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"As top Career Coach of LinkedIn, Dilip has worked with over 7,500 clients globally since launching his fifth career during the 2001 downturn. Dilip specializes in reinvention, and he has pioneered the concept of an Inductive Resume, which helps clients take their career from the known to the unknown. Together, with his genius-discovery tool (your superpower), Inductive Resume, and forward-looking messages, Dilip has made several breakthroughs in how professionals should project their message through powerful storytelling and manage their careers through compelling verbal branding. This messaging strategy is particularly valuable to those pursuing their start-up dreams to get themselves the right investor and market audiences.

Based in the Silicon Valley, Dilip often works with professionals, from those just launching their careers, to start-up entrepreneurs, C-level executives, and business owners to coach them to be effective in their pursuits and in their leadership. His clients from 23 countries are diverse: From entrepreneurs, physicians, movie stars, to technology professionals. His previous careers include heading an engineering organization in a Fortune-100 high-tech company, working as a technology consultant, as a marketing consultant, and as a leadership-effectiveness coach.

Dilip has authored five books and has published articles in Harvard Business Review, Chief Executive, and other publications. His weekly career thoughts appear on his website, on LinkedIn, and in widely syndicated 500+ blogs by other publishers, enjoying wide readership. He also holds two technology patents. Dilip holds degrees from IIT-B and Stanford"

Dr Sanjit Dang has been a successful Venture Capitalist, Corporate Executive, Board Member, Speaker and Writer in Silicon Valley for almost two decades. He is currently the Co-Founder and Chairman of U First Capital. They provide Venture Capital as a Service to Corporations by bringing Startups, University IP, etc in the Corporate's specific areas of interest (dedicated model). Prior to that, he was at Intel Capital where he had an excellent track record of driving 1 Exit every year: DocuSign (IPO 2018), Body Labs (AI startup, Acquired by Amazon in 2017 within 2 years of leading Series A investment), Voke (Acquired by Intel in 2016 within 7 months of leading Series A investment), Maginatics (Acquired by EMC in 2015 within 1 year of leading investment) and Basis Science (Acquired by Intel in 2014 within 1 year of investment). He has been an Investor and on the Board of several companies, including True Fit (AI for eCommerce, Raised $100M), Reflektion (AI recommendation for eCommerce, Raised $42M), Helpshift (AI-driven Customer Service, Raised $38M) and Enlighted (Smart Lighting, Acquired by Siemens in 2018). He is also an investor in Mirantis (Cloud Computing, raised >$100M), GoodData (SaaS Business Intelligence, raised over $100M) and Arcadia Data (Big Data 2.0, Raised $26M).

Sanjit has over a decade of Exec leadership experience in Product Design, Business Development and Strategy across several domains: Big Data, Natural Language Processing, 3D Camera/Apps, Supply-Chain Analytics and Flash Memory. He has managed $2Bill/year accounts and executed >30 partnership deals in $100M-$2Bill range. Always striving to be ahead of the curve, Sanjit worked on Big Data Analytics before industry created the term 'Big Data'. Similarly, he launched 2 online courses during graduate school in 1999 and published iconic papers on learnings, way before the MOOC revolution started.

My purpose is to engage strategically with some of the most exciting startups on a global basis. Strategic engagement would entail understanding your strategic priorities on technology, products, go-to-market, expansion plans etc and then bring the global resources of Amazon ( not just AWS) to the table to see how we can accelerate your customer success and business growth.

Strategist. CEO/GM. Built 5 Category Leaders. TedX Speaker.

Senior Executive with demonstrated success in guiding technology companies from market entry through rapid business growth and market share leadership.

Priya is the Managing Director at Silicon Valley Bank. As the Market Lead for India, MENA and SEA, she provides international market entry advice and introductions with a focus on technology and innovation cross-border companies, entrepreneurs and venture capital funds in emerging markets. Prior to this role she was Director of Early Stage practice. Priya calls on her experience, expertise and connections to champion a more inclusive innovation economy. She works closely with community and diversity ecosystem partners, including Change Catalyst, Kapor Capital, Big Brothers Big Sisters Organization, Women Who Code, and more. Other university partners Priya has partnered with include Dorm Room Fund, The House Fund, Stanford Venture Studio and Rough Draft Ventures.

