse backgrounds makes me feel more powerful and gets the best out of me.
Interested in building technology software products and learning from the challenges of other leaders. Strategy-Product-Technology leader with more than 17 yrs experience in Fortune500 and startup firms
- Deep product and business expertise in B2C (e-Commerce, retail, travel) & B2B SaaS
- Define & launch products, formulate GTM roadmaps, close partnerships & grow businesses
- Passionate about solving complex problems and helping firms figure out scaling, international expansion and org. building
- Incubating & growing businesses from scratch, delivering results with lean teams
Speaker @ Nasscom, Product Camp, Unpluggd conference and Jury @ Facebook Developer Circles.
Holds an MBA from Indian School of Business and an MS in Computer Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology. Awarded '25 Most Talented e-Commerce Professionals of India 2015' by Asia Retail Congress."
Rajeev has rich and varied experience of leading the technology function in the corporate world for 24 years after having worked in the Armed Forces for two decades. He has strong academics qualifications with an M.Tech. (Computers) from IIT Kanpur, MBA (IGNOU), and B.Tech. (Electronics) from IIT-BHU, Varanasi.; Rajeev is a Director and co-founder of Digital Futurists Angels Network. He was the Chief Information Officer (CIO) of EY (Ernst & Young) India, Hughes Software Systems (HSS) / Aricent during the acquisition and merger phase, and HCL InfoSystems. Under his leadership, HSS was among the first few companies in India to be certified under BS7799 (now ISO 27001) for its Information Security Management System. One of his key achievements was the successful implementation of SAP ERP in a number of large organisations. As the General Manager (Information Systems) of the Delhi Stock Exchange he was responsible for the implementation of the on-line trading system DOTS in 1996, a pioneering solution in the country.; He started his career serving in the Indian Navy, taking premature retirement as a Commander, making significant contributions in software engineering and warship design, specifically submarines and aircraft carriers.
Rajesh is a customer obsessed leader with significant Product Management & Technology experience @Fortune 100 companies. He has a proven track record of technology & product incubation across ideation, development, launch and growth phases [both 0->1 & 1->100] building high performance teams [both large & small] to solve key customer problems & help achieve business outcomes. He has launched multiple products across Analytics[AI/ML], Intelligent Cloud Ops, Mobility & Video/OTT domains.
Hands-on senior executive with track record in scaling new businesses in technology solutions, products, and services sector. Currently focused in Media, Entertainment & Education verticals, with expertise in GTM for SaaS-based products and building innovative SI solutions for digital transformation with data at the center. Created efficient and highly profitable organizations at a global level, leading to enhanced value for shareholders, end customers, and the world at large.
Rajesh Srivathsa manages the technology businesses and investments at Nadathur, a mid-size Family office. Prior to this, He founded Ojas Ventures which invested in Seed and Series A startups in India and the US. He has also been a co-founder in 3 startups (2 successful and 1 failed) as well as worked at a few Fortune 500 companies.
Practicing physician, public health innovator, and unconventional thinker with a track record of social impact; passionate about holistic and empowering solutions for health and human needs; experienced in internal medicine, environmental and social epidemiology, health program design and evaluation, data science, and public policy; ready to help scale-up digital health solutions for indian consumers.
Raj is high-energy product and customer-oriented research and engineering executive with 25 years of deep technical experience in building enterprise products in the area of Location Technology, Systems, Telecom, Mapping, and Unified communication across multiple domains, technologies and geographies crossing multiple organisations. As an engineer and technologist, I embarked on a journey to build the automated systems without human touch using technologies like AI/ML to serve the long term business needs and growth.
Rakesh Agarwal has Leadership experience of 20+ years in Product, Design & Engineering. He has always attempted to excel in crafting and scaling Products. Particularly, for Enterprise as well as MSME. He helped to scale customer base in India for Tally, SAP and was an entrepreneur too. During the journey he worked on a variety of Technologies related to on-Premise, Cloud, Mobile & Social.
Rakesh Bhardwaj has 28 years of experience across multiple industries and multiple roles. Global Digital and Information Technology leader accomplished in Driving Business - Transforming Operations - Leveraging Technology, having stints with global technology providers & diversified business conglomerate. He has worked in following industries - IT Services, Healthcare, Aviation, Locomotives and Financial Services. In addition to Information Technology, I have done cross-functional roles in Sales, Finance, Sourcing, Quality to gain more understanding about other aspects of the business. His experience spans across Cognizant, Microland and GE is 8 years. He has held executive leadership roles in IT Services companies, namely Microland and Cognizant.
My natural inclination to look for answers related to "Whys" resonates with my work as a Design Strategist in Security Business at Cisco. My current focus is looking ahead to inform our decisions today. To me Identifying the right problem is extremely important. I enjoy the space at the cusp of Design, Viability, and Process. And aspire to use design in structuring and informing our decisions today for the future. My experience has been constantly enriched with varied opportunities including discovering, exploring, conceptualizing, and executing a different range of products and programs.
Rakesh Sidana is an entrepreneur and mentor and author. Founder of MeriCAR which he was acquired. Currently, he js working as Assistant Vice President with GoMechanic. His first career company was IndiaMart. He founded two businesses, one was funded twice by prestigious investors from Google. He writes self-published books on entrepreneurship and startups. He visits top management institutions as a guest of honor and he talks about the latest trends in technology and business. He is passionate about building new ventures and has fans and followers on Facebook. He runs startup community of 1,11,000 members and contributes. You can check his podcast and FB Live for entrepreneurs.
