Senapathy ‘Kris’ Gopalakrishnan served as the Vice Chairman of Infosys from 2011 to 2014, and as its Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director from 2007 to 2011. Kris is one of the co-founders of Infosys.

Recognized as a global business and technology thought leader, he was voted the top CEO (IT services category) in Institutional Investor's inaugural ranking of Asia's Top Executives. He was selected as one of the winners of the 2nd Asian Corporate Director Recognition Awards by Corporate Governance Asia in 2011. Kris was also selected to Thinkers 50, an elite list of global business thinkers, in 2009. He was elected President of India's apex industry chamber, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for 2013 – 14, and served as one of the co-chairs of the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2014.

In January 2011, the Government of India awarded Kris the Padma Bhushan, the country’s third highest civilian honor.

He serves on the Board of Governors of Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. He is the Chairman of the Board of Governors of IIIT, Bangalore, and is also on the Board of Trustees of the Chennai Mathematical Institute.

Kris holds master’s degrees in physics and computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

Rajan is currently the Chairman of the Confederation of Indian Industry’s CII National Council on Future Businesses, Immediate Past Chairman of the CII Council on India@75, the Past National Chairman of the CII Young Indians and is a member of CII’s National Council. Through India@75, he is working with multiple stakeholders including government, corporates and civil society in helping build a Dream India by 2022, seventy five years since its independence. Rajan is a founding trustee of the India@75 Foundation. Rajan is also a trustee of Aspen’s Ananta Centre in India, a fellow of the Aspen India Leadership Initiative 2011–2012 and member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network, the world’s foremost group on values based leadership across all walks of life.

He is also a BMW Herbert Quandt Foundation’s Young World Leader, a CNBC India’s Young Turk and part of the ASEAN 100 Leadership Forum. Rajan is also playing an active role in helping shape the Government and business US‐India partnership and is a member of the Singapore-India and Israel-India Track II strategic dialogues. He is a board member of Indiaspora, a powerful network linking the Indian American Diaspora with India.

He was the founder Chairman of the Emerging President’s Group, a forum for second generation industrialists and a promoting member of the Family Business Forum. He is actively associated with various other business and social organizations in India and Thailand. Rajan holds a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA, under a NASA grant, majoring in Digital Satellite Imaging and Remote Sensing graduating with the award for outstanding academic achievement. A gold medalist at the University of Poona, India in the Bachelors of Electronics and Telecommunications program from College of Engineering Pune (COEP), Rajan also has a diploma in Business Management.

Mr. Kohli is the Chairman of Araina Group of companies with business interests in Information Technology, Defence and Clean Technologies. He has over 40 years experience in Semiconductor and Electronic Hardware Manufacturing and in Software and Defence Industries.

Mr. Kohli has served on the Board of Trade of Government of India and on the Board of Directors of several Government of India organizations including India Trade Promotion Organization (ITPO), National Small Industries Corporation Ltd. (NSIC) and SIDBI Venture Capital Ltd.(SVCL).

He is Chairman of Indiasoft- Globalsoft Committee of Electronics & Software Export Promotion Council and a Member of the Governing Council of Software Technologies Parks of India (STPI). He is the former Chairman of Electronics & Software Export Promotion Council (ESC) and had been a Member of the Prime Minister’s IT Task Force.

Mr. Kohli is a Member of the Governing Council, Foundation for Innovation & Technology Transfer of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (FITT), Member Governing Council of the National Design Incubators at Ahmedabad and Bangalore and is a Member of Start-Up Steering Committee of Airport Authority of India (AAI).

Mr. Kohli is a Member of the Defence Procurement Committee set up under the Chairmanship of Secretary, Micro, Small & Medium Industries, Government of India, is a Member of the Institute of Defence Studies & Analysis (IDSA) a New Delhi based think tank on Defence and Security. He is currently the Co-Chair of National MSME Council and the National Start-Up Council of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).

Ms. Anu Acharya is co-founder and CEO of Mapmygenome India, a company that pioneered the field of personalised, preventive healthcare by making personal genomics tools available to the masses.With a vision to “Touch 100 million lives”, Mapmygenome was established in 2013, heralding the advent of improved healthcare through genomics based personalised, precision medicine in India.Ever since, she has successfully pioneered the company through growing product lines, expanding affiliate network and has received funding from stalwarts like Mr. Ratan Tata and Mr. Rajan Anandan and more. She is a ?distinguished alumna? from IIT Kharagpur.

