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.”
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.
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.
Viiveck Verma
Co-Founder
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Viiveck has 30+ years of work experience in well-known corporate houses, with a proven track record for dynamic leadership.
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He has seen immense success at setting up and managing profit center operations, corporate planning and business development.
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His roles entailed setting up policies and processes in start-ups as well as exposure to multi industries viz. Yellow Pages, Travel, Telecommunications, Office Automation, BPO, Insurance, Logistics, and Document Storage & Management.
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Viiveck is an ICF (International Coaching Federation) certified professional Coach. He is the Co-Founder of DiSRUPPt Thinking LLP
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He is Board Member – Hyderabad Angels, Investor, Founding Promotor– IIIT Seed Fund, Advisory Board Member JNTU, Convener – Hyderabad Hackers, Mentor – Start-up Ecosystem, Co-Organizer– TEDxHyderabad, and many more.
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As an Investor, his investments are sector agnostic and currently include 15 start-ups. At any given point of time, he mentors approximately 10 or more start-ups.
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