Building electronic products from concepts to freight, highly passionate towards Consumer Electronics, ease of use is key to any product creation. Have 30+ years experience in Engineering Management, Product Management, Strategic Management and Sales. Have worked in NXP for over 20+ years, then Sandisk before joining a startup. Have spent 10+ years in Hongkong and over 20+ years in USA, before that was the first employee in india for Motorola Semiconductors and started the operation there in 1986. Applications Engineering for Semiconductor was the starting point, before venturing into Product Management
Ravi Padaki is a seasoned Technology Products leader with a global experience of more than 2 decades. Ravi has built and led product and marketing teams in US and India across multiple sectors including Health Tech, Agri Tech, Retail, and Technology Platforms. Currently, Ravi is the Chief Operating Officer at a AI based, sleep technology company, where he created a new market category and took the company from inception to revenue generation. Ravi is into Running, Reading, and is a budding Horologist of late.
"-Have spent 25 years into the IT industry; have seen the Technology evolution from standalone systems to client-server to cloud and to edge computing.
-15 years of corporate experience in IT as an - AI Consultant, Lead Data Scientist, Project Manager
Testing, and Software Engineer.
-Last 10 years in Data Science & Machine Learning, developing and expanding those skills.
-Around 6 years of corporate experience in - Data Science /ML projects covering all the areas, with functional knowledge in Deep Learning use cases /applications.
-Better at planning Data Science, ML & RPA based Process Automation.
-Have previous experience working in Product teams and Product Innovation.
-Proficient in – AI, ML & Analytics Strategy /Roadmap Creation, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Data Analysis, SaaS Products, On-premises & Cloud-based AI /ML, Business Intelligence, Optimization, Corporate Technology Strategy & Innovation."
Ravi Saraogi is the co-founder & President-APAC of Uniphore where he leads Sales, Delivery and Customer Success for the company. His passion for mobile learning applications and technologies found traction when Uniphore was founded in 2008. Ravi and his co-founder envisioned building solutions that give more power to human speech.; He has vast experience in directing technology teams in initiatives spanning mobile theft security, wireless network development, and mobile learning applications. Ravi is currently an active member of the Mobile Payment Forum of India (MPFI), where he identifies and develops business opportunities in the field of mobile payments. He is known for his excellent analytic skills, dexterity in problem resolution, and proclivity for driving operational excellence. Ravi is an alumnus of Jaypee Institute of Information Technology.
Ravinder Pal Singh (Ravi) is Harvard Alumni, Award Winning Technologist, Rescue Pilot, Angel Investor, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Global speaker with several hundred global recognition and patents. His body of work, mostly 1st in the world is making difference within acute constraints of culture and cash via commodity technology. He has been acknowledged as world's top 10 Robotics Designer, #1 Artificial Intelligence Leader in Asia and world's top 25 CIO. Ravi is active in India, USA, Singapore, Scotland, Mexico and Africa thru advisory, co-creation, hackathons and innovation funding to create mass-entrepreneurship at grassroots across rural, towns and cities. Over a decade as investor he has mentored and managed successes and failure with a net portfolio gain of over 22X ROI. Ravi continues to serve various international agencies by flying several hundred hours as emergency response expeditions ranging from covid to floods to earthquakes. In past Ravi has been changemaker C-level leader, inventive Innovator and creative Engineer with global fortune institutions of the likes Arthur Andersen, Wipro, Microsoft, Accenture, AirWorks Group, Tata Singapore Airlines and so on. His impactful body of work in the area of Robotics, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Satellites, Intelligent Networks, Industrial Cloud, Adaptive manufacturing and Cognitive computing has unlocked value across 5 continents in improving civilization by helping various governments towards fiscal prudence & citizen services, while simultaneously encouraging compassionate capitalism thru brands and institutions like Nike, Micron Technologies, Weyerhaeuser, Bestbuy, Albertsons, Carrefour, Cognizant, General Electric (GE) and many more.
Global R&D, Technology & Business Leader offering rich experience of over two decades in driving Technology Innovation, Product Development, Large-Scale Deployments and Revenue Growth strategies by managing Global Customers in Fortune 500 MNC’s. Worked in leadership capacity at Schneider Electric L&T and Endurance Technologies, as a senior leader and a technology evangelist with a fine mix of business acumen. Experience in creating solutions through Design & Development of Connected & Industrial Products leveraging the futuristic & emerging technologies IoT, AI, ML, Industry Communication Protocols, Wired and wireless, Industry 4.0, Digital, Digital Twins, Telematics, for Edge, Analytics, Cloud based applications for Switchgear, Connected Cars & Autonomous Vehicles, Electric Vehicles, Energy Management & Automotive Electronics. Managed global teams across from India, France, USA, China & Australia. International Advisory Board Member of IIoT India, IEEE ExCom Member.
Ravi Bala is a Director of Data Science & Analytics at Walmart Global Tech, India. He leads a team of data scientists, analysts and machine learning engineers building reusable data products and AI solutions in areas such as supply chain, omni-channel merchandising, customer 360 analytics and Walmart+ member growth (our premium loyalty program). Prior to Walmart, he served as VP of Data Science at Noodle.ai, building data science products for manufacturing and supply chain verticals. He has filed 7 patents till date on smart insights, anomaly detection and alerting systems. Ravi Bala has a Ph. D. in Computational Engineering from Mississippi State University, USA and a B.Tech (Hons.) in Mechanical Engineering from BITS, Pilani, India.
I have 21+ years of successful career, started my journey with start-up in Digitization and is now working with 3i Infotech as Global Delivery Head of AAA (Application, Automation and Analytics). In my previous engagements, I have built the Digital delivery unit, managed P&L, and has grown the team from 40 people to 350, with niche business solutions. I have lead the Digital Capabilities COE for Operations Transformation and Consulting delivery leveraging RPA, AI, ML, BPM, Analytics and custom development with the best of Technology platforms and industry’s best practices. I have led the consulting and solutions delivery with worldwide organizations like JPMC, World Bank, AIG, GE, FedEx, along with large Indian Organizations. He has lived and worked in the USA, UK, Italy, UAE and India to manage and deliver Digital, IT and Process Transformation engagements. I am an Engineering and Management graduate and member of leading knowledge forums e.g. Forbs Technology Forum, CIOKlub etc.