Through her work at SVB, Priya supports entrepreneurs who strive to make the world a better place, and she echoes that commitment in her free time as well. She's on the board of Big Brothers Big Sisters and of Women Who Code, an organization dedicated to helping women to excel in technology careers. In addition, Priya is a charter member of TiE, a nonprofit focused on nurturing the next generation of entrepreneurs, as well as a venture partner at Xfund, which connects venture capital firms with superior research universities and advisor at Entrepreneurship at Cornell University.

In my role as Chief Information Officer, I oversee the firm's technology development and deployment of digital, experience-centric wealth management solutions—which enhance the advisor's ability to seamlessly connect solutions and access data, and allow investors to work with their advisor in a way that is intuitive, integrated and flexible.

As a member of both Pershing's Executive Committee and BNY Mellon's Senior Leadership Team, I'm closely involved in the firm's strategic direction and actively collaborate with my colleagues across the enterprise.

I serve as a spokesperson on technology trends and issues, and have been featured in financial publications including Investment News and ThinkAdvisor, and on Bloomberg Radio. I'm also a regular keynote speaker and panelist at industry events and conferences.

Nat D. Natraj is the CEO of AccuKnox. He talks about devs, zerotrust, kubernetes, cloudsecurity, and cybersecurity. He co-founded mobile-worx Inc. and serves as its Chairman of the Board. He served as an Executive Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations at Arcot Systems, Inc.

Nat founded eFORCE Global Inc. in 1999 and served as its Chief Executive Officer and President. He served as Senior Vice President of Sales at CA Technologies. Nat has over 10 years experience in delivering enterprise solutions to global organizations such as Fleet Bank, Fidelity Investments, Bank of America, ING Bank, Barclays Bank, Mellon Bank, Visa, John Hancock Insurance, and NationsBank. He served as Vice President and General Manager of the Financial Services Division at Siebel Systems (now Oracle). He also held technical, marketing, sales, and general management positions at Scopus Technology, IA Corp., and TRW Financial Systems(now CSC Financial Services), Alysis Technologies (now CSC Financial Services) and Wang Labs.

He has an extensive background in financial services and enterprise software. He was part of the management team at an early CRM software pioneer company acquired by Oracle. He managed Oracle's financial division after the acquisition. He serves as Director of eFORCE Global Inc. Mr. Natraj served as a Member of the Advisory Board of GlobalLogic, Inc. since May 2008.

A visionary leader and a serial entrepreneur, Lena leads the healthcare & life sciences strategy and business operations for Healthcare Triangle (HCTI). Lena has taken the cloud company from bootstrapped stage to IPO on NASDAQ. He is currently the Executive Sponsor for strategic partnerships, M&As, and oversees some of the key strategic alliances. 

Lena is one of the original founders of SAML 2.0 protocol and Federated Identity Management model for the industry while at Orange-France Telecom, which changed the way identity information is shared between service providers and enabled the huge success of SaaS, Cloud and Social Networking. 

Lena brings experience and thought leadership in cloud, mobile, cyber security, AI and data from private and public sectors. He is an advisor and angel investor in various startups. Lena is a regular invited speaker in various industry related and entrepreneurship conferences.

BV Jagadeesh is Managing Partner at KAAJ Ventures. He has successfully invested and guided companies such as Nutanix (IPO), Yodlee (IPO), Arkin (acqd: VMWare), Elastic Box (acqd: Century Link), NetMagic Solutions (acqd: NTT), Ocarina Networks (acqd: Dell) and Ankeena (acqd: Juniper) to name a few. Before founding KAAJ, BV Jagadeesh served as a founding investor and CEO of NetScaler. NetScaler pioneered the concept of Application Delivery and was successfully sold to Citrix for $325M and served as Group VP and GM for Citrix's Application Networking division. Prior to Netscaler, he co-founded and served as CTO of Exodus communications in 1993 that pioneered the concept of Internet data centers. He was instrumental in the successful IPO of Exodus in 1998.

