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Mr. Harish Naidu Technology Advisor & Angel Investor

Harish Naidu is a product and technology leader with well over two decades of experience in the field. Harish has held several key GM roles at Microsoft Corporation where he spent 22 years in software product development in both the enterprise and consumer segments. Most recently Harish was the EVP of Product Development at Golabscholar/Scantron delivering SaaS solutions to the US K-12 market. Harish is also engaged in startup experiments around data science, machine learning and open source technologies.

Dr. Subir Basak President - Global Drug Discovery Services, President - Jubilant Life Sciences Ltd., Ex-Chief Commercial Officer - Intas Biopharmaceuticals, Ex-CEO - Celestial Biologicals, Ex-Global Oncology Head - Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories

Over his long distinguished career spanning over 20 years, Dr. Basak has been involved as a Board Member, CEO, Business Head overseeing Sales, Marketing, BD, R&D, Quality, Manufacturing and Market Innovations as well as Business Strategy. He is the Member of the Healthcare Executive Advisory Board, USA, and has done his M.S. & PhD in Biotechnology and Biochemical Engineering from Purdue University, USA before accomplishing his management studies from Kellogg School of Mgmt. and Wharton School of Business, USA.

Prof. Ram Subramanian CEO and Co-founder - Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platform (CCAMP)

With over 20 years of research experience in Sweden, USA and India to his credit, Prof Ram Subramanian has worked as Senior Professor and subsequently held the position of the Dean at the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (InStem).

Prof Swami Manohar Co-founder - Limberlink Technologies, PicoPeta Simputers and Strand Life Sciences

He is an academician, entrepreneur, angel investor, and start-up mentor rolled into one. Prof. Manhohar is the recipient of the first Dewang Mehta Award for innovation in IT. A former professor of the Indian Institute of Science, he is currently spearheading the Jed-i, (Joy of Engineering, Design, and Innovation) mission to transform engineering education in India.

Dr. Anand Anandkumar CEO & Founder – Bugworks, Ex-CMD – Cellworks, Ex-MD - Spincircuit and Magma India, Cofounder - India Semiconductor Association (ISA)

Dr. Anandkumar is also the General Secretary and executive director of Indian Association of Biotech (ABLE) and member of Executive committee for Indo-American Chamber of Commerce. Being an angel investor and a start-up mentor, he also serves as a visiting faculty to the AIIMS SIB program.

Mr. Shrikumar Suryanarayan Chairman and Co-founder - Sea6, Hon. Director General - ABLE, Ex-President & Chief Scientific Advisor - Biocon

With over 30 years of biotechnology industry experience to his credit, Mr. Suryanarayan serves as a member of governing and advisory boards of several institutes and centers promoted by the department of biotechnology (DBT), Government of India.

Mr. Ricky Bedi CEO - Telerad Tech

Apart from managing the affairs at Telerad Tech (renowned for its next gen products and solutions in healthcare and teleradiology), Mr Bedi also serves as an advisor on the board of Mtatva - a primary healthcare IT company developing revolutionary products aimed at making healthcare available and affordable to all.

Mr. Vijay Chandru Founder, Chairman and CEO - Strand Life Sciences

Mr. Chandru’s academic career includes stints at Purdue University, IIS, MIT, University of Pennsylvania, and Stanford University. He serves on several advisory boards of national and international agencies to tender expert opinion including the Executive council of ABLE and has been the recipient of President’s Medal of INFORMS in 2006.

Dr. Ferzaan Engineer Co-founder & Chairman - Cytespace Research Pvt Ltd, Co-founder and Director - Medela Hospitals and Nightingales Homecare, Ex-CEO - Quintiles Research (I) Pvt Ltd

Currently serving on the Scientific Advisory Boards of Cellworks, USA and Image Core Lab, India. Dr. Ferzaan Engineer, a PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences, has received the AACP New Investigator’s Award in 1990. A recipient of research grants from the National Institutes of Health, USA, he has lectured at several international conferences and also at Cambridge University, IIM Ahmedabad and Apollo Hospitals.

Dr. Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam HOD - Healthcare Technology Innovation Centre (HTIC) – the R&D centre of IIT Madras

Dr. Mohan, as he is fondly known, is a distinguished faculty of Electrical Engineering at IIT Madras. In 2008, having returned after accomplishing his PhD in implantable bioelectronics, from the US, he initiated HTIC, which under him has grown into a unique and leading med-tech innovation ecosystem, bringing together more than 20 medical organization specialized in developing affordable healthcare technologies.

Mr. Ashok Vohra CEO and Founder - Evoma, Chairman and Founder - Esco (Singapore)

Mr. Vohra's Evoma is an ecosystem designed for business incubation and entry of organizations into India, while Esco is a systems integration company with operating infrastructure in most of the APAC countries, including Japan. He is also an angel investor in the mobility space.

Mr. Umesh Kumar Baveja Serial Entrepreneur & Angel Investor, Senior roles at The Kvaerner group of Norway and Brierley Investments of New Zealand (now Singapore)

With a career span of over 25 years, and stints with the British and Australian governments, Mr. Baveja is an IIT Delhi alumnus. He has headed social impact ventures in the energy-environment & infrastructure sectors and is regular speaker at various public and private fora on a wide range of subjects, ranging from Corporate Strategy to Entrepreneurship & Finance (Ven Cap).