Under her leadership, the company has gone from strength to strength, achieving several milestones, awards and honors. From the ET startup Awards to NASSCOM Emerge 50, WSJ’s Top global startups award, Red Herring Asia and Global to the recently conferred Pride of Telangana award; Mapmygenome has certainly become a force to be reckoned with. Her entrepreneurial journey began back in 2000, when she founded Ocimum Biosolutions - a global genomics outsourcing partner for discovery, development and diagnostics.

With her at the helm as CEO for 13 years, Ocimum flourished through three strategic international acquisitions, two capital raises for equity investments and launch of several innovative products, solutions and services through its proprietary platform called RaaS (Research as a Service). An entrepreneurial success story that made its way into the Harvard Business Review as a case study.

An author of several research papers published in major journals, various articles for journals like Nature, Ms. Anu Acharya recently received early publication approval for her patent for SNaPpy the genetic risk prediction algorithm developed in-house at Mapmygenome.A fiercely respected entrepreneur, she also serves as a governing board member for various high profile institutions such as the NIBMG, KIIT, IvyCap Ventures, CSIR and ABLE to name a few.

Axilor Ventures (www.axilor.com), an accelerator and seed-fund, was set up to improve the odds of success of early stage startups through a new venture funding model. It runs the largest accelerator program in India and is one of the most active seed investors. It currently works with startups in consumer internet, enterprise, deep-tech, healthcare, and fin- tech. VG spent his first fifteen years in leadership roles in large corporates working with CXOs manage successful businesses. Prior to co-founding Axilor Ventures, VG was Head of Strategy & Planning at Infosys. At Axilor, he works with startup founders build successful businesses. VG serves on the boards of several companies and advisory bodies. An avid reader and writer, he holds a bachelors in engineering and a post graduate degree in management from IIM Lucknow.

Prof. Milind D. Atrey, graduated from VNIT, Nagpur in Mechanical department, obtained his PhD in Mechanical Engg from IIT Bombay in 1991. After working with Tata Research Development and Design Centre (TRDDC, Pune) for 2 years, he went on for his post-doctoral research in Germany for next 3 years. He returned to India in 1996 to join Atomic energy Department. He worked at Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology (RRCAT), Indore, for 4 years to develop an indigenous Cryogenic system. In the year 2000, he joined Oxford instruments, UK, as Principal Engineer to carry out research related to MRI /NMR systems where he worked on to develop Cold Probe for electronics cooling, 4 K Pulse Tube Cryocooelrs and Cryogen free MRI Magnet. In the year 2005, he joined IIT Bombay as Associate Professor, became professor in 2009; and went on to become Chair Professor in 2017. He got various awards namely, Dr Patwardhan Technology development award, Industrial Impact award and Excellence in Teaching award. He is the Fellow of Institute of Mechanical Engineers (FIMechE), Fellow of Indian Cryogenics Council (FICC) and has been recently invited to be the Founding Chair of the Process Industries Division to be established in India by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers UK. He has been entrusted with various projects related to Defense, Space (Cryogenic Engines) and Atomic Energy applications and has been on various committees such as DST, ISRO, BRNS for funds allotment and review of technologies. His current area of research are Cryogenic Heat Exchangers, Cryocoolers, Cryosurgery, Heat Pipe, Superconduting Devices etc. In 2012, Prof Atrey became Professor-In-Charge of SINE which is IIT Bombay’s technology oriented business Incubation Centre and is considered as a Model Incubator in an Academic Institute in India. SINE has been responsible for generating 105 companies so far, out of which many have crossed 100 crores turnover. Recently, SINE has been approved as Centre for Excellence by GOI.

