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Quinton Schowalter

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Anna Bashirian

Anna is the co-founder and creative director at XYZ. She is also a speaker. She has spoken in conferences and other events including IEEE. She has helped professional services company develop a new department through her motivational speaking.

Roman Cassin

Roman is the co-founder and creative director at XYZ. He is also a speaker. He has spoken in conferences and other events including IEEE. He has helped professional services company develop a new department through his motivational speaking.

Arielle Casper

Arielle is the co-founder of XYZ. He is also a speaker. He has spoken in conferences and other events including IEEE springer. He has helped SAAS company develop a new department through his motivational speaking.

Pluto

cartoon character

Pluto, also called Pluto the Pup,[1] is a cartoon character created in 1930 at Walt Disney Productions. He is a yellow-orange color, medium-sized, short-haired dog with black ears. Unlike most Disney characters, Pluto is not anthropomorphic beyond some characteristics such as facial expression.[Note 1][2] He is Mickey Mouse's pet. Officially a mixed-breed dog,[3] he made his debut as a bloodhound in the Mickey Mouse cartoon The Chain Gang.[4] Together with Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, and Goofy, Pluto is one of the "Sensational Six"—the biggest stars in the Disney universe.

Mickey mouse

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Mickey Mouse is a funny animal cartoon character and the mascot of The Walt Disney Company. He was created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks at the Walt Disney Studios in 1928. An anthropomorphic mouse who typically wears red shorts, large yellow shoes, and white gloves, Mickey is one of the world's most recognizable characters.

Quinton Schowalter

Quinton is the co-founder of XYZ. He is a motivational speakers on different IEEE conferences.

Dustin Steuber

Dustin he is a speaker. She has spoken in conferences and other events including IEEE. He has helped many company develop a new department through his motivational speaking.

Anna Bashirian

Anna is the co-founder and creative director at XYZ. She is also a speaker. She has spoken in conferences and other events including IEEE. She has helped professional services company develop a new department through her motivational speaking.

Roman Cassin

Roman is the co-founder and creative director at XYZ. He is also a speaker. He has spoken in conferences and other events including IEEE. He has helped professional services company develop a new department through his motivational speaking.

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Founder of BW Health

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Pro Public Speaker, Cyber Security Guru, Senior Police Officer, Management Expert, Technology Evangelist, Thought Leader & Writer Police Computer Wing, Govt. of Karnataka St. Stephen's College

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Arnav Gupta

Arnav is one of the co-founders of Coding Blocks, a software development bootcamp based in Delhi. He has been mentoring Android and NodeJS programmes for over 2 years. He has lately been a fan of VueJS as a frontend framework, and is the author of vuex-persist, one of the most popular state persistence libraries in the Vue ecosystem

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PRIYA THUVASSERY

Priya Thuvassery is an alumnus of the AJK Mass Communication Research Center, Jamia Millia Islamia—one of India’s premier institutes in film and video training. As a documentary practitioner in India, she has fundraised, directed and edited several documentaries. Her work has won national and international awards and has been screened at film festivals, art galleries and academic institutes.

Amudhan R P

Curator

Amudhan R. P. (Tamil: புஷ்பம் ராமலிங்கம் அமுதன் (Puṣpam Rāmaliŋkam Amutaņ), born 1971 in Madurai) is a documentary film maker and media activist. Along with local youth, he founded Marupakkam, a media activism group that is involved with making documentaries, organising regular screenings, film festivals and media workshops in and around Madurai. He has been making documentaries since 1997. His prominent films include two trilogies on caste and nuclear radiation. 'Shit' has won the best film award at the One Billion Eyes film festival in 2005 and the National Jury Award at the MIFF 2006. Amudhan R.P. founded Madurai International Documentary and Short Film Festival in 1998 and has been organising the festival since then.

SUNIL MALHOTRA

#Designthinking | Design Entrepreneur for #Socialimpact | Author | founder http://ideafarms.com Cocreator #bmgen Book | #DesignThinker | Provocateur

Bruno Courme

Bruno Courme, a French national, is a graduate from French engineering sc hools, and holds a Master’s degree in Geological Sciences from the University of Texas at Austin. He joined the Exploration and Division branch of Total in 2000, working first as a carbonate sedimentologist. He successively held positions in geological operations then exploration teams in the Netherlands, Norway, Nigeria, and the UK between 2002 and 2008. He then spent two years in Total Technical Center in Pau, France, heading the team in charge of the interpretation of static and dynamic data acquired in Total wells. He was appointed in 2010 as Managing Director of Total Gas Shale Europe, to look after studies and operations on Total gas shale acreage in Europe and held the position until the end of 2013. From January 2014 to March 2015 he was Vice-President Strategy for the Exploration & Production Branch of Total. He is since April 2015 Vice-President Exploration in charge of the Americas, based in Houston. Total is the world’s fourth-largest oil and gas company, as well as a major integrated player in low-carbon energies. Backed by nearly a century of history we discover, produce, transform, market and distribute energy in a variety of forms, to serve the end customer.

Charles Leykum

Charlie Leykum founded CSL Capital Management, LLC (“CSL Capital”) in 2008. CSL Capital is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm based in Houston, TX, with a strategy focused on private investments in services and manufacturing companies in the energy sector. Since its inception, CSL Capital has raised in excess of $1.4 billion in equity capital and commitments and through its funds, has made de novo, growth capital, recapitalization, and distressed investments. Notable investments include BJ Services, the second largest North American pressure pumper, in December 2016, and Ranger Energy Services, the leading private well services company in the U.S. Before founding CSL Capital, Mr. Leykum worked at Soros Fund Management LLC, which he joined in 2004 as an Investment Professional covering energy and a number of other industries for the Quantum Endowment Fund. Mr. Leykum was promoted to Portfolio Manager, where he managed a portfolio of energy and basic materials investments. Mr. Leykum graduated with an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and with a B.A. in Economics from Columbia University. Prior to entering Harvard Business School, Mr. Leykum worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in the Principal Investments Area and also in the Leveraged Finance Group within the Investment Banking Division. Mr. Leykum serves on the board of several private companies including BJ Services, where he serves as its Chairman. In addition, Mr. Leykum is on the board of the Greater Houston Partnership and the Columbia College Alumni Association. Mr. Leykum resides in Houston, TX, with his wife Elizabeth and their three children.

Kirk Coburn

Kirk is a member of the team at Shell Technology Ventures (STV), Shell's corporate Venture Capital fund. STV invests and partners with entrepreneurs to bring new technologies and business models to market in order to lower costs, make our existing operations more sustainable, and accelerate the energy transition. STV acts as a strategic partner and makes minority investments in select technology companies, including Shell technology spin-outs, and also acts as an LP in some externally managed venture capital funds. Kirk has over 15 years of experience as an entrepreneur and over 7 years as a venture capitalist and early-stage angel investor. Prior to Shell, Kirk was the founder and managing director of SURGE Ventures, a mentor-driven accelerator and seed stage venture fund. During this period, he led the investments into over 45 technology companies solving problems across the energy value chain including oil & gas, cleantech, power, energy efficiency, and horizontal applications that reach across. Under his leadership and direction, SURGE recruited more than 200 industry-leading scientists, investors, policymakers, customers, and entrepreneurs to serve as mentors. SURGE was repeatedly recognized globally as one of the top startup programs and early-stage investment funds. Prior to leading SURGE, Coburn created and was CEO of Chief Outsiders (acq. 2010), a strategy and marketing consulting firm with offices across the Unites States. Chief Outsiders was named the #6 Fastest Growing Company in Houston, and was noted as one of Inc’s 5000 fastest growing companies in the US in 2014. Prior to Chief Outsiders, Coburn launched The PGA TOUR Network on Sirius XM (acq. by SIRI). He remained CEO for four years from launch to successful acquisition. Coburn additionally spent 8 years at Dell during the 1990s and early 2000s in myriad senior roles including new business development, strategy, procurement, marketing, and finance. Kirk has an MBA and BBA from the University of Texas at Austin. Kirk serves as an ambassador to the Texas Children's Hospital and is an active supporter of the Rice Alliance and Station Houston. Kirk is an avid lover of the outside world spending time ultra-endurance running (completed the Leadville Trail 100) and standup paddle surfing.

SUNIL MALHOTRA

#Designthinking | Design Entrepreneur for #Socialimpact | Author | founder http://ideafarms.com Cocreator #bmgen Book | #DesignThinker | Provocateur

Dominic Barton

Dominic Barton is the global managing partner of McKinsey. He is based in London and leads the firm’s focus on the future of capitalism and the role business leadership can play in creating long-term social and economic value. Before becoming managing partner, Dominic served as McKinsey’s chairman in Asia from 2004 to 2009. He also headed McKinsey’s office in Korea from 2000 to 2004. He is the chair of the Canadian Minister of Finance’s Advisory Council on Economic Growth, the chair of the Seoul International Business Advisory Council, and a cochair of the Focusing Capital on the Long Term initiative. He is also a trustee of the Brookings Institution, a Rhodes trustee, and an adjunct professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Dominic has authored more than 80 articles and is a coauthor, with Roberto Newell and Greg Wilson, of Dangerous Markets: Managing in Financial Crises (Wiley & Sons, 2002) and of China Vignettes: An Inside Look at China (Talisman, 2007). He graduated from the University of British Columbia with a BA Honors in economics and studied as a Rhodes Scholar at Brasenose College, Oxford University.

Rana Kapoor

Rana Kapoor is the Managing Director & CEO of YES BANK. As a professional entrepreneur, since 2003, he is progressively establishing a high quality, state-of-the-art private Indian Bank with a vision of “Building the Best Quality Bank of the World in India” by 2020. Under his leadership, YES BANK has steadily evolved as the “Professionals’ Bank of India” with exemplary business and financial outcomes as evidenced in the financial results since inception, with highest RoA/RoE, and the best asset quality amongst leading Public and Private Banks in India. Rana Kapoor received an Honorary Fellowship from All India Management Association (AIMA), Doctorate in Science (Honoris Causa) from G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology, India’s foremost and oldest Agri University, for his contribution to the Food & Agribusiness sector in INDIA. He holds an MBA degree from Rutgers’ University in New Jersey, U.S.A. (1980), and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics (Honours) from the University of Delhi (1977). He has also received the prestigious President’s Medal from Rutgers University.Rana Kapoor is the Founder & CEO of YES BANK. As a professional entrepreneur, since 2003, he is progressively establishing a high quality, state-of-the-art private Indian Bank with a vision of “Building the Best Quality Bank of the World in India” by 2020. Under his leadership, YES BANK has steadily evolved as the “Professionals’ Bank of India” with exemplary business and financial outcomes as evidenced in the financial results since inception, with highest RoA/RoE, and the best asset quality amongst leading Public and Private Banks in India.

Reed Hastings

Reed Hastings co-founded Netflix in 1997. In 1991, Reed founded Pure Software, which made tools for software developers. After a 1995 IPO, and several acquisitions, Pure was acquired by Rational Software in 1997. Reed is an active educational philanthropist and served on the California State Board of Education from 2000 to 2004. He is currently on the board of several educational organizations including DreamBox Learning, KIPP, and Pahara. Reed is also a board member of Facebook, and was on the board of Microsoft from 2007 to 2012. Reed received a BA from Bowdoin College in 1983, and an MSCS in Artificial Intelligence from Stanford University in 1988. Between Bowdoin and Stanford, Reed served in the Peace Corps as a high school math teacher in Swaziland. Reed is married with two children.

Piyush Goyal

Piyush Goyal is an Indian politician currently serving as the Minister of Railways and Coal in the Government of India

Nitin Gadkari

Nitin Gadkari is an Indian politician and the current Minister for Road Transport & Highways, Shipping and Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation in the Government of India.

Arun Jaitley

Arun Jaitley is an Indian politician and lawyer who is the current Finance Minister, Minister of Corporate Affairs in the Cabinet of India. A member of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Jaitley previously held the cabinet portfolios of Commerce and Industry and Law and Justice in the Vajpayee government (1998–2004) and briefly served as the Minister of Defence in the Narendra Modi government. From 2009 to 2014 he served as the Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha. He is a Senior Advocate of the Delhi High Court. He studied at St. Xavier's School, New Delhi from 1957–69. He graduated in Commerce from Shri Ram College of Commerce, New Delhi in 1973. He passed his Law degree from the University of Delhi, in 1977.

Donald Trump Jr

Donald J. Trump Jr. is an innovator and leader in today’s young business world. As an Executive Vice President at The Trump Organization, Donald Jr. works in tandem with his brother, Eric, to expand the company’s real estate, retail, commercial, hotel and golf interests. His extensive real estate development experience, rigorous education and inherent business sense add a level of detail and depth to the management of all current and future Trump projects. In addition to his real estate interests, Donald Jr. is an accomplished and sought after speaker. He has spoken extensively throughout the United States, and has given keynote speeches internationally, notably in Dubai and India. He graduated from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in 2000 with a degree in Real Estate Finance and Marketing. Donald Trump Jr. and his wife Vanessa reside in New York City with their five children. Donald Jr. is an avid philanthropist and has held board positions with many incredible organizations such as Smile Train and Stop Cleft.

Narendra Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi is an Indian politician who is the 14th and current Prime Minister of India, in office since May 2014. He was the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014, and is the Member of Parliament for Varanasi. Modi, a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Dr Steve Miller

Data Scientist with over 35years of work experience in planning and analytics with fortune 500 company

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Rajan Bhatia

Mr. Rajan Bhatia, is a Renowned Chartered Accountant & B.COM (Hons.) from India’s most prestigious Shri Ram College of Commerce. Rajan Bhatia is #1 Amazon Best Selling Author of a National Best Selling Book called –“Startup Idea to IPO-What Does it take to create a Billion Dollar Company.

Rajan has over 20 years of experience in IPO management, funds raising, investment banking, business growth, business development, wealth creation and has worked in CFO roles of large corporates .

Mr. Rajan has managed the complete process of several IPOs which got oversubscribed by over 500% and have got several companies listed on India’s premier NSE which helped companies in multiplying wealth, valuation, growth, funds flow and become unicorn companies.

Sanjay Mehta (One of Indias top 10 Angel Investor)

Sanjay Mehta 

Private Investor, Mehta Ventures-Family Office Investments, Director CORE Media Startup, Real Estate, Cannabis & Crypto

Awarded Angel Investor Of The Year 2017 by Let'sVenture. Investor in Block.one EOS decentralized platform & societal infrastructure for deploying smart contracts.
Most startups will fail, so you can say everything sucks and be right most of the time. Although you never lose money with that strategy, you never make any either. A friend of mine likes to say "there are two kinds of people in the world--the people that build the future, and the people who write posts on the internet about why they'll fail". Keep trying to be in former category. The people who have said there is nothing new left to do in the world have been wrong every time. Don't let their lack of imagination hold you back. - Sam Altman

2016 part of the Arch Angel Investor List by TOI & xeler8
Read September 2015 Interview http://ignite-india.com/2015/0... Published articles http://bit.do/mehtasanjay Profiled as most active angel investor by VCCircle & Inc42 in 2014 & by Forbes in 2015

Currently I have angel invested in 103 Start-up companies in diverse sectors. Active member of Indian Angel Network, Mumbai Angels, B2B 1K Ventures & CIO Angel Network, Venture Nursery. I like listening to pitches. I'm not addicted to funding startups. I'm addicted to working closely with entrepreneurs.

Read about my views in VCCircle on Founders http://bit.ly/1SE8jtC

Investment Thesis
“Develop a painkiller; not a vitamin”
Success is not an entitlement. To make it big you have to get out there and earn it every day for the rest of your life. Stop chasing the wrong priorities & the right things will automatically catch up with you.

Ray Milhem

I grow revenue and contain costs by leveraging global relationships, scaling solutions, and integrating technology for startups and Fortune 500 companies in the technology and telecom sectors.

My expertise includes strategic planning, product management, technology operations, P&L, and staff leadership in 8 US states and 12 countries.

➤ ATTRACT & RETAIN THE BEST TALENT
Ensure short- and long-term organizational success by recruiting, developing, and allocating the best people in the right positions to complement each other’s skills. Provide them with the tools, training, and accountability they need to produce personal, team, and corporate success.

➤ BUILD COMPETITIVE PRODUCTS
Anticipate technology trends, identify key innovators, and develop collaborative strategies to advance unique product characteristics that produce value at the lowest marginal cost of development.

➤ LEARN CONTINUALLY
Discover and apply new methods, ideas, and technologies. Take risks, admit mistakes, and improve. Comprehend new processes, technologies, and businesses. Be open to new ideas by reading widely in science, leadership, and business.

➤ RESPECT EVERYONE
Be compassionate and respectful with people at all levels. Appreciate their perspectives to collaborate, identify opportunities, and find win-win solutions.

➤ CONTRIBUTE
As a capitalist with heart, I want to help the people and society around me. My mission is to build businesses and create wealth for myself and others through coaching and mentoring, speaking, and contributing through philanthropy.

CORE COMPETENCIES:
● M&A Restructures / Consolidations
● Technical Solutions Innovation
● Design & Delivery
● Resource Planning & Allocation
● Multi-Departmental Global Collaboration
● Contract Negotiations
● Optimizing the Customer Experience
● Strategic / Tactical Planning & Execution
● Vendor Management

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Mark DeSantis

Mark is an experienced technology entrepreneur. He is currently CEO and Cofounder of RoadBotics, an AI-based product that monitors and manages roadway infrastructure. Most recently, he cofounded and was Executive Chairman of kWantix, an energy hedge fund (acquired by Moody Aldrich Hedge Fund). He also cofounded and was CEO of kWantera, a GE Ventures backed energy predictive analytics company. Previously, Mark was CEO of Think Through Learning, a venture-backed online tutoring company (acquired by Imagine Learning) and US Managing Director of ANGLE Technology, PLC, a UK-based venture capital firm and consultancy. Mark co-founded and serves as a director to several other venture-backed tech firms. In a prior career, Mark was the Director of Government Relations for Texas Instruments and earlier served in policy positions in Washington, DC including as a Senior Policy Analyst in The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the U.S. Department of Commerce, both in the Administration of George H. W. Bush. He previously served on the staffs of the late U.S. Senator John Heinz. Previously, he was also a management consultant with Booz Allen. Mark is currently an Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon University and has lectured at Princeton University and Dartmouth College. He was previously an Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland. Mark holds a BA and MBA from the University of Dayton, an MS in Technology Management from The American University and a PhD in Public Policy the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University.

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John Black

Professor at MNU

Brian Finamore

Gridwise is a mobile platform which increases rideshare drivers earnings 39% by helping them know when and where to drive.

Ryan Green

Gridwise is a mobile platform which increases rideshare drivers earnings 39% by helping them know when and where to drive.

Greg Quinlan

C.C. Busy uses the power of your voice to communicate with parents and manage regulations with ease. With a digital assistant at your side, you can raise the quality of care and use technology to make your work easier. Video

Shimira Williams

C.C. Busy uses the power of your voice to communicate with parents and manage regulations with ease. With a digital assistant at your side, you can raise the quality of care and use technology to make your work easier.

Kiara Venus

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Eric Redline

Eric is a senior leader in the start-up technology space, and has held various leadership roles in three currently-operating start-ups. His experience has been focused on disruption using data-driven research and analytics software across healthcare and consumer-facing industries. Eric was the Co-Founder and Managing Director of a consumer-focused app leveraging behavioral economics to affect changes in people’s driving behavior, and was integral in merging that company with a competitor to extend the offering to the fleet-services sector. Eric holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and is a former Accenture consultant.

Adrian Casper

Writer

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Management Guru

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Vandana Aggarwal

Presently, Economic Adviser, in the Ministry of Civil Aviation, Government of India, she is the Divisional Head for Economic Regulation, Air Cargo, GST and Union Budgetary matters, Competition Issues, Economic Survey and Policy matters, Skill Development, and the National Aviation University. She is a Member of various Inter-Ministerial Committees, including on Logistics and on Air Freight Stations, Inland Container Depots and Container Freight Stations. She also handles the National Trade Facilitation Action Plan. She has been a trade negotiator for India on the Doha Development Agenda of the World Trade Organisation for about 12 years, covering among others Agriculture, Trade Facilitation, Customs Valuation, Rules of Origin, Information Technology and Industrial Products. She has also held responsibility for settlement of inter-Governmental disputes under international trade laws and is a standing panellist for adjudications in the World Trade Organisation’s Dispute Settlement Body. She has also handled inter-corporate arbitration under the Indian Council of Arbitration as a Member on its Governing Body. She has served in various Ministries/ Departments of the Government of India gaining on-the-job knowledge and experience of economic administration, in particular, in economic reforms instituted by a developing country Government, starting with the New Industrial Policy 1991. She has demonstrated understanding of infrastructure development with public and/or private participation – including handling specific projects in power and telecom sectors, fiscal policies, foreign investment, external debt and capital markets, and Centre-State financial relations. She also has experience of handling internal and external security, law and order, disaster and crisis management, political, judicial, and external affairs, atomic energy, and space sectors. In her various capacities, she has held policy dialogues with key players in Central and State Governments, Reserve Bank of India, various public and private banks and financial institutions, sector regulatory bodies, industry, and multilateral agencies.

Gaurav Kapoor

Senior Head - Industry Partnership, CSR, Media & Advocacy at National Skill Development Corporation

D Peter Immanuel

CEO, AASSC

PK Narayanan

PK is a business Coach for CEOs, Business Leaders, Entrepreneurs and their leadership teams. His passion is to help growth-driven leaders reach their potential and beyond; helping them to be even more successful thus creating a positive impact for themselves, their people, and the society at large. He has rich Coaching, Consulting and Corporate work experience in high performance environments. PK has held leadership positions in India and abroad with renowned businesses. PK is a Professional Certified Coach [PCC] from International Coach Federation (ICF). Specialties: CEO Coach, Leadership, Business Coach, Business growth management, Scaling, Business plans, Business Strategy, high performance management, transformational growth, change management, leadership development.

Ramkumar Narayanan

Ramkumar (Ram) Narayanan is a global leader focusing on data driven, digital product innovation spanning consumer and enterprise markets. He brings a vast experience in product development, product management and product marketing having led both new market entry and turnaround of existing business areas. He has been an advisor to Enterprises, large and small, in the arena of digital transformation, product strategy and product marketing. Ram is currently VP and Managing Site Director R&D at VmWare India. Prior to joining VmWare, he served in global leadership positions at eBay, Yahoo! and Microsoft. He started his career in the auto industry in US developing software solutions for design and packaging of automotive suspension and powertrain systems. Ramkumar Narayanan holds a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Anna University, Chennai, M.S. in Mechanical Engineering & MBA from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Specialties: - Digital Transformation led by Customer Journey - Managing product development organizations - Software Product Management & Product Marketing for Consumer and Enterprise products - Product strategy - New market development in Emerging Markets

Dr. Kaustubh Radkar

Founder and Director at RadRx Healthcare services, Founder Radstrong coaching A dynamic healthcare consultant who is extremely passionate about his work, Kaustubh has over 10 years experience in various elements of the healthcare value chain including patients, providers, health insurance, pharmaceuticals, medical devices and information technology. A proven individual as Ironman, he finished the Ultramarathons on all 6 continents.

Amarjit Malik

He is an Ex-Indian Air Force, Fighter Pilot with 28 years of Aviation background. Founder of Templepilots, he started his own paragliding school. MASTER INSTRUCTOR from APPI International, Switzerland - Effectively the most qualified Instructor in the country today. APPI International’s (Association Of Professional Pilots & Instructors, Switzerland) only Master Instructor in India.

Dr Geoffrey Abbott

Highly experienced coach and educator in leadership development across a variety of organisations and sectors. Internationally experienced with a special interest in working in complex organisational contexts across sectors including financial, automotive, resources, education, and government. Director of Executive and Organisational Coaching at the Graduate School of Business QUT. Engaged in developing and delivering advanced programs in leadership through coaching and mentoring. Skilled in working with teams and small groups to promote individual and collective insight that supports deeper and richer conversations about objectives that matter. Believes in solution focused approaches that are grounded in authentic individual and organisational values. Promotes a variety of approaches for generating rich conversations in diverse and complex environments. Co-editor of The Routledge Companion to International Business Coaching (Moral and Abbott, 2011). Based in Australia; works internationally. Works from an action learning approach in partnership with client organizations. Various academic interests across leadership development, complex systems and executive coaching. Teaches leadership development at masters level. Specialties: International Business coaching Complexity and systems thinking Global Mindset Leadership Organisational change Group and Team Coaching

Ilana Diamond

Entrepreneurial executive with track record of leading and growing companies from early-stage to exit, including building management teams, managing mergers and acquisitions, and raising venture capital. Board leadership experience includes private companies and not-for-profit organizations.

John White

I have been working on computers for quite some time now. At a young age I was drawn to computers and once I was able to receive a high speed connection at my house I was hooked. Over the years my entrepreneurial spirit combined with my technical aptitude has lead me down a path of highly technical and complex solution design for a wide variety of business/IT problems. In my current role I set the direction for Expedient's Product Strategy and evangelize Expedient as a brand. My team is tasked with designing products, services, and solutions that solve every day IT problems. I love making new professional connections. Feel free to reach out to me if you want to talk technology, business, or cars. Specialties: Team Building, General Management, Partner Selection, Negotiation, and Management, System Design, Solution Sales, Public Speaking, White Paper and Presentation Development, Cost Modeling, Product Design and Strategy, Competitive Analysis

Eric Wise

Leading development of connected gas sensors for use in the industrial and specialty gas markets. Responsible for customer discovery, product development, and financial planning.

Paul Slay

Recruiting is still a big problem for employers. Job boards generally provide mediocre candidates and generally waste your team's time, and agencies charge an arm and a leg for a single placement. We work with a national network of professional recruiters that we provide with internally developed sourcing software to fix these problems. Our platform is built on principles from the fields of Personnel and Human Resources Psychology, Machine Learning, and Advanced Analytics. We provide you access to the same hiring techniques used by leaders in the tech industry at half the price of an agency and without dedicating precious internal resources to your recruiting goals. Our focus is in the tech industry - developers, designers, quality assurance, product managers, sales, customer success, finance, marketing and more.

Bob Fields

Passionate, respected and sought after consumer technology executive comfortable working with organizations large and small. Various executive leadership roles have included business management, sales, biz dev, customer experience / support, operations, new product development, marketing, branding, pricing and more. Current industry volunteer at the Consumer Technology Association where I currently serve as Chair of the Vehicle Technology Division Board as well as a member of the Board of Industry Leaders and Member of the CTAPAC Board. Accomplished speaker and presenter including sales and training presentations as well as successful investment pitches and media interviews.

Jen Tan

Vice President, Business Development (Renewables) Renewables & Environment Business Sembcorp Industries Ltd

Albert Lim

Managing Director SolarGy Pte Ltd SolarGy Pte Ltd is one of the leading professional system integrators of solar PV systems based in Singapore. The founder of SolarGy, Albert Lim, has been a practicing M&E consulting engineer for more than 25 years. Leveraging the founder’s background knowledge and experience, SolarGy delivers optimum solutions to Clients from a designer's perspective. The result is a PV system that is not only high in performance but integrates seamlessly into the building architecture. Since its incorporation in 2007, SolarGy has successfully undertaken several notable PV projects for Clients such as NTU, NUS, PUB, Resorts World at Sentosa, Keppel Infrastructure Trust, CapitaLand, SingTel, Singapore Polytechnic, Temasek Polytechnic, NEA, NParks, ST Aerospace, SP Group, 3M, etc. In his 25 years of practice as an engineering consultant, Mr. Lim’s work culture has been centered on professionalism, commitment, and passion. This is the same culture that he brings forth to SolarGy. It is this business model that leads to the company’s success in securing several large and iconic solar PV projects within a short span of time of its incorporation. In particular, SolarGy managed to clinch the largest PV project in Singapore of 500 kWp at the Universal Studios in Resorts World At Sentosa within 2 years of its incorporation. It is the company's vision that by designing efficient and creative solar energy solutions, they will enthuse and attract more building owners to consider solar energy as an alternative or to supplement their energy needs. In turn, this strategy will help to cut down carbon emissions from our home country and to the world at large. With the above sustainable business model in place, SolarGy became the first company in Singapore to receive the prestigious Frost and Sullivan Award for Leadership In Solar PV Market Penetration in 2010. In February 2013, SolarGy broke their previous track record by completing the single largest PV system at the Keppel Seghers NEWater Plant – a 1 MW solar PV project with more than 4000 solar panels sprawling over about 10,000 sqm of roof space. In 2014, SolarGy again won the single largest PV project in Singapore - a 5MW PV system at the NTU and a 1 MW PV system at the PUB Choa Chu Kang Waterworks. To date, SolarGy has successfully completed 16 MW or solar PV systems with a further 8 MW currently under construction. Being a registered Professional Engineer, SolarGy’s Managing Director is well placed to engage with the various technical agencies such as EMA, Singapore Power, SCDF, URA, BCA, etc. so the design and installation of the PV systems are optimized while meeting the minimum regulatory regimes.

Milan Koev

Milan Koev acts as VP Sales APAC for REC since August 2017. Prior to his role with REC, he was a Managing Director of Singaporean EPC and project development company Rays Experts. He also has been serving as Head of Marketing Operations of CNPV Solar and later as Head of Eastern European Sales Operations for the company. Milan has extensive experience in developing and financing solar projects in APAC through a network of international private equity investors and financing institutions.

Jon Gonzalez

Demonstrating how dynamic a career in Audit & Assurance can be
At Deloitte, Jon has pursued a rich mix of opportunities in areas such as accounting theory and application, regulatory issues, public speaking, working with clients, even delivering bad news.

Andrew Klein

Andrew Klein has been working with startups and emerging growth companies for over 12 years as a founder and as an outside advisor for both the entrepreneurial team and their investors.  In this capacity he has managed the strategic operations, company exits, and funding of companies in a variety of industries with specific expertise in SaaS, Healthcare, Hospitality & Consumer Products, and Energy/Construction.  Companies with Andrew's direct involvement have raised almost $70 million in debt and equity. He also has a strong passion for entrepreneurship and connecting people together as shown in his involvement as a TechStars Alumni, mentor at 9Mile Labs Accelerator, a teacher at General Assembly, and in running the meetup group Cigars & Startups.  He holds a BS in accounting and an MBA focused on entrepreneurial finance both from Seattle University.

Ryan Nisle

Ryan Nisle, a partner at Miller Nash Graham & Dunn LLP, focuses his practice primarily on tax and business law, with an emphasis on partnership and corporate tax, state and local taxation, international taxation, executive compensation, and tax incentives related to energy and affordable housing. Ryan advises both alcoholic beverage and cannabis-related businesses on corporate structures and ownership agreements to advance their business plans, with an emphasis on tax planning, and assists clients in these industries in defending assessments of excise tax.

Sudip Chakrabarti

Sudip joined Madrona in 2018. Sudip is particularly interested in companies that are transforming the enterprise, cloud and infrastructure markets. He especially enjoys working with technical founders – sharing his own experiences as a technical founder and helping them to build successful teams and businesses.

Past Lives

Prior to joining Madrona, Sudip was a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners where he led or co-led investments in Streamlio, Serverless, Rainnet, Exabeam and, a Madrona portfolio company, Heptio. He started his investing career at Osage University Partners and subsequently was an enterprise investor at Andreessen Horowitz where he was involved with companies such as Actifio, Databricks, Digital Ocean, Forward Networks, Mesosphere and Samsara.

Before venturing into early-stage investing, Sudip was an entrepreneur and an engineer. He started his first company when he was at Georgia Tech, and his second while in business school. In between, he spent a few years as an engineer building complex software systems at Synopsys.

This experience of founding enterprise technology-oriented businesses led Sudip to the venture side and he has been investing in enterprise and open source software companies since that time. His founder experience gives him direct insight into the challenges of startups which involve ups and downs and persistence. He strives to be a trusted partner to every entrepreneur he works with.

Education

Sudip received his PhD in Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech, an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a B. Tech from IIT Kharagpur.

Craig Sherman

Craig Sherman is a partner in the Seattle office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he focuses on corporate and securities laws, representing companies, venture capital firms, and investment banks in private placements and public offerings. He also has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, technology licensing, and domestic and international joint ventures. Craig earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1989. He received M.A. and B.A. degrees from Stanford University in 1985.

Duncan Butcher

Duncan Butcher, a partner at Miller Nash Graham & Dunn LLP, focuses his practice on corporate transactional law and securities. He counsels corporate clients on issues that arise at all stages of a company’s life cycle, including entity formation, corporate governance, incentive compensation plans, private placement equity and debt offerings, public company reporting and SEC compliance, commercial transactions, and ongoing general corporate matters. Duncan's clients operate in a variety of industries, including technology, retail and consumer products and services, food and beverage, professional services, and real estate.

Shirish Nadkarni Author ‘Startup to Exit’

Shirish Nadkarni is a serial entrepreneur with proven success in creating multiple consumer businesses that have scaled to tens of millions of users worldwide. Shirish was the co-founder of Livemocha, the world’s largest language learning site with 15 million registered members from over 200 countries. Livemocha was acquired by RosettaStone in 2013. Prior to Livemocha, Shirish was the founder of TeamOn Systems, a mobile wireless e-mail pioneer that was acquired by Research in Motion in 2002. The TeamOn technology served as the core foundation for Blackberry Internet E-mail which serviced over 50 million BlackBerry users at its peak. Shirish is the author of an award winning book - “From Startup to Exit - An Insider’s Guide to Launching and Scaling Your Tech Business”.

“From Startup to Exit” shares the knowledge that pioneering, serial entrepreneur Shirish Nadkarni has gained from over two decades of success, detailing the practical aspects of startup formation from founding, funding, management, and finding an exit.

Kellan Carter, Fuse Venture

Kellan Carter is a founding partner of Fuse where he focuses on early-stage investments in intelligent software in both horizontal and vertical categories.  At Fuse, Kellan has led investments in Owl and Pave.  Previously, Kellan spent seven years at Ignition Partners, a leading early-stage venture capital firm. He joined Ignition in 2013 and was made partner by 2018. At Ignition, Kellan led investments in Botkeeper, Symend, Icertis, KenSci, and Azuqua, and served on the boards of both Botkeeper and Symend.

Prior to Ignition, Kellan spent two years in investment banking at Mooreland Partners in San Francisco. There, he helped execute M&A transactions for technology companies in a variety of sectors, including mobile, enterprise software, systems, and infrastructure. Prior to Mooreland Partners, Kellan was an associate in KPMG’s advisory practice in Orange County, CA, where he helped structure asset-backed securities collateralized by student loans, auto loans, and residential and commercial mortgages.

Kellan holds a BS degree in business administration from the University of Montana in Missoula, where he graduated summa cum laude.  After college, Kellan founded an online, business-networking platform to connect current students and faculty to UM alumni.

Ben is the co-founder of Pioneer Square Labs, a startup studio and early-stage venture capital firm in Seattle. He is a technology investor and entrepreneur. He has a background in product management from Microsoft where he shipped the first version of Office for iPad and ran The Garage, the company’s grassroots innovation program. Ben also co-founded Madrona Venture Labs.

Anuvab Pal

Anuvab Pal is an internationally renowned playwright, screenwriter, stand up comic and author. He has been featured as rotating co-host on the The Bugle Podcast. As a corporate stand up comedian, Anuvab has delivered around 400 shows, primarily for Fortune 500 companies. Prior to becoming a comedian, Anuvab spent 20 years in financial services including working in sales and product development building web-based solutions for investment bankers, VC's, hedge funds, and investment management companies at Reuters, in investment banking as a financial analyst during the Internet IPO tech boom and as an intern at the Federal Reserve in Chicago. He also led finance and operations for his family business, a landmarked floating hotel in the Guiness Book of world records as the first in India. His professional experience gives him a unique approach to comedy. His content is less about jokes and more about how new ideas can be applied to thinking about how day-to-day work in banking, coding, relationship management, HR, law, technology could be done or thought about differently. His stand up shows are centered on the workplace of today, the global economy, technology, big data, doing business in India and China, office politics, corporate jargon (What does Webinar really mean? What is dotted line reporting?") and interview ironies (My only weakness is I take on too much responsibility" Hmmm…). Anuvab has published four novels, two award-winning screenplays and four stage plays produced around the world. His alma maters include La Martiniere, Calcutta and Ohio Wesleyan University.

Tejpaul Bhatia

Tejpaul Bhatia is the NY Startup Program Lead for Google Cloud. He was most recently an Entrepreneur in Residence at Citi Ventures. His most recent startup post was as COO for Explain Everything, an interactive screen casting whiteboard app. He also served as CEO and co-founder of Chatwala, a mobile video chat app and Kaptur (acquired), an app that enables users to aggregate photos taken at an event in seconds. Prior to founding Kaptur, Tej was Senior Manager of Product and International Strategy for ESPN, where he launched ESPN3 in the US, Mexico, Brazil, and Europe. He also co-founded Media Strategy Partners, a media asset management consulting company. Tej began his career as a digital media consultant at Scient and Sekani.

Loretta McCarthy

Loretta McCarthy is Managing Partner of Golden Seeds. She is responsible for the Golden Seeds angel network nationwide, including member cultivation, orientation and engagement. She is a frequent speaker – in the US and internationally – about early stage investing, women entrepreneurs and gender diversity. Prior to Golden Seeds, she was Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at OppenheimerFunds, a leading asset management firm, as well as Vice President of Marketing at American Express. She brings to this role deep experience in strategy, marketing, product development, public affairs and corporate communications. She has extensive experience serving on boards of directors of corporations and non-profit organizations.

David Teten

David Teten is a Managing Partner with HOF Capital and Founder of Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York, the largest angel group on the East Coast. His primary interests include fintech, technology-enabled services, analytics, artificial intelligence, sales/recruiting technology, SaaS and international startups. David was previously a Partner with ff Venture Capital (one of the best-performing seed- and early-stage VC firms in the US), Founder of Navon Partners (a software startup which identified private companies for investment using public data sources), Acting CEO of Vertical Key (a SaaS business for managing large-scale events). He was also a Managing Director with Evalueserve, CEO of Circle of Experts, Founder and CEO of GoldNames and a co-founder of PEVCTech (an online community focused on helping private equity and VC funds make better investments through technology). Further, he was on Bear Stearns’ technology/defense M&A team. He has advised Goldman Sachs Special Situations Group, Icahn Enterprises, LLR Partners, Birch Hill Equity Partners and other institutional investors. David holds a Harvard MBA and a Yale BA. He writes regularly on teten.com and has led studies on DisruptInvesting.com.

Samir Chokshi

Charter Member

Committee

Sab Kanaujia

Committee

Craig Abbott

Committee

Sachin Shah

Committee

Dharti Desai

Committee

Chand Sooran

Co-Chair

Michael Grupp

Michael Grupp is a lawyer and entrepreneur. He is founder and managing director of RYTER GmbH, a provider of automation software. Michael founded several start-up companies and sold them successfully: The academic database and recruitment portal Thesius (sold in 2017), as well as Lexalgo Legal Tech (sold in 2018), a provider of decision support systems and legal process automation, which also has won several awards for its technologies, including those developed together with the European Space Agency (ESA).

