Sanjay Jesrani
Resident Mentor
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Sanjay Jesrani is the Founder & CEO of Go North Ventures.
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Go North is an angel investment and advisory firm, focused on investing in & mentoring Startups. It also provides Strategy inputs to high growth Early stage companies and SMB’s moving to their next orbit.
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Sanjay, an active member of the Indian Angel Network, the premier national group of Angel Investors – has investments in startups across the Healthcare, Education, Impact, Consumer and Tech sectors. A Charter member at TiE, Hyderabad (The Indus Entrepreneurs), he is also on the advisory board of Parampara Capital, an early stage fund and 50K Network, an emerging national investor network.
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He was the Executive Vice President & Head, Global Delivery Center, Hitachi Consulting India. As CEO and Head of the Global Delivery Center at India, he led the company’s global delivery team of 1800+ across the centers at Hyderabad, Pune and Bangalore.
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As a member of Hitachi Consulting’s Exec Leadership Team, he was actively involved in the company’s Growth strategy and M&A programs targeted at reaching the $1B + size. He was a core member of the India and South Asia Hitachi group company CEO network.
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Sanjay brings over 20 years of solid execution experience from his previous role at Sierra Atlantic, as the CFO – Asia & China.”
Dr. Radha Rangarajan
Resident Mentor
- Radha Rangarajan is Head, Innovation, and Strategy at Ojas. She is a biotech entrepreneur and an expert in the field of Antimicrobial Resistance.
- Radha received her Bachelor’s degree in Biology from Stanford University, Master of Science degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and her Ph.D. in Neurobiology/Genetics from Rockefeller University, New York. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health.
- Radha moved back to India in 2003 and joined the Drug Discovery division of Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories. Thereafter, she co-founded Vitas Pharma in 2011, where she has driven the scientific strategy to identify novel antibiotics to treat highly resistant infections and companion diagnostics.
- Radha was awarded the FICCI Award of Excellence- Women in R&D in February 2019. She was selected to be part of the “Champions of Change” initiative of Prime Minister Modi and the NITI Ayog, recognizing India’s emerging entrepreneurs in 2017. She has published widely and presented her research at multiple international conferences.
Ajay Jain
Resident Mentor
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He is the Sr. Vice President in Magnaquest Technologies, responsible for strategy, GTM planning & execution for entry into new verticals for the subscription billing & CRM products at Magnaquest. Giving the entire organization a facelift while ensuring we add value to our customers in the present age economic & financial settings.
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Principal Co-founder of Xseed is a start-up advisory & consulting firm.
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Principal Co-founder of Investment & advisory for early-stage start-ups.
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He received a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering at Osmania University and earned an MBA in Strategy & Systems at the Indian School of Business – ISB.
Ravi GSR
Resident Mentor
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Intraprenuer 10x and Entrepreneur 1x.
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Over the past 15+ years I spent time at responsible positions across sectors that honed my business prowess, exposure to newer areas in M&A, Venture Building, Strategic & Operations Management interventions and benefit the organizations associated with.
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With my Entrepreneurial stint, committed/determined to make the world a better place and love to do what I do – trailblazing, venture building with motivated, passionate businesses/people, realize their ideas & help find that situation (impact) where they can really be along the way.
Sridhar Lanka
Resident Mentor
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Sridhar has about 20 years of experience in technology and innovation evangelism across multiple industries.
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Identify market opportunities, define customer segments, innovate, commercialize and deliver solutions for those opportunities have been his expertise over the years. Sridhar’s broad geographical experience and regional insights drive in this endeavor.
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Throughout his career, Sridhar was instrumental to incorporate innovation, go to market, growth strategy, delivery management of Innovations.
Gautham Sivaramakrishnan
Resident Mentor
Startup Initiatives, Infosys BPM
- Responsible for developing and managing relations with the startup ecosystem globally.
- Scout and Curate startups to partner, invest or acquire.
- Initiate & Manage partnerships with other relevant external stakeholders such as Accelerators, VCs, Communities and Govt/ Consulates.
- Drive Joint solutions and GTM with tech startups
- Identify, initiate and manage POCs for startups with Infosys clients
- Engage internal Org / Units, deeply with external innovation
- Commercial Modelling of joint/new service offerings.
- Analysis/Support on buy side M&A transactions.
Dr. Rakesh Bhatia
Resident Mentor
Vikrant Varshney
Resident Mentor
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Vikrant Varshney is a Co-Founder & Managing Partner at SucSEED Venture Partners.
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Prior to joining SucSEED Venture Partner, He is previously the Chief of Board of Advisors and Chief Risk Officer & Managing Partner at Risk Resources.
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Mr. Varshney received a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering at Aligarh Muslim University and earned an MBA in Strategy & Systems at International Management Institute – IMI.
Dr. Sonali Khanra
Resident Mentor
- Dr. Sonali is resident tech mentor for MedTech startups at CIE. She has more than a decade of experience in the life sciences and healthcare domain.
