Mentors

A full list of over 200 mentors, speakers and judges is being compiled. For now, here’s a representative sample of our mentors.

List of Mentors, Speakers & Judges
Aaron Sandoski, Managing Partner, Norwich Ventures
Andrew Jay, Managing Partner, Siemens Venture Capital
Bill Warner, Founder, Avid Technology & Angel Investor
Brian Shin, Founder & CEO, Visible Measures
Dave Collard, Former CFO, Prime Computer
David Thrower, Chairman & CEO, InSound Medical Inc.
Desh Deshpande, Serial Entrepreneur
Dharmesh Shah, Founder, Hubspot
Diane Darling, CEO, Effective Networking Inc.
Diogo Teixeira, Founder, Tower Group & Angel Investor
Doug Fambrough, General Partner, Oxford Biosciences
Dr Amar Sawhney, Founder of several medtech companies
Eric Emmons, Partner, Siemens Venture Capital
Jason Reuben, Founder & CEO, Paragon Lake
Jeff Carbeck, Founder & Chief Scientist, Nano-Terra
Jeffery Moore, VP, MPH Venture Management
Jim Matheson, Partner, Flagship Ventures
Jit Saxena, Founder, Netezza & Serial Entrepreneur
Joe Caruso, Angel Investor & Mentor
Jonas Brickhaus, VP, Business Development, IDEO
Lisa Suennen, Managing Partner, Psilos Ventures
Maria Hastopoulous, Founder & CEO Z Corporation
Mark Haddad, Partner, Foley Hoag
Michael Greeley, Managing Partner, Flybridge Capital
Mike Webb, CEO of EPIX & Ascent Therapeutics
Mukti Khaire, Harvard Business School
Nat Sims, The Sims Lab, Harvard Medical School
Pano Anthos, Founder of Hangout
Richard Kimball, Partner, Edward Angel Palmer and Dodge
Robert Creeden, Managing Partner, Partners Venture Fund
Scott Rader, CEO, Arsenal Medical
Scott Yaphe, General Partner, ABS Ventures
Shari Loessberg, Lecturer, MIT Sloan

Silicon Valley
Aaron Basilius, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Asaf Kharal, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
David Hanzel, Partner, Seed Capital Management
David Thrower, Chairman & CEO, InSound Medical
Dinesh Ramanathan, Executive Vice President, Cypress Semiconductor
Eshwar Belani, Serial Entrepreneur, Sensact Applications
Gaurav Aggarwal, Principal, Panorama Capital
Harpal Sandhu, Co-Founder & CEO, Integral and Infinity Financial Technology
Igal Ladabaum, Founder, Sensant and VP of R&D, InSound Medical
Irv Henderson, VP of Connected Life, Yahoo!
Jagadish Bandhole, Founder and CEO, Fonemine
JC Simbana, Managing Director, Silicon Valley Bank
Joe Kosakowski, President & Founder, Quest Groups
Lisa Suennen, Managing Partner, Psilos Group Managers, LLC
M. Ken Kengatharan, President and CSO, Altheos
Michael Griego, President/Founder, MXL Partners
Mike Danaher, Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Mohan Uttarwar, Founder & CEO of two companies sold, BioImagene
Nancy Kamei, Head of Healthcare, Intel Capital
Nimish Mehta, Managing Director & CEO, LumenData
Paul Singh, Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Lightspeed Ventures
Prabhat Dubey, Serial Founder & CEO, TelASIC, Force10 Networks and MMC Networks
Prem Uppaluru, President and CEO, Transera
Raj Parekh, Founder and Executing Managing Partner, Redwood Ventures
Rakesh Mathur, Serial Entrepreneur, Webaroo, Inc.
Ravi Amble, Chairman & CEO, Rapidigm
Robin Smith, CEO, ArtusLabs
Rosen Sharma, CTO, McAfee Systems
Sandip Gupta, CEO, Fastlane Advisors, Netmagic & Founder of several companies
Sanjay Mittal, Founder, Chairman & CEO, Selectica (NASD: SLTC)
Sarita Jain, Former Principal, J&J Development Corporation
Satish Gupta, Chairman & CEO, Cradle Technologies
Sean O’Malley, Head of Venrock Incubator
Siva Kumar, Founder & CEO, TheFind and seven other venture-backed startups
Steve Foster, Founder & Managing Director, TPG Ventures
Venk Shukla, CEO, Nusym Technologies

Bangalore

Shuva Mandal, Partner, Fox Mandal and Little
Sanjay Anandram , Headstart
Ashwin Raghram, VP, India Innovation Fund
Ganapathy Subramanian, Founder, Stega Capital
Anand Daniel, Principal, Accel Partners
Saumil Majmudar, EduSports, Co-founder & Managing Director
Sharada Balaji, Founder & CEO, Novojuris
Shyam N Viswanath, Co-founder and Managing Partner, Dig Design Studio
Sunil Maheshwari, CEO, Mango Technologies
Vaibhav, CEO, Open2save
Venugopal Sathyanarayana, CEO, Vengo Ventures
Phani Sharma, CEO, Redbus.in
Dr. Swami Manohar, Founder, Strand LifeSciences
Dr. VA Shastry, Co-founder, RelQ
Freeman Murray, Founder, jaaga.in
Mohan Sundaram, CEO, Wisian Consulting
Ramanand Mundkur, Managing Partner, Mundkur Law Partners
Depinder Singh, COO, ZeroSum Wireless
Harold D Souza, Sr. VP, DHR International
Jitendra Chaddah, Director, Intel India
Muthukrishnan Chinnasamy, Director, Sonic Chips
Naveen Krishnaswamy, Head, Technology Team, redbus.in
Anurag Rastrayanayaka, Chartered Accountant