Currently Jagadeesh is an active investor and serves on the board of several SiliconValley StartUPs. He is also an adjunct faculty at the Leavey School of Business, SCU.

Gowri has an established track record of building and growing companies at the intersection of mobile, infrastructure and content for over twenty years. He was on the founding team at Sprint PCS and pioneered both direct and online wireless sales in the early 90's. Most recently he served as President and CEO of SinglePoint, a mobile marketing agency focussed at media companies where he pioneered the interactive TV through mobile with NBC Universal, MTV, CBS and Disney.

Gowri has significant international experience having grown companies in both Europe and India. Gowri serves on the board for Skedi, Carbon Credits International and is an advisor to ReQall, Earth 911 and Zoomingo.

Gowri is a serial entrepreneur and experienced executive who has grown companies and teams - with strong business development professional, skilled in SAAS, Mobile Advertising, Mobile Content, E-commerce and Venture Capital.

Prashant K. Gulati (PK), is a technology innovator, angel investor, mentor, idea accelerator, and commentator with interests in innovation, startups, entrepreneurship, technology, mobility, wireless, intelligent buildings, online media and more.

PK has served in numerous leadership capacities including as Trustee on the Global Board of TiE, President of TiE Dubai, Founder of The Assembly, Founder of SmartStart Fund, Senior Advisor to Dubai Future Foundation, CEO of Optimistix Ventures, Steering Committee Member of in5 Innovation Hub, Honorary Secretary General of Indian Business & Professional Council-Dubai, Member of the Board of Dubai Enterprise Centre, Chairman of Gulfcom Group, Chairman of Prokraft Group-India and Board Member for Indian Documentary Foundation, Dubai Enterprise Centre etc.

Prashant is an active Angel and Early Stage investor in startups, younger companies and fresh ideas. With a portfolio of ventures in India, Middle East and US, he is actively involved in providing mentorship, guidance and advice to such companies at various levels. He has been associated with a large number of successful startups and has an active portfolio in the US, Middle East and India.

Vince Kohli, An Empathy Scholar, is a Silicon Valley Early-stage Venture Capital Investor, 7X Tech Entrepreneur, Serial Business Builder, Product Visionary, Inventor, Problem Thinking Doer, Public Speaker, and Author.  Vince is a Global Impact Capitalist Maker, Exponential Impact Super Angel Investor focused on Web3, Metaverse, DeFi apps, Hyperautomation, Enterprise Deep Tech, AI and ML impacting Enterprise and Social Enterprise Industries. Vince is a special invited member of MIT Technology review Global Panel and business advisor at Meta.  Vince serves as a StartpUp Judge at MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Google, Samsung, IBM, DraperU, Founder Institute, Founders Space, California State University, StartX, and NASA. Vince is a StartUp / ScaleUp Business Design Investor/Advisor/Mentor at Google4StartUps, Microsoft for StartUps, Singularity, Launch, IBM, StartX, AngelHack, Top Silicon Valley Incubators, Venture Builders, Venture Studios, and Top Silicon Valley Accelerators at YC, Alchemist, and 500 Global.

 

Vince invented the revolutionary Rapid Prototyping Investor Pitching Method termed as "Seven Second StartUp and ScaleUp Value Pitch".  He is a High Impact Venture Mentor Maker in Silicon Valley for Global StartUps and ScaleUps Ecosystem, SAP recognized and awarded SAP Mentor Award and pioneered the first ever Corporate Mentorship Award.  Vince is an Innovation Catalyst at UCSF for digital health, hardware and software design for medical devices, Corporate Startup Innovation at Honda Innovation, Samsung Tech Impact, Corporate Ventures with HP Ventures, and Samsung NEXT Ventures, Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Venture Lab - IE Business School, Plug and Play, Silicon Valley.

