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Managing Director for boutique economic consulting firm EPG, specialising in economic analysis, strategic communications and market entry assistance with India, with offices in London, Bangalore and East Africa.

He was additionally, until August 2017, UK Director for the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), the premier and largest industry body in India. He is also the co-founder of a tech start-up in the CSR space. Previously he worked in Economic Consulting at FTI Consulting and Deloitte in London and Abu Dhabi, with a focus on public policy and arbitration. He was Chairman for a not-for-profit membership organisation with several thousand members for three years.

He studied Economics at Warwick University, where he was awarded the Prize for Excellence, and LMU University of Munich. His dissertation won a prize at an international economics conference at Georgetown University, Washington DC. He has published academic research on behavioural economics and social impact and is a regular commentator on public policy and India across print, TV and online media, featured on BBC News, CBC, CNBC, CNN, NDTV, South China Morning Post and Huffington Post.

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Rakesh Roshan is a senior member of the management team at Isis. He is a diligent results-driven senior management leader with over 13 years of experience in technology transfer, technology commercialisation, forming and growing new businesses, developing investment strategies and roadmaps, and implementing innovative management policies. Rakesh has extensive accomplishments in motivating and providing strategic guidance to negotiate, execute, and manage complex licence and spinout transactions. He has a strong track record in evaluating, structuring and securing investments for various business propositions that resulted in the formation of a number of technology companies. His proven leadership proficiencies involve directing diverse and cross-functional teams to deliver commercial objectives on time and within budget.

Under his leadership, his team at Isis Innovation has formed more than 15% of all Oxford spin-outs to date and secured equity funding from leading private and institutional investors based in USA, Hong Kong, Japan, China, India and the UK.

His Areas of excellence will be: International Partnerships, New Ventures, Emerging Technologies, Open Innovation Strategy, Technology Roadmap, Investment Decisions, Procuring Investment Pipeline, Due-diligence, Strategic Alliances, Raising Capital, Financial Modelling, Technology Evaluation, Business Development, Business Planning, Contract Negotiations, Business & Risk Analysis, Leadership Skills, Team Management, R&D Management, IP Management, Technology Commercialisation, IP Landscaping and Litigation. .

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Virander Paul joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1991. Prior to his assignment as Deputy High Commissioner of India in London, he was Minister(Press) at the Indian Embassy in Washington D.C. Earlier, he has held diplomatic assignments in Indian Missions in Almaty, Vladivostok, Rome, St. Petersburg and Moscow. At the Ministry of External Affairs Headquarters, he has served in Europe East and Americas Divisions. He served as Director in the Prime Minister’s Office during 2007-2010. He holds a medical degree from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.

The areas of potential collaboration between the UK and India were highlighted during the recent visit of the Indian Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi, to the UK.

The UK has a multiplicity of strengths across sectors and is well placed to engage with the ‘Make in India’ initiative.

Dr. Paul added another development is that Indian individuals states are coming to the UK to collaborate and competing with each other. Already 4 states have come so far such as Rajasthan, West Bengal, Odisha and Andhra Pradesh.

On some of the concerns such as more talk and little results, Dr. Paul explained that is short sighted view. He added during last 15 months alone FDI in India has increased by 29%. India is a big country and it may take some time before results show up.

Dr. Virander Paul finally summed up his thought saying India has come a long way from Red Tape to Red Carpet.

First Secretary, T Ajungla Jamir presented Make in India presentation, the idea of 100 smart city project in India with minimum pollution and max recycling.

Dr. Virander Paul, Deputy high commissioner of India to the UK highlighted that

 “Fundamentals of Indian economy remain strong and Make in India is very popular brand now. Make in India is not a single stand-alone initiative but many additional projects such as Digital India, Industrial corridor also along with it. These initiatives are all interconnected and feed into each other”.

 

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Ajan Reginald is a hugely accomplished and widely recognised expert in the fields of Science and Medicine. Ajan Reginald co-founded Cell Therapy Ltd (CTL) in 2009 with Professor Sir Martin Evans, Nobel Laureate 2007 and CTL is an award winning biotech company developing stem cell therapeutics with clinical programs.

CTL (Cell Therapy Limited) develops cellular medicines to treat life threatening and life altering diseases and is currently focused on CVS indications: Heart Failure and Myocardial infarction. Prior to this Ajan Reginald was Global Head of Emerging Technologies at Roche Pharmaceuticals in which he led efforts to identify and commercialise the best breakthrough life science technologies including a focus on Stem cells. Before Emerging Technologies,

Ajan completed over 30 licensing and acquisition transactions a Business Development Director at Roche. From 2003-2005 Ajan worked with the Boston Consulting Group in the USA & Zurich as a member of both the Life Sciences Practice Area and Intellectual Property Group. Ajan is a Fulbright scholar, a graduate of London Hospital School of Medicine and Dentistry and holds an MBA from the Kellogg Business School at Northwestern University. Ajan enjoys spending time with his wife and young son and in his spare time he plays competitive Hockey, representing England at the over 40’s level.

Ajan Reginald
– Executive Director Cell Therapy Limited (CTL): CTL develops cellular medicines to combat life threatening and life altering diseases.
– Ex-Global Head of Emerging Technologies, Roche
– Ex-Business Development Director, Roche
– Consultant, Boston Consulting Group
– Kellogg School of Management
– Fulbright Scholar
– University of London

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Dr. Anil Wali is currently the MD at Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer (FITT) – an autonomous industry interface organization of IIT Delhi. He is managing technologies and driving innovations and enterprise at the academia besides looking at issues of concern to SMEs. He has worked in chemical industry for 19 years before taking up the present position. Besides several publications, patents and reports to his credit, he has a strategic customer and quality orientation, and brings a practical perspective to solving technical problems. He is also called upon to deliberate and participate in the area of clean technology and sustainability. His multifaceted experience towards technology innovation and management, industry partnership, project issues, entrepreneurship, IPR, education, training, etc is sought for advice / association with several committees and programmes. He is an IIT Delhi Doctorate.

Dr. Anil Wali at Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer (FITT) believes that FIIT is an industrial interface organization, established at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi) as a Registered Society on 9th July 1992. Dr NC Nigam was the founding Chairman of FITT, and Dr AK Sengupta was the first full-time Managing Director. IIT Delhi’s Review Committee Report -1986, recommended the setting up of an industrial foundation to enhance the programmes of interaction and collaboration between IIT and industry. To implement this recommendation the Institute took up this initiative, with a seed grant received from government at that time, which, led to the setting up of FITT.

FITT aims to be an effective Interface with the Industry to foster, promote and sustain commercialization of Science and Technology in the Institute for mutual benefits. For over twenty years now, FITT has been an interface between the Institute and the industry and has been devising innovative ways to create partnerships and linkages with business and community to enable knowledge transfer for common good. The team at FITT and academicians from IIT Delhi has been largely responsible for the successful outreach efforts including extensive S&T collaborations.

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Carl Sterritt, with approximately 20 years’ of management and executive level experience in pharmaceutical development and commercialisation in both large and small company settings, Carl has led the Company as its CEO since he co-founded the Group in 2008 together with Dr.Christian Schweiger.

Carl Sterritt held senior management roles at United Therapeutics and Encysive Pharmaceuticals, working on innovative therapies for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension. Carl joined United Therapeutics to establish the company’s European operations in preparation for the marketing approval of Remodulin®, running the subsidiary for six years. In collaboration with physicians in Germany, he was responsible for and holds patents related to United Therapeutics’ decision to develop and commercialise treprostinil; now successfully commercialised in the US as Tyvaso™. Carl was instrumental in the successful commercial launch of Thelin™ and the rapid growth of Encysive’s European operations. Carl founded the Group after Encysive was acquired by Pfizer Inc. for more than $300m.

Since founding Shield Therapeutics plc – a successful and growing specialty pharmaceutical company commercialising novel prescription therapies – Carl has raised close to £70m and led the team that has successfully developed Shield’s two leading assets, Feraccru® and PT20, recently resulting in the approval of Feraccru and completion of Shield’s IPO on the LSE. During this time Shield has also taken PT20 – a treatment for hyperphosphataemia – through a 1st pivotal study, leaving one study to be completed before a marketing authorisation application.

With an under/postgraduate background in life sciences and an MBA from Henley, Carl has approx. 20 years of experience in pharma. Trained in the large pharma environment, he quickly moved into orphan and specialty medicines, working for United Therapeutics as a core member of the Company’s commercialisation team that launched Remodulin® in the USA, after which he established and led the company’s European operations for 6 years. In collaboration with physicians in Germany, he was responsible for and holds patents related to the development and commercialisation of an inhaled form of treprostinil – now commercialised as Tyvaso™. This was followed by a period at Encysive Pharmaceuticals, leading European commercial operations and delivering the successful launch of Thelin™ another treatment for pulmonary arterial hypertension. The company was acquired by Pfizer for over $300m in 2008, following which Carl left, eventually establishing Shield Therapeutics.

A creative, lateral thinker with proven entrepreneurial flair and a clear record of delivering shareholder value. Key strengths include business leadership experience, creation and delivery of effective business strategy, as well as effective communication and relationship building capabilities.

Outside of work Carl enjoys spending time with his family, socialising and participating in or watching a variety of sports.

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David Horn Solomon has strong operational and innovation-minded Healthcare Investor, CEO, Board Member, leader, strategic thinker, and decision maker with success- and problem-solving orientation and the ability to assemble strongly motivated high-performance teams. 30 years of experience in the life sciences—biotechnology—pharmaceutical—investing industry in a range of high-level executive positions in various countries.

David Horn Solomon, President and CEO of Bionor Pharma ASA since January 2015, a publically listed healthcare company based in Oslo, Norway, with offices in Copenhagen, Denmark, and New York, NY. From 2008 to 2015 I served as President and CEO of Zealand Pharma A/S, a NASDAQ OMX Company. Before joining Zealand, I held leadership positions at several biotechnology, pharmaceutical and medical device companies. I have extensive experience in pharmacology research, having served as a faculty member at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, NY.

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Dr. Kaushik D. Deb, a Heath Care Biotechnology Professional working on developing solutions to unmet medical needs and personalized precision therapies. Developed technology platforms for commercialization and out licensing. Also interested in Rural health care and Clinics. DiponEd is a P4M company (preventive, predictive, participatory and personalized medicine). Merisis Therapeutics – is a fully owned SBU of DiponEd and is involved in the (R&D) development and commercialization of US FDA etc compliant cell processing units, modular clean rooms, BMT / HSCT units, Celluar Therapeutics, Immunotherapies in cancer/ pain/ allergy/ autoimmunity etc, Biologicals, Biosimilars and 3rd Generation Implantable devises and Biomaterials. Also researches in nanobiotechnology, directed stem cell trafficking technologies and integrating Regenerative and Complementary medicine. We work as technology service providers to Corporate Hospitals, Not for profit organizations and Clinics treating Unmet and No-Option medical Conditions.

Dr. Kaushik D. Deb is the founder and director of DiponEd and DiponEd is a P4M company (preventive, predictive, participatory and personalized medicine).

Merisis Therapeutics – is a fully owned SBU of DiponEd and is involved in the (R&D) development and commercialization of US FDA etc compliant cell processing units, modular clean rooms, BMT / HSCT units, Celluar Therapeutics, Immunotherapies in cancer/ pain/ allergy/ autoimmunity etc, Biologicals, Biosimilars and 3rd Generation Implantable devises and Biomaterials. Also researches in nanobiotechnology, directed stem cell trafficking technologies and integrating Regenerative and Complementary medicine. We work as technology service providers to Corporate Hospitals, Not for profit organizations and Clinics treating Unmet and No-Option medical Conditions.

The other activities of DiponEd are related to development of personalized solutions in cell based cosmetics, antiaging, wellness, sports medicine and advanced nanotechnology based FMCG and OTC personal health care products.

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Dr. Stephen Minger research has been at the forefront of human stem cell research. His group was the first to deposit a human ES cell line into the UK Stem Cell Bank and first to pursue Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (SCNT) to generate “hybrid human embryos” for research. Besides research, Stephen has been actively involved with the UK government helping legislate the first Human Embryo Bill in 2009 and being the Stem Cell Expert and Member of the UK Gene Therapy Advisory Committee (GTAC) at the Department of Health from 2006-2012 helping also the Chinese government with Stem Cell legislature.

In 2009 he was appointed first the Global Director for Research and Development for Cell Therapies at GE Healthcare. In 2013 he was appointed Chief Scientist for Cellular Sciences to lead their research for technology development within cellular therapies and diagnostics. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Centre for the Commercialisation of Regenerative Medicine (CCRM) and Scientific Advisor for BioLamina. He also serves as the Director of SLM Blue Skies Innovations Ltd, providing expert analysis in emerging healthcare technologies for the life sciences investment community.

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Harriet  Fear joined One Nucleus (formerly ERBI) as CEO in February 2009. She previously worked as a Diplomat with the British Foreign Office for 21 years serving in over 17 countries around the globe. Half her career was spent in the commercial field, latterly heading UK Trade & Investments national life sciences trade team for over 5 years.

She was attracted to the role at One Nucleus because she wanted to spend time helping companies maximise their competitiveness and to lead a team which already had an excellent reputation. Since her arrival at One Nucleus, the company has redefined its membership (now life science and healthcare, not only biotech), formed strong and strategic relations with like minded US counterparts for the benefit of members and merged ERBI with London Biotechnology Network to enhance the offer to members and create a stronger critical mass on the international stage.

One Nucleus is the largest membership organisation in Europe. A not-for-profit private company, it has over 450 members including pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device and diagnostic companies and associated technical and commercial service providers.

The One Nucleus mission is to maximise the global competitiveness of its members. For their science and technology-based members, this means being global leaders in the research, development and commercialisation of healthcare innovations that radically improve the quality of people’s lives around the world. For their business and professional services members, it means delivering exceptional services that significantly enhance the business performance of their clients.

Harriet Fear has accepted the Prime Ministers invitation to continue in her UK Business Ambassador role for a further two years to 2017. She continues to be Chief Executive of One Nucleus – her first priority and passion. By accepting this invitation, Harriet has agreed to undertake, in the margins of her personal or business travel, a programme of activities developed by and with the Government until July 2017. This could include for example, hosting a reception in a country she is travelling to in order to highlight UK expertise in the life science and healthcare sector, briefing UK Ministers and HM Ambassadors on key business priorities and interests as they might arise; meeting overseas Ministers and inward missions; and providing insights into how UK Trade & Investment can better deliver for business.

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Jonathan  Tobin joined Imperial Innovations in 2011 and specialises in therapeutics and diagnostics investments. He is a board director with antibacterial drug discovery company Auspherix, and diagnostics companies Abingdon Health and Molecular Vision, and a board observer with Cell Medica and Psioxus. Prior to joining Imperial Innovations he worked at MRC Technology, sourcing and evaluating new opportunities for small molecule and antibody drug discovery worldwide. He has a PhD in molecular medicine from UCL, and undertook post-doctoral research at the Cancer Research UK LRI. Jonathan has a First Class degree in Biology from Oxford University and an MBA with Distinction from Imperial College.

Jonathan  Tobin is a life science specialist with experience of early and later stage venture capital deals, specialised in therapeutics and diagnostics. Board director of two specialist diagnostics companies and one drug discovery company, board observer of two biotechs and one molecular diagnostics company.

Drug discovery and business development experience; strong science background (PhD, post-doc, ten publications plus book, and numerous scientific awards and scholarships; MBA with Distinction from Imperial College; First Class degree in Biology from Oxford University.

Jonathan Tobin is a non executive director at artios and Artios is developing inhibitors of DNA Damage Repair enzymes to selectively kill cancer cells through a concept known as ‘synthetic lethality’. This has been demonstrated with the recent success of PARP inhibitors in clinical studies, and the launch of Lynparza™ (olaparib; AstraZeneca). DDR targeted products have the potential to be used in combination with other cancer agents to help prevent cancers from reoccuring.

Artios has in-licensed its lead DDR programme, PolƟ, from Cancer Research Technology (CRT), the development and commercialisation arm of Cancer Research UK (CRUK) and continues to work with CRT and other experts in the field to build its pipeline of novel DDR programmes.

In September 2016, Artios raised a £25m Series A from a syndicate including SV Life Sciences, Arix Bioscience, Imperial Innovations, Merck Ventures, Abbvie Ventures, and Sixth Element Capital.

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Karin Conde-Knape is Vice President of Cardiovascular & Metabolic Scientific Innovation at Johnson & Johnson Innovation, London.

Previously, Karin was Global Head of Discovery in the CVM DTA at Roche where she was responsible for all the Early Research efforts as well as the Translational Biomarker and experimental medicine group. While at Roche, Karin was directly or indirectly responsible for identifying and managing numerous external collaborations with well renowned institutions worldwide. In addition, throughout her career at Roche, she had several roles, including laboratory head, project leader, head of pharmacology and co-department head in the CV and Metabolism Disease and Translational Area, both in the US and in Switzerland. She was responsible for setting and implementing the pharmacology strategy for the portfolio in the CVM group in areas such as Diabetes, Atherosclerosis, Dyslipidemia, Kidney, and CV disease.

Karin received her PhD in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Connecticut, and completed her post-doctoral fellowship at Columbia University.

Responsible for identifying, establishing and managing External Scientific opportunities from Early research to Clinical POC in the aread of Cardiovascular and Metabolism.

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Kay Brickmann is an experienced PhD business development and licensing professional with a significant track record of successful negotiations and completed deals. More than 17 years of post-doctoral experience in the pharmaceutical industry with scientific expertise in the field of cardiovascular R&D evidenced by author-/co-authorship of 15 research papers and 13 patents. Transactional experience with entities in Europe, USA, Japan and China, full understanding of the pharmaceutical drug development process from early discovery to marketing and a fluent German, English and Swedish speaker.

Recently, Kay Brickmann reported ethyl nicotinates as antagonists of the P2Y12 receptor, which is an important target in antiplatelet therapies. A potential liability of these compounds was their generally high in vivo clearance due to ethyl ester hydrolysis. Results: Shape and electrostatic similarity matching was used to select five-membered heterocycles to replace the ethyl ester functionality. The 5-methyl and 5-ethyl-oxazole bioisosteres retained the sub-micromolar potency levels of the parent ethyl esters. Many oxazoles showed a higher CYP450 dependent microsomal metabolism than the corresponding ethyl esters. Structure activity relationship investigations supported by ab initio calculations suggested that a correctly positioned alkyl substituent and a strong hydrogen bond acceptor were necessary structural motifs for binding. In rat pharmacokinetics, the low clearance was retained upon replacement of an ethyl ester with a 5-ethyl-oxazole. Conclusion: The use of shape and electrostatic similarity led to the successful replacement of a metabolically labile ethyl ester functionality with 5-alkyl-oxazole bioisosteres.

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Keith Foster, VP of Ipsen bought the biotech and its drug development platform Syntaxin for $37 million upfront with promises of about $170 million more, with most of the money pinned to the fate of a mid-stage therapy for a rare ailment. Dr Foster is a co-founder of Syntaxin, and joined Ipsen to build a botulinum toxin biology platform for new drug development covering a variety of fields. Back in 2010 Ipsen joined a consortium of investors to put $29 million into Syntaxin. The company held a 10% stake in Syntaxin at the time of the buyout.

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Naveraj Gill joined the department in 2002 to complete an EngD in collaboration with HEL Ltd. The project was based on the design and characterisation of an automated miniature bioreactor system for microbial culture. Following this Nav remained in the academic field as a postdoctoral researcher at UCL. She first worked on a large Technology Strategy Board (TSB) grant in collaboration with the Health Protection Agency (HPA) and Syntaxin.

Naveraj Gill research focused on the integration of microscale technology for the rapid development of bioprocesses and design for manufacture of biotherapeutic fusion proteins. She then worked as part of the IMRC in Bioprocessing investigating ultra scale-down microwell-based techniques for studying mammalian cell culture processes for the production of biopharmaceuticals with a view to scale-up to conventional and single-use bioreactor formats. This led to a position with GE Healthcare as a Single-Use Technologies Specialist, which evolved into a wider business development role for upstream technologies covering UK and Ireland. Key responsibilities included designing in single-use technologies, devising strategies for growing the upstream business, consulting on new product developments and managing new product launches.

Naveraj Gill has now returned to UCL as the Strategic Alliance Director to support the department in forging new links with companies and to foster existing relationships, creating a platform for knowledge transfer. She manages the MBI® industrial training programme which has trained over 1,300 individuals from 300 international companies and is the Business lead for the VISION Programme for Senior Executives.

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Phil Jackson previously held a range of senior positions within the Canadian healthcare system, as Director of Strategic Support and chief adviser to the Medical Officer of Health for the City of Toronto Health Department, the largest public health department in North America with 15 offices and 1,800 staff. Prior to this Phil led the development and establishment of the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion, with 14 laboratories and 600 plus staff, serving as the founding Vice President of Strategy and Planning. Phil served as part of the control team for the SARS outbreak in 2003 and the H1N1 outbreak of 2009.