Ritesh is a techno-functional leader with years of experience in setting the Analytics Centre of Excellence. With over a decade of experience in advanced analytics, he has been responsible for new AI product launches and deliveries across multiple domains. An avid programmer in Python & R, a Kaggle Expert, and an MBA in finance from India's topmost B-School (ISB, Hyderabad), Ritesh brings unique blend of domain, technology and business strategy.
A Thought Leader, AI and Digital Revolutionary, Entrepreneurial Visionary, Inspirational Leader and Sustainability Evangelist. Introducing Rohit Adlakha, ex Chief Digital and Information Officer at Wipro Limited and Business Head at HOLMES™ (Wipro's Artificial Intelligence platform). With over 15 years of leadership experience, he is a Board member at School of Inspired Leadership, a vanguard of change in shaping the future of India through education. Rohit has also pioneered CXO as a Service; he is a trusted advisor to Vector Center, a company that harnesses the power of AI to deliver real-time, decision grade water intelligence where he serves as an environmental, social and governance champion through technology. For Data Neuron, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) learning platform, he is focusing on Go-To-Market and business acceleration strategies. At Vaasara, the number 1 Beauty Marketplace in the UAE, he is driving business acceleration strategies.
Roopa Raj is the Global Head of Engineering of SaaS and Digital Experience Transformation at VMware. She has led large-scale and complex digital transformation initiatives, enabling leading enterprises to achieve rapid and sustainable growth. Roopa is also responsible for CIO functions of Asia Pacific and Japan (APAC) region for VMware.; ; Roopa's charter is to build and accelerate VMware transformation to a SaaS-first company by building foundation blocks of new gen unified cross cloud modern commerce platform, tooling and best practices to enable company's ARR targets.; ; She has previously held diverse leadership roles spanning deliveries of enterprise business systems, R&D/product development, and managing end-to-end accountability and driving incremental business benefits. Roopa is one of the very few leaders having multi Billion$ global charters working from India.; ; A technology evangelist at heart, Roopa sets a compelling vision for the future, where technology and innovation act as a catalyst for change driving outstanding business outcomes. She has championed a high-performing culture that has helped organizations attract, develop, and retain talented employees. ; ; ; Roopa mentors technology startups and is a board member of a AI/ML based demand forecasting startup
Rostow Ravanan is an entrepreneur, he was part of the team that co-founded Mindtree and built it to $1B in revenues, with strong people and governance practices, innovation, customer-centricity and social consciousness. He served on the Nasscom EC. He is passionate about using technology to solve complex business & social problems.
Rutul is having 23 years of IT industry experience. He has worked with diverse domains for providing Technology solutions but from 12 years working in financial domain. At present, Rutul is with Fidelity Investments leading team of Architects providing solutions in Investment Operations.
Executive turned Entrepreneur/Educator on a mission to transform how data science is taught and used in Industry. 18+ year of experience developing enterprise scale data science products utilizing big data, statistical or machine learning techniques and open source technology stack.
Saket Agarwal is the Founder and Managing Partner of “Onnivation”, which invests in Israeli deep tech companies and drives their growth in Asia. Onnivation is a leading contributor in the growing relations between Israel and India. Saket advises multi-nationals and tech unicorns on their digital transformation and tech strategy. ; ; He is an active investor in Venture capital funds and SAAS companies like Spring Marketing Capital, Rocket Lane, Spotnix, Dataloop and others.; ; Recipient of "Young Entrepreneur Award" by Business World magazine, he is the founding Co-Lead of the Singularity University chapter in Mumbai and a Member of Forbes Business Council.
A strong believer in Digital Transformation & Commercial Insights, I have 20+ years of x–functional experience with specialisation in Business & Geo expansion. I specialise in encouraging people to challenge conventional wisdom and am a strong believer in creating an empowered ecosystem which takes control of client conversations.; ; This exposure to Startups & the competence to open new markets for Tech companies, led to starting my own venture - Network Science – where we are on a mission to build Unicorns. As a Global Market Accelerators, we work with B2B Deep-Tech startups and take them global.
CEO and Board of Directors: Led ML/AI company to a successful merger; CPO: Lead technology (product, engineering, Data science, operations) teams in creating multiple 1.0 products to scaling 100M revenue; Customer Success: Built customer success teams for successful product adoption and growth ; Investor / Mentor: Helped raise multiple investment rounds and invested in early stage teams ; Speaker: Presented at multiple customer and industry events
Sarthak is experienced in identifying market opportunities to maximize revenue and impact for deep tech products. He's capable of taking ambiguous, large product spaces and creating principles and focused strategies to organize a wider team along with a product plan, specializing in 0 - 1 products. He enjoys speaking with a range of customers, is always looking for deeper insight, and effectively uses this insight to create value for his product area.
Sastry Tumuluri is a passionate technocrat, open source evangelist, executive coach, and startup mentor who lives by the tenets of plain-speak and an open mind. In over three decades of the pursuit of excellence, he has helped many organizations in the areas of advanced analytics, strategic planning, information security, large-scale systems architecture, and program management. His rich experience spans technology, marketing, and sales roles at the C-level. He has also been a serial entrepreneur and a program leader at the Startup Leadership Program. Prior to his current stint as the CRDO at Suyati, Sastry has served as IT Advisor & CISO at Haryana Government, Program Manager of the MCA21 program for the Government of India, as well as several other assignments in India and abroad.