Sarat Eati

Sarat Eati is co-founder of Virtual Soft Consultants for the Hesse region. He completed his master’s degree in computer applications and started his career as network administrator. He is a full-time technology architect who helps, plans, designs and supports the projects that are looking towards digitalization transformation, automation, solutioning as well as offshoring and nearshoring. Currently he is supporting retail industry giants in Europe. Sarat is a chartered member of TiE Deutschland and member of its core team.

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Doug Nelson

Over the last 9 years developing intelligent systems in the healthcare field, I've had the opportunity to hone my skills in rapid manufacturing, electrical and software engineering, user-centered design, and team leadership. During that time, I've also had the opportunity to work with some brilliant mentors and colleagues who share my passion for innovation towards making education more efficient and accessible. After completing my PhD in Bioengineering at Pitt, I started Lumis in order to translate my academic research into tools that can aid healthcare educators and providers on their mission to provide high quality patient care. At Lumis, we are illuminating healthcare education with augmented reality and automated instruction.

Tom Anderson

Currently, in my role of CTO for Maritom, LLC, I am also the CTO and one of the co-founders of Stabertson Technologies, LLC which is devoted to creating high-security, HIPAA-compliant, responsive solutions for use on mobile devices and web sites. Stabertson Technologies is also developing new technology on the forefront of mobile app development. Previously, I was CTO of C-Leveled, LLC. As the CTO of C-leveled, I managed development teams both domestic and off-shore and have architected, developed, overseen and launched several high-security and/or HIPAA compliant apps, including: • PT-Helper for physical therapists active in 32 countries, • Research study application for UPMC Magee-Women’s Hospital, • Physician-based application on ineffectiveness of pain medication for AEquip • Inventory tracking system with complete integration into Salesforce • Architecture of interactive experience using Beacon Technology • among many other both mobile and web applications I started my career with Microsoft Corporation as Program Manager on Windows 3.11, Windows for Workgroups, Windows 95, and Internet Explorer. I also led the Windows 10k program and created the Windows Resource Kit. I presented with the executive staff of Microsoft several times. After leaving Microsoft, I became a serial entrepreneur: first forming Three Points Consulting, to work with Microsoft, Heinz, and Pittsburgh Pirates. Three Points was acquired by TechRx, a pharmaceutical software company, where I remained as CTO through its acquisition by NDCHealth. I was recruited by Research in Motion, assisting in high-security HIPAA-compliant mobile apps for US Steel and UPMC. I am a guest lecturer, including the University of Notre Dame, and at conferences in Argentina; Brazil; Chile; China; Holland; Thailand; and throughout the United States and Canada. I have the honor of being quoted in PC Week, PC Magazine, Esquire, Techvibes.com, and Engadget.com. I am also a frequent columnist for TEQ magazine.

Chris Harrison

Chris directs the Future Interfaces Group, which broadly investigates novel sensing technologies and interaction techniques that foster powerful and natural interactions between humans and computers. These efforts often lie in emerging use modalities, such as mobile computing, touch interfaces and gestural interaction. Harrison was recently named as one of the top 30 scientists under 30 by Forbes, a top 35 innovator under 35 by MIT Technology Review, and one of six innovators to watch in 2013 by Smithsonian. He has been awarded fellowships by Google, Microsoft Research and Qualcomm.

Ray Milhem

I grow revenue and contain costs by leveraging global relationships, scaling solutions, and integrating technology for startups and Fortune 500 companies in the technology and telecom sectors.

My expertise includes strategic planning, product management, technology operations, P&L, and staff leadership in 8 US states and 12 countries.

➤ ATTRACT & RETAIN THE BEST TALENT
Ensure short- and long-term organizational success by recruiting, developing, and allocating the best people in the right positions to complement each other’s skills. Provide them with the tools, training, and accountability they need to produce personal, team, and corporate success.

➤ BUILD COMPETITIVE PRODUCTS
Anticipate technology trends, identify key innovators, and develop collaborative strategies to advance unique product characteristics that produce value at the lowest marginal cost of development.

➤ LEARN CONTINUALLY
Discover and apply new methods, ideas, and technologies. Take risks, admit mistakes, and improve. Comprehend new processes, technologies, and businesses. Be open to new ideas by reading widely in science, leadership, and business.

➤ RESPECT EVERYONE
Be compassionate and respectful with people at all levels. Appreciate their perspectives to collaborate, identify opportunities, and find win-win solutions.

➤ CONTRIBUTE
As a capitalist with heart, I want to help the people and society around me. My mission is to build businesses and create wealth for myself and others through coaching and mentoring, speaking, and contributing through philanthropy.

CORE COMPETENCIES:
● M&A Restructures / Consolidations
● Technical Solutions Innovation
● Design & Delivery
● Resource Planning & Allocation
● Multi-Departmental Global Collaboration
● Contract Negotiations
● Optimizing the Customer Experience
● Strategic / Tactical Planning & Execution
● Vendor Management

CONTACT ME!
Ray.Milhem@Gmail.com
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Krishna Pendyala

Krishna Pendyala is an expert on the art & science of human judgment & choice-making. His pioneering work on Judgment Quotient® or JQ® is being recognized as the third intelligence beyond IQ and EQ. He is a keynote speaker, seminar leader and an adviser to entrepreneurs, executives and emerging leaders—people he refers to as “driven and restless” achievers—professionals who are eager to grow, to improve, and create change in their organizations, their clients and their personal lives.

Krishna is the founder & Chief Empowerment Officer of the ChoiceLadder Institute and co-founder & President of the Mindful Nation Foundation. As a choice engineer and philanthropist, he has devoted over 25 years of his professional life integrating Systems Thinking, Neuroscience, Social Psychology, and Behavioral Economics to improve our real-time decision-making skills. His thought leadership is built on a long career of executive leadership, entrepreneurship, research, and innovation. Krishna’s motto for 2020 is to Make Foresight 20/20™.

Krishna’s transformational approach to personal and professional development has been featured on TEDx, The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Thrive Global, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and Inc. magazine among others. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed book, Beyond the PIG and APE: Realizing Success and true Happiness.

Krishna received his B.S. in civil engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, his M.S. in education foundations and media technology from Indiana State University, and has attended executive management programs at both Carnegie Mellon and Harvard universities. In 2014, Krishna was awarded the distinguished alumni award for his professional achievements and community service from Indiana State University. He is also a graduate of Landmark Education's Curriculum for Living. Krishna lives in Pittsburgh with his wife and two children and enjoys playing golf, photography, kayaking, and RVing.

Simon Hemmes

Senior Global Application Expert Fabric Care, Diversey

Abhishek Tankariya

"Education:- BE Mechanical from Mumbai university 2000 Join Larsen & Toubro Ltd as a junior Engg in Oil and gas division. In 2016 Oct Left company as a Operation Head and started RadRap LLP Recycling Management solution company.Converting waste plastics in Bio Fuel.Also providing Complete Waste solution for Domestics and industries as per their Nature of work. Founded in July 2016 by 2 partners. Establish Laundry Business unit in may 2017 Brand called 24klen Laundry Science , A Premium laundry retail unit. Currently Heading both unit and both are in Growing stage. Consulting few Laundry startups in different locations of India. Connected to Religious Organisation ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness)Motivational Speaker and trainer to young startups. Giving class on different topics to SIBM,NIBR Pune to final year students.

Sreejith Narendran

Laundry Equipment Supplier

Zulfikar Dhanse

Zulfikar is an ex-banker turned Entrepreneur who is now pursuing activities from laundry to leadership coaching.

Sh. Rajnish Goenka

Mr Rajnish Goenka is the Chairman & Managing Director of Tobu Group and MSME Development Forum. Being the National Convenor for BJP Micro & Small Industries Cell, he looks after the interests of Micro & Small Entrepreneurs. Under the able guidance of Shri Narendra Modi, he has been entrusted with the responsibility to understand the problems of SME sector and work towards upliftment of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises.​

Neha Dhawan

"Neha Dhawan, Masters in Human Resource management, BA hons political science, B ed..joined the league of business, ADC group 2 years back. Joining a business has been a choice I made.I have grown and have learned and have been able to explore my creativity in ways that I would not have been able to had I not taken that step Joining and running your business is empowering.You get to set your own hours and contribute towards your family commitments as well. As an entrepreneur you have to have the passion and derive to stay in the course.Build something you are passionate about.We at Ashoka Drycleaners ,serving Delhi NCR since 1967 is constantly making endeavors to provide its customers with the finest quality dry cleaning possible

Rakesh Sharma

QSWPL Laundromat is one of the fastest growing companies in India to introduce OPL in Campuses. We offer excellent utility to people especially the students, faculty, staff working men and women who are hard pressed for time. We take off the burden of washing, drying and ironing with least time and money. The time gained is better utilized in studies and to pursue other social activities. In summary we “ Incorporate technology in saving valuable time of student, maintain hygiene and bestow a longer life to attires that too with total care towards environment.

Rajev S Kumar

"STAHL Laundry Machine India Private Limited is Joint Venture between STAHL from Germany and Wasmaatic from India. This JV company is formed to support fast growing customer base of STAHL in Asian markets. STAHL –India has a fully functional office with spare parts stock , qualified engineers and a functional laundry set up for live demonstration and training. Here we offer A complete range of competitively priced Laundry, Dry cleaning and Pressing machines Cost Effective Laundry Solutions Design Assistance Energy reviews

Pratibha Vanambathina

Started laundry business just 2 years back, Mrs. Pratibha is a source motivation for everyone out there who dream to make it on their own. Her humble beginnings did not stop her transforming her business into an enterprise.

Pooja M.K.

"I am currently the partner and the co-founder of SYNERGY EXPRESS GARMENT CARE. We have a chain of DRY CLEANING stores based out of JAMSHEDPUR. After completing my schooling from JAMSHEDPUR I went on to pursue my further education from CHRIST COLLEGE, BANGALORE. I was always bit by the entrepreneurship bug right from my school days and it was just because of this burning desire that resulted in the birth of SYNERGY in the year 2010 in my hometown. We are currently looking forward to expanding SYNERGY and making it a reputable name in the Eastern Region.

Naresh Srivastava

Mr. Naresh Srivastava is a proprietor of M/s. ATN Consultants. He is specialized in various type of industrial and commercial laundry which is a part of food service and facility planning of hotels and hospitals. He has international experience and completed approx 250 projects in the same field.

Mr. Srinivas Rao

Commercial Laundry Consultant

Monika Maheshwari

"Neha Dhawan, Masters in Human Resource management, BA hons political science, B ed..joined the league of business, ADC group 2 years back. Joining a business has been a choice I made.I have grown and have learned and have been able to explore my creativity in ways that I would not have been able to had I not taken that step Joining and running your business is empowering.You get to set your own hours and contribute towards your family commitments as well. My journey in this industry started 18 years back when my father in law passed away. After taking enough learnings and experience in the B2B sector, with my husbands vision and guidance started the retail brand Care4wear in 2012. We have 6 stores at present and are expanding and growing everyday ever since.

Mohana M

"A journalist for over 26 years, Mohana M, the Editor of Clean India Journal, the world’s first monthly focussing on cleaning technology & hygiene solutions that was launched in 2005, has worked with prominent publications in India and abroad for over a decade. Her passion for doing something different and pursuit to “meaningful journalism” has been realised through Clean India Journal. Twelve years of hard work and her contribution to the cleaning industry, which also includes Linen Care, Washroom Hygiene, Facility Services, Waste and Car Care, has been much appreciated. In depth writing, industry analysis and surveys are her forte. Over the past few years, Mohana has successfully organised international conferences, creating a platform for the industry players to interact and share knowledge. These include LaundrexNet, Clean India Conferences, International Housekeepers’ Summit, Hospital Infection Control, and many more.

Kho Tjin Hok

Mr. Kho Tjin Hok/Lagoon Specialist, Asia Pacific for Electrolux Professional S.E.Asia & India Regional HQ (based in Singapore) has worked for many years in the laundry industry. His knowledge in the Electrolux Professional Lagoon Advanced Care Woolmark wet cleaning system as well as the experiences gained in various countries (Asia Pacific) as the trainer and speaker enables him to be able to discuss and recommend the wet cleaning solutions suited to the customer's needs. His vast knowledge and exposure in various types of fabrics from many different countries also helps to expand the sharing of information with customers. Additionally his understanding of the laundry industries also enables him to conduct feasibility studies as well as recommending the proper laundry equipments. Likewise, conducting the Lagoon Advanced Care Woolmark workshops/seminars/live demos are also amongst of his ongoing projects.

Honey Jain

Co- founder at The Laundry Bag.

Dr. Shashi Balain

"Dr. Shashi B Balain is the MD and CEO of Shubhram Hospital Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (India), which is a joint venture between Hygeia (Netherlands) and Servizi Italia (Italy), the leading hospital laundry, linen and surgical tool Sterilisation Company of Italy. Before setting up Shubhram Hospital Solutions Pvt. Ltd. in partnership with SI (Italy), Shashi was the founder and Managing Director of (CHPRC), UK and specialized in providing market research and strategic management consultancy to organisations wanting to enter Indian market. He is a PhD in Psychology and MBA from Lancaster University Management School, UK. He has a rich experience of setting up and running businesses involved in advising multinational corporations like McDonalds’ (UK, Denmark and Sweden) and Global Corporate Challenge (GCC) Australia on issues ranging from strategic performance management to data-led marketing strategies. Besides running some very successful businesses, he has avid interest in management research and is actively engaged in teaching on international executive management programs in his spare time. He has taught at various universities in UK including Institute of Work Psychology (IWP), University of Sheffield, and Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster. As a practicing leader, Shashi is a strong believer in evidence-based-management and has published various papers and contributed book chapters to books on strategic management."

Chirag Bhatia

"Chirag Bhatia, a graduate from the Indian School of Business and a professional audio engineer is a young entrepreneur and an enthusiastic leader for 5asec dry cleaning in India As one of the directors at SBfabcare Pvt Ltd (master franchisee 5asec India), Chirag currently holds responsibility of the business operations, technology & training for 5asec in India. He is also a part of 5asec’s global I.T strategy team which is responsible for designing and improving the brand’s proprietary global ERP. Chirag started his career in the year 2010 as a laundry technologist and I.T professional at SBfabcare. Being a thorough professional he attained training from some of the global technology giants in the laundry space - Firbimatic, Alliance, metalprogetti, to name a few. His hands-on experience of setting up and operating 24 successful 5asec stores in 3 cities of India, makes him a strong believer in the power of technology in the retail laundry space. Chirag believes that with speedy growth of the laundry industry, many new service providers that are emerging in the organized retail laundry space face several operational problems due to improper systems and SOP’s. He finds all answers in simple tech solutions and training that can not only eliminate redundant work processes, but also boost efficiencies and help gaining the customers’ trust."

CA Navya Malhotra

Navya is a regular speaker at various respected forums and platforms including the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India (CMA) for its members and students. He is a faculty in the NIRC of the ICAI. He has also deliberated the seminars, workshops and open discussions in various educational institutions all over Northern India including the KMC College and Maharaja Agrasen College of the University of the Delhi.

Ashutosh Khadria

Proprietor, SSK White Collar

Anshul Gupta

Co- Founded 'Quick Clean' India's 1st self service laundromat chain. 1st Company to introduce the concept of Community washing in India. Quick Clean has specialization in setting up of a coin/card operated laundry. Till date have successfully consulted more than 600 entrepreneurs in setting up Laundry Business in India and abroad.

Rachit Ahuja

Rachit Ahuja, founder Quick Dry Cleaning Software – an award winning software being used in 35 countries across the globe. Rachit is a third generation dry cleaner and a master degree holder in computer science. In his past he has worked with some renowned Indian and American Tech Consultancy firms. His 12 years of IT experience combined with knowledge of laundry domain empowered him to bring state-of- the- art evolvement in dry cleaning industry. With his leadership skills and vision, he has brought quick dry cleaning software to an incredible level. Rachit loves learning new things, solving interesting problems, meeting awesome people and making new friends every day

Elizabeth LaRue

Expertise in: Health informatics, Research design : Evaluation Studies, Curriculum development, Project Management, HCI, Information management, Information dissemination

Mendel Bassman

Mendel has been a proven leader for 10 years first in the field of education and later in the recycling world. He lead many projects in the non-ferrous, e-scrap recycling industries. He’s an action oriented out-of-the box thinker that takes ideas and makes them reality. In 2014, he founded Smart Tire Recycling. He built a team of world class engineers to make Smart Tire Recycling an industry leader in tire pyrolysis.

Balasaraswathy Nair

Managing Trustee PRAYAS

Shweta Merchant

Motivational Speaker

Vivek Rajendran

Juvo Robotics is developing an Autonomous Baggage Tractor to address the labor shortage in the $185B Aircraft Ground Handling industry

Jeff Ericson

Cities are my passion. I've been studying, wandering in, exploring and dreaming about cities since I was a kid growing up in Denver. We had 'busing' in Denver and in first grade I'd start my day in a 1960's functional school building (McMeen - we were the 'Meanies') in a white middle class neighborhood, and mid-day be bused to an almost identical building near Montbello (Smith) in a black middle class neighborhood. The long trip up and down Monaco Blvd going from one to the other was like traveling through a cross section of the earth, complete with jewels and bones and curiosities of all types. These two neighborhoods didn't look so different, but all the voices around me said they were. I've since traveled all across this great country, in South America, Europe and Africa; for the longest time I studied the buildings - the great ones and the plain ones: or thought I did. Only much later did I realize that the important stuff is everything else. The people, the spaces between buildings, the roads, sidewalks, and connective tissues of our cities and towns. Those details that appear accidental but happen in every town, and those products of engineers and committees that could be anywhere or nowhere, and that too often don't really work. It's a funny thing - we used to think a lot less intensely about how our cities should be, but those cities were much richer places to live. About 6 years ago I left Architecture – making props for our towns isn't scalable, and it isn't satisfying. Architecture today has very little to do with delight, and way too much to do with compliance. Transportation isn't sexy, but it has much more impact on people's lives, and for most of us, in a very real way, access to transportation is the key to opportunity and self-determination. It’s also our best hope for strengthening communities and supporting our local businesses and shops. RubyRide is excited to play a part in the next chapter of the Great American Cities and Towns.

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Ray Milhem

I grow revenue and contain costs by leveraging global relationships, scaling solutions, and integrating technology for startups and Fortune 500 companies in the technology and telecom sectors.

My expertise includes strategic planning, product management, technology operations, P&L, and staff leadership in 8 US states and 12 countries.

➤ ATTRACT & RETAIN THE BEST TALENT
Ensure short- and long-term organizational success by recruiting, developing, and allocating the best people in the right positions to complement each other’s skills. Provide them with the tools, training, and accountability they need to produce personal, team, and corporate success.

➤ BUILD COMPETITIVE PRODUCTS
Anticipate technology trends, identify key innovators, and develop collaborative strategies to advance unique product characteristics that produce value at the lowest marginal cost of development.

➤ LEARN CONTINUALLY
Discover and apply new methods, ideas, and technologies. Take risks, admit mistakes, and improve. Comprehend new processes, technologies, and businesses. Be open to new ideas by reading widely in science, leadership, and business.

➤ RESPECT EVERYONE
Be compassionate and respectful with people at all levels. Appreciate their perspectives to collaborate, identify opportunities, and find win-win solutions.

➤ CONTRIBUTE
As a capitalist with heart, I want to help the people and society around me. My mission is to build businesses and create wealth for myself and others through coaching and mentoring, speaking, and contributing through philanthropy.

CORE COMPETENCIES:
● M&A Restructures / Consolidations
● Technical Solutions Innovation
● Design & Delivery
● Resource Planning & Allocation
● Multi-Departmental Global Collaboration
● Contract Negotiations
● Optimizing the Customer Experience
● Strategic / Tactical Planning & Execution
● Vendor Management

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Ray.Milhem@Gmail.com
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Christopher Walton

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Phehello J Mofokeng

Author of Sankomota: An Ode in One Album (Geko, 2018)

Anuj Malhotra

Is a film critic in New Delhi. He handles the publications for Lightcube and publishes Umbra, a newspaper on alternative cinema in the country, as well as Projectorhead, a journal of film criticism. His work has been cited in prestigious national and international forums.

Norman Sadeh

Dr. Norman Sadeh served as founding CEO of Wombat Security Technologies and continued as Chairman and Chief Scientist until the company’s acquisition. Together with his collaborators, he grew Wombat to become a leading provider of anti-phishing and cybersecurity awareness training technologies. Wombat was acquired for $225M by Proofpoint (NASDAQ: PFPT) in February 2018. By the time of its acquisition Wombat had well over 2,000 corporate customers, and had been named a clear leader in the Gartner Group’s Magic Quadrant in Security Awareness Computer-Based Training for 4 years in a row (since the inception of Gartner’s Quadrant in this sector). It had also been identified as one of the 500 fastest growing technology companies in North America for three consecutive years in Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500. In May 2018, Norman was honored with the 2018 Outstanding Entrepreneur of the Year award from the Pittsburgh Venture Capital Association. Norman is also a professor in the School of Computer Science and the CyLab Security and Privacy Institute at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). He is director of CMU’s Mobile Commerce Laboratory and co-Director of the Master's Program in Privacy Engineering. He also co-founded and for 12 years co-directed the MBA track in Technology Leadership launched jointly by the Tepper School of Business and the School of Computer Science to train product managers for the tech industry. Norman received his Ph.D. in Computer Science at CMU with a major in Artificial Intelligence, a MS degree in computer science from the University of Southern California and a BS/MS degree in electrical engineering and applied physics from the Free University of Brussels (Belgium).

Diwakar Bedekar

Collaborative and customer-focused Director of Product Management, Data Management and Data Science with extensive experience in building products from ground up, rolling out, managing, and owning technology products and product suites. Skilled in the current technology applications, including Big Data, Social Media, Digital Advertising and Web Analytics. Recipient of multiple leadership awards for delivering product innovations and driving large-scale, complex products to completion on time and under budget. Demonstrated strengths: - Leading Strategic bets: Experience leading game changing and organization transforming strategic bets. The Consumer data platform at ESPN has changed the way the organization operates and have transformed it into a data drive organization. The Fan360 view is central to how ESPN does client side personalization, taps into the Fan’s emotions to show the most engaging ad creative and offers new products and services. - Team Building and Leadership: Experience building and managing virtual, remote and global multicultural teams across North America, Europe and Asia. Lead cross-functional teams consisting of product managers, developers, data analysts, data scientists, program managers and project managers. - Strong Communicator: Transparent communicator and liaison to business and technical divisions, customers and internal teams with extensive experience in customer-facing roles. Presented Disney Data and Analytics Conference, Dynamics AX Enterprise Portal at events, including Convergence 2009 and TechReady 8. Presented "Graphics Viewer for Internet/Intranet GIS application" paper at the Map India 2001 International conference in New Delhi.

Aditya Gokhale

Tech Savvy, self made professional who is multifaceted and with a very positive approach. He is highly talented but modest!

Aryan Singh

Entrepreneur and Researcher Chief Technical Officer, TensaX Innovation Lab MIT Launch Program Graduate

Smriti Kaur

Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Dr. Kaur is presently the Principal of Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC), University of Delhi, India. Prior to this, Dr. Kaur was with the Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi, India, where she taught management graduates courses on ‘The Economic Theory of a Firm’, ‘Macro Economics’ and ‘Public Policy Reforms’.Besides also guides research scholars in the area of Development Economics, Environmental Economics, Disinvestment and Mergers & Acquisitions. Her research interests primarily include climate change, agriculture and food security; privatization and public private partnerships (PPPs); and competition and productivity. Prof. Kaur has undertaken several research projects and acted as an advisor to institutes and organizations such as the Ministry of Finance (Government of India), Ministry of Industry (Government of India), National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.

Prof. M.L. Singla

More than 25 Years of Professional Experience in IT Industry and Management Education. Have 26 Research Papers and Articles and 2 Books to my Credit. Undertaken 5 Research Projects and have been consulting with Private, Public Sector and Government Organizations. Major Research Areas include Management of IT and Business Process Re-engineering. Have handled the responsibility of Dean(Examinations) of University of Delhi and the Dean(Alumni) of University of Delhi. Have travelled to USA, Israel, Japan, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Uganda Specially interested in Career Counseling for young students from School Level onwards Specialties: IT Strategy, e-Governance, and BPR

Rey de España

Felipe VI de España (Madrid, 30 de enero de 1968) es el actual rey de España, título por el que ostenta la Jefatura del Estado y el mando supremo de las Fuerzas Armadas. Fue proclamado ante las Cortes Generales el 19 de junio de 2014, tras hacerse efectiva la abdicación de su padre.7​ Es el tercer hijo del matrimonio formado por Juan Carlos I de Borbón y Sofía de Grecia. Está casado con Letizia Ortiz, reina consorte, con la que tiene dos hijas: la princesa de Asturias, Leonor, y la infanta Sofía. El 21 de enero de 1977, le fue concedido oficialmente el título de príncipe de Asturias.

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Mr.Ravichandran Purushothaman

Danfoss India

Mr. Pandian

Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR

Mr.K. Ponginan

LSSF, SDSC, Sriharikotta

Dr. Shanbogue

LPSC, Bangalore

Cdr. V K Verma

Vice President, Timblo Drydocks Pvt Ltd, Goa

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URSC, Bangalore

Mr. Unni Krishnan Nair

Human Space Program

Dr. Sudir Varadhrajan

IIIT, Chennai

Mr. Krishnan Sadagopan

Ashok Leyland, Chennai

Dharmateja Kadem

I finished my Master's in Robotics, Mechatronics and Automation at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and currently working as a Robotics Engineer at a Pittsburgh based startup Discovery Robotics. I worked on diversified robotics projects and has experience in developing a robot from prototype to production stage.

Jeff Ericson

Cities are my passion. I've been studying, wandering in, exploring and dreaming about cities since I was a kid growing up in Denver. We had 'busing' in Denver and in first grade I'd start my day in a 1960's functional school building (McMeen - we were the 'Meanies') in a white middle class neighborhood, and mid-day be bused to an almost identical building near Montbello (Smith) in a black middle class neighborhood. The long trip up and down Monaco Blvd going from one to the other was like traveling through a cross section of the earth, complete with jewels and bones and curiosities of all types. These two neighborhoods didn't look so different, but all the voices around me said they were. I've since traveled all across this great country, in South America, Europe and Africa; for the longest time I studied the buildings - the great ones and the plain ones: or thought I did. Only much later did I realize that the important stuff is everything else. The people, the spaces between buildings, the roads, sidewalks, and connective tissues of our cities and towns. Those details that appear accidental but happen in every town, and those products of engineers and committees that could be anywhere or nowhere, and that too often don't really work. It's a funny thing - we used to think a lot less intensely about how our cities should be, but those cities were much richer places to live. About 6 years ago I left Architecture – making props for our towns isn't scalable, and it isn't satisfying. Architecture today has very little to do with delight, and way too much to do with compliance. Transportation isn't sexy, but it has much more impact on people's lives, and for most of us, in a very real way, access to transportation is the key to opportunity and self-determination. It’s also our best hope for strengthening communities and supporting our local businesses and shops. RubyRide is excited to play a part in the next chapter of the Great American Cities and Towns.

Andrew Quinn

Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland.

Prof. Dato Ir. Dr. Wan Hamidon Wan Badaruzzaman

The National University of Malaysia

Er . S. Kanappan

L & T Geostructure

Dr. S Neelamani

Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research

Dr.Colin Murchison

Glasgow Caledonian University,Scotland

Dr. G. R. Dodagoudar

Geotechnical Engineering Division Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India

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Dr. Madhu Gopinathan

Dr. Madhu Gopinathan is currently Vice President, Data Science at MakeMyTrip, India’s leading online travel company. He has extensive experience in developing large scale systems using machine learning and natural language processing. He holds multiple US patents in the area of natural language processing and distributed systems. He completed his PhD in the mathematical modelling of systems from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

Vinodh Kumar Ravindranath

Vinodh Kumar is one of the country's top industry leaders when it comes to search, ranking and machine learning. After securing All India Rank #1 in GATE Computer Science 1999 and earning his Masters in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Science, Vinodh went on to lead the Google News team building its core ranking algorithms and the Google Music / Apps Marketplace teams at Google. Subsequently he was the CTO and Managing Director of Bloomreach where he built the e-commerce search engine platforms at Bloomreach. Currently in his role of CTO at Belong.co, he is applying his strong technology and machine learning experience to something he is truly passionate about - helping people find where they belong in their careers.

Asif Naqvi

Directory, BDG Lifesciences Pvt. Ltd.

With over 100 workshops conducted around the world namely in Mexico, Dubai, Egypt, Malaysia, India etc Asif has put together more than 60 research articles and all of them have got International publications. He is the Director of BDG Lifesciences Pvt. Ltd, India. He has a nine-year plus experience of research, marketing and management in bioinformatics, especially drug discovery technology, molecular modeling & Next Generation Sequencing & Genome Editing.

Mary Jo Dietrich

Mary Jo is the founder of Caregogi and advocate for seniors in the Pittsburgh area. Mary Jo began her life of compassion after caring for her grandfather, who she affectionately called “Pappap”, when she was young. Her Pappap’s struggle inspired her to become a nurse to care for people like him. After graduating from St. Margaret’s Nursing school, she served as a cardiac nurse at UPMC Shadyside for 8 years. Realizing there was a great need in Pittsburgh for senior care she decided to open a senior home care agency, At Home Senior Services, with her husband, David Dietrich. Since 2007 they have helped over 600 families remain in their homes as they age. Now Mary Jo brings her compassion and knowledge of senior care to Caregogi. She has worked with the incredible software engineers at Savvior to infuse her knowledge of senior care into the algorithm of Caregogi. She knows that there are many people out there who are just like her Pappap, and she wants to do all that she can to serve them.

Andrew Knox

Knox is a music supervisor, producer and composer with over 20 years of professional experience. He created the ideal marketplace solution for content in a completely transparent and professional marketplace platform. It is Kontent Core. The future of professional content distribution and licensing worldwide. We are innovating and disrupting the media industry with our platform without taking advantage of artists, publishers, and the storytellers. Kontent Core, the only music licensing marketplace. Discover. Search. Collaborate. License. Manage. Kontent Core leverages machine learning technology to deliver the precise sound each storyteller seeks, and tailors each license to the specification of each project: • Unparalleled Discovery and Search • Over 2M tracks, and Growing • Proprietary Licensing Management Tools Company Details: Website http://kontentcore.com

Raul Valdes-Perez

Motto: Do what you say and say what you mean. Raul co-founded OnlyBoth with Andre Lessa in 2014 and is CEO. OnlyBoth has introduced a Benchmarking Engine which enables vendors to provide comprehensive, automated benchmarking services to their end customers, using their solutions data and our artificial intelligence. Raul co-founded Vivisimo in 2000 and was CEO and Chairman for nine years until recruiting a new leadership team in 2009. He remained as Executive Chairman until the acquisition by IBM in 2012. At Vivisimo he was a 2007 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year (North Central Region), top ten reader favorite for Entrepreneur of the Year by Inc. magazine, twice a CEO of the year finalist by the Pittsburgh Technology Council, CEO Communicator of the Year by the Public Relations Society of America (Pittsburgh chapter), and an Outstanding Alumni Career Achievement by the University of Illinois at Chicago. Before Vivísimo, Raul was on the Carnegie Mellon University computer science department faculty. His research on methods and applications of knowledge discovery led to 50 journal articles and book chapters in natural, social and computer science. He was sole principal investigator on seven National Science Foundation research grants and action editor of the journal Machine Learning. He got a PhD in computer science at Carnegie Mellon in 1991, advised by Herbert A. Simon (Turing Award 1975 and Nobel Laureate 1978) and a BS/MS in information engineering from the Univ of Illinois at Chicago. Expertise: Enterprise and web search, text/data mining, entrepreneurship, advice-seeking, artificial intelligence, technology strategy, knowledge discovery, benchmarking. My core AI expertise: - Cognitive task analysis: Figure out what conclusions or inferences people actually make, or could make, from data or text, plus background knowledge. - Task automation: Combine classical computer science with heuristic methods to accomplish the task with software.

Vineet Singh

Proven executive leadership with a track record of achievement in innovation and business results. Brings a unique blend of online and offline execution capability. A member of the management team of Info Edge (India) Ltd. (India’s largest & only listed internet company) for the last 10 years. Adept in all areas of strategic operations, sales management and market planning. Recognized ability to manage large & diverse teams & international business units. Proven ability to deliver high growth results over a long time period. Proficiency in B2B & B2C market places. Expertise in real estate, jobs and match making domains. Excellent people manager, team player, communicator & relationship builder. Interested in innovative ideas which can translate into viable business models. Looking for opportunities to invest or partner in innovative online/offline business models. Specialties: Entrepreneurial - scaled-up the Naukri.com business from scratch. Built the 99acres.com & NaukriGulf.com business from ground-up into sustained revenue stream business with significant size & scale. Strategic Planning, Leadership & Team Building and Mgt. Continuous & Large Scale Execution. Operations Mgt, Product & Marketing Mgt. International Expansion. Sales Planning & Mgt. Internet & Offline execution capability. Seeker & Learner.

Vivek Sinha

Vivek has 10 yrs of experience as an entrepreneur, consumer internet and real estate professional. Currently Vivek is building the franchisee business at OYO from scratch. Previously, Vivek was Director and Business Head at the fintech startup Mobikwik, where he built from scratch (post-demonetisation) the retail payments business comprising of over 1.5 million empaneled merchants, and a sales team of 2,000 people. Vivek also cofounded Buildzar (www.buildzar.com), a ecommerce platform for building materials, and architecture and construction related serviced which helped individual home builders in building or renovating their homes. Vivek led product team, Sales, Category, alliances, Digital Marketing and Fund-raising for the setup. In his prior stints as a professional manager, Vivek worked in strategic planning, procurement and business development roles with major players in the Real Estate, ACE (Architecture, Construction and Engineering), Infrastructure players. Vivek also has deep networks in the metals, cement, paints, ceramics, kitchen, lighting, industrial equipment and machinery industry.

Dr. Swatti Dham

Dr. Swatti Dham is a PhD in the area of Advergaming and advertising. After completing her B.Tech in Electronics & Communication Engineering from Galgotia’s College of Engineering & Technology and her MBA from IMT-CDL Ghaziabad in the area of Marketing, she has worked with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) handling junior level management roles. Being an Oracle Certified Associate, she has also worked as a Trainer for important computer and project related applications. She had switched to academics to pursue her passion in teaching and training and has been here for more than a decade. She has not only participated in several national, international research conferences and projects, but also chaired sessions at various international platforms. Here passion for learning compels her to try new tools. Dr. Dham is a certified trainer for Basic Entrepreneurship courses by Wadhwani Foundation and is also trained in marketing analytics and machine learning at IIM Bangalore.

Saurabh Jain

Saurabh is Vice President at Paytm. He is heading the ‘Paytm - Build for India’ program and also has an active role in startup products, developer relations, social impact / CSR, education and training within Paytm. Saurabh also manages the relationships with various industry bodies including NASSCOM, CII, FICCI, PHDCCI. Saurabh Jain is also the founder of Fun2Do Labs. Fun2Do Labs believes in the motto - 'Making education OPEN and FUN!'. Fun2Do Labs is an Open Education Project. Fun2Do Labs is pioneering research into transmedia education, maker education and startup education. Saurabh is a Chartered Accountant with keen interest in technology. Saurabh has authored 2 books on mobile application technology. He wrote 'Mobile Phone Programming', which was India's first book on mobile app programming. The book was published in 2003 and was a technical book on J2ME technology. He is the inventor of PERSONAL PERSISTENT MESSAGING SYSTEM (PPMS) and NEURO SYMBOLIC NETWORK GENERATION AND EXECUTION SYSTEM for which he had got provisional patents. Saurabh has been a speaker at following places : SXSW Edu 2018 in USA BlackBerry Jam Europe in Amsterdam BlackBerry Jam Asia in Hong Kong Major startup events by governments of Rajasthan, UP and Uttarakhand Programs by NASSCOM / FICCI / PHDCCI UNESCO MGIEP TECH 2017 education conference IIT Delhi and IIT Roorkee IIM Lucknow, IIM Rohtak and IIM Kashipur Delhi University, Symbiosis, Narsee Monjee, Amity, VIT, SRM and lots of other institutions and conferences He is also a speaker designate at upcoming SXSW 2019 in USA and is a charter member of TiE. As a software developer he has been awarded the following titles in the past - ‘BlackBerry Elite’ and ‘Nokia Developer Champion’. He has also been selected as an ‘Indian Leader for Social Sector’ by ILSS. Saurabh is an avid reader and has read more than 170 books in last 4 years.

Puneet Kukreja

Customer obsession, thinking big and bias for action are 3 core traits which define my personality. Known for a good mix of product and business acumen who prioritize long term customer trust over short term gain. In my last stint with Amazon, solved unprecedented high scale problems for India marketplace. Leveraged machine learning, deep learning and cutting edge technology to deliver world class customer experience. Collaborated with global teams to customize successful global products for Indian consumers. Spent 8 years at magicbricks.com (India’s No.1 property portal) and led the Product Function from the front. Have grown a market challenger product to a clear market leader in revenue ( 175 Cr topline) and traffic (15 Million monthly visits).Responsible for the definition and execution of Product Roadmap which is aligned to the Product Vision. Consistently delivered on key customer and business metrics. Led development of customer facing products (Mobile app, Search, Mobile web, desktop platform,SEO etc), Enterprise products (mobile apps and dashboards for property brokers/builders etc), AI products (sorting algorithms, lead scoring, recommendation engine etc) and Monetization products (paid listings, performance based ads, online events etc). Dogged execution and carefully thought out strategy prevented heavily-funded competitors from taking away market share. Built the A tiger product team from scratch consisting of 17 product managers, 6 researchers, 1 data scientist and 2 data analysts. In last 10 years, I have led mission critical projects to ensure sustained leadership in User Experience, NPS, User Acquisition, User Engagement and Monetization. Have been consistent star performer in overachieving AOP goals. Academically, I am Silver Medalist – IMT Ghaziabad (IT & Marketing). Ranked 99 in DCE, 967 in AIEEE, 47 in Chandigarh, 67 in Punjab CET and 76 in Haryana CET in Engineering Entrance Examinations

Ashu Agarwal

Ashu is a Venture Capital and a business- Product & Revenue, growth expert with a diverse executive experience across businesses and cultures. As the Director of BWA, he has designed one of the sharpest low cost and profitable business acceleration initiatives 'Globally'. He has turned around & fast tracked over 55 startups in last 18 months. With over 80% of his mentored businesses seen exponential growth and fund raise track record, his success has been appreciated across. His engagement spans across: Healthcare-Digital (Child Care & Women Wellness,Dermatology ) Physical (specialized proctology clinic-bop),Education-E-comm Saas(LMS, Assessments,Flip class model),Food-Digital(Content/procurement) Beverage(Tea) QSR(Health food),Business Procurement-SaaS(Quotation, Sourcing & planning tool), Sport/Fitness-Support tool POS,Media-Content Distribution,Travel-concierge,Renting-Home/Industrial, HR-Gamified hiring, Furniture (Aquatic), Jewellery(MMEB), Feedback & Intelligence app, and many more. Staunch advocate of Business intelligence and efficient business growth, he has built Close network of 350 CEO's, for startups, to engage and learn from experiences and build sustainable business. He has served as Head-North India operations at Indian Angel Network and a Private Banker with Standard Chartered Bank, Deutsche Bank AG, where he specialized in structuring Onshore & Offshore investments alternatives. Regular speaker at various industry forums, he contributes to editorials on his views on startups, innovation, Macro trends. A Finance and Law major, he is a powerful net-worker with deep understanding of key business drivers like Product mgmt, Go-to market & Acquisition planning, Unit Economics, other Operational Metrics etc, with consistent & effective execution. His experience and global outlook arms him to understand customers across geographies and drive results.Gifted with a big-picture vision & can-do attitude, he enjoys translating an idea into products.