Phil Jackson,As Head of Research to the Expert Panel on SARS, Phil led the drafting of a major two volume expert report into Infectious Disease Control and Emergency Response (the Walker report). Phil had served as the Canadian representative to the OECD working group on New Genetic Technologies and serving as Ontario Director for Health Information and Sciences led the drafting of an internationally acclaimed report on Genetic Testing. Phil has led a wide range of major health system initiatives in his career including leading the complete red-design of Stroke prevention, treatment and rehabilitation services for a population of over 11m people, the implementation of Hospital Report Cards across 134 hospitals, the establishment of 14 Regional Infection Control Networks and multiple other initiatives. Phil is the recipient of several Canadian awards for health reform, most recently the Amethyst Award and Ace Award.

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Rahul Garella is Senior Vice President, Head of International Pharmaceuticals at Endo Pharmaceuticals

– Leadership experience with full P&L responsibility for European subsidiaries.

– Top line and EBIDTA targets and overall P&L management and delivery.

– Leadership and strategy to bring differentiated generics and speciality products across Western Europe.

– Business strategy including licensing, building front ends, acquisitions and partnering

– Rich geographical experience in Europe, Asia Pacific and South America

– On the Editorial board of ‘Journal of Generic Medicines’ Past Recognitions/Awards:

– Led Glenmark, UK and achieved recognition for business performance by the London Stock Exchange group through their publication ‘1000 Companies to Inspire Britain’ (www.1000companies.com) in December’13

– Achieved recognition for Glenmark as amongst the fastest growing companies in the UK though a report by the CII (Confederation of Indian Industry) and Grant Thornton in its report ‘India meets Britain’ in March’14‘ Specialties: Business development for Generics (APIs and finished dosages) with companies in Europe, Latin America and Asia Pacific.

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– Led Glenmark, UK and achieved recognition for business performance by the London Stock Exchange group through their publication ‘1000 Companies to Inspire Britain’ (www.1000companies.com) in December’13

– Achieved recognition for Glenmark as among the fastest growing companies in the UK by the CII-Grant Thornton in their report ‘India meets Britain’ in March’14‘

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Sakate Khaitan is the senior partner at Khaitan Legal Associates. Sakate divides his time between London and Mumbai.

Sakate Khaitan heads the corporate M&A, funds, restructuring and insurance practice at Khaitan Legal Associates. Sakate advises clients on inward investments into India and on an array of India-focused cross border transactions. Having started his career in litigation, Sakate has over 11 years of litigation experience advising various clients in their disputes that included high profile joint venture disputes, tax disputes and disputes with regulators. Sakate also serves on the boards of several companies as a non-executive director, lending his legal and business acumen to businesses around the globe. Sakate assists clients with pragmatic and commercially sound advice on dealing with Indian rules and regulations. His clients include multinationals, private equity funds, financial institutions, fund managers, and HNIs.

In his experience that spans over two decades Sakate Khaitan demonstrates a deep commercial understanding of several industry sectors and significant transactional insights that offer immense value to the client.

Sakate Khaitan is the alumnus of London Business School (“LBS”) and is also the co-founder of the India Business Forum (“IBF”) at LBS. The IBF is a platform that was created to build awareness and facilitate discussions on and encourage cross border investments to/from India.

Sakate Khaitan is dual qualified and is a member of the Bar Council of India and is also admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales. However, he exclusively practices Indian law.

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Dr. S.D. Ravetkar is an Executive Director with Serum Institute of India Ltd. Apart from his Doctorate he holds degrees in Management and Finance. He has authored various research articles in national and international journals. He is also on advisory board of various national and international organizations and journals. He has more than 43 years techno-commercial experience in biotech industry in various areas like QC, production, projects planning & research. At present his major responsibility is manufacturing of Bacterial combination vaccines mainly Pentavalent and Hexavalent vaccine. He has extensively worked on microbial and bioengineering aspects of vaccinology and also has got expertise on technology transfer. He has widely traveled worldwide. He is listed amongst 15 influential figures in the Asian Vaccine Industry.

Dr S D Ravetkar, Executive Director, Serum Institute of India says that the company has put programme in place to achieve the ambitious plan to offer new vaccines

Serum Institute of India Ltd., is the worlds no. 1 producer of Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis, HIB, BCG, Hepatitis B, Measles, Mumps, Rubella vaccines. It is estimated that about 60% of the children in the world receive at least one vaccine manufactured by Serum Institute of India Ltd.

Key focus in the coming year will be enhancing further capacities of above vaccines for which state of art plants are under various stages of completion. The growth has its own problems and challenges. Planned programme has been put in place for handling these issues.

Major thrust is also given on further strengthening quality systems by adding Process Analytical Technology (PAT) in various stages of manufacture of vaccines. More focus is given on incremental innovation than only on disruptive innovation. The technical team building by establishment of new training center is given major thrust.

Serum is also working with various Universities and Research Institutions in country and overseas, in Europe and U.S. to leverage advantage of mutual strengths in knowledge building. The development of critical knowledge mass is thus at center of various activities.

With robust pipeline of various newer vaccines in offing structured programme is carried to reduce time to market. Products on the horizon are many like Rota and Pnemococcus and HPV vaccines. This in itself is a gigantic task of putting new R & D incubators and going through entire process of germination of idea till commercialization.

Innovation is also being implemented in supplying various new vaccine administration systems and for effective measurement thereby validation of cold chain management.

These efforts will help make vaccines available at affordable cost to infant population in world. With acquisition of Bilthoven Biologicals in Netherlands Serum Institute of India Ltd., is looking for entry in Western regulated markets, In years to come as our vaccines are already manufactured in world class environment confirming to International FDA.

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Stephen Shuttleworth joined Karus as CSO in 2008, and is the founding scientist of the company’s PI3K-p110β/δ and HDAC6 programs. Over the last 21 years, he has established a strong track record in R&D management, and in the design and development of molecular-targeted therapeutics for cancer, immune-inflammation and metabolic diseases. Prior to Karus, Stephen held senior positions in UK and North American biotech, notably at Celltech-Chiroscience (UK), BiochemPharma-Shire (Quebec), Tularik-Amgen (California), CRUK, and Piramed (UK) where he directed the PI3K-p110α and p110δ programs, designing and leading the preclinical development of GDC-0941 (Pictilisib), currently in Phase II cancer trials, under the auspices of Roche, who acquired Piramed in 2008 for $175M.

Stephen Shuttleworth has authored over 130 publications and patents, has been an invited speaker at over 40 major international conferences, and is a recognized opinion leader in the PI3K and HDAC arenas. He obtained his BSc and PhD in Chemistry from the University of Liverpool, and was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2007.

In 2014, he was appointed Professor and Honorary Chair at the University of Manchester (Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences) in recognition of his work on small molecule drugs to treat chronic human diseases.

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Venkateswarlu Nelabhotla comes with a very rich and global experience of successfully leading organizations in the Life sciences and Consumer Products businesses. He has held top management roles in the life sciences space in companies like Shantha Biotech (A Sanofi Company) and Aurobindo Pharma and he immensely contributed to their all-round growth. Shantha Biotech – a biosimilar and vaccine company, was eventually acquired by Sanofi for around $ 800 MN in 2010. He has been a part of significant revenue growth and significant value creation in Aurobindo Pharma in the global business segment of APIs and finished dosage form products in multiple therapy areas. He has held CEO roles in Emami and Cavinkare, CPG companies, growing them significantly with an all rounded approach. During his stint at Emami (a listed company) as CEO, the company’s market cap went up from $ 300 MN to $ 1.2 BN. The momentum thus created, has made Emami a $ 3.7 BN market cap company now. During early part of his career, he created some very successful brands in Cavinkare, a leading CPG company from India, and built the organization with a 10X revenue increase in 6 years’ time and that early momentum has made Cavinkare one of the established Consumer product companies in India. He comes with core strengths in Strategy, Innovation, Marketing, Organization building, Finance, M&A and Governance. He has been an integral part of many industrial forums in Life sciences and CPG business.

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Vipul Jain is a serial entrepreneur who specialises in spotting business opportunities while they are still in nuance stage. An MBA from Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, class of 1999, I started my career by establishing a fabrics import business as an extension of the family business of Garment exports in 1999.

In 2002 I established an animation studio by the name of Mirage Animation which produces television quality animations for clients such as Warner Brothers, Disney, Channel 5 etc.

In 2003, I spotted an opportunity in Medical Tourism sector while the world was still to wake up to the phenomenon. Vipul helped founding a company called PlanetHospital and built it to be the worlds largest medical tourism company. I exited the company in 2011 to establish my own Medical Tourism business by the name of Mirage Medserv focusing on the third world countries, Russia, Africa and Mid East. Mirage is today one of the largest facilitators of patients of almost all major hospitals in the country.

In 2013, I established Advancells, which is a research based company focusing on providing cutting edge Stem Cell Therapies for patients with life threatening diseases also catering to lifestyle diseases and anti aging technology. Advancells is slowly rising to be a leader in a very small space of modern medicine and is in process of filing patents for treatment of multiple diseases.

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Yvonne Naughton was previously Head of Business Development and New Product Planning in the UK and Ireland for over three years, and before that held several positions at Sanofi in market access opportunities in Paria and Ireland for cardio thrombosis and arrhythmias. Before Sanofi, she was clinical safety officer at Novartis, and worked in drug safety at Quintiles. She has a PhD in Pharmacology from University College Dublin.

Yvonne Naughton was leading the UK and Irish side of our Global External Science & Partnering organisation. Our remit is to collaborate externally with academic institutions, spin-outs, start-ups, biotechs and non for profit organisations, in order to build Sanofi R&D’s early stage pipeline and accelerate the translation of innovation discovered in the UK and Ireland.

A strategic priority for Sanofi is to sustain innovation in R&D. We will increase our annual global R&D investments to €6bn by 2020, with an increased capacity for external innovation.
Our research interests and investment focus fall into 2 categories. 1: Where we would like to sustain our leadership- Diabetes, Cardiovascular Disease and Genetic Rare Diseases. 2: Where we would like to build a competitive position- Immunology, Oncology and Multiple Sclerosis. We will also invest opportunistically in Neurodegeneration/Pain, Infectious Disease and Ophthalmology.

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Dr Michel Baijot is Head of Cipla Global Vaccines. He is a life science executive bringing over 25 years of experience in building vaccine businesses with significant contribution in strategy, licensing, M&A, technology transfer and finance. His positions with both biotechs and big pharmas (GSK Vaccines, JnJ Crucell) and his concrete achievements in the vaccine marketplace reflect an in-depth knowledge of the vaccine environment in developed and developing countries. In his role of Head of Cipla Global Vaccines, he is leading the Cipla – Serum Institute of India partnership. He has been Chairman of the Belgian Biotech Association.

General/Business Unit Management, Healthcare, Big Pharma and Biotech,In Both Developing and DevelopedCountries,25 Years Worldwide Experience/Network in Vaccines, Mabs and Diagnostics

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A Social Entrepreneur who has built successful start-ups in the space of Behavioural Sciences and Cognitive Technologies, Swaroop Madhavan, has been a recipient of multiple awards and honours including Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Memorial Awards for Education Excellence and MSMEASSOCHAM start-up Entrepreneur of the Year.

August 2015, He promoted Parentof, A Venture Funded Company, which is creating the World’s First AI based Upskilling Platform for children in their formative years using Realtime Data Intelligence. Currently they work with over 1000+ Schools and 200,000+ parents across India.

An offshoot of his experiences with the education sector led to the conception of Parentof Innovation Awards, which was promoted by ASSOCHAM, Indo-American Chamber of Commerce and FKCCI to recognize and award Best Practices in K12 Education. This led to the creation of India’s Largest Parent Care Network for Educators, which has impacted over 1000 schools across India and duly recognized by the Hon. Governor of Karnataka as well as the Ministry of Primary Education.

He authored the Parentof Innovation Review that pioneers to provide Infographic Insights into Educational Outcomes Management and Parent Management.

Leveraging Technology to solve Social Problems is his passion.

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Mr. Manish Kothari, is the President of ISBR Group of Institutions, Oxford Group of Institutions & BET Group of Institutions.

He is the receiver of various awards like Jewels of Rajasthan award for his contribution to the field of Business & Education, “Business Excellence “award through the K.L.E Group for his Business Acumen, The “Godwad Gaurav” award, a prestigious award awarded as the “Achievement of Excellence” in the Jain Community and awarded the “Young Achievers Award” by the ‘Lions Club International’.

He was invited to be a part of the South Indian Leadership delegation to Israel.
He was invited to Chengdu, China by the India China Economic & Cultural Council as a speaker.

His Group of institutions under his leadership has 16 international university partners across the globe.

His Business School has received the National Excellence Award as the “Most Upcoming Business School of the Year” for Higher education by ASSOCHAM and Association of Indian Universities, Awarded “Business Excellence” award by the Bharti group, Rated A+ by various surveys across the country, Rated “Platinum” by the AICTE – CII Survey for consecutively 5 years, All-India Winner of Industry Linked Institute (Emerging) Award by AICTE – CII.

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Madhura DasGupta is the Founder & CEO of Aspire For Her, a unique start-up to motivate young women to enter and stay in the workforce. Madhura has been a banker for the last 25 years – holding leadership positions in IDFC, Standard Chartered and ANZ Grindlays Bank, after an MBA from XLRI and Electrical Engineering from Jadavpur University. She has several ‘firsts’ to her credit including launching and leading Priority and Preferred Banking in Standard Chartered and pioneering the concept of Employee Experience in IDFC.  Madhura was one of the 12 women across India to be awarded the British Chevening Scholarship in 2003.

Since its birth on Women’s Day, 2020, the rapidly-growing community at Aspire For Her has become a movement for young women, in India and across the world, getting together members, supporters and mentors to unleash the trillion dollar potential in the Indian economy

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Sujatha Ramani joined Pollinate Group in 2019 with over 28 years of corporate and
entrepreneurial experience. Prior to this, she was a Director in a global foundation
focussed on providing more employment for youth in emerging economies. Over the
course of her career, she has worked in the domains of global program management
and engineering, sales and marketing. For Sujatha, the best part about her job at
Pollinate is the unique opportunity to combine service towards neglected communities,
selling sustainable products and empowering women entrepreneurs
You can read more about Sujatha at https://pollinategroup.org/sujatha-ramani-ceo/
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About Pollinate Group:
Pollinate Group is a social enterprise that identifies and empowers women as leaders of
change in the most marginalized communities of India and Nepal. They do so with the
help of clean energy products, improving access to basic facilities, while helping people
save time and money, as well as minimising their contribution to environmental
depletion. Established in 2012, the organization is committed to transform the lives and
living conditions of women from the most overlooked communities. They identify, train
and develop local women entrepreneurs who serve hard to reach families living on less
than US$1.90 a day.

So far, they have reached over 700,000 people across India and Nepal and empowered
more than 760 women to bring positive change in their communities. Through Pollinate
Group’s work, women establish trusting, long term service relationships with their
communities. Their customer service focus, including after sales support, is a key
advantage to help families break the cycle of poverty.

They directly progress the United Nation’s SDG 1 (No Poverty), SDG 5 (Gender equality)
and SDG 7 (Clean and Affordable Energy) through their work. In addition to enabling
access to life-improving products, and increasing women’s livelihood opportunities ,
confidence and household income, they deliver immersive programs for students,
professionals and leaders seeking to have immediate impact, and learn about
opportunities from different communities. Participants are equipped with practical
experience to become the next generation of social and environmental leaders.

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Vinnie Jauhari works as Director Education Advocacy and Skills Lead at Microsoft Corporation India Ltd. and has been an educationist. She manages strategic engagements across evangelism and skills programs in Education and focuses both on K-12 and Higher Education. She enables digital transformation journey for education institutions and empowering teachers and students with technology exposure. She works with Boards of Education and Education leaders to drive systematic change powered by technology. Some of the programs that she has shaped and built communities in India are the MS Showcase School Program and Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert Community of teachers. She has also facilitated the development of AI curriculum, Coding and Data Sciences for Schools and partnered with various Boards of Education for the same. Her contributions have won her recognition across several years at Microsoft.

Her work has impacted millions of teachers and students on embracing technology and led to building education learning community in India. As an educationist she has inspired educators to publish research and enabled global research communities on Services Management and Innovation.

She has earlier worked with HP Labs (~3 years)and has been a Professor and Director at IIMT (Oxford Brookes University) for 12 years.
She has authored thirteen books published by some of the leading publishers such as Oxford Press, Apple Press (USA), and Springer( Germany) . She has published extensively in the domain of services, innovation and technology management.
She has over 100 papers published in leading national and international journals. She has Edited international journals and received several Best paper awards at an international level.

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Anand Swamy is the Country Head, Education for Microsoft India. He is responsible for driving growth and differentiation across portfolios at Microsoft. He has over 20 years of experience in sales, operations, and business development. He has held several positions during a tenure of nearly 12 years with Microsoft. He has played diverse roles across organizations within the Middleware and IT Security space for Oracle Corporation and Wipro Ltd. Anand works closely with key customer and field stakeholders and likes to measure the impact of Microsoft on Education in India. He is a core believer in democratization of IT, and his passion to empower every student to achieve more, every teacher to work more effectively, and every school to provide equal opportunities for students to thrive.

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Charanya Kumar is an Indian cultural entrepreneur. She is the co-founder and business head of Gurucool Fun, a unique enterprise that seeks to serve as the Indian Cultural Companion to children.

Prior to her stint as an entrepreneur, she worked for global corporations for 15+ years across the banking, education, and gaming industries, and across 5 countries. She has gained a wealth of experience being part of fortune 500 companies like IBM, Wipro, and Bank of America. Charanya has an impressive record of bringing creativity into business models. She is also a freelance advisor and consultant for non-profits in the education sector. In addition, Charanya blogs on a variety of topics, with a special focus on the education landscape in India.

Charanya holds an MBA from INSEAD and MS from University of North Carolina, USA. She has travelled to more than 30 countries, immersing herself in the local cultures and history on each of her journeys. While she is not working, Charanya can be seen traveling with her family, doing interior design for friends and family, and enjoying an Indian artform.

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I completed my MA(English) from Patna University;  MA(Hindi) from HP University ( Gold medal)and M.Ed. from Kamraj Madurai University.  Besides, I have successfully completed the course of Diploma in Training and Development from ISTD, New Delhi.

I started my career in Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan as Education Officer now known as Assistant Commissioner on 29th November 1995 after giving my services to various organization such as Ramkrishna Mission, Atomic EnergyEducation Society, All India Radio and NABARD.

I have worked in KVS (HQ) in various capacities such as Assistant Commissioner, Joint Commissioner (ACAD) and Joint Commissioner (ADMN) and have also worked in NIOS as Secretary on deputation. Headed Regional Offices like Guwahati and Chandigarh as deputy Commissioner and contributed a great deal in the improvement of the functioning of the KVs under its jurisdiction.
I have superannuated from the services of KVS as Additional Commissioner (Acad.) on 31st January, 2020. Being academic head of the organization monitored Regional Offices and ZIETs regarding their activities.  My job profile includes innovations and experimentations in various areas such as assessment, examination, curriculum development, sports and games and strengthening of primary education.  I have also prepared Hand books for Primary classes (Targets, Tools and Techniques) and Pre-primary classes (Primer for pre primary) in late nineties which are still referred by KV Teachers for guidance. Recently, I developed nine volumes of Resource and Training manuals of ‘Back to Basics ‘ for elementary classes (Classes 1 to 8) and conducted a series of training programmes involving Deputy Commisioners, Asstt Commisioners, principals and teachers.

I was actively involved in conduct of in-service training courses, workshops, deputing Principals and teachers for educational programmes and contributed in mentoring, framing training policies & preparation of various course modules. I have been in the Boards of Atomic Energy Education Society, Mumbai, Quality Council of India ,Routes to Roots,and Super AI.

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• Had been an Lecturer in college teaching UG students
• In NIOS since 2011 as a Academic Officer
• Since 2017 as Regional Director
• Specialized in working with children with disabilities and preparation of course curriculum and Learning materials for Vocational Courses

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Varadarajan is a Principal Program Manager with Microsoft Edge. He manages the #EdgeEDU (Edge in Education) community and the Edge Addons Dev Community. Before joining Microsoft, he was Head of Technology for Nettur Technical Training Foundation (NTTF). Previously, he headed Graduate Hire Training for Cognizant, worked as a EdTech Fellow under Prof. Marmar Mukhopadhyay, and also tried launching a mobile-learning startup. He started his career with Infosys before switching gears to EdTech. Varad is passionate about Educational Technology and mentors many EdTech startups in India. He aspires to transform global education (scale), one learner (personalized) at a time.