Satish Gaekwad have been in Technology Sales & Marketing for nearly 19 years (having worked for ITO, BPO firms & Startups) developing & selling Enterprise Software, Solutions & Professional Services to essentially the Banking & Financial Services sector. His Sales deal sizes have ranged between $0.5M to over $20M, & he has led teams varying between 30 to 300 people. His last corporate role was the Sales Head/UK for a Fortune-500 BPO firm, & his last sale was as an Advisor for a SaaS startup was to help close a $1M intelligent document management deal just over a month ago. Satish is a former civil servant who led large operations & executed complex turnkey programs for public sector firms & the government sector in the Telecom & Transportation industry for about 9 years. Areas of Expertise: ; • Developing & executing Go-to-Market strategies for Sales & Marketing; o Penetrating new buying-centres using various growth strategies; o Insights from Sales best practices & solution accelerators; o Crafting creative Commercial models; • Driving Partnerships & Alliances; • Guiding on Product management and ; • Helping shape the startups for availing funding; • Enterprise Software Sales & Marketing (Banking, Payments, Capital Markets, HR etc.); • Digital (AI: RPA - ML - NLP - Analytics) Solutions & Services; • Outsourcing “Business Process Consulting & Systems Integration” Services; • Deep Domain / Industry knowledge of Financial Services, ITO & B P S / B P O market
Saurabh is passionate about leveraging technology to drive change and customer experience. He has been fortunate to get exposure to manufacturing, hi tech, financial services and start up environments in different geographies (India, USA and Singapore) with GE, UBS, Cognizant and Dell. Currently leading senior leadership role with First Source as SVP - Global Head WFM and Operations Risk Management. He is a solutions oriented, customer focused and business savvy leader with over 22 years of progressive experience in global locations across a broad range of Sourcing, Vendor, Program Management and Operations functions. He has a proven ability to combine vision, creativity and strong business acumen with well-developed project management and leadership qualities to support transformation efforts, positioning firms for success.
Shailendra Mruthyunjayappa is an entrepreneur, business leader and technologist delivering data analytics and regulatory solutions to the banking and financial services industry. He has over 20 years of diverse experience in startups and global enterprises spanning EMEA and APAC.; ; In his most recent role, Shailendra serves as the President of Fintellix, a Verisk business. Fintellix is a leading provider of risk management and regulatory solutions. Verisk (Nasdaq:VRSK, a S&P500, NASDAQ-100 and FORTUNE1000 company) provides predictive analytics and decision support solutions to customers in the insurance, energy and specialized markets, and financial services industries.; ; Shailendra is an BE graduate from Kuvempu University, has completed his Executive Leadership Program from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, has various certifications including Project Management and Contract Law, and is a Fellow of the Institute of Directors.; ; Shailendra is a board advisor, certified independent director, angel investor and startup mentor.
Sharmistha Chatterjee is a Data Science Evangelist with vast professional experience in the field of Machine Learning and Cloud applications. She is working as a Senior Manager of Data Sciences at Publicis Sapient. She leads the digital transformation of clients across industry verticals ranging from Retail, Media, Travel and Hospitality, Advertising, etc. She has demonstrated proven experience in doing AI research and implementing scalable AI solutions for enterprises, leading to revenue upliftment of several million dollars. She is one of the Hackernoon Tech award winners for 2020 and 2021. She has been awarded 40 under 40 Data Scientist in 2021, selected as top 21 trailblazers in 2021, and has been selected as top 3 AI awardees by the London School of Business. She is an international speaker and has spoken to over 20+ conferences including RSA, ODSC, Predictive Analytics, and others. She is a 2X Google Developer Expert in Machine Learning and Google Cloud.
"24 years of experience in tech industry with 22.5 years in Cisco Systems. A Sr Director of engineering responsible for Cisco's Optical engineering and Routing infrastructure business catering to service providers and web providers globally. Led many projects specifically for Indian and APAC customers for their internet access and aggregation space by building new products for 4G/5G backbone. Recently led the design & development of 5G fronthaul gateway which won the Nasscom innovation award in 2021. An ICF certified leadership / life coach & an organizational strategy expert, I mentor & coach internal start-up initiatives and leaders for maximizing their effectiveness."
In a Global Product & Tech exec role, experiences pivot around
- Market research, competitive landscape, Pricing, GTM, Launch
- Product Vision & Roadmap, Technology strategy
- Delivery of enterprise grade, user centric, SAAS solutions of $2-$2.5 billion revenue with full PDLC accountability including client onboarding & servicing.
- Driving large scale product & tech transformations, that include Product rationalisation(client migrations, product deprecation & upgrades), User experience simplification, Re-architecture to build performing, scalable and fault tolerant platforms and configurable products for faster GTM and driving efficiencies through customer self service & engineering process improvements/ tools.
Partner with Bharat Innovation Fund. Som was previously the Managing Director of Analog Devices India, wholly owned subsidiary of $6B global semiconductor company headquartered in Boston, and was based for almost 2 decades in Silicon Valley in various roles: Global Product Management and Marketing Director at NETGEAR, first employee of an early M2M/IoT energy management/Smart grid startup, American Grid and held several management and engineering roles at Cadence Design Systems. ; ; Som co-founded and is a core committee member of India's Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem building thinktank, IoTForum and co-chairs the top IoT conference, IoTNext/IoTMatrix. He is currently Board Member for US India Science and Technology Endowment Fund (USISTEF), a grant initiative by both Governments to foster cross-border joint collaborative research and Entrepreneurship. He was a board member and executive council member of India’s premium Industry Body, IESA for 2 years and currently on the Advisory board of International Software Product Management Association (ISPMA), a decade old non-profit industry body of global product management experts. Som has an MBA from Wharton, University of Pennsylvania, and an engineering graduate from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur and North Carolina State University. He is also a co-author of a book “New Kind of Computational Biology” that was recently published by Springer.