Amanjot Malhotra

5 years of experience in Designing, UI/UX, Product Development, SEO, Digital Marketing, Growth Hacking. He has experienced the startup culture for most of his career and has also spent time with multinationals. He believed in Lean startups methodology as well as agile development for product management. He is an avid professional who strongly believes in “Execution is the key to success for any idea”. He has strong abilities to bootstrap the idea and implementing it to achieve the objectives of the organization. He actively works with Startup’s/SME’s and helps them build the strong top line. He gives training and mentorship to new age entrepreneurs and works with them to convert their idea into a profitable business. Founder of Actiwate which has expertise in Investor Pitch Decks, Business Plans, Branding, Prototyping/Wire-framing Product development, (MEAN Stack, Python, and WordPress) Growth Hacking, SEO, Digital Marketing & PR. His mission in life is to empower people with knowledge and help them achieve their goals in life. He accepts invitations for: 1. Keynote speech 2. Delivering motivation speech especially entrepreneurs 3. Campus and corporate Training Product Development, UI/UX, Growth Hacking 4. Mentoring / one on one sessions with entrepreneurs/ college students. He is an Angel investment network manager at Delhi Angels, and a Serial Entrepreneur, and a growth Hacker. He has over 5 years of experience in Designing, UI/UX, product development, SEO, Digital Marketing, Growth Hacking in the startup industry. He has experienced the startup culture for most of his career and has also spent time with multi nationals. He likes to give shape to his ideas and test them quickly.

Sanat Mondal

9 years of experience in diverse fields like information technology, finance, operation and new venture set up. I have done Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Telecommunication from Jadavpur University and MBA from IIM Lucknow. Currently I am working with a venture capital fund which is looking to invest in companies which can deliver social good apart from financial return.

Rajat Jain

In a career spanning over 30 years, I have worked in the consumer, media & entertainment,telecom and technology spaces in India, both at young stage companies and MNCs. Key areas of expertise include understanding consumers across various segments, building and working with high performance teams and growing businesses that revolve around services and brands, creating results with impact. I bring to my Companies and Organisations a wealth of over three decades of experience and multi functional expertise, strong industry knowledge and professional network. Tech Startups are a passion with me and I have consistently worked, partnered with and mentored them over last several years and am excited to continue in that journey over the next several years as well. Specialties: Corporate Governance, Corporate Strategy and Board Roles Scaling up and building businesses and organisations Mentoring and coaching at leadership levels to guide and enhance business outcomes Multi sector expertise esp Consumer, Media, Telecom & Technology Sectors Strong leadership, team building, communication and analytical skills Strong and vast industry network

Pankaj Thakar

Pankaj Thakar is a Serial Entrepreneur with 30 years of Corporate and Start-up Experience. In his Various C-level role and founder of multiple start-ups globally, he has built, advised and transformed, both corporate and start-up companies to become highly successful. He has created Global Start-ups like Consilnet Inc. based out of Silicon Valley USA pioneering in Wifi industry with its Technology and Infrastructure solution with biz in USA, Europe, Middle East & Asia and recent company Cellcast Holdings Asia based out of Cayman Islands and operations all over Asia. All these companies have been in Technology and consumer space. Over the last decade Pankaj has specialized in Digital Media Strategies, Digital Marketing, Online Consumer Behavior and Big Data Applications & Analytics, ! He has built platforms, products & services that have been disruptive in their domain resulting in exponential growth for various companies. His understanding of Digital Space & his eagerness to learn has made him best is understanding the consumer in Digital World. He has attended Harvard Business School Executive Education programs in Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Big Data Analysis & Applications, to validate his understanding & fine-tune his skills. Pankaj enjoys mentoring, coaching and advising strat-ups at various stages,from idea to growth & currently is engaged with many of them. He has helped many of his colleges become entrepreneur by advising & mentoring. He enjoys distributing knowledge by coaching/training people at all levels, specially senior level executives, who struggle to stay relevant. He is a excellent speaker & has spoken in many conferences and seminars, globally! He also enjoys writing as he has written many case studies/White papers in Traditional as well as Digital Marketing & recently on "change Management" while helping a company to "transform" & stay relevant. Finally he believes that his best is yet to come! Watch his next Move www.padup.in

Sunil Wadhwani

Sunil Wadhwani is an entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist residing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He co-founded, and till recently was Chairman and CEO of IGATE Corporation, which provides a broad range of Information Technology services. With over 34,000 employees on four continents, IGATE has been ranked among the world’s leading consulting firms. In 2015, IGATE was sold to Cap Gemini of France for over $4 billion. Under Sunil’s leadership as CEO, the Company was listed four times in Inc. Magazine’s ranking of the fastest-growing companies in the United States. It was also named among the “Top 100 Hot Growth” companies by Business Week and among the “Technology Fast 50” by Deloitte and Touche. In addition to IGATE, Sunil is the Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board of Mastech Corporation, a provider of high-value information technology services and solutions. Mastech is a publicly-traded company with over 1,500 employees. Sunil is an active angel investor. He has invested in over 30 early-stage technology companies and has served on the Boards of several of these ventures. These companies are in a variety of sectors including healthcare, life sciences, software, IT services, social media and financial services. Sunil has written articles for a variety of publications including Datamation, Systems Integrator and Reader’s Digest, and has been quoted in publications such as Business Week, the Wall Street Journal, Information Week and Investors Business Daily. Sunil established the non-profit WISH Foundation in India in 2014. WISH has developed a unique innovation-led model for transforming the primary healthcare system in the lowest income areas in India and other developing countries. This approach brings together the government, “best-in-class” private sector healthcare partners, and the most promising healthcare innovators. WISH is managing over 200 health centers in some of the poorest areas in India using this model and the initial results have been remarkable. Other developing countries are examining this model to see how it could be applied to help underserved communities in their regions. In 2018 Sunil and his brother Romesh Wadhwani launched the non-profit Wadhwani Institute for Artificial Intelligence (WadhwaniAI.org), with the goal of using AI to accelerate social development in the world’s most vulnerable communities in India and other emerging economies. The Institute develops and deploys AI-based solutions in domains such as education, public health, financial inclusion, agriculture and urban planning. Sunil serves or has served as a Trustee or Director of the following institutions: Carnegie-Mellon University, George Washington University, The U.S. Federal Reserve Bank (Pittsburgh Branch), United Way Worldwide, UPMC Health System, Allegheny Conference on Community Development, and Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. Sunil is a Distinguished Alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology and has a Master’s degree from Carnegie-Mellon University.

Dr. Andrea E Thomas

Farmingdale State College, USA

Dr. Neelakrishnan

Automobile Engineering 

Mr. Ajay Rajkumar

Chennis EBO division

Mr. Somasundaram. G

Skill Development at IL & FS Skills

Mr. Dharmendra

Karvy E-commnerce

DR. N.V.R.Nathan

Former Sr Director & CEO at CMAI Apparel Training Center

Mr. Anuraag .S

Creativist & Visual Merchandiser - Pencilbox

Mr. Shashi Bhushan Singh

Raymonds Ltd

Mr. Vir Vohra

UBQT Design Thinking School

Mr. Rajnish Kumar

ITC Ltd

Mr. Puneet Dudeja

WGSN-South Asia Gurugram

Chandrika Chauhan

Will women apply for jobs, or will they remain housewives and always dependent? Neither; if Udyogvardhini of Solapur has its way. This is an NGO that helps and trains women to become entrepreneurs through self-help groups. It is the brainchild of Chandrika Chauhan, an award-winning entrepreneur, politician and an amazing success story in her personal life. Get Moneylife's Top Stories by Email abc@abc.com SUBSCRIBE Chandrika was born and brought up in Ahmedabad in a family that was almost illiterate. She moved to Solapur after marriage to Shambhu Singh Chouhan, who has dedicated his life for various nationalist voluntary organisations. Ms Chauhan, known as ‘bhabhiji’ to those who work with her, had to become the bread-winner of her family due to her husband’s frail health. For several years, she worked with a consumer forum and the Jankalyan Samiti. Soon she began to take up tailoring work and catering contracts with the help of women in her neighbourhood. This not only helped turn her into an entrepreneur, but also exposed her to the problems and hardships that women from lower-income groups faced in their domestic lives. Over time, she built a larger network and also helped women become entrepreneurs in their own right. The network that she built up, and the people she helped through her work, helped her enter politics. She was elected as a corporator and served the Solapur Municipal Corporation for two terms. In 2006, she gave her work a formal profile by starting Udyogvardhini initially aimed at making rural women independent. Catering is an important part of its activities and core strength. The organisation is famous for its ‘kadak bhakari’ which it has managed to market as a packed local speciality from Solapur. It also made a name for itself for being able to deliver large food orders (hygienically cooked and well-packed) or chapatis (unleavened bread). On one occasion, it produced a massive 100,000 chapatis for a mass wedding organised by the Lokmangal Foundation. Under Ms Chauhan’s leadership, Udyogvardhini quickly expanded its activities to a range of activities including stitching, making cotton handbags, files, purses, shopping bags, etc; running beautician’s courses. Women are encouraged to explore business opportunities and trained in all these activities. The focus on women’s empowerment includes running adult literacy programmes and even teaching women to ride two-wheelers to become independent. In fact, women who are capable of turning entrepreneurs are specifically trained in activities such as buying raw materials, marketing, billing, taking orders, supplying finished products and even filing tax returns. Helping the old and needy through its old-age home and providing food to the destitute is also a part of its social activities. In an interesting experiment, it offered shelter to visually challenged girls and trained them to be self-sufficient. These girls were accommodated at the old-age home; many of them are now married and have moved away. Udyogvardhini aspires to set up a proper training centre to provide job-oriented training and also train self-help groups. It also plans to expand its old-age home and to set up an orphanage. Asked about the challenges that the organisation faces, Ms Chauhan’s team says, “Solapur is a labour-dominated town and the per capita income is low,” consequently, raising funds and getting donations from people is one of the biggest challenges. It has to find donors from large cities and attracting their attention to its work is no easy task. Due to lack of funds, Udyogvardhini is not able to employ trained staff, as salary is the main concern. But the NGO and its founder have seen innumerable awards and honours come their way and got support from the local government for its work. Readers who wish to donate to Udyogvardhini will get tax benefits under Section 80-G of the Income-tax Act.

Dr. Stefan HAGER

The Chief Physician and Director of the TCM-Klinik Bad Kötzting - First German Clinic for Traditional Chinese Medicine

Prof. Dr. Jie LI

Dr. Li Jie (Ph.D) is practicing for more than 25 years in The Netherlands. In his practice dr. Li Jie has dealt with many different medical cases, such as:

• Complex internal diseases. For example, heart diseases, lung diseases, digestive system diseases, diseases of the urinary system, diseases of hematological system, diseases of the endocrine system, metabolic diseases and diseases of the brain and nervous system.
• Complementary treatment of cancer (chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery). For example, breast cancer.
• Gynecological diseases, such as PMS, endometriosis, supporting treatment of IVF, infertility, etc.
• Skin diseases, such as acne, eczema, psoriasis, etc.
• Stress and CFS.

For over 25 years dr. Li Jie is well-known for his lectures, presentations, and contributions to Classical Chinese Medicine.

Dr. Thay Joe TAN, MD PhD DMD

Founding Director of Akupunktur im Zentrum Dr. Tan

Originator of TurboAcupuncture for Instant Pain Elimination
Originator of T.A.N. (Turbo Acupuncture Navigation) System
Founding Director of TurboAkupunktur-Akademie Dr. Tan
Founding Director of Akupunktur im Zentrum Dr. Tan

Nicole chan

Bio

Albert Whale

IT Security is lead by its founder, Albert E. Whale.  Mr. Whale has worked exclusively in the IT Security field since 9/11 and has supported Multinational corporations, SMB, Government Projects, as well as training for the US Air Force.

It was the actions on 9/11 when he redirected his efforts towards implementing security, because it was apparent that we needed better security in our country to protect us.

Mr Whale has extensive work in GRC matters starting with his previous work for the Largest Software development project for the Gov't with the VA.  While employed with Engility, Mr. Whale was able to change the course of security controls which were addressed by the business owners and help to improve the implementation of security in software, thus saving the VA more than $1 Million in 6 months.

His accomplishments include being a Co-Founder and Sponsor of the Pittsburgh FBI InfraGard, developing security tools for protecting *nix based servers on Internet and Intranet networks, working with the Largest Government sponsored Software Development project, and introducing the ideas of making everyone a member of the Security Team and implementing Security into the SDLC before it was completed.

Recently Mr. Whale is a IT Sector Chief Candidate for the Pittsburgh InfraGard member alliance.  He also has accepted a seat on the Advisory board for both EC Council and the Pittsburgh Technical College.

Mr. Whale has an extensive background with protecting everything from International Corporations to Small to Mid-sized Businesses (SMBs).  His background extends from Application Development & Security, Training and Enterprise solutions as well.

As a Technical Editor, Mr. Whale worked with Wiley & Sons CEHv8 book.  He continues to be extensively interviewed on Radio and has been quoted in Newspapers.  When interviewed for TV, Mr Whale is the Cybersecurity Expert providing an understanding on the security and privacy issues of the day, and why they all matter.

Mr. Whale's favorite sayings are:  "You don't know what you don't know.", "Once the Genie is out, you cannot get him back into the bottle." and "The time to get started with Security is today, before the Hackers break in."

Dr. Carmel Majidi

Dr. Majidi is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, where he started as an assistant professor in 2011. Prior to joining the faculty, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory (2009-2011) and the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials (2007-2009). His experience in solid mechanics and microfabrication is the foundation of his current research in the emerging fields of soft robotics and active multifunctional materials.

The next generation of autonomous robots, assistive medical devices, and electronics will include systems that are soft, elastically deformable, and adapt their functionality to the changing demands of their operator and enviroment. Progress depends on new classes of multifunctional materials and soft machines for stretchable electronics, elastomer-based pneumatics, hyperelastic deformation sensing, and reversible shape and rigidity control.

Professor Majidi addresses these emerging challenges through a unique combination of rapid prototyping, soft-lithography microfabrication, and theoretical insights from solid mechanics. This includes innovations in liquid-embedded elastomer electronics (LE3) for stretchable sensors, circuits, and wearable computing.

Diego M. Oppenheimer

Diego Oppenheimer, founder and CEO of Algorithmia, is an entrepreneur and product developer with extensive background in all things data. Prior to founding Algorithmia he designed, managed and shipped some of Microsoft’s most used data analysis products including Excel, Power Pivot, SQL Server and Power BI.

Diego holds a Bachelors degree in Information Systems and a Masters degree in Business Intelligence and Data Analytics from Carnegie Mellon University.

Samir Manjure

Samir Manjure is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at KenSci. In his role, Samir oversees everyday business functions such as operations, sales, and product strategy. Prior to KenSci, Samir has held various positions at Microsoft, over a 17-year-long career. He has led roles from program management of all "Advertiser" facing offerings to launching innovative products in Small Business CRM category. 

Samir co-founded KenSci with a vision to transform healthcare using machine learning. His passion and commitment to saving lives, directly translates to how KenSci helps health systems across the world provide better care to their patients. He holds a Master’s degree from Purdue University and an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Samir currently resides in Seattle, where KenSci is headquartered.

Kellan Carter, Fuse Venture

Kellan Carter is a founding partner of Fuse where he focuses on early-stage investments in intelligent software in both horizontal and vertical categories.  At Fuse, Kellan has led investments in Owl and Pave.  Previously, Kellan spent seven years at Ignition Partners, a leading early-stage venture capital firm. He joined Ignition in 2013 and was made partner by 2018. At Ignition, Kellan led investments in Botkeeper, Symend, Icertis, KenSci, and Azuqua, and served on the boards of both Botkeeper and Symend.

Prior to Ignition, Kellan spent two years in investment banking at Mooreland Partners in San Francisco. There, he helped execute M&A transactions for technology companies in a variety of sectors, including mobile, enterprise software, systems, and infrastructure. Prior to Mooreland Partners, Kellan was an associate in KPMG’s advisory practice in Orange County, CA, where he helped structure asset-backed securities collateralized by student loans, auto loans, and residential and commercial mortgages.

Kellan holds a BS degree in business administration from the University of Montana in Missoula, where he graduated summa cum laude.  After college, Kellan founded an online, business-networking platform to connect current students and faculty to UM alumni.

Ben is the co-founder of Pioneer Square Labs, a startup studio and early-stage venture capital firm in Seattle. He is a technology investor and entrepreneur. He has a background in product management from Microsoft where he shipped the first version of Office for iPad and ran The Garage, the company’s grassroots innovation program. Ben also co-founded Madrona Venture Labs.

CA Sajal Gupta

CA & Exec MBA from IIM Kolkata Banker with 17 Years work Ex with Leading Banks Treasury - Sales & Advisory. Goal - To Drive & steer a Large Institution towards consistent profitability thru Clear Business vision & Newer initiatives.

Purushottam Saraf

20 years of Experience in Stock Exchange in business development. Started carrier in Listing Compliance and moved to Business development . Learned Exchange operations, technology, products and compliance. Successfully created 120 new Relationship in Kolkata . still interested in learning newer technology and products.

Sheena Iyengar

Our choices construct our relationships,

careers, world-views, and identities–
we are the sum of our choices.

Sab Kanaujia

Committee

Craig Abbott

Committee

Lizzie Chapman

Lizzie Chapman is a Fintech Builder and has been based in India for nearly 12 years, working in the world of financial technology and financial inclusion. In 2012, she moved from London to Mumbai to set up and spearhead the India operations for Wonga, one of the largest fintech companies in the world at that time. Subsequently, she joined the Development Bank of Singapore and led the launch of “Digibank”, India's first mobile-app-only bank.

In 2015, with her ex-Wonga colleagues, Lizzie Co-Founded “ZestMoney”. ZestMoney was a pathbreaker in the category of Digital Credit (including BNPL, Digital EMI, and Personal loans). One of the first tech platforms in the country to create a completely digital end-to-end product, including 100% digital risk management and collections. Lizzie started her career in London with Goldman Sachs, in equity research and then asset management. She also worked as an Investment Manager at the Wellcome Trust, focusing on India and Financials investments.

Lizzie currently serves on the boards of Cloud Nine (maternity healthcare), and IndiaQuotient (early-stage investment fund). She is also a founding member (and former President) of the Digital Lending Association of India and previously served as a Member of the Innovation Council of the National Payments Corporation of India, as well as on the National Start-Up Advisory Council.

Founder - Nikesh Parekh , Suplari

Nikesh (Niki) Parekh is the co-founder and CEO of Suplari, an enterprise software start-up focused on leveraging advanced analytics and artificial intelligence to help enterprises make better purchasing and financial decisions.  Nikesh was most recently VP of New Ventures at the real estate company Trulia (acquired byfa Zillow) and was responsible for Trulia’s emerging growth businesses in rentals, mortgage and new construction. Previously, Nikesh was the EVP of Product & Strategy at a SaaS sales & marketing platform called Market Leader, CEO of the B2B blogging and social network ActiveRain, and CEO of a cleantech biotech company that was spun out of the University of Washington, focused on converting seaweed into low cost biofuels and renewable chemicals. Nikesh has also worked in the venture capital, private equity and investment banking industries earlier in his career.  Nikesh earned his MBA from Harvard Business School and his BA in Biochemical Sciences from Harvard College. When not watching his kids’ soccer games, Nikesh enjoys riding his electric bike into work in the Seattle rain.

VC - Jason Stoffer , Maveron

Jason joined Maveron in 2007 and is a partner focused on investing in emotionally resonant consumer brands. His focus areas are eCommerce, real estate and consumer healthcare. Active investments include Everlane, Common, Dolls Kill, Flywire, Imperfect Produce, Thirty Madison, The Guild and Dolly.  He previously served on the Board of both zulily and General Assembly (acquired by Adecco). Prior to joining Maveron, Jason co- founded IADT Online, an online design school. He has also served as an associate at Spinnaker Ventures. Jason graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a BA in economics from the University of Michigan (Go Blue!), and has an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Sanjay Puri , Avalara

Sanjay is a technology marketer, entrepreneur and investor. He has worked with innovative startups and mid-sized growth companies, as well as top global enterprise / B2B organizations.

Dharmesh Singh, Fullcast.io

Dharmesh is leading Fullcast.io, a service dedicated to transforming sales operations to growth operations by automating planning, process, and operations of running sales. Prior to fullcast,io Dharmesh spent time at Salesforce and Microsoft leading teams across sales, engineering, and Operations.

Kellan Carter, Fuse Venture

Kellan Carter is a founding partner of Fuse where he focuses on early-stage investments in intelligent software in both horizontal and vertical categories.  At Fuse, Kellan has led investments in Owl and Pave.  Previously, Kellan spent seven years at Ignition Partners, a leading early-stage venture capital firm. He joined Ignition in 2013 and was made partner by 2018. At Ignition, Kellan led investments in Botkeeper, Symend, Icertis, KenSci, and Azuqua, and served on the boards of both Botkeeper and Symend.

Prior to Ignition, Kellan spent two years in investment banking at Mooreland Partners in San Francisco. There, he helped execute M&A transactions for technology companies in a variety of sectors, including mobile, enterprise software, systems, and infrastructure. Prior to Mooreland Partners, Kellan was an associate in KPMG’s advisory practice in Orange County, CA, where he helped structure asset-backed securities collateralized by student loans, auto loans, and residential and commercial mortgages.

Kellan holds a BS degree in business administration from the University of Montana in Missoula, where he graduated summa cum laude.  After college, Kellan founded an online, business-networking platform to connect current students and faculty to UM alumni.

Ben is the co-founder of Pioneer Square Labs, a startup studio and early-stage venture capital firm in Seattle. He is a technology investor and entrepreneur. He has a background in product management from Microsoft where he shipped the first version of Office for iPad and ran The Garage, the company’s grassroots innovation program. Ben also co-founded Madrona Venture Labs.

Speaker- Mark Meuleman , Altus Alliance

In his work life, Mark Meuleman’s adrenaline flows into roles demanding new thinking, and redefining boundaries. This ability to learn, adapt and deliver in wildly varied businesses and verticals became clear in successive executive sales and business development roles at Nortel, NewBay and BlackBerry. Happily, at Altus this is an everyday occurrence where this way of working allows him to help clients across almost any vertical, startup through Fortune 500, whether building for the first time, or adjusting for a future of solid revenue growth.   

Mark holds an MBA from the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business with a focus on entrepreneurship and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering focusing on telecommunications from the University of Victoria. He’s also part of Grow50, a group of premier Pacific Northwest services firms providing their time to help entrepreneurs determine how best to succeed with their business dreams. Mark’s 25-year marriage and strong family bonds deeply inspire his work and life. You’ll often find Mark competing locally in Cat 2 road bike races.

Founder - Joshua Gebhardt , Metric Story

Joshua Gebhardt is the CEO and co-founder of Metricstory. Joshua leads the company’s mission to transform data into insights and the true story of their customers. Joshua believes this can also have an effect on internal teams within a company, and thereby the quality of life at work. Freeing teams to do what they are best at: to build relationships that serve and delight their customers, invariably bringing growth. Prior to Metricstory, he led strategy and sales for the #1 Google Analytics consultancy in the world, where he worked alongside CMOs and VPs at Fortune 500 companies. Raised in Hawaii, Joshua gave up surfing for the beautiful NW where he now lives with his wife and 2 children in Seattle, WA.

Tim Porter

Tim is a Managing Director at Madrona Venture Group, a Seattle-based venture capital firm founded in 1995 with $103 billion under management that invests in early-stage technology companies.  Tim is focused on investing in business-to-business software companies in the Pacific Northwest, particularly in the areas of cloud computing, software-as-a-service, machine learning, and cybersecurity. He is a board member of numerous Madrona portfolio companies including Anomaly Insights, Echodyne, Eclypsium, Esper, Highspot, Jama Software, Outfit.ai, Spice.ai, Uplevel, Voodle, and WhyLabs.

David Kalson

David provides general business and tax counsel to life science, robotics, information technology and other emerging companies, venture capital funds, and institutions engaged in business and technology spin-offs and joint ventures. He also has significant experience in exit planning.

* Assists a number of emerging companies which are developing new technologies in the energy field. Work in this area includes company formation and finance, technology transfer from universities and research institutions, and strategic partnerships with established industry leaders
* Represents numerous start-up and early stage life science, robotics and information technology companies in all phases of formation, technology transfer, financing, and operations
* Represents major healthcare institution and retailer in acquiring, financing and spinning off start-up and later-stage companies, as well as joint ventures with domestic and international strategic partners.
* Advises venture capitalists and investors in the formation and operation of venture funds.
* Advises venture capital funds, angel and strategic investors in investments in technology and other companies
* Negotiates the sale, merger or other exit of later-stage technology and other businesses to both private and publicly-traded acquirors.

Specialties: Teaching Experience

* Adjunct Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Law (Enterprise Organization and Finance), 1998-2002
* Speaker at BIO Conference on technology transfer
* Faculty member of Global Trade Institute
* Co-Chair of 3 Rivers Venture Fair “boot camp” committee

Sarjoun Skaff

- Hands-on experience with design, fabrication, manufacturing, assembly, control and operation of robots
- Hands-on experience with product development
- First-hand experience with early-stage enterprise development

Specialties: robotics, entrepreneurship, manufacturing, toys, consumer electronics

Joel Reed

An entrepreneur in a consultant’s body.

20 years experience in Strategic Planning, Sales, Business Development with a passion for innovation and developing new market opportunities for growth-oriented businesses. 



Market experience in robotics, supply chain logistics, health care information technology and enterprise software.

Specialties include strategic and business planning, market research, sales and sales management, entrepreneurial ventures (including operations) and process engineering.



Ability to grasp complex topics quickly, create compelling value propositions, generate sales interest and convert prospects to revenue/funding. Strategically driven, goal oriented, a problem solver.

Committed to community and philanthropic-based organizations. Served or serving on non-profit boards including the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation, StartUptown, and the University of Pittsburgh’s Alumni Association and the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences.

Alonzo Kelly

I have been active both academically and professionally in robotics since the 1980s.

As a consultant, I am often engaged as a speaker, a software engineer, and an advisor to boards and investors. I also work from time to time as an intellectual property technical expert.

As a professor, I teach courses in mobile robots at CMU in the Robotics Institute, and I conduct research in all aspects of mobile robotics.

As an engineering manager, I raise, staff and execute industrial R&D efforts at the National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC). At NREC, we have been developing robotics and automation solutions for industry for 20 years and that activity has generated numerous spinoffs.

As an entrepreneur I have co-founded several startups in robotics, many of which are still active.

I do not connect to people that I do not know on Linkedin, but you can reach me at alonzo@cmu.edu.

Jackie Erickson

Experienced in working with robotics and autonomous vehicles startups changing the paradigm of transportation and the movement of goods | Resource for governments and non-profits on understanding the importance of emerging technologies and the community impacts | Robots for the Greater Good Advocate.

John Bares

Carnegie Robotics (CRL) specializes in the transition of emerging robotics technology from research and development to commercialization. We design, manufacture and support highly reliable robotics systems and components that help improve productivity, reliability and safety, while reducing cost and increasing profitability for our customers. Our target markets include the agricultural, mining, defense, heavy equipment and oil and gas production industries, as well as other niche markets in which advanced field robotics provides measurable return on investment.

CRL believes that capabilities in machine vision and ‘situational awareness’ are key enablers in force multiplication and limited autonomy, which are key drivers in the field robotics value proposition. We have made advanced sensors, sensor integration and basic autonomy our primary product focus. Our robust sensors were used by many of the top teams in DARPA’s humanoid “Robotics Challenge” held in December 2013, and are used to explore tunnels, mines and underground pipes. Our MIL-spec positioning sensors are in active service on a large fleet of US Army vehicles.

Andrew Wright, Wright Ventures & Founders

Andrew is an experienced entrepreneur and angel investor. Andrew graduated in mechanical engineering from Queens University in Ontario Canada and spent his early career as a software developer and then product manager working for leading Canadian companies Canadian Pacific and Lavalin Engineering as well as Apple Computer. Andrew then joined Alias Research in Toronto (since acquired by Autodesk) where he led the development of a category defining line of 3D graphics products for the PC and Macintosh. Andrew then moved to Seattle in the mid 1990’s with Microsoft where he served as a product unit manager for a line of consumer imaging and publishing products growing the business from $10 M to 50 M over a 3 year period. Andrew’s next chapter was with Real Networks where he conceived of and built RealArcade into the leading global digital distribution and publishing platform for casual games. Andrew then went on to start Smilebox, a multimedia personal expressions service that connects people around special moments in their lives. Smilebox was acquired by Perion Networks in 2012. Since 2012 Andrew has been primarily focused on angel investing through Wright Ventures. Wright Ventures is a seed stage angel fund which has invested in 31 companies since inception across consumer and BTB segments. The fund is primarily focused in Seattle but also has investments in New York City, Toronto and Vancouver, Canada. Wright Ventures partners with founders during the very early stages of their scaling efforts and helps founders with financing, product management , customer acquisition, branding, research and recruiting

Vetri Vellore

Vetri Vellore is a mission-driven, serial entrepreneur with two successful exits (Ally.io acquired by Microsoft and Chronus acquired by private equity). Passionate about building world-class products and teams, to bring purpose, happiness and enable everyone to achieve more.

Launched Ally.io, an OKR-based, Business Execution Platform in 2018. In under 3 years, grew to 1,000 customers in over 80 countries and a team of 250 amazing people. Raised $76m in funding including 3 rounds in just one year, from top-tier VCs including Accel, Addition, GreenOaks, Tiger Global, and Vulcan Capital.

Previous to Ally.io, bootstrapped Chronus and built a highly successful B2B SaaS Mentoring solution that is used enterprises including GE, Amazon and Coca Cola. Chronus was acquired by a private equity firm and continue to grow strongly.

Before Chronus and Ally.io, Vetri turned around $200M Systems Management enterprise software business at Microsoft. Lead the Visual Studio platform team and managed the partner ecosystem. Shipped several v1 and award-winning products over the 14-year tenure at Microsoft

VC - Greg Gottesman , PSL Studio & PSL Ventures

Greg Gottesman is Managing Director of PSL Studio and PSL Ventures.  Prior to PSL, Greg served as one of three initial Managing Directors of Madrona Venture Group, where he worked for 20 years.  He is also the co-founder, current board member, and former CEO of Rover.
Greg serves as adjunct faculty at the University of Washington where he teaches entrepreneurship.  He is the author of three books.
Greg graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University, with honors and distinction from Harvard Business School, and with honors from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.

James Newell

James has worked with high-growth technology companies as an adviser and investor since 2005 and focuses on early-stage and seed investments in the Pacific Northwest. He currently serves on the boards of Voyager portfolio companies Kaskada, Sofy. and WellSaid Labs.  He previously served as a board member or observer at Casper, DoubleVerify, General Assembly, Sauce Labs and Zerto, among others.

Prior to joining Voyager, James worked for Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), a later-stage VC based in Menlo Park.  While with IVP, James worked on investments in AlienVault, Carbonite (NASDAQ: CARB), Casper (NYSE: CSPR), Checkr, DoubleVerify, General Assembly, Kayak (Acquired: PCLN), LegalZoom, Prosper, Sauce Labs, SoFi and Zerto.

James earned a B.A. in Economics and a B.A. in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from the University of Washington, where he was a first team Pac-10 All-Academic football player at free safety. He has also earned his M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a concentration in entrepreneurial management.

Madhu Singh

Madhu K. Singh is the founder and chief legal officer at Foundry Law Group. Madhu and the President at TiE Seattle.  Madhu and her team enjoy serving as trusted counsel to startups and emerging companies, support corporate governance and acquisitions, and advise on protecting and leverage their proprietary assets. Madhu believes in building strong relationships with her clients as a resource and active within the local business community. She volunteers regularly with Wayfind Legal by speaking at CLEs, providing pro bono legal support, and supervising a cohort of attorneys new to advising nonprofits. She received the 2018 Volunteer of the year award by this prestigious organization. In 2014 she was named the Woman Business Owner of the year by the Small Business Administration and has been named a 'rising star' by Super lawyers for the past five years. In addition to her practice, she is in her eighth year as an Adjunct Faculty at the Community Development and Entrepreneurship Clinic at Seattle University School of Law. She holds a JD and MBA from the University of Kansas.

Mukesh choudhary

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Ganesh Mani

Experienced professional with expertise in the
areas of Investment Management / Financial Services;
Start-up & IP strategy; Knowledge-intensive services & low-cost, world-class innovation.

Specialties: Institutional Asset Management
Equity Research
Strategy for start-ups and new SBUs
Knowledge Process Outsourcing
Innovation Strategy
Big Data

Sanjay Uppal

Sanjay is VP and General Manager of the VeloCloud Business Unit in the Networking and Security business at VMware, after the acquisition of VeloCloud by VMware in December 2017. Prior to VMware, Sanjay was the CEO and co-founder of VeloCloud Networks and grew VeloCloud to be the leader in the fast growing SD-WAN (Software-Defined Wide Area Networking) space. Earlier, Sanjay ran publicly traded OnMobile Global, serving as its President and COO. Sanjay was at Citrix as VP of the Application Networking business through the acquisition of Caymas Systems where he was President and CEO. In the past, Sanjay has served in executive roles at Webvan (Vice President of Engineering and Business Development) and at Hewlett-Packard where ran the Internet Infrastructure Division as VP & GM prior to his departure in 1999. He holds an MS in the Management of Technology from Stanford University, an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from The Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

Sanjay enjoys cycling, trail running, making gadgets, watching cult movies (The Big Lebowski), and gardening with his family. While he is culinarily challenged he is frequently seen snacking on dark chocolate and crisp croissants.

Ronit Avni

Ronit Avni is the founder and CEO of Localized (https://localized.world/) , a technology company that provides students and recent graduates in emerging markets with access to employers and industry experts who share language, culture and roots. Previously, she founded the media organization, Just Vision, which won dozens of awards including a Peabody and the Puma Creative Impact Award. Just Vision was featured on the TED stage and in every major news outlet. Named a Young Global Leader through the World Economic Forum and a Halcyon Fellow, Ronit sits on the jury of the Global Teacher Prize and the MacArthur Foundation’s 100&Change Competition.  Follow Ronit on Twitter @Ronit_Avni

Manuel Coll Camalez

20 Year Real Estate veteran, and 15 Year HUD Listing Broker

Menica Cuevas

Loan Originator and MLO, Money House , Carolina Branch

Darlene Montes De Oca

Head Loan Originator and MLO, Money House , Carolina Branch

Chia Hock Lai

Chia Hock Lai is the CEO of Swicthnovate and has close to 2 decades of experience in the financial and technology industry. He has previously worked in organisations like Government Technology Agency of Singapore (GovTech) and NTUC Income. Besides being the founding president of the Singapore FinTech Association and chairman of the Token Economy Association, he is also a Fellow of the Singapore University of Social Science, member of the Banking & Finance and Fund Industry panel of Nanyang Polytechnic and advisor to start-ups. Under his leadership, the Singapore FinTech Association (SFA) has grown its membership base to more than 300 corporate members, with an extensive international partnership network in more than 30 countries. In recognition for SFA's work in helping workers to re-skill and up-skill into FinTech, SFA was conferred the prestigious "Partner of Labour Movement" award by NTUC in 2018. In January 2019, SFA made history by becoming the first NTUC U Associates to become an affiliated association of NTUC. In addition, he was amongst the LinkedIn Power Profiles for Finance in 2018, for his active contribution as a key opinion leader in the professional FinTech community.

Cameron Priest

Entrepreneur, Investor, product guy & wannabe engineer. Cameron Priest is the co-founder and CEO of TradeGecko, a Powerful, seamless commerce platform that streamlines inventory and order management for modern online businesses. A native of New Zealand, Cameron and his brother Brad relocated to Singapore in 2012 with an invitation from the incubator JFDI, one of Southeast Asia’s premier technology accelerators to start what is now TradeGecko. In 2015 TradeGecko raised our first round of Series A funding from within Singapore and opened its first North American office in Toronto, Canada, thus solidifying its position between East and West. Today, backed by a recent Series B, the platform’s clients process $3billion in gross merchandise volume annually across 90 countries. At TradeGecko, our mission is to power commerce and empower entrepreneurs. Cameron is passionate about building inspiring businesses that are world-positive and creating the future he wants his children to live in.

Jennifer Reynolds, MBA, ICD.D

Jennifer Reynolds is the President & CEO of the Toronto Finance International (TFI). Her 20-year career in the financial services industry has included senior roles in investment banking, venture capital, and global risk management. Jennifer is a Director on the Board of Citibank Canada, the Canada Development Investment Corporation ("CDEV"), the Board of Women’s College Hospital Foundation, and the Board of Tourism Toronto. She is also a former Member of the Ontario Venture Capital Fund Advisory Committee, former Chair of the Board of Advisors of the Microskills Business Incubator, and former Director on the Board of Studio 180. In 2015 and 2017, she was named a Women's Executive Network (WXN) Canada's Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award Winner. 

 Jennifer is a graduate of the Harvard Business School Women's Leadership program, and she received her MBA from McGill University, as well as a Bachelor of Arts with a double major in Economics and Political Science from McGill University. Jennifer also holds the Institute of Corporate Directors Designation, ICD.D.

Franca Ciambella

Trained in law and business in Canada, New York and Singapore, Franca has been a member of the Quebec Bar since 1990, and in 2010, was one of the first foreign lawyers to gain full admission to the Singapore Bar. Her legal career of over 25 years encompasses 17 years of private practice, including being the Managing Partner of the Singapore office of Stikeman Elliott and a Legal Associate at Norton Rose, seven years as General Counsel for Asia Pacific for Tyco International Ltd.(a US based Fortune 500 corporation), acting as a technical  advisor on regional economic integration to high levels of government in ASEAN , carrying on a mediation practice,  and since 2010, being the Founder & Managing Director of the Singapore based international law firm of Consilium Law Corporation (“CLC”).  CLC represents clients doing business in emerging economies, including in south-east Asia and West Africa, as well as in Canada, in diverse industries and sectors. Franca’s subject areas of legal expertise are in technology law, Fintech (blockchain/ICO’s), contracts law, corporate and commercial law, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, international trade and foreign investment law, with a focus on ASEAN, Canada and West Africa.

She is on the Board of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Singapore, and in 2018 was awarded the Sovereign Medal by Canada’s Governor General for her volunteerism and leadership.

