Abhinav Sarangi is the co-founder of All in a Days Play. All in a Days Play makes games for mobile and PC. We have a portfolio of games with over 12 Million players. Prior to that, he worked as the Supporting Executive Director and Head-HR at ONGC Mehsana. He devised a business plan for Aditya Birla Group, Egypt to enter the Silane business which further led to a joint venture with a Chinese company of NPV of $ 700,000. A Marketing plan was devised & implemented for the Global Silica business. He spearheaded a project of multinational team in Material Process of a Swedish organization. At ICC Lucknow, he developed a new Recruitment & Selection policy and a new Performance Management. He thoroughly exhibits coordinating & leadership skills which are an asset. Abhinav did B.TECH Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from IIT Roorkee & holds PGDM from IIM Lucknow. Being a literary person, he likes to read & write short stories. Dostoevsky & Kafka are his favorite fictional authors. He loves adventure & likes trekking & traveling. He is 2012 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Bangalore. http://twitter.com/#!/abhimir http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=15257322&trk=tab_pro

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I’m a right brainer. I love radio and apple. Currently engaged in developing apps for iOS. My diverse interests, liking and creative thought processes over time got consolidated into a business entity called Koyyaka. My inspiration and passion towards Koyyaka has its roots in being an iOS developer and with my strength being a UX person.

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Anil Amesur is the founder of Go Delight, a mobile-based loyalty program that maps consumer demographics to offline transactions thereby driving business analytics for retailers. Prior to Go Delight, he worked with GEP – a strategic consulting firm - on sourcing initiatives for clients in US. Anil has also worked at JP Morgan Chase and NewAge Industries and has been closely associated with the Helen Keller Institute for Deaf-Blind. His expertise includes business strategy and marketing. He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from VJTI. He is also a certified ballroom dancer from ISTD, London. He enjoys music, food, driving and playing outdoor sports. He is also an avid football fan and a die-hard Manchester United supporter. He is 2013 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Mumbai.

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Ankur studied Computer Science at IIT Delhi, and then went on to do a PhD in Computer Science and Applied Maths at INRIA in France. He published several papers and presented at international conferences in 8 countries before joining Microsoft Research with a Fellowship at Cambridge University. He left Microsoft to join Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in London where he worked with senior management with Fortune 500 companies across multiple sectors. After two years at BCG, Ankur returned to India to set up Advait Energy, an innovative energy company that provides clean solutions to customers at the base of the pyramid in India and currently focusses on solar power. He currently serves as Director / Partner / Advisor / Consultant in Multiple business and social ventures in India.

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Annuraj Ennai, Founder & CEO, Mobiotics Anuraj Ennai is the co-founder and CEO of mobiotics, whose mission is to 'mobilimagineer our future' by defining integrative mobile experiences. Mobiotics has come up with a Social TV Platform, integrating TV viewing experience with mobile devices. Mobiotics is also working on a platform to integrate physical and mobile spaces for commercial applications. Prior to founding mobiotics , Anuraj was Principal Staff Researcher at Motorola Labs where he came up with many innovations in the field of mobile internet and mobile enterprise. He has filed several patents and his work on 'Mobile Service Oriented Architecture' earned him best paper award at IEEE Mobile Web Services Conference, 2008. Prior to his stint as a researcher, Anuraj worked as a Technical Marketer for Motorola and authored 22 J2ME specifications. Anuraj also worked as a Mobile Applications Architect and was responsible for the first MMS client on a 3G phone in 2003. Anuraj also worked in Wipro Technologies and Infosys for brief periods before his decade long stint at Motorola. Anuraj is an acknowledged expert in large scale distributed internet architectures and mobile application platform architectures and has several large scale platforms to his credit. He holds a B.Tech in Electronics & Communication Engineering from Kerala University, an MS in Computer Science from Illinois Institute of Technology , Chicago and an executive MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. Anuraj is an avid reader, a closet poet, a movie and music buff. He grew up reading Rilke, Kafka, dostoyevsky and listening to Bob Dylan, beatles and Queen and watching movies by Godard, Tarkovsky and Herzog and is deeply influenced by them . Anuraj is an avid soccer fan who idolizes Maradona and Zidane. He is passionate about securing an end to poverty and may consider a political stint in the future. He is 2012 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Bangalore.

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Arpita Soma is currently co-founder at YoGrad, an online community portal for students to network, learn and share their experiences. She hasa previously been co-founder at Internfever.com , a startup providing young India a platform to explore, experience & enhance their skills through internships and career development services. She is a curator at www.we-thewomen.com , a freestyle writing platform for women. She has worked with Greeley & Hansen as a Civil & Environmental Engineer in Tampa, Florida prior to starting up. She has a Masters in Environmental Engg from University of Cinnati and a Bachelors in Civil Engg from Osmania University, which she doesn’t use anymore and calls herself an 'armchair engineer'. She is very passionate about making graduates more employable and women more empowered. She is a 2014 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Hyderabad.

