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Combining a judicious mix of academic and industry backgrounds, Dr. Vishal brings an understanding of diverse functions, industries and domains to the table. Currently Vice President- Leadership Development & Sales Capability Development at Wipro he focuses on developing senior leaders across Wipro’s global offices.

One of the reasons for Vishal’s unique and versatile strengths is that he has worked in different industries like Education, Manufacturing, IT, Consulting, BPO and Retail and has played many roles. He has played key roles in HR, in setting up and managing the Learning Function, Business Development & Account Management functions at senior levels. As a Group Head at Idiscoveri, his role involved anchoring and facilitating Leadership Development Journeys for Clients’ Senior Management Teams. A passion for people and people development is the common thread that runs through his career.

Vishal is a Recipient of the Infosys Fellowship Award for Research for the FPM program at IIMB. He has published papers in international journals and is a regular speaker in national and international conferences. Also leads the CLO forum for NHRD Bangalore. Vishal is an alumnus of IIMB’s PGDM as well as FPM programs.

K Ganesh, Serial Entrepreneur, Partner – GrowthStory.in and Promoter, BigBasket, Portea, FreshMenu, Homelane

Ganesh is a successful serial entrepreneur with four successful green field ventures and exits.

His last venture, TutorVista was acquired by US and UK listed education leader Pearson for $ 213 MM.

Ganesh actively mentors, incubates and funds start-ups and is promoter of several Indian consumer Internet and ecommerce companies including Bigbasket.com – India’s largest eGrocery company, Portea – India’s leading consumer healthcare company, Bluestone.com – leading online jewelry company, B2C food tech company, FreshMenu, B2B food tech company HungerBox and HomeLane - India’s leading end to end, vertically integrated interior design and manufacturing provider etc. In addition, his angel investments include little eye labs (acquired by Facebook in Jan 2014), delyver.com (acquired by BigBasket in 2015), onlineprasad.com, Pokkt, SilverPush and DogSpot.

Previously, Ganesh founded and was the chairman of data analytics BPO firm Marketics until March 2007, when the company was acquired by NYSE-listed WNS for $ 63 MM.

His previous venture, CustomerAsset, was started in mid-2000 and later acquired by ICICI (NYSE listed, India’s largest bank) and is now publicly listed in India as First Source Solutions.

In 1990, he founded his first company - IT&T, one of India’s top multi-vendor IT service and support company. The business was acquired by iGate (a listed company) in 2003.

Ganesh has also worked as the CEO of Wipro/Bharti British Telecom – a British Telecom JV in India, and held a senior management position in HCL Ltd.

Ganesh is a popular speaker in entrepreneurship, start-up and technology events. He has been recognized as one of the "Iconic Entrepreneurs of India" in a document published by National Knowledge Commission, Government of India. He is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and a Mechanical Engineer from the Delhi College of Engineering.

Meena is one of India’s foremost business leaders and most successful entrepreneurs with nearly three decades of experience in industries including healthcare, consulting, technology, outsourcing, education and e-commerce.

As the MD & CEO, Meena heads Portea Medical (www.portea.com), India’s largest and fastest growing home healthcare company, which she co-founded in July 2013. The company, which was named ‘Startup of the Year’ by NDTV in the Health-Tech category, and ‘Emerging Health Brand of the Year’ at the India Health Summit & Awards, has 4500+ employees and operations across 16 cities in India, and brings in-home to patients, the full range of geriatric, chronic, post-operative care as well as allied healthcare services.

Till February 2013, Meena was a promoter and board member of TutorVista, and CEO and MD of Pearson Education Services, which included innovative and successful brands such as leading online tutoring company, TutorVista, and Edurite, a provider of technology-based solutions and digital content. TutorVista was acquired by Pearson, the world’s top education services company, for $ 213 MM in what was one of the largest deals in the Indian education sector.

As a partner of the platform, Growthstory.in, she is also co-promoter of nearly a dozen, new-age Internet/ Technology enabled start-ups. A few of them that are leaders in their category include Bigbasket.com - India’s premier e-grocery retailer, home solutions company - HomeLane, food tech company, FreshMenu and Bluestone.com – India’s leading online jeweler. In addition, she is a non-executive director on the board of a few other private limited companies in the financial services sector.