Dr. Mathipurani

International Business

Mr. P. Ganesan

Electrical and Electronic's Engineering

Ms. Vishwa Priya

Robotics and Automation Engineering

Dr. Neelakrishnan

Automobile Engineering 

David Baker

David Baker is the Henrietta and Aubrey Davis Endowed Professor in Biochemistry, Director of the Institute for Protein Design, Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and adjunct professor of Genome Sciences, Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, Computer Science, and Physics at the University of Washington. He received his Ph.D. degree in biochemistry with Randy Schekman at the University of California, Berkeley and did postdoctoral work in biophysics with David Agard at UCSF. His research group is focused on the prediction and design of macromolecular structures, interactions and functions. Dr. Baker received young investigator award from the National Science Foundation and the Beckman Foundation, and the Packard Foundation fellowship in Science and Engineering. He has also received the Irving Sigal Young Investigator award from the Protein Society and the Overton Prize from the International Society of Computational Biology. He is a recipient of the Feynman Prize from the Foresight Institute, the AAAS Newcomb_Cleveland prize, the Sackler prize in biophysics, and the Centenary award from the Biochemical society. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Sciences. His research group is a world leader in computational protein design and protein structure prediction.

Mikaela Kiner

Mikaela has an MS in Human Resources Management, is a certified executive coach, and experienced consultant. In 2015, Mikaela founded Reverb, helping companies in the Pacific Northwest create healthy, inclusive culture. An HR professional for nearly twenty years, Mikaela enjoys coaching leaders at all levels and supporting women and girls in tech. She's been quoted in Fast Company, the Wall Street Journal and The Muse, and is a member of the Forbes Human Resources Council and Puget Sound Business Journal Leadership Trust. She’s the author of Female Firebrands: Stories and Techniques to Ignite Change, Take Control, and Succeed in the Workplace (Greenleaf Press, January 2020). Mikaela is married to Henry, a musician, artist, and teacher. Their two children Simon and Sidonie are good at challenging the status quo and are a constant source of learning and laughter. She lives with her family in Seattle.

Gaurav Kapoor

Senior Head - Industry Partnership, CSR, Media & Advocacy at National Skill Development Corporation

D Peter Immanuel

CEO, AASSC

Anna Bashiran

AMMU: Northern Army commander Lt Gen Ranbir Singh had a narr ..

Dustin Steuber

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Arielle Casper

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Johnny Black

Professor at MNU

Kristian Cummins

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Kiarra Verum

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Kuntal Joisher

Kuntal Joisher combines the distinction of being both an accomplished mountaineer and a high-end, computer science professional. He is an alumnus of Vivekanand Institute of Technology, Mumbai, and USC Viterbi School of Engineering, Los Angeles. His insatiable passion for mountaineering has led him to climb mountain ranges across the
world, including the Western Ghats, the Northern Ice cap in Chile, and the Nepalese and Indian Himalaya. Joisher is the first dietary Vegan in the world to stand on the very top of Mt. Everest, and Mt. Manaslu (the 8th highest mountain in the world), and the only human in the world to have climbed to the top of an 8000 meter mountain – Mt. Lhotse (4th highest mountain in the world) as a true 100% Vegan (diet as well as mountaineering gear). He is a well-respected photographer, and his work has been published in National Geographic, BBC Earth, Space.com, Himalayan Journal, The Outdoor Journal, Time Out, Traveler Trails, Indian Mountaineer, and several other newspapers and magazines across the world.

Joisher regularly travels across India and the world to speak about his life transforming journey of climbing Mt. Everest in hopes to inspire his audience to pursue their dreams and passions. Joisher continues to train hard both mentally and physically and dreams of leading an all Vegan expedition to the top of Mt. Everest in near future. In addition to his dedication to climbing, Joisher is passionate about three causes: raising awareness about the disease of Dementia, spreading the message of Veganism, and education of the underprivileged in Nepal.

Siddharth Kedia

Siddharth is a qualified CA, CFA (US) and has lead the development of AAA. He handles Strategy and has been a part of various other tech projects.

Harit Gautam

Harit Gautam leads digital strategy at IIFL Securities Limited. He handles functional and business ownership of Mutual Fund distribution across all digital channels for DIY customers, RMs and Channel partners

Chintan Modi

A seasoned professional, Mr. Chintan Modi has been associated with IIFL Holdings since 2000 in various capacities. He has meaningfully contributed in managing Equity, Commodity, Currency and other businesses within IIFL.

R Venkataraman

One of the leading thought leaders in Indian financial services, Mr. R. Venkataraman has held senior positions at ICICI Limited, Barclays - BZW and G E Capital Services, before joining the Board of IIFL Holdings Limited in July 1999.

Nirmal Jain

Nirmal Jain, Founder and Chairman of IIFL Group, is a first generation entrepreneur, who is credited with building one of the largest financial services groups in India in just about two decades.

Nate Tobik

I founded http://www.completebankdata.co... out of a desire to create actionable insights and new revenue opportunities for banks and investors. We do this by taking 15 years (and growing) of data and applying our analytics tools to highlight previously undiscoverable data-points.

If you are a growing bank that is ambitious and wants to grow market share in your region we can help you.

Author: The Bank Investor's Handbook (available in paperback and on Kindle): http://a.co/3qSNjpx

I blog about banks and oddball (small cap, special situations) investment securities and strategies at http://www.oddballstocks.com

Satyajeet S.

Passionate about digital engagement and maker of dreams. Also the founder of HootBoard. HootBoard makes touch-screen digital concierges for lobbies and spaces. HootBoard kiosks can be deployed without any custom development and showcase valuable local content.

In his past, Satyajeet worked on IT and Data strategy for organizations like Teradata, Citigroup, Wells Fargo to name a few.

CS Tushar Pahade (LAWgical GURUji)

CS Tushar Pahade, Founder of Tushar Pahade Classes is a Qualified Company Secretary & into teaching field from past 14 Years. He has a Vast Practical & Conceptual knowledge which can be seen through his explanations during the Lectures. 

He has become very famous among Students of All India on YouTube & Digital Space due to his Innovative & different Study Techniques. He focuses on the Concept that We should not only teach in the Lectures, but also to make sure that Students revise at Home and by this, there is very less scope of Doubts.

We feel very proud to tell you that till date we have taught over 24000 Students & are very instrumental in their Success in the field of CS / CA.

We inspire students through motivational lectures as we believe without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. All we say “You won’t need to study at home”. We are here to give a proper direction of your carrier; believe in us, the world will believe you.

Alicia Syrett

Alicia Syrett is Founder and CEO of Pantegrion Capital, LLC.  Pantegrion TM is an angel investment vehicle focused on seed and early stage investments. The company seeks the following criteria in its investments: NY area companies across industries with a live product/service with 2-4 team members involved and a $1 billion market opportunity with revenue potential of $100 million in 5 years. It seeks a current company valuation in the ~$1 - 5 million range. Typical investments range from $10k - $50k per company. Pantegrion acts as a "reserve force" investor (i.e. available with guidance when needed but not control focused).

Nitin Rai

Nitin Rai is Managing Director of Elevate Capital (elevate.vc) a venture fund that includes Elevate Inclusive Fund, a seed stage fund that invests indiverse and underserved entrepreneurs in Pacific Northwest. Nearly 60% of Elevate Capital investments are in women, and 40% in African American and LatinX founder/CEOs led startups.

Since 2016, Elevate has invested in over $5 Million in 24 startups. These
companies have raised follow-on funding of over $80 Million, with a market
cap of $250 Million and created 300 plus jobs. These companies also
report 50% of their employees as diverse. Elevate has already had an exit,
with one of its portfolio companies, Portland-based RFPIO.

Nitin Rai also serves as Chairman of TiE Global of Board Trustees. In this
role, Nitin leads the Board of Trustees mission to help its 60 plus global
chapters to help entrepreneurs become successful through global
programs and initiatives. Nitin serves as Chair of TiE Global Angels to help
entrepreneurs across the globe get funding from TiE Charter Members.

Since 2007 Nitin has been an active angel investor, mentor, and is a
founding charter member and President of the Board of TiE Oregon. In this
role, TiE Oregon has grown to a full-fledged angel investment group with a
successful mentoring program. It has launched several education and
accelerator programs including TYE and TIE XL. TiE Oregon Angels have
invested over $12 million in 52 startups with 6 exits that returned over 3X in
cash to the angels. TiE Oregon ranks in the top 5 chapters globally and
routinely receives recognition for its angel investment, women, and youth
programs. Nitin has invested in over 50 startups since 2011 personally and
through his fund.

Nitin is also a successful entrepreneur. He started his career in Silicon
Valley as an engineer in two startups. In 1994 he founded First Insight
Corporation (first-insight.com) a highly successful Electronic Health
Records (EHR) and practice management software company for eye care
professionals, based in Hillsboro, Oregon and Pune, India. First Insight is a
leader in the optometry and ophthalmology software industry with its
flagship product MaximEyes.

Tejpaul Bhatia

Tejpaul Bhatia is the NY Startup Program Lead for Google Cloud. He was most recently an Entrepreneur in Residence at Citi Ventures. His most recent startup post was as COO for Explain Everything, an interactive screen casting whiteboard app. He also served as CEO and co-founder of Chatwala, a mobile video chat app and Kaptur (acquired), an app that enables users to aggregate photos taken at an event in seconds. Prior to founding Kaptur, Tej was Senior Manager of Product and International Strategy for ESPN, where he launched ESPN3 in the US, Mexico, Brazil, and Europe. He also co-founded Media Strategy Partners, a media asset management consulting company. Tej began his career as a digital media consultant at Scient and Sekani.

Ritvik Singh

Charter Member

Co-Chair

Sam Bhattacharya

Charter Member

2018 Winner

Richa Naujoks

Charter Member

Committee

Melonie Shorno

Committee

Jay Parmar

Committee

Rajeev Kapoor

Committee

Avantika Daing

Co-Chair

Samir Chokshi

Charter Member

Committee

Sab Kanaujia

Committee

Craig Abbott

Committee

Sachin Shah

Committee

Dharti Desai

Committee

Chand Sooran

Co-Chair

Sanjay Mehta (One of Indias top 10 Angel Investor)

Sanjay Mehta 

Private Investor, Mehta Ventures-Family Office Investments, Director CORE Media Startup, Real Estate, Cannabis & Crypto

Awarded Angel Investor Of The Year 2017 by Let'sVenture. Investor in Block.one EOS decentralized platform & societal infrastructure for deploying smart contracts.
Most startups will fail, so you can say everything sucks and be right most of the time. Although you never lose money with that strategy, you never make any either. A friend of mine likes to say "there are two kinds of people in the world--the people that build the future, and the people who write posts on the internet about why they'll fail". Keep trying to be in former category. The people who have said there is nothing new left to do in the world have been wrong every time. Don't let their lack of imagination hold you back. - Sam Altman

2016 part of the Arch Angel Investor List by TOI & xeler8
Read September 2015 Interview http://ignite-india.com/2015/0... Published articles http://bit.do/mehtasanjay Profiled as most active angel investor by VCCircle & Inc42 in 2014 & by Forbes in 2015

Currently I have angel invested in 103 Start-up companies in diverse sectors. Active member of Indian Angel Network, Mumbai Angels, B2B 1K Ventures & CIO Angel Network, Venture Nursery. I like listening to pitches. I'm not addicted to funding startups. I'm addicted to working closely with entrepreneurs.

Read about my views in VCCircle on Founders http://bit.ly/1SE8jtC

Investment Thesis
“Develop a painkiller; not a vitamin”
Success is not an entitlement. To make it big you have to get out there and earn it every day for the rest of your life. Stop chasing the wrong priorities & the right things will automatically catch up with you.

Avantika Daing

Avantika Daing is a TiE New York Board Member, Co-Chair of the bi-annual Pitch Competition and a partner at Plum Alley.  Plum Alley is an investment platform focused on investing in gender diverse founding teams and raising the equity bar for investor. Having scaled teams and businesses to billion dollar valuations and a successful IPO (NASDAQ), respectively, she brings operation, growth and investment leadership for private and public companies across health care and technology. Her diverse background across early stage, growth and a public exit provides Plum Alley a unique perspective during deal sourcing, evaluation and strategic direction. As a founder of a cross border SaaS company, early team member of a first to market biotech product and as an executive in unicorn companies she has expertise focusing on analytics, proprietary modeling and growth strategies in venture backed companies. Her domain knowledge spans healthcare, CPG, HCM, Foodtech and market places. She is active in the startup ecosystem in New York, San Francisco, London and India and is a TEDx speaker.

Claire Coder

Claire Coder is the founder and CEO of Aunt Flow. On a mission to ensure everyone has access to menstrual products, Aunt Flow stocks hundreds of companies across the world with their 100% organic cotton tampons and pads. Coder launched her first company at age 16, designed a bag for Vera Bradley that sold out in 24 hours, and has her own line of GIFs. The 22-year-old founder has been featured in TeenVogue, Forbes, and starred in TLC’s Girl Starter Season 1. When she is not jamming out to Macklemore, she is pretending like she knows how to run Google ads.  

Gopala Krishna Bala

Gopala Krishna, founder of InnovX Minds, has a Masters in Computer Science and a TOGAF certified architect. He has 18 years of IT industry experience, worked in MNCs like Cisco, Oracle and L&T TS in various technical and management roles. He is passionate about teaching, mentoring and building innovative solutions.

Sanket Akerkar

Sanket leads Nauto’s global business and expansion across North America, Europe and Japan. Prior to Nauto, Sanket spent 14 years at Microsoft in various senior leadership positions including VP Global Enterprise, Chief Evangelist (U.S.) and Managing Director of Microsoft India. Prior to Microsoft, Sanket spent 6 years at McKinsey as a consultant.

David Jumpa

With more than 25 years in senior management, business development, sales operations and engineering leadership, David has been instrumental in the growth of the company’s automotive business. His first tenure at Airbiquity was from 1999 to 2002, before he left to start a successful speech recognition company. After its acquisition, he rejoined Airbiquity in 2005 and is responsible for driving sales operations and increasing revenues.

Manuela Papadopol

Manuela has devoted her career to advancing automotive technology. She is an ambassador for the entire industry as it evolves toward highly automated features and, ultimately, self-driving cars. In addition to her role as CEO of Designated Driver, she serves as an advisory board member for Automobility LA where she pioneered the event’s Top 10 Automotive Startup Competition, shining a light on the technological innovation that is bringing smart mobility to the masses. Manuela also sits on the advisory board for Udacity and holds a patent in voice-activated acquisition of non-local content. As co-founder of Sansea Consulting, she has provided guidance to a range of automotive companies and startups. Previously, Manuela led the global marketing effort as director of business development and communications at Elektrobit, establishing the company’s worldwide reach. At Microsoft, as a global marketing manager, she supported Windows Embedded Automotive, Ford SYNC and other automotive initiatives and was recognized with the Microsoft Gold Star Award. She also served as marketing manager for both Mercedes-Benz and BMW. Manuela has received many industry awards including the Women Worth Watching Award from Diversity Journal and she was named a top Woman in IOT Marketing from Connected World.

Jeff Warren

Jeff Warren is the founder and CEO of Migo, the search app for personal transportation that mixes ride share, traditional taxis, car-share, bikes, electric scooters and public transportation onto a single real-time mobile app, for people taking the leap into the new world of shared mobility.

Previously, Jeff was the digital CMO for two Expedia brands, Travelocity and Wotif. Jeff joined Expedia in 2011 to lead mobile, local and social product teams.

Prior to Expedia Jeff held a variety of leadership and corporate development roles at Motorola, where he led the team that introduced Android into Motorola products.

Christopher Ruff

As CEO and President of Glympse, Chris is responsible for leading the company’s growth and global strategy, facilitating company activity in sales, marketing, partnerships and product development. With over 25 years experience in the technology industry, he has great success translating corporate business visions into effective technology strategies and changes.

Chris has spent 20 years in various executive leadership roles in the software, mobile and IoT industries. Before coming to Glympse, he spent 10 years as CEO & President of UIEvolution (now Xevo), a global leader in enterprise software for the connected car, mobile and the Internet of Things. With over 200 employees in Seattle and Tokyo, that company proudly supports industry leading companies including Toyota, Ford, Panasonic, Carnival Cruises and many other Fortune 1000 companies.

Chris has an MBA from the University of Washington.

Avijit Sinha

Avijit Sinha is responsible for business development for IoT and Intelligent Edge at Microsoft. His team drives business development for emerging technologies across Connected Cars, Intelligent Personal Assistants, Location Based Services, Industrial IoT, Smart Buildings, Drones, Autonomous Driving, Ride Sharing, Fleet Management, Agricultural IoT and Sports Analytics.

Prior to this role, he led the extension of Cortana to newer application domains and platforms. During his time in Office 365, he led the transition to mobile platforms and a subscription model. At Microsoft Research, he incubated low cost computing and subscription computing efforts targeted at emerging markets. Sinha started his career in 2001 in the Windows team as a software engineer.

Milind Mahajan

Milind is currently Head of the Seattle R&D Center at Grab. Before joining Grab, Milind spent 2 years at Twitter leading the Ads Targeting and Brand Hub teams in Twitter Seattle. Prior to that Milind co-founded SwiftGist, a startup that built tools and services to help businesses gain insights about customer interactions through application of data science. Before SwiftGist, Milind worked at Microsoft for more than 20 years in various roles. Milind was a founding member of the Speech team at Microsoft and worked on various aspects of Speech Recognition and Natural Language Processing at Microsoft Research. Milind also led product and engineering teams in the Startup Business Group and Bing at Microsoft.

Mike Dosenbach

Mike Dosenbach is the Site Lead and Senior Engineering Manager for the MBRDNA Digital Hub in Seattle, which focuses on Software Development and Cloud Computing for Mercedes-Benz connected vehicles. After over 23 years of software engineering and management experience, Dosenbach has led the Seattle Hub since 2017 and is focused on driving the cloud technologies and new computing paradigms at Daimler.
Dosenbach honors particular cultural values as open communication, teamwork, diversity, and individual empowerment, all aligned with the ethos of building “The Best or Nothing.”

Peter Finley

Co-Founder: UnandUp, LLC - Commercializing new healthcare technology

Managing Director:  Prosper Women Entrepreneurs Startup Accelerator

Gaurav Kapoor

Senior Head - Industry Partnership, CSR, Media & Advocacy at National Skill Development Corporation

D Peter Immanuel

CEO, AASSC

Johnny Black

Professor at MNU

Anna Bashiran

AMMU: Northern Army commander Lt Gen Ranbir Singh had a narr ..

Kristian Cummins

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Kiarra Verum

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Dustin Steuber

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Arielle Casper

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Johnny Black

Professor at MNU

Anna Bashiran

AMMU: Northern Army commander Lt Gen Ranbir Singh had a narr ..

Roman Cassin

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Kiarra Verum

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Dustin Steuber

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Arielle Casper

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Anna Bashiran

AMMU: Northern Army commander Lt Gen Ranbir Singh had a narr ..

Kiarra Verum

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Arielle Casper

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Eliza Bennett

Poet,Singer

Vanessa Angel

Poet,Singer,Philosopher

Kathy Burke

Writer,Actor

Benny Thomas

You Take Care is a Health Care Solutions provider with primary focus on preventive health care. In addition to our specialty center for blood tests and health check ups, we also provide software solutions for Labs. Our HealthApp Mobile application connects Familys - Health Care Providers & Labs. 

Tris Jahanian

Tris formed a small business with partner, Martha Harty called Martris, LLC which designs and builds software that improves interpersonal interactions and relationships. Their first product, a mobile app called Conflict Coach, helps people navigate conflicts at work, delivering just-in-time strategic advice and specific talking points for difficult conversations. 

Ben Rose

Ben is an investment advisor in the Investment Management Division of Goldman Sachs where he advises high-net-worth individuals, families and select foundations and endowments. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs’s Investment Management Division, Ben worked in a variety of roles throughout the firm, serving as an investment banker and later directly supporting the firm’s Chief Administrative Officer who was responsible for the firm’s infrastructure globally. Prior to Goldman Sachs, Ben spent time in the National Economic Council at The White House.  

Ben has a BA with distinction in History from Yale University, where he was also a member of the Varsity Lightweight Crew Team. He received his MBA from Harvard Business School and was awarded a HBS Leadership Fellowship to work alongside the senior management team at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York following graduation. Ben serves on the Advisory 

Board of the National Executive Service Corps, which recruits former executives to serve on consultant teams to deliver high-quality solutions to nonprofit organizations.  He also serves on the Board of the Harvard Business School Club of Washington D.C. and the Board of the Holy Cross Hospital Foundation in Silver Spring, Maryland

Kay Kapoor

Kay Kapoor is the CEO of Arya-Technologies, a woman-owned company, providing end-to-end technology and consulting solutions to the federal government and the industry that supports it.  Recently, Kapoor led AT&T's $15B Global Public Sector business providing innovative technology and communications solutions to Government customers across federal, state, local & international governments and education markets. Prior, she led AT&T's $4B Federal segment which spans across Defense, Civilian, Public Safety and National Security customers.  

Previously, Kapoor served as Chairman and CEO of Accenture Federal Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Accenture LLC. Before that, she worked at Lockheed Martin Corporation for 20 years, leading complex organization units and government relations. She ultimately served as Vice President & COO of Lockheed's $4.0B, 13,000 employee, IS&GS-Civil Unit. Kapoor has 28 years of experience in government and commercial markets. She is the recipient of numerous industry awards. These include the Stevie Award for "Woman of the Year" in Business Services, the Women-in-Technology Leader Award, the prestigious Janice K. Mendenhall "Spirit of Leadership" Award from the American Council for Technology/Industry Advisory Council, the Fed100 Award, and the Asian American Engineer of the Year Award.  Kapoor sits on the Dean's council of Harvard's Kennedy School and also on the advisory board of the Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. 

She is a member of the Dean's Council at Johns Hopkins, Carey School of Business.  Kapoor earned a Masters degree in Business from Johns Hopkins University complemented by executive programs at MIT and Harvard. She earned her Bachelor's degree from University of Maryland.  Specialties: General Management of Large Complex Organizations. Annual P&L responsibility of up to $15B. Consistently, demonstrated top-line and bottom-line business growth as well as significant new-business wins.

Prof. Dr.Ing. Bernd Nentwig

Head of the Department of Construction Management and Economics in the Faculty of Architecture at the Bauhaus University Weimar.. Academic director of the study “Project Development: Real Estate, Markets, Locations”. Since 2010 director of the degree program “Project Development and Real Estate Research”. In the period 1997-2011director of the course “Construction Management”. Lecturer in the course “Foundations of Project Development”. Mentor of “asymmetric solutions” group.

Arti Santhanam

Dr. Santhanam manages the $5.6M Maryland Innovation Initiative (MII) program investing in commercialization and start-up companies spun out of five participating universities; Johns Hopkins University, the University of Maryland College Park, Baltimore and Baltimore County campuses, as well as Morgan State University.  Established in 2012, MII has invested $33M that has resulted in 87 startups, >$272M in follow-on funding and 7 exits till date.

Dr. Santhanam leverages over 20 years of experience in life science research, and a multidisciplinary background, providing subject matter expertise for conception, design and delivery of technical and commercialization solutions for start-ups. At TEDCO, Dr. Santhanam has served various roles over the years including Investment Analyst for the Maryland Venture Fund and Manager for the Life Science Investment Fund, where she was responsible for over $3M of seed investments and served in a Board Observer role for multiple portfolio companies.

Dr. Santhanam received a Master of Science in Clinical Biochemistry from University of Madras (India) and a PhD in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics from Rutgers University, NJ. She did her postdoctoral fellowship at the National Cancer Institute.

She serves on the Board of Directors of the Annapolis-based non-profit advocacy group METAvivor Research and Support, Inc., where she established the METAvivor research program to fund groundbreaking research to treat Stage 4 metastatic breast cancer. Under her directorship METAvivor has awarded over $4M in research grants and was selected as a premier patient-run Research Programs in VP Joe Biden’s Cancer Moonshot Initiative! She is also an active member of the Women In Bio- Capital region chapter.

Karen Smaw

Karen Smaw is the Director of Fairfax County Economic Development Authority. She is a tremendous resource for small businesses that want to locate and grow in Fairfax County.  She has created the “Starting a Business” workshops and almost 3,000 business persons and entrepreneurs have attended the sessions. The SBA and the Virginia Department of Business Assistance are partners in the workshop series. Smaw also created workshops for small businesses that want to grow, and for companies that want to export goods and services to other countries. Smaw is one of the first African-American women to serve on the board of the Dulles Regional Chamber of Commerce. She also serves on the boards of the Virginia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and the Fairfax County-based Community Business Partnership, and the University Life Advisory Board at Fairfax-based George Mason University.

https://speakerpedia.com/speakers/karen-smaw

Peter Horst

Peter Horst is a Fortune 500 Chief Marketing Officer, having led the creation of iconic products and campaigns at Capital One, Hershey, TD Ameritrade, General Mills and others. Peter now leads marketing consultancy CMO Inc. and sits on several boards. He’s a Forbes contributor and the author of the bestselling book, Marketing in the #FakeNews Era. 

Marco Rubin

Marco is responsible for sourcing, diligence and closing of seed and early stage investments on behalf of the CIT GAP Funds designated a  Virginia Most Active Investor by CBInsights.  He serves as a board representative to a numerous portfolio companies and leads seed/early stage investment in aerospace/UAS, energy, and software sectors.  Marco has held leadership roles with funds recognized on five occasions by Entrepreneur Magazine’s VC 100 rankings and has invested in over 200 early stage startups throughout his career. 

Prior to CIT, Marco founded Exoventure Associates, LLC (Exo). There he conducted diligence, mentored entrepreneurs and served as a judge in global business plan competitions sponsored by the World Bank and the State Department in former CIS countries.  

Prior to Exo, he was founder of Monumental Venture Partners, LLC (MVP) making investments in security, information technology, telecommunications, software and medical devices sectors. MVP produced acquisitions of portfolio companies to Dolby Labs and Level 3 Communications. Before MVP, Marco launched New Ventures, MCI venture capital unit. Prior to MCI, he served Fortune 500, Federal and emerging market clients while with Booz Allen & Hamilton.

He began his career as an engineer at the Johnson Space Center training astronauts and flight controllers. Marco holds an MBA from The George Washington University and a BSEE from the University of New Mexico. He has been a National Science Foundation commercial reviewer since 2007 as well as a former NSF SBIR grant winner.

Sundar Vaidyanathan

Sundar Vaidyanathan is the Co-founder and CEO of Karsun Solutions, LLC. In this role, he is responsible for overall strategic direction of the company, developing and executing long-term strategies, and driving business results. Karsun Solutions has grown from being a start-up to a $60 million dollars IT modernization company in the last 9 years. Sundar epitomizes Karsun’s commitment to modernizing enterprises through technology innovations. He is a proven leader with deep expertise in developing strong customer relationships, a passion for building high performance teams, and a disciplined focus on delivery excellence.

Prior to founding Karsun Solutions, Sundar held various leadership roles at Unisys Corporation and KPMG Consulting. In these roles, he led the strategy, development, and implementation of complex multi-million dollar IT programs with a successful track record in navigating and resolving complex delivery issues. Sundar is very active in the federal IT community and has served in several leadership roles within the Industry Advisory Council (IAC). He currently serves on the board as a Vice-Chair for Finance.

Sundar holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication from the College of Engineering, Guindy and Master of Engineering in Electrical Communication from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore . He earned his Master of Business Administration in Entrepreneurship from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Ashwin Bharath

Ashwin, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Revature, was key for the inception and execution of Revature. As CEO, Ashwin is responsible for running daily facets of the company, creating the strategic vision and ensuring that initiatives align with the company’s core values and culture. Previously, Ashwin held management positions with Satyam Computers. He has a Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics and Communications, from the Coimbatore Institute of Technology.

Ashwin has successfully guided Revature through 2 Private Equity cycles and has shown 100% YoY growth in the last 4 years. Revature empowers businesses around the globe with best-in-class talent and technologies. Currently Revature has reached several milestones including having the largest university partnerships in the country and also Revature is the largest employer of recent graduates in Software Engineering.

James Hunt

James (Jim) Hunt is a seasoned (translation: “old”) technology and investment professional with a principle focus on companies with technologies that can have a positive impact on the national security sector markets. 

Hunt began his career in Washington in the mid 70’s as a U.S. Government scientist.  After eight years with the government, Hunt founded “BDS, Incorporated” where he served as CEO for ten years.  In 1991, BDS was merged with BTG, Incorporated and Hunt assisted in the integration of the two companies.  In 1992, BTG was taken public in a successful offering.  Hunt also served on the BTG board of directors.

Subsequent to his tenure at BDS/BTG, Hunt went to Price Waterhouse where he started and ran the firm’s system integration practice. After two years at PW, Hunt was recruited away with 17 PW colleagues and founded “Ernst & Young Technologies” (EYT), where he was CEO for eight years.  EYT was subsequently sold to Cap Gemini and Hunt served as President of Cap Gemini Technologies for two years, leaving Cap Gemini in 2006.

After leaving Cap Gemini Technologies, with two colleagues, Hunt founded “The MITA Group” a Washington-based consultancy focused on public affairs and business strategy.

Mr. Hunt began his angel investing activities in the mid 1990’s after the successful BTG IPO, with five investments in area companies. After over 25 years of seed stage investing, Hunt expanded his portfolio since the early 2000’s to the present over 120 early stage investment.  Hunt sits on numerous corporate boards.  Hunt has exited over 30 investments over the past ten years, the last of which was January of 2019.

Hunt’s investments are in the area of cyber and physical security, Internet-of-Things, data center management, social media, analytics, and mobile applications. 

As an active member of multiple angel groups and managing partner of “Lavrock Ventures”, a recently formed early stage venture capital firm,  Hunt spends a significant amount of his time scouting for world-class, game changing technology.

In addition to his investing activities, Hunt serves as a consultant to both government and corporate organizations in the area of overall strategy, product commercialization, channel strategies and M&A strategies.

Hunt has been an Adjunct Professor at the McDonough School at Georgetown for the past 20 years as well as at Notre Dame and teaches cornerstone courses in business planning and start-up business management and investing.  Hunt has also created and taught courses to international angels and entrepreneurs and has successfully launched four overseas ventures in the past several years, with particular emphasis on technology incubation in developing countries.

Hunt is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and Rochester Institute of Technology and sits on the Notre Dame Engineering College Advisory Council.  Additionally, Hunt is a past president of the Computing Industry Technology Association.

Padmanabha (GOPAL) Rajagopalan

Padmanabha (GOPAL) Rajagopalan is currently Vice President of Strategy and Transformation in Verizon’s Global Supply Chain Organization. In this role, he is responsible for the digital transformation of supply chain and for driving strategic supply chain roadmap. Gopal has 22 years of experience in the mobile phone industry as a researcher, engineer, product manager and strategic planner at the executive level.

Before his current position, he formed and led Verizon’s Network Supply Chain Operations and Verizon Services Ireland Limited (VSIL) for 3 years, one of the centers of excellence for Global Supply Chain & Services organization. In this role, he led a team that is responsible for all technology sourcing for Verizon that includes network and IT hardware, software and services driving more than $3B in cost savings over 3 years. Before that, he was part of the Corporate Strategy group at Verizon and served as Partner/Executive Director of Verizon Ventures where he established and led early stage investment strategy and execution, marketing and venture development for Verizon Ventures. Under his leadership, Verizon Ventures more than doubled the investments made in innovative startups. Gopal joined Verizon in 2005 and served in different leadership positions within the Wireless Marketing group including forming and leading a group in Verizon Wireless Marketing organization chartered with identifying and incubating new strategic businesses before formalizing as part of the product portfolio. Additionally, he has managed key strategic service partnerships with Google, Amazon & Microsoft with whom he closed on more than $200M/year worth of business development opportunities. He also led internal and external executive innovation initiatives that led to the discovery of disruptive companies with innovative concepts for enhancements to Verizon’s product & investment portfolio. 

Prior to this, Gopal was responsible for long term technology planning for handsets and successfullydefined and implemented OS and several cost saving strategies for Verizon Wireless. Before joining Verizon Gopal worked for several years in Motorola Inc., holding various positions in R&D, program management and product management. While in R&D, he was one of the primary software architects of the TDMA/GSM handsets, that were sold to major carriers in the US and Latin America. He holds 3 US patents.

Gopal holds a MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Kansas and Bachelor of Science degree in Electronics and Communications (graduated top of class) from College of Engineering, Guindy (Anna University), India. His interests include golf, travel, astrophysics, metaphysics, mindfulness, astrology and learning Sanskrit.

Jonathan Chashper

Jonathan Chashper is a recognized professional offering fresh insight and a passion for innovation. He has a proven track record in planning, building and launching successful high-profile software solutions.As a dynamic leader and guide, Mr. Chashper’s leadership drives team cohesion and inspires individuals tostrive for even higher levels of achievement. Mr. Chashper has a solid technological background, enhanced with a first-class MBA.

Mr. Chashper, has founded ProductSavvy (www.productsavvy.com) in 2006, providing Product Management and Product Development support to software start-ups world wide.

ProductSavvy is a product acceleration company that understands business problems and how to convert them into successful products. ProductSavvy bridges the gap between business and technology by bringing to the table expertise in product strategy, product management and software development management.

The ProductSavvy team is a group of business and technology innovators with deep experience working in fast growth, technology focused companies. ProductSavvy is headquartered in the United States have built and grown products and companies in and outside of the US.

Prior to founding Product Savvy Consulting, he led the Software Development Department of AeroScout, which is the market leader in enterprise visibility solutions based on Wi-Fi and other wireless- networking standards. Before joining AeroScout, Mr. Chashper co-founded Netprox, a start-up geared towards building an application platform for the mobile Internet. At Netprox, Mr. Chashper led the product management and product development groups, leveraging his experience gained at Regisoft and Comverse Technologies. During his career path, Mr. Chashper designed, built and deployed large scale systems for a variety of customers including enterprises, telecom and cellular companies. He earned a B.Sc. in Computer Science & Mathematics from Ben-Gurion University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.

Suresh Shenoy

Suresh V. Shenoy is an Indian-American engineer, senior business executive and philanthropist.

He is the current President of WHEELS Global Foundation (WGF), an organization founded in 2013 by alumni of the Indian Institute of Technology in North America. It is an independent 501c3 charitable entity to provide innovative technology driven solutions to the challenges that affect the global rural population in six areas: Water, Healthcare, Energy, Education, Livelihood and Sustainability. 

Suresh V. Shenoy is also Executive Vice President at Alyx Technologies, a Virginia based IT systems consulting company. He served two terms as Chairman of the National Capital region of the American Red Cross. He also served as a Director of The Capital IIT Alumni Association, the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce, Tech America, and Fairfax 2015 – the biennial World Games of Police and Fire Fighters with 12,000 athletes competing from 80 countries. He was the Programs Chairman of the PanIIT Global Conference held in Washington, DC in 2005. Mr. Shenoy served as President of the PanIIT Alumni Association in North America for the 2006-2008 Term and is currently Director Emeritus. He also represented Dranesville District on the Fairfax County IT Advisory Board for six years. He served on the CLOUD2 commission – an industry initiative directed by the Obama administration to study the impact of migrating government applications to the cloud and associated impact on procurement rules, data sovereignty, security, interoperability and other issues.

Mr. Shenoy is a Fellow of the Information Management Congress (Europe) and AIIM International (USA). He was awarded the Award of Merit by AIIM International in 2015 – the highest industry recognition for Enterprise Content Management technologies. He has been recognized by IBM Corporation as ‘Information Champion’ for his contributions to Enterprise Content Management technologies for four consecutive years 2009-2013 and received the Distinguished Service Award from the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai. In 2010, Mr. Shenoy and his brother Sudhakar, were honored by the Northern Virginia Community Foundation for their leadership and contributions to Fairfax County and also received a citation for their community service from the US Congress.  He has taught Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the School of Information Technology & Engineering at George Mason University for over 12 years. He served on the Partner Advisory Council at IBM for 2014-15. In 2014 Mr. Shenoy was awarded “Distinguished Alumnus” by the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, where he and his brother endowed the “Shenoy Innovation Studio” in 2006.  Mr. Shenoy has traveled widely throughout Europe, Asia, Australia and the Middle East, has a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (1972), and a MBA from the University of Connecticut (1975).

Brian Kelly

Brian Kellyis the Editor and Chief Content Officer of U.S. News & World Report, a publisher of news and consumer information products. Kelly is a member of the executive committee with primary responsibility for all the company’s content, which includes the website usnews.com, print and e-book guides on education and health care, and a conference and events business.

Kelly has led the transformation of U.S. News from a traditional print news magazine to a largely digital publishing company with a range of influential products including the Best Colleges and Best Hospitals rankings, and the new Best Countries rankings. Under his leadership, usnews.comhas gained an audience of more than 40 million monthly users. Kelly and his team also expanded U.S. News’ Money, Personal Finance, and Health content and launched new Car and Travel products as well as two national conferences.

He is the chairman the Healthcare of Tomorrow conference, as well as U.S. News STEM Solutions, a national forum that brings together corporations, educators and policymakers working to help the U.S. fill jobs by creating a more skilled and competitive workforce.

Kelly joined U.S. News in 1998 after serving as a senior editor at The Washington Post; he was named editor at U.S. News in April 2007.

Kelly is the author of “Adventures in Porkland” (Random House, 1992) a study of the congressional budget process. With Mark London, he co-authored “The Four Little Dragons” (Simon & Shuster, 1989), an exploration of the developing economies of Asia, and “Amazon” (Harcourt Brace, 1983), a look at the economic and cultural forces behind the clearing of the Amazon rainforest. They published a sequel, “The Last Forest,” in 2007.

Kelly has appeared on numerous television and radio programs including CBS This Morning, NBC’s Today Show, White House Chronicles and National Public Radio. He is a frequent speaker and panelist on issues related to media, national policy, politics and education. He is a Vice President of the Economic Club of Washington and a Board member of The Children’s Inn of The National Institutes of Health. 

Bobby Saini

Bobby Saini is the CEO of Manor a venture-backed company that is changing the way homeowners manage, maintain and maximize the return on the investment they call home. Bobby has 15 years of start-up, business, real estate, and entertainment industry experience. Bobby co-founded ArmorText (active) a venture-backed secure collaboration platform built for enterprises in regulated industries where he led product, marketing, and sales. Prior to that, he founded his first company at the age of 16; 360Matic an award-winning design and development agency where his clients included: Sony, BMW, Bad Boy Records, Intercontinental Hotels,  ZeeTV, Alliance for Consumer Education and many more. 

Madhur Grover

Madhur Grover is a seasoned leader with 15 years of experience in financial services industry including credit risk management, strategy development, marketing analytics, product management and operations. He has experience managing multiple billion $ portfolios to creating completely new lending businesses from scratch.  He has management expertise both in big banks and startups. Madhur is currently Chief Credit Risk and Growth Officer for StreetShares, a Reston based venture capital backed startup that provides digital financial solutions for small businesses. Prior to joining StreetShares, Madhur spent a decade at Capital One. He is a CFA charter holder and graduated from Texas A&M university. He lives in Vienna and enjoys spending time outside with his family. 