Sudhir is Founder & Chairman of IDG Ventures India Advisors. He specializes in identifying disruptive high growth technology firms with a strong leadership team, and helps them grow rapidly with an eye for outsized financial returns. Since 1998, Sudhir and his team have advised on investments into 60 firms across Digital Consumer, Enterprise Software and Healthcare Sectors. Key investments include FlipKart (India’s leading e-Commerce player), Myntra (Fashion & Sports e-Commerce), Manthan (a global Analytics product play), Perfint (a global leader in image guided oncology), Aujas (a global security firm), Newgen (a global software product leader that had a successful IPO in India in Jan.2018), Yatra (a leading Online Travel Company that listed in NASDAQ in Jan.2017) and Mindtree Consulting. Other Portfolio includes Lenskart, Zivame, amongst others. In 2001, Sudhir was recognized by Red Herring as one of the leading venture capitalists in the country. He has been named among the Top Ten IT Professionals by Dataquest and by Bloomberg UTV as ‘’Visionary Venture Capitalist” in 2011. Sudhir has been featured in Subroto Bagchi’s book ‘’Zen Garden - Conversations with Pathmakers’’, in 2014. In addition to leading IDG Ventures India Advisors, Sudhir serves on the Asia Advisory Board of EMPEA (Emerging Markets Private Equity Association) and as Advisor on the Technology Innovation and Productivity Council of the GMR Group. He also served on the Executive Committee of Indian Venture Capital Association (IVCA), Investment Committee of UTI Ventures, on the Board of Ascent Capital, Advisory Board of Westbridge Capital and on the Board of Advisors at N.S. Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurship, IIM Bangalore. With over 30 years of experience Sudhir has served at various leadership positions at HCL, Wipro and Cyient, as well as Country Head of Walden International India. Sudhir holds a B.Tech in Engineering and an MBA Degree from FMS, Delhi. His interests include wild life photography.

Working with passionate entrepreneurs on innovations and new technology platforms is Karan’s idea of enjoyment. Karanpal Singh, Founder and Managing Director of Hunch Ventures started the firm as he believes that investment decisions are not necessarily based on excel sheets but instincts and a Hunch. He brings to all his invested start-ups his experience and global network, giving them a disproportionate leverage to scale their businesses. His team of entrepreneurs and founders look towards Karan as visionary investor, always driven to explore the next big disruption. Post college, Karan decided to learn the ropes ground up - from working at IT companies in Bangalore to mining in Indonesia and to enjoying life as a DJ! He is part of the new generation of self-made entrepreneurs-investors who are changing the landscape of start-ups in India engaged in technology, digital marketing and lifestyle services. With investments across sectors such as health, retail, hospitality, education, media and new age technology, he has built a varied portfolio for Hunch Ventures, bringing together some of the finest entrepreneurs and founders. Karan is a strong believer that businesses succeed if they balance innovation and collaboration with passion and integrity. With insightful knowledge and diverse business interests, he not only invests in companies and start-ups, works closely with his entrepreneurs as partners, through his network and his experience across a variety of sectors. While staying away from the limelight, Karan is respected across the investment and business fraternity as an investor who truly values partnerships and relationships, taking pride and pleasure in growing together. Karan comes from a close-knit family, proud of his heritage, loves his food, music, seeks adventure and often enjoys himself in discovering the ever-changing innovations in technology.

Alok is Co-founder and CEO of Indifi, a platform for enabling debt financing for small businesses. He serves as the President of Digital Lenders Association of India. Alok is also an active angel investor, co-founder of Indian Angel Network, and on the board of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) Delhi. Prior to starting Indifi, Alok setup and ran Canaan Partners venture investment business in India, investing in high growth technology and internet startups. Earlier, Alok co-founded JobsAhead.com, a leading web-based recruitment business in India, which was acquired by Monster.com, the global leader in online recruitment.Alok earned a BE in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and a MS in computer science from UC Berkeley.

Mr.Vikram Gupta is the Founder & Managing Partner of IvyCap Ventures Advisors Private Limited that manages around INR 800Cr. across two Funds that have been raised almost entirely in India. Started in 2011, IvyCaph as now become the largest home-grown Venture Capital Fund in India. IvyCaph as also launched its first Venture Debt Fund of about INR 500 Cr and an Angel Fund of around INR 50Cr. IvyCaph as made substantial investments in the Indian Startup eco system and has a sector agnostic investment approach. Thecurrent portfolio includes Leixir, RMLAG Tech, Aujas, Vinculum, Sokrati, FTCash, FieldEZ, Clovia, eShakti, Bluestone, Purplle & Grab On Rent. IvyCap Ventures is anchored by the IIT Alumni Trust, a Trust represented by the network of the IIT’s through its Dean / Faculty / Former Directors. The Trust also connects the fund with the entire eco-system of the 400,000 IIT Alumni around the world. Mr.Gupta has over 20 years experience in Venture Capital, Business Consulting, M&A, Strategy and Technology across multiple sectors.He is also known for setting up India’s First Health care and Life Sciences Venture Capital Fund where Ajay Piramal was the sponsor. Previously,heal somanaged the Clinical Genomics practice for IBM’s Health care and Life Sciences vertical in the US.He has also been a nent repreneur himself in the areas of technology and healthcare. Mr.Vikram Gupta has completed his B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering from IIT Delhi and has an MBA degree in Strategy and Finance from Case Western Reserve University, Clevel and,Ohio,USA.