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Dr C Manohar, with two Masters degrees in Management & Commerce, obtained his Doctorate in Management for a thesis on Technology Management in India, with focus on policy environment and the practices adopted in industry, verifying and validating factors that contributed to the growth of industry during the early phase of globalization in India. Topping up with advanced programs on leadership, entrepreneurship and enterprise development from best of institutions in Asia, Europe and America, Dr Manohar has extensive experience of over three decades in industry, government, bschools and universities, research and consulting organizations, industry bodies and international development agencies.

An Associate Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India and a visiting faculty to European Universities, Dr Manohar has contributed to curriculum development, program design and delivery, besides academic administration and operations. Served as Senior Director and Dean, Chairman of Board of Studies at renowned B-Schools and Institutions, guided PhD Research Scholars. Designed and implemented capacity building projects under UNDP/World Bank/Multilateral funded programs in Asia, Africa and Europe.

As Secretary/CEO of FKCCI, he promoted strong Industry-Academia linkages. Was instrumental in establishing EDP cells creating channels for collaborative partnerships to promote entrepreneurship. Has served on the EXIM Bank Advisory Committee on Research & Planning and as Chairman of Institute of Management Consultants of India. He has nurtured young entrepreneurs, mentored and co-founded Start-Ups. Facilitated business negotiations, moderated task forces and interest groups. Co-Founder of Parentof.Com, he is Chief Mentor of StartUp India Forum Bangalore.

Highly networked in business and professional bodies, Chairman of Karnataka/Kerala Chapter Association of Indian Management Schools, Regional Vice President of Indo American Chamber of Commerce, Co-Chairman of ASSOCHAM National Council for Education, serving on management councils of organizations, PRCI, BMA, NIPM, NHRD, QCFI, BCIC, ABCI, Indo French Chamber of Commerce, Indo Italian Chamber of Commerce, Swiss India Chamber of Commerce, and others. Member of Association of Management Development Institutions of South Asia.

An ardent speaker, a prolific writer, he has authored many occasional papers and addressed international conferences. Widely traveled, Dr Manohar has a passion for visioning and institution building.

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A purpose driven leader with over 30 years of cross-functional experience in the IT, DEI and social development space. Ashok led NASSCOM Foundation for a period of 3 years by aligning, scaling and sustaining initiatives to help propel the industry in achieving its goals of social transformation and impact through technology.

At NASSCOM, over a period of 5 years he has scaled SME vertical to newer heights taking it to global locations, strategized regional member outreach to become the strongest value add to the organization, transformed non-performing assets into performing trends for IT BPM industry ecosystem, initiated disruptive initiatives to strengthen NASSCOM’s Skilling and reskilling goals and led the industry’s vision to build a work environment that embraces diversity.

A 30-year IT industry veteran, Ashok has worked with IBM as a Geo Expansion Leader, and HP/Compaq/Digital as a transformation leader. He has the acumen of building and nurturing teams that hold up the vision of the organisations.

Worked on research study with World Bank IFC for making the investment on Creche’s in Indian market. Worked on research study with UK Open University on Gender migration and Women in IT and presented the case study in Tech UK. Worked with numerous consulting organization to publish research papers on PWD and Gender studies.

He is a member of the BITES (BOARD FOR IT EDUCATION STANDARDS GOVT of Karnataka) and SPASMODIC(an initiative of Lovely University). He is also in the advisory board in numerous consulting firms and Social Enterprises in the areas of leadership and DEI.

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Karan Bhola is a higher education, leadership development and institution building professional. He is the Director of Outreach and Admissions for the Young India Fellowship at Ashoka University. He previously served as the founding President of the Ashoka University Alumni Association. He has worked on several higher education initiatives with 9.9 Education. These include a project to establish India’s first university for the transportation sector (the National Rail and Transportation Institute), and projects in online and blended learning. He worked with Deutsche Bank before moving to the field of higher education.

Karan is an alumnus of Harvard University (where he pursued a master’s degree in Higher Education as a Fulbright-Nehru Master’s Fellow, and an GSE Equity and Inclusion Fellow), Ashoka University (where he was a Young India Fellow), and Loyola College (where he received an undergraduate degree in Economics). He bears a lifelong commitment towards contributing to higher education transformation in India and is fascinated by the power of collaboration.

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Dr. Christopher Abraham has three Post Graduate qualifications in HRM, Business Administration (Marketing), Labor & Administrative Law and is a PhD in Business Administration (Design Thinking & Innovation). He is a Certified Design Thinker from IDEO/Stanford and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (FCIM), UK. He has thirty-four years’ experience in management consulting, marketing, and management education in India, Singapore and the UAE.

Currently he is the CEO & Head – Dubai campus and Sr. Vice President (Institutional Development) at the S P Jain School of Global Management, a Forbes Top 10, Economist & FT Top 100 ranked Business School, with campuses in Dubai, Singapore, Mumbai and Sydney.

Prof. Abraham has been a visiting Professor at many leading universities in Australia, USA, Canada, Singapore and UK. Earlier in Dubai, he headed the Executive MBA Program of XLRI, Jamshedpur, one of Asia’s top business schools.

His areas of competence are Innovation, Design Thinking, Behavioural Design, Neuroscience of Decision Making, Future of Education, Science of Happiness, Leadership, Marketing & Strategy.

A much sought after 3 x TEDx and international keynote speaker, he has successfully presented in numerous global forums and has also conducted many consulting and
executive development assignments for global organizations, including The World Bank,
The Executive Council (Govt. of Dubai), Emirates Airlines, SEWA (Government of Sharjah), Aramex, DHL, P & G, LG, AW Rostamani (Nissan Auto) etc.

Awards/Honorary Positions

1. Twice Awarded “Best CEO in the World” in 2018 & 2019, by Indo – UAE Business & Social Forum
2. Twice winner of the Education Leadership Award – World Leadership Congress 2015 & 2017
3. Regularly Interviewed in leading TV & Media Channels like CNBC, Dubai Eye, Dubai TV etc.
4. Regular News Columns and quotes in leading newspapers like Gulf News, Khaleej Times, The National, Times of India, Mumbai Mirror etc.
5. Twice awarded “Outstanding Professional of the Year “by Junior Chamber Intl.
6. Honorary Fellow – Leaders Excellence at Harvard Square
7. Advisor – RTA Innovation Lab, Government of Dubai
8. Global Advisory Board Member – World CMO Council (Council of Chief Marketing Officers)
9. Advisory Board Member – CEO Clubs Worldwide
10. Senior Advisory Board Member –WASME World Association of SMEs (An UNESCO Initiative)
11. Senior Advisory Board Member – World Sustainable Business Forum
12. Director – S P Jain Centre of Excellence for the Science of Happiness
13. Member of the Governing Board – Gulf Marketing Association
14. Member of the Board of Directors – Talents of Endearment

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Sambhrant Sharma is one of India’s key voices for education reform in the country. He has committed his life to education transformation and policy evangelization that today touches millions of students, teachers, schools and entrepreneurs across the country.

He is the Member Executive & Director Education and devotee of Sri Aurobindo Society (Puducherry). He is the founder of Rupantar – one of the world’s largest teacher-first social innovation platform with a network of 2mn teachers, thousands of education officers, spread across 31 States/Union Territories of India, working with CBSE, NCERT, ACER, Cambridge and multiple state boards to bring competency-based teaching to India.

He has founded ‘Auro Scholar’, the world’s first, equal opportunity, micro scholarship app for students, which is measurably and sustainably improving learning outcomes, and motivating student participation in learning. To impact entrepreneurship, he’s launched Edupreneur Village, one of India’s largest ed-tech focused ecosystems, bringing together leading entrepreneurs, investors and partners. EV has accelerated 2000+ startups so far.

His latest project launch recently is to create twenty thousand ‘Role model schools’ in 418+ districts, in collaboration with state governments, along with customized grade-specific academic programs. He is also a Member of the General Body, National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE), and also a member of Board of Lawrence School (Lovedale) Society, Ooty, Tamil Nadu.

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• Had been an Lecturer in college teaching UG students
• In NIOS since 2011 as a Academic Officer
• Since 2017 as Regional Director
• Specialized in working with children with disabilities and preparation of course curriculum and Learning materials for Vocational Courses

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An inspiring personality, Mrs. Neerja Birla is a progressive, dynamic and versatile leader, driven by her passions and an unwavering resolve to give back to society responsibly. A passionate educationist and a mental health champion, Mrs. Neerja Birla is the Founder and Chairperson of Aditya Birla Education Trust (ABET), a social enterprise that endeavours to positively impact the lives of people from all sections of society and bring about progressive change in the field of education and on the mental health landscape of India.

Under the ABET umbrella and Mrs. Birla’s dynamic leadership:

• Mpower is a revolutionary social enterprise that has brought about a paradigm shift in India’s attitude towards mental health by spreading awareness, alleviating stigma, and providing holistic mental health care. Clinical care services are provided through the Mpower Foundation in Mumbai, the Mpower Centres in Mumbai, Bengaluru and Kolkata, and the Mpower Cells in Pilani, Goa, Kalyan and Hyderabad, while a Centre in Pune will be operational soon. Through its Outreach program, Mpower has conducted 700+ mental health awareness workshops and seminars for schools, colleges, NGOs and corporates.
• Aditya Birla World Academy (ABWA) is an international school with an Indian soul that promotes the holistic development of its students over and above their academic ones. Ranked the 2 nd Best International School in all of India, it is the only school in the world to feature in the book – The Commonwealth at 70: From Westminster to the World.
• The Aditya Birla Integrated School (TABIS), ranked the # 1 Special Needs School in India, provides world-class inclusive education to children with different learning or emotional needs.
• The pioneering Aditya Birla Education Academy (ABEA) upskills educators by using cutting-edge resources and tie-ups with renowned educational institutions from across the world to equip them with the avant-garde skills, tools, and modes of 21st-century teaching that can empower educators to prepare the new generation for the new world.During the COVID-19 pandemic, ABET intensified its efforts through various initiatives:
• BMC-Mpower 1on1 Helpline: A multilingual and toll-free helpline that is a collaboration between Mpower, the BMC and the Government of Maharashtra to address the mental health concerns of people. It has given timely support to 78,000 callers across India so far.
• #SunoDekhoKaho: A nationwide campaign with Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan to create awareness for mental health and reduce the stigma associated with it.
• Mpower eClinic: A one-stop multidisciplinary mental health solution to bridge the mental healthcare gap in tier-2 cities of India and make it more accessible and affordable.
• Minds Matter Curriculum: A progressive mental health literacy curriculum for schools (grade 1 to 12) that views success in terms of behavioral changes and a gradual, demonstrated understanding of mental health and wellness among students.
• SAMVAD: To share scientific knowledge, impart clinical skills, and build the capacity of mental health professionals, Mpower Hub launched a certificate course SAMVAD (Sustainable Approach to Mental Health Via Actionable Skill Development).
•  Support BMC-Corona Warriors: Mental-health counselling and structured therapy for the frontline heroes, such as the Mumbai Police, healthcare workers and their families.
• Project Saksham: A joint effort between Mumbai Police and Mpower to give mental health support to women who are victims of violence or rape, and to provide counselling to the perpetrators as well, in order to curb recidivism. It also imparts specialized training to police personnel to be the crucial first point of contact for victims.
•  Project Samvedna: A collaboration between Mpower and the Government of Maharashtra to ensure the availability and accessibility of minimum mental healthcare to people, especially in rural areas, and promote community participation in mental health services.
•  Project Oorja: A collaborative project between Mpower and the BMC for mental health intervention in BMC schools across Mumbai to bring about an improvement in the mental wellbeing of students and integrate a mental health curriculum with the school education.  Project Samarth: ABEA will upskill over 2248 teachers from English Medium Schools of the BMC.
•  ABEA has provided free training to over 100,000 educators across India through masterclasses and educator meet-ups to support the skills development of teachers.
•  On World Suicide Prevention Day 2020, TABIS students reached out to peers in schools across India with Letters of Hope. TABIS received close to 200 letters from students of 21 schools across 13 cities and the Letters of Hope e-book had over 10,000 downloads.
•  ABWA collaborated with the non-profit Khaana Chahiye Foundation by offering its school premises and services to prepare over 2,000 community meals in HSE-approved, sanitized kitchens with the school Sodexo team in Mumbai’s fight against hunger.Mrs. Birla’s currently holds the Global Chair Mental Health at the G100, an eminent and empowered club of the top 100 women leaders in the world with a vision for the future, in regards to inclusivity and the economic and social empowerment of women globally. A firm supporter of gender equality in society, she is also a member of the Asia Gender Network, the first pan-Asian network committed to mobilizing capital for gender equality.
  She also serves as a trustee of the Mumbai Police Foundation.Mrs. Birla is the recipient of a multitude of Indian and international accolades, including:
• Mental Health Crusader of the Year Award, Vogue Beauty Festival (2021),
•  Certificate of Commitment from the World Book of Records, London (2021), for her dedicated work in the Global Pledge Campaign against COVID-19,
•  Pioneer in Mental Health Care Award at the Times Power Women 2020 (Western India),
•  Business Today Most Powerful Women in Business Award (2020),
•  50 Top Global Mental Health Leaders Award by the World Mental Health Congress (2019), and
•  Global Impact Leader of the Year Award at the Global Impact Leaders Conference in Paris (2018),In recent times, amongst many others, Mrs. Birla has been invited as a speaker to:
•  The Economic Times Women’s Healthcare Summit (2021),
•  The Confederation of Indian Industries HR Summit (2021),
•  The 4 th Gender Equality Summit by the Global Compact Network India (2021),
•  IIM Kozhikode on International Women’s Day (2021),
•  Big FM Gender Disparities and Mental Well-Being (2020),
•  The Economic Times Sustainable Development Goals Impact Summit (2020),
•  The Women Economic Forum, Egypt (2020),
•  TEDx Gateway (2020), and
•  The Somerville College Symposium, Oxford, London (2017).On a personal note, Mrs. Birla holds a Bachelor of Science Honours degree in Psychology from the University of Derby, UK, lives in Mumbai, is married to Mr. Kumar Mangalam Birla and is the proud mother of three children – Ananyashree, Aryaman Vikram and Advaitesha. A dedicated fitness enthusiast, she loves reading and music and is an avid cyclist and traveller. A firm believer in the Japanese concept of wabi-sabi, Mrs. Birla endeavours to find beauty in imperfection, impermanence and being incomplete. She aspires to be sthitpragya – being balanced and equanimous in an ongoing endeavour towards self-awareness and self-control. Spiritually-inclined, she is also a devout believer of the Bhagwad Gita way of life.

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Dr. Nagagireesh Bojanala is working as Dean of Sciences at Ramaiah College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Bengaluru. His research focuses on Developmental Genetics in the small nematode, Caenorhabditis elegans and he teaches Molecular Biology, Genomics, and Immunology courses for B.Sc and M.Sc graduates in Life Sciences. In the past, he has worked as a post-doctoral fellow at IISc-Bengaluru, TIFR-Mumbai, Institut Curie (Paris, France), and Penn State University (USA). He pursued his Doctoral degree from Biology Center, Czech Republic, focussing on the role of NHR-25 during cell fate in C. elegans development. His research work has been published in peer-reviewed International journals, such as, PNAS, Nature Communications, Elsevier, etc. Further, He has been awarded Labex CelTisPhyBio postdoctoral awards and travel grant award from Institut Curie, Paris and full scholarship to pursue his master’s at McMaster University, Ontario, Canada.  Presently, he is also serving as a co-ordinator with Biocon Academy (a CSR initiative of Biocon Ltd., Bengaluru) to improvise student’s Industry readiness in Quality Control Analytical domain, where Ramaiah College has been recognized as an ‘Education Partner’ with Biocon Academy, Bengaluru.

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Sunil Dahiya leads the Wadhwani Opportunity Program in Asia and is expanding its footprint in emerging economies. He undertook multi-initiatives at NIIT and contributes to building industry connections for placing 200K students. Mr. Dahiya Co-founded a new business venture ‘Stackroute’ and led the B2C digital Transformation series. With immense experience of 25 years in vocational & training space, Mr. Sunil Dahiya has Hons in Economics from Delhi University.

About Wadhwani Foundation:
Wadhwani Foundation, founded by Dr. Romesh Wadhwani has always been at the forefront of working towards accelerating economic development in emerging economies by driving large-scale job creation through entrepreneurship, innovation, and skills development. Founded in 2000 by Silicon Valley entrepreneur, Dr. Romesh Wadhwani, today the Foundation is scaling impact in 25 countries across Asia, Africa, and Latin America through the following Initiatives.

Wadhwani Opportunity: Empowering millions of students with 21st-century employability skills that drive family-supporting wages.

Wadhwani Opportunity focuses on the following:

• Wadhwani JobInsights- Provides students with job-fitment, Focused on areas of interest of students through a mobile app, Helps students to make the right choice of high demand trades, Ensures greater placement and retention ratios.
• Wadhwani Skillup- Mobile and video-centric content on cloud for 21st Century Skills; enabling learning through engagement analytics in an experiential and collaborative environment.
• Wadhwani Corporate Connect- Working closely with Industry to reduce the pain-points of employers by providing end-to-end solutions as pillars of support.
• Wadhwani Opportunity Network- Employers, Training partners, Technical institutes, High schools, Government
• Wadhwani Knowledge & Technology Platform- AI-enabled technology platform, Powering Wadhwani digital products, A key enabler for scaling the Wadhwani Initiatives through mobile and web.

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With a career spanning from the early beginnings in Education, Talent Management and Client Servicing for APAC and US markets, in the last 24 years she has gained many skills that fall outside the traditional genre of Human Resource and Pedagogy. Her goals have always centered on using skills to improve the lives of those she works with, as well as create value for her internal & external customers. She has often been told, “You don’t seem to fit the stereotype Educationist”. She takes that as a compliment, because it means she is meeting a personal goal to provide a linkage between people and business!

Highlights

• Doctorate Candidate – EIU (European International University)
• Pedagogical Director & Communications Head – CCE Finland  Educator, Strategist & Change Maker with 24 years of experience in US and India
• Post-Graduation in Education Leadership
• Gold medalist in Early Childhood Education.
• Training Specialist with ECDF and NABET – Quality Council of India
• Research Paper Publication –World Academy of Science Engineering and Technology, UK
• Speaker & Awardee
• Zonal Head – Early Child Development Forum – NGO
• ECE Curriculum Innovator
• Teacher empowerment/Employee Engagement programs
• Tie-up with British Council, UK

Research Paper

• Research Paper Publication– ABC of Online Training – Netiquette for Teachers – CCE Finland
• Research Paper Publication – Early etiquette learning and its impact on higher education and working professionals – International Research Committee, London – waste.org
• Research Paper– Etiquette Learning for Preschoolers – Asian Conference on Education – Japan
• Invitee Speaker to present Early Childhood vision statement – IIT Bombay – November 2020

Best CLO Award Karnataka – 2018 – Little Millennium, India

• Innovation Research Award for Best Practice – 2019 – Little Millennium, India
• CLO Award – Excellence in Product Knowledge – 2020 – Little Millennium, India

Education & Credentials

• Post Graduate Diploma in Education Leadership
• Gold Medalist – Diploma in Early childhood care (Teacher Training Course – 2014 – Gold medalist)
• Fundamentals of Human Resources, NCHRA CA, USA
• Project Management – Primavera USA
• SY LLB & Bachelor of Commerce, Mumbai University
• Diploma in Software Application, Mumbai University

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Achievements:

• 100% result of school and excellent college admission of students in the last 3 years.
• Collaborated with AFS, British Council and NPSC
• QCI accredited, to develop processes for school operations, to make person independent institution.
• Conducted audits for teachers for student result progress, prepare plans for long term, short term for the academic year.
• Collaborated and organized programs, workshops, training, fair in the school and collaboration with global trainers.
• Introduced leadership through prefectorial board, organize clubs to help students value the importance of life skills.
• Created an amazing data bank of Alumni and formed an OSA- Old student association.
• Established theater group with Shri Arvind Gaur and make sure children focus and address critical issues and bring awareness to them self, society and community. Enhance education through theater.
• I have created a branding of the school and made sure reaching to many consistently via social media, parents, teachers and my students.
• Prepared committees including all the stake holders and document.
• Developed process for all the tasks of the school, making it people independent.
• Successfully running online classes and collaborating with parents and students
• Supporting all the stake holders with continues physiological support.
• Keeping cyber security under strong vigilance, comparing best tools to teach students and train teachers

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Dr. Rabiaa’h Bhatia

Mompreneur |Founder- eD Web Studio Channel | Mlti Awardee-EduLeader| 100 Admired Ppl in Education-2021 | Brndng, Comm. & PR Prfssnl | Trainer & Chief Mentor| A Changemaker | Motivator | HR Prfssnl | Prfssnl Host & Kynote Spkr| Career Grwth Advsr |City VP – Namaste India E-Magazine | Corp. Mentor @ Sahi College | CEDx Speaker

She is a wonderful Public Speaker, a great Social Media Influencer, An Outstanding Women Leader and a Power packed Human Being.

