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Board of Mentors

Mr. Karma Bhutia
Karma is an Entrepreneur, Public Speaker, Mentor, with interest in eGovernance, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, IoT and Robotics. He co-founded SourceN – a successful software consulting firm; that was acquired by HolidayIQ. Karma is an innovator with patent to his name & was featured.

Mr. Krishanu Seal
With over 28 years of experience, Mr. Krishanu Seal has worked at key strategic positions with companies like Novell, Amazon and Flipkart to name a few. He is the co founder of Aventeon Inc, an Intel capital portfolio startup. Krishanu holds 3 US patents and several publications in ACM and IEEE

Mr. Vineet Kr. Singh
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. Operat

Mr. Rupesh Mishra
Rupesh is a law graduate from the prestigious NLIU, Bhopal. He has more than 11 years of post-qualification experience of working as an associate/senior associate with a Tier 1 law firm (Khaitan & Co.) and as an in-house counsel with a premier private equity investment fund (Everstone Capital).

Mr. Neeraj Gupta
He is the Founder and Managing Director at Lawcubator, Co-founder at Excubator. Neeraj is CEO and Governing Council Member of Technology Incubation and Entrepreneurship Development Activity (TIDEA) at IIT Roorkee. He is also a board member at KTH Alumni Advisory board and Chairman, India Alumni

Mr. Sonam Wangchuk
An engineer, innovator, scientist, educationist and reformist Mr. Sonam wangchuk is recognized for his contributions towards the society worldwide. He has been awarded the Ashoka fellowship for Social entrepreneurship in 2002. He received the CNN-IBN & Reliance Industries Real Heroes Award in 20.

Dr. Madan Mohan Rao
Dr. Madanmohan Rao, a consultant, and writer from Bangalore is research projects director at MobileMonday, research director at YourStory.in, and research advisor at the Asian Media Information and Communication Center (AMIC). He is the editor of five book series: The Asia Pacific Internet Handb

Mr. Vikram Gupta
Mr. Gupta has over 20 years experience in Venture Capital, Business Consulting, M&A, Strategy and Technology across multiple sectors. He is also known for setting up India’s First Healthcare and Life Sciences Venture Capital Fund where Ajay Piramal was the sponsor. Previously, he also managed

Mr. Manish Rohtagi
Manish Rohtagi was born in Chandni Chowk, Delhi, India. He has over 25 years of working experience that cuts across 10 different consumer cultures in terms of geography, religion and product segments in over 14 cities of the world. He has his MBA in Marketing Finance from Chaudhary Charan Sin.

Mr. Prashant Agrawal
Prashant Agrawal received Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering) from KU Leuven/ Imec (Belgium) in 2015, MS (Computers Science & Engineering) from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He is currently the Program Manager for Thin Film Electronics Circuits & Sensors at Imec Belgium. Prior to

Mr. Joel Michael
Joel Michael is a seasoned Entrepreneur in the Disruptive Tech and Education space. He has built his career in a variety of roles and industries, and thrives on the excitement of being involved at every level of a project. He enjoys wearing many hats, in an environment where no two work days are

Mr. Amit Patro
One of the youngest daily newspaper editor in the entire North-eastern region of India. A second generation journalist in his illustrious family. Sikkim Express, founded by his father late Ram Patro in 1976, is as old as democracy in the state of Sikkim and is as promising as a progressive Sikki

Mr. Rajeev Gautam
An engineer with more than 10 years of experience of administration, policy formulation, and implementation with the Govt. of India Mr. Rajeev Gautam is an IES of 2010 batch. He has extensive experience of design, enforcement and analysis of key projects of Govt. of India, in the Dept. of Teleco

Shanti Mohan
Entrepreneur and Angel investor with a passion to make a difference. Strong operation and people management experience, with technical and hands-on experience in Product Design, Development and Deployment of solutions.Experience in diverse roles – Strategy, Product concept definition along with

Mr. Paras Malhotra
Paras Malhotra has scaled the product, buy-side, sell-side and team from investing in 43 startups to more than 270, He had setup LV Angel Fund that has more than 700 investors signed up and an committed capital of more than US 25 Million and Scaled from 2 deals a month to 12 deals a month. He is

Syna Dehnugara
Syena herself is a business journalist & writer, associated with India’s leading business news channels for the last13 years. One of the big areas of her work was producing India’s longest running show on entrepreneurship – CNBC-TV18’s Young Turks. The show kept her optimistic and inspired

Priyanka Ahuja
Trained in Marketing and Communications, her background is in Journalism, Business and Marketing, particularly in the education and skills sectors. Over the years, she has been able to accumulate a diverse set of experiences by working with companies like Startup Tunnel, Adianta School for Leade

Mr. Shiraz M. Javed
Shiraz enjoys building businesses and has a unique perspective of being both an investor and an entrepreneur. According to him “Today’s global environment opens up a tremendous opportunity. We can leverage knowledge from all over the globe and across all industries”. He has a unique understandin.