Prior to her stint with Pearson, Meena set up the Tesco Hindustan Service Center, Tesco’s outsourced IT services and analytics operation in India, and served as the CEO. She was also the only Indian and amongst only four women in the Global Retail Council of Tesco, an elite group of about 50 people who ran the operations of Tesco worldwide.

Before joining Tesco‚ Meena co-founded one of India’s pioneering BPO companies - Customer Asset, which she sold to ICICI OneSource. She was the Chief Operating Officer of Customer Asset and helped build the organization to nearly 4,000 people‚ servicing large corporate customers in UK and US markets.

Meena also had a five year stint with Microsoft India‚ during which she set up multiple business units including Microsoft Consulting‚ Internet and Application Development/Business services units. During the initial 11 years of her career, Meena was with PricewaterhouseCoopers and with NIIT.

Meena is a PGDM holder from IIM Calcutta has a graduate degree in Physics from the Madras University. In 2011, she was conferred the ‘Distinguished Alumnus’ award by IIM Calcutta.

In 2015, Meena was among the 7-member jury for the inaugural Economic Times Startup Awards. She won the ET Startup Award in the Women Ahead category in 2016 and was chosen as Health Entrepreneur of the Year (2016) at the India Health Summit & Awards.

Meena has been part of Fortune India’s 50 'Most Powerful Women in Business' for 4 consecutive years (2015 - 2018), and was chosen a #WPower Trailblazer by Forbes India in 2017.

Meena is an alumnus of and also serves on the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. She is also a member of the CII (Confederation of Indian Industry) Innovation & Entrepreneurship Council as well as of the CII Healthcare Council. She is also a non-executive director on the board of a few private limited companies.

Sushil is senior executive coach and leadership development facilitator with over 27 years of business experience across countries and cultures. My coaching and leadership work builds on my deep belief of values as the core compass for all leadership- individual, organisational, or societal. Given this, my work draws from the core values of the individual, group, or organisation to build authentic, ethical and meaningful leadership.

A certified executive coach with over 1000 hours of coaching experience. Coached senior leaders and entrepreneurs across diverse sectors and areas such as manufacturing, offshore services, IT, banking, UN agencies and Non Governmental Organisations. Coachees located across Asia, Europe and North America. Also an associate coach with Centre for Creative Leadership, executing executive coaching assignments.

Facilitated over 100 workshops with numerous senior leadership teams across domains to help them evolve shared visions, align individual and team purpose, manage change, improve effectiveness, and build leadership.

His assignments both in coaching and team work have been with organisations across the spectrum from young start-ups, to rapidly scaling organisations, to mature organisations looking at a new direction or new growth avenues.

Also a strategic consultant and marketing teacher. Sushil has spent the first 13 years of his career as a marketing professional, working for Procter and Gamble, and Reckitt Benckiser in India, Europe, and the Americas.

An alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad, India (IIMA), he is also a visiting faculty there and teaches both first and second year students of the flagship Post Graduate Program.

He is also visiting faculty in the Marketing Area at Ashoka University in Delhi NCR. teaching marketing and strategy to potential entrepreneurs.

He also mentor students at Ashoka University’s Young India Fellowship, a liberal arts finishing program for exceptional minds.

TN Hari is an advisor and sounding board to numerous young entrepreneurs and startups. He is also a Strategic Advisor at ‘Fundamentum’, which is a homegrown growth phase VC fund set up by Nandan Nilekani and Sanjeev Aggarwal. Hari also heads HR at BigBasket.

He has studied at IIT & IIM and worked at an executive level with multiple start-ups/scale-ups and has been through four successful exits in different industries (Daksh, Virtusa, Amba Research, TaxiForSure).

His passion is in scaling organizations through clear thinking and relentless execution. He writes regularly on LinkedIn. LinkedIn identified him as the one of the Top Voices in India for three years in a row (2016, 2017, and 2018).

He has Co-authored three books. The last two books were “Cut the Crap and Jargon – Lessons from the Startup Trenches” was published by Penguin; and “Cutting the Gordian Knot – India’s Quest for Prosperity” was published by Bloomsbury.