Be The Change to Bring The Change – Her Motto! Human Revolution is the key to achieve your goal and to attain successful and happy life!!

Provide Corporate Trainings, Mentoring sessions for Life skill Topics, Soft Skills, Interview Skills, Career Counseling, Counseling sessions & Imp. of Sports.

A Spoken English Trainer Certified with British Council, Experienced Senior Brand & Communications Professional, Mentor, HR Professional & Recruiter with a demonstrated history of working in the various domains and reputed schools and MNC’s. Having spent 19 years as a working professional, she has had an enriching experience of working on and understanding varied industries & would like to proceed further on this path and work on more projects that will gives her a chance to employ this knowledge to achieve good results and also give me an opportunity to explore new avenues. Expertise in Operations Management, Brand Management & Communication Expert, Collateral, Management (Content), Training, Customer Service & HR Operations, policies & procedures and Performance management.

A great author & A writer whose articles have been published in various international Educational Magazines. She is an inspirer whose goal is to empower others and become inspiring leaders.

She believes in Try, Try, Try until you Succeed!

Without a doubt, each person has an innate talent. The question is: How do you discover that talent? The only way is to exert yourself in whatever is before you. Your true potential will emerge when you give everything you’ve got to your studies, sports, extracurricular activities, entrepreneurship or whatever you are engaged in. The important thing is that you get into the habit of challenging yourself to the limit and never give up.

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R Ramanan has served as the First Mission Director, of the Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) Additional Secretary at NITI Aayog ( National Institution for Transforming India) between June 2017 – May 2021 – a flagship national Innovation and entrepreneurship initiative launched by the PMO Govt of India.

As the Mission Director of AIM, Ramanan has been instrumental in the launch and execution of several nationwide innovation and entrepreneurship initiatives resulting in:

-10000+ Atal Tinkering Labs being established in schools nationwide with 7200+ currently operational in 650+ districts and 4 million+ students having access to innovative technologies like 3D printers, Robotics, IOT, electronics do it yourself kits.

– 75+ Atal Incubation Centers selected with 68+ Operational in Univ / industry with 2050+ Startups , 640+ women led Startups.

– 20 Atal Community Innovation Centers being established in Tier2, Tier-3 cities, Rural India.

– 56 Atal New India ARISE (applied Research and Innovation for small enterprises) challenge winners selected creating Make in India product / service innovations with Ministries of India.

– one of the largest Mentors of Change networks with over 5000+ mentors nationwide to mentor school students and Startups.

– 40+ Corporate, NGO, Public Sector and International Innovation Partnerships of AIM.

R Ramanan was previously Managing Director & CEO of CMC Ltd, a subsidiary of the globally acclaimed Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). Under his leadership CMC share price grew over 2100% between October 2001 to 2014, its operating profits over 1338%, leading to its successful amalgamation into TCS in 2015.

Ramanan joined TCS in 1981 graduating from IIT Mumbai in Electrical Engg and played an instrumental role in the growth of TCS. He is a Harvard Business School Alumni (HBS AMP187) , accredited in Sustainability Leadership by Cambridge University and has an Hon Doctorate awarded by Gujarat Law Society. Ramanan was awarded the 2019 National Digitalist of the year by SAP-MINT, the 2020 Outstanding National Public Service Award by Confederation of MSME. He received most “Valueable CEO awards” from Businessworld India twice in a row, Asia Outstanding CEO award from CMO Asia, Singapore, Rajiv Gandhi Shiromani and Indira Gandhi Sadhbhavana awards.

Ramanan is Lifetime Chair of HBS AMP187, Board member of Israel India Innovation forum, eSamshiksa, Unnati GOI initiatives, Chair of New Zealand Trade Enterprises Beachheads, Board Member of Indo US Technology Trade forum ( IUSTTF), Indo US AI Committee, & Fmr Member of Tata Group Innovation Forum.

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Education: B.Com, MCA

Experience:

• Has been associated with Amrita for the past 23 years.

• 16 years of teaching experience at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham as Asst. Professor in Computer Science.

• Won the distinguished leadership award in 2018 for the commendable contribution towards the competitive programming in India. Has been the contest director of world’s largest collegiate programming contest – the International Collegiate Programming Contest for the past 15 years. (https://icpc.global)

• Has been managing admissions for the past 15 years at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.

• Deputy Controller of Examinations, Amritapuri campus of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.

• Delivered not less than 60 sessions online and offline in the last two years’ time for the teachers & students.

About the Organization:

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham is a multi-campus, multi-disciplinary research academia that is accredited ‘A’ by NAAC and is ranked as one of the best research institutions in India. Amrita is spread across six campuses in three states of India – Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, with the headquarters at Ettimadai, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham continuously collaborates with top US universities including Ivy league universities and top European universities for regular student exchange programs and has emerged as one of the fastest growing institutions of higher learning in India. The institution is managed by the Mata Amritanandamayi Math.

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Dr. Vasavvi Acharjya, LL.B, Ph D is an Early Childhood Education Expert, Edupreneur, Social Activitst, Mentor, Child Rights Enthusiast, Author and Multi-Awardee.

Founder and Managing Director: Inner I Foundation Pvt. Ltd. (IIFPL)

Founding Chairperson: Early Child Development Forum (ECDF) & D N Acharya Foundation for Children and Women Welfare (DNAF) and Child Education and Research Development Centre (CEDRC)

Co Founder and Director: Lokal Business Network (LBN)

Entrepreneur and Leader

Dr. Vasavvi has been working in the domain of Early Childhood Education for the past two decades. She is the Founder and Managing Director of Inner I Foundation Pvt. Ltd. the parent company of Tender Petals (preschool chain), Tender Day Care, Early Childhood Educators Training, Dream Catchers ~a skill development initiative for adolescents, ReevEd Solutions an education consultancy for aspiring edupreneurs and VASSU Talent Search.

Tender Petals preschool chain has its presence in different parts of the country with successfully running centres. IIFPL Early Childhood Educators Training Program has empowered multitude educators to teach children in their early years. Tender Daycare, is a second home for children of working parents and Dream Catchers workshops and seminars have trained adolescents in different sets of skills needed to be ‘Future Ready.’ VASSU Talent search is another vertical, to assess academic and non academic talents of adoloscents.

Her edupreneurial journey is an inspiring story for many, enabling a lot of men and women alike, to start into their own edupreneurial venture and plunge into their entrepreneurial journey. Dr. Vasavvi has made it possible for them to make their dreams come true. Every year a number of people get associated with IIFPL and have grown into a strong vibrant group of motivated edupreneurs.

Philanthropy and Community Leadership

Dr. Vasavvi has worked towards empowerment of Children and Women from the underprivileged sections of the society and has played the role of a mentor and hand holder for many.

She is actively associated with NGO’s and Organizations working with children and conduct voluntary workshops with them. Through her initiative DN Acharya Foundation for Children and Women Welfare, Dr. Vasavvi along with her team members, has conducted several skill based workshops with children from the economically weaker sections of the society. Early Child Development Forum (ECDF) an initiative of the DN Acharya Foundation, endeavours to bring a quantum change in the Early Childhood learning pedagogy, by bringing in the innovation and best practices in ECE and enabling the stakeholders to work towards this goal. ECDF has been doing quantum work through its various programs. ECDF also aspires to provide early childhood education and care to children from the socially and economically disadvantaged sections of the society. Her dream project Naba Uday, Sishu Siksha Vikash Abhiyan, Spreading the Light of Knowledge, was launched in Nov 2020 to provide basic education facilities to children from the rural and backward areas. DNA Foundation also works towards empowering women and has mentored many women entrepreneurs in the NE Region of India.

She is the Co Founder and Chairperson of Lokal Business Network (LBN) which holds a vision create an eco-system and the right environment for promoting economic empowerment of the local people today and for the generations to come, with the: Vision – To build a successful networking model to support the local and indigenous businessmen/ entrepreneurs, Mission – To generate sustainable sales model through referral model for all members, Goal – To reach out to entrepreneurs/ businessmen from different fields and imbibe in them the networking model for local economic upscale.

Author

She has authored the book THE FIRST 5 YEARS ~Demystifying the crucial period of parenting, which is her debut book on parenting.

Editor

CEO and Editor, ED CLAN Empowering Educators, Nurturing Young Minds-a quarterly education journal published by DN Acharya Foundation for Children and Women Welfare.

Awards & Accolades

2016: Dr. Vasavi Acharya received the ‘Women Leadership Achievement Award’, conferred by World Women Leadership Congress and Awards, at Taj Lands End, Bandra Mumbai in 2016. The World Women Leadership Congress and Awards host the annual World Women Leadership Awards to identify and celebrate the outstanding leadership and achievements demonstrated by Women leaders that are reflected by the distinct innovations and initiatives brought by them in various public, private and philanthropic sectors.

2018: She was conferred ‘The Exceptional Women Of Excellence Award’ by ALL LADIES LEAGUE and WOMEN ECONOMIC FORUM in February 2018, for her contribution in the domain of early childhood education.

2020: She received Kingmaker Leadership Award in recognition of the Early Child Development Forum initiative, by the Kingmaker Group, National Sahitya Academy, supported by Prakriti Suraksha Parishad and IIEM in January 2020, for her remarkable contribution to the upliftment of the downtrodden people of Assam/ North East India.

2020: Award of Honour: Panelist/ Awardee in AINE International Conference on Ethics in Health Care: Multidisciplinary Approaches held in February 2020 at Guwahati.

2020: JCI Business Icon Honours 2020 – Female Entrepreneur of the Year, awarded on 5 th March 2020.

2021: Awarded SDP IIWA ICONIC INTERNATIONAL WOMEN 2021(Top 100) in recognition of her Outstanding Performance in all her Endeavours.

Organisational Awards and Accolades: Tender Petals

2018: India Leadership Awards -THE BEST PRESCHOOL CHAIN OF NE INDIA

2019: ECA Hall of Fame Awards- TOP 50 Franchised Preschools In Asia

2019: Indian Education Awards- THE BEST PRESCHOOL CHAIN 2019: FORBES INDIA featured Tender Petals in their issue GREATEST INDIAN PRESCHOOLS 2019-20

2020: Awarded the BEST PRESCHOOL CHAIN IN INDIA in the ECDF PINNACLE EDUCATION AWARDS 2020 (2nd EDITION) a virtual event held on 20th Oct 2020

2021: Awarded SDP IIWA ICONIC INTERNATIONAL WOMEN 2021(Top 100) in recognition of her Outstanding Performance in all her Endeavours.

Others: Dr. Vasavvi has been the

• Advisory Committee Member for the Services Sector, Education, at NERES Summit 1.0, North East Region Entrepreneur Summit 1.0, organised by Indian Institute of Entrepreneurship in association with North Eastern Council, Govt. Of India and FINER at Guwhati in 2020

• Ex Trainer at Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) Guwahati.

• Ex-Working Committee Member FICCI FLO NE Chapter

• Ex- Editor FLO Magazine NE Chapter.

• Editor of Magazines and Journals and freelance writer and blogger.

• A spirited traveler, painter and an art enthusiast.

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Vaijayanti is currently Director, Research and Evaluation at the Akshara Foundation Bangalore. She began her research currier in the health sector and decentralized planning before venturing into the field of education. She has been extensively working in the education sector on issues ranging from Early Childhood Education to School education. She has authored and co-authored many research works. Vaijayanti was a member of the national team that developed the ECCE policy framework of 2013 and a member of the state team that adapted the national policy for the state in 2017. She anchored the ASER Karnataka for 5 years. She has worked actively with the ECE curriculum development team in 2018-2020. She has served on the Executive Committees of SISLEP, KSQAAC, and the advisory committee of Nali-Kali. Most of the research works have been evidence-based policy research in the education sector. She has published articles and research reports on elementary education and early Childhood education. An economist by training and an education specialist through experience, Vaijayanti brings to the table a strong understanding of macro issues of policy and planning as well as micro areas of educational research.

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Vinesh Menon’s tryst with the education sector began around 8 years back and has since then been involved extensively and adding value in all aspects that make the school education ecosystem. A seasoned professional with more than 25 years of delivery to diverse industries, he has served organizations in FMCG, KPO sectors & across the spectrum of consumer finance products in various senior management capacities in the Banking & Financial Services industry before shifting to the Education Sector where he gained hands on experience & learning in almost every aspect that defines the school ecosystem while setting up K12 schools across towns of India.

In his current role as CEO, Government Services at Ampersand Group, Vinesh is accountable for driving the business for the Education, healthcare & Skilling vertical with a focus to add value and bring in transformation to the government sector. He has been instrumental in forging strategic associations with many state government bodies to enhance the quality of outcomes of their schools and preschools. He has also successfully engineered a popular government backed skilling program to train and employ adult youth in Jammu & Kashmir and Bihar and continues to drive value in this current role.

Mr. Menon is also a prolific speaker and industry thought leader. He has shared the stage with many eminent industry influencers, delivered multiple key note addresses and chaired many important panel discussions with them. His articles and quotes have appeared in Education related publications and many print and digital media platforms. Vinesh Menon has been a jury member thrice with Business World’s 40 under 40 initiative to identify and honour young business leaders who are under 40 years of age and is on the advisory panel on a UNESCO Backed initiative called World Teen Parliament to invite and encourage youngsters to share ideas for a better world in the coming years. Vinesh Menon is also a Life Time Donor of “Nexus of Good”, a social impact non-profit initiative to amplify and spread best practices in the fields of Education and social values that are replicable and scalable. He has also recently been recognized by Asia One magazine as Asia’s upcoming CEO for the year 2020.

Vinesh Menon enjoys interacting with young and bright minds and envisages Ampersand Group as the one-stop single largest group catering to the “Cradle to Career” lifecycle of at least 10 Million lives in India & offshore in the coming years.

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Passion in the areas of

• Entrepreneurship programs,
• Entrepreneur failures
• Mentoring,
• Startup Advising,
• Teaching.

My expertise in Education Marketing, Entrepreneurship program development and advising startup all these I have learnt from many individuals, organizations and not to forget I acquired my learnings from many countries I visited during my career journey.

Being with Entrepreneurs I developed deep knowledge in designing Entrepreneurship development programs and keenly observed entrepreneur failures, management skills, how does innovation are designed at grass root level. Have been researching entrepreneurship success measuring and trying to knit how it can be converted to a achievable goal. All these I started acquiring from those contacts who are in geographies like Australia, India, China, Thailand and Korea regions. Many years of careful learning has made me to be more passion in advising and bringing value to what one intend to do especially with younger generations. Nevertheless my quest to learn more is growing unknowingly and have been meeting nice interesting and passionate people.

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Mr. Neetin Agrawal is an EdTech entrepreneur, bestselling author, researcher, keynote speaker. He has been associated with the education industry for more than a decade now. Coming from a small town in Bihar and getting admitted into prestigious IIT-Madras, made him a firm believer of self-created destiny and hard work.

He loves carrying out research and solving challenging problems, which he did to great effect during his stint in hardcore technology. However, at one point he felt that the current education system is nowhere near perfect, and requires a radical change. So, he joined the top educational institutes of the country to learn about the education field.

He did aggressive research on human minds, learned what are the behaviors of students when it comes to learning. He taught and did experiments on thousands of students in his research.

He loves to share his insights and thoughts on education in the form of articles/authored pieces. Currently, He runs an EdTech company called DronStudy. DronStudy has combined technology with education to chalk out solutions for the lack of ‘Quality Education’ in India. So far, they have reached more than 13 Lakhs students across and outside of India.

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Commander VK Banga (M.Sc., B.Ed.) is an accomplished, motivated and result oriented professional in the field of Education. He is with a mission to educate the young generation and guide them to be a better citizen of the country. Having got an opportunity to work in diversified environment in the Indian Navy as an Education Officer and then as Principal in Sainik Schools for 25 years and gained experience horizontally and vertically, which had been the guiding principles of his work ethos. Ability to motivate and lead the subordinates towards goal have been his important ingredients. He has brought laurels to his previous school by achieving 100% board results with remarkable distinctions. His vision with will to achieve it practically has been the motivating and guiding factor for the subordinates, who in turn were encouraged to produce the result. The remarkable improvement in the discipline among staff and students and ensuring the overall development of students has been his achievements.

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Ms. Sneha Rathor a PG researcher in Childhood Studies and Early Year from Leeds Beckett University and Bachelor in Commerce from Delhi University is known to be one of the youngest early years and parenting expert in India and has also been awarded as the “Youngest Eduprenure of the Year 2018”. Ms. Rathor a member of the founding team joined backed Sanfort as a CEO- Academics & Innovations after completing her PG research. She is the primary source behind curriculum designing & development, training, and innovations at Sanfort. Ms. Rathor is a speaker in major conferences on education and her articles on parenting are published in chumpak plus. With her young mind, she desires to create a pedagogy that provides an enriching learning experience to the early learners and has been working for it restlessly.

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Sapna Sukul has 23 years experience in education. Achievements as: follows –

Conducted workshops on Designing Lesson Plans, Classroom Management, Critical Thinking, Developing Creativity in Classroom, Pedagogy, Gender Sensitivity, Career Guidance, Integrated Approach to teaching, Behavioral Changes, Special Need education, Leadership, Conducive learning environment , Branding strategies .

Been School Ambassador and Core Skills Trainer with British Council and conducted numerous workshops in about 25 cities and 70 schools in India and Kathmandu, Nepal.

Conducted workshops for Pearson Education

Conducted workshops for Macmillan Education

Conducted education surveys for C-Fore.

Worked closely with TERI, Goonj, Earth Saviours, Bharati Foundation, Ability Unlimited and Routes to Roots.

Done Environmental Projects for TERI, GIZ, CMS Vatavan and Navy Wives Welfare Association.

Awarded by: –
-TERI as Best Teacher Coordinator
-British Council ISA award 2013-2016
-Education World, Brain Feed and ELETS magazines
-B&S Foundation – Nari Udhyami Award 2017

Experience in Teaching

-Bloom Public School– Apr 04- Jan 15
-Mount St Mary’s School- Mar 02 to Mar 04
-Air Force Bal Bharti School- 01
-Naval Public School, Vishakapatnam – Jun 1997 – May 1999

Experience in Leadership Roles
-Director – Petals World School, New Delhi and Ghaziabad Feb 18-Mar 19
-Director – NGO Sparsh, Rohini – Feb 15- May 19

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She cherish the role of the Principal of Air Force Bal Bharati School by successfully leading the school through building high performing teams, responsibly managing work and people and enlisting others in the school vision Committed to excellence in the holistic development in teaching and learning process, 28 fruitful years of experience as an educationist has been extremely rewarding. Organizational skills being the vital sphere in school management, spearheading from conceptualization, planning and execution of administrative, academic and co-curricular activities have been of prime importance.

She proudly shoulder the responsibility of the holistic development of 250 staff members along with 3500 students of Air Force Bal Bharati School.

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Dr. Anupam Mitra had completed his graduation, post-graduation and doctorate degree from Calcutta University. He is a qualified Cost Accountant. He has cleared UGC-NET as well as West Bengal SLET examinations. He has 27 years of experience out of which 17 years in teaching and 10 years in industry. He has worked in eminent institutions like Indian Railways, Calcutta University, and Symbiosis International University. He is presently associated with TeamLease Skills University, the first vocational skill based university of India as Registrar and Professor. He has 24 publications in different national and international refereed journals from UK, USA, Ghana, Brazil and India. He has also presented 38 research papers in national and international conferences. He has conducted numerous MDPs, FDPs and corporate trainings. He had visited Northern Ireland under ERASMUS+ project funded by European Union.

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An eminent academician & excellent administrator with 24 years of experience in General Administration, Research & Development and Teaching Functions. Possessing high academic credibility, clear strategic vision and outstanding leadership qualities. Currently, serving as Vice Chancellor of CT University, Ludhiana, Dr. Sadawarti has been monumental for development of corporate planning across CT University and setting academic & corporate goals and objectives for departments. He is responsible for providing executive leadership in assisting the Chancellor in the overall planning, organizing, and controlling of the academic program areas. Developing and planning academic programs, budgeting, resource allocation, supervising staff development programs, monitoring personnel actions. Promoting the University in a regional, national and international context and to increase the financial resources available to the University in order to realize the full potential of the University. His commitment of furthering the University’s interest by liasoning with academic institutions, business organizations and industries across the country has taken the University to the next level. Has more than 80 research publications in various national, international conferences and journals to credit. Has supervised 8 Ph.D Scholars, 2 M.Phil scholars and 12 M.Tech scholars. Taught various subjects like Computer System Architecture, Database Management System, Operating System, Compiler Design, Microprocessor, System Analysis & Design.

