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Mentor Connect

Connect with a Mentor

Mentor Connect

Mentor Connect is a flagship program where a structured environment for Mentorship is provided to TiEcon attendees

Date: May 4 - 5, 2023

Time:  12:30 pm to 2:00 pm PST

Location: Hall A1, Santa Clara Convention Center

Register for a TiEcon Pass

You need a TiEcon Pass to participate in the Mentor Connect program. Remember to select the Mentor Connect box during your registration.

Who should attend

  • A wantrepreneur looking to validate their idea
  • A novice entrepreneur looking for guidance
  • A startup founder looking for advise to pivot his/her startup

How is it done

  • 60 min time slot with mentor and mentee
  • A time slot is booked ahead of the event
  • In a small setting (typically 8-10 mentees)

Who are our mentors

  • Highly accomplished business professionals
  • Silicon Valley veterans and domain experts
  • Serial entrepreneurs with a proven track record

Mentors

David Mariani
CTO, Founder
ATScale
Tushar Kant
Product Management, AI and Cloud Computing
AWS
Niraj Saran
Technology and Business Leader
R. Paul Singh
CEO
StartupStrategies
Vic Kulkarni
Chief Strategy Officer
Si2
Prabakar Sundarrajan
Founder
The Fabric
Alagu Periyannan
Former CTO
BlueJeans
Ekta Dang
CEO
U First Capital
PK Gulati
Founder, Maker-In-Chief
The Assembly
Preethy Padmanabhan
Senior Director
Freshworks
Rajan Raghavan
CEO
The Fabric
Vipin Jain
CEO
Blendid
Dilip Saraf
Author, Speaker, Career & Life Coach
DilipSaraf
Nat Natraj
CEO
AccuKnox
Sanjit Dang
Chairman
UFirstCapital
Sundar Padmanabhan
COO
DefiDevs
Yogita Parulekar
CEO
Invi Grid
Lena Kannappan
Co-Founder
HealthCare Triangle
Sheela Ursal
CEO
FintechNext
Bikram Gupta Sarma
Executive Coach
IBTA Global
Girish Muckai
CEO
RockFish Data
Kumar Sripadam
Chair
TiE Angels
Praveer Kumar
President
GuardHat
Anand Jagannathan
CEO
EngageSocial
Surbhi Kaul
Vice President, Global Customer Experience
Juniper Networks
Ravi Mahalingam
CEO
ReechPharma
Jitendra Satpute
Head of Global Strategic Alliances
Google
Krishna Yarlagadda
CEO
Huddl.ai
Sukhwinder Lamba
CEO
NavigateIO
Hasan Khan
CTO, Co-Founder
Cadonical
Rohit Mittal
Leadership Team
Google Cloud
Subbu Meiyappan
CEO
ESCite
BV Jagadeesh
Managing Partner
KAAJ Ventures
KanchanaRaman
President
Avion Networks & Avcend
Sandip Gupta
Managing Director
Accenture
Gowrishankar
Board Member | Partner
TiE Seattle | Dallas Venture Capital
Kishore Panpaliya
President
TiE Seattle
Tina Singh
CEO
Singh Law Corp.
VinceKohli
StartUp Judge | Exponential Global Impact Capitalist
MIT | Google
Monishi Sanyal
Founder, Board Member
IIT Startups

Track Chairs

Prakash Narayan
CTO
3KTechnologies
Deepak Bhagat
High Tech Executive
SAP | Sun | HP | Startups

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