Vishwanath Poosala is the head of Bell Labs - India at Alcatel-Lucent and also an CTO for mobile applications.He was the member of technical staff and also worked as technical manager for Bell Labs - India at Alcatel-Lucent. He is the  Founder of an internal venture focusing on creating an innovate product line in Location-based Messaging Services and proposed the product concept and built an entrepreneurial team spanning USA, China, and India. And also played an instrumental role in technology, business strategy, key partnerships, product management, and development.

Vinod Kalkotwar is the President at Kalozal Consultants Pvt. Ltd.He was the Vice President for Accrete Finance Ltd., Bangalore  Boutique investment banking firm and  at ICDS Securities.He also worked as a senior manager at Canara Bank. He Successfully raised angel/venture/private equity capital over $70 mln for 20 companies and have good network of contacts with Angels/VCs/Private Equity Investors from India, US and Singapore,have 10 assignments for raising angel/VC/Private Equity capital for companies in various segment with capital requirement of more than $60 millions.And also established client base in Engineering (Machine tools), Infrastructure, Kitchen Appliances, Readymade garments, Technology, Logistics, Non-Ferrous Metals etc.

Subhash Bal was the Country Director at Synopsys.He worked as a vice president at Teradiant Networks and also worked as VP Marketing and business development at Switch-on.He was with EDA industries for the past thirty plus years. Held Executive positions in general management, marketing, sales and product development with start-ups, restart and multibillion-dollar organizations in domestic and international markets.He was the cofounder of SwitchOn networks, other startups include Excelan, Touch communications and Teradiant Networks. Besides technology comapnies, cofounded media comapnies. Large company experience includes National Semiconductor, Synopsys (India), 3Com (India) , Micom, Rockwell Network Systems, and PMC-Sierra.

Sunil Maheshwari is the founder of Mango Technologies, a company that works on products for the mobile world. Mango’s framework for building multimedia applications on low cost handsets was acquired recently by Qualcomm. Sunil is also active in various institutional forums and is an avid observer of startup trends, technologies and products.

Harsha Mutt is the Head of solutions, Financial services at HCL technologies. He was the Head of Capital Market Services – Technology & Operations a  worldwide responsibility servicing clients across continents.He was responsible for Global Delivery for BCM Clients, managing teams across six cities across India and multiple client locations across North America, Europe and Asia. Key activities – revenue growth, delivery excellence, people management and client satisfaction.Started as a Software Engineer, and played roles as Project Leader, Project Manager, Account Manager, Development Center Head and Business Manager starting off and leading large customer engagements with Fortune 500 companies, predominantly based at overseas locations. Responsible for revenue growth, delivery excellence, people development and client satisfaction.

Jagannath Rao is a founding partner at HeadStart Ventures and has been spearheading technology and venture roles for more than two decades.  Beginning his career at BE,  he has both research experience at CRL as well as product development  for global markets at Motorola including venture initiatives.   Jagan has his own startup working with global companies.  He has an MS  degree from  Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago and also enjoys teaching at various Institutes.

A Suryanarayanan is a partner at HeadStart Ventures and has over two decades of senior executive experience in healthcare companies. He is also a serial entrepreneur, having founded and exited three businesses – Medybiz, MediAssist and Lifeken. Surya is now COO at the NS Raghvan Center for Entrepreneurial Learning (NSRCEL) at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore where he supports and mentors startups. Surya is a qualified chartered accountant and has a post graduate degree in management from McGill University, Canada.

Kallol Borah is a founding partner at HeadStart Ventures and has been a technology and entrepreneurial community organizer, having co-founded both HeadStart Network Foundation and the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Bangalore. Kallol is also an entrepreneur himself who is now working on a new product venture after having started and exited two product ventures earlier. Kallol is a graduate of the London School of Economics and has worked at Reliance Industries prior to embarking on his entrepreneurial journey ten years back.

Alok Garg, brings twenty years of business and technology experience from British Telecom where he was General Manager, Complex Contracts with BT Global Services and where he developed repeatable solutions for Secure Networking, Contact centers and Data centers. Prior to that as VP and GM Service lines in the company, Alok led professional services, solution sales and managed services in India and the Asia Pacific and Japan region. Prior to BT, Alok was Managing Partner at HP where he led IT Strategy, Architecture and Transformation practice in the Asia Pacific and Japan region. At HP, he incubated and developed a number of solutions businesses, specifically mobile payments and voice portals. After leaving BT, Alok has been involved in an entrepreneurial venture in the Consumer mobility and payments space. Alok is a BE in Computer Science from BITS and also holds an Executive Leadership Certificate from Stanford University.

Muthukrishnan Chinnasamy, is the Director of Sonic Chips and the TanMic group of companies. He is an active investor entrepreneur and had worked in Texas Instruments for nine years before growing Genesis Microchips from 5 people in India to over 150 people. He is the also now leading an effort on operating the Indian Microelectronics Academy. Muthu is a BE in Electronics and Communications from University of Madras and an ME in Computer Science from Anna University.