 

Vince is a life changing coach for business founders and on a Massive Transformation Mission to exponentially Impact Billion Entrepreneurs with Global Professional Business Venture Mentorship Maker initiative.  Vince believes and executes with Pilanthropreneurologist mindset to Impact the Post COVID World with Exponential Empathy + Emotional Intelligence (EQ).  Vince is a regular keynote speaker on topics like Design Thinking, UN SDG's, Web3, Metaverse Economy , DeFi, NFTs, Corporate Innovation, 5G, AI/ML, Quantum Technologies, Edge Computing, Blockchain, Scaling Innovation, Disciplined Entrepreneurship, and Global Resilience - Scaling the Innovation Economy.

Sandip Nayak is the Chief Strategy & AI Officer at Linear Financial Technologies (now a part of a fintech unicorn, Amount Inc.), an established fintech startup that delivers best in class platform solutions for banks. Being the founding member, he built a resilient small business portfolio using product & data driven innovations while balancing growth, profitability and customer experience for Linear's partners. Prior to Linear (and Fundation), Sandip held key leadership and management roles in data-driven credit and product roles at Capital One and Citigroup. He has an undergraduate degree from IIT Bombay, and postgraduate studies in Behavioral Economics from George Mason University. Sandip is passionate about creating value for small businesses in the emerging financial technology sector.

Guri has seminal contributions in blockchain, crypto, digital assets/tokens, IoT, fefi/fintech and supply networks for venture and enterprise use. He is the Founder & CEO of Digital Twin Labs, a product and platform engineering company in Blockchain, AI/ML, IoT, and Cloud. He is the former CTO of IBM Blockchain-IoT-Cloud unit. He is also an Advisor to the Gates Foundation and to Berkeley Labs.

Over his enterprise and venture career, Guri has steered the industry, clients, and open source through recent waves of tech from Internet to Web to Mobile to Cloud and now to Blockchain, AI/ML, and IoT. Digital Twin Labs is called upon globally for its field strategy and implementation of platforms and ventures for business, public sector, and societal (ESG) outcomes.

A seasoned executive with technology, management and strategic edge. Anjul brings many years of wide variety of experiences including leading product development/management, creating organizations from scratch, set up sales, operations and marketing strategy.

Anjul also serves as a management and technology adviser to various start-ups and mid-size firms.

Anjul's firm focuses on the core area of technologies such as Enterprise Security, DevOps, BigData and DataScience with value-added solutions.

Ravi Amble has more than 25 years of overall industry experience with more than 15 years experience in building telehealth networks by advancing his career in the Information Technology Industry as an accomplished business technologist and entrepreneur.

Progressing in his career, Ravi has been recognized as a pioneer-entrepreneur in Telehealth by building two of the largest Telemedicine networks in the world with NASA as a professional foundation.

Today, Ravi Amble is a successful serial entrepreneur actively working with and building holistic and personalized software-appliances for decision support using Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science for Telehealth, Visual Intelligence, Hybrid Behavioral Extraction, Continuous Data Protection and Business Continuity.

Extensive experience in leading business and technology strategic programs, business transformation initiatives, delivering key value proposition around revenue growth, improved operational efficiencies, and enhanced user experience.

Current focus on scaling up startups, Architecture, Product Strategy, Client/Partner engagement, Delivery, Staffing, Mentorship, Managing global cross-team dependencies

Sandeep is a key strategist, proven CEO, trusted board director and advisor, highly effective coach and mentor, bold thinker and innovator, awesome team builder and a high performance global tech business leader.

Sandeep is currently an Executive Partner at Siris Capital Group, a leading private equity firm. Throughout his three decades of leadership in business and technology, Sandeep has created disruptive and high-impact transformational businesses with great success, delivering significant stakeholder returns.

Sandeep was the CEO & Managing Director of Zensar Technologies, and the Group Management Board at RPG Enterprises from 2016 to 2021. Sandeep shaped a bold turnaround of Zensar from a legacy IT company to a relevant and100% living digital enterprise. Zensar's digital transformation has the distinct, dual honor of being featured as a case study by both Harvard Business School (2018) and London Business School (2020). With Sandeep at the helm, Zensar grew to be an approximately $600 million revenue company with global talent at over 10,000 people.