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Prof. N.V. Ramana Rao earlier worked as Rector &  Professor of Civil Engineering    at   JNTU Hyderabad before joining as the Director, NIT, Warangal.  He did his BE in Civil Engineering from (Osmania), M.Tech from (IIT  Delhi),   Ph.D.  and Post Doctorate from U.K. in   Civil    and Structural  Engineering from University of Wales, Swansea , UK.  He has held several  Administrative posts as Registrar, JNT University Hyderabad, Kukatpally, Hyderabad from 30.04.2012 to 21.07.2015, as Principal, JNTUH College of Engineering Hyderabad, Kukatpally, Hyderabad from 30.04.2008 to  24.11.2011, as Director, Bureau of Industrial Consultancy Services, JNT University, Hyderabad from 05.09.2003 to 05.05.2006, as Co-ordinator, Entrepreneurship Development Cell, JNT University, Hyderabad from 01.08.2002 to 31.01.2004.  

He has Edited three books and published 137 papers in International journals/International Conferences/ National Journals/ National Conferences.  He has Organized 12 Conferences/workshops,   Delivered 15 invited lectures. He has Guided more than 50 M.Tech’s, 8 Ph.D’s and guiding at present several Ph.Ds.

He has won Several Awards/ Prizes/Certificates. To name  a few , Outstanding Concrete Engineer Award for the year 2012 by A.P. Chapter of the Indian Concrete Institute., Sir Arthur Cotton Memorial Prize by the Institute of Engineers (India) for the best paper in the IEI Journal, December, 2012), Sir Arthur Cotton Memorial Prize by the Institute of Engineers (India) in 2015, State Best Teacher Award for the year 2011 by the Government of Andhra Pradesh., Best Designer Award for year the 2004 by Indian Concrete Institute,  A.P., Hyderabad. He has been Awarded the 1998 Commonwealth Fellowship to pursue Post Doctoral research at the University of Wales, Swansea. U.K., Young Engineer Award for the year 1995 by Government of Andhra Pradesh and Institution of Engineers, India, A.P. State Center. He  has been awarded the 1989 Commonwealth Scholarship to pursue PhD in Structural engineering at the University of Wales, Swansea, UK.

He has been Nominated as an Expert Committee member constituted by the UGC for grant of Autonomous status to various Technical Institutions He has been a Subject Committee Member of Telangana State Public Service Commission. He is a member of Member of Telangana State Pollution Control Board, Expert Committee Member of Telangana State Power Generation Corporation. He has been the Convener of  EAMCETs,  for more than 6 years of both combined AP  and separate Telangana States.

He has been a Member of Academic Senate, JNT University, Hyderabad, Past Chairman of the Indian Concrete Institute– AP Hyderabad Center, Past Secretary of the Indian Concrete Institute– AP Hyderabad Center, Executive member of the Indian Institute of Bridge Engineers. He has held Membership of Several Important State level Government Committees. He has been a Member of Several AICTE Inspection Committees, Board of Studies Chairman in Civil Engineering, JNTUH,  External Expert Member  of ISRO Departmental Promotion Committee (DPC. He has been a member of Several High Power Committees constituted by Govt of AP & Telangana. He has been a member of the committee to frame affiliation guidelines for affiliated Engineering Colleges by Govt of Telangana.  On the invitation from the President of Mauritius he has been a part of High level discussion on the need to engage the worlds of Art, Nature and Science in Mauritius.

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Dr. Amita Dev is the First Pro-Vice Chancellor of Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women. She has excellent track record of Administration quality Teaching, Innovation and Research.

She has passion for Teaching and Research. She has published 63 + research papers in International and National Journals and Conference Proceedings.

AWARDS

In recognition to her valuable and worthy research contributions, she has been conferred with the following Awards:

• Conferred with National Level AICTE Young Teacher Career Award with Research Grant for pursuing Advanced Research in the area of “Hindi Speech Recognition Using Connectionist Model”
• National Level Best Engineering Teacher Award from ISTE for significant contribution in the field of Research and Technology.
• Raja Ram Babu Patil National Level Award by Indian Society for Technical Education.
• National Level ECONS Education Excellence Award for significant contribution in Education Excellence.
• State Level Best Teacher Award awarded by Govt of NCT of Delhi
• Vittiya Saksharta Abhiyan Award on 08th March 2017 by the Hon’ble Minister for HRD, Govt. of India for spreading Digital Literacy .
• Numerous Appreciation letters have been received from Senior Officials of Delhi Government for the Exemplary Performance, Dedication and Devotion towards the work/duty and for Outstanding Contribution in the field of Technical Education.

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He has earlier been the “expert advisor” at Union Ministry of Environment & Forest Govt. of India and the vice chancellor of Nalanda State Open University, Patna, KVS University, Arrah (Bihar) and Monad University, Hapur.
Rana holds a masters’ degree in Law and a doctorate in hydro-biology. He was also awarded director of Science in 1996 for his work on how pollution was affecting fishery and public health in Yamuna.

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1. Awarded Padma Shri by Government of India in 2016; Dr B C Roy Award 2014 as Eminent Medical Teacher; Awarded Yash Bharti (highest civil award by Govt of Uttar Pradesh) along with cash price of Rs. 11 lakhs, Citation & Rs 50,000 pm Pension for life by Government of Uttar Pradesh in 2016; Awarded Delhi State Government award for Excellence 2003 by cheque, citation and scroll; Seva Bharti Award-2016 from NGO (Handed over by Governor of Uttar Pradesh) Excellent Medical Service Award 2016 from NGO (Handed over by Governor of Uttar Pradesh). Awarded Resident Research Award for the best paper in Gastroenterology by American Society of Lasers in Surgery and Medicine at Orlando (USA), Awarded Young Surgeons award by Japanese Surgical Society at Sendai (Japan), WHO fellowship award in Cancer at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA and WHO fellowship award in Cancer at National Institute of Cancer, Milan, Italy. Commonwealth Clinical Fellow in Cancer & Laser at University of London at University College Hospital, London; and Middlesex Hospital, & National Medical Laser Center, UK. Lucknow Management Association Transformation Leadership Award-2015. Ethicon Visiting Professorship Award by Association of Surgeons of India.

2- Previously Vice Chancellor, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow.

3- Chair of the Bioethics Nodal Centre of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics.

4- Visiting Surgeon- Mayo Clinic, USA, University of London UK, National Cancer Institute, Tokyo, Japan; National Cancer Institute, Milan, Italy, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA; University of Sydney, Australia.

5-President of Indian Association of Surgical Oncology 2006 (earlier Secretary IASO 2001-2002 & Editorial Secretary 1999-2000).

6- Earlier: Professor of Surgery, Head of Department of Surgery & Head of Department of Trauma & Emergency at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhopal, MP, India – An Institute of National Importance (INI) & Professor of Surgery at Maulana Azad Medical College, University of Delhi since 1995 (>20 years as Professor of Surgery). Teaching experience UG=36 years, PG =32 years.

7- Member of faculty in the University since 1984.

8- Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, UK, Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons of Glasgow, UK, Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons of England, UK, Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, Fellow of American College of Surgeons, Fellow of International College of Surgeons (Surgical Oncology), Fellow of Association of Surgeons of India, Fellow of National Academy of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.

9- Examiner Intercollegiate MRCS Examination of Royal College of Surgeons of UK, Examiner, Saudi Commission for Health Specialties- Board for Post Graduate Examination of Surgery (SCHS), University of Dammam and Arabian Gulf University, Bahrain, Examiner of PhD (Surgical Oncology), MCh (Surgical Oncology), Postgraduates and undergraduates in many universities.

10-Member of the Medical Council of India (2004-2007) & Honorary Inspector and Member of Indian Laser Society.

11- Diplomate of National Board of Examinations.

12- Expert on selection board of many Government Organizations.

13- Presidential Oration (Smt. Radha Devi Oration) of Indian Association of Surgical Oncology 2007, Best paper award at Indian Association of Surgical Oncology 2001, Best paper award at Delhi State Chapter of Association of Surgeons of India 2001 and Special award at Indian Association of Surgical Oncology 2002.

14- Organized several international meetings on Cancer in India.

15- More than 422 presentations / invited lectures / publications / invited talks to credit.

16- Original research in Lasers, Molecular and Genetics of Cancer Breast.

17- Earlier, Governing Council Member of Association of Surgeons of India 2003 to 2006.

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Prof. M. K. Surappa, born on 5th Dec. 1951 in an agricultural family in Mirle, in Mysore District. He completed his school education in Mirle in Kannada medium Government. schools. He obtained BSc degree (1970) from Yuvaraja’s College of Mysore University. He joined the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1970 and received BE degree in Metallurgy in 1973, M.S and Ph. D degrees from the faculty of Engineering in 1976 and 1980 respectively.

Prof. Surappa joined then newly established Regional Laboratory, Trivandrum in 1979 as senior scientist and worked there for two years. During 1981-87, he was Research Associate/Engineer at Drexel University (USA), Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge (UK) and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Switzerland). He returned to the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, as an Assistant Professor in 1987 and rose to the position of Professor in 1998. He was Honorary Secretary of Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology during 2004-09. He was Visiting Professor to Sir M. Visveswaraya Chair, University of Mysore (2003-04). He has served as Founder Director of Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar for a period of six years (2009-15). He served as Dean, Faculty of Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science during the year 2016-2017. He assumed the post of Vice Chancellor of Anna University on 12th April 2018. He is also Honorary Professor at the Indian Institute of Science.

Prof. Surappa has made outstanding R&D contributions to the Science and Technology of Metal Matrix Composites (MMCs). For over three decades, he has pursued many innovative investigations on synthesis, processing-microstructure-property correlation and application development of MMCs based on light alloy matrices. These include : (a) Development of “Stir Cast Process” for the fabrication of aluminium matrix composites. Process developed by Prof. Surappa at the Indian Institute of Science is often hailed as an Indian Innovation by MMC producers across the world. (b) Development of innovative technique for synthesis of metal-ceramic nano composites by in-situ pyrolysis of polymer pre-cursors in the liquid melt. He has carried out all his research work entirely in India. Prof. Surappa has published 100 research papers in International journals and presented nearly 150 papers in national and international conferences and has authored a book. He has secured one US and 3 Indian patents.

Prof. Surappa nurtured IIT Ropar as an Institution of Excellence in Research and Governance. In the 2016 National Ranking of Institutions, IIT Ropar stands number 9 amongst top 100 Engineering Institutions. It is very heartening to note that IIT Ropar ranked number one in two parameters used in ranking exercise, namely (a) Teaching, learning and Resources (TLR) and (b) Graduation Outcome (GO) amongst 16 IITs. This is testimony to the inspiring, dynamic and visionary leadership of Prof. Surappa.

Professor was bestowed with Sir. M. Visvesvaraya award for his Life time contributions in Science and Technology from the Government of Karnataka for the year 2015. Prof. Surappa is a Fellow of Indian National Science Academy (INSA) and Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE). In the year 2015, Karnataka State Open University honored him by awarding him Honorary degree of Doctor of Literature (D.Litt). He received Suvarna Karnataka Rajyotsava Award by the Government of Karnataka in 2006 and Prof. Rustum Choksi Award for Excellence in Research and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science in 2007. He received AMULYA Award for Innovation in 2012 by the Government of Karnataka. He has been bestowed with Metallurgist of the Year award for the year 1998 by the Government of India. He is the recipient of MRSI Medal for the year 1997 from the Materials Research Society of India.

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Dr. Sourav Pal is presently Director of Indian Institute of Science Education and
Research Kolkata from Oct 12, 2017 on deputation from Indian Institute of
Technology (IIT) Bombay. He joined IIT Bombay on June 1, 2015. He was formerly the
Director of CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), Pune. He worked at NCL Pune
for almost 33 years and was Director of NCL from 1st December, 2010 till May 31,
2015. He has also been the Head, Physical and Materials Chemistry Division at NCL
and has been instrumental in setting up Electronic Structure Theory Group, which is
established as a major research group in India and well known globally. Dr. Pal is a
distinguished theoretical chemist and has contributed to diverse areas of theoretical
chemistry including the challenging aspects of methodological and conceptual
developments. He has contributed significantly to the many-body theory of
molecular electronic structure and properties using coupled-cluster methods and is
well recognized in India and abroad. He has also contributed significantly to the area
of chemical reactivity and density functional theory response. In recent years, he
has contributed to the catalytic and hydrogen storage materials using
computational material science. In addition to his scientific contributions,
Dr. Sourav Pal obtained his integrated masters degree in Chemistry from Indian
Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur in 1977. He received his Ph.D. degree from
Calcutta University and joined NCL in 1982. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the
University of Florida, Gainesville, USA (1986-87) and has been Alexander von
Humboldt Fellow at the University of Heidelberg, Germany (1987). He was a visiting
Professor at the University of Arizona, Tucson, USA (1995) and the Institute for
Molecular Sciences, Okazaki, Japan (1997). He is currently also an adjunct Professor
at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune and is appointed
as Distinguished Visiting Professor, IIT Kharagpur for fve years. He has been a
Visiting Professor in University of Torun, Poland. He served as the President of
Chemical Research Society of India for a tenure of three years from April 1, 2014. He
is a member of Executive Council of Federation of Asian Chemical Societies and is
Chairman of Chemical Division Council of Bureau of Indian Standards and serves in
several important scientific committee in the country. He is presently a member of
the Council of Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi.
Dr. Pal has been recognized by several awards and honors for his contribution to
science and technology including the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in
Chemical Sciences in 2000. He is recipient of SASTRA-CNR Rao Award in Chemistry
& Materials Science for the year 2014. He is a Fellow of The Indian National Science
Academy (2003), Indian Academy of Sciences (1996) and National Academy of
Sciences (1998). He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2011), the
Maharashtra Academy of Sciences (1994), J.C. Bose National Fellow of Department
of Science and Technology from 2008, Dai-ichi Karkaria Endowment fellow of ICT,
Mumbai, 2004-05 and Fellow of West Bengal Academy of Science & Technology
(WAST) (2011). He is a recipient of the Prof. Sadhan Basu Memorial Lecture Award
of INSA (2014), RPG Life Sciences Padma Vibhushan Prof MM Sharma Medal and
Chemcon Distinguished Speaker Award (2014), Prof. R. P. Mitra Memorial Lecture
Award, Delhi University, 2010, INSA Dr Jagdish Shankar Memorial lecture Award,
2006, Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) Silver Medal, 2009, as well as INSA
and CSIR Young Scientist Awards in 1987 and 1989, respectively amongst others. He
was invited to deliver the prestigious Charles A. Coulson Lecture (2014) at the
Center for Computational Quantum Chemistry, University of Georgia.
Dr. Pal serves on the editorial boards of several international and national journals in
chemistry and has guided about 32 Ph.D thesis. He is in the Editorial Advisory Board
of the Journal of Physical Chemistry. He has published about 270 papers in
International peer reviewed journals. He has authored a book titled “Mathematics in
Chemistry” and contributed to chapters in several books. He has been invited to
deliver plenary / keynote / highlighted lectures in several institutions and
international conferences of repute over the years.

Prof.Pal is a distinguished theoretical chemist. He has contributed to diverse areas
of theoretical chemistry including the challenging aspects of methodological and
conceptual developments. Dr. Sourav Pal obtained his integrated masters degree in
Chemistry from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur in 1977. He received his
Ph.D. degree from Calcutta University. He was post-doctoral fellow at the University
of Florida, Gainesville, USA (1986-87) and has been Alexander von Humboldt Fellow
at the University of Heldelbert, Germany (1987). He was a visiting Professor at the
University of Arizona, Tucson, USA (1995) and the Institute for Molecular Sciences,
Okazaki, Japan (1997).

Prof. Pal has been recognized by several awards and honours for his contribution to
science and technology including the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in
Chemical Science in 2000. He is recipient of SASTRA-CNR Rao Award in Chemistry
& Materials Science for the year 2014. He is recipient of the Prof. R P Mitra
Memorial Lecture Award, Delhi University, 2010, INSA, Dr. Jagdish Shankar Memorial
lecture Award, 2006, chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) Silver Medal, 2009,
as well as INSA and CSIR Young Scientist Awards in 1987 and 1989. He is a fellow
of the Indian National Science Academy (2003), Indian Academy of Sciences (1996)
and National Academy of Sciences (1998). He is also a fellow of the Royal Society of
Chemistry (2011), the Maharashtra Academy of Sciences (1994), J. C.Bose National
Fellow of Department of Science and Technology from 2008, Daichi Karkaria
Endowment fellow of ICT, Mumbai, 2004-05 and Fellow of West Bengal Academy of
Science & Technology (WAST) (2011).

Dr. Pal serves on the editorial boards of several international and national journals in
chemistry and has guided over 20 Ph.D thesis. He has published about 200 papers
in international peer reviewed journals. He has authored a book titled ‘Mathematics
in Chemistry’ and contributed to chapters in several books

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Prof. (Dr.) Navin Sheth is the Vice-Chancellor of the Gujarat Technological University from December 31, 2016. A renowned educationist and administrator, Prof. Sheth started his academic career way back in 1979 and during the course of time, emerged as a tireless academician and herbal scientist.

Prof. Sheth had his early education in his hometown. He obtained his B.Pharm. and M. Pharm degrees from L. M. College of Pharmacy, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, the oldest pharmacy college of India. He was awarded the National Merit Scholarship for his graduation studies. He obtained Ph.D. degree from the Saurashtra University, Rajkot.

A distinguished academician, staunch disciplinarian and an efficient administrator, has served as the Member and Chairman of the various Committees of UGC/ AICTE /DST/ GUJCOST and several Universities in India. He had been the Advisor and later on, Member of the GPSC. Prof. Sheth is member of the Board of Pharmacy Education, AICTE and Chairman, Education Regulations Committee (ERC), PCI

Prof. Sheth has attended many national and international conferences in India and abroad. His research interests include Traditional Drugs, Herbal Drugs and Standardization, Herbal formulations. His exuberant involvement in R&D has been recognized by his 100+ publications including 65 technical papers in renowned research journals, 42 papers in National Conferences 21 papers in the International Conferences.

Till date 28 research scholars had successfully completed their doctoral research under his guidance. At present, 4 research scholars are pursuing their Ph.D under his supervision.

Prof. Sheth is awarded by Life Time Achievement Award at KLE University, Karnataka during 20th National Conference of ISP at Belgaum, Karnatak, World Education Convention 2017 at New Delhi, Prestigious Indo-Nepal Samrasta Award on February 18, 2018, Swami Vivekananda Excellence Award by Indian Institute of Oriental Heritage on 9th March, 2019 and received Academic Excellence Award by The Textile Association (India) Ahmedabad Unit on 9th April, 2019. He has visited, Poland, Germany, US, China, Switzerland, South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya and Australia for paper presentation and as resource person.

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Dr. Parvinder Kaushal was born on 01.04.1957 at Village Kahnani. Tehsil Nalagarh, Distt. Solan, Himachal Pradesh. He is presently working as Vice-Chancellor at Dr YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry (UHF), Nauni Solan. Before joining UHF, he was serving as the Vice-Chancellor of Birsa Agricultural University, Ranchi, Jharkhand. An alumnus of UHF Nauni, Dr Kaushal has completed his M Sc Forestry from the University. He got his doctorate in Forestry from University of Nancy, France.

He has been actively involved in teaching, research and development, extension and administration for the past 35 years during which he served different institutions and universities in different capacities. Prominent among these are Indian Council for Forestry Research and Education Dehradun (1979-1981), Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana (1981-1992) as Assistant and Associate Professor and as Dean, Faculty of Forestry at Birsa Agriculture University, Ranchi, Jharkhand (2005-2009). He is recipient of National Award for young scientist in 1989 and Himachal Shri Award in 2014 and Birsa Munda Krishi Award in 2019. He was also awarded French Govt. Fellowship for Doctoral research 1984.

Dr Kaushal has published more than 100 research papers and technical reports, and has authored over 13 books chapters/manuals. He has participated in 26 world congresses and international conferences and has handled 63 projects. In addition, he has visited several countries including France, Italy, United Kingdom, Mexico, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Yugoslavia, Belgium, Holland, Spain, Estonia, Canada, Finland, Turkey, Malaysia and Sri Lanka for presentation of papers and in exposure visits.

International Leadership in Research: Served as Deputy Leader of International Union of Forest Research. Organizations (IUFRO), H.Q. Vienna. Research Group on ‘Forest Stand Establishment Operations and Techniques’ (2000-05). He had been Chairman of IUFRO Working Party on Plantations Establishment (1990-2000).

National/International level committees: Dr. Parvinder Kaushal has served as member of various important committees and groups including Regional Deans’ Committee for South Asia 2009; Member of National Core Group (ICAR) to review and restructure PG course curricula in Agricultural Sciences; Convener of Broad Subject Matter Area Committee (BSMA) in Forestry ICAR 2007; Member of Quinquennial Review Team (QRT), ICAR for Indian Institute of Natural Resins and Gums (IINRG) for the period 2001-2007; member of the Peer Review Team (ICAR Accreditation Board) for accreditation of Sher-e-kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology, Srinagar (2008); Member various UGC expert committees on Agriculture, Horticulture and Forestry, Environment, Skill development etc. 2013-2016; Member Research Advisory Committee constituted by Indian Council For Agricultural Research for ICAR-Central Agro-forestry Research Institute Jhansi. UP (2015-17). Dr Kaushal has served as Deputy Leader of International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO), Research Group on ‘Forest Stand Establishment Operations and Techniques’ (2000-05). He had been Chairman of IUFRO Working Party on Plantations Establishment (1990-2000).