Chris DeMay

Chris DeMay is Founder and CTO of HawkEye 360, an RF analytics company and the first to launch commercial satellites to identify and geolocate a wide-range of RF signals, unveiling a previously-hidden global information source.  Mr. DeMay is responsible for the company's technical strategy, acquisition approach, and strategic partnerships.  He formerly worked for the U.S. Federal Government, where he was responsible for the execution of budget, schedule, and performance for a portfolio of over 25 space-based intelligence technology development projects totaling more than $500 million. Chris is a member of the prestigious AFCEA Intelligence Committee, and the proud recipient of AFCEA’s 40 Under 40 Award, the NRO Gold Medal of Distinguished Performance, and the Frank Beamer Award for Exceptional Service. He is a member of MENSA, is a Project Management Professional (PMP), and has an MS in Systems Engineering and a BS in Business Information Technology, both from Virginia Tech.  He is a fan of third-wave coffee, traveling, and graphic design, and fondly remembers his stint as lead singer of his college rock band. Chris lives in Chantilly, Virginia (USA) with his wife and two children.

Matt Sherwin

Jupiter Experts sources professionals with the precise combination of technical and testifying ability to serve as expert witnesses on patent cases. Designed by patent litigators for patent litigators, Jupiter brings the best to your door by:

(1) Instantly scanning every one of the 12,000 patent cases over the last five years with our algorithm and ranking the experienced testifying experts whose background is most relevant for your case;

(2) Scouring academic papers and industry associations to ensure that you find the needle in the haystack.

Find your best-fit expert today at www.jupiterexperts.com

Allison Howard

With a background in chemical engineering and a passion for healthy skin, Allison Howard is boldly combining skin science with cutting edge textile technology to create fabrics that are not only luxurious looking and feeling, they are also good for you.
During sleep your body naturally loses moisture. This moisture can end up in your pillowcase and sheets, causing your skin and hair to stick instead of slide as you slumber. The end result is unruly hair and sleep lines, which can become permanent wrinkles.
Using state of the art fibers and novel construction methods, nollapelli fabrics provide the ultimate in comfort while maintaining optimal moisture, temperature and friction conditions for healthy skin. For the first time, scientific principles used by the top cosmetics companies are being applied to textiles, resulting in fabrics that not only look and feel good, they have a skin benefit too.

Read more at https://www.nollapelli.com/ 

Sanjay Ravi

Sanjay Ravi is responsible for the development of Microsoft’s global Automotive
industry business. He leads the team that supports vehicle manufacturers and
mobility service providers including their suppliers and ecosystem partners with
innovative solutions and services strategies that accelerate digital

transformation. Leveraging the breadth and depth of Microsoft technologies along with partner solutions,
Ravi’s team guides the growth and competitive strategies for Microsoft in the following areas: connected
vehicles, autonomous vehicle development, smart mobility solutions, connected customer experiences
and smart factory & supply chain. Ravi and his team are focused on partnering with automakers to bring
new digital capabilities and monetization opportunities to the Automotive market quickly.
Ravi holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T.)
Madras and a Master of Science degree in Manufacturing Systems from Syracuse University. He is a
graduate of the Harvard Business School General Management Program.

Wanti Wahyuni

Tax Consultant

LAUREL WEST

Prior to taking up a commercial role with The Economist Group, Laurel spent more than ten years covering India as an editor with The Economist Intelligence Unit. She has also served as editorial director of the group’s Thought Leadership division for Asia, overseeing research programmes on a wide range of topics including the environment for internet-based business, women’s role in corporate Asia, innovation in healthcare and outbound M&A from China, to name but a few.
Currently based in Hong Kong, Ms West has lived in Asia for more than 20 years.

MAX RODENBECK

Max Rodenbeck began writing for The Economist in 1989. Previous to his current role he was Middle East bureau chief from 2000 to 2015, covering the region from Morocco to Iran, and topics ranging from wars and revolutions to radical Islam, Arabic pop culture and the ancient art of distilling arak. A frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, his own book, Cairo: The City Victorious, has been published in eight languages.

ALEX TRAVELLI

Alex Travelli, a correspondent for The Economist, has been based in Delhi for the past three years. He concentrates mainly on stories that affect politics and society at the state level. He is also the Asia-based editor for The Economist’s 24-hour news desk, responsible for assigning and editing articles during the Asian third of the business day; he also composes the overnight European edition of The Economist Espresso. Prior to his assignment to Delhi, he worked in the newspaper’s Hong Kong and New York bureaus.

S CHANDRASEKHAR

Professor, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research

SAURABH KUMAR

Saurabh Kumar is managing director at Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL), a joint venture of public-sector undertakings under the Ministry of Power, Government of India. Under Mr. Kumar’s leadership, EESL has implemented the globally-lauded Unnat Jyoti by Affordable LEDs for All (UJALA) programme and Street Light National Programme (SLNP). Mr. Kumar and his team has also been successfully implementing several Demand Side Measures including municipal functions, agriculture, public buildings, and transformative initiatives like e-mobility, smart meters, trigeneration and decentralised solar power plants.

Mr. Kumar is an internationally recognised authority on the design and implementation of scalable, replicable and impactful business models for promoting energy efficiency across sectors.

Prior to joining EESL, Mr. Kumar worked in various capacities in the Government of India and in the Bureau of Energy Efficiency, where he led the implementation of the world’s largest Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) efficient lighting project.

ASHIMA GOYAL

Ashima Goyal is widely published in institutional and open economy macroeconomics, international finance and governance, with more than a hundred articles in national and international journals. Currently she is a member of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, an independent Director at IDBI bank and Edelwiess Financial Services Limited.  

She has also authored and edited a number of books including Macroeconomics and Markets in Developing and Emerging Economies (Routledge: UK. 2017) and A Concise Handbook of the Indian Economy in the 21st Century (OUP: India, 2015). She edits the Routledge journal Macroeconomics and Finance in Emerging Market Economies; has provided consultancy to ADB, DEA, GDN, UNDP, RBI, UN ESCAP and WB; is active in the Indian policy debate; and has served on several government committees, boards of educational and of financial institutions, including the RBI technical advisory committee for monetary policy.She contributes a monthly column to the Hindu Business Line. She was a visiting fellow at the Economic Growth Centre, Yale University, USA, and a Fulbright Senior Research Fellow at Claremont Graduate University, USA. Her research has received national and international awards. She won two best research awards at GDN meetings at Tokyo (2000) and Rio de Janeiro (2001), was selected as one of the four most powerful women in economics, a thought leader, by Business Today (2008), was the first Professor P.R. Brahmananda Memorial Research Grant Awardee for a study on History of Monetary Policy in India since Independence (2011), which was published by Springer in 2014, received the SKOCH Challenger Award for Economic Policy (2017), Hindu College OSA Distinguished Alumni Award and 20th FLO FICCI GR8 Beti Award for Excellence in Economics (2018).

KRISHNA KUMAR

Krishna Kumar, founder and chief executive of CropIn Technology Solutions, has made it possible to enable data-driven farming by connecting all the stakeholders in the agri ecosystem. CropIn is a leading global full-stack AgTech organisation that provides SaaS solutions thus enabling businesses to utilise technology to effectively drive their initiatives around digitisation, predictability, risk management, compliance, sustainability and traceability. CropIn is passionately driven with the mission to 'maximise per acre value' and the vision to 'make every farm traceable'. With robust solutions that are crop and region agnostic, CropIn has so far digitised nearly 5 million acres of farmland, enriching the lives of nearly 2.1 million farmers in addition to creating a footprint in 30 countries globally. Krishna is also a BusinessWorld 40 Under 40 Achiever 2018.

Barrie Athol

I am honored and excited to be the new CEO of Ascender and to lead its next phase of growth. I cannot imagine a more exciting time to become a part of the entrepreneurial ecosystem here in Pittsburgh. What Ascender does matters. By connecting, supporting, and investing in Pittsburgh’s entrepreneurs, Ascender is increasing the success of individual entrepreneurs and the region as a whole. Ascender already has great entrepreneurs, great programs and great people. With this platform for growth Ascender has an amazing future.

About Barrie
Senior executive with extensive global experience in developing and executing transformational strategies, driving business performance improvements, and leading M&A transactions and post-merger integrations in the financial services and technology sectors. Creative leader with exceptional talent of driving execution collaboratively and creating value across businesses. Skilled at managing complicated organizational and stakeholder relationships. Excellent communication and presentation skills.

Areas of expertise:
Strategic Vision and Planning
Strategy and Strategic Program Execution
Operational Leadership
Building and Motivating High-Performance Teams
Creative Problem Solving
Stakeholder Relationship Management
Public Speaking and Constituent Engagement
Boards of Directors / Governance

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Biswajit Mohapatra

Biswajit is IBM Certified Executive Consultant and Global Integrated Delivery Leader for CIO Advisory and Cloud Transformation Factory. Biswajit is an alumnus of IIT Mumbai with more than 22 years of experience in IT with leadership positions in companies like TCS, Zensar, Capgemini and now IBM.

Biswajit specializes on concept to realization of Digital Transformation strategy including incubation of offerings, architecting, rolling out new age digital accelerators and delivering large complex process transformation engagements. 

Biswajit has several national and international publications and disclosures onCloud and Cognitive Analytics . Biswajit is member of IBM Faculty of Academy, Member of Board of Studies for Symbiosis University and Board member of IIBA Pune Chapter.

Venkat Reddy

I am Venkat Reddy (Vik), a technical expert, A Strong Believer that technology is the most powerful tool of the future.

My experience and knowledge spreads across understanding and working on Complex Applications and Databases, Big Data, Blockchain, Crytocurrency , Cryptography , Security Risk Assessment, Mobile Applications.

Presented Blockchain technology in conferences and acted as panelist. Attended numerous international blockchain conferences as a member of NYC blockchain groups.

I worked in Various industries ranging from startups to big MNCs. Now leveraging all the experience to grow my own startup. Please feel free to connect with me. 

Aadil Ginwala

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Madhur Gupta

Madhur Gupta (LinkedIn) is currently working as a field engineer and tech expert in Unity Technologies.

Before Unity, he has also worked as a lead game programmer in Hungama Gameshastra, as a senior programmer in Disney India, and as a senior game developer in Indusgeeks Solutions Pvt. Ltd. 

He has completed his B. Tech. In Computer Science from Amity University, and has completed his post-graduation executive programme in Global Business Management from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.

Vivek Kumar

I’m a founder and CEO of Qlicket. We help enterprises and midsize businesses reduce turnover by giving frontline employees a voice. Our kiosk feedback system bridges the communication gap between high turnover workers and company executives. By collecting employee sentiment more consistently and naturally than typical surveys, company leadership has insights necessary to create a happier and more productive workforce, and a healthier bottom line.

Before founding Qlicket, I worked at Blackstone in New York, where I marketed alternative credit funds to some of the world’s largest institutional investors from the company's credit platform, GSO Capital Partners. My role encompassed business development, client relations, and marketing. I was assigned to many of GSO’s most critical client development priorities, serving as the lead Analyst on a strategic partnership valued at $1 billion.

Prior to that, I was a management consultant at Katzenbach Partners, a firm started by ex-McKinsey folks focused on breakthrough organizational performance. I worked on projects that drove multimillion dollar cost savings and large scale organizational restructurings. People strategy was integral to my work: I completed organizational network analyses with hundreds of employees to develop company and department specific onboarding programs.

I graduated in 2007 from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where I focused on Finance and Management. I was actively involved with school life – as Social Committee Chairperson of the Wharton Council, Advisory Board Member of Wharton Leadership Ventures, and Teaching Assistant of Management 100 – and remain close to the Wharton network.

Over the past 7 years, I’ve lived in India, Pittsburgh, and New York. My home is now San Francisco.

My team is always on the lookout to work with great people and great organizations. If what we do sounds interesting, and you would like to know more, please get in touch! 

Girish Nuli

Girish Nuli is a successful startup founder, having founded "Core Blockchain" through which he provides quality Blockchain education and "Antara Software" through which he provides consultancy to enterprises on Blockchain solutions and implementations and having also developed multiple Blockchain products and marketed them. Girish has a superb flair for teaching and is a fantastic speaker in his own right speaking to many national and international events on a regular basis.

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Naveen Lakkur

This workshop will be led by Naveen Lakkur, a serial entrepreneur turned Innovation coach who ignites creativity and applies innovation to leadership in both life and work. he has co-founded several innovative companies. He has also been a catalyst for 250 ideas to have become commercial realities. Currently, Naveen serves as Chief Innovation Coach at Institute of Inspiring Innovation. Besides his active engagement with the industry, he indulges in writing books and loves storytelling.

Ray Betler

Ray started his career as a design engineer for Westinghouse, and he became the youngest President and CEO in the 120-year history of the company.  He served with the same company under different ownership and corporate structures for 30 years as the company changed its name to AEG Westinghouse and eventually Bombardier.  Ray not only led the worldwide Total Transit Systems business, headquartered in Pittsburgh, he also lived and worked for two years in the United Kingdom to lead Bombardier’s London Underground Division, a $7.5 billion business, and the largest transportation industry public private partnership effort in the world. 

He joined Wabtec in 2008 as Group Executive Transit and was promoted to Chief Operating Officer in 2010.  He was named President and Chief Operating Officer in 2013, and President and Chief Executive Officer in 2014.

Ray was a significant driving force behind the company’s acquisition of Faiveley Transport in 2017, and the merger with GE Transportation business during 2018/ 19. Under Ray’s leadership Wabtec corporation grew three times in size to join the coveted S&P 500 index.  

A native of Pittsburgh, Ray holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Economics as well as a degree in Administration/Management Science, both from Carnegie Mellon University.  

Ray started his career as a design engineer for Westinghouse, and he became the youngest President and CEO in the 120-year history of the company.  He served with the same company under different ownership and corporate structures for 30 years as the company changed its name to AEG Westinghouse and eventually Bombardier.  Ray not only led the worldwide Total Transit Systems business, headquartered in Pittsburgh, he also lived and worked for two years in the United Kingdom to lead Bombardier’s London Underground Division, a $7.5 billion business, and the largest transportation industry public private partnership effort in the world. 

He joined Wabtec in 2008 as Group Executive Transit and was promoted to Chief Operating Officer in 2010.  He was named President and Chief Operating Officer in 2013, and President and Chief Executive Officer in 2014.

Ray was a significant driving force behind the company’s acquisition of Faiveley Transport in 2017, and the merger with GE Transportation business during 2018/ 19. Under Ray’s leadership Wabtec corporation grew three times in size to join the coveted S&P 500 index.  

A native of Pittsburgh, Ray holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Economics as well as a degree in Administration/Management Science, both from Carnegie Mellon University.  

Milind Bibikar

Principal Coach,  Mentor & Founder at Expandus Business Services

• Mechanical Engineer from Pune
• 6 years of Corporate working experience across Manufacturing     and Capital Goods Industry
• 14 years as a First Generation Entrepreneur
• Ex-Co-Founder at Marcuras Water Treatment Pvt. Limited
• Experience of working across Pune, Kenya, Africa
• Experience working at Thermax Ltd. 
• Trained and Licensed Coach,  Australia

Tabish Bibikar

Principal Coach, Mentor & Founder at Expandus Business Services

• Mechanical Engineer from Pune
• 20 years of Corporate working experience across Engineering, Manufacturing  and IT Industry
• Worked at Leadership positions
• Experience of working in Pune, US and UK
• Hands-on experience in Sales, Marketing, Research, PPC, Vendor Management, Service, Software Testing, Project and Portfolio Management
• Worked at Thermax Ltd,  Ador-Samia Ltd, Sutra Systems, Persistent Systems Ltd and Barclays 

 Certified PMP, USA;  Strategic marketing specialist from ASCI, ISO Auditor

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Jerry Ravi

Jerry Ravi is a Partner and Practice Leader specializing in Process, Risk, and Technology Solutions (PRTS). Jerry has nearly 20 years of consulting, technology and audit experience, with a unique ability to bring clarity and forward movement to the decision-making process. Combining advisory, facilitation and coaching, his work results in growth oriented risk management programs that are aligned with overall corporate strategy. Jerry’s overall goal and credo is to help clients enhance their business performance, translating risk and compliance into opportunities.

Jerry consults with management, audit executives and board members to effectively identify, and mitigate risks facing their organizations. Through the role of internal auditor, compliance and enterprise risk specialist, he provides value-added assurance to corporate management including the CFO, CIO, CAE, CTO and CRO. Jerry’s focus over the past ten years has been leading teams to enhance outcomes for clients in areas such as compliance, technology, governance, risk management, analytics, cybersecurity, and finance and controls transformation.

Jerry’s successful client outcomes included the efficient coordination and utilization of people, process and technology within a large public, multi-national company;  the optimization of internal controls and compliance; as well as re-aligning the corporate focus in key strategic areas including mergers and  acquisitions, cybersecurity, and other areas such as Digital, Mobile, Cloud and ERP. In addition, Jerry serves clients in a variety of highly regulated industries, maintaining a focus on the financial services sector where he helps companies address financial, operational, technology and regulatory risk and assists with operational excellence to overcome market and regulatory challenges.

Jerry is an industry thought leader, and frequent speaker at leading ERM events.

Steve Palomino

Steve Palomino is a Senior Manager with nearly 20 years of experience within accounting and finance. Steve’s expertise in organizational development and innovation management for middle market business as well as large and multinational organizations.

Steve is a recognized thought leader and educator in the accounting technology, software robotics system implementations and performance management and improvement. He uses his expertise to guide businesses leadership in the application of software robotics strategies to increase controls over operations and reporting. Additionally Steve uses his expertise in financial systems to help companies achieve significant effort reduction, deploy controls and continuous audit capabilities, while transforming processes.

Steve has performed financial reporting, planning, product tracking and development, monthly close process, margin assurance, expense review, capital planning, compensation tracking, merger integration of financial systems, software- revenue recognition, financial-systems implementation, and financial system upgrades. He also has extensive knowledge and experience in databases and programs including Oracle, Hyperion, NCR Teradata, SAP, Backline and Adaptive Planning. Steve provides project management guidance and support for project implementations, such as Hyperion applications, Blackline, Adaptive Insights and other common technologies.

Prior to joining the firm, Steve was a Managing Member at a consulting firm. He is a frequent speaker and has presented to the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). He has authored and contributed to the AICPA, including, An Overview of Data Management, Business Intelligence Value Proposition Tool Kit Case Study, Big Builders. Additionally, Steve is a contributing author for the AICPA’s Approach to Approach to Business Solution Implementations, co-author of A Practice Aid for Records Retention, and case study citation, Improving Decision Making in Organizations, Unlocking Business Intelligence.

Greg Fritsky

Greg Fritsky is the National Director of Robotics, AI and Data Analytics within Process, Risk, and Technology Solutions (PRTS). He has over 25 years of consulting, technology, and internal audit experience. Greg serves as the robotics and intelligent automation leader internally and externally. He works with clients to enhance their business performance, making complex and challenging business processes into reliable and efficient activities.

Prior to joining the firm, Greg was the Director of Process Transformation for a technology company focused on robotics process automation (RPA) software, and served as the company's intelligent automation thought leader for the North American market evangelizing robotics process automation, artificial intelligence and data analytics. As a financial process thought leader who combines deep understanding of business process technology with experience as a Big 4 auditor and financial accountant, he now works closely with client executives and senior leadership of leading organizations to provide insight and recommendations to achieve measurable results.

Greg is an industry thought leader and frequent speaker at events. He has presented on various topics, including digital transformation of accounting, enhancing governance and controls with robotics, new accounting skills and digital auditing and intelligent automation.

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Dawn Rucker

Dawn Rucker serves as an advisor and mentor to robotics companies across the US. Her focus is on assisting entrepreneurs to formulate and test their business strategies, provide leadership to their growing companies, manage their risk and decide when to seek outside investment.
Rucker has served in engineering and manufacturing positions in the Pittsburgh region since 1989. In 1994 she was named General Manager of an internally seeded new business unit of Swiss-owned Contraves. A few years later, William E Conway, founding partner of The Carlyle Group, bought the business from Contraves, renaming it Brashear LP. At Brashear, Rucker recruited and built a strong management team and established a reputation for success on high profile and high-risk defense development programs. Brashear is credited with building the Subaru Telescope Primary mirror - the largest monolithic optical mirror ever built, and for designing and building the beam forming system for several DoD high-energy laser weapon systems. In 2004, Brashear was bought by L3 Communications(LLL) and Rucker went on to serve as President under L3 ownership.
Under her leadership, Brashear was named to Pittsburgh’s Fifty Fastest Growing Companies (1998), honored by the Pittsburgh Technology Council as one of the fasting growing companies in western Pennsylvania (1999), and one of the Top 10 Advanced Manufacturers (2002). In 2004, The US Small Business Administration recognized Brashear as one of the Top Ten Businesses in the United States and awarded the organization “Subcontractor of the Year” for the
Mid Atlantic Region. Rucker herself was named to Pennsylvania’s Best 50 Women in Business and recognized by the Governor in 2002.
Ms. Rucker graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in one of the first classes to accept women, receiving a Bachelor of Science in Engineering and serving as an Artillery officer in the Army until 1987. She is an angel investor in both software and hardware companies. Rucker is currently helping to fund and produce “Journey to Normal: Women of War Come Home”, a feature length documentary about the first major deployment of American women in combat. She also serves as advisor to OrganJet/GuardianWings, a for profit/non-profit hybrid which provides information and transportation to people in need of organ transplant services.

Soraya Correa

A 2018 Distinguished Presidential Rank Award winner, Soraya Correa was appointed as the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Chief Procurement Officer in January 2015.  In her capacity as the Senior Procurement Executive, Ms. Correa is responsible for the management direction of the acquisition system of DHS, including implementation of the unique acquisition policies, regulations, and standards of the agency.  She oversees the work of nine Heads of Contracting Activity that provide operational procurement services to DHS components, directorates, and offices.  She has initiated and led several key efforts designed to improve how the 1,400 member DHS procurement workforce focuses as a team on finding the right solutions to enable and support the DHS mission.  These efforts include the Acquisition Innovations in Motion (AIiM) framework, including the Procurement Innovation Lab (PIL), and the Education, Development, Growth, and Excellence (EDGE) mentoring program. Additionally, Ms. Correa has continued to grow and enhance efforts including the Homeland Security Acquisition Institute, the Acquisition Professional Career Program, the Strategic Sourcing Program Office, and Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization.

Ms. Correa has been with DHS since its inception serving in key leadership positions including Head of Contracting Activity for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Associate Director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Enterprise Services Directorate.  

Ms. Correa has also held leadership positions at other federal agencies including the Naval Sea Systems Command, General Services Administration, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and Immigration and Naturalization Service.

Her accomplishments as a leader are well recognized by the government and industry communities.  She has received awards including the Secretary’s Award for Excellence, Management Support Awards, Federal 100 recognition, Public Sector Partner of the Year, Top Women in Tech, and several other accolades that reflect her commitment to the acquisition workforce, procurement innovation, and promoting meaningful communications with industry.

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Deputy Chief Information Officer at U.S. Small Business Administration

Robb Wong

Associate Administrator, Govt. Contracting & Business Development at US Small Business Administration

Sumeet Shrivastava

Current Role

Sumeet Shrivastava is an accomplished executive and proven business leader with more than two decades of experience in the government IT industry. As President and CEO of ARRAY, he provides overall corporate leadership for the company’s growth strategy, which has included a successful graduation from the 8(a) program and recently lead a management buyout of ARRAY.

Background

Prior to ARRAY, Sumeet was SVP for Public Sector at Keane (now NTT Data) and also spent time as the SVP for North American Commercial Sales and Marketing. As EVP and COO of ANSTEC, a Government IT contractor, he architected the company’s sale to Keane. Sumeet’s experience has traversed the full range of early-stage small business to a competitive, mid-tier contractor, including on both sides of M&A transactions.  Sumeet has been committed to his alma mater, George Mason University (MBA ’94), and the regional community throughout his career. He serves on the GMU Foundation Board of Trustees, is the President of Mason’s Alumni Association, and sits on the Dean’s Advisory Council for the Business School.  Sumeet also sits on the Board of Directors of the Children’s Science Center.

Jai Saboo

Mr. Saboo is a lifelong entrepreneur with a unique understanding of technology as well as business and strategic issues and a solid track record of building and operating successful technology and technology related services companies. He started his entrepreneurial career in 1993, launching Concept Software, a software services firm that specialized in large high-end client-server systems for Fortune 500 clients. He sold Concept Software in 1999 and subsequently co-founded Installation Included Inc., serving as its Chief Technology Officer and directing the developing of its state-of-the-art IT systems for logistics support, and helping the company raise more than $20M in funding.

Sandeep Somaiya

Sandeep Somaiya is the Managing Director of NET ESOLUTIONS (NETE), a mid-tier Federal and Health/Biomedical management consulting and technology solutions firm based in McLean, Virginia. Sandeep is an executive with more than twenty five years of experience in the technology and management consulting industry. Mr. Somaiya has extensive managerial and consulting experience with both Government (Federal Civilian and Department of Defense [DoD]) and non-government commercial organizations. Mr. Somaiya holds a MS degree in Computer Science from Virginia Tech.

Sonny Kakar

Sonny Kakar is the Founder and CEO of Sevatec, an advanced-technology firm specializing in Agile and DevOps, data sciences, cyber engineering, and cloud solutions for the national security sector. As CEO, Sonny drives the strategic direction of the firm, specifically focusing on mission-critical solutions that protect and improve the lives of Americans. Sonny has grown Sevatec into an organization with revenue of more than $100 million. 

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Brian Kelly

Brian Kellyis the Editor and Chief Content Officer of U.S. News & World Report, a publisher of news and consumer information products. Kelly is a member of the executive committee with primary responsibility for all the company’s content, which includes the website usnews.com, print and e-book guides on education and health care, and a conference and events business.

Kelly has led the transformation of U.S. News from a traditional print news magazine to a largely digital publishing company with a range of influential products including the Best Colleges and Best Hospitals rankings, and the new Best Countries rankings. Under his leadership, usnews.comhas gained an audience of more than 40 million monthly users. Kelly and his team also expanded U.S. News’ Money, Personal Finance, and Health content and launched new Car and Travel products as well as two national conferences.

He is the chairman the Healthcare of Tomorrow conference, as well as U.S. News STEM Solutions, a national forum that brings together corporations, educators and policymakers working to help the U.S. fill jobs by creating a more skilled and competitive workforce.

Kelly joined U.S. News in 1998 after serving as a senior editor at The Washington Post; he was named editor at U.S. News in April 2007.

Kelly is the author of “Adventures in Porkland” (Random House, 1992) a study of the congressional budget process. With Mark London, he co-authored “The Four Little Dragons” (Simon & Shuster, 1989), an exploration of the developing economies of Asia, and “Amazon” (Harcourt Brace, 1983), a look at the economic and cultural forces behind the clearing of the Amazon rainforest. They published a sequel, “The Last Forest,” in 2007.

Kelly has appeared on numerous television and radio programs including CBS This Morning, NBC’s Today Show, White House Chronicles and National Public Radio. He is a frequent speaker and panelist on issues related to media, national policy, politics and education. He is a Vice President of the Economic Club of Washington and a Board member of The Children’s Inn of The National Institutes of Health. 

Ben Rose

Ben is an investment advisor in the Investment Management Division of Goldman Sachs where he advises high-net-worth individuals, families and select foundations and endowments. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs’s Investment Management Division, Ben worked in a variety of roles throughout the firm, serving as an investment banker and later directly supporting the firm’s Chief Administrative Officer who was responsible for the firm’s infrastructure globally. Prior to Goldman Sachs, Ben spent time in the National Economic Council at The White House.  

Ben has a BA with distinction in History from Yale University, where he was also a member of the Varsity Lightweight Crew Team. He received his MBA from Harvard Business School and was awarded a HBS Leadership Fellowship to work alongside the senior management team at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York following graduation. Ben serves on the Advisory 

Board of the National Executive Service Corps, which recruits former executives to serve on consultant teams to deliver high-quality solutions to nonprofit organizations.  He also serves on the Board of the Harvard Business School Club of Washington D.C. and the Board of the Holy Cross Hospital Foundation in Silver Spring, Maryland

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Tomer Borenstein

BlastPoint creates out-of-the-box analytical tools that bring self-serve insights to all levels of the org-chart. Our solutions are driven by our customers: from finding easy customer acquisition wins to driving stakeholder engagement. From designing and managing service territories to finding the blindspots within. From understanding what makes you successful to discovering what risks are in your right in your backyard.

By helping you understand your audience and turning that understanding into actionable insights, we enable you to make better informed decisions, and help you achieve tangible business results quickly and more accurately and efficiently.

Anne Lopez

Anne is interested in finding new ways to strengthen relationships and communities. I'm working to build tools to make the practice of exchanging kindness both practical and routine. 

Slavik Markovich

Slavik Markovich is a serial entrepreneur with a passion to solve hard technology problems. He is co-founder and CEO of Demisto and serves as board member and advisor to several security startups. Prior to co-founding Demisto, he was VP & CTO of database technologies at McAfee (Intel Security). He joined McAfee via the acquisition of Sentrigo, a database security startup, which he co-founded and served as CTO. Slavik has over 20 years of experience in infrastructure, security and software development. Previously, he was vice president of R&D and chief architect at DB@net, a leading IT architecture consultancy firm. Slavik has contributed to many open-source projects and is a regular speaker at industry conferences. He holds a BSc degree in Computer Science from Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.

Supratim Chakraborty

Supratim is a Partner in the Corporate and Commercial Practice Group of Khaitan & Co. He specializes in corporate and commercial transactions such as mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and general corporate law advisory. Supratim has advised eminent clients in relation to information technology laws in India including data privacy and cyber security related aspects.  Supratim has spoken at eminent forums and has authored several articles for renowned publications on data privacy and protection.

Supratim is a member of ASSOCHAM’s National Council for FinTech, Digital Assets and Blockchain Technology. He has spearheaded some of the important stakeholder consultation meets / feedback sessions organised by industry associations on the draft Personal Data Protection Bill, 2018.

Bhowmik Shah

Bhowmik Shah is a security analyst with extensive experience in designing, maintaining and securing systems. With his deep technical and hands on experience in DevSecOps, Cloud and Information Security he works closely with organizations helping them build effective security mitigation strategies backed up with robust governance models.

Bhowmik strongly believes in empowering organizations to achieve visibility and balance in their detection and response capabilities to ensure that security is embedded within the DNA of an organization. Having led teams in startups as well as enterprises over the span of his career he now focusses specifically on Information Security with a special interest in Cloud Security.

Kunal Pande

Kunal is a Partner with KPMG in India. He heads financial services risk consulting business for KPMG in India

In his carrier spanning more than two decades, he has advised a number multinational and Indian clients viz Banks, Payment Providers, Exchanges, Mutual Funds, Insurance Co, Telcos, etc. in areas of

•risk management initiatives around regulatory risks, fraud risks, technology risk, cyber security, data governance, and

•IT enabled transformation, IT Strategy and Architecture

Kunal has extensively spoken in events/ conferences in the areas of Payments, Digital Risks, Data Protection, Cyber Security, emerging technologies, IT Governance, etc.

Kunal is a B. Tech (Electronics and Communications - Gold Medalist) and an MBA. He is a CISA, CBCI, DCPLA and CISSP.

Karthik Shinde

Management consultant with more than 18 years of experience in Mentoring Security Teams, Information Security Consulting, Attack & Penetration Testing, Designing Secure Information Architectures and Envisaging innovative Information Technology Solutions.

He has been primarily involved in analyzing risks to businesses arising from technology gaps and developing strategies for Secure information architecture design for clients in diverse business domains. Post his graduation in Computer Science, most of his studies centered around achieving professional certifications like GIAC certified Firewall Analyst (SANS Institute), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified BS7799 Implementer, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) and Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH).

Sanjay Khan Nagra

Sanjay Khan Nagra is a Partner in the Corporate and Commercial Practice Group in the Bengaluru office. He specialises in private equity and venture capital investments and private and public M&A. In addition to traditional businesses such as manufacturing and logistics, Sanjay takes keen interest in Ecommerce, consumer internet, and other intersections of law and technology, and frequently advises companies, entrepreneurs, and investors in these areas.

Apart from transactional work, as part of the think-tank – iSPIRT, Sanjay closely works with entrepreneurs and governmental agencies such as the RBI, the SEBI, the Prime Minister’s Office, etc to bring about various impactful policy changes (such changes include general permission for deferred consideration and indemnity payments for foreign direct investment transactions and special status and benefits for startups).

RSG India Report 2017 named Sanjay as a client recommended lawyer for M&A and venture capital and he is frequently quoted and interviewed by media on the above matters.

Marc Broderick

Marc Broderick is a Senior Vice President and Private Client Advisor in the McLean, Virginia office of Bank of America Private Bank. Marc oversees the strategic development and delivery of the Private Bank’s private wealth management services to high net worth individuals, families, family foundations, and select not for profit organizations for endowment management throughout the United States. Marc joined U.S. Trust in 2013 and brings a wealth of knowledge and experience serving high net worth individuals, families, and private foundations after 20 years of leadership roles within the not for profit community. Marc joined Bank of America Private Bank because he was drawn to the comprehensive capabilities offered and the team structure as a key driver of client value. Together with a team of specialists, Marc crafts detailed wealth offerings that respond to a range of goals: investment management, trust and estate planning strategies, liquidity event strategies, credit and lending, family office services and philanthropy.  Marc is a long-term resident of the greater Washington, D.C. area.

Ashish Khosla

Ashish Khosla is currently the Business Banking Market Executive in the Greater Washington, DC Region.  Ashish joined the Bank in July 2016.  Ashish is responsible for executing the LOB strategies to achieve Business Banking’s mission of becoming the leader for regional growth by meeting the needs of our clients, capturing market share, leveraging the franchise and capitalizing on our resources.

Ashish has more than 25 years of experience in the financial services Industry.  He joined Bank of America after 6 years with PNC Bank, as a Group Manager for the Commercial Banking Team in Northern Virginia.  At PNC Bank, Ashish was responsible for managing and mentoring a team of Relationship Mangers to help build and manage a portfolio of clients in the commercial segment ($10 - $100 Million annual revenue size).

Prior to his tenure at PNC, Ashish had over a decade of service with Wachovia / Wells Fargo Bank, where he was a Commercial Principal Relationship Manager responsible for the Northern Virginia region.  In 2014, Ashish was named banker of the Year, Washington, DC by the SmartCEO Power Players Awards program.  Ashish is a graduate of the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. Ashish has a B.S. in Finance and a B.A. in Economics.

Ashish resides in Fairfax, VA with his wife and daughter and has been a resident of Northern VA for nearly 4 decades.  In the recent past, Ashish has served on the Board of Directors for Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce and Rajdhani Mandir, a local non-profit serving the cultural and spiritual needs of the Asian Indian community.  Ashish also served on the Board of Advisors for a local boutique PE firm, during his tenure with his former employer.

Manish Malhotra

Dynamic senior executive and public speaker with over 25 years of technical and management experience. An entrepreneur with extensive experience in leading large-scale business transformations using information-driven solutions enabled with technologies that span mobile, digital, analytics and domain-specific applications. Over the course of his career Manish has led numerous efforts to provide analytical and intelligent decision support to senior officials across the private and public sector.

Business & Technology Skills:
Corporate Strategy, Corporate Finance, Government Contracting, Human Capital Management, Entrepreneurship & Innovation.
Emerging Technologies, Blockchain & Distributed Networks, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Architecture, Business Intelligence Solutions, Program & Portfolio Management, Big Data, and Artificial Intelligence

Katherine Markel

Katherine Markel is an attorney in Holland & Knight's Tysons office, where she focuses her practice on mergers and acquisitions. She represents acquirers and targets from a wide range of industries, including government contracts, banking, information technology and software services. Ms. Markel routinely drafts purchase agreements and spearheads diligence in complex transactions, and she has conducted in-person negotiations. In addition to her M&A practice, she counsels clients on commercial transactions and general corporate and securities matters, including private placements and venture capital investments.

Eric Wechselblatt

Eric Wechselblatt is a partner in Holland & Knight's Tysons office and serves as the deputy section leader of the firm's Business Section. He represents clients in a variety of corporate and transactional matters, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, equity financing transactions and general corporate counseling. Mr. Wechselblatt has extensive experience negotiating complex transactions, including mergers, asset deals, stock deals, leveraged buy-outs, spin-offs, joint ventures and similar transactions. In these transactions, he represents private equity funds, public companies and private companies (both as buyers and sellers) in multiple industries, including government contracting, software and other technologies, healthcare, manufacturing, distribution, spirit brands and others.

Suresh Ramamurth

Suresh Ramamurthi is Chairman of CBW Bank and serves as its CTO as well. He leads CBW Bank’s initiatives to support and foster innovation including working with financial services start-ups.

Suresh Ramamurthi is Chairman of CBW Bank and serves as its CTO as well. He leads CBW Bank’s initiatives to support and foster innovation including working with financial services start-ups. A veteran technology entrepreneur, Suresh has founded and exited two start-ups, and has previously worked at Google Inc. Suresh has a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering, a Master’s degree in Computer Science and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Chicago.

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Kiarra Verum

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Dustin Steuber

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Arielle Casper

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R Paul Singh

R. Paul Singh is the CEO of Startup Strategies where he advises various startups in the Sales and Marketing areas. He is also an adjunct professor of Entrepreneurship at Northeastern University. He is a successful Entrepreneur and has sold three companies and taken a company public.

ALEX TRAVELLI

Alex Travelli, a correspondent for The Economist, has been based in Delhi for the past three years. He concentrates mainly on stories that affect politics and society at the state level. He is also the Asia-based editor for The Economist’s 24-hour news desk, responsible for assigning and editing articles during the Asian third of the business day; he also composes the overnight European edition of The Economist Espresso. Prior to his assignment to Delhi, he worked in the newspaper’s Hong Kong and New York bureaus.

ASHIMA GOYAL

Ashima Goyal is widely published in institutional and open economy macroeconomics, international finance and governance, with more than a hundred articles in national and international journals. Currently she is a member of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, an independent Director at IDBI bank and Edelwiess Financial Services Limited.  

She has also authored and edited a number of books including Macroeconomics and Markets in Developing and Emerging Economies (Routledge: UK. 2017) and A Concise Handbook of the Indian Economy in the 21st Century (OUP: India, 2015). She edits the Routledge journal Macroeconomics and Finance in Emerging Market Economies; has provided consultancy to ADB, DEA, GDN, UNDP, RBI, UN ESCAP and WB; is active in the Indian policy debate; and has served on several government committees, boards of educational and of financial institutions, including the RBI technical advisory committee for monetary policy.She contributes a monthly column to the Hindu Business Line. She was a visiting fellow at the Economic Growth Centre, Yale University, USA, and a Fulbright Senior Research Fellow at Claremont Graduate University, USA. Her research has received national and international awards. She won two best research awards at GDN meetings at Tokyo (2000) and Rio de Janeiro (2001), was selected as one of the four most powerful women in economics, a thought leader, by Business Today (2008), was the first Professor P.R. Brahmananda Memorial Research Grant Awardee for a study on History of Monetary Policy in India since Independence (2011), which was published by Springer in 2014, received the SKOCH Challenger Award for Economic Policy (2017), Hindu College OSA Distinguished Alumni Award and 20th FLO FICCI GR8 Beti Award for Excellence in Economics (2018).

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CEO, AASSC

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Sundi Natarajan

Senior Executive with over 20 years of management experience in enterprise software, consulting and finance industries. Proven track record of delivering profitable growth in extremely competitive markets based on an ability to recruit, build and motivate high performance organizations. Hands on experience managing product lifecycle process across multiple product lines resulting in new industry benchmarks for quality and innovation. Worked collaboratively with partner organizations, resellers, and vendors.