- Prior to joining CIE, Dr. Sonali has worked in the capacity of Incubation Manager for a VC firm, heading their Hyderabad unit. Her primary responsibilities included domain support & business consultancy to life science-based incubates, assessment & evaluation of various startups & their KPIs, key stakeholder management and business development.
- Dr. Sonali pursued her Ph.D. in developing a nanomedicine-based delivery vehicle which can cross the blood-brain barrier and provide cure to brain tumor using receptor-mediated targeting. She has presented her work in multiple conferences and published several peer-reviewed journals. She has also carried out her post-doctoral research in the field of Horizontal Gene Transfer (HGT)/ Lateral Transfer (LT) of degradative traits, especially the OPH coding opd gene clusters in bacteria.
- Prior to PhD, she has also worked in the capacity Senior Lecturer in Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University and as a Business Development Manager in a reputed pharma company.
- Dr. Sonali also holds M.Phil from Delhi University and did her masters in life sciences from Jamia Millia Islamia.
Advisory Council
Dr. Radha Rangarajan
Resident Mentor
- Radha Rangarajan is Head, Innovation, and Strategy at Ojas. She is a biotech entrepreneur and an expert in the field of Antimicrobial Resistance.
- Radha received her Bachelor’s degree in Biology from Stanford University, Master of Science degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and her Ph.D. in Neurobiology/Genetics from Rockefeller University, New York. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health.
- Radha moved back to India in 2003 and joined the Drug Discovery division of Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories. Thereafter, she co-founded Vitas Pharma in 2011, where she has driven the scientific strategy to identify novel antibiotics to treat highly resistant infections and companion diagnostics.
- Radha was awarded the FICCI Award of Excellence- Women in R&D in February 2019. She was selected to be part of the “Champions of Change” initiative of Prime Minister Modi and the NITI Ayog, recognizing India’s emerging entrepreneurs in 2017. She has published widely and presented her research at multiple international conferences.
Dr. Amitava Ray
Senior Consultant Neurosurgeon, Apollo Hospital
Dr. Ravi Sirdeshmukh
Ex CCMB – Head Proteomics
Dr. Manish Diwan
Head - Strategy Partnership & Entrepreneurship Development at BIRAC, Department of Biotechnology, Government of India
Dr. Manish Diwan
Head - Strategy Partnership & Entrepreneurship Development at BIRAC, Department of Biotechnology, Government of India
Steering Committee
Dr. Radha Rangarajan
Chief Scientific Officer, HealthCubed
- Radha Rangarajan is Head, Innovation, and Strategy at Ojas. She is a biotech entrepreneur and an expert in the field of Antimicrobial Resistance.
- Radha received her Bachelor’s degree in Biology from Stanford University, Master of Science degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and her Ph.D. in Neurobiology/Genetics from Rockefeller University, New York. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health.
- Radha moved back to India in 2003 and joined the Drug Discovery division of Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories. Thereafter, she co-founded Vitas Pharma in 2011, where she has driven the scientific strategy to identify novel antibiotics to treat highly resistant infections and companion diagnostics.
- Radha was awarded the FICCI Award of Excellence- Women in R&D in February 2019. She was selected to be part of the “Champions of Change” initiative of Prime Minister Modi and the NITI Ayog, recognizing India’s emerging entrepreneurs in 2017. She has published widely and presented her research at multiple international conferences.
Dr.Anthony Vipin Das
Associate Director, L V Prasad Eye Institute
Prof. Ramesh Loganathan
Professor - Co-innovation, IIIT Hyderabad
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Ramesh Loganathan is currently the Professor of Co-Innovation at IIIT-Hyderabad where he Heads the Research/Innovation outreach. He is also the Chief Operating Officer of Centre For Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) at IIIT.
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Ramesh was also the Chief Innovation Officer of State Innovation Cell of Government of Telangana
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Ramesh brings with him almost 25+ years of vast executive leadership experience with a successful track record in running multi-million dollar companies. Prior to IIIT, Ramesh was the Managing Director of Progress Software, India and was responsible for leading product development at the India Development Center He provided strategic guidance to the teams with a focus on cross-product consideration for SOA & Data Integration.
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Ramesh has also held the position of Vice President at Paramati Technologies. As the VP he was responsible for managing the Product Engineering which included managing the product lines, product releases, product architecture, systems, and processes.
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He is also the Co-Founder of HeadStart Network, a volunteer organization that helped to build an early-stage startup eco-system in Hyderabad and pan India. Until recently he was the part of the core team and drives the Hyderabad end of the events including monthly Startup Saturdays and the annual HeadStart startups’ showcase.
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Until recently he was the President of HYSEA (Hyderabad Software Industry Association)and Regional Council Member at Nasscom.
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After a 2 decade-long stint as an accomplished Technologist in the product R&D space, on Dec 2015, Ramesh moved full-time into academics.
Ramjee Pallela
COO at AIC-CCMB
Meenakshi Vishwanathan
Head-Resource Generation and Alumni Affairs, IIIT-Hyderabad
Prof. Kavita Vemuri
Associate Professor - IIIT Hyderabad
Prof. Azeemuddin Syed
Associate Professor - IIIT Hyderabad