New Delhi
Neeraj Mohan, Director of Generics Strategy and Alliances, Drug Access Team at Clinton Health Access Initiative
Taveesh Pandey, CEO and Director at Black Diamond PE Advisors
Amit Somany, Chief Products Officer, MakeMyTrip.com
Sanjay Negi, Impetus
Rajat Goel, Owner, Eye-Q Chain
Deep Kalra, CEO, MakeMyTrip
Ajay Sood, VP, Ericsson India
Alok Mittal Managing Director, Cannan Partners
Sreekanth Beeram Assistant Director at Intellectual Ventures
Ritesh Banglani. Vice President at Helion Ventures
Mukul Singhal. Sr. Associate at SAIF Partners
Vipul Kumar. CA, Vipul Kumar & Co
Rajeev Goswami. Managaing Partner of Rajeev Goswami & Associates
Rajesh Razdan, Founder, mCarbon
Rajesh Mittal, CFO of the Indian Hospitality Corp
Nikhil Nath, Founder, Knowcross Solutions Private Limited
Manish Vij,Co-Founder: Vun Network; Quasar, Tyroo, Zoomtra, Letsbuy.com
Naveen Coomar, Vice President and Global Head of HR at Impetus Infotech
Sanjay Lakhotia, Freelance consultant, Ex-Head of Operations, Apac, Hewitt
Naveen Goel, Owner at Naveen Goel Law Offices
Atul Kapur, Chartered Accountant
Akshat Rathi, MD, Nodwin Group
Shantanu Prakash, CEO and Founder, EDUCOMP
Amitabh Nagpal, Serial entrepreneur, Founder Studyplaces.com
Hitesh Oberoi, CEO, Naukri.com
Bejul Somaia, MD, Lightspeed Ventures
Kartik Varma, Co-Founder, iTrust

San Diego
Mike Krupp, Ph.D. CONNECT EIR and Biomedical Business Development Consultant
David Karlman, CEO of Otologic Pharmaceutics
Tim Rueth, Private Investor, Start-up Advisor & Coach
Terry Moore, M.B.A. Founder and Managing Partner of Moore Venture Partners
Larry Cox, Ph.D. Kauffman Fellow, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship, Pepperdine University
Chris Fugelsang, J.D., Ph.D. Vice President, Tavistock Life Sciences
Phil Baker, Inventor, Author of From Concept to Consumer, and Entrepreneur
Brant Cooper, Author of The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development and Founder & Principal of Market By Numbers
Michael Lurie, M.B.A. Founder and CEO of Blue Mine Group
Scott Evans, Director of Inside Sales, Service-now.com
Michael Wood, M.B.A. is Senior Manager of Business Development & Marketing at Orexigen Therapeutics
David Turner, CEO and Co-founder, Parallel6
Jack DeFranco, M.B.A., President and CEO of Targeson Inc.
John Rodenrys, M.S., Senior Managing Director of Leading Ventures
Ricardo dos Santos, M.Eng. M.B.A. Sr. Director of Business Development at QUALCOMM’s Corporate New Business Development group
Val Popescu, CEO of VirtualMetrix
Dana McGowan, CPA, CFO of Ocera Therapeutics
Elizabeth Kane, J.D. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich Rosati
Nick Tait, Barney & Barney
Matt Garrett, Founder of TGG Accounting
Ted Jacobs & Darren Morgan, Cushman Wakefield
Polly Murphy, D.V.M., Ph.D., M.B.A. VP Worldwide Business Development of Pfizer
Greg Horowitt, Founder of Global CONNECT, Co-founder and Managing Partner of T2 Venture Capital
Robin Toft, President of Sanford Rose Associates – San Diego
Michelle Youngers, CEO of Science Media
Lee Wills Irvine, Sr. Manager Human Resources, Qualcomm
Rick Cooper, Tech Coast Angels
Mike Yuen, Co-founder, President, and CEO of Zeebo Inc.
Neil Senturia, CEO of Blackbird Ventures
Tom Halle, VP, Strategic Alliances and Channels of Hitachi ID Systems
Steve Blank, 8-time Serial Entrepreneur, Author of Four Steps to the Epiphany, and Lecturer at UC Berkeley, Stanford University, and Columbia University

London
John Mullins, London Business School
Sharath Jeevan, CEO at Global Giving, CEO at Teaching Leaders
Fernando Diez, Founder and CEO at China Minds
Henry Playfoot, Founder and CEO at WhiteLoop, Stealth Education
Steven Hess, CEO of Weapon7
Clark Giles, CFO at Anton Capital, Founder at SunRay Renewable Energy Group
Karen McClellan, Founder and Director at Solar Power Capital
Mark Cheng, Executive Director at Chelwood Capital, Senior Advisor at Ashoka
Tom Rippin, Founder at On Purpose, Chairman at SPICE
Lara Morgan, Founder at Pacific Direct, co-founder at StartupBritain
Hussein Kanji, Early stage technology investor
Radhika Bhagat, Partner at Kemp & Watson
Cate Han, Co-founder and Principal at Launch Collective