Before joining Zensar in 2016, Sandeep was with HCL Technologies for over twenty-five years, where he built several Billion-dollar businesses. Sandeep was a Corporate Officer at HCL Technologies. He was the Global Head of Life Sciences, Healthcare and Public Services, a $1.1 Billion business. Under Sandeep's leadership as Global Head for Engineering and R&D Services, he built this business to over $1.2 Billion.

Sandeep is an alumnus of globally-renowned IIT Bombay. In addition to his business management and technology leadership career, Sandeep is a prolific poet. He has authored and published two bilingual books of Hindi-English poems, Your Shadow Wants to Walk Alone and Old Seeds of a New Tree. The Economic Times called Sandeep, "The CEO Poet." He is also the co-founder of Har Asha Foundation, a non-profit organization. www.sandeepkishore.com

Alagu has over 20 years of research, product development, and strategy experience bringing innovative networking and video products to market. Prior to founding Blue Jeans Network, he held the position of Chief Technology Officer at Blue Coat Systems, a leader in network security and WAN optimization appliances. During his tenure at Blue Coat he held various senior R&D management positions and was part of the management team responsible for leading the company through its successful repositioning from CacheFlow, a maker of web and video caching appliances, to Blue Coat. He also led the team that was responsible for the company's entry into the WAN optimization market. Prior to CacheFlow, Alagu was an early member of the management team at Entera, an Internet content delivery startup. He built an R&D team from the ground up to deliver streaming video caching products for the Content Delivery Network (CDN) market, culminating in a successful sale of the company to CacheFlow in 2000.

Innovative, hands-on technology and business leader with a proven record in rapidly-growing startups as well as global software companies like Amazon and Microsoft. Excels in building and motivating highly focused companies and teams that regularly exceed objectives. Solid experience in the full product lifecycle from conceptualization, design, development and operations.

Deep Experience and Expertise in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, AdTech, Cloud Computing & Distributed Systems

Co-Founder of Global IIT Artificial Intelligence Forum

Mentor at IIT Startups, IIT Mentors & TiE
 

Served in a variety of executive leadership roles including P&L ownership, complex large IT/Engineering outsourcing deals, strategic alliances and ecosystem development at a global level spanning North America, Latin America, Europe and India.

As SBU Head and P&L leader of the Global Technology Business at Tech Mahindra, he is part of the executive leadership team, leading a team of over 10000 associates and provides executive sponsorship to strategic 360 degree relationships with hyperscalers and other technology partnerships.

Karthik is a Partner at Evolution Equity Partners. He leads investments in cybersecurity, enterprise software, IoT, cloud and analytics primarily in the United States, and brings over 15 years of investment, entrepreneurial, operational, M&A and investment banking experience to this role. Karthik is a member of the firm's investment committee. Prior to joining Evolution, Karthik led Cisco's cybersecurity acquisition and investment team. During his time at Cisco, Karthik helped bring together Cisco's extensive cybersecurity portfolio through numerous strategic acquisitions. He led several marquee transactions, including the acquisition of Duo Security, OpenDNS, Lancope and Cloudlock with a cumulative transaction value of over $3.75B. Under Karthik's leadership, Cisco also invested in 11 cybersecurity investments over 4 years and his past board observer positions include OpenDNS, Elastica, Skyport Systems, Exabeam, and Threat Quotient. Prior to Cisco, Karthik held several roles in different organizations, including CEO & Co-founder of a social analytics startup, Vice-President of Investment Banking at Barclays (previously Lehman Brothers) and technology consultant at Manhattan Associates. At Barclays, he advised companies on software M&A and financing with a cumulative transaction value of over $5B and led Xoom.com's successful IPO on NASDAQ. Karthik holds an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, an M.S. from Georgia Tech, and a B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

Silicon Valley-based Tech Innovator and Entrepreneur in AI and FinTech.

Forbes Technology Council Contributor, Author and Speaker in Tech Forums.

Awards and Recognition - "Top 50 CEOs in AI 2021", "Entrepreneur of the Year 2019" Finalist WIT Silicon Valley. Awarded "Innovator of the Year" by Women in IT Awards 2018. Awarded twice "Trail Blazer of the Year " Forum of Women Entrepreneurs (FWE). " Women of Distinction in Technology" by Silicon Valley Business Journal. Served as " Andhra Pradesh Govt Special Representative for IT, USA".