Charter Member & Board Member at TiE-DC - Washington's largest organization of entrepreneurs, dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship and innovation throughout the Mid-Atlantic region, from Richmond to New York. www.tie-dc.org

Specialties: • Enterprise software • Analytics
• Product development and marketing • Performance Management
• IT strategy and operations • Strategic planning
• Regulatory compliance • Total Quality Management
• Quality assurance programs • Mergers & Acquisitions
• Offshoring

Lena Kannappan

Lena Kannappan is the Chief Operating Officer and Head of Cloud IAM business for 8KMiles, he is a visionary leader who leads and directs the business operations for 8KMIles. He founded FuGen Solutions acquired by 8KMiles, is a serial entrepreneur with 24 years of software industry experience and also supports investments and M&A activities for 8KMiles. Lena is also one of the original founders of SAML 2.0 protocol and Federated Identity Management model for the industry while at Orange-France Telecom, which changed the way Identity Information is shared between Service Providers and enabled the huge success of SaaS, Cloud and Social Networking. Lena is a regular invited speaker in industry related events.

Karina Homme

Sr Director Microsoft Azure

Dan Fallon

Sr Director, Nutanix

Shaun Bierweiler

Shaun Bierweiler is President of Cloudera Government Solutions, Inc and Vice President and General Manager of Public Sector at Cloudera, Inc.  Bierweiler joined Cloudera by way of the company’s merger with Hortonworks in January 2019 and leads the organization that is responsible for the federal government worldwide and U.S. state, local, and education clients. 
Bierweiler has more than 15 years of experience providing Information Technology solutions, systems, and support to the Public Sector.  Prior to joining Cloudera, Bierweiler was Vice President of U.S. Public Sector at Hortonworks and President of Hortonworks Federal, Inc.  Before that, Bierweiler worked at Red Hat as Director of Sales where he concurrently led the teams responsible for its Department of Defense and Federal Systems Integrator verticals.  He also worked at Raytheon where held cross-functional leadership positions of increasing responsibility in the areas of Engineering, Program Management, Business Development, and Capture Strategy. 
Bierweiler earned his M.B.A. from the University of Maryland and B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Florida. 

Dr. Michelle Street

Dr. Street joined the HHS Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization in April 2016. Prior to joining the OSDBU, she led complex management initiatives as a Lead Procurement Analyst at the National Institutes of Health Information Technology and Acquisition and Assessment Center (NITAAC).  As the Deputy Director for Operatuons at the HHS OSDBU, Dr. Street is responsible for ensuring the proper execution of the small business programs at the 29 HHS Operating and Staff Divisions through the supervision of a cadre of Small Business Specialists. In addition to advising the OSDBU director, she has set her priorities on developing initiatives that will enhance the internal and external stakeholder experience with the OSDBU, assist the HHS in meeting its goals in all socioeconomic categories, and to develop new or to enhance existing HHS OSDBU applications.

Cassandra Martin

Ms. Cassandra Martin is the Director, Office of Small Business Programs (OSBP) for the Defense Health Agency   (DHA) serving as chief advisor to the Director on all small business matters. In this role, she is responsible for   the overall implementation of the agency’s small business procurement program, small business acquisition   policy, strategic initiatives, and guiding small businesses through the process of contracting with the DHA.

  Ms. Martin has over 40 years of federal service and brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the small   business program. She has served for over 36 years in various contract and procurement positions within the   Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Transportation, and Department of Homeland Security/Federal   Emergency Management Agency. Ms. Martin is a member of the DoD Acquisition Professional Community and is a 
    Level III certified Contracting Professional under DAWIA and FAC-C.  She holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Business   Management from the University of Phoenix and a Graduate Certificate in Procurement and Contracts Management from the   from the University of Virginia.  

Denise Benjamin Sirmons

Denise Benjamin Sirmons serves as the Director of the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, responsible for leading the EPA’s efforts to advance the business, regulatory and environmental compliance concerns of small and disadvantaged businesses.

Denise has served in various leadership positions at the EPA, including in the Office of Grants and Debarment, and the Office of Acquisition Management.  Before joining the EPA, Denise was the Assistant General Counsel for Contracting at the U.S. Small Business Administration, and worked as a litigator for a major national law firm.

Denise holds a Master of Laws Degree in Government Procurement Law, with Honors, from George Washington University Law School.  She also earned a Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Howard University Law School, and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science from McGill University in Montreal, Canada.  She is the recipient of several awards, including the Patricia A. Tobin Government Contracts Award.  She has also published articles in the Public Contract Law Journal and the Howard Law Journal.

Roya Konzman

Ms. Roya Konzman is the Senior Information Technology (IT) Specialist within the Office of IT Services Category, Office of Information Technology Category (ITC) in GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service (FAS). FAS provides buying platforms and acquisition services to Federal, State and Local governments for a broad range of items from office supplies to motor vehicles to information technology and telecommunications products and services. As an organization within FAS, ITC provides access to a wide range of commercial and custom IT products, services and solutions. 

Ms. Konzman has over twenty years of program management and technical experience in overseeing cost, schedule, and technical performance of IT programs in both government and private industry. Ms. Konzman developed the IT Schedule 70, Health IT Special Item Number (SIN) in partnership with the Defense Health Agency (DHA) to support the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan goals and initiatives. She is passionate about working with Health IT customer agencies, and industry partners to achieve win-win solutions.   

In her current role as a member of the ITC emerging technology team, Ms. Konzman is improving and implementing through innovation ITC’s solutions to meet customer agencies emerging technology needs.  Ms. Konzman also works closely with emerging technology vendors to ensure timely on-boarding to GSA solutions. 

Prior to joining GSA, Ms. Konzman worked at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) as the Branch Chief for the Office of New Reactor, Information Technology Branch (NRO), where she managed the development, maintenance, and implementation of NRO’s IT infrastructure.  She also served as a Senior IT Program Manager for the Office of Nuclear Security and Incident Response, where she implemented the agency’s first secure wireless system. Prior to working for the NRC, Ms. Konzman worked in private industry where she supported many government agencies in engineering IT requirements.

Ms. Konzman holds a Contracting Officer’s Representatives level III, and Senior Program and Project Managers certification from Defense Acquisition University.  She is a certified Project Management Professional and Information Technology Infrastructure Library practitioner.   Ms. Konzman holds a Bachelor of Science degree from George Mason University and a Master of Science degree from the George Washington University in Computer Information Technology.

Paul Beckman

Paul Beckman serves as the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Providing direct support to the Chief Information Officer, Mr. Beckman is principally responsible for protecting the Department’s information technology (IT) infrastructure from all threats. 

Prior to his current role, Mr. Beckman served as Deputy Chief Information Security Officer for DHS Office of the Chief Information Security Officer where he directly assisted the CISO in all matters necessary to enhance, update, and improve the Department’s cybersecurity defense. Specifically, Mr. Beckman directed the operational side of DHS’s Cybersecurity program, overseeing the Enterprise Security Operations Center and security engineering and architecture teams. Using his years of experience, he identified changes, trends, threats, and residual risk in the department’s information system technology; interpreting their meaning to senior executive management.

Mr. Beckman joined DHS as the Chief Information Security Officer for DHS headquarters (HQ) in November 2005. In this position, he was responsible for HQ’s cybersecurity program, as well as its communication security, configuration management, and public key infrastructure operations. Most notably, Mr. Beckman built OCIO’s Risk Management Division (RMD) — HQ’s first independent IT Security Program — from the ground up. Through Mr. Beckman’s leadership, RMD developed into a fully-operational cybersecurity program that oversaw the three classifications of networks across DHS HQ: the sensitive but unclassified, collateral secret, and top secret networks.     

Before his service to DHS, Mr. Beckman spent five years working for the Department of Defense under the Network Infrastructure Division as the Information Assurance Manager. During his tenure, he reported directly to the Director of Network Infrastructure on all security issues regarding the Pentagon’s backbone and core infrastructure. Mr. Beckman holds several certifications including CISSP, MCSE, CCNA, CWNA, and CWSP. 

Mr. Beckman obtained a Master’s Certificate in Project Management from George Washington University and received his Bachelors of Science in Psychology from Radford University. He currently resides in Washington, D.C. 

Mark J Emery

Mark has led and shaped a wide variety of technology organizations in both business and government adopting disruptive technology, organization, and process innovations.  From his consulting practice, he has launched several new businesses, including WNP Communications and PingTone Communications; he now provides strategic advice and leadership to organizations bringing disruptive technology to the federal sector with his partners at The Emery Group.  Current interests include: Counter-Drone Detection and Mitigation; Persistent Data-centric Cyber Security and Data Rights Management; Supply Chain Risk Management; Water purification solutions.

He managed a $400M portfolio of Department of Homeland Security contracts for a large systems integrator.  Mark introduced agile development, cloud computing, and DevOps to his portfolio averaging a 20% annual growth rate over 5 years. 

As a Senior Executive at the Department of Homeland Security, Mark supervised the green field start-up and operation of the Transportation Security Administration integrated voice/data network and application infrastructure and the modernization of FAA systems to the new TSA requirements. He also established the Department of Homeland Security’s $2B/year infrastructure consolidation program.

Prior to his government service he designed and built the first integrated voice - data - messaging mobile service in the United States, Sprint Spectrum, which won the JD Power Quality Award. He also received several patents for inventions related to the convergence of wired and wireless communications services.

Mark is the Golf Sports Coordinator for the Special Olympics of Northern Virginia.  He coaches over 40 athletes of all skill levels and organizes golf tournaments for the athlete participation in NOVA, VA, and USA and co-chairs with the Down Syndrome Association an annual fund-raising golf tournament each June at the Springfield Golf and Country Club. Mark works to integrate men with special needs into an active volunteer life with the Knights of Columbus Catholic men’s community.

Mark serves on the Information Technology Executive Council for the Kogod School at American University where he provides advice and support to the graduate and undergraduate program leadership of the school in areas of cyber security, analytics, and general IT management.

Mark currently serves on the AFCEA Homeland Security Committee where he organized the 2019 Homeland Security Conference “Cyber Meets Critical Infrastructure” Panels and Workshop.

Mark was a certified Program Management Professional, and he has earned a Certificate in Management from the Wharton School of Business in addition to his academic degrees, which include a Bachelor of Science degree from Carnegie-Mellon University and a Master of Science degree from the MIT Sloan Management School of Business.

Board memberships included PingTone Communications Board of Directors and the Tauqa Systems Technology Advisory Board.

Matthew Dunlop

Proven IT security executive passionate about advancing cyber awareness and increasing the cyber security posture within industry and the community. Deep understanding of information technology and security gained through industry experience, a distinguished 26-year United States Army career, and a Ph.D. in computer engineering. Adept at leading large teams of technical experts in developing software, identifying system vulnerabilities, and building data analytics. Expertise in directing global cyber operations. Experience working in classified environments (TS/SCI). Exceptional communicator, able to break down complex problems into comprehensible topics for technical and non-technical audiences.

Marc Abrams

Dr. Abrams is Harmonia’s Chief Technology Officer. He helps customers navigate technology trends from his experience leading innovation projects in artificial intelligence and machine learning, application modernization and cloud adoption, blockchain, cybersecurity, data science and data lakes using big data technologies, DevSecOps automation, and human factors engineering. He leads a CTO staff of technology leaders who are matrixed to support many Harmonia customers. Dr. Abrams held previous positions with IBM Research, the U.S. Army, and Virginia Tech (tenured Associate Professor of Computer Science). He has led research and development projects with the Departments of Defense, Energy, Homeland Security, Transportation; as well as NASA and NIH. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland and was a post-doc at Stanford University.

Chirag Bhatt

Chirag Bhatt is the Chief Innovation Officer at FEI Systems. Mr. Bhatt leads technology innovations relevant to FEI’s core business direction and manages research and development resources. He builds a grant backlog supporting FEI’s innovative initiatives, monitors progress and alignment to FEI core businesses, and guides intellectual properties growth and protection strategies. Mr. Bhatt is expert in the development and review of health IT standards and is an active member of Health Level 7 International (HL7). He is an expert in health care interoperability content standards such as Continuity of Care Document (CCD), CCD/C32, Clinical Document Architecture (CDA), Consolidated CDA (C-CDA), and Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR). Likewise, he is expert in standardized terminology such as Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine-Clinical Terms (SNOMED-CT), Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC), Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) and Current Procedural Terminology (CPT), and RxNorm. Prior to FEI, Mr. Bhatt was Principal Consultant at Knightsbridge Solution, serving as Technical Project Manager for Capital One and Lead Architect for Freddie Mac. He was Senior System Architect at Intelix, serving as Project Lead for Marriott and Verizon. Mr. Bhatt brings FEI 20 years of professional experience with large-scale health IT systems and solutions for government-related behavioral health and Long-Term Services and Supports (LTSS) services. He has extensive experience with web application development, data warehousing, business intelligence, and data analytics. He brings deep knowledge to analysis, technical assistance, and health IT system design for Federal Government, States, and counties. Mr. Bhatt earned a Master of Business Administration in Information Systems and Finance from the University of Maryland and a Master of Technology in Electrical and Control Systems Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology.

William H. Lovell, Jr

Mr. Lovell is an accomplished federal healthcare executive and financial manager with more than 30 years experience in the federal health sector.  Specific areas of expertise include strategic planning, business line management, federal Program Management, federal Financial Management, business process re-engineering, business enterprise architecture, health information technology operations, and health system performance monitoring and reporting.  Prior to leading Perspecta’s Health Business Group, Mr. Lovell served as Vice President for Military Health and Veterans Affairs at GDIT. Assignments prior to those include; Managing Director for Health IT at PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP, Director of the Clinical Information Systems Division at Northrop Grumman Information Systems, and Senior Principal at IMS Government Solutions (a wholly-owned subsidiary of IMS Health).  He has also held 

responsible leadership positions within government, to include; leadership roles in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense (Comptroller) and the Office of the Army Surgeon General. 
Mr. Lovell has led significant clinical process improvement, business process improvement and IM/IT development initiatives at the health facility, health system and federal health sector level.  Among Mr. Lovell’s significant accomplishments are leadership roles supporting deployment of AHLTA v3.3 (a major upgrade of the MHS Electronic Medical Record), upgrades to both the DoD and VHA versions of the Bi-Directional Health Information Exchange (BHIE), integration of the MHS Enterprise Architecture with the Defense Business Enterprise Architecture, and deployment of the Defense Business Enterprise Architecture v2.0 (BEA 2.0) across all domains within the Department. 
Mr. Lovell is a 23 year Army veteran, beginning his career in healthcare as a laboratory scientist, serving in a variety of leadership positions within clinical, research and reference laboratories across the Army Medical Department (AMEDD), later transitioned to roles as a financial manager and controller in various Military Treatment Facilities (MTF) culminating with his role as the Health Sector Lead on the Business Management Modernization Program (BMMP) within the Office of the Secretary of Defense (Comptroller). He brings a wealth of specialized clinical and business knowledge to clients of our Federal Health Sector. 
Mr. Lovell holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Cameron University, a Master of Human Relations (MHR) from the University of Oklahoma, and a post graduate Specialist in Education Degree with Liberty University. He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) with license in North Dakota, a Project Management Professional (PMP) through the Project Management Institute (PMI) and a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE). Mr. Lovell has also completed Program Management Level-III requirements with the Defense Acquisition University (DAU).

Omar E. Bouaichi

Omar is a US Federal Employee serving in the capacity of Data Technology Director for the Department of Housing and Urban Development in their Ginnie Mae Corporation.  He is also leading Ginnie Mae Emerging Technologies and their Innovation Lab.  His focus is providing leadership, implementation and oversight in data governance, Machine Learning adoption and assessing emerging technologies such as AI based technologies and Blockchain..  He has more than 30 years of experience as a technologist working for US international companies such as IBM, PwC and Fannie Mae.  

Anusha Iyer

Anusha is a technology leader with over 15 years of experience in security-minded software, analytics, and managed services. A Carnegie Mellon alum, she has worked at the Naval Research Lab, and most recently was the Director of Software Programs at Galois, Inc., managing DARPA contracts in the areas of privacy, cyber-mission planning, and software diversity.

Rajesh Krishnamurthy

Rajesh Krishnamurthy is the founder and Chief Technology Officer of 3i Diagnostics. He has over 20 years of experience in Life Sciences’ Technology. He has overseen the development of over 50 therapeutic candidates at different stages of development, including two billion dollar drugs - Kadcyla ^® and Tanzeum ^®, in the US, Europe, Canada, and Asia. He has also had extensive regulatory interactions with the FDA and the EMA. Prior to founding 3i, he was the Director of Pharmaceutical Development at Zyngenia, Senior Director of Analytical & Pharmaceutical Sciences at ImmunoGen, and Associate Director of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Human Genome Sciences (a subsidiary of GSK).

Kovilvenni Ramaswamy (Ram)

Kovilvenni Ramaswamy (Ram) founded Health360™ based on many years of working in the Health IT transformation since 2009. As a 30 year veteran in the IT space with the last decade in the Health IT & services, he has been at the forefront of many large HealthIT initiatives including Healthcare.gov (a.k.a Obamacare), Population Health Management, Care Coordination, Wellness Management & others. Ram has worked extensively on the international healthcare market including clients in UK, Brazil, Australia and Canada. Health360™ and its Patient Empowering Product SovrinHealth 360™ is the result of Ram’s years’ of working closely with numerous healthcare initiatives, health care providers and members.

Chiny Driscoll

CEO and Founder at MetiStream

Pratyusha Mangalagiri

Pratyusha is a Transformational coach. She is Passionate about supporting people achieving their goals and dreams. On a mission to unleash the superpower in every person.

Pratyusha has wide experience  in Training Soft Skills for last 5 years and Transformed many students professionally to work in corporate world she had conducted Campus to corporate training for Freshers who are getting into the corporate world and also trained  on confidence building and self Esteem to students , women entrepreneurs , Home makers and the people who want to get a job in MNCs.

Pratyusha has helped create professional and personal transformation to 1000   people all over India. There's a part of her, which wanted to help others achieve their goals and complete their dreams. The satisfaction in helping others gives her more motivation. She transformed Students teenager, Women entrepreneurs , Software professionals, Home Makers. She helps them to overcome their pain of the past, hidden fears of the future and transcend their lives to a wealthy, flourishing and powerful future.

SIDDHARTHA KARMA

Siddhartha Karma is a strategist, transformation & design coach, agile champion and consultant

Siddhartha Karma has helped create professional and personal transformation to thousands of people across organizations in 8 industries across 63 countries around the globe.  It is Siddhartha's mission to provide direction, strategy, tools and techniques to professionals, entrepreneur, startup enthusiast, students and homemakers. He helps them to overcome their pain of the past, hidden fears of the future and transcend their lives to a wealthy, flourishing and powerful future.  

Steve Orrin

Steve Orrin is the Federal CTO for Intel Corporation where he leads Solution Architecture, Strategy, and Technology Engagements. Steve has held architectural and leadership positions at Intel driving strategy and projects on Identity, Anti-malware, HTML5 Security, Cloud and Virtualization Security. Steve was previously CSO for Sarvega, CTO of Sanctum, CTO and co-founder of LockStar, and CTO at SynData Technologies. Steve is a recognized expert and frequent lecturer on enterprise security and was named one of InfoWorld's Top 25 CTO's of 2004 and, in 2016, received Executive Mosaic’s Top CTO Executives Award. He is the creator of Trusted Compute Pools Secure Cloud Architecture and co-author of NIST’s IR-7904 “Trusted Geo-Location in the Cloud”. He is a fellow at the Center for Advanced Defense Studies, Vice-chair of the INSA Cyber Committee and a Guest Researcher at NIST’s NCCoE. Steve is a member of AFCEA, ISACA, OASIS, IACR, and is a co-Founder and Officer of WASC.

Patrick Dunn

Patrick is a Data Analytics Specialist for Google Cloud, where he focuses on data transformation efforts in the US Public Sector.  Prior to joining Google in 2018, Patrick spent ten years at Palantir Technologies; where he helped establish their US Government business with the DoD and later led Palantir's emerging technology verticals in Payment Processing and Oil & Gas.  He received his M.S. Systems Engineering from The George Washington University and B.S. Integrated Science and Technology from James Madison University. 

Chaitanya Baru

Dr. Chaitanya Baru is Senior Advisor for Data Science in the Computer and Information Science & Engineering Directorate at the National Science Foundation, Alexandria, VA. He co-chairs the NSF working group for the Harnessing the Data Revolution Big Idea and also has responsibility for the cross-Foundation BIGDATA research program. He is advisor to the NSF Big Data Regional Innovation Hubs and Spokes program (BD Hubs/Spokes) and was engaged in the development of the NSF Transdisciplinary Research in Principles of Data Science (TRIPODS) program. He co-chairs the Big Data Interagency Working Group—which is part of the Networking and IT R&D program of the National Coordination Office, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy—and is a primary co-author of the Federal Big Data R&D Strategic Plan (released May 2016). Dr. Baru is on assignment at NSF from the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), University of California San Diego, where he is a Distinguished Scientist and Director of the Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Development Group (acid.sdsc.edu) and the Center for Large-scale Data Systems Research (CLDS)

Henry Chao

Chief Technology Officer at FEI Systems

Sridhar Tayur

Sridhar Tayur is the Ford Distinguished Research Chair and University Professor of Operations Management at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business. He received his Ph.D. in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from Cornell University and his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) at Madras (where he is a Distinguished Alumnus Award winner). He is an INFORMS Fellow, a Distinguished Fellow of MSOM Society and has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). He has been a visiting professor at Cornell, MIT and Stanford.

Academic:
He has published in Operations Research, Management Science, Mathematics of Operations Research, Mathematical Programming, Stochastic Models, Queuing Systems, Transportation Science, POMS, IIE Transactions, NRLQ, Journal of Algorithms and MSOM Journal.

He has served on the editorial boards of Operations Research, MSOM Journal, Management Science, IIE Transactions and POMS. He served as President of MSOM Society.

He has co-edited Quantitative Models for Supply Chain Management (1998) and Handbook of Healthcare Analytics (2018).

He has been a finalist for the Lanchester Prize and is an Edelman Laureate. He has won the Healthcare Best paper Award by POMS and the INFORMS Pierskalla Award for best paper in Healthcare.

He has won the Gerald L. Thompson Teaching Award in the B.S. Business Administration Program, the George Leland Bach Excellence in Teaching Award given by MBA students, the INFORMS Teaching Case award, and has been named as a ‘Top Professor’ by Business Week.

Consulting and Executive Education:
He has consulted for startups (such as Massive Incorporated, acquired by Microsoft), several Fortune 500 companies – Intel, Deere, Caterpillar, ConAgra Foods for example – and has been a consultant to the firm of McKinsey & Company. He has conducted executive education for Cisco, McKinsey, Schibsted and others.

Software Entrepreneurship:
He is the founder (and served as CEO) of the software company SmartOps [acquired by SAP] which created the market for Enterprise Inventory Optimization (EIO) software. He has won the Carnegie Science Center award for Innovation in Information Technology. SmartOps is the subject of a Darden Case Study (distributed by HBS).

Healthcare:
He is the founder of a social enterprise, OrganJet, to help provide access to affordable multiple listing for kidney (and liver) transplants (and includes GuardianWings program to assist those that are not insured). OrganJet and GuardianWings are subjects of a HBS Case Study.

His work on Organ Transplantation has been covered by several medical publications and media outlets, including The New England Journal of Medicine, AJT, Forbes, The Guardian, CBS News, VICE, Huffington Post, ARS Technica as well as in an article profiling him in The Atlantic, has attracted the attention of several luminaries including Nobel winner Alvin Roth and garnered an invitation to the President Obama’s White House Summit on Organ Donation (in 2016).

Board Positions, Advisory Boards, Investor and Limited Partner (in PE and VC):
He served on the board of Orchestro (acquired by E2Open) and on the advisory boards of CCG Inc. (PE firm, where he was also a LP) and a not-for-profit, TrueSpark, and on the Board of Overseers at WGBH.

He currently serves on the advisory boards of MITRA Biotech, Zenrez (also an investor), Onera (also an investor), Neotribe Ventures (also a LP) and Vocal ID, on the Board of Directors of Transplant Interface and Heritage Valley Health System.

Philanthropy:
In 2014, he made a $1 Million donation to Carnegie Mellon University towards the “Tepper Quad” and in 2016 endowed an Institute Chair at IIT-Madras. He has been a donor to RIP Medical Debt, Smile Train, Children International, Plan International and Childreach, among others. He has funded early stage neuroscience research on rare genetic diseases. He has funded independent film festivals and documentaries, as well programs that combat human trafficking.

Victor Hoskins

Victor Hoskins joined the Fairfax County (Va.) Economic Development Authority as president and CEO on August 5, 2019. Previously, he was the director of Arlington (Va.) Economic Development since 2015. In that role he is most known for leading the team that successfully attracted Amazon HQ2 to Arlington County, a deal that will bring between 25,000 and 37,850 Amazon jobs to Arlington, stimulate creation of another 75,000 jobs in the Washington region, and generate between $3.2 and $4.8 billion in revenue for the Commonwealth of Virginia. 

Under Mr. Hoskins’ leadership, Arlington County also successfully implemented an Innovation Strategy that moved it toward technology and private-sector commercialization. Other successes in Arlington include Nestlé, Grant Thornton, Lidl, Mastercard, Deloitte, PBS and Opower-Oracle. 
Previously, Mr. Hoskins worked in private real estate investment on Wall Street. He also served as deputy mayor of economic development for the District of Columbia, during which time he led the turnaround of the District’s economy with projects such as The Wharf and City Center. During his career, his work has resulted in almost 375,000 jobs, and he has led the teams that negotiated more than 700 major business deals resulting in billions of dollars in private investment. He holds a master’s degree in city planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor's degree with honors from Dartmouth College. 

Erika Lunceford

Erika Lunceford was previously a lead at BNY Mellon’s Silicon Valley Innovation Center, connecting business problems, people, clients, and solutions globally. These solutions included legacy integrations with APIs, Scaled Data Solutions, and Machine Learning and Data Science. During her time at BNY Mellon, she advocated for ways of working differently by connecting and curating teams earlier in the process and using tools like a well defined Business Architecture. Her marquee project was contributing to the Tri-Party Repo Infrastructure Reform as the Technology Program Manager, working across the organization and participating in the Operating Committee with the regulator, clients, investors, and consultants to create a new settlement model.

Murat Akdeniz

Murat is the DLT Product Manager at PeerNova, where he leads blockchain efforts and plans their integration with existing systems. Prior to becoming a PM at PeerNova, Murat founded an Ethereum Wallet startup that leverages Smart Contracts to create social funds. Previously, Murat was a PM at JP Morgan's Intelligent Solutions division working on Big Data products, and at Citi working on a passwordless authentication system. Murat has an MBA from Cornell Tech and is passionate about innovation in financial technology.

Daniela Barbosa (M)

Daniela Barbosa serves as Vice President of World Wide Alliances for Hyperledger, where she is responsible for the full lifecycle management of Hyperledger’s membership community while overseeing the broader industry and business community outreach and network growth. Daniela has developed and led growth and innovation strategies for more than 18 years with a background working with financial services, media, and enterprise software. Daniela has led both partnerships and alliances teams as well as marketing and has been responsible for driving global partnerships, OEM integrations, market leadership, and global brand awareness.

Jeremy Smith

Jeremy Smith has over two decades of experience building enterprise software solutions and development teams. Mr. Smith co-founded an insurance data consulting company, Castle Inspection Service ("CIS"), with an emphasis on technologies that help insurance carriers make better underwriting and loss control decisions. Serving as the Vice President of Information Systems, Mr. Smith led the technology efforts that scaled the company from a start-up to the point of providing national coverage. CIS was sold to a private equity firm and later to a publicly traded company, EXL Services.
Mr. Smith joined Medici Ventures in 2018 and focused on coaching development teams on delivering blockchain-related software. He has worked with the teams to adopt strong practices in prioritizing business value and delivering product features to production.

Jorden Woods (M)

Jorden Woods is a Founding Partner of StarChain Ventures, a VC fund focused on foundational blockchain technologies and enterprise blockchain solutions. He is a successful 3-time serial entrepreneur with exits and a pioneer in decentralized technology and globalization strategy. Jorden is also a Managing Partner at DoubleNova Group, a blockchain advisory based in Silicon Valley. 

Jorden is a successful 3-time serial entrepreneur with exits and a pioneer in decentralized technology and globalization strategy. He is a Founding Partner of StarChain Ventures, a venture studio focused on solving significant global challenges with advanced technology solutions. Jorden is also a Managing Partner at DoubleNova Group, a boutique management consulting firm based in Silicon Valley. Jorden has raised over $48 million from top tier Silicon Valley and global investors for his own companies and an additional $150 million for advised startups. He has also generated millions of dollars in revenue and expanded startups both nationally and internationally. Jorden is an expert in enterprise blockchain (Author of Enterprise Blockchain Has Arrived), fundraising, startup acceleration, and global entrepreneurship. He has been an invited guest speaker at Stanford University, Google, UC Berkeley, and leading blockchain and AI conferences in Silicon Valley. Jorden holds a BS in astrophysics from Caltech and an MS in physics from University of Washington.

Radhika Iyengar-Emens

Radhika Iyengar-Emens is a TEDx speaker, a Silicon Valley Woman of Influence, author, a serial entrepreneur and an expert in blockchain and healthcare. She is a Founding Partner of StarChain Ventures, which is focused on enterprise blockchain solutions and foundational blockchain technology. Radhika is also Managing Partner of DoubleNova Group, a Silicon Valley-based blockchain advisory that advises tech clients on the implementation of blockchain technology. Radhika has spoken at 45 blockchain speaking engagements in 2018 and presented 10 keynotes. She has been a keynote and panel speaker at Stanford University, Google, UCLA and UC Berkeley, has been featured in radio shows, podcasts and keynoted prominent blockchain and healthcare conferences in Silicon Valley and internationally. She has produced various blockchain hackathons to help build the blockchain technology developer community. She advises Fortune 100 companies on blockchain business strategy and ecosystem building. She is also on the Advisory Board of ELEV8, a leading blockchain global conference platform. Multilingual in 9 languages, Radhika is an advisor to top blockchain startups and digital health companies globally. She is an expert in Silicon Valley fundraising, international expansion and business acceleration. She has raised $100M as an advisor and through acceleration programs. She is also an advisor to governments and has setup and run accelerators and US market access programs for top startups from Europe and Latin America. Radhika is a passionate advocate for women in technology and diversity, an active speaker on women in blockchain panels and at global women's conference. She is an Advisory Board Member at Women in Technology International (WITI) and the former president of her alma mater’s Northern California Alumni Club. She holds an A.B. from Bryn Mawr College, an MBA from Chapman University and is a Certified Network Engineer (CNE).

Emmanuel Aidoo

Emmanuel Aidoo is Head of Digital Asset Markets at Credit Suisse. He is responsible for leading the bank’s distributed ledger technology efforts for the Global Markets division. Emmanuel joined Donaldson Lufkin and Jenrette in 1997 from Caspian Securities as the EMEA IT Head for Emerging Markets. He remained with CS after DLJ was acquired in August 2000, and has held a variety of senior roles including Global Head of Debt Capital Markets Technology, Global Head of Leverage Finance Technology, and Global Head of Solutions Delivery before leading Credit Suisse’s distributed ledger technology efforts since 2014.He is Chair of SIFMA’s Blockchain Round Table and a Board Member of the Wall Street Blockchain Alliance. Emmanuel studied Computer Science at Brunel University in West London.

Navid Jafari

Navid has 16 years of marketing experience as a vital member of the leadership teams of many startups and midsize companies in Silicon Valley. He has successfully built many brands in a variety of industries. He combines sound marketing strategy, superior design, and the awesome power of technology to create and execute successful marketing plans that deliver results. Since 2015, he has served as the head of marketing at PeerNova, where he has been responsible for formulating and executing all branding and marketing strategies. He has helped shape and position PeerNova as a global leader in blockchain and DLT in the financial industry. Before PeerNova, Navid led as the Global Director of Marketing and Communications at UWR, SemiEng, and Open-Silicon. Prior to that, Navid managed a full-service boutique marketing and design agency with clients mostly in the technology, healthcare, and semiconductor industries.

Gangesh Ganesan

Gangesh Ganesan is a co-founder of PeerNova and serves as its President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Ganesan is a sought-after, inspirational thought-leader and frequent speaker at blockchain technology conferences. He is an experienced technologist and entrepreneur and has worked in senior management, technical, marketing and product-management roles in many prominent companies in the semiconductor, cloud, and software industries. Before founding PeerNova, Mr. Ganesan worked on streaming real-time applications in Big Data platforms like Hadoop. The company, Locomatix, was acquired by Twitter and the platform open-sourced as Heron. Prior to that, Mr. Ganesan was President and CEO of Ubicom, a network processor company that was acquired by Qualcomm. Mr. Ganesan has over two decades of experience in networking, deep-packet inspection and distributed systems. Prior to joining Ubicom, Mr. Ganesan served as Director of Strategic Marketing for Marvell Semiconductor and as Director of Marketing for TCAMs and Networking Search Engines at Cypress Semiconductor. Mr. Ganesan started his career as an ASIC designer and Systems Architect at the Telex communications division of Bosch Communications. Mr. Ganesan has an MBA and an MS, both from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, and a BE from College of Engineering, Guindy, Chennai, in India.

Raghu Rao

Raghu is responsible for all business development and sales activities at PeerNova. Raghu has over 25 years of business development, sales, and marketing experience at multiple technology companies in systems, hardware, and software. Raghu has had long stints leading Europe/Middle East field operations teams out of London and Asia/Pac operations out of Tokyo.  Raghu’s prior stints include Zenverge, Marvell, and Conexant.

Kiara Jo

Kiara Ltd

Jake Paul

Paul Enterprise

Anna Hong

CFO, Hong Interprise

Jennifer Sydeski Hurd

A scientist, engineer, business professional, and entrepreneur with a background across clinical operations, research and innovation, process design, project management, and continuous improvement. From the multi-national fortune 500 to the pre-production start-up, I am passionate to work hard at work worth doing. 

Dave Stevens

Dave Stevens’ IP practice includes patent prosecution, transactions, due diligence work, agreements, opinions (including validity, infringement, patentability, right-to-practice (RTP), and freedom-to-operate (FTO) opinions), counseling, offensive and defensive patent issues, licensing, and litigation. 

Dave Stevens’ IP practice includes patent prosecution, transactions, due diligence work, agreements, opinions (including validity, infringement, patentability, right-to-practice (RTP), and freedom-to-operate (FTO) opinions), counseling, offensive and defensive patent issues, licensing, and litigation. He also serves as an expert witness in technical and intellectual property legal issues and has been called as a fact witness in enforcement actions involving the many patents he has written. He also is an expert in copyright (including software, publications, products and artworks, and other copyrightable forms) and open source issues. He works with foreign IP firms and foreign clients with respect to domestic and international patent prosecution, including Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) work.

The technical focus of his practice includes electronics, computer technology, automotive technology, communications, optical systems, green technologies, software, semiconductors, and mechanical devices.

Mr. Hemant Jalan

Hemant has almost 40 years of industrial experience, most of it as an entrepreneur. He is the founder and Managing Director of Indigo Paints Pvt Ltd, which is India’s 5th largest paint manufacturing company, with a presence pan-India across 14000 retail outlets, and large advertising presence. Indigo Paints received VC funding from Sequoia Capital in 2014, and acquired another mid-sized paint manufacturing company in South India in 2016. The company uses cricketer M S Dhoni as its brand ambassador, and plans to go public next year. Prior to founding Indigo Paints, Hemant has served as CEO at Vedanta’s Copper business.
Hemant has a B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering from IIT Kanpur, a Masters in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University, and an MBA from Chicago Booth School of Business.
Hemant has been a Charter Member of TiE Pune for the last several years, and mentored several companies in the TiE Nurture program. He is a travel enthusiast, who has a penchant for travelling to off-beat corners of the globe.

Vidya Devarasetty

Vidya Devarasetty joined Velodyne Lidar in 2017 and currently serves as a Global Automotive Sales and Business Development Manager. 

 Vidya has more than 15 years of experience in Engineering, Program Management, Sales, and Business Development and has worked on cutting edge products in enterprise, consumer, and autonomous industries. Vidya comes to Velodyne from Nvidia, where she was responsible for leading the data labeling program. Before Nvidia, Vidya was a founding member of a startup company, which got acquired by Seagate.

 Vidya holds a Masters degree in Engineering from San Jose State University and a Masters degree in Public and Personnel Management from Osmania University.

Precia Carraway

-Partnership management, business development, and managing global teams
- Tenured emerging technology manager: Autonomous Vehicles (AV), Connected Car, Drones (UAV), Robotics, Smart Homes, Smart Utilities, Internet of Everything
- B2B Vendor and alliance management
- Product development/strategy
- Experience in start-up companies to Fortune 20 companies

Jose De Oliveira

Jose has 20 years of industry, having worked at IBM, Microsoft, and Uber prior to joining Unity as the lead engineer for autonomous vehicles. He has always worked in forward-looking technologies throughout his career, in areas such as real-time communications, telecommunications, and enterprise security systems. At Microsoft, he led the delivery of the first SmartScreen anti-phishing solution for Internet Explorer 7, drove the paid search relevance models for mobile devices at Bing Ads, and developed geospatial systems at Bing Maps. He continued that work after joining Uber Maps in 2015. In 2017 he joined the AI team at Unity, focusing on industrial initiatives and AV simulations. He's based out of Bellevue, WA.

Avery Ash

Avery excels in public policy, product development and strategic partnership roles in environments where forced to think quickly, act decisively and rewarded for creativity. This includes his success in roles at the world's largest business organization, North America's largest motorist organization, on Capitol Hill and in a fast-paced startup environment.

Currently Avery serves as Head of Autonomous Mobility at INRIX, the global leader in connected car services and intelligent movement. He oversees the company’s development of automated vehicle and new mobility products, leads public engagement on mobility and smart cities topics, and manages the company’s policy presence in Washington, D.C. Avery provides critical thought leadership to INRIX as it relates to investments supporting driverless vehicle technologies, industry standards and government policies, and has established a multitude of key strategic partnerships for the company.

Avery currently serves on the executive working group of the World Economic Forum's initiative on the Future of Urban and Autonomous Mobility, co-chairs the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Technology Engagement Center's workgroup on autonomous vehicles, and sits on the board of directors at CulturalDC making local space for art In Washington D.C. Avery has previously served on the Board of Directors for the Electric Drive Transportation Association, the C3 Group’s Connected Car Council and Board of Advisors for the Fuels Institute. He is a frequent speaker and recognized expert on issues surrounding automated, connected and electric vehicles. 

Diane Lansinger

Diane Lansinger is the CEO and Founder of SEEVA Technologies, an early stage venture-backed startup that creates sensor cleaning solutions to solve a mission-critical problem for automated driving systems: helping vehicles see better in real-world environmental conditions like mud, snow, freezing rain and bugs. She is a co-inventor on three of SEEVA's patent applications.