Soumitra Limaye is the Director of Engineering & Ecosystems in the India Software Labs, IBM. Experience spanning Engineering, P&L leadership (Asia-Pacific) roles including Client Facing, Professional Services & Product Support. Passionate about growing the start-up ecosystem in India, mentoring new businesses, providing guidance through hackathons, and driving tangible change in areas of Diversity & Inclusion through advisory roles.
"Domain Architect, Transaction Banking, C&I CDIO, Director, NatWest Group 22+ Years of Banking experience in providing Technology and Domain Architecture across Payments for Commercial Banking, Tech Advisor and Consulting across Banking and Financial Services Clients. Area of Focus & expertise includes helping clients to transform major Platforms for Enterprise Transformation with Product rollouts, Modern Software Engineering principles and Emerging Technologies. Head of Architecture for NatWest's Transaction Banking which manages 30% of the UK's cash and 3 billon transactions a year. My role is specializing in architecture accountability, defining Tech Strategy, defining and approving platform architectures to ensure it aligns with Engineering principles of NatWest and Industry."
Srikanth Velamakanni is the Co-founder, Group Chief Executive and Executive Vice Chairman of Fractal. Fractal is a leading player in the artificial intelligence space and its mission is to power every human decision in the enterprise. Fractal serves more than 100 of the Fortune 500 companies and helps them in AI led transformation of their business. ; Since Srikanth co-founded Fractal in 2000, the company has raised more than USD 300 million from institutional private equity investors. Under his leadership, Fractal has developed several businesses within the company including Cuddle.ai, Eugenie.ai, Theremin.ai and Qure.ai. Srikanth is the chair of the board of Qure.ai that recently raised series B funds from Sequoia Capital and Mass Mutual Ventures. ; Srikanth is co-founder and trustee of Plaksha University, with a strong academic focus on core engineering, AIML and mathematics. Additionally, Plaksha promotes interdisciplinary learning by bringing together science and the liberal arts. ; Srikanth is member of NASSCOM’s Executive Council and serves as a subject matter expert on data and AI. ; Srikanth’s passion for AI and human behavior has made him a thought leader in the space and an admired public speaker. He considers himself a lifelong student at the intersection of artificial intelligence, mathematics, neuroscience, and human behavior. ; Srikanth has a B. Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi and MBA from IIM Ahmedabad.
- 25+ years of international experience in delivering Innovative and Transformative solutions - Providing Thought-Leadership and Solutions across AI, Comp. Vision, Cloud Services, Data Platforms etc.; ; - Expertise in building innovative, next-gen AI / ML solutions across business use cases with focus on quick-wins; ; - Deep expertise in NLP / NLG, Computer Vision and Deep Learning frameworks, providing competitive edge to businesses; ; - Expertise in Digital transformation - Strategies, Consulting and Adoption and practical GTM strategies
Product and Technology enthusiast, with a proven track record of building high-quality products and engineering teams from scratch. Co-Founded one of the earliest private car ride-sharing startups in India and got acquired by one of the largest car rental firms in India. Built large-scale distributed products in IOT, Transportation, SAAS, Fintech, E-Commerce, and Enterprise systems.
I have 32 years of experience in Product Engineering and Technology Leadership across the US and India. I have led US$1B+ Technology Business Unit, US$1B+ Digital Engineering practice and played CTO role for Technology Sector Business in Cognizant. I hold an MS degree (with an AI focus) from Carnegie-Mellon University and B. Tech from IIT Chennai. Learned Design Thinking from Harvard and Deep Learning from IISc recently, driven by the passion for lifelong learning. Loves to collaborate - can contribute in technology strategy, product envisioning & engineering and AI/ML areas.
Subramanian (Mani) leads Azure supply chain capacity management and decision sciences functions in the Azure Core organization at Microsoft. He has over 25 years of experience in Consulting and Analytics working with organizations such as bigbasket.com, Dell, McKinsey and Infosys. He studied at University of Madras, IIM-Ahmedabad and MIT. Mani invests, advises and mentors start-ups in the DeepTech space.
CTO & Product Director with 20+ years of experience in Technology & Data. I have extensive experience in Retail Tech, CPG Tech and have worked in Unilever & Amazon. In Accenture, i led the Route to Market SaaS Platform, Newspage with a focus on SEA, S. Asia, Middle East & Africa. In Unilever & Accenture, i led the product strategy for eB2B products and led the program across markets. In Amazon, i was a Director leading the Operations Tech covering First Mile, Middle Mile and Last Mile.
Sunil K. Goyal co-founded YourNest, an early-stage venture fund, in 2011. He manages a US$ 145 million fund corpus deployed over three funds. YourNest invests in Indian technology startups that create innovative products for global markets. Sunil believes in 'conscious capitalism' and relishes driving businesses with a high sense of purpose and vision. He had played a pivotal role in Dabur and Airtel before launching YourNest. Startups gain from his experience of building businesses from the early stage to leading transformation. He is a qualified CFA and a Cost Accountant and has a Master's in Business Economics from the University of Delhi.
Sunil Haridas is a senior leader with more than 25 years of technology and management expertise in Strategy, Leadership and People Management. He is an ex Infosys, ex IBM with global delivery experience in US, Australia, Thailand and Singapore. Sunil is the co-founder of Kerala Startup Network (KSN-Global) and member of CII Kerala Startup Panel. He was a coordinator of the National Working Group on AI technology standardisation. Sunil is an engineer, MBA and an alumnus of IIM Calcutta.