Senapathy ‘Kris’ Gopalakrishnan served as the Vice Chairman of Infosys from 2011 to 2014, and as its Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director from 2007 to 2011. Kris is one of the co-founders of Infosys.

Recognized as a global business and technology thought leader, he was voted the top CEO (IT services category) in Institutional Investor's inaugural ranking of Asia's Top Executives. He was selected as one of the winners of the 2nd Asian Corporate Director Recognition Awards by Corporate Governance Asia in 2011. Kris was also selected to Thinkers 50, an elite list of global business thinkers, in 2009. He was elected President of India's apex industry chamber, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for 2013 – 14, and served as one of the co-chairs of the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2014.

In January 2011, the Government of India awarded Kris the Padma Bhushan, the country’s third highest civilian honor.

He serves on the Board of Governors of Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. He is the Chairman of the Board of Governors of IIIT, Bangalore, and is also on the Board of Trustees of the Chennai Mathematical Institute.

Kris holds master’s degrees in physics and computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

Mr. Mehta is Chairman & Managing Director of Pinnacle Industries Ltd, Pithampur, MadhyaPradesh. Pinnacle is India’s largest commercial vehicle seating and Interiors Company. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science & Economics - Depauw University, USA and MBA in Finance & International Business - University of Chicago, USA.

Mr. Sudhir Mehta is a serial entrepreneur who has started and successfully led several ventures. The group employs over 3000 people in India, Israel, Spain and USA. He is also the Past Chairman of CII Western Region.

He was conferred “The Super Entrepreneur of the Year “award in 2018 by Machinist Magazine (Times Group Publication) for his contribution to the Indian manufacturing sector.

Mr. Mehta is also:

• Director, Force Motors Ltd, Pune - Force is a leading automobile company, with expertise in design, development and manufacture of the full spectrum of automotive components, aggregates and vehicles for the last 60 years. Its range includes Small Commercial Vehicles, Multi-Utility Vehicles (MUV), Light Commercial Vehicles (LCV), Sports Utility Vehicles (SUV) and Agricultural Tractors.
• Director, Rivulis Irrigation Ltd. Israel - Rivulis is one of the leading drip and micro irrigation manufacturers worldwide. With 11 factories in 20 countries, it has a global distribution network of over 1,000 dealers and OEM partners. The company has its India factory in Gujarat.
• Director, Kider India Pvt. Ltd, Pune - Kider is India’s largest manufacturer of store fittings.
• Vice Chairman, Indaux India, Pune - Indaux is a joint venture with Indaux Spain for furniture fittings.
• Director, VDL Pinnacle Engineering, Pune – A joint venture company with VDL Groep of Netherlands to provide specialised engineering services for the production automation Industry worldwide.
• Director, CB VATIsrael,India. Reclaiming International VAT.
• Founder, AIC-Pinnacle, Pune. Atal Incubation Centre (AIC) supported by Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog, Govt. of India, and Pinnacle industries to support complex, product-oriented, high-impact innovations and startups.
• Managing Director of Man Force Trucks from 2004 to 2011. Successfully set up a medium and heavy truck plant in collaboration with MAN Germany with a capacity of 24,000 trucks annually. Setup a nationwide network of Sales & Service dealers in India with exports to over 20 countries.

Mr. Mehta is on the Board of Management of Ajeenkya D Y Patil University and Member of Indian Angels Network which is India’s largest network of angel investors. He is alsobeen on the South Asia Board of the Young Presidents Organisation (YPO) . Advisory Council of IIT Gandhinagar Research Park & Innovation and Entrepreneurship Centre.

He is also involved in social activities in his capacity as:

Secretary, (BMVSS), Indore Largest Artificial Limbs NGO in the world. Rehabilitated more than 1.3 million amputees and polio patients by fitting / providing artificial limbs (Jaipur Foot variations), calipers, and other aids and appliances free of cost, in 26 countries across the world.

Partner - Global Research Innovation & Technology-NGO (GRIT ) - Boston - USA / India – NGO making the Leveraged Freedom Chair (LFC) - Joint activity between Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) & Pinnacle. Enables people with disabilities in developing countries to get access to mobility.

Director,Pune City Connect Development Foundation

Director, Science and Technology Park, University of Pune

Director, Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts India (ACVA).