Mr. Akhil Vohra
Akhil is an experienced Analyst with a history of working in the venture capital and private equity industry. Currently he is focusing on the Supply Chain domain with Lumis Parnters which is an Operating Investment fund. He Conceptualised and is running the 1st cohort of Supply Chain Labs — Ind

Mr. Shivam dang
Shivam has over 9 years of experience in the startup Ecosystem. After completing his B.tech, he started his career with The Indus Entrepreneur – Delhi where he worked for a year and drove various key initiatives like mentoring, deal flow, marketing, sponsorship’s etc.. He brings an open mind, po

Mr. Prajakt Raut
Prajakt is the founder of Applyifi, Co-creator of The Reset Program and the founding partner of The Growth Labs Applyifi helps startups create a comprehensive business plan and a powerful investor pitch deck. Applyifi’s proprietory startup scorecard assesses the venture on its business.

Mr. Saurabh Trivedi
Mr. Saurabh Trivedi is an entrepreneur, intellectual property enthusiast, business consultant, Investor and seasoned trademark attorney. He is currently Co-Founder & Director at Boudhik Ventures. Possessing unique set of skills and experiences that allow him to gain a quick understanding.

Mr. Shivam
Shivam is a double masters with around 5 years of experience in Supply Chain, Retail Analytics & Consulting, working for clients based out of US & UK. He is skilled in Team Management/Public Speaking, implementation of Machine Learning/Deep Learning algorithms & Agility Framework in Supply Chain

Mr. Punyabrata Sen
Experienced Planning and Regulatory with a demonstrated history of working in the Telecommunications , Electricity, Public Sector, Graduate Medical Education. Strong professional skilled in Strategy & Business Planning, Regulatory & Compliance, Corporate Governance with core competencies in Bala

Mr. Kunal Munshi
Mr. Kunal Munshi is a first-generation entrepreneur with an intense passion for adventure and environment. His love for renewable technology and solar power led him to found Sunrator Technologies, a solar power engineering firm that provides complete solar power solutions to private and government

Mr. Rishabh Gill
A father to 2 brands serving across India in the sectors of education and sports construction. Although, Rishabh is an entrepreneur but he prefer the term ‘father’ as it better addresses the journey that an entrepreneur takes in building a business. On paper, he is an Aerospace Engineer.

Mr. Naved Ahmed
An IT engineer with a Master’s degree in E-Business. Naved is having more than 15 years of diversified professional experience in IT services, Education, Animation, E- learning , IOT and Food Industry. He founded 2 successful ventures in the past, he is an entrepreneurship enthusiast.

Mr. Drishan Arora
I use Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing techniques for question answering using the web for Google Search and Google Assistant. In particular, I focus on using natural language generation techniques (such as summarization, translation and question generation) along with language

Ms. Rohini Nair
Rohini is one of the Co-Founding members & Partner – Corporate & Private Equity Practice of a full-service national Law Firm ANB Legal. She has been instrumental in upliftment of the firm’s clientele and establishment of the Firm as a full service national law firm having its branches in Mum.

Mr. Niteen B. Gadgil
Rich and diverse experience of over 35 years in industry and as a consultant ▪ Multiple industry experience viz. Pharma, Steel, Industrial Engineering ▪ Hands-on experience in a variety of areas like General Management, Business Development, Finance, Legal & Secretarial, Taxation, Supply

Mr. Deepaq V Vartak
Sales & Marketing Mentor & Coach to several Start-ups and SMEs with demonstrated history. Be assured of getting Sales Solutions to all kind of Sales challenges around the world. A High-Energy, Result Oriented Senior Management Professional with proven track record in business turn-around.

Mr. Atanu Roy Chowdhury
Atanu Roy Chowdhury strives to bring together technology talent, patient capital, and entrepreneurial spirits through his company, Gapcrud Private Limited. He operates as a techno-functional consultant, specializing in loT/Al-led curriculum development and digital transformation ventures. With a