Mark F. Desantis
Strategy. Growth. Fund Raising
Mark is a serial tech entrepreneur and is currently Managing Partner at MIR Ventures in Palo Alto. Most recently, he was co-founder and CEO RoadBotics and continues as a Senior Adviser, an AI platform for assessing roads and roadways infrastructure. Prior to that, he was co-founder and Executive Chairman of kWantix, a quant hedge fund, co-founder and CEO of kWantera, a GE Ventures-backed energy trading company and CEO of Think Through Learning, a venture-backed online tutoring company and US Managing Director of ANGLE Technology, PLC, a UK-based venture capital firm and consultancy.
Rahul Sarin
Government. Public Sector. Administration. Public Policy.
Rahul brings over 40 years of experience in policy execution. As Indian Administrative Services officer, he has held various key positions in the state and central governments and public sector units executing and devising policies as well as establishing operating systems for implementation.
Rahul also has graduate degrees in Science and Law, and a post-graduate degree in Development Administration.
Chaya Pisupati
Insurance. Project Management. Technology.
Chaya brings over 25 years of experience spanning the entire Indian financial industry space, including Mutual Funds and Life Insurance, General Insurance, Banking, and Capital markets. She has spent the recent 5 of the 25 years with one of India’s largest IT companies, delivering solutions to its clients. Chaya understands and interprets regulatory norms for financial services.
Chaya is a Chartered Accountant.
Tarun Kumar
Education. Skill Development. Technology
Tarun brings 33 years of experience in edupreneurship, consulting, academics, skill development, IT infrastructure maintenance and ERP creation, installation, and implementation. He spent more than two of the three decades in deep and cross-functional roles in the education sector.
Tarun is Registrar and Head of School of Computing Sciences of Kaziranga University, Assam.
Subir Ghosh
Business Creation. Business Acceleration. Consumer Services.
Subir, a seasoned Intrepreneur, brings over 30 years of cross-domain experience spanning diverse consumer-oriented businesses such as Telecom, Retail, and Consumer Goods. He has helped create businesses from scratch, scaled up early-stage businesses, and run mature businesses. He currently enables startups and early-stage firms.
He is a graduate and holds multiple national and international certifications in subjects related to Customer Centricity, Marketing, and Competitive Strategy.
Radha Krishnan
Law. Finance and Accounting. Restructuring and Reorganizing.
Radhakrishnan brings over 30 years of experience that goes beyond his strong domains of finance and law. He has served in various roles across domains, including Operations, Finance and Accounting, Information Systems (mainly in the CPG Industry) and Management Consultancy. He has also been Consulting CFO for startups and small entities, conducted World Bank Project reviews, set up new finance teams, restructured and reorganized operations as well as developed and implemented technology solutions across the value chain.
Radhakrishnan is a Chartered Accountant and Lawyer.
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