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Dr. Seyed Ehtesham Hasnain, joined Jamia Hamdard (Hamdard University) as Vice Chancellor on September 02, 2016.

Professor Seyed E. Hasnain (DoB: April 13, 1954), Ph.D. (JNU, Delhi), D.Sc. (h.c.), D.Med.Sc. (h.c), is a Padma Shri and received Germany’s Highest Civilian Award – The Order of Merit (Das Verdienstkreuz, 1.Klasse), from the President of Germany, equivalent of India’s Bharat Ratna, the only Indian so far and one of the very few persons globally. The prestigious American Academy of Microbiology, USA elected him as Fellow. He was recently conferred with the ICMR’s BR Ambedkar Award, the highest award for excellence in Biomedical research.

Hasnain was a Member (2004-2009, 2009-2014) of Science Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (SAC-PM) and was a Member of Scientific Advisory Committee to the Union Cabinet. He was Chairman of Biotech Advisory Council, Government of Andhra Pradesh for several years and a Member of Biotech Advisory Council of many other State Governments, including Gujarat.

He received Humboldt Research Prize (Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation, Germany); the very exclusive Robert Koch Fellowship (the ONLY Indian so far), of the Robert Koch Institute, Berlin; is the first Indian elected as a Member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and youngest to be elected as a Fellow of TWAS, Trieste.

Hasnain is also recipient of many prestigious Indian Awards such as G.D. Birla Award, Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, FICCI Award, J.C. Bose National Fellow Award, Ranbaxy Research Award, Goyal Award, Bhasin Award etc. and is an elected Fellow of all the major Science Academies of India (FNA, FASc, FNASc). He is a recipient of honorary Degrees from Universities in India and abroad and is the 3rd Indian (Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, 2009, Dr Amartya Sen, 2010) to receive an Honorary Doctorate (2011) from the Queen’s University, UK.

Hasnain is a scientist, an institution builder, policy maker, and an administrator. He taught at Delhi University, worked at the National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi and was the first Director of Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (CDFD), Govt of India and made CDFD a gold standard for DNA based crime investigations in the country.

As the Vice Chancellor of the prestigious University of Hyderabad, he made it the #1 University of India displacing JNU and DU for which the Prime Minister of India gave the PURSE Award.

Hasnain was the Chairman of the Academic Committee of the prestigious Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGI, Chandigarh) and Member of the PGI Institute Body and Governing Council and is a Member of the Research Advisory Committee of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. He is/was Member of the University Grants Commission (UGC); Governing Councils of Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla; Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; IIM, Khozikode; IISER-Bhopal and several other institutions; policy-making bodies of the Ministries of S&T, MHRD, Health and Defense. He is a member of the Board of Directors/Audit Committees/Remuneration Committees of a number of Companies.

He is well known internationally for his research on Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the TB causing bacterium, and has >250 publications in peer-reviewed journals of high impact, and >dozen patents globally. He has travelled widely in all the continents of the world and has given invited lectures at top Institutions such as Oxford, Cambridge (UK), Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Univ of California, Salk Inst (USA), Institute Pasteur (France), Max Planck Inst, Frei Univ, Koln Univ (Germany), NUS (Singapore), Univ of Canberra (Australia), China, Thailand, Brazil, Senegal, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh, Canada, etc.

Professor Hasnain taught at the University of Delhi and after his return to India in 1987 joined the National Institute of Immunology (an Institute of the Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India), and is currently an Invited Professor IIT Delhi where he teaches, has a laboratory and is currently supervising ~dozen PhD students.

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Prof Tankeshwar Kumar is currently serving as the Vice-Chancellor of Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology (GJUST)

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Prof. Manoj Pant is teaching Economics for the last 40 years at Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, Delhi University and Jawaharlal Nehru University. Visiting faculty at IIM, Lucknow; IIT, Delhi and Southern Methodist University, USA.

Manoj Pant is an Indian expert in International Trade. He is the Director of Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, since August 2017. Previously, he was a full-time professor at the Centre for International Trade and Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, where he taught international trade theory. Before that he taught economics at Delhi University.

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Mahesh Verma is an Indian prosthodontist and the Director and Principal of Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Sciences. He is the Vice Chancellor of Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University. The Government of India awarded him, in 2014, with the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award, for his contributions to the fields of medicine.

Verma has received the State Award from the Government of Delhi in 2001,the B. C. Roy Award in 2007, and the civilian award of Padma Shri in 2014, when he was included in the Republic Day honours. He was the Health Personality of the Year for 2012, an honour from the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI).

He is also a recipient of Rotary Vashishat Sewa Samman in 2002 Dr. P. N. Behl Foundation Award of the Delhi Medical Association in 2006, Dr. B. C. Shroff Oration Award of the Indian Prosthodontic Society Annual Conference in 2007, Commendation by the Vice Chief of Army Staff in 2009 and Commonwealth Dental Association Oration Award in 2010. He has been designated a fellow of several organizations, including the American College Of Dentists, the International College of Dentists, the Pierre Fauchard Academy, the American Academy of Implant Dentistry, the National Academy of Medical Sciences,the International Medical Sciences Academy, the Royal College of Surgeons of England, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow and the Royal College of Surgeons, Faculty of General Dentistry Practice.

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Prof. Dr. Sharmila J. Dua is the Dean of NIFT. 

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Mr. Saket Jalan is the Founder & CEO of Campus Students Communities Pvt. Ltd.

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Ms Sonya Ghandy Mehta, an alumnus of the University of San Diego, USA believes that education should be based on three essential aspects:

1 Relevancy and Application: Education should surpass the classroom and infuse practical knowledge in sync with the contemporary World. 

2 The Law of Expectation: School is the best time to learn. The more opportunities and challenges the more the child will grow.

3 Promoting Respect: The children should learn to respect not only individuals but also the environment and inanimate objects.

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She is a strong advocate of high, sustainable educational standards and for corporate responsibility in the management of schools. Her experiences include educational leadership, teacher professional learning, educational reforms & the scholarship of teaching. She is dedicated to turning challenges into opportunities and to activate emancipation as a process to empower people to develop themselves.

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Dr. Anand A Samuel completed his Bachelors in Engineering from the College of Engineering, Guindy and went on pursue his Masters in IIT Madras and his PhD in Anna University. His wide array of experience includes a couple of years serving in the Industry and with over 20 years of experience in teaching in Anna University. He has been a part of VIT for the past 13 years and he has been the Vice- Chancellor since 2014. He is a recipient of Life Time Achievement Award from QCFI. He has published more than 90 research papers in Journals and Conference, written a book on Total Quality Management, completed 5 funded research projects and has organised more than 20 Faculty Development Programmes in our University.

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Professor Dr. Muddu Vinay is the Dean, IBS & Pro Vice Chancellor at the ICFAI University Dehradun. He has around three decades of rich experience in the field of Education, Training, Planning, Management and Consultancy. He is acknowledged not only for establishing Institutions but also leading them to excellence in Academics and Research with his path breaking initiatives. Dr. Muddu Vinay has held several positions of eminence in professional bodies in the field of education both globally and in India. These include Chairman IQAC(Internal Quality Assessment Cell), Proctor, University of California, Berkeley Extension. He has spearheaded and pioneered various programmes in the field of higher education especially in postgraduate studies in collaboration with reputed schools in India, Australia, New Zealand, UK, Singapore and Malaysia. He is the present expert peer committee member, National Board of Accreditation, Govt. of India, New Delhi.

He has also been the expert member for various professional organizations that include Higher Education UK India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI), World Bank and MHRD. He has been conferred with ‘Award of Excellence- Eminent Educationists’ in the IndoAmerican summit 2016, MTC Global Award for Excellence 2013 in ‘Innovation in Teaching Pedagogy’, ‘NESA Fellowship Award 2012’ and ‘Leadership and Responsibility Award’ by Presidency Group of Institutions, along with many other awards and accolades in his illustrious career. He has personally trained more than 30,000 individuals undertaking undergraduate, post graduate studies as well as research scholars, University teachers and teaching staff. He is widely acclaimed for creating successful business models in the education sector without compromising on the ethical dimensions of teaching as a profession.

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Prof. (Dr.) N. K. Ahuja (MDS, PGDHHM, FICD, FWFO, FPFA, FICCDE) an alumni of King George Medical College, Lucknow. After having one year of experience in AIIMS, New Delhi, he joined Army Dental Corps as a Direct Permanent Commission Officer in July, 1970 & served the length and breadth of the country on variety of assignments including Bangladesh operations and faced militancy in Nagaland and J & K.

Army Chief duly decorated him with “Commendation Card” for dedication, loyalty, sincerity and setting an example for others, while serving at Pune (1983 – 1989). During this period, he was not only teaching at AFMC but had a privilege of starting the Post-Graduation in the field of Orthodontics. He took premature retirement in Nov, 1993 and got in full time teaching in Dental Colleges.

Served Subharti Dental College for more than 11 years as HOD-Orthodontics & as a Principal. Thereafter, on attaining the age of superannuation took over as “Pro-Vice Chancellor” of Swami Vivekanand Subharti University in September- 2011.

“Meerut Ratan” was conferred on him by All India Conference of Intellectuals and also decorated with “Rajiv Gandhi Shiromani” award by National Integration & Economic Council, New Delhi.

He was bieng unanimously elected as the “President” of Indian Orthodontic Society for the year 2010-11.

On Academic front, he have been Lecturing Nationally Internationally and have large number of research paper to credit. I was decorated as the first “Professor Emeritus” of the Swami Vivekanand Subharti University in 2010.

Due to the eve of retirement as Pro-Vice Chancellor, for dedication and acumen. Diversified experience and astute administrative capabilities & a dynamic administrator in April 2014, took over as Director – General Administration of the Swami Vivekanand Subharti University.

International Forum of Defence Services (Dental) awarded “Lifetime Achievement”, this Award given to him by Chairman, Maj. Gen. Yimin Zhao on 09th Sept. 2014.

He was duly selected to take over the reins of Swami Vivekanand Subharti University, Meerut as “Vice-Chancellor” by the Search Committee and appointed by Hon’ble Chancellor in the month of April, 2015.

Indian Orthodontic Society conferred the “Outstanding Professor” award to me during the Golden Jubilee celebration year of I.O.S. held at Hyderabad on 11th December, 2015.

He was also awarded “Lifetime Achievement” Award by Army Chief, General Dalbir Singh Suhag in year 2016 and distinguish Alumni KGMC, award – April 2016.

Another feather in the cap was added, recognizing his Governance & Leadership Quality by National Assessment & Accreditation Council by grading Swami Vivekanand Subharti University as “A” grade. It is huge achievement for any young multi specialty University (13 Faculties) to be rated as “A” Grade.

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Prof. G R C Reddy is the Vice-Chancellor of Sharda University. Prior to the current position, he was the Director of NIT Calicut, NIT Goa, Mentor Director of NIT Sikkim, Mentor Director of IIIT Kottayam, NIT Andhra Pradesh and also Director In-charge of NIT, Warangal during the period 2005-2017.

Prof.Reddy graduated from Osmania University with majors in Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry. He obtained his M.Sc. (Tech) in Engineering Physics and Ph.D from Faculty of Engineering and Technology, REC (NIT) Warangal. His research area focuses on Optical Information Processing. He joined as a faculty in the Department of Physics at NIT Warangal in 1979 and became full Professor in 1995. He was the principal investigator in a number of research projects sanctioned by CSIR, MHRD, and DRDO etc. He published over 80 research papers in various National and International journals/Conference proceedings. He is a Fellow of Optical Society of India, Member of SPIE and OSA. He is also Fellow of Telangana Academy of Sciences.

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Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi received the B.Tech., M.Tech., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 1986, 1988, and 1995, respectively. He served the Department of Electronics Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi from 1994 to 1996. Subsequently, he joined the faculty of the Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. In 1999, he moved to Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur where he also held the positions of Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Dean of Research & Development and Deputy Director. He is now the Director of IIT Roorkee. Prof. Chaturvedi was the Coordinator of the BSNL-IITK Telecom Centre of Excellence which has done a large number of projects for the Indian telecom sector. He is a recipient of the INSA Teachers award, the Distinguished Teacher award of IIT Kanpur and Tan Chin Tuan Fellowship of Nanyang Technical University, Singapore. He is a founding member of the Telecom Standards Development Society of India (TSDSI). Prof. Chaturvedi was a member of the DoT committee which recommended criteria for spectrum allocation to telecom operators, in 2008. His research interests are in communication theory and wireless communications.   

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Prof. Dr. T.G.Sitharam has taken over as the Director, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati on July 01, 2019. He was a Senior Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (On deputation from IISc from July 01, 2019). He was formerly a Chair professor in the area of Energy and Mechanical Sciences at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), a premier research and education Institute in India. He was former founder Chairman of a Centre for Infrastructure, Sustainable Transport and Urban Planning (CiSTUP) at IISc, Bengaluru. Presently, he is the Honorary Professorial Fellow at University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia from 2019 to 2022 and Distinguished professor at Hankou University International Innovation Centre, China. Presently, He is the Chairman, Research Council, CSIR-Central Building Research Institute (CBRI), Roorkee. He is the chairman, Executive council of Visvesvaraya Industrial & Technological Museum Bangalore India.

He is governing council member of National council for Science Museums (NCSM), Govt of India and EC member of AICTE, Govt of India, New Delhi. He is the founder President of International Association for Coastal Reservoir Research (IACRR), registered in NSW, Australia. He is the President, Indian Society for Earthquake Technology (ISET), Roorkee. He is presently the Chairman, AICTE South western zonal committee, Regional office at Bengaluru. Formerly, he was a visiting professor at Dalhousie University, Canada; Yamaguchi University, Japan; Indian School of Mines (IIT-ISM), Dhanbad; and William Mong fellow at University of Hongkong, Hongkong. He was the vice president of Indian Society for Earthquake Technology (ISET) and Vice President of Indian Society of Earthquake Science (ISES). He obtained his bachelor’s in civil engineering from Mysore University, India, master’s in civil engineering from Indian Institute of Science, India (1986) and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (1991). Further, he served as a Research Scientist (for his post-doctoral work) at centre for earth sciences and engineering in the Department of Petroleum Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA until 1994. During this time, he has lead research on sand production, wellbore stability and hydraulic fracturing in petroleum wells supported by many oil companies. Earlier to that, He served as a lecturer for six months in 1991 at University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada and he taught Geotechnical engineering.

Over the last 35 years, he has carried out research and development extensively in the area of geotechnical and infrastructure engineering, and has developed innovative technologies in the area of fracturing and geotechnical applications, leading to about 500 technical papers, 12 books with an H-index of 38 and I-10 index 101with >4375 citations. He has 5 patents, more than 120 consulting projects and 2 startup companies to his credit. He is responsible for designing, restoration and expansion of several earth dams for raw water ponds, tailing ponds, ash ponds and red mud ponds across India. He has guided 30 Ph.D. students at IISc and 30 Masters Students and trained several postdoctoral and several thousand industry professionals and teachers through continuing education workshops. Presently he has another 9 Ph D students at IISc, Bangalore. He is the chief editor of international journal of Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, (IJGEE), PA, USA. He is the Editor-in-chief, Springer Transactions in Civil and Environmental Engg series, Book Series, Singapore. He is also fellow of many societies and actively engaged in socially relevant projects. He has received many awards and credits. In 2015, he is a recipient of IGS Kuckleman Award for his life time contributions in Geotechnical Engineering. In 2014, he is a recipient of Prof. Gopal Ranjan research award from IIT Roorkee for his excellent contributions to Geotechnical Engineering in the country. This was given to Prof. Sitharam for his pioneering work in Geotechnical engineering. Amulya and Vimala Reddy Lecture Award at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in the field of Sustainable Development for the year 2014 was conferred on Prof. Sitharam. Earlier, he is recipient of Sir C.V. Raman State Award for Young Scientists, Government of Karnataka, in the year 2002 in recognition and appreciation of exceptional contributions to Engineering Sciences. He was also the recipient of 1998 S.P. Research award (SAARC) from SP research foundation, USA for his contributions to geotechnical Engineering in SAARC countries. He has also received many best paper awards for his papers published in conferences and journals.

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Prof. (Dr.) S. Shanthakumar is the Director, Gujarat National Law University with about 27 years of teaching experience at prestigious universities including Hidayatullah National Law University.

He is an alumnus of Madras University, Chennai, where he earned his graduation, post-graduation and doctorate degree in law. Before joining the legal academia, he had practiced at the Madras High Court for seven years.

His areas of specialization are Environmental Law, Human Rights Law, International Law and Constitutional Law. He has authored 3 books on Environmental Law and 2 books on Human Rights Law published by LexisNexis, National Law School of India University (CEERA), Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University, etc. He has published a number of research articles on contemporary legal issues in various national and international journals and edited volumes. He has presented papers and delivered key note addresses in many national and international conferences in India and abroad.

Recently he was elected to represent South and West Asia at the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law. Currently, he is the Chair of Environmental Law Study Group of the International Association of Law Schools and Member of the Teaching and Capacity Building Committee of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law. He is also serving as the Country Focal Point for India for the Asian Development Bank project on Environment and Climate Change Law.

He had executed the Environmental Law Capacity Building Project funded by the World Bank through CEERA, NLSIU; the Law Teaching and Legal Research Skills Project of the British Council and Cardiff University, U.K.

He is also the recipient of prestigious awards like the Environmental Law Champions Development Award from Asian Development Bank, Philippines and the Best Social Scientist Award from the Indian Society of Criminology.

He had travelled around the globe extensively and had the privilege of being invited to deliver lectures at 23 premier Universities in various countries.

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After his academics,  Prof.(Dr.) Jayasankar E Variyar joined IIT, Kharagpur in the Department of Chemistry. After 2 years in Academia, he moved on as a Research Engineer in Adarsh Chemicals & Fertilisers where he lead the R&D on hydrocarbon downstream products from Butane feedstock. In 1996, he joined ICI managing the Analytical Group of ICI’s corporate research center in India. He was also involved in simulation of gas dispersion during accidental releases and explosions.

In 2000 he moved to Unilever, where I was responsible for Project Clean in India and was a lead scientist in the development of Detergents and Laundry Soap. He moved to the business side as a development manager and was responsible for laundry soap development. I also developed metrics for measuring R&D effectiveness and set up the Claims Management Cell for Unilever HPC-Asia.

In 2005, as VP (R&D) of Cholayil Pvt Ltd, he was responsible for the new product development and established their production facilities in Haridwar from a greenfield site, which produced 12,000 tonnes of finished soap. He was also responsible for the launches of Deodorants under the Cuticura brand name and variants of Medimix (Dry Skin/ Blemish Free)

In 2008, after a short stint with SuperMax group of industries as their Global R&D Head and Business Unit Head and moved in 2009 as a Professor at VIT University, Vellore. His responsibilities at VIT included Division Chair of Chemical Engineering and Assistant Dean of Academics.

In 2016 he moved to Galogtias University as the Pro VC(Acad) and was responsible for the Academics of diverse Schools including Engineering, Law, Medical Sciences, Education and Media.