Product leader with over 15 years of experience in building high-tech products, influencing decision makers, incubating new businesses including building and launching V1 products as well as managing the complete lifecycle of the product.
# At Microsoft, currently I am responsible for portfolio of offerings in FSI across Blockchain and AI/ML
# Previously, at Microsoft built & launched new product line Azure Data Box
# At Vizury (Ad Tech), built and launched new products in the area of Analytics, marketing attribution and Seller Ads platform for e-commerce marketplace.
# At Flipkart (E-commerce), I was tasked to build new products & platforms.
# At Unisys (Mobile & cloud), I incubated new products & solutions in a start up environment from idea to concept to product.
Specialties:
Incubation, New Product development, V1, global launch, Storytelling
Mr. Sunil Raheja is responsible for managing IKS Health's customer operations across India & the US along with leading the charter on building a scalable delivery model focused on driving standardization & automation across the business. He is an accomplished Business Operations & Technology veteran with over 28 years of experience. He possesses extensive expertise in leading large business & technology delivery operations with responsibility for client management, delivery to defined SLAs and managing the P&L responsibility for the business. He brings significant experience in leading and growing mature technology organizations in their growth journey.; ; Sunil’s primary role involves liaison with Sales to help drive penetration of IKS Health products and with Client & Clinical Services to drive customer satisfaction. His role extends to overseeing Tech to self-disrupt through technology and with Product management to further evolve IKS Health product suite. Sunil is the custodian of building a culture that strives for excellence in customer delivery teams. Prior to IKS Health he worked at Optum Global Solutions, MphasiS and EDS in leadership roles.
Sunil Sapra has 26 years of experience in leadership, entrepreneurship, bootstrapping, Asia business acceleration for technology innovators in cybersecurity, IAM, data privacy & protection, storage, cloud-native and Secure DevOps domains including : 3 APAC Joint Ventures, 6 global startups' APAC setup, launch & scale, 4 regional kickstart/ revive stalled operations, and Advisory for multiple startups. What he does: RFFL ( Right first, fast later), Asia GTM acceleration for post Series A/B global startups, Help grow the bootstrapped startups globally, Capital for APAC OPEX/ JVs, Strategic Alliances, international growth, business development for Pre/ Seed stage startups, Growth, succession, exit, M & A advisory
Sushma Rajagopalan is a global leader in the IT Industry, with over 25 years of successful track record in Transforming Companies, by adopting effective strategies for Fast scale up, Enhancing the Future readiness quotient, Improving efficiency & profitability and Institutionalizing processes & measurements. Her focus in the last decade has been on digital transformation of IT companies, implementing industry specific solutions and improving Employee & Customer Engagement. Her success mantra & results: 1. Strategic differentiation resulting in high growth, and impressive growth/exits for some of the companies ; ; 2. Collaborating with clients, alliances & academia on use of new technologies and building an innovation ecosystem; ; 3. Driving a high performance HR strategy through use of digital technologies and increasing employee engagement; ; I am currently a Venture Partner with Rittenhouse Ventures in Philadelphia, in addition to being a board member and mentor to multiple companies. We invest in Series A rounds in Tech companies - HealthTech, Fin Tech, Edutech, HR Tech by and large.
Tanu Mithal is currently Head of technology at the Social Enterprise - The/Nudge Foundation. The Foundation is working towards alleviating poverty scalably and sustainably during our lifetime with livelihood as the vehicle.; Prior to this Tanu has around 19+ years of Experience majorly in Information technology Industry starting from Infosys and subsequently covering the whole spectrum of SAP Enterprise solutions - defining and developing products at the SAP Development center, Implementing SAP at one of the largest Banks - JP Morgan Chase and leading the CoE for one of the leading service provider for SAP - Capgemini. ; ; She is an IIT Roorkee alumni and has done her Executive Management Diploma from IIM Kozhikode in Strategy and Operations.
Tathagat Varma is a Software executive, product leader, technology strategist and innovation evangelist with over 29+ years experience building organizations ground-up and shipping multiple "1.0" products (revenue impact over several US$$ Billion+) with American, European and Chinese Fortune 1-500 companies and Silicon Valley unicorns. He is currently heading Technology Strategy and Business Operations at Walmart Global Tech, and additionally playing role of Chief of Staff.
Trivikram Prasad has previously worked in Intel, Intuit, and Dell and have extensive enterprise-scale experience in eCommerce, CRM, ERP, SCM, Digital & Technology Transformation, Mobile Development, Software Engineering, Design Thinking, Thought Leadership, Mentoring, Coaching, and University Teaching. He is an academic advisor to universities and technology mentor to deep-tech startups in NASSCOM. He also lead the Red Hat Market Place team in IBM India.
"Uday Subbarayan is an entrepreneur/software engineering leader based in San Francisco Bay Area. He was involved in founding 3 startups which resulted in 1 IPO and 2 M&A.
He has more than two decades of web middleware experiences in building various internet products and cybersecurity is his passion, in particular about the evolving Zero Trust Environment!
His 4 startup experience includes the Founder of Elastic Beam(API Security using AI/ML), acquired by Ping Identity, and founding members of Ciespace(ESI M&A) & Apigee(IPO, Google M&A).
He is currently the SVP of Engineering at Lavu, Inc - a profitable SaaS startup, building a restaurant management solution (POS/Online Ordering/FinTech). He is responsible for both the R&D and DevOps.
He has 24 years of global software development experience includes working in Silicon Valley, Switzerland and Bangalore. He has 12 approved US patents. He has done M.Eng in Applied Electronics from Coimbatore Institute of Technology, India."