Co Chairman, CII National Committee on Intellectual Property.

Vice President, MCCIA Pune

Senapathy ‘Kris’ Gopalakrishnan served as the Vice Chairman of Infosys from 2011 to 2014, and as its Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director from 2007 to 2011. Kris is one of the co-founders of Infosys.

Recognized as a global business and technology thought leader, he was voted the top CEO (IT services category) in Institutional Investor's inaugural ranking of Asia's Top Executives. He was selected as one of the winners of the 2nd Asian Corporate Director Recognition Awards by Corporate Governance Asia in 2011. Kris was also selected to Thinkers 50, an elite list of global business thinkers, in 2009. He was elected President of India's apex industry chamber, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for 2013 – 14, and served as one of the co-chairs of the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2014.

In January 2011, the Government of India awarded Kris the Padma Bhushan, the country’s third highest civilian honor.

He serves on the Board of Governors of Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. He is the Chairman of the Board of Governors of IIIT, Bangalore, and is also on the Board of Trustees of the Chennai Mathematical Institute.

Kris holds master’s degrees in physics and computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

Rajan is currently the Chairman of the Confederation of Indian Industry’s CII National Council on Future Businesses, Immediate Past Chairman of the CII Council on India@75, the Past National Chairman of the CII Young Indians and is a member of CII’s National Council. Through India@75, he is working with multiple stakeholders including government, corporates and civil society in helping build a Dream India by 2022, seventy five years since its independence. Rajan is a founding trustee of the India@75 Foundation. Rajan is also a trustee of Aspen’s Ananta Centre in India, a fellow of the Aspen India Leadership Initiative 2011–2012 and member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network, the world’s foremost group on values based leadership across all walks of life.

He is also a BMW Herbert Quandt Foundation’s Young World Leader, a CNBC India’s Young Turk and part of the ASEAN 100 Leadership Forum. Rajan is also playing an active role in helping shape the Government and business US‐India partnership and is a member of the Singapore-India and Israel-India Track II strategic dialogues. He is a board member of Indiaspora, a powerful network linking the Indian American Diaspora with India.

He was the founder Chairman of the Emerging President’s Group, a forum for second generation industrialists and a promoting member of the Family Business Forum. He is actively associated with various other business and social organizations in India and Thailand. Rajan holds a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA, under a NASA grant, majoring in Digital Satellite Imaging and Remote Sensing graduating with the award for outstanding academic achievement. A gold medalist at the University of Poona, India in the Bachelors of Electronics and Telecommunications program from College of Engineering Pune (COEP), Rajan also has a diploma in Business Management.

Ravi Gururaj is Founder & CEO of QikPod.com, where he is building innovative last mile logistics solutions for the eCommerce industry. As a technology entrepreneur he previously founded 5 startups ventures, two of which exited to public NASDAQ companies.

Ravi is the current President of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) Bangalore, serves on the Indian Venture Capital Association VC council, is Chief Mentor at Reliance Industries GenNext program, serves on the Startup Councils of the Govt. of Karnataka and CII, Co-Chair of the Penn & Wharton Club of Bangalore and HBS Alumni Angels India chapter and served for three terms on the NASSCOM Executive Council.

Ravi has angel invested in more than 25 innovative startups and also over his career held senior executive roles at global technology firms Citrix, Trilogy and Intel.

Ravi received his MBA with high distinction as a Baker Scholar from Harvard Business School. He graduated with honors as Benjamin Franklin Scholar from the University of Pennsylvania in the Jerome Fisher Program in Management & Technology receiving a B.S.E. in Computer Science & Engineering from the Moore School and a B.Sc. in Finance from the Wharton School. He was also an exchange research scholar at the University of Edinburgh and schooled at La Martiniere for Boys in Kolkata.

Jagdish Moorjani is the Promoter of CitiusTech Healthcare Technologies, which he co-founded in 2005. CitiusTech is a leading provider of healthcare technology services and solutions to leading global entities and employs over 3,300 full time employees world-wide, with about USD 200 million in annual revenues.

Prior to CitiusTech Mr. Moorjani had co-founded TransWorks, a leading business process outsourcing company that was acquired from him by the Aditya Birla Group in 2003. Mr. Moorjani has earned his Bachelor’s degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai where he earned the silver medal for ranking first in his graduating class. He also received a fellowship from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to study towards his MS. Mr. Moorjani is also associated with various social causes in the areas of entrepreneurship, education and healthcare.