He moved back to the VIT Bhopal in August 2018 as Executive Director(Academics).
My research interests are Simulation of Argon-like particles in the condensed phases using Molecular Dynamics and Monte Carlo methods and Development of personal care products

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Prof. Sudhir U. Meshram hold Ph.D. (Microbiology) from IARI, New Delhi & Post Doctorate from Holland having administrative experience and 34 years an epitome of professional success. As Principal Investigator he completed 8 Major R&D sponsored Projects (DBT, DNES, ICAR & DST) and acquired 2 patents. He has several R&D publication in National reputed & International reviewed & peers Journals. Ably he organized know-how developed low-cost ‘Lab to Land’ & ‘Land to Industry’ sustainable indigenous environmental friendly biotechnology & post monitoring several R&D Transfer of Technology/Biotechnology Training Programmes for the benefit of SC/ST/OBC/Rural/Tribal Farmers and Fishermen both men & women of Vidarbha & Khandesh Region of Maharashtra, India. Successfully he guided 23 Ph.D. aspirants. For the benefit of PG students he developed new teaching methods like Audio-Visual Aids, CDs, field Demos, Group discussions and so on. Also he periodically revised the PG curricula in order to keep pace with changing trends. He has established Rajiv Gandhi Biotechnology Centre in R.T.M. Nagpur University. He was Coordinator of M.Sc. (Biotechnology) DBT-RGVBC Support Programme on all India basis sponsored by Min. of Sci. & Tech., Govt. of India, New Delhi. He is associated with a number of professional bodies as an Advisor and Expert (UPSC), Advisor-cum-Expert on Planning Commission of Govt. of India and also Chairman & Member of Expert Committee set up by UGC, NIT’s & NBA (AICTE), NAAC and Expert Member on Ministry of (SJ&E), Govt. of India. Also, Nominated by President of India as Visitors Nominee in NIT’s at selection and promotion of academic staff. He was Member of Academic Council, Senate and Vigilance squad for smooth Conducts of Exams. He is fellow member of Maharashtra Academic Sciences, Member of New York Academy Sciences (USA) ID No. #11306897, Member of National Academy of Biological Sciences (NABS) Chennai, India & Chief Patron of Global Biotech Forum. He was the Former Vice-Chancellor of North Maharashtra University and earlier he served as Sr. Most Professor & HOD, P.G. Department of Microbiology and Founder Director of Rajiv Gandhi Biotechnology Centre, RTM Nagpur University, Nagpur (M.S.) India. He is a founder of ‘Tribal Academy’ at Nandurbar in Maharashtra for the welfare of tribal community. He has organized several National & International well-known Global Biotech Congress Conferences as a Chairman of organizing committee. He led the delegation in abroad for international collaboration & delivered Key Note addresses in Japan, USA and Mexico. He has received several awards including ‘Best Teacher’ award by the Govt. of Maharashtra, India. Acted as Advisor to 12th Plan Steering Committee of Planning Commission, Govt. of India, New Delhi, Hon. Member of Maharashtra State Audit Advisory Board, as per comptroller & Auditor General of India. Expert Member on Standing Research Advisory Committee, Min. of S.J.& E., Govt. of India, New Delhi for Research Projects. Nominated Member on General Body of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Foundation, by Min. of S.J.& E., Govt. of India, New Delhi. Outstanding National Educational Leadership Award by Lokmat Group and Stars the Industry Group at Mumbai. Received Lifetime Achievement Award in the International Conference on “Biotechnology for Better Tomorrow” organized by Florida Ag Research (USA) in collaboration with Microbiologist Society of India for vast contribution to the advancement of Science (2015 USA). For his meritorious contribution in the field of Life Sciences received ‘GLOBAL BIOTECH EXCELLENCE AWARD’ with Rs. 1 Lac & Citation (GBF, India 2018).

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Prof. Sushma Yadav, M.A., (Gold Medalist) M.Phil., Ph.D, University of Delhi, is the Vice Chancellor of Bhagat Phool Singh Mahila Vishwavidyala. Prior to this, she was Reader (Associate Professor), at Delhi College of Arts and Commerce, University of Delhi. Recipient of Rai Bahadur Gori Shankar Memorial Medal and Maharshi Karve Memorial prize, she has been awarded ICSSR short term Doctoral Fellowship and Inter University Associateship at Indian Institute of Advance Studies, Shimla. Besides, she served as a member of Academic Council of University of Delhi during 1996-2000 and a member, Executive Committee Delhi Regional Branch of IIPA during 1994-1996 and 2002-2004.

With an experience of over 30 years of teaching and research, she has authored/edited/co authored/ co edited around ten books, including Centre-State Relations (1986); Secularism and Indian Tradition (1988); Political Culture in Post-Independent India (1989); Issues in Indian Politics (1994); Culture and Politics (1998), Indian State: Origin and Development (2000); Patterns of Gender Violence (2002); Gender Issues in India (2003); Jal : Kal Aaj Aur Kal (2005); Gandhian Alternative: Social and Political Structure( 2005); Social Justice: Ambedkar’s Vision(2006); along with a number of articles published in books and reputed journals. She has also presented a number of papers in National and International Seminars/ Conferences and delivered Memorial and Special Lectures. A paper on “The Gonds of India: A Search for Identity and Justice”, has been accepted for publication in Blackwell Campanion to Religion and Social Justice edited by Michael D. Palmer, School of Divinity, Regent University.

At IIPA, she prepared and introduced a core course on Social Justice for 32nd APPPA Participants 2006-2007 as well as a module on Social Justice for most of the in house training programs. Besides, she has been the Course Director of the 35th and 37th MDP course in 2006. She also directed the First Two INDIA MODULES of the FOUNDATION TRAINING PROGRAMME for the BANGLADESH CIVIL SERVANTS during 2006-2007 and 2007-2008 sponsored by Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre. Also coordinated I & II Workshop on RTI sponsored by DOPT in November 2006 and January 2007 and IV Workshops on RTI sponsored by ONGC; a seminar on Leadership in Excellence in February 2007 and Advance Leadership Training programs (3/5 days) during 2007-2010. She attended the Case Study Validation Workshop at LBSNAA Mussoorie as an expert on Social Sector in Feb. 2007 and organized the Validation Workshop for the Case Study Training Program (sponsored by DOPT) in March 2007 and October 2009 at IIPA.

She has also successfully undergone “Direct Trainer Skills on Experiential Learning Tools” (A Training of Trainers Programme), sponsored by IIPA; Conference on “Administrative Reforms and Ethics in Governance” organized by Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), Refresher Training of Trainers Workshop on “Gender Budgeting”, organized by Ministry of Women and Child Development at NIPCCD; International Conclave on “Case Study Teaching and Faculty Development” conducted by the Harvard Business School at Indian School of Business at Hyderabad; South Asian Regional Competence Development Program in “Federal Governance in Plural Societies”, organized at the Centre for Federal Studies, Jamia Hamdard in collaboration with Berghoff Foundation, Germany; Training of Trainers Workshop on “Gender Budgeting” Organized by Ministry of Women and Child Development with support from UNDP and UNIFEM at IIPA; “Direct Training Skills: A Training of Trainers Programme” on at the Indian Institute of Public Administration.

She also had an opportunity to represent IIPA as an intervener in the Regional Training Seminar organized by French National School of Administration (ENA) and the China Executive Leadership Academy of Pudong (CELAP) at Shanghai for the experts of the region to enhance their professional skills wherein a paper on “Decentralization and Deconcentration: Indian Model of Local Self Government” was presented on June 9, 2006. Also represented IIPA at the Asian Public Administration Reform Forum organized by the International Institute of Administrative Science and Ministry of Personnel of the People’s Republic of China on Trend and Development of Public Administration Reform in Asian Counties at Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. At this forum, a paper on “Public Administration, Transparency and People’s Participation: A Social Justice Paradigm” was presented on April 27, 2006.

Recently, Prof. Yadav was one of the members of IIPA’s five member Delegation who visited CELAP for a workshop on “China India Forum “sponsored by the China Executive Leadership Academy Pudong, Shanghai from September 19 to 26, 2009, where she made a presentation on “Indian Multi-Culturism and the Harmony of Religions” also attended the ‘21st World Congress of the International Political Science Association held at Santiago (Chile)’ from July 12-16, 2009. At the congress, she has been elected the Vice Chairperson of the Research Committee (RC) 04 on ‘Public Bureaucracies in Developing Societies’ and the secretary of RC 35 on ‘Technology and Development’ for the next 03 years. She also attended the South –Asia Regional Workshop on “Towards More Open and Transparent Governance in South Asia” organized by IIPA in collaboration with the World Bank; “National Meet of Rehabilitation Experts” organized by the Rehabilitation Council of India at Chetana College, Bhubaneshwar and International Conference on “International Comparison of Civil Service Training” organized by Shanghai Administrative Institute (SAI) at Shanghai, China.

Presently, she is working on the philosophy of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar along with the issues of Social Justice with reference to Good Governance, Human Rights and Empowerment of the Depressed Sections of Society including women for Inclusive Growth and Development.

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Dr. D.N.S. Kumar is currently serving as the Vice-Chancellor of Ansal University Gurgaon. 

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Development Professional with 14+ years of hands-on experience in Development Sector Consulting, Capacity Building, Stakeholder Engagement, Communications & Public Relations, Fundraising & Partnership Management, Program & Project Management in International and National NGOs and the social arm of a the IT-BPM Industry trade body.

Extensive experience of working in the areas of Youth & other at-risk communities, Livelihoods & Employability, Digital Literacy/Computer/IT Skills & Skill Development Programs, Mental & Reproductive Health. 

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Puneeth is an innovation addict with diverse skills in Technology, Business, Design Thinking, obsessed with adding value.

With more than 12 years of experience with a Global Innovation Powerhouse and a global Geographic footprint, he enjoys working with diverse people to solve worthy challenges.

At Bosch, I help create Innovation Strategy for new areas of Innovations for Bosch.

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Vinay, Founder of PiRuby.com, is a passionate entrepreneur who leverages technology to make an impact on the society. Vinay comes with 20+ years of Product & Technology experience in India and US. Vinay has worked for companies like Microsoft & Texas Instruments in the US. Vinay is an IIT Bombay alumni and was Top 30 in Indian National Math Olympiad. Vinay has been featured in Brainfeed Magazine and is an invited speaker in distinguished conferences.

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Neetasha is the India head for XSEED Education.  Neetasha joined XSEED following a successful stint at Cafe Coffee Day, where she consolidated the business and delivered higher profitability. Earlier for Royal Sundaram insurance, she built their agency business from scratch. An IIM Calcutta alumna, Neetasha has over two decades of rich experience across diverse industries spanning FMCG (Cadbury & Coke), BFSI (Tata AIG), and retail operations.

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Chief Learning Officer at iNurture Education Solutions, Dr Shradha Kanwar MPhil, Ph.D. is an academic professional with over 23 years’ experience in learning innovation leadership, interdisciplinary knowledge building, future-work integration, strategic performance and 21st century metacompetence development.

Dr Kanwar’s core areas of research and work is around futuristic education strategies including, development of hybrid research-based inventive learning solutions, establishment and direction of performance and talent enhancement systems, design and set-up Learning Centres of Excellence for future work environments, and process-centric, information-driven and action oriented academic excellence programs. Currently, her focus is into institutionalizing futuristic and innovative concept called ‘Learning Studio’ at iNurture, a pioneering organization in the higher education space, in India.

She drives the strategic vision for the company’s unique academic positioning and business model innovation along with instituting strategies and processes for continuous improvement in academic excellence and student learning experiences. She has done her Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) degree in Child Psychology, Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.), Master of Arts in English, M.Phil. and Ph.D. She has also done certifications in the following areas: Teaching certificate from University of Cambridge, Leadership in 21st Century Organizations from University of Copenhagen and Measuring Learning Effectiveness from Commonwealth Education Trust.

Dr Kanwar is the author of numerous research publications, and has presented papers at international conferences and seminars. As a research scholar, she is focussed on changing paradigm of education in the techno-cognitive era, ranging from teacher development to technological interventions in pedagogy, and finally to the emerging spheres of Learning Science.

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Dr.K S Badarinarayan is presently working as Principal of M S Engineering College, Bangalore. Dr. K S Badarinarayan was conferred with most prestigious “Eminent Engineer” Award in view of his achievement in the field of Education during the 31st National Convention of Production Engineers ” conducted by the Institution of Engineers on the theme “India Emerging as a Manufacturing Hub of the World by 2020 – Prospects and Pathwayson 6-7 May 2016.

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Dr. K.N. Subramanya currently working as Principal, RV College of Engineering, Bengaluru. He did his B.E in Industrial and Production Engineering, M.Tech in Industrial Management, MBA with HR specialization and Ph.D. in Supply Chain Management. Has total 29 years of experience in Teaching, Training & Consultancy, Research and Administration. Academic and Research expertise includes Operations Management, Supply Chain and Logistics Management, e-Enterprise Modelling, Simulation Modelling and Analysis, Decision Sciences and Applied Ergonomics. Has guided more than 100 UG and PG projects. Actively involved in Research and guided/guiding four Research Scholars. Published 46 Technical Papers in Refereed National and International Journals and presented 81 Technical Papers in National and International Conferences. Executed several funded projects, consultancy assignments and co-ordinating the projects & consultancy at the institution level since five years. Authored chapters in nine books. Guided three research scholars (2 from VTU & 1 from Jain University) / guiding two Research Scholars under VTU-Belagavi. Established Centres of Excellence in Macroelectronics, Internet of Things, Computational Genomics, Automotive Mechatronics, Quantum Computing, Smart Antenna Systems, e-Mobility, CCTV Research Centre and Incubation Centre at the college level. Instrumental in signing MoUs with over 90 companies in India and 3 Universities abroad for joint academic and research collaborations. He is a Member of various statutory committees both at the National and State level. Serving as member in Professional societies for collaborative works and networking.

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Prof Dhirendra Deshpande is the Vice Chancellor at ISBM University, Raipur. He has a professional experience of more than four decades in the filed of Higher Education- Research, Teaching and Administration.

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Vinay Kumar Apparaju is the Director at NMIMS Bengaluru.  He has more than 14 years of experience in various positions at  Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow. His publications have appeared in The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance, The South Asian Journal of Management and Vikalpa.

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Karthik is a passionate entrepreneur and a Tedx speaker and he will be speaking about  different techniques of teaching. He believes that the orthodox methodology still hold good but a little tweaks will make the profession much more colorful and educative. Technology implementation on the enhancement of brain knowledge. 

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Senthil is a passionate teacher at heart, and designs board games with a vision to inspire learning. He is a graduate from College of engineering Guindy, and the recipient of prestigious Young India Fellowship. He is also certified by Harvard Business school in HBx-CORe. He is a published researcher, and has worked with several disruptive startups before he started MADIEE. 

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Shruthi Lakshmi works at the intersection of design, technology, and learning science to envision and create compelling learning experiences across different channels: physical and digital. After a Master’s in Education from Harvard University and a brief stint at the World Bank in Washington D.C, she returned to India with a passion for designing and developing 21st Century learning environments that will maximize student potential and set the stage for growth. As an Architect, she is constantly striving to push the boundaries of education by integrating design and innovation in every aspect of teaching and learning. She recently founded the design and educational consulting firm Third-i Learning. Third-i designs and develops engaging and empowering content, learning environments, curriculum and e-learning experiences for PreK-12, higher education, and adult learning.

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Dr S Rangarajan have worked for the last 45 years in successive leadership roles in India and in the US. For most of this period, he has worked on a variety of space applications, and the development of innovations that seek to provide better quality and affordable solutions for rural and remote regions of the world.

He was instrumental in creating a satellite-enabled tablet for direct content delivery to students and just in time coaching for teachers in Africa. He pioneered the first satellite‐based tele-medicine project in India.

He was with ISRO, holding important executive positions like Director INSAT, Director MCF –Hassan etc.

At 3H Catalyst, he is keenly associated with enhancing the quality and reach of higher education across rural India. He sees technology as providing a key dimension to the issue of affordable and good quality education.

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Vinod have been a Gold Medalist in his B.Tech ( Chem. Engg.) from IIT Madras and a Gold Medalist in his MBA from SSSIHL.

He is a serial entrepreneur involved in founding/ co-founding various organizations like Sai Krushna Charitable Trust, SpouseUp and 3H Catalyst. He has also had the opportunity to train and consult for some of the world’s most reputed organizations like Hitachi Ltd, Mitsubishi Ltd, Frost & Sullivan, McKinsey, Unilever and Mordor Intelligence to name a few. he is a passionate trainer and coach and believe in the power of effective upskilling for greater employability.

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Karan Bhola is a higher education, leadership development and institution building professional. He is currently the Director of Graduate (YIF) Outreach and Admissions at Ashoka University. He has previously worked on several initiatives in higher education, including a project to establish India’s first university for the transportation sector, as well as projects in ed-tech. He was the founding President of the Ashoka University Alumni Association.

Karan is an alumnus of Harvard University (where he was a Fulbright Scholar), Ashoka University (where he was a Young India Fellow), and Loyola College (where he received an undergraduate degree in Economics).

Karan bears a lifelong commitment towards contributing to higher education transformation in India and is fascinated by the power of collaboration.

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One among “100 Most Impactful Healthcare Leaders (Global Listing)

In her own words, she builds scalable digital solutions to assist people in their quest to be the happier, healthier and start achieving more. Speaker on TEDx, Television, global events and Radio on managing stress effectively, personal well-being and mental health care.

Currently the CEO of nSmiles, her goal through nSmiles is to help enhance mental health & wellbeing of students, employees and home makers to feel happier and perform to one’s best potential. 

Also founder of Sahayog trhough she helps under privileged children impacting 6000+ kids since last 6 years. Helped more than 1200 people from lower stratum to get jobs.

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Dr. Khatri holds a medical degree from University College of Medical Sciences,
Delhi and MBA from University of Birmingham, U.K. He joined Indian
Administrative Service (IAS) in 1988.

He has rich experience of working with the Central Government, State
Government and elected local bodies. He has served in the Government of
India as the Director, Ministry of Mines during 1999-03. He served as State
Project Director, Sarva Shikshana Abhiyana Mission during 2003-06. He has
been closely associated with the implementation of projects supported by
International agencies such as USAID (Use of ICT in Education), UNICEF (Swasth
Plus).

During his tenure as the Commissioner for Industrial Development and
Director of Industries and Commerce (May-2006 to May-2011), he played a
pivotal role in organizing the Global Investors Meet-2010 in which
around 7000 International and Domestic Industrialists participated. The State
Government signed Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) for 389 projects
with an investment of Rs. 3.92 lakh crores [US $87 billion].

He has worked as the Secretary to Government, Infrastructure Development
Department and Managing Director, Karnataka State Industrial &
Infrastructure Development Corporation Limited [KSIIDC]. He was responsible
for implementation of infrastructure projects including projects on Public
Private Partnership [PPP] basis.

Dr. Khatri has also worked in the Education sector as the Principal Secretary,
to the Government of Karnataka wherein he made several services available
online.

At present he is working as Additional Chief Secretary, Revenue Department,
Government of Karnataka. He has recently initiated Drone Based Land Survey
of Rural & Urban Lands. He is keen on application of Geo-Spatial Technologies
in improving the Governance and Delivery of Services to the Public.
Articles and case studies written by him have been published by India Institute
of Public Administration & National Institute of Rural Development.

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Rohan Mahimkar is the Co-CEO of Prodigy Education, where the mission is to help every student in the world to love learning. Prodigy strives to transform education by making education content more engaging, effective, and accessible. In addition to overseeing the marketing and sales of high-quality educational products, Rohan invests a great deal of time into the organization’s extraordinary culture, which was a critical component in Prodigy being named the fastest-growing software company in Canada.

Rohan is driven by the belief that every child deserves access to high-quality educational content, thereby setting them up for successful futures with educated voices, a strong growth mindset, and the capability to be part of a generation of innovators who have discovered their unlimited potential and are using it to make our world a better place.

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Dr Gitanjali Narayanan is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology and a Consultant in the Centre for Addiction Medicine at National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore. After completing her MPhil and PhD in Clinical Psychology from NIMHANS, she did her Post-Doctoral fellowship at Washington University in Saint Louis, US. With over fifteen years of clinical experience, her expertise lies in addressing personality related difficulties, addictions, particularly cannabis use among the youth, and social media. She also has expertise in the area of personality disorders. Recently, she established PEDRA (Personality and Emotions Division of Research and Applications) in the psychology department of NIMHANS. She is also a qualified Dialectical Behaviour Therapist though which she works on training people to be mindful, be effective in interpersonal situations, handle distressing circumstances and regulate their moods.

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M. V. Kalidas has over 33 years of experience leading Senior Management teams spanning IT Products and Services in organizations like Wipro, HCL, Microsoft, and E-Dictate. Currently heading Sales & Marketing at Inpods, an Edu Tech startup. He has helped over 30 Higher Education institutions and Universities implement technology to deliver Outcome-Based Education (OBE). In his previous role in HCL and Wipro he has led business growth and transformation initiatives involving Customer Acquisition, Cost Improvements, M&A Transition and People Process across product lines and geographies. Experience in scaling a start-up U.S. Healthcare, E-Dictate, from scratch to 600+ by successfully implementing Home Based Employee model.
Kalidas is a 1985 graduate from National Institute of Technology, Srinagar. He is a certified Black Belt in Six Sigma. On the weekends he mentors MBA students at Indira School of Business Studies. 

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A Software Engineer with over 27 years of industry experience. Currently heading India Operations as Director for Augver Digital Solutions Pvt Ltd, which is the India Subsidiary of EON Reality Singapore. Specializes in Operations & Resource Management, Project & People Management. Was managing Banking customers in Africa for more than 7 years. Currently managing AUGVER following passion to bring in change in the way education segment is being operated and focused on making children/students use mobiles for learning than playing games.

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Sanjay is the Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) in the Police Computer Wing of the Government of Karnataka. He is a well-recognized Cyber Security expert in the country and has delivered dozens of lectures on all well established forums and institutions in the country from IITs, IIMs, to FICCI, CII, eGov India, Express Technology Sabha and the like. He is an experienced police officer, a technology evangelist and a professional public speaker on cyber security topics.

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Prof N R Shetty is the Chancellor at the Central University of Karnataka. He is a former Vice Chancellor of the Bangalore University and Former Member Secretary at Indira Gandhi National Center of Arts. He has served Karnataka Regional Engineering College ( now NIT) from 1960 to 1963.

