Take your success to new heights:

Your business is a special story of inspiration, passion and determination. Let’s take this story to new heights of success with an invaluable opportunity to gain insights from TiE experts and business leaders.

Beginning 7 July 2017, Runway to Success mentorship camps are being organized across the country to empower entrepreneurs like you. Over 150,000 SMEs have discovered their value. This is your chance to discover proven success mantras directly from the experts and get free advice on:

1) Business Plan  -  Mr Advait Kurlekar

Advait Kurlekar has over 23 years of valuable experience in industry and management consulting, having worked in leading organizations like Tata Motors, AF Ferguson, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Cedar Consulting. Prior to founding Upohan, he was heading KP Consulting as part of the Kirtane & Pandit Group based in Pune.

Advait has expertise in the areas of Business Strategy, Balanced Scorecard and HR consulting. He has directed over 350 BSC development projects for a variety of clients in India and abroad.  Advait has led consulting projects across a range of sectors including BFSI, engineering, automotive, retail, pharmaceuticals, consumer goods, hospitality, media and advertising, etc. He has handled assignments in Singapore, Hong Kong, Middle East, West Asia, South Africa, North Africa, UK, France and Germany. He is regularly invited to speak at national and international business conferences.He is also a charter member of TiE’s Pune chapter and has done an Advanced Management Program from the Wharton Business School.

2) Legal Aspects of Starting/Running a Venture – Mr Vivek Sadhale

Vivek is a co-founder of LegaLogic Consulting, a full service law firm. Vivek has over 20 years of experience in international technology and commercial contracts, successful IPO, top tier venture capital, investment and private equity funding, M&A/takeovers, joint venture agreements, ESOP, IP matters, and advising on STPI / SEZ set up. Most recently he was Company Secretary and Head – Legal and Investor Relations of Persistent Systems. Prior to Persistent, Vivek worked at Kirloskar Pneumatic, Bombay Dyeing and Siemens.

3) Sales Acceleration – Mr Vishwas Mahajan

Vishwas Mahajan is the founder of LifeLine Systech, and director at Talentrackr. He is also Global Trustee at the TiE. Vishwas is an Entrepreneur and Senior Level manager with Value System, Drive and Long Term Committment to goals. Initially having worked for 10 years in software industry internationally, his last fifteen years have been as entrepreneur. Vishwas conceptualized, grew, funded, attracted VC and took the company public. He set up product delivery process, set up high performance sales and support team for innovative software products that 'Orchestrate Performance'. He finally merged the company with another larger one thus completing full cycle. Vishwas is highly networked and effective communicator.Facilitator of Leadership in organizations. Committed to charity causes that make measurable impact.

4) Start-up Funding – Mr Pravin Advani

Pravin Advani is a Co Founder and Managing Partner at SA Global Advisors - a cross-border Technology focused investment banking and advisory firm with presence across US(Silicon Valley) and India(Mumbai, Pune). Pravin is focused on the firms early to mid-stage stage VC Investment, Strategic Technology Investments/M&A practice. Pravin has spent over 20 years as a Technology investor, advisor and executive in various global sales, product management and operational roles with global companies like Nortel, Lucent/Bell Labs, Cyras/Ciena and Aricent(formerly Hughes Software Systems) and successful venture backed start-ups.