Anupam joined Vector as a Managing Director and Head of Value Creation in 2020 with more than 15 years of executive management, technology, and growth experience.

Before Vector, Anupam was a Partner in McKinsey's Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) Practice and Marketing & Sales (M&S) Practice where he focused on growth and value creation serving some of McKinsey's preeminent clients in enterprise software, telecom operators and equipment, enterprise hardware, and technology services. Prior to McKinsey, Anupam was a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies where he focused on broadband access research. Prior to Bell Labs, he was at Calix Networks in a product management role.

Anupam studied electrical engineering and economics and holds a PhD and an MS degree from Carnegie Mellon University, and an undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay.

Mateen is a strategy and partnerships leader with over 20 years of entrepreneurial and professional connectivity in the Silicon Valley ecosystem. He advises, mentors and speaks on innovation, leadership, entrepreneurship and networking platforms.

Areas of Expertise include - Business Strategy, Market Growth, Advisory Boards, Innovation Hubs, Cross Border Relationships, Operations and Resource Management.

Mateen is the Co-Founder & CEO of Bizhance, a Silicon Valley strategy firm focused on adding value to scalable businesses through structure, strategy and connectivity. It works with corporations, entrepreneurial organizations and government agencies establish partnerships through conducive policies to build innovation and entrepreneurial vibrant hubs across domains.

- Recognized as a Security Veteran by SC Magazine in their Women in Security feature.

- Extensive speaking experience including ITAA-NASSCOM joint conference, ISACA Silicon Valley and ISACA Japan (keynote) conferences, CISO level thought leadership panel and Private Directors Association panels on AI in the Boardroom and Cybersecurity in the Boardroom under the emerging landscape.

Functions: CEO/strategy, CTO/tech governance, CISO/Cybersecurity, Internal Audit/IT Audit, Finance, Risk/Compliance, Product/Visionary, Customer Success/Advisor

Expertise with customer success for business scaling and growth for B2B products and services business. Business, finance, and corporate governance background ensures technology strategy and business operations are aligned to meet business objectives.

Louis focuses his practice on advising entrepreneurs and their management teams, investors and financial advisors at all stages of growth, from garage to global. Louis especially enjoys being able to help his clients achieve hyper-growth, go public and to successfully obtain optimal liquidity events.

He guides emerging private companies as they secure venture capital financing, prepare for IPO or de-SPAC, and navigate the exit. His domain experience in public offerings and private placements of equity, equity-linked, and debt securities, mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, spinoffs, strategic investments, and joint ventures, as well as corporate governance and securities law compliance matters, serves his clients well.

As a deep domain expert in Machine Learning for eCommerce performance, Amar's areas of expertise include:
1) Creating user profiles based on intent inference and semantic learning,
2) Targeting and algorithmically generating individually customized web pages,
3) Optimizing online content based on user profiles and real-time behavior.
Responsibilities include growing the ai driven site-search, product discovery (search and merchandising) business.

Prakash is the CTO of 3KTechnologies. Prakash started his career at Sun Microsystems as an engineer in the compiler group. He held several positions at Sun in a career that spanned over 20 years. During that time, he co-authored a book (published by Pearson) "Implementing SOA applications using Java EE" and was awarded several patents. Prakash became an entrepreneur when he left Sun in 2009 to co-found Micello as their CTO. Prakash left Micello in 2012 to consult with multiple start-ups as a "freelance CTO" - primarily helping them move their applications and services to the cloud. This includes IntelliVision, a company that provides fine grained video analytics. The German outdoor map provider, Here Technologies, acquired Micello in Feb. 2018. The wireless security and home automation company, Nortek Security acquired IntelliVision in May 2018. Prakash is a member of the Angel Investor group Keiretsu Forum. He volunteers his time in several organizations, including TiE Silicon Valley and ATEA.

Satya is a Technology Investment Banking leader with 15+ years of experience in advising CEOs, CFOs and Board of Directors on Strategic Advisory, M&A, Private Placements and IPO.