Diane grew up in Detroit, where she learned to drive a stick shift at age 14. The daughter of an automotive engineer who holds dozens of patents, Diane founded SEEVA after seeing an opportunity to apply one of her father's patents to the problem of how automotive vehicles will need their cameras, LiDAR and other sensors to operate in extreme climate conditions in order to enable automated driving systems in increasing levels of autonomy, and eventually fully self-driving vehicles, to enter the market at scale.

Diane has founded three companies: SEEVA, a consumer goods e-commerce company, and a recruiting consulting company whose clients were startups in Seattle and the Bay Area. Diane grew her leadership skills at Microsoft, where she built out engineering recruiting businesses and managed international technical recruiting teams to support over 300 product groups. 

Ethan Sorrelgreen

Ethan Sorrelgreen is the Chief Product Officer at CARMERA, a road intelligence platform specializing in high definition, regenerative maps for the world's technology and safety leaders in autonomous driving. Prior to CARMERA, he was an engineering leader at Amazon Maps and Apple Maps, managing large teams to build and release new versions of their global map products. Before that, he was a data engineer and key force in the emergence of NextBus, a mapping startup focused on predictions for public transit systems. Ethan studied Astronomy and Physics, with a research focus on pulsars, at Haverford College. He lives in Seattle with his family.

Mohammed Ansari

Mohammed Ansari recently left LG Electronics’s Silicon Valley Lab where he was the GM & SVP for 4 years to join an AI enabled IoT startup as the CTO. The startup is leveraging AI and IoT data to build a white label B2B service platform. At LG, He was responsible for creating new software components and solutions to benefit the company’s diverse portfolio of products and services. In that role, he led several teams that worked on software platforms, cloud services, applied and research oriented AI/ML and an innovation incubation team. The Silicon Valley lab was also responsible to create new technology IP utilizing its internal research capabilities and in partnership with academia. The lab’s focus on innovation was also enabled and accelerated by partnering with 3rd parties who complemented LG’s internal strengths and scale. Mohammed also served as one of the spokesperson of LG’s AI strategy. During his 23 years of experience, Mohammed has held various positions leading technology teams in Ericsson, SonyEricsson, Virgin Mobile and Sony Mobile. In addition, he has had a career in consulting in the wireless and mobile communication segment. Mohammed holds a Bachelor and Masters degrees in Electrical engineering from the City University of New York. He also holds 3 granted and one pending patent..

Dr Alessandro Stasi

Dr Alessandro Stasi hold two Ph. D. in business law from the University Sophia Antipolis of France and Federico II of Italy. He has published several academic articles about IPR in Biotechnology and Medical Law. 

Dr Alessandro Stasi is Director of MILA Law in Bangkok and teach Biotechnology Law at Mahidol University International College and Ramkhamhaeng University

Asif Naqvi

Directory, BDG Lifesciences Pvt. Ltd.

With over 100 workshops conducted around the world namely in Mexico, Dubai, Egypt, Malaysia, India etc Asif has put together more than 60 research articles and all of them have got International publications. He is the Director of BDG Lifesciences Pvt. Ltd, India. He has a nine-year plus experience of research, marketing and management in bioinformatics, especially drug discovery technology, molecular modeling & Next Generation Sequencing & Genome Editing.

Aaron Watson

Aaron has an obsession with storytelling, business building, and creating media that leads to sales.

Aaron’s experience in media creation and strategy started at the age of 23 when he launched a podcast, Going Deep with Aaron Watson. In the subsequent 3 years, he has built a powerful network, executed profitable events around Pittsburgh, and started a paid public speaking career on the back of his digital media brand building.

As the co-founder of Piper Creative, Aaron is passionate about leveraging his expertise to help others build healthier company cultures, execute effective storytelling, and master distribution of their content.

Brad Fisher

Brad Fisher is a Partner and the U.S. Leader for Data & Analytics at KPMG, and has more than three decades of experience providing professional services to clients in a wide range of industries.

Brad Fisher is a Partner and the Global Leader for Data & Analytics and AI at KPMG, and has more than three decades of experience providing professional services to clients in a wide range of industries.

Mr. Fisher has presided over the firm’s rapid growth in the scale and the range of capabilities of the firm’s Data & Analytics and AI services. As such, he has led the development and execution of the firm’s strategy in this area, which extends to advisory, tax, and audit. Also under his leadership, the KPMG Lighthouse was created as the firm’s D&A Center of Excellence, housing over 400 advanced data scientists, Big Data software engineers, and AI specialists. Mr. Fisher also works with leading multi-national companies to help them harness data and use advanced analytics to generate tangible business results. In this role, Mr. Fisher serves as an emerging technology evangelist, working to leverage KPMG’s advanced capabilities in Big Data, global signals, cognitive/AI, predictive analytics, optimization modeling, and analytics technologies to help clients turn data into insights and value.

Prior to his current role, Mr. Fisher has had a number of leadership positions at KPMG including: Leader of North American implementation of SAP; National Operations Leader (COO) for Management Consulting; and Leader of New IT Service Strategy and Solutions.

Over the course of his career, he has worked in KPMG offices across the world including Denver, Hong Kong, Bangkok, San Francisco, Montreal, New York and Orange County, CA.

Traci Gusher

Traci is a leader in the “Lighthouse”, KPMG’s Center of Excellence for Data & Analytics. Traci is responsible for the D&A Strategic Transformation 

Traci is a leader in the “Lighthouse”, KPMG’s Center of Excellence for Data & Analytics, and AI.  Traci is responsible for the US Lighthouse Artificial Intelligence Team and for KPMG Ignite (KPMG’s Global AI platform). She is an experienced executive with significant expertise leading programs focused on artificial intelligence, advanced analytics, and big data technologies. Traci also leads the global KPMG Google Innovation Lab focused on experimentation, testing and innovating with pre-launch and new Google products.  She is a proven leader with a long record of success in designing, developing and deploying solutions to address clients’ most complex problems.  Traci’s experience spans several industries include Life Sciences, Consumer Products, Financial Services and High Tech.

Bidyut Parruck

Bidyut Parruck is also CTO at InterfaceED Solutions which has deployed an expert system for ER physicians at local hospitals. He has also mentored multiple healthcare startups using AI at IIT Startups.

Bidyut Parruck is also CTO at InterfaceED Solutions which has deployed an expert system for ER physicians at local hospitals. He has also mentored multiple healthcare startups using AI at IIT Startups. He is an accomplished executive with track record of technical and business leadership - having founded multiple successful startup companies, raised funding and seen many exits including an IPO. He is currently exploring a healthcare application using AutoML.

Pushkar Singh

Technology leader with proven track record of building products in Digital Health, Consumer electronics, FinTech and Cloud based SaaS platforms.

Technology leader with proven track record of building products in Digital Health, Consumer electronics, FinTech and Cloud based SaaS platforms.

Led globally distributed engineering teams to help drive innovation and product development at companies including co-founded startups with successful exits and large public companies.

Ellen Campana

Technology leader with 20 years experience addressing business, consumer and societal challenges through Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language and Data. It's an interesting time -- 

Ellen Campana, Ph.D, is a Director in KPMG’s Lighthouse Center of Excellence with 20 years of experience in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Conversational Ai implementation and deployment. Prior to joining KPMG, she developed systems at NASA, Intel and big data healthcare startup Apixio. Now based out of KPMG’s Silicon Valley Office, she drives innovation of omnichannel customer experience for large clients in healthcare, finance, and government globally. 

Surendra Saxena

Surendra Saxena is a Vice President at IntelliH, Inc. where he is responsible for solution business requirement and market development of a chronic and post- operative patient management solution.

Surendra Saxena is a Vice President at IntelliH, Inc. where he is responsible for solution business requirement and market development of a chronic and post- operative patient management solution.

Prior to IntelliH Surendra was a Principal Advisor Healthcare strategy where he built a management consulting practice delivering Healthcare strategy engagements to several leading hospitals in the US, Canada, Mexico, Italy, Qatar and Australia.

Surendra has over 25 years of experience in high technology and healthcare. Surendra has been a speaker in International Conferences in Dublin, China and has also moderated several panels. He has authored books on enterprise messaging technologies as well as globalization and virtualized delivery of services.
Prior to joining Cisco Surendra was a founder CEO of a venture - backed company DevFlow, a startup building Process Management solutions. He was also a founder of OutsourceMethods and ConeXL.
Surendra has held Senior Management positions in several companies such as Fiorano and HCL Technologies America.

Sumit Dhawan

Sumit is a seasoned executive with a proven track-record of establishing market leadership positions. Sumit has led multiple $1B enterprise software and SaaS businesses with responsibilities in managing P&L a

Sumit is a seasoned executive with a proven track-record of establishing market leadership positions. Sumit has led multiple $1B enterprise software and SaaS businesses with responsibilities in managing P&L and all functions of the business from R&D to sales. With expertise in creating new market categories, Sumit brings a proven leadership approach that results in top-performing teams.

Prior to joining Instart, Sumit served as the general manager of the end-user computing business at VMware. Prior to VMware, Sumit served at Citrix, where he held a number of executive roles – across engineering, product development, marketing, corporate development, and general management – and was a key contributor to Citrix’s growth from a private company to the publicly-traded, multinational business that it is today.

Sumit holds an MBA from the University of Florida – Warrington College of Business, an MS in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota, and a BS in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology.

Surbhi Kaul

Surbhi is a seasoned professional with immense technology and strategy experience in both B2B and B2C and has worked in various leadership roles at Google, Netflix, Cisco to name a few.

Surbhi is a seasoned professional with immense technology and strategy experience in both B2B and B2C and has worked in various leadership roles at Google, Netflix, Cisco to name a few.

Surbhi is a seasoned professional with immense technology and strategy experience in both B2B and B2C and has worked in various leadership roles at Google, Netflix, Cisco to name a few. She has launched many successful and Insightful products over the last decade many of which encompass AI and machine learning expertise. She lead query disambiguation and speech recognition efforts on leading edge Google Home and Google Assistant enabled devices using Google Cloud ML models. Surbhi holds a Bachelor's degree from IIT Kanpur and Master's degree in Computer Science from Texas A&M University.

In her current role, she leads Juniper’s off box GTM strategy as Head of Product for Network Virtualization and SDN Software products at Juniper Networks. 

She is very passionate about supporting the IIT community and is one of the key leaders of the IIT Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning forum, a Board Member for IIT Bay Area organization, and the former President of IIT-Kanpur West Coast alumni association. She is also the Chair and leader of the "Women in Product" San Francisco Bay Area organization.

Vijay Jajoo

Accomplished Technology and Management leader with over 18 years in transforming global companies’ IT, security and risk management strategi

Accomplished Technology and Management leader with over 18 years in transforming global companies’ IT, security and risk management strategies to meet business objectives. Lead "Fortune 100” companies with “C-level” relationships, collaborate and drive cross-functional alignment. Awarded “Best Mentor” in developing high-performance teams, successfully lead diverse teams (including offshore) on complex multi-year programs.

Sreekar Krishna

Dr. Sreekar Krishna is currently working as a Managing Director of Data Science & Innovation at KPMG LightHouse, a AI Center of Excellence within KPMG's Innovation & Enterprise Solutions Division. He specializes in 

Dr. Sreekar Krishna is currently working as a Managing Director of Data Science & Innovation at KPMG LightHouse, a AI Center of Excellence within KPMG's Innovation & Enterprise Solutions Division. He specializes in innovative ideas centered around Big Data Machine Learning and Knowledge from Unstructured Data. Working with KPMG's customers, he has helped evangelize the transition of various industry partners from the traditional data warehousing to a more sophisticated Big Data Analytics driven culture. He specializes in Big Data AI solutions that improve business process and customer engagement. Specifically, he focuses on the core areas of Machine Learning and its associated technologies like Natural Language Processing, Billion-scale Data Processing, Ranking, Information Retrieval and Simulation. 

Previously he worked at Microsoft Bing as a Senior Researcher in the Core Ranking and Relevance team, before which, he held the position of Assistant Research Technologist with the School of Computing, Informatics & Decision Support Engineering, Arizona State University. 

Sreekar has published a book chapter, 5 journals and over 30 conference papers in various academic venues. In the past, he has worked with various research institutions including Samsung SDS Korea and UtopiaCompression Corporation on advancing computer vision algorithms for real-world applications including target tracking, marine obstacle avoidance, face detection in videos and visual knowledge discovery. He also worked at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India as a research assistant towards developing real-time face detection and person tracking algorithms.

Jay Boddu

Jay Boddu is an experienced venture capitalist, entrepreneur, business executive, and product development leader. Jay most recently was the Vice President and Head of New Business/Product Incubation at Juniper 

Jay Boddu is an experienced venture capitalist, entrepreneur, business executive, and product development leader. Jay most recently was the Vice President and Head of New Business/Product Incubation at Juniper Network. Previously, Jay has held a number of key investing and operating roles at Sofinnova Ventures, Sun Microsystems, Amdahl Corporation, ATI Research, and venture funded start-ups. Jay has completed the Advanced Management Program from Harvard Business School, an MBA from Santa Clara University, an MS from Iowa State University, a B Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Jay also spent a year at Stanford University as a visiting scholar focused on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Jay holds over 50 Patents. He is a Board Member/Observer/Advisor/ Investor to 40 start-ups

Shivani Govil

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Ganesh Mani

Experienced professional with expertise in the
areas of Investment Management / Financial Services;
Start-up & IP strategy; Knowledge-intensive services & low-cost, world-class innovation.

Specialties: Institutional Asset Management
Equity Research
Strategy for start-ups and new SBUs
Knowledge Process Outsourcing
Innovation Strategy
Big Data

Barbara Span

Experienced Vice President of Public Affairs with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry. Skilled in Public Policy Leadership, Experienced Change Agent, Risk Management, Strategic Partnerships, and Thought Leadership. Strong media and communication professional graduated from Northwestern University. 

Alka Patel

I am the inaugural Deputy Director of the Risk and Regulatory #Services_Innovation Center at Carnegie Mellon #University where I am responsible for Center’s industry sponsor’s research efforts, university collaboration and thought leadership. In addition to leading the start-up of the $11 million Center, including developing and executing Center strategy, operations, and finances, I work with the industry sponsor’s work in #innovation and #digital_transformation in the area of data analytics, #cybersecurity/privacy, and #AI.

Working at the intersection of #technology, law, and #business, I have over 15 years of industry experience and most recently was Managing Director and Senior Counsel at BNY Mellon for the Treasury Services business line where I was responsible for negotiating contracts #globally and addressing #privacy and HIPAA-related matters. Prior to my role at BNY Mellon, as a registered patent attorney, I worked in private practice representing start-ups, universities, and Fortune 500 #companies to protect and address their #technology and intellectual property needs.

I serve on a number of non-profit boards and am a frequent speaker on topics focused on diversity and #inclusion, #transitioning in legal careers, serving on boards, the importance of community engagement, as well topics related to the intersection of #technology, law, and #business.

I've been honored to have my professional achievements & contributions to the community recognized: the “Innovator Award” from Heinz College, CMU; “High Impact Leader Award” from ASCEND; “Tribute to Women, Young Leader” by the YWCA of Greater Pittsburgh; “Rising Star” by the Pennsylvania Super Lawyers; a “Fast Tracker” by The Legal Intelligencer & PA Law Weekly;“Community Builder/Social Engineer” by the Pennsylvania Bar Association Minority Attorney Committee; 40 Under 40 recipient by Pittsburgh Magazine; and Distinguished Young Alumni from Univ. of Pittsburgh’s Swanson School of Engineering. 

Christoper Brookins

Valiendero Digital Assets is a leading machine learning Crypto-currency investment fund founded out of Carnegie Mellon.

Ravi Koka

Experienced Founder with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry. Skilled in Start-up Ventures, Requirements Analysis, Enterprise Software, Enterprise Architecture, and Entrepreneurship. Strong business development professional with a M.S focused in Computer Science from Kansas State University. 

Mihir Desai

Mihir A. Desai is the Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School and a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He received his Ph.D. in political economy from Harvard University; his MBA as a Baker Scholar from Harvard Business School; and a bachelor's degree in history and economics from Brown University. In 1994, he was a Fulbright Scholar to India.  

Professor Desai's areas of expertise include tax policy, international finance, and corporate finance.  His academic publications have appeared in leading economics, finance, and law journals. His work has emphasized the appropriate design of tax policy in a globalized setting, the links between corporate governance and taxation, and the internal capital markets of multinational firms.  His research has been cited in The Economist, BusinessWeek, The New York Times, and several other publications. His C.V. is available here.  He is a Research Associate in the National Bureau of Economic Research's Public Economics and Corporate Finance Programs, and served as the co-director of the NBER's India program.

His general interest publications include opinion pieces on varied topics, including tax policy and the effects of globalization on domestic welfare, in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Tax Notes and The New York Times .  He has also written for practitioners in the Harvard Business Review on the role of the Global CFO, on how to reform the U.S. tax system, and how changing incentive systems have contributed to the degradation of American competitiveness.  He has testified several times to Congressional bodies, including most recently to the Senate Finance Committee on corporate tax reform and inversions.      

Professor Desai has taught extensively as an award-winning teacher at HBS and at Harvard University.  As a second-year professor teaching finance in the required curriculum, he received the Student Association Award for teaching excellence from the HBS Class of 2001.  He subsequently built a second-year elective on International Financial Management, and his many cases on international finance are collected in a casebook published by John Wiley and are taught around the world.  Since 1999, he has co-taught Public Economics (EC 1410) at Harvard College.  He has also taught seminars and classes on tax policy at Harvard Law School, NYU Law School, and Columbia Law School.  Most recently, Professor Desai has been active in delivering various executive education programs at HBS, including the General Managers Program (GMP), on campus and around the world.  In 2011, Professor Desai launched, with Professor Joe Lassiter, the first offering at HBS for Harvard undergraduates, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, that is also included as part of the General Education curriculum at Harvard College. In the fall of 2014, Professor Desai began teaching Taxation at Harvard Law School.

From 2008 to 2011, Professor Desai led HBS's doctoral programs, which include the DBA and joint programs with the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. In that role, he led the restructuring of various programs and initiated a terminal master's program. From 2010 to 2014, Professor Desai was the Senior Associate Dean for Planning and University Affairs, where he was part of the senior management team of the Business School focused on integration with the rest of the University.  Specifically, he has launched a program for Harvard undergraduates to collaborate on research with HBS professors (PRIMO), led the course for undergraduates described above, helped launch the Harvard Innovation Lab, worked on campus planning efforts including the design of Tata Hall and served on the newly created Harvard Libraries Board.  

His professional experiences include working at CS First Boston (1989-1991), McKinsey & Co. (1992), and advising a number of firms and governmental organizations. He is also on the Advisory Board of the International Tax Policy Forum and the Centre for Business Taxation at Oxford University. 

Ashok Rao

- Chairman and Principal Investor in several entrepreneurial ventures, including Forest Devices, Saviance Technologies, Mand Labs, and WCB Robotics.
- Co-owner of Songkran - a high-end Thai restaurant in Uptown Plaza in Houston
- Member of the GOOSE Society of Texas
- Distinguished Alumnus Award (2008) for Entrepreneurial Achievement from Marquette University
- One of the first Indian Americans to take a company public on the NASDAQ (1994)
- 2008 George H.W.Bush Award for Arts Achievement
- Produced 4 award winning full length feature films, all of which had widespread theatrical releases
- Council of Advisors of the Jones Business School of Rice University

Specialties: Startups, Investing, Governance, Turn-arounds, Public Speaking, Non-profits 

Sourabh Satish

Sourabh is a Distinguished Engineer / VP at Splunk. Sourabh joined Splunk when Phantom was acquired by Splunk in 2018. Sourabh has had an accomplished 25 year career in cyber security. 

Sourabh is a Distinguished Engineer / VP at Splunk. Sourabh joined Splunk when Phantom was acquired by Splunk in 2018. Sourabh has had an accomplished 25 year career in cyber security. With 195 issued and 60 pending patents, he is building and leading the way to the next generation of innovative security technologies for Splunk. Sourabh was co-founder and CTO for Phantom, where he and his team built a leading, innovative and enterprise grade Security Orchestration and Automation product. It was a new product category, with no precedence and hence brought tremendous amount of innovation that led to many other products in the same category. Security Automation and Orchestration (SOAR) is now tracked as a separate product category by analysts. The product is now in use by many security operations teams around the world. Sourabh brings incredible intellectual and engineering horsepower, maturity and experience to the Splunk team needed to build world-class enterprise products. His in-depth understanding of complex computing systems and internals and experience implementing a wide array of security technologies, particularly in machine learning and big data analytics, enables him to solve some of the most complex security problems. Sourabh has had a long and established career in the security industry at companies like Symantec and Axent where he has led the development of wide variety of security products and cutting-edge threat detection technologies that ship in both enterprise and consumer products. Sourabh holds a Degree in Computer Science and Engineering. Sourabh is an avid speaker in the industry. He has been pivotal in defining standards in areas like VOIP Security, OpenC2 and also serves as an Advisor to many Silicon Valley security startups who seek his expertise in building enterprise grade cyber security technologies and products.

Murugappan

Founder of AcademyOfCustomerExperience Consultancy & Co-founder of PlayThinkTransform, an ex-senior executive director of IFFCO fertilisers and a key think-tank for the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®(LSP) application in Industries and uses LSP for strategy management, innovation & leadership mentoring.

Laxman M

Founder PlayThinkTransform, a key driving force for LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® (LSP) Community India has been using LSP for helping organisations identify growth opportunities and solve business problems using SERIOUS PLAY and gamification. 

Masao Ishihara

Delivered LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® (LSP) workshops at Fortune 500 companies, LSP facilitator trainer, visiting professor at international universities, believer of constructionism. Certified Master trainer in Educational Mobile Computing by MIT.

Stefan Kalb

A former CEO of a food and beverage supplier, Stefan is now leading the development of intelligent forecasting solutions to help retailers manage orders of their perishable products efficiently to minimize food waste.

David Greschler

A serial entrepreneur whose first company was acquired by Microsoft and formed the basis for the company’s app virtualization solutions, David is leading the developing an AI-based service optimizing operational efficiency and customer experience for brick-and-mortar restaurants, retail and hospitality.

David Glick

A former VP of engineering at Amazon where he led all technology for Logistics and Operations, Dave is now leading the development of warehousing on-demand solution that enables retailers to flexibly stretch their supply chain without encountering the fixed costs of expansion.

Guru Hariharan

CommerceIQ is building a unified Amazon sales, advertising and operations Platform to help brands manage their business on marketplaces such as Amazon.

Scott Jacobson

Scott joined Madrona in 2007, sits on the boards of multiple investments, and has a clearly articulated point of view on retail innovations: https://www.madrona.com/invest...

Arjun Chakraborti

A prominent leader in BFSI with 15 years of experience across India & Australia with marquee organisations such as Religare Securities, Network18 and ICICI Securities.

Arjun has also led TrakInvest in raising $20 Mn with an ICO sale to launch the Trak Tokens. Arjun regularly presents on investments at education institutes such as IIMs, IISc, IITs etc. Arjun holds Engineering, MBA and CFA degrees and is an alumnus of Harvard Business School.

Urvi Babla

Urvi has 14 years of global experience across marketing and strategy Urvi has lead teams in firms such as ICICI Securities & Religare Securities. Presently, she is at the forefront of driving market expansion and new customer acquisition for her edtech startup venture. She is an MBA from Manchester Business School and a computer science engineer from Pune University. She is a regular guest speaker on topics in investments and blockchain in various education institutes including IISc, IIM and IIT etc.

ALEX TRAVELLI

Alex Travelli, a correspondent for The Economist, has been based in Delhi for the past three years. He concentrates mainly on stories that affect politics and society at the state level. He is also the Asia-based editor for The Economist’s 24-hour news desk, responsible for assigning and editing articles during the Asian third of the business day; he also composes the overnight European edition of The Economist Espresso. Prior to his assignment to Delhi, he worked in the newspaper’s Hong Kong and New York bureaus.

ASHIMA GOYAL

Ashima Goyal is widely published in institutional and open economy macroeconomics, international finance and governance, with more than a hundred articles in national and international journals. Currently she is a member of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, an independent Director at IDBI bank and Edelwiess Financial Services Limited.  

She has also authored and edited a number of books including Macroeconomics and Markets in Developing and Emerging Economies (Routledge: UK. 2017) and A Concise Handbook of the Indian Economy in the 21st Century (OUP: India, 2015). She edits the Routledge journal Macroeconomics and Finance in Emerging Market Economies; has provided consultancy to ADB, DEA, GDN, UNDP, RBI, UN ESCAP and WB; is active in the Indian policy debate; and has served on several government committees, boards of educational and of financial institutions, including the RBI technical advisory committee for monetary policy.She contributes a monthly column to the Hindu Business Line. She was a visiting fellow at the Economic Growth Centre, Yale University, USA, and a Fulbright Senior Research Fellow at Claremont Graduate University, USA. Her research has received national and international awards. She won two best research awards at GDN meetings at Tokyo (2000) and Rio de Janeiro (2001), was selected as one of the four most powerful women in economics, a thought leader, by Business Today (2008), was the first Professor P.R. Brahmananda Memorial Research Grant Awardee for a study on History of Monetary Policy in India since Independence (2011), which was published by Springer in 2014, received the SKOCH Challenger Award for Economic Policy (2017), Hindu College OSA Distinguished Alumni Award and 20th FLO FICCI GR8 Beti Award for Excellence in Economics (2018).

KRISHNA KUMAR

Krishna Kumar, founder and chief executive of CropIn Technology Solutions, has made it possible to enable data-driven farming by connecting all the stakeholders in the agri ecosystem. CropIn is a leading global full-stack AgTech organisation that provides SaaS solutions thus enabling businesses to utilise technology to effectively drive their initiatives around digitisation, predictability, risk management, compliance, sustainability and traceability. CropIn is passionately driven with the mission to 'maximise per acre value' and the vision to 'make every farm traceable'. With robust solutions that are crop and region agnostic, CropIn has so far digitised nearly 5 million acres of farmland, enriching the lives of nearly 2.1 million farmers in addition to creating a footprint in 30 countries globally. Krishna is also a BusinessWorld 40 Under 40 Achiever 2018.

Gaurav Kapoor

Senior Head - Industry Partnership, CSR, Media & Advocacy at National Skill Development Corporation

D Peter Immanuel

CEO, AASSC

Johnny Black

Professor at MNU

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Jake Gelbort

Experienced Senior Program Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the operations. Skilled in Mutual Funds, Hedge Funds, Finance, Venture Capital, and Private Equity. Strong program and project management professional with a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) focused in Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies from Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business. 

Brad Factor

Creative, innovative, dedicated, and hard-working. My interests and abilities span the Electrical, Computer, Systems, Mechanical, and Aerospace Engineering disciplines. I prefer working in a close-knit team environment with substantial ownership. My experiences include working on safety-critical systems and software for air transport aircraft, systems and structures for autonomous underwater vehicles, consumer electronics for virtual reality and a variety of robots, as well as stereolithography 3D printers. 

Piyush Lumba

An accomplished senior executive with more than 21 years of leadership positions with AT&T Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Microsoft and Amazon, Piyush is currently serving as an advisor for early stage businesses in retail and health & wellness.

Kashyap Pandya

Kashyap is the Founder & Director - SYNCORO VENTURES (an integrated startup accelerator platform) and K-CELL CONSULTING (a strategic marketing & brand consulting company). He has 20 years of experience in providing Brand & Marketing Strategy. Kashyap believes that a marketer's job is to keep the brand interesting. Kashyap has developed various proprietary business tools like Idea Quotient (IQ) Test, K-CELL Business Planning Framework, 9X Pharmaceutical Brand Positioning Matrix, Brand Likeability Quotient (LQ), Personal Branding CODE & many more. Kashyap is also the author of "From Idea to action: The Art of Writing a Business Plan" that provides a road map about how to put ideas into action.  

Samir Bodas

Samir Bodas is CEO and Co-founder of Icertis and is responsible for company strategy, execution and culture. Samir has over three decades of experience in enterprise software at industry giants and leading start-ups. Prior to establishing Icertis, Samir was CEO of Aztecsoft and successfully guided the company to become the fastest-growing publicly traded mid-cap IT services company. In 2009, he helped finalize Aztecsoft’s acquisition by MindTree.

Samir began his career as a software engineer at National Instruments, followed by several years in management roles at Microsoft Corporation after receiving his MBA from The Wharton School. He was appointed CEO of Disha Technologies in 2003, where he grew the business five-fold and managed its acquisition by Aztecsoft in 2005.

Samir is a golf addict to the annoyance of his family. When not playing golf, he reads books about golf. And when not reading about golf, he contributes to the local community as a Board Member of the Seattle Chapter of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) and the Seattle Chapter of India youth education charity Pratham USA. Samir is also a former trustee of Lakeside School in Seattle.

Kristen Forecki

Kristen joined Convoy in 2015 as one of its earliest employees and has run a diverse set of teams throughout the rapid growth of the business, including Operations, Legal, PR, Marketing, and Finance. She currently leads Convoy's Supply organization, including Convoy's industry-leading Quality & Compliance team. Prior to Convoy, Kristen held senior operations roles at Rover.com. Her early career focused on product management, strategy, and finance with Amazon, Boston Consulting Group, and General Mills. Kristen serves on the board of the Washington Technology Industry Association and was named a 2019 Top Woman to Watch by Women in Trucking. Kristen earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in finance and marketing from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Eugenio Pace

Pace co-founded Auth0 in early 2013 with CTO and “brother-in-arms” Matias Woloski while living 7,000 miles apart. Since then, Pace has played an instrumental role in growing Auth0 into a leading identity management company that is loved by developers and trusted by global enterprises. With more than 7,000 customers spanning 70 countries and securing 2.5 billion logins per month, Auth0 is a trusted global brand that is relied upon for making identity simple and protecting the data of its customers and their users. 

Pace has spent his entire professional career easing the developer journey by creating industry-standard tools, content, and services for cloud-based computing, mobility, and identity. Prior to Auth0, he spent more than a decade at Microsoft, leading product management and engineering teams that provided architecture guidance and services that increased developer joy. He has also co-authored several books on cloud computing and identity management. 

Pace holds a master’s degree in computer science and a degree in electrical engineering from the Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires. He loves travelling and has visited more than 35 countries for business and pleasure. He currently lives in Redmond, Washington with his wife, two sons, and their labrador retriever. In his spare time, he enjoys the outdoors, rowing, riding bikes, spending time with his family, restoring his 1970 Karmann Ghia, writing his blog, and reading history and philosophy.

Param Kahlon

Param Kahlon is the Chief Product Officer at UiPath. In his role at UiPath, he is responsible for product strategy and roadmap. Prior to UiPath, Param was a General Manager at Microsoft responsible for Dynamics 365 customer engagement apps (sales, customer service, and field service) and, prior to Microsoft, managed customer service and order management products for SAP and Siebel/Oracle. Param has been in the enterprise software space for over two decades leading strategic planning, CRM product management, and new product introduction. Param holds an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science & Engineering from Punjabi University, India.

Craig Sherman

Craig Sherman is a partner in the Seattle office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he focuses on corporate and securities laws, representing companies, venture capital firms, and investment banks in private placements and public offerings. He also has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, technology licensing, and domestic and international joint ventures. Craig earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1989. He received M.A. and B.A. degrees from Stanford University in 1985.

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Madhu Singh

Madhu K. Singh is the founder and chief legal officer at Foundry Law Group. Madhu and the President at TiE Seattle.  Madhu and her team enjoy serving as trusted counsel to startups and emerging companies, support corporate governance and acquisitions, and advise on protecting and leverage their proprietary assets. Madhu believes in building strong relationships with her clients as a resource and active within the local business community. She volunteers regularly with Wayfind Legal by speaking at CLEs, providing pro bono legal support, and supervising a cohort of attorneys new to advising nonprofits. She received the 2018 Volunteer of the year award by this prestigious organization. In 2014 she was named the Woman Business Owner of the year by the Small Business Administration and has been named a 'rising star' by Super lawyers for the past five years. In addition to her practice, she is in her eighth year as an Adjunct Faculty at the Community Development and Entrepreneurship Clinic at Seattle University School of Law. She holds a JD and MBA from the University of Kansas.

Duncan Butcher

Duncan Butcher, a partner at Miller Nash Graham & Dunn LLP, focuses his practice on corporate transactional law and securities. He counsels corporate clients on issues that arise at all stages of a company’s life cycle, including entity formation, corporate governance, incentive compensation plans, private placement equity and debt offerings, public company reporting and SEC compliance, commercial transactions, and ongoing general corporate matters. Duncan's clients operate in a variety of industries, including technology, retail and consumer products and services, food and beverage, professional services, and real estate.

Earl W. Overstreet II

Earl W. Overstreet II is president of General Microsystems Inc. (GMI), a Bellevue based company he founded in 1983. GMI specializes in flexible, innovative information technology (IT) solutions for medium to large sized customers with complex mission critical IT environments and limited budgets.

GMI received the 2008 William D. Bradford Minority Business of the Year Award and the 2006 Distinguished Business Achievement Award from the University of Washington Foster School of Business. The company also received the 2007, 2008, and 2014 Supplier of the Year Awards for Class III from the Northwest Mountain Minority Supplier Development Council, and the 2012 King County Executive’s Minority Small Business of the Year Award. In 2019 GMI was recognized by the Puget Sound Business Journal as Washington’s 10th largest minority-owned company.

Overstreet started his career at the General Electric Miniature Lamp Department where he held positions in manufacturing, sales, and marketing. At Wyle Laboratories Electronic Marketing Group his responsibilities included sales, sales management, and division management.

He has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Case Institute of Technology and an MBA from Case Western Reserve University in his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio. Overstreet is a member of Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, and Tabor 100. In 2014 he was inducted into the Case Western Reserve University Spartan Club Hall of Fame for football and track & field.

Overstreet was recognized as 2016 U.S. Small Business Administration State and Regional 8(a) Graduate of the Year. In 2018 he was awarded the John A. Gilmore Award by the Northwest Mountain MSDC for advocating on behalf of fellow minority business owners.

On October 1, 2014, Governor Jay Inslee appointed Overstreet to fill a six-year term on the Western Washington University Board of Trustees where he currently serves as board chair. Overstreet served as the 2010-2011 chair of the Bellevue Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. He was also a member of the Central Washington University College of Business Advisory Board, the State of Washington Department of Enterprise Services Business Diversity Advisory Group, the Bellevue College and Western Washington University Presidential Search Advisory Committees, and the South King County STEM Advisory Committee.

Overstreet was featured in the April 2017 425 Business article titled “Built to Last” and the Puget Sound Business Journal November 30, 2017 article titled “Washington’s small business heroes have big ideas”.

Jon Gonzalez

Demonstrating how dynamic a career in Audit & Assurance can be
At Deloitte, Jon has pursued a rich mix of opportunities in areas such as accounting theory and application, regulatory issues, public speaking, working with clients, even delivering bad news.

Andrew Klein

Andrew Klein has been working with startups and emerging growth companies for over 12 years as a founder and as an outside advisor for both the entrepreneurial team and their investors.  In this capacity he has managed the strategic operations, company exits, and funding of companies in a variety of industries with specific expertise in SaaS, Healthcare, Hospitality & Consumer Products, and Energy/Construction.  Companies with Andrew's direct involvement have raised almost $70 million in debt and equity. He also has a strong passion for entrepreneurship and connecting people together as shown in his involvement as a TechStars Alumni, mentor at 9Mile Labs Accelerator, a teacher at General Assembly, and in running the meetup group Cigars & Startups.  He holds a BS in accounting and an MBA focused on entrepreneurial finance both from Seattle University.

Efrem Fesaha

Boon Boona Coffee was launched with the aim of sourcing the highest quality coffee from Africa. In collaboration with coffee farmers across many African nations we look to develop long lasting relationships and support the sustainability of their crops. Boon Boona Coffee also works heavily in their community, collaborates with other small businesses through offering pop-up space in their café, and their event calendar always has something exciting on it.

The Founder and CEO of Boon Boona Coffee, Efrem Fesaha was raised in Seattle and of Eritrean decent. Efrem grew up in a household similar to most Eritreans and Ethiopians with the traditional coffee ceremony being preformed on a daily basis - a process that has been in use for hundreds of years in the Horn of Africa. Efrem attended WSU for undergraduate studies and worked in Corporate Finance for Nordstrom and Amazon, until he turned his attention towards coffee. Boon Boona Coffee was incorporated in 2012 and in 2019 transitioned from distributor of green coffee to opening a brick and mortor location in Renton, Washington where they roast and serve their coffee to their ever growing community. Efrem is also a candidate for MBA at Seattle University.

Sharad Mittal

Passionate environmentalist and budding spiritualist. Have been working in Technology for 20 years with the last 10 years in Consumer electronics. Can do little of many things - user experience, get stuff made and make it available for users.

Joshua Dirks

CEO, Project Bionic; Whitney Keyes, Author, Propel Marketing

Sameer Sugwekar

15 years strategic and tactical experience in digital marketing: SEM, SEO, Affiliate, Email, Publisher, Partner, Trade Show, User Groups & Social marketing.

Shirish Nadkarni Author ‘Startup to Exit’

Shirish Nadkarni is a serial entrepreneur with proven success in creating multiple consumer businesses that have scaled to tens of millions of users worldwide. Shirish was the co-founder of Livemocha, the world’s largest language learning site with 15 million registered members from over 200 countries. Livemocha was acquired by RosettaStone in 2013. Prior to Livemocha, Shirish was the founder of TeamOn Systems, a mobile wireless e-mail pioneer that was acquired by Research in Motion in 2002. The TeamOn technology served as the core foundation for Blackberry Internet E-mail which serviced over 50 million BlackBerry users at its peak. Shirish is the author of an award winning book - “From Startup to Exit - An Insider’s Guide to Launching and Scaling Your Tech Business”.

“From Startup to Exit” shares the knowledge that pioneering, serial entrepreneur Shirish Nadkarni has gained from over two decades of success, detailing the practical aspects of startup formation from founding, funding, management, and finding an exit.

Haresh Calcuttawala - Senior Partner- Enterprise Solutions & Technology Mazars India

Experienced Technology campaigner with a demonstrated history of working in Various Industry with Various technology. Skilled in Business Process re-engineering, Large Technology lead Transformation projects, Design thinking and Innovation. Helping Organization for their next journey of Digital transformation. Strong Enterprise architect and advisory professional, graduated from South Gujarat University. 

Hitesh Shukla

Professor Hitesh Shukla is a shaper of the family business field. For decades, his insights, advice, lectures and writing have helped to develop leaders, professionalize businesses, strengthen families, and pass sustainable enterprises from one generation to the next.

Professor Shukla advises families on topics such as long-term success; ownership, and family governance; developing next generation; succession transitions; conflict resolution and family harmony; ownership and business strategy; professionalizing the family business and life and career planning; selling the family business; and many other issues important to family enterprises.

Amit Kalra

Amit is the Chief Financial Officer and Director of Human Resources at Hilti Manufacturing which is a subsidiary of Europe based multinational Hilti Group. Hilti Group has a turnover of 35,000 crore INR globally with products and solutions for construction and energy industry. He has had an intense corporate career across some of the large engineering companies of the world including Hilti, Umicore and Infineon and has held leadership positions internationally. Amit's life purpose is to build caring and high performing organizations. He is married, has one child, is settled in Surat since last 6 years and has spent 13 years in Germany and Switzerland prior to that. He holds academic degrees from India, Germany and France in Chemical Engineering and Business Administration and is also a certified Culture Transformation practitioner from Barrett Values Center UK. He is also a Yoga and Meditation practitioner from Isha Yoga Center and is a promoter of Conscious Leadership.