Ujjyaini have 13 years of rich Leadership experience. She loves to go beyond ‘Best in class’ and create ‘Next in class’ customer centric ; innovative solutions that add value to business and human life. Ujjyaini builds enterprise capability, integrate advanced; data science in growth strategy, act as a change agent and advise business leaders, board and CEO. She expertises in Data Strategy, Artificial Intelligence, Data Monetization, Design Thinking and Innovation.
Utkarsh Rai is Leadership coach (ICF certified) and Consultant. He is the former head for Infinera India and China, a leading global provider of disruptive optical networking systems. He was a founding head of Infinera India, and led the team that delivered significant technology innovation, resulting in a successful IPO on Nasdaq and establishing them as a global player with a multi billion $ valuation over fifteen years. In doing so, he built the team to over 800 software professionals. He is a successful global business executive known for his skills in strategic planning and execution excellence. He believes that developing leaders is key to success and his greatest joy is in nurturing leadership talents around the world and being the catalyst that inspires career growth for his people. His walk the talk management style is supported by a commitment to developing strong cultures and high performing teams and he has translated his experience into multiple popular books on career management. He shares stories for professionals in his YouTube channel named "Professional growth stories and talks". He is a proud recipient of the Udyog Rattan award, as well as a committed fitness freak, angel investor and actor. He is constantly learning, and travels the globe to learn more about cultures and world history. He has touched many lives and hopes that he has been an inspiration to many. You can know more about him on www.utkarshrai.com
I have 20+yrs of experience in building, managing and selling deep tech/AI products. I have led and have been an integral part of several digital transformational projects including Jio. I love working with high growth organizations, creating sustainable business models for digital businesses, building deep technology products, platforms & data models & executing growth hacking techniques
Experienced Products Strategy and Business Leader with a demonstrated history of working in various eCommerce segments like Logistics, Travel, mCommerce and product startup industries. Global experience in leading large teams into managing multiple product portfolios from concept to launch. Strong product management professional skilled in Analytics, data driven development, Go-to-market Strategy, Mobile Applications, Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Product Marketing.
Varchas R Subrahmanya is the head of products at Soroco. His vision is to enable every employee and enterprises to be at their best. He was briefly the chief of products at Factoreal, a marketing automation startup incubated at Comviva. He previously was in Comviva technologies for a little less than 10 years building platforms for mobile operators that can help them monetize. Platforms include mobile data, messaging, security and customer experience. His early work life was predominantly in IISc and an IISc startup Esqube, he worked on VoIP and communication technologies – competing against Skype. He engages with product community, is a part of Product Leaders Forum (PLF), and guide for students at Institute of Product Leadership. He is very passionate about leadership and product management, especially the following.; Culture. To be emphatic and an empathetic leader. Know my workplace folks, respect each one of them, know what they want and to help them achieve their goals.; - Learn my Customers. Understand their journey and experience, watch them and listen to them and more importantly, what they aren’t. Deliver and drive value for them.; - Communicate. Love to talk to everyone with no prejudice, do listen to others more often than I speak, say “Thank you” and appreciate as often as possible.; - Think Different. How do we build it bigger, better, faster? It cannot happen if we think the same, I like to think different and do things different.; - Team Work. Firm believer of “team > sum of all individuals” and the concepts of “Ubuntu” and “Tribal Leadership” - by Dave Logan.; - Getting things done: Tremendous focus on getting things done – try to use tools that help me to achieve this. Fan of Asana, Perdoo, Trello, and MS Planner.
Varij Saurabh has worked as a product manager for close to 2 decades focused on B2B SaaS products, & Data products. He understands data management, ML, analytics domains. He is now working with climateTech startup to help setup Go-to-Market and drive business growth. He enjoys working with early stage to mid stage startups and can help across product management, business planning, sales and Go-to-market.
I’m a results oriented Software, Data Science, Business, Web & Marketing Analytics leader with over 12 years experience in ML engineering, Data science, Business Analytics, Digital Media Analytics and Web Marketing optimization with leading inter- nationally recognized corporations, additional 10 years software engineering experience and a top business school MBA. Well-developed communications skills, management of onshore and offshore teams as well as leadership experience ranging from Director to Manager at Fortune 100 companies including marketing agencies. Improved ad performance to the tune of $10M at Unity Technologies & $7M at Oracle leveraging spark MLIB and Tensorflow operating on big data. Drove improvements in business & online marketing outcomes to the tunes of several million dollars at Oracle, Unity technologies, eBay, Conversant (Alliance Data), AT&T (Cricket Wireless) and crunched several terabytes of data at Apple Corporation.
Vibhore Sharma is a technology leader with 20 years in the internet industry, he has significant ability to understand technologies in this space and their impact on platforms, markets & consumers with proven ability to build and scale products. He can help companies to build, evolve and scale their products, technology and teams. Enthusiastic about emerging Science & Technology ideas to invest in.
"1. Been a CTO of startups from 2015 1. With prior corporate experience as a developer and engineering leader at Oracle, McAfee, Intuit and Unilever 2. Been Hands-on all through my career 3. Women-In-Tech cheerleader 2. Prior experience of being Mentor at IIIT-B and IIMA-CIIE 1. Mentored 14 startups and 3 of them got funding 2. Angel investor for Deep tech companies 3. Tech expertise in Backend, Performance design, Marketing Tech and Information Security 1. Design review and code review 2. SaaS based Unit Metrics 3. Low cost Tech development 4. Click Analytics"
I have led product, partnerships and analytics teams at Endeavor, Walmart, Amazon & eBay to build streaming media, content discovery & ad/martech products. Recent industry experiences include: Sports & Entertainment Events: VP, Product Management at Endeavor. Building machine-learning enabled B2B and B2C offerings for IMG & Endeavor Streaming. Video Streaming: Sr. Director of Product/CPO at Vudu. Delivered growth from 250M to ~1B between 2017-2020. Devices: Delivered subscription & ad revenue growth at Amazon Fire TV & Prime Video/Music through new content discovery & device experiences.