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Murali heads the education vertical at LeadSquared. In the last 5 years he has worked with Byju’s, Vedantu, Amity University, ITM Group of Institutions, BML Munjal and many more to implement a successful admission acceleration plan and now he is focussed on making LeadSquared the #1 choice for admission and marketing teams.

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Rahul was born in Delhi. He received his bachelor’s degree in Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) and his PhD in Bio-Medical Engineering in USA in 1975. He worked as a research scientist in hospitals and then in medical industry. He was granted over 75 patents on various medical technologies and has authored over 90 manuscripts and 24 book chapters.

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Life delivered Dr. Subhasish Sircar a jolt, prompting him to start work in preventive healthcare. A seemingly healthy close friend, who participated in health checks regularly, died of cardiovascular complications at just 32! Thus Health Vectors was born, dedicated to making the world a healthier place – one individual at a time.

Today Health Vectors has become a full-fledged digital product company in the personal health analytics space. Health Vectors is constantly building a best in class personal health analytics AI engine. The outputs of the engine, whether Smart Health Reports, Business Insights, or Smart Diet Planner, are being consumed at scale by businesses (hospitals, diagnostic labs, insurance companies) as a B2B2C offering.

Prior to Health Vectors, Subhasish held leadership positions with organizations like GE, Alcoa, NASA. He holds a PhD in Materials Science and an MBA from Wharton Business School. He also holds 20+ international patents in various verticals.

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Natarajan Krishnamurthy (Nats), Director is an engineer by qualification and has over 27 plus years of experience that straddles Manufacturing. BPO and IT industries. He held several Executive Leadership roles in leading organizations such as TI Group, HCL, Accenture, Wipro and cognizant.
He has a proven track record of setting up and running business units that span across markets as well as extensive Marketing and Distribution Networks. He combines a deep knowledge of business process Re-engineering, financial Deal structuring, Operations and technology that provides Voice Snap with a clear edge in our markets and a firm foundation for our Technology Innovations.
Nats look after Operations, Business Development, HR, and Administration in voice snap.

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Rupam Das is the Founder and CEO at Acculi Labs. Acculi Labs (Accurate Life Intelligence) brings down complex pathology tests to the pocket of clinicians and patients by replacing complexity with the help of mathematics and algorithms.

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Dr Shivananda C S is the principal at Global Indian International School- a pioneering K12 CBSE School. He has been a Principal for the last 13 years with CBSE, ICSE and IGCSE schools in Indiaand holds amazing track record of fuelling exponential growth of schools he has worked for.

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Rishi is the CEO of Edugild Global EdTech Program and Venture Partner of Global Scaleup Singapore. He is a Stanford LEAD alumni having already authored three books in academia, management and fiction genres. Rishi advises education technology companies all around the world to make relevant solutions, coaches professionals for higher order transitions and advises institutes to develop innovative programs and ecosystems. Prior to his own journey in academia, Rishi has been in leadership roles with Fortune 500s companies like Sony, Qualcomm, Ericsson and BP/Castrol to name a few. He has a dual masters degree in management with a graduation in engineering and law. Now based in Pune, Rishi travels extensively to meet and greet edtech founders, educational institutions and leaders.

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Kumar Sankaran is the Chief Executive Office of Leucine Rich Bio. He is a business leader with Healthcare Research and Delivery experience. In his current rolehe is spearheading the growth and innovation in the Microbiome domain for the Asian market. He is passionate about driving the paradigm shift from “sick care” to “health care”. 

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Prabhdeep leads StanPlus as its CEO. He was born in Chandigarh, India. He is a trained pharmacist and finished his first MBA from NMIMS, Mumbai post which he worked for 5 years in Glenmark Pharmaceuticals. At Glenmark, he was part of the Global Corporate Strategy group and was quickly promoted to be EA to the Chairman. This role took him to Brazil, Mexico, and USA for strategic projects across healthcare segments.

Post Glenmark, Prabhdeep did his MBA from INSEAD, France; and graduated with an offer to join Boston Consulting Group in Brazil. However, the call for entrepreneurship brought him to Hyderabad where he co-founded StanPlus with two of his INSEAD batchmates.

Prabhdeep’s colleagues appreciate him for his leadership, analytical problem solving, and his calmness during chaos.

He is part of Forbes 30 under 30 list for 2018, and Entrepreneur Magazine’s 35 under 35 list for 2018. He was selected by the Yunus Foundation to be part of the Impact Accelerator in 2017.

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Manisha Kumar is the Hospital Head and General Manager of Columbia Asia Hospital Sarjapur Road. From commissioning the hospital from scratch to turning it profitable in 11 months to winning Indian Express award for Operational excellence this June – She has played a key role in starting up and shaping up the hospital with most cutting edge and state of art facility and turning it into an advanced quaternary care centre. She Heads the group flagship Hospital, which is Columbia Asia’s Largest Hospital in India.
Manisha has won many awards including 2 FICCI Healthcare awards for ideating and implementing processes that achieved quantum improvements in patient safety and service delivery standards of the hospital. She has over 10 years of experience in P&L management, Operations, and Strategy, and was earlier heading the flagship and largest MAX hospital in Saket, New Delhi.
She is an alumni of Indian School of Business, with major in business strategy and finance; she has authored papers and case studies on cost management and profitability in healthcare delivery and also mentors B school students on pursuing career in General Management.

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Dr Naresh Shetty is an orthopedic surgeon specialized in trauma and arthroplasty for the past 21 years. With an aptitude in administration, he was the Medical Director at M S Ramaiah Medical Teaching Hospital from 1998-2003 and at Ramaiah Memorial Hospital from 2004 to 2011. He is now the President for International Program and Strategic Alliance at Ramaiah Memorial Hospital. He is the member of Board of Studies in Medical (PG) – (Clinical) – Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences and President for Orthopedic Association of South Indian States for the year 2012 – 2013. He has been conferred with International Youth Exchange Programme Award by the Rotary International in 1993 and Howmedica Fellowship in 1993, HongKong.

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Srinivasa Rao K is the Vice President – Business Development at Campus Students Communities. The sole objective of the enterprise is to cater the finest housing experience for students and developing organized living spaces & great amenities.

He is MBA from Andhra University and has 16 years of experience in sales and Marketing in service industry.

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Dr DB Bhaaskara is the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director at Roerich Healthcare Pvt Ltd India. Roerich Healthcare (a B2B Healthcare group) has World Wide Business Connections, is a Multi nation company founded in 2008 and acts as international sales department for several pharmaceutical companies. Their goal is to expand the horizons of our partners by introducing them to strategic and successful distributors.

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Dr Santanu Chattopadhyay is an alumnus of INSEAD, Fontainebleau (2003) and Royal College of Physicians of London (1997) and holds a Master’s Degree in Internal Medicine from PGIMER, Chandigarh (1995). His career spans over two and half decades, spent in clinical medicine, healthcare start-ups, hospital administration and pharmaceuticals in India and abroad. He currently leads the hospital and provider businesses and artificial intelligence projects in 1mg.

During his tenure in the National Health Service (NHS), UK, Santanu worked as a Registrar at Barts & the London Medical School, as a Lecturer in Medicine at Queen Mary’s College and later as the Specialist Registrar in Gastroenterology at the University Hospital of Leicester. After returning to India he founded NationWide, a award winning VC- funded chain of Primary care clinics. He was also an investor and founding chairman of Ovum hospitals, a chain of mother and child hospitals. In his last assignment he led two well-known hospitals of Kolkata (CMRI and BM Birla) as COO and Group Medical Director for CK Birla Hospitals.

Santanu has been listed as one of the top-25 Healthcare Influencers in India by Healthcare Executive, a well-known Indian healthcare industry publication in their January 2015 edition. He is passionate about application of technology for more affordable and accessible healthcare.

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Ranjit Madan is the Chief Executive Officer at Life Sciences Sector Skill Development Council.

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Rashie Jain is the Co-Founder & CEO at Onco.com. Onco.com provides cancer treatment services for breast cancer, lung cancer, brain tumor, prostate cancer and other cancer types from expert cancer specialists. Onco.com We are building a virtual care platform for cancer patients.

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Vivek Rajagopal heads the Advanced Analytics & AI vertical at Narayana Health (NH). He carries an experience of 11 years pioneering data analytics, technology and innovation. He has been associated with NH for the last 8 years.

Vivek joined NH as VP-Strategy & Planning, working with the Group CEO to spearhead NH’s acquisitions and operational takeovers for close to 4 years. He put in place, structured financial analysis frameworks, valuation models for planning, evaluating and executing strategic expansions. He was pivotal in NH rapidly expanding its footprint during this period, with 2 major acquisitions adding close to 600 beds to consolidate its position in Eastern India and launching its first 250-bed hospital in Northern India.

Vivek, then undertook extensive efforts to create a separate vertical for Business Analytics. He single-handedly conceived, designed and developed the first version of the group’s real-time, fully automated, Business Intelligence system. Over the last 4 years, the vertical he created, has grown into a comprehensive advanced data analytics vertical covering Business Analytics, Clinical Analytics & AI. All the systems under his leadership have been completely developed in-house with a highly driven team of analysts, developers and statisticians. The analytics platform lies at the core of NH’s data-driven decision making and has resulted in significant monetary savings in addition to major improvements in processes across the group.

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Dr Sunil Sharma is Dean, Indian Spinal Injuries Center, Vasant Kunj. He is pioneer in infectious diseases/clinical microbiology with special expertise in establishing hospital infection control program. He was earlier HOD Clinical Microbiology and infection control at Medanta the medicity and Escorts Heart Institute. He was trained in infectious diseases at NYU Medical Center, New York and also worked as research associate at George Washington Univ Medical Center, Washington DC. Earlier he was head of public health laboratory of Ministry of Health, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He has delivered several talks on National TV and Radio. Dr Sharma has been guest speaker at various national and international forums. He has published several papers in national and international journals.

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Mr. Saket Jalan is the founder of Campus Students Communities Pvt. Ltd. and holds the position of Managing Director. He possesses post graduate diploma (PGDBA) from ISB Hyderabad and CFA from ICFAI. Prior to the formation of CSC, he served as Proprietor for Jain College Hostels since 2001. He collaborated with Mr. Chenraj Roychand Jain (Chairman, Jain Group of Institutions and also a board of director of CSC) for hostel services in Jain College.

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Shikha Nag is the Founder and Director of Indian Academy of Public Speaking. She is a management graduate with corporate work experience across hospitality, tours and travels, education, training and exhibitions industry. The stage has been her first love, which she expresses through her efforts in Indian Academy of Public Speaking, corporate presentations & anchoring, motivational speeches, personality & image development.

· Founder and Director of Indian Academy of Public Speaking

· 2 times TEDx Speaker

· Author of the book “Tear the Fear – 3D Approach to Public Speaking” available on Amazon

· Ex-President Bangalore Chapter – Image Management Professional Association (IMPA)

· Certified soft skills training by the Scottish Qualification Authority (SQA)

· Train the trainer certification from National Accreditation Board for Education and Training (NABET), Internationally Certified Image Consultant from ICBI & Conselle Institute of Image Management, USA

· Mrs. India-World 2016, 2nd Runners up.

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Nilesh Patel is the Co-Founder and CEO of LeadSquared, an Enrolment Accelerator for Schools, Colleges and Universities. He is focused on helping businesses in high velocity, high volume sales to improve their sales execution and increase sales efficiencies. In the education space, he is on a mission to build LeadSquared as a student enrolment and management system of choice, for colleges and universities, and he firmly believes that an awesome product and great customer service are both central to making that happen. He brings his decade long experience in sales and marketing to the team. Previously, Nilesh was the founder of Proteans, a recognized leader in software product development services space.

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Intercell is the brain child of Arunabh Varma, a sales, digital & marketing expert and a seasoned professional. He has been associated with luxury automotive brands like Audi, Harley Davidson and BMW in the past. A versatile work experience of 15 years in Telecom, IT, Real Estate and Automobiles. Now an Entrepreneur.

As a marketing enthusiast and master’s degree holder in advertising and marketing management, Arunabh Varma has 15 years of successful results in luxury and premium marketing planning and executing brand strategy activities in customer-focused market. His entire work experience is enriched with product promotional projects carried out in teams where mostly he has worked in the leading position. This includes, but not limited to, launching various types of new successful brand initiatives.

Moreover, Arunabh has advanced analytical skills which can be proven by his ability to handle large and varied amounts of data, extracting business insights and customer buying habits, interpreting and analysing marketing research information as well as using the analyses and formulating business strategies and suggestions.

Throughout his professional career, he has demonstrated a keen ability to effectively influence internal and external stakeholders across the business with his exemplary communication skills. Also, has effectively managed budget and respective performance, product sales and consumer reactions.

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Mr. Shankha Banerjee is the Chief Growth Officer of Dr Lal Path Labs. He is an alumnus of Delhi College of Engineering and SP Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai. He has also done ‘BP Sales and Marketing Leadership Development Course’ at Kellogs, USA. He worked for Castrol India Limited & BP Lubricants for 14 years and went on to become Global Market Space Manager. Later he joined Pidilite Industry Limited as President – Sales & Marketing:Middle East & Africa He joined Dr Lal PathLabs in July 2014 as Chief Operating Officer-Region II For his extraordinary performance, Mr. Shankha Banerjee has won several awards. He was felicitated with the BP Group Marketing Beacon Award for Best Advertising and Promotion Campaign in 2004, and was twice commended in the Annual BP Group Helios Award.

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Dr. Mudit Saxena is a clinician who started his career at a primary health center in rural India. He then trained to be an administrator with a Masters in Hospital Administration and MBA from IIM Bangalore. He pursued and successfully completed his academics with Johns Hopkins University, U.S.A. and Singapore Management University. He is currently serving as Managing Director & CEO with Ovum Hospitals – a well-known chain of Birthing Hospitals. Prior to this he served as Group CEO for CARE Hospitals – the fifth largest chain of hospitals in India; he was also the COO for HCG Enterprises Ltd. – the leading Cancer Chain of Hospitals and Program Director at Fortis, Gurgaon. With over 22 years of experience in leadership roles in corporate, trust and public sector healthcare organizations, he is recognized for his deep and incisive knowledge on Indian Healthcare at both National and International platforms. Dr. Mudit has served as Chairperson, Key Speaker and Panelist at various international and national healthcare forums such as Chairman at the Healthcare World Asia Conference Singapore, Key Speaker at UK India Healthcare Summit at UK Parliament, London. He is one of the Mentors at HealthPod – an incubator which focuses specifically on healthcare start-ups from the seed stage onwards. Dr. Mudit has been awarded by ASIA One as the World’s Greatest Leaders in Asia and GCC (Healthcare) at Dubai in May 2017. He was also adjudged the Indian Affairs Health Administrator of the year 2017 at India Leadership Conclave, Mumbai in August 2017.

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Dr. Hari Krishna Maram is the Vice Chancellor at Universal Digital University-USA, Digital Brand Ambassador- Vision Digital India, Chairman and Founder CEO, Imperial Group Trust and Imperial College, Bangalore. A highly motivated, experienced creative communicator with proven ability to “Achieve beyond Expectation”. He is specialized in concept development, market research, marketing, brand positioning, sales, sales training, educational consulting, university/AICTE/UGC guidelines, Institutional building, international marketing. He had been the Digital Brand Ambassador, Vision Digital India. He is also the Chairman and Founder- CEO of Imperial College. He has been a visiting professor at ICRI Group and Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Manipal. He has done his B. Pharmacy from Gulbarga University, PGDIBO in International Business and EEDC in Management from Indian School of Business. He has his articles published on Data Science and Scenario of Indian Higher Education.

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Dr. Preeti Bajaj is an Electronics Engineer Graduated in 1991, Post graduate in year 1998 and awarded as doctorate in year 2004. She has 25 year of academic experience. Currently she is Director of G.H. Raisoni College of Engineering, Nagpur. Her research interest includes Intelligent Transportation system, Soft Computing, Hybrid Intelligent Systems & Applications of Fuzzy logic in areas of Intelligent Transportation Systems. Her professional society affiliation includes Fellow- Institute of Engineers, Fellow IETE, Senior Member- IEEE. She is active volunteer of IEEE and handled many key activities like being Secretary of IEEE India Council 2017, 2018, founding Chair of IEEE Nagpur Subsection chair 2017- 2018, Vice Chair students activities IEEE India Council 2012-2016. Member CGAA EAB 2016- 2017, Member India Strategic Initiative 2017 -18 Committee appointed by President IEEE, R-10 Students Retention India, Member MGA SAC 2017-2018 and now on BoG of IEEE HKN. She has chaired many session in international conferences in India & abroad. She is founder General Chair of ICETET series of IEEE Conferences and organized and hosted 7 ICETET conferences in India and Abroad. Six Doctoral students have been awarded PhD & 25 have done Masters under her. She has authored & co-authored three book chapters & 100 plus reviewed Publications. Her major contribution is in design and development of driver assistance systems -drivers fatigue detection system, driver’s action and emotion detection system, driver’s behavior modeling. She is founder General Chair of ICETET series of Seven IEEE Conferences.

Dr. Bajaj holds several awards like Best Teacher award, “Bhaskar Woman’s Award” for
year 2010 and “Faculty of Month” for September 2011, by Teacher Academy,
Hyderabad. She is also been recognized as resource person by National board of
accreditation for creating awareness of Outcome Based Education and Outcome
Based Accreditation System and conducted workshops at Jaipur, Hyderabad, Nagpur,
Bangalore etc. She was In-charge of official Nodal Center of National Board of
accreditation for imparting Training on OBE. She was on General Council of National
Board of accreditation. She has visited countries like Singapore, Hong Kong, UK,
Japan, Malaysia, Mauritius, USA and gulf countries for presenting her research work.
She is intensely engaged in shaping the students to build skilled-based India and
actively involved in promoting entrepreneurship activities and stat ups in the campus
She is renowned assessor for the NAAC(National assessment and accreditation
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Dr. Ashish Jain is the CEO at Healthcare Sector Skill Council. His key strengths are in Relationship Building, External Relations, Policy Advocacy, Communication, Strategy and Planning. He also has strong skills in maintaining and building relations with government ministries and department, institutions, academia and media. An effective communicator with excellent people management & leadership abilities.

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Dr. Thomas has served the healthcare sector for over 30 years, and holds positions in several national associations that address issues within the healthcare sector: he is the , Founder-Member and President of the Association of National Board Accredited Institutions (ANBAI), Founder-President (2012-2017) and Patron of the Consortium of Accredited Healthcare Organizations (CAHO). He played a significant part in incorporating healthcare communication among the NABH Accreditation Standards for Hospitals (4th Edition), introducing communication skills within the MBBS and PG curricula for medical students across India, rolling back the service tax for the health sector and making assaults on doctors a non-bailable offence. Due to his efforts, the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) of India made entry-level accreditation mandatory for the empanelment of hospitals, which will result in mandatory empanelment (currently numbering 33,000 hospitals). Dr. Thomas led the expert group on medical education for the National Education Policy (2019) headed by Dr. Kasturirangan. He initiated the creation of a national Think Tank on Health at the National Law School of India University (NLSIU).At the State level, Dr. Thomas played an important role in developing the State Public Health Policy as the Member-Secretary of its Task Force. He has led committees for NABH accreditation of government hospitals in Karnataka, the implementation of NBE accreditation for DNB courses in district hospitals of Karnataka, and working towards a tobacco-free Karnataka.Dr Thomas co-edited the Handbook of Healthcare Quality (2016). Other important publications led by Dr. Thomas are the Guidebook for Pre-Accreditation Entry-Level Standards for Small Healthcare Organizations (2015) supported by the World Bank and NABH; Dr. Thomas was awarded the Emeritus Teacher Award by NBE for his distinguished achievements and contributions to the field of Medical Education (2014).

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CO FOUNDER, MD & CEO: KOTI VENKATA RAO ( KV) 

It’s as if providence had planned for KV (as he is popularly known) to prepare all his life to head an organization like Erfolg Life Sciences. A science graduate with a management degree, KV started his career as a medical representative with Alkem Laboratories. Though brief, the stint introduced him to what has today become critical knowledge in driving growth and business at Erfolg. With over 15 years working in leading banks like Grindlays and Standard Chartered, , KV went on to join Sundaram Housing where his exposure to rural India began. In 2007, he joined SKS Microfinance where he led operations. A successful IPO followed by the crisis that struck the microfinance industry in 2010, he saw the company through its revival and rebirth as Bharat Financial Inclusion Ltd. These years gave him a deep understanding of the Indian rural markets and the importance of being agile and responsive to operational crises.  

In 2018, he joined hands with Ramesh and Nitesh to redefine the business model for Erfolg Life Sciences with a definite rural focus. KV’s professional strength is his thoroughness with execution. He is a team player and is able to motivate and drive large teams across geographies.