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Nicki Zevola Benvenuti

Entrepreneurial start-up CEO with scientific background in the biological sciences. Sales-driven professional with successful closing rate, strong revenue growth history, and significant content marketing, social media and internet marketing experience. Demonstrated success building and managing early-stage teams, raising capital, developing strong web and brand presence, and overseeing manufacture and successful launch of premium consumer personal care products to market in the online sector. 

Govind A

Govindaraj A heads Enterprise Marketing at Vodafone Idea Business Services. He is responsible for enterprise brand, strategy, insights, digital marketing and customer engagements across India. Over 19 years of experience, he has worked with startups, consulting, and global companies. The passion areas include grass-root innovation, books and yoga.

Parthasarathy

 Parthasarathy N has almost three decades of proven success in advertising industry in strategic leadership positions. He has deep understanding of customer requirements, is a  known professional in the advertising fraternity. He is an certified Analytics professional from IIM, Ahmedabad, holds a Masters degree in Management. Currently he is a cofounder of Rembarrier Advisors, a Management Consulting company.

Shalaka K

Shalaka Katdare -Director Job Talk  is an Executive Coach, Lawyer &   HR professional with over 12 plus years of experience in Talent planning, Performance Management, HR Analytics & Legal Governance  She has a Masters in Human Resources Management, a Law Graduate from SNDT University. She is a certified Executive Coach from Symbiosis USA. She has worked with companies ; Teradata, Solicis Lex & now she runs her own HR consultancy & Coaching practice

Venkatesh K Iyengar

He has 20 plus years of corporate experience across Sales & Marketing function, i.e. Strategic Planning, Pricing, Sales Operations, Product Management and Process Management

Sheena Rajan

Sheena Rajan has a Master’s Degree in Leadership Science, is a Post Graduate
in Psychological Counselling, and an MBA in HR. She is also a certified NLP trainer. She comes with over 24 years of work experience; she has managed various roles in HR & Training. Her major associations were in
Boots Piramal Healthcare, Shell India, Travel Food Services & Gajanan Oils. She retired as Director, HR for an International Operations to start her own venture  "Anvikshiki HR Solutions". She specialises in multiple workshops in the HR domain namely, Change Management, Motivational Programmes and is also a soft skill trainer. She has been associated with various institutions as a guest faculty. 

Ishwar R Hosamani

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Kalpesh Jani

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Anoop Saldanha

Anoop Saldanha, is one of the core-authors of Suricata Intrusion Detection and Prevention System, funded by the US Department of Homeland Security(DHS) and the US Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command(SPAWAR). With over 12 years of experience in the
security industry, he works as an Independent Security Consultant and as a Corporate Security Trainer, on designing and developing various malware and network detection technologies to secure the host and the network, ranging from Network Security Tools like IDS/IPS, Malware Sandboxes, Firewalls and Endpoints. He holds multiple patents in the field of security and talks at security conferences and workshops. He has previously worked at RSA Security, Juniper
Networks Threat Labs and Cyphort Threat Research Labs and as a consultant for various cybersecurity startups and academia.

Abhijit Mohanta

Abhijit Mohanta is a CyberSecurity Consultant and Corporate Trainer, with over 12 years of experience in malware reverse engineering, vulnerability research, anti-virus engine development, anti-malware signature writing and sandbox development. He is the author of the
book “Preventing Ransomware: Understand, Prevent and Remediate Ransomware Attacks”. He has worked in Symantec, Mcafee and Juniper Networks Anti-Malware Labs. He has several patents in the field of malware analysis and detection engineering, has written multiple blogs
and has been a speaker at security conferences and workshops. His articles have been republished and quoted in many blogs and whitepapers including “eForensics magazine”.

Haresh Calcuttawala - Senior Partner- Enterprise Solutions & Technology Mazars India

Experienced Technology campaigner with a demonstrated history of working in Various Industry with Various technology. Skilled in Business Process re-engineering, Large Technology lead Transformation projects, Design thinking and Innovation. Helping Organization for their next journey of Digital transformation. Strong Enterprise architect and advisory professional, graduated from South Gujarat University. 

Arielle Casper

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Mohit Saxena

• 18 years of industry experience in Telecommunication, International Roaming, IP, CS Core, PS Core, Security Automation, Segment routing and NFV.
• Implemented world’s First CDMA to GSM inter-standard roaming with MACH (Patented)
• Mohit was a Principal Architect with Cisco & spent 8 years where he Architected network, Security and Automation Solutions for all major Service Providers in India and SAARC including Airtel, Jio, Vodafone, MTS, Aircel, TTSL, Tata communications, Idea, Ncell Nepal, Dialog and Mobitel in Srilanka, Dhiragu Maldives, Robi Bangladesh etc.
• Mohit has been part of various Patents for Cisco and IETF  RFC drafts.
• A well known Industry figure with professional associations with IET UK, IEEE, IEI, APNIC Etc.
• Mohit is a Research Scholar & hold a M.Tech from MIT

Asif Naqvi

Asif Naqvi is originally from India and is the Founder & Director of BDG Lifeciences (OPC) Pvt. Ltd, India formerly known as BioDiscovery Group, India. He has a specialization degree in Biotechnology from AMITY University, India and has a nine-year plus experience of research, marketing and management in bioinformatics & in-silico approaches, especially drug discovery technology and molecular modeling which makes him a significant facilitator of the advancement of scientific progress in general, and drug design in particular.

He has put together more than 60 research articles, presentations, seminars and training around the world, including his home country India. His workshops and training programs garnered appreciation in countries such as Malaysia, United Arab Emirates, Mexico, Egypt, Sudan, and Iran.

The scope of his work includes planning, creating, strategizing ideas and programs. In addition, he has been organizing, managing, conducting and supervising programs such as research projects, training, and workshops. While the programs are conducted both online and onsite, they range from one to seven days.

Students, faculty members, research scholars, academicians, scientists, executives from the companies working in the spheres of life sciences, biotechnology, bio-informatics, and pharmaceuticals have attended his programs in India and abroad.

He has designed research programs, training and workshops for domestic and International clients, and successfully executed such projects with impressive and satisfying results. Some of the major accomplishments include business development around the world through unique marketing strategies, communication skills, and event management.

Innovation and evolution is the key to progress, and he has applied these two principles, among others, in the strategic expansion of his work and organization- BDG Lifesciences by including workshops and training in NGS Data Analysis as well as Gene & Genome Editing by CRISPR/Cas9 around the world.

He is an expert in molecular editing software along with molecular docking and simulations. He was nominated for the Young Entrepreneur Award organized by The Economic Times, India and trademart, India, in 2012. He is the Expert member of board of studies for Department of Bioinformatics, Karunya University, India and Industry Expert for Board of Studies & Research in Bio & Nano Technology, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Hisar, Haryana, India.

Dr Pushpendra Saraswat

With 26 years of experience Dr Pushpendra is a Professor in Pharmaceutical Research and is Director of Central Research Lab in Mahatma Gandhi University of Medical Sciences & Technology (MGUMST), Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.

He expertise is in the latest era of Genomic Medicine; Next Gene Sequencing (NGS) for Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis/ Screening (PGD/PGS), Cancer, Infectious disease diagnosis etc. using Ion Torrent Personal Genome Machine (PGM) and Illumina Sequencing.

Asif Naqvi

Asif Naqvi is originally from India and is the Founder & Director of BDG Lifeciences (OPC) Pvt. Ltd, India formerly known as BioDiscovery Group, India. He has a specialization degree in Biotechnology from AMITY University, India and has a nine-year plus experience of research, marketing and management in bioinformatics & in-silico approaches, especially drug discovery technology and molecular modeling which makes him a significant facilitator of the advancement of scientific progress in general, and drug design in particular.

He has put together more than 60 research articles, presentations, seminars and training around the world, including his home country India. His workshops and training programs garnered appreciation in countries such as Malaysia, United Arab Emirates, Mexico, Egypt, Sudan, and Iran.

The scope of his work includes planning, creating, strategizing ideas and programs. In addition, he has been organizing, managing, conducting and supervising programs such as research projects, training, and workshops. While the programs are conducted both online and onsite, they range from one to seven days.

Students, faculty members, research scholars, academicians, scientists, executives from the companies working in the spheres of life sciences, biotechnology, bio-informatics, and pharmaceuticals have attended his programs in India and abroad.

He has designed research programs, training and workshops for domestic and International clients, and successfully executed such projects with impressive and satisfying results. Some of the major accomplishments include business development around the world through unique marketing strategies, communication skills, and event management.

Innovation and evolution is the key to progress, and he has applied these two principles, among others, in the strategic expansion of his work and organization- BDG Lifesciences by including workshops and training in NGS Data Analysis as well as Gene & Genome Editing by CRISPR/Cas9 around the world.

He is an expert in molecular editing software along with molecular docking and simulations. He was nominated for the Young Entrepreneur Award organized by The Economic Times, India and trademart, India, in 2012. He is the Expert member of board of studies for Department of Bioinformatics, Karunya University, India and Industry Expert for Board of Studies & Research in Bio & Nano Technology, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Hisar, Haryana, India.

Dr Pushpendra Saraswat

With 26 years of experience Dr Pushpendra is a Professor in Pharmaceutical Research and is Director of Central Research Lab in Mahatma Gandhi University of Medical Sciences & Technology (MGUMST), Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.

He expertise is in the latest era of Genomic Medicine; Next Gene Sequencing (NGS) for Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis/ Screening (PGD/PGS), Cancer, Infectious disease diagnosis etc. using Ion Torrent Personal Genome Machine (PGM) and Illumina Sequencing.

Ravi Koka

Experienced Founder with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry. Skilled in Start-up Ventures, Requirements Analysis, Enterprise Software, Enterprise Architecture, and Entrepreneurship. Strong business development professional with a M.S focused in Computer Science from Kansas State University. 

Julie Sandler

Julie Sandler is a Managing Director at Pioneer Square Labs (PSL), a Seattle-based venture capital fund and startup studio. She runs the organization’s VC fund, PSL Ventures. Julie is an adjunct professor at the UW Foster School of Business and a board director of the Washington Roundtable and Washington State Opportunity Scholarship.  She launched the Seattle Entrepreneurial Women’s Network, and was a partner at Madrona Venture Group after her tenure at Amazon Kindle, TeachStreet, and Accenture. She has served on the boards of privately held companies and several industry associations and advisory boards. Julie was also one of 60 Americans selected as a Presidential Leadership Scholar in 2016 by the Clinton Foundation, LBJ Foundation, and the two Bush Presidential Centers.  She was voted Geekwire’s 2014 “Geek of the Year” for her work supporting women innovators, and their 2018 “Hire of the Year” for joining PSL. She is a regular conference speaker and appears on CNBC, Bloomberg, and at WE Day.

Sharon Richardson Howell

Sharon Richardson Howell is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Huntington Hill Ventures; a Limited Partner in the Elevate Capital Fund; a TiE Charter Member since 2012; and an engaged Board member. She was recently elected to the TiE Global Board of Trustees. Sharon specializes in growth, operational transformation, partnerships, and strategic storytelling. She has held executive positions in tech (mobile and gaming), hospitality and service, as well as in healthcare companies such as PeaceHealth, ZoomCare, Regence, and Cambia. Having lived in six different countries with a multi-industry career, Sharon has a PhD in Business Strategy from London, an MBA from UC Berkeley, and USC is her undergraduate alma mater. Serving as adjunct faculty in Prague, London, and Portland, she rarely turns down an opportunity to teach. Sharon is a prolific angel investor across a broad range of industries, an active mentor, and a strong supporter of entrepreneurship.

Sudip Chakrabarti

Sudip joined Madrona in 2018. Sudip is particularly interested in companies that are transforming the enterprise, cloud and infrastructure markets. He especially enjoys working with technical founders – sharing his own experiences as a technical founder and helping them to build successful teams and businesses.

Past Lives

Prior to joining Madrona, Sudip was a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners where he led or co-led investments in Streamlio, Serverless, Rainnet, Exabeam and, a Madrona portfolio company, Heptio. He started his investing career at Osage University Partners and subsequently was an enterprise investor at Andreessen Horowitz where he was involved with companies such as Actifio, Databricks, Digital Ocean, Forward Networks, Mesosphere and Samsara.

Before venturing into early-stage investing, Sudip was an entrepreneur and an engineer. He started his first company when he was at Georgia Tech, and his second while in business school. In between, he spent a few years as an engineer building complex software systems at Synopsys.

This experience of founding enterprise technology-oriented businesses led Sudip to the venture side and he has been investing in enterprise and open source software companies since that time. His founder experience gives him direct insight into the challenges of startups which involve ups and downs and persistence. He strives to be a trusted partner to every entrepreneur he works with.

Education

Sudip received his PhD in Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech, an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a B. Tech from IIT Kharagpur.

Ravi Duvvuru

Ravi Duvvuru is Jana Small Finance Bank’s Chief Compliance & Human Capital Officer.
In this role, Ravi is responsible for setting and implementing the vision, strategy, direction, and leadership for Compliance and Legal functions in line with the Board’s strategic direction and growth aspiration. He is tasked with establishing and maintaining frameworks to manage and mitigate regulatory and reputational risks for the organisation.
Ravi also oversees an integrated people function spanning talent, engagement, learning, communications, and rewards, among others. He steers the people culture aspect at Jana Small Finance Bank, and supports business needs through people policies and practices. He is responsible for engaging the workforce of over 15,000 employees and contributes towards building a conducive work environment.
Ravi joined Jana Small Finance Bank in November 2017. In his last role, he was the Regional Head, Compliance – ASEAN & South Asia for Standard Chartered Bank based in Singapore. He has over 35 years’ experience in the banking industry. Prior to joining Standard Chartered Bank, Ravi was Group Head, Compliance & Public Affairs, Kotak Mahindra Bank and Head of Compliance and Service Quality for HDFC Bank. He has had a long career with the Reserve Bank of India in banking supervision, regulation and foreign exchange management departments.

Ajay Kanwal

Ajay Kanwal is a senior consumer and commercial banker with 27 years’ experience across Asia. He has held various leadership positions throughout his banking career and has a proven track record of planning and executing strategy to deliver P&L in a multicultural and volatile emerging market environment. Ajay has played a significant role in launching several strategic growth initiatives while building and managing diverse teams across geographies.

Bill Gates

William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, software developer, investor, and philanthropist. He is best known as the co-founder of Microsoft Corporation.[2][3] During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), president and chief software architect, while also being the largest individual shareholder until May 2014. He is one of the best-known entrepreneurs and pioneers of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s.

Gautam Khetrapal

                                     About Gautam Khetrapal

"I am the Founder of LifePlugin.com and an international speaker in the transformational education space. I’ve spoken at stages such as Mindvalley, UNESCO, TEDx, Startup Investor Summit. My recent TEDx Talk got over 7 Million views.

At the very heart of everything I create, lies the playful, adventurous, and passionate energy that I bring to the table.

I blend my love of teaching, comedy, personal growth and building tribes for creating transformational adventures around the world through summits, masterminds, coaching and keynote speaking.

My mission is to turn one’s learning & education into something intrinsically motivating and a lifelong adventure and build a Disneyland of Learning & Education"

Asif Naqvi

Asif Naqvi is originally from India and is the Founder & Director of BDG Lifeciences (OPC) Pvt. Ltd, India formerly known as BioDiscovery Group, India. He has a specialization degree in Biotechnology from AMITY University, India and has a nine-year plus experience of research, marketing and management in bioinformatics & in-silico approaches, especially drug discovery technology and molecular modeling which makes him a significant facilitator of the advancement of scientific progress in general, and drug design in particular.

He has put together more than 60 research articles, presentations, seminars and training around the world, including his home country India. His workshops and training programs garnered appreciation in countries such as Malaysia, United Arab Emirates, Mexico, Egypt, Sudan, and Iran.

The scope of his work includes planning, creating, strategizing ideas and programs. In addition, he has been organizing, managing, conducting and supervising programs such as research projects, training, and workshops. While the programs are conducted both online and onsite, they range from one to seven days.

Students, faculty members, research scholars, academicians, scientists, executives from the companies working in the spheres of life sciences, biotechnology, bio-informatics, and pharmaceuticals have attended his programs in India and abroad.

He has designed research programs, training and workshops for domestic and International clients, and successfully executed such projects with impressive and satisfying results. Some of the major accomplishments include business development around the world through unique marketing strategies, communication skills, and event management.

Innovation and evolution is the key to progress, and he has applied these two principles, among others, in the strategic expansion of his work and organization- BDG Lifesciences by including workshops and training in NGS Data Analysis as well as Gene & Genome Editing by CRISPR/Cas9 around the world.

He is an expert in molecular editing software along with molecular docking and simulations. He was nominated for the Young Entrepreneur Award organized by The Economic Times, India and trademart, India, in 2012. He is the Expert member of board of studies for Department of Bioinformatics, Karunya University, India and Industry Expert for Board of Studies & Research in Bio & Nano Technology, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Hisar, Haryana, India.

Dr Pushpendra Saraswat

With 26 years of experience Dr Pushpendra is a Professor in Pharmaceutical Research and is Director of Central Research Lab in Mahatma Gandhi University of Medical Sciences & Technology (MGUMST), Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.

He expertise is in the latest era of Genomic Medicine; Next Gene Sequencing (NGS) for Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis/ Screening (PGD/PGS), Cancer, Infectious disease diagnosis etc. using Ion Torrent Personal Genome Machine (PGM) and Illumina Sequencing.

Swetha Repakula

Swetha Repakula is currently a software engineer at IBM’s Open Technologies and a member of the Technical Steering Committee at Hyperledger. For the last two years, she has been working on Hyperledger Fabric, specifically on its EVM integration. Previously she was a full time open source contributor for Cloud Foundry. Working as a CF committer, she had the opportunity to directly work with engineers from different companies and witness how corporations can come together and effectively cooperate to contribute to open source technology. She is found at many open source conferences presenting on Hyperledger, Fabric and the EVM integration.

Atif Hussein

Experienced Technology Product Executive with over 20 years in High Technology/Mobile/Digital IoT world. Excellent reputation for resolving problems, improving customer satisfaction, and driving overall scale of operational execution. Consistently saved costs while increasing profits and building great teams. Excellent inter-personal skills and ability to capture voice-of-customer while balancing product direction.

His primary experience is in wireless, applications, mobile payments and cloud architecture for both startups and large companies. He has entrepreneurial experience from both, founding or running venture-backed startups, as well as senior management positions (Intel, Nokia, Seven Networks).

He has deep working knowledge in the following: Internet of Things, Mobile Applications, Mobile Payments, Digital Media, Scalable Cloud based delivery platforms for the Enterprise and Social Messaging solutions.

Currently he his working on products and strategy for the Internet of Things. 

Carol Barrett

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Divya Agarwal

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Megan Holston-Alexander

Megan was born and raised in Montgomery, AL. She earned her BA in Sociology from Clark Atlanta University and an MA in Sociology from the University of Houston. She began working in nonprofit to use her research background to help create better metrics to more efficiently measure outcomes and impact. Prior to her MBA, she worked as the Program Director for All Stars Helping Kids. In this role, she managed All Stars’ nonprofit incubator program in which new nonprofits were given funding and support with board governance, fundraising and programming. Now in her second year at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, Megan is translating her love for incubating & accelerating nonprofits into a more business-focused path to support high-growth startups through venture capital. She has held investment internships at Omidyar Network, Foundation Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Megan is also a Co-President of Stanford’s Black Business Student Association and founded a venture capital blog, A Black Girl in Venture.

Rahul Bhuman

Head of AI Business Development and Strategy. With more than 15 years of experience, Rahul has held roles across investment, sales, corporate strategy and software development. He has Masters in Computer Science and an MBA

Whitney Sales

Whitney Sales is a business leader with over ten years of sales experience, and yes, in a twist of a self-fulfilling prophecy, Sales is her actual surname. It has served her well - Whitney has transitioned from leading sales organizations to consulting on how to build successful sales teams and get products to market faster for startups, early-stage stealth organizations, and enterprises.

Early in her sales career, Whitney helped four companies gain entry to the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Companies list, including LoopNet, Joby, Meltwater, and SpringAhead. At LoopNet, she launched her first two products, one of which hit its annual target in only three months. At Joby, Whitney helped the company scale from a couple hundred thousand in revenue to $9M in a year. Having launched dozens of products, Whitney began researching, developing, and applying her process-driven approach, The Sales Method. The Sales Method is Whitney’s winning analytical process that looks at Sales-Market fit and Sales-Marketing blend to appeal to a target market’s buying process, and ultimately helps companies scale to market faster.

A native Californian, Whitney has been in the Bay Area for over a decade. She shares her deep sales knowledge as a general partner at Acceleprise Ventures and mentor for Stanford University’s StartX and Alchemist Accelerator. When not at work, Whitney can be found studying neuroscience and sociology, traveling the world, enjoying a yoga class or creating interactive art experiences.

Meghna Misra

Meghna is a business-focused product leader with a strong engineering background and demonstrated ability to build world-class products from the ground up. Over the past 16 years, she has led innovative SaaS and mobile products in early stage startup as well as large corporate environments. Her compulsive customer-focus and strong people skills enable her to consistently deliver products that delight users while accelerating growth. A hands-on leader, she is equally comfortable being the sole product manager or leading large teams with 25 product managers.

Danielle DAgostaro

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Hemant Gupta

Hemant Gupta is the Managing Director at BRTSIF (BIL Ryerson Technology Startup Incubator Foundation) and the MD & CEO of BSE Sammaan CSR Ltd. a fully owned Subsidiary of BSE Ltd.

After 26 years at Citi, one of the largest Global Financial Powerhouses, where he worked in a wide variety of functions including Product Management, Technology, Operations and Internal Audit, in India and New York, Hemant decided to swap a large Corporate role for a more socially impactful role with BSE Sammaan, which helps Companies do more effective CSR.

It was a logical next step in that journey to take on the task of leveraging  Innovation and promote Social enterprises for multiplying social impact. He is a member of the Working committee constituted by SEBI for setting up the Social Stock Exchange in India.

He has recently taken over the helm of BSE’s Tech Incubator / Accelerator called Zone Startups India and is actively leading several Accelerator programs including empoWer – India’s first Women focused Startup Accelerator.

Hemant holds a Management degree from IIM Kolkata and an Engineering degree from IIT Chennai.

Dharti Desai

Vice- Chair – Tie Women Global     

Vice - President – TiE New York                                                                             

Hemlatha Annamalai

Chair – Tie Women Global     

President – TiE Coimbatore                                                                                 

Asif Naqvi

Asif Naqvi is originally from India and is the Founder & Director of BDG Lifeciences (OPC) Pvt. Ltd, India formerly known as BioDiscovery Group, India. He has a specialization degree in Biotechnology from AMITY University, India and has a nine-year plus experience of research, marketing and management in bioinformatics & in-silico approaches, especially drug discovery technology and molecular modeling which makes him a significant facilitator of the advancement of scientific progress in general, and drug design in particular.

He has put together more than 60 research articles, presentations, seminars and training around the world, including his home country India. His workshops and training programs garnered appreciation in countries such as Malaysia, United Arab Emirates, Mexico, Egypt, Sudan, and Iran.

The scope of his work includes planning, creating, strategizing ideas and programs. In addition, he has been organizing, managing, conducting and supervising programs such as research projects, training, and workshops. While the programs are conducted both online and onsite, they range from one to seven days.

Students, faculty members, research scholars, academicians, scientists, executives from the companies working in the spheres of life sciences, biotechnology, bio-informatics, and pharmaceuticals have attended his programs in India and abroad.

He has designed research programs, training and workshops for domestic and International clients, and successfully executed such projects with impressive and satisfying results. Some of the major accomplishments include business development around the world through unique marketing strategies, communication skills, and event management.

Innovation and evolution is the key to progress, and he has applied these two principles, among others, in the strategic expansion of his work and organization- BDG Lifesciences by including workshops and training in NGS Data Analysis as well as Gene & Genome Editing by CRISPR/Cas9 around the world.

He is an expert in molecular editing software along with molecular docking and simulations. He was nominated for the Young Entrepreneur Award organized by The Economic Times, India and trademart, India, in 2012. He is the Expert member of board of studies for Department of Bioinformatics, Karunya University, India and Industry Expert for Board of Studies & Research in Bio & Nano Technology, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Hisar, Haryana, India.

Dr Pushpendra Saraswat

With 26 years of experience Dr Pushpendra is a Professor in Pharmaceutical Research and is Director of Central Research Lab in Mahatma Gandhi University of Medical Sciences & Technology (MGUMST), Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.

He expertise is in the latest era of Genomic Medicine; Next Gene Sequencing (NGS) for Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis/ Screening (PGD/PGS), Cancer, Infectious disease diagnosis etc. using Ion Torrent Personal Genome Machine (PGM) and Illumina Sequencing.

Aashish Srivastava Ph.D.

Enthusiastic Bioinformatician 

Volunteer Mentor for underprivileged youth

Trainer for R programming

Expert in programming languages, Implementing and Benchmarking pipelines. 

4 year corporate experience in NGS analysis

Nisha Rana

• Max Planck Institute (MPIIE), Freiberg Germany and has years of corporate experience.

Asif Naqvi

Asif Naqvi is originally from India and is the Founder & Director of BDG Lifeciences (OPC) Pvt. Ltd, India formerly known as BioDiscovery Group, India. He has a specialization degree in Biotechnology from AMITY University, India and has a nine-year plus experience of research, marketing and management in bioinformatics & in-silico approaches, especially drug discovery technology and molecular modeling which makes him a significant facilitator of the advancement of scientific progress in general, and drug design in particular.

He has put together more than 60 research articles, presentations, seminars and training around the world, including his home country India. His workshops and training programs garnered appreciation in countries such as Malaysia, United Arab Emirates, Mexico, Egypt, Sudan, and Iran.

The scope of his work includes planning, creating, strategizing ideas and programs. In addition, he has been organizing, managing, conducting and supervising programs such as research projects, training, and workshops. While the programs are conducted both online and onsite, they range from one to seven days.

Students, faculty members, research scholars, academicians, scientists, executives from the companies working in the spheres of life sciences, biotechnology, bio-informatics, and pharmaceuticals have attended his programs in India and abroad.

He has designed research programs, training and workshops for domestic and International clients, and successfully executed such projects with impressive and satisfying results. Some of the major accomplishments include business development around the world through unique marketing strategies, communication skills, and event management.

Innovation and evolution is the key to progress, and he has applied these two principles, among others, in the strategic expansion of his work and organization- BDG Lifesciences by including workshops and training in NGS Data Analysis as well as Gene & Genome Editing by CRISPR/Cas9 around the world.

He is an expert in molecular editing software along with molecular docking and simulations. He was nominated for the Young Entrepreneur Award organized by The Economic Times, India and trademart, India, in 2012. He is the Expert member of board of studies for Department of Bioinformatics, Karunya University, India and Industry Expert for Board of Studies & Research in Bio & Nano Technology, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Hisar, Haryana, India.

Dr Pushpendra Saraswat

With 26 years of experience Dr Pushpendra is a Professor in Pharmaceutical Research and is Director of Central Research Lab in Mahatma Gandhi University of Medical Sciences & Technology (MGUMST), Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.

He expertise is in the latest era of Genomic Medicine; Next Gene Sequencing (NGS) for Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis/ Screening (PGD/PGS), Cancer, Infectious disease diagnosis etc. using Ion Torrent Personal Genome Machine (PGM) and Illumina Sequencing.

Archana Lahoti

Archana Lahoti is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). Archana worked with Deloitte Tax in Orange County office for over 8 years (2003-2012). In 2012, she started on her own, working as an independent consultant and in 2014, founded her firm, The Archana Lahoti Corporation, in Irvine, which provides income tax provisions, returns preparation and consulting services and also supports other accounting firms with their tax needs. Archana works with a variety of clients which include public and private companies, start-ups, small businesses and individuals. She focuses mainly on corporations and high net worth individuals. Archana lives in Irvine with her husband and 12-year-old son.

Brennan, Travis P.

Travis Brennan helps clients turn privacy risk management into a business asset rather than a regulatory burden.  Combining an in-depth knowledge of evolving data privacy laws, an understanding of the technical aspects of data security, and 15 years of complex litigation experience, he crafts compliance programs for the California Consumer Privacy Act and other privacy regulations so they help preserve business value and can stand up to scrutiny from courts and regulators.  Travis frequently represents clients in commercial litigation, consumer class actions, and government investigations arising from data security incidents.  

Benjamin Charley

Hands-on executive with experience managing collaboration for product development, supply chain, and customer success.

Subject expertise in thermoplastic composite manufacturing technology, automation, product design, strategic planning, and management. 

Priya Amin

Flexable has gained regional and national attention for providing innovative childcare solutions, most notably on-site childcare at offices and events. Priya, who holds an MBA from the University of Arizona, and worked as a product and brand manager at corporations such as IBM and Nestle, left her high powered career to be home with her two boys, and never looked back. After successfully launching and running a marketing consulting firm called ROKI, she began looking for ways to continue fostering creativity and entrepreneurship among women. She launched Flexable, LLC in 2016 with her partner Jessica Strong, and was accepted to the 16th cohort of the AlphaLab Accelerator program in 2016. 

Vineet Patni

Global Advisor, President and Board positions with Allianz, AXA, and multiple Bluechip companies, CXO, Insurance, Banking, Digital, Fintech. Global Corporations, IMD Business School

Andrew Knox

Knox is a music supervisor, producer and composer with over 20 years of professional experience. He created the ideal marketplace solution for content in a completely transparent and professional marketplace platform. It is Kontent Core. The future of professional content distribution and licensing worldwide. We are innovating and disrupting the media industry with our platform without taking advantage of artists, publishers, and the storytellers. Kontent Core, the only music licensing marketplace. Discover. Search. Collaborate. License. Manage. Kontent Core leverages machine learning technology to deliver the precise sound each storyteller seeks, and tailors each license to the specification of each project: • Unparalleled Discovery and Search • Over 2M tracks, and Growing • Proprietary Licensing Management Tools Company Details: Website http://kontentcore.com

Satyam Sinha

Satyam Sinha is VP of Engineering at Palo Alto Networks. He joined Palo Alto Networks through the recent acquisition of his company Aporeto Inc. Prior to this, Satyam was the co-founder and VP of Engineering at Aporeto Inc. where he innovated on a concept of workload identity. 

Satyam Sinha is VP of Engineering at Palo Alto Networks. He joined Palo Alto Networks through the recent acquisition of his company Aporeto Inc. Prior to this, Satyam was the co-founder and VP of Engineering at Aporeto Inc. where he innovated on a concept of workload identity. He believes that Aporeto's concept of workload identity when coupled with user identity can solve critical access and management issues in diverse clouds thereby delivering true zero trust environments. Using Aporeto's solution, enterprises can adopt cloud technologies and work with multiple cloud providers with unified policies. Palo Alto Networks will be using this technology to further its cloud security offering by making it easier to provide strong security controls at scale to its customers.

Satyam has more than 20 years of experience in building products in different business areas. Prior to Aporeto, Satyam was Distinguished Engineer at Cisco’s Insieme Business Unit where he was the key architect for the switching product line. He spent more than a decade with TiMetra (now Nokia), building multiple successful products in areas of edge and core service provider networks followed by products such as the mobile gateways for the mobile infrastructure.

Satyam has authored more than 25 patents in the areas of networking, system design and algorithms. He received his Master’s in EE from USC and a Bachelors in EE from University of Pune.

Shilpa Mankar Ahluwalia

Ms. Shilpa Mankar Ahluwalia leads the Fintech practice group at Shardul Amarchand (which has been ranked Band 1 by Chambers & Partners for two consecutive years 2019 & 2020).  She was among India’s top 5 lawyers ranked by Chambers for FinTech in India in 2020 was one of 23 women leaders featured on the Economic Times Women Ahead List for 2019. She has advised several companies on their FinTech related investments and products, including re: compliance with data privacy regulations. Shilpa holds an LLM. From the Columbia University School of Law, New York, and B.A. LL.B. (Hons.), from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. Prior to joining Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas, she worked with Davis Polk & Wardwell, New York.

Nidhi Pant

Nidhi Pant, a social entrepreneur, heads the fast-moving consumer goods arm of Science for Society (S4S), India’s fastest-growing food technology company. In order to provide market access to the products procured from farmers, S4S launched DesiVDesi to provide a financially viable business model to farmers and SHGs through the application of sustainable and innovative technology. DesiVDesi works with 1,200 farmers, guiding them on cultivation of crops and supporting the value addition process through its award-winning solar-powered technology. Pant also mentors various startups in the U.S., Kenya, Thailand and Nepal and is part of a team of “solutioneers” from a San Francisco-based moving incubator helping startups scale up. She has spent the past few years working in policy and development across five countries and 10 states in India. She previously worked in international academic institutions in Berlin and Japan. She is also a Starting Bloc Fellow and received the TATA OSDD CSIR fellowship.

Arjun Vaidya

Arjun comes from 150 years of Ayurvedic legacy. After a 2 year stint at the consumer sector focussed private equity arm of the Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy Group, he decided to take forward his family heritage.

Dr. Vaidya’s is a new age Ayurvedic products business founded by a family with 150 years of Ayurvedic heritage. Over the years, Vaidya family members have passed down knowledge that has now led to 96 FDA approved formulations for Ayurvedic proprietary medicine produced in a Ministry of AYUSH approved, ISO 9001:2015 and GMP Certified manufacturing facility that is also US FDA approved. The company’s aim is to take the traditional science of Ayurveda to modern consumers worldwide.

Chirag Jain

Chirag Jain is part of the diversified financial services group called Ashika. He's heads the Investment banking practice and other new initiatives within the group.

A rank holder Chartered Accountant by profession, Chirag has been working for over 8 years helping clients across sectors (BFSI, Real Estate, Consumer Goods, Healthcare, etc) raise capital. Chirag is a passionate entrepreneur and has backed multiple companies as an Angel investor.

Mike Edelhart

Mike Edelhart is also the Managing Partner of Social Starts VC partnership. A pioneering media and startup executive, Mike was the original Executive Editor of PC Magazine and later was Executive Vice President at Ziff Davis. Mike has been CEO at many startups, including Olive Software, Inman News and Zinio. Mike was a partner at Redleaf, a VC fund. At SoftBank, he directed content for the Seybold, Interop and Comdex conferences and launched new businesses. Mike has consulted to Bloomberg, Reuters, and AARP, authored more than 20 books, and currently hosts Inception, a podcast about how startups are created, funded, and ultimately, win.

Neha Tanna

Neha is a medical doctor in London. Neha spent years as a General Practitioner before transitioning to the Life Sciences industry, where she held various roles in pharmaceutical companies. She holds an MBA from London Business School, where she fell in love working with entrepreneurs and startups. She has since worked with a startup med-tech company, as well as several accelerators and VCs in the healthcare space, most recently with a global venture builder with a focus on early-stage tech companies. Neha is an angel investor, loves tennis and dance, and is a strong advocate for personal fitness and nutrition. She also has a soft spot for wildlife and conservation.

Swarandeep Singh

Swarandeep leads the Investments and Community vertical at UNLEASH. He has been with UNLEASH since June 2018 and was previously with Axon Partners in their Investment Division where he was involved with both Direct Investments and Fund of Funds. He was previously with BlackRock and Sapient Publicis. Swarandeep received a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering with specialization in Information Technology from Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, University of Delhi

Dr. Andrew Moore, PhD

Andrew W. Moore, PhD, is a distinguished computer scientist with expertise in machine learning and robotics. He became the Head of Google Cloud Artificial Intelligence division in January 2019.

Moore previously worked at Google from 2006 to 2014 and was the founding director of Google’s Pittsburgh engineering office in 2006. He then spent a four-year hiatus at Carnegie Mellon University as the dean of the School of Computer Science.

Andrew’s research interests encompass the field of “big data” — applying statistical methods and mathematical formulas to massive quantities of information, ranging from web searches to astronomy to medical records, in order to identify patterns and extract meaning from that information. His past research has included improving the ability of robots and other automated systems to sense the world around them and respond appropriately.

Andrew lives in Pittsburgh and makes frequent trips to Google Cloud headquarters in California. 

Harina Kapoor

Harina Kapoor is a serial entrepreneur and the Founder/CEO of Aikyum Energy. Founded in 2010, Aikyum specializes in residential, commercial and industrial solar energy solutions including solar panels rooftop installations. In 2017, Aikyum Energy added two businesses: Battery Storage Solutions and BillsRGone Peak Demand Energy Management.

She holds a Computer Engineering degree from University of Bombay, a Master’s in Computer Science from Boston University and a Master’s in Physics from University of California in Irvine. In 1997, Harina founded RainBee, which grew profitably and was sold in 2006. RainBee was a very successful designer/manufacturer and retailer of children's designer bedding and furniture. 

She has been a certified Yoga teacher since the age of 19 and has taught Yoga to hundreds of satisfied students. As the President of TiE SoCal for 2015 and 2016, she fosters camaraderie and entrepreneurship with her colleagues.

Sumita Batra

Sumita Batra is an Entrepreneur, Celebrity Stylist, and CEO of Ziba Beauty. Her work has graced the pages of Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Mademoiselle, and The New York Times magazine. Her celebrity clientele includes Beyoncé, Madonna, Naomi Campbell, Gwen Stefani, Christina Aguilera and Jennifer Aniston.

She is the author of the book, The Art of Mehndi by Carlton Books and Penguin Viking, which has sold over 100,000 copies in five languages. She established the Shukar Project (which means gratitude) and funded a team of beauty educators to train woman at-risk of human trafficking in the Art of Threading and the Art of Mehndi in Cambodia.

Ana Weber

The consummate "people person," Ana approaches every person and every new experience with joy and love. Her employees love to work with her, and her friends love to be around her. And at every company she has helped to manage, she's helped engineer massive revenue growth. As an example, she took one company from annual revenues of $250,000 to $62 million in just five years, while creating 83 new full-time jobs. If you ask Ana the secret of her long string of business successes, she'll tell you it's all about building relationships.

In addition to her many decades of business experience, Ana has achieved success in multiple parallel careers—as a writer, speaker, personal and business/professional coach, and philanthropist.

Girish Khandelwal, CFPcm, QPFP.,

He is Founder and Chief Financial Planner of M/s Hamara Planner a boutique financial advisory firm based out in chennai since 2009. His passion towards uplifting and spreading the importance of financial planning for individuals,  Entrepreneurs, corporate employees and professionals who always struggle between Life and money.

Till now 6700 people has benefited through various Financial Well being Workshops across Pan India,

His area of expertise is on Personal Financial Planning, Money Management, Investment Planning, Tax Planning, Retirement Planning, children education and marriage planning and many more areas in personal finance space.

Prakash Sharma

Mr. Prakash Sharma, founder of BIJA Training started his company after working a decade in different corporate sectors. Through his Passion for Training he helps many corporate in Creating, Building and Maintaining high performance teams for the past 15 years.

 Prakash is a Certified NLP Practitioner, Certified DiSC practitioner and a Certified Executive Coach who has helped 500 companies in Creating Leaders and Managing People.