Vikram is a senior tech executive with 19 years of global digital product experience. He is credited with multiple C-level engagements of $BB leverage and 1K+ strong product teams. He currently heads strategic initiatives for Mahindra's farm and equipment sector, transforming experience and efficiency across 12 businesses. In prior roles, Vikram incubated digital hubs and scaled teams 10x, built multiple platforms and products for Nissan, Ford, and HP. He's passionate about CASE (Connected, Autonomous, Shared, Electric) use cases in the automotive space, and has lived and worked in the US, UK, Japan and India.
Vineet Govil is a seasoned coach and mentor with more than twenty five years of experience in mobile, telecommunication and media & entertainment industry (successfully running captive centre of MNC, startups).; In the last stint - as Head and VP of Sling Media India (100% own subsidiary of Dish Network Inc USA), was responsible for operations, engineering, strategy and growth - with a focus towards creating culture of innovation, technology and product development. ; Have extensive experience on technical aspects as well as leadership skills, which are practical and applicable in day to day life.; ; Area of interests include next generation of content generation & consumption, OTT, streaming, cloud computing, AI/ML, consumer electronics, IoT, and automative segments.; ; Very passionate about upcoming technology and product development. More importantly, how to take a product/technology from concept to market and monetise it.; Have a good understanding about these market segments and understands multiple facet of complex design of new generation products pretty well.
Vineet is a Data Science & Machine Learning leader with a rich experience of almost two decades in conceptualizing, building, implementing and scaling up enterprise solutions using a mix of Machine Learning, Big Data and engineering.; Vineet has rich expertise in building, mentoring, executing and scaling up advanced data science capabilities for organizations. He is also expert in enabling organization to take strategic business decisions and leading teams. He has comprehensive industry knowledge of Machine Learning, Text Mining, Computer Vision, IoT and Reinforcement Learning to achieve significant business outcomes.; He joined United Health Group in August 2017 and currently leads Data Science and Machine Learning teams as a Senior Director. Prior to joining Optum, he was with Motorola, Infosys and GE Healthcare.; Vineet holds an MBA from IIM, Bangalore and has done his engineering from MNNIT Allahabad in Electronics and Communication Engineering.
Vinish Kathuria is Managing Partner at SenseAI Ventures, The Artificial Intelligence Fund. A startup person at heart, he leverages his own startup experiences and learnings from corporate world (Microsoft, Ericsson) to guide & nurture firms. He is Co-Founder of RANK Software, an AI venture in cybersecurity space that was sold to a Bay area firm. He is an early investor in multiple global ventures that have since raised multiple rounds of funds. ; ; Having lived 15 years in US and last 14 in India, he has a strong understanding of the nuances across different business environments. An alumnus of IIT Delhi, Vinish received his MS from Case Western Reserve University, USA; MBA from Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, USA, and is currently pursuing his PhD at IIM Lucknow.
Experienced Products Strategy and Business Leader with a demonstrated history of working in various eCommerce segments like Logistics, Travel, mCommerce and product startup industries. Global experience in leading large teams into managing multiple product portfolios from concept to launch. Strong product management professional skilled in Analytics, data driven development, Go-to-market Strategy, Mobile Applications, Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Product Marketing.
Vivek Parihar is a Serial Entrepreneur(Co-founded 2 startups), Author of "20's The Most Formative years Of Your Life", Mentor at Nasscom, an experienced business builder & people leader. Director of Engineering at Licious - Born to meat. A Public Speaker, he has been the featured keynote speaker at many tech conferences and summits and a polyglot engineer leader. ; ; He is an experienced business builder & people leader, he has a strong track record of leading teams to drive multi-million $$ sales increases and sustainable, progressive growth in the competitive mobile market. A sought-after Public Speaker, Vivek has been the featured keynote at many tech conferences and summits(IAMAI, India Digital Summit, Solve For India, Mobile Growth, MongoDB, Ruby, DevOps, MetaRefresh and Dynamic Cio).
Innovative product leader with an extensive track record of building and shipping great products at a large scale globally.; ; Currently advising, mentoring and investing in Fintech and Healthtech startups. Previously managed multiple product lines at Intuit generating $500M+ in revenue, serving 20M+ happy customers for Mint & TurboTax.; ; CTO and product leader at a consumer oriented mobile innovation consulting firm - BrandMobility. Designed, managed and launched multiple products for Verizon and AAA.; ; Technology experiences from wireless and SaaS (Three-UK, MobileESPN, DisneyMobile) to software services (Zephyr, Visage Mobile, Cymbal-Patni), with a focus on consumer-oriented technology.
A multidisciplinary business leader with a passion for lifelong learning, Vybhav is a trusted strategist and utilizes his business acumen to make strategic, growth-oriented decisions. He also has in-depth experience setting up and scaling facilities in India. His vision is to put ‘care’ back into healthcare by leveraging leading technologies.; ; With a Postgraduate Degree in Data Science and a prospective Master’s Degree in the same, he is constantly seeking out new and innovative ways to improve the effectiveness of various business processes through the use of technology. ; ; Every step of the way, he focuses on building forward-leaning teams that adapt to and overcome cross-industry obstacles.; ; His past experiences extend beyond healthcare and include setting up and spearheading the growth of India’s first flight simulator company (Flight4Fantasy) and a decade-plus stint at PwC, working with some of the world’s largest businesses.; ; Today, Vybhav plays a pivotal role in building and managing teams, cultivating client relationships, growing successful businesses, and streamlining processes.