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Arshya Lakshman Arshya Lakshman, CEO & Founder of futurON Ltd, chose to make a living out of her hobby – creativity for the corporate world. futurON does marketing and social media strategies for the tech world. Arshya’s keen interest in blending the best of the creative and corporate world, started due to her education in Visual Communications (Madras University) and Business Management (Strathclyde Business School). From being a part of the Tamil films industry to being associated with multinational brands (like Ingenico, BBC, BBDO, Tata, Sony) and startups, Arshya has worked with a variety of industries and organizational sizes leading branding, marketing, PR and social media campaigns. Arshya is a serial globetrotter, she has worked and travelled across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. Her love for the creative art led her to become an actor for a multicultural theatre group in the UK and singing for a band in Scotland. She also enjoys her photography, painting, martial arts and meditation. Arshya is a fellow in the 2012 Startup Leadership Program in London and is looking forward to combining her love for entrepreneurship, leadership and technology to dive deep into the startup world.

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Ashima is an entrepreneur on a path to create value by enabling the phone savvy to access a plethora of products and services via 6800-6800 using a bedrock of computing technology and along with a friendly voice. Ashima’s expertise in user-experience, scalability and search engine optimisation is critical is developing ZatSe.in as the fastest loading local search site in India and organically growing the ZatSe 6800-6800 user base. Armed with a Bachelor’s and Masters in Computer Science from the Johns Hopkins University, she gained experience in distributed computing research on a DARPA project and process optimisation Unisys Corporation, USA. She is a 2013 fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in New Delhi.

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Ashish Mittal Ashish Mittal graduated from the Delhi College of Engineering, and co-founded 'Innovatiview " that manufacture animatronic products and Mobile Phone Jammers. One of their products "Robotic Shera", robotic version of mascot for the commonwealth games 2010, became very popular among the masses and was appreciated and inaugurated by chief minster of Delhi. He is a 2012 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in New Delhi.

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Ashok Reddy is the founder of Landmark IT Solutions, which runs InspireLabs anubation center for it’s own employee product initiatives, they have successfully launched FashionLady and GrabOn as part of this initiative and these projects are trying to take off, 2 months into the launch, the traction these startups are getting is amazing. Prior to starting Landmark IT solutions, Ashok Reddy was a CTO at a US startupentOne, where he was critical in raising the company 26M USD at 76M USD. Prior to that he has worked with Microsoft and eBay/PayPal. Currently CTO at 2 US organizations, Ashok Reddy aspires to create multiple entrepreneurs in Hyderabad and want to see a successful exit created from Hyderabad startups. He is a 2014 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Hyderabad

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Ashok Varma Kucharlapati, Silmaril Software pvt ltd Ashok Varma is the Founder & CEO of Silmaril Software. Founded in Jan 2011, Silmaril Soft has been developing products to help mobile app developers reach their product market fit faster. Prior to Silmaril Soft, he has worked at Knolskape Solutions, a startup based out of Singapore. Ashok holds a Bachelors degree in Information Systems from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India. He is a 2012 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in the Hyderabad chapter.

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Balram Sarvashetty is the founder/proprietor of Quarck Infotainment which provides targeted content repositories and content scoping services to applications over the web and mobile, including some of the top rated apps on platforms such as Blackberry, Android Market and Apple Appstore etc. He is also a StartingBloc Fellow of New York'12 and is a strong believer in low cost, for-profit sustainable models on solving some of the world’s pressing issues and is currently working with the Strategic Management Team of BSS Microfinance on some of the key initiatives including “credit+” activities such as, a low cost healthcare benefit program and a low cost sustainable model to fund the education of poor students. He is an Engineering Graduate in Computer Science and a huge trivia enthusiast having won more than 50 inter/intra collegiate trivia/quiz competitions including the prestigious Tata Crucible, Economic Times Business Quiz, TCS IT quizzes. If he isn’t spending time on turning his ideas into reality, then you are most likely to catch him at a movie theatre with his friends or surfing arbit videos on youtube! He is 2013 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Bangalore.

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Baskar Ceri is the founder of Apna Technologies & Solutions (ApnaTech), a company that makes Knowledge Engineering Products (KEPs) and systems, which improves safety and efficiency in Railway, Shipping and Energy Assets. Prior to rebooting ApnaTech in 2010 into a challenging products company that avoids train accidents, helps Officer on Watch in Ships to be alert, Baskar spent the initial years of ApnaTech in making it a great system company that built complex R&D systems as per customer requirements like Under Water Crawler that can mine sea beds upto 600m deep; Satellite Balancing Stand for Indian Space Agency, etc. Before founding ApnaTech, Baskar worked with National Instruments in Austin, US and later started National Instrument’s India operations. He holds degrees in Electrical Engineering (MS), Electrical & Electronics (BE) and Biological Sciences (MSc) from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA and BITS, Pilani, India. Baskar is passionate about start-ups and product companies and wants to be major contributor to India becoming a Product & IP rich country by nurturing, mentoring and financing new ideas and start-ups in the future. He is 2013 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Bangalore.

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Farid Ahsan is the CEO of Mohalla, a data engine with which he intends to perfect the data universe by implementing data democracy. Prior to Mohalla, he interned at Deutsche Bank as a Summer Analyst. He is an avid robotics enthusiast, having worked on more than 20 robotics projectluding the coveted Boeing lunar rover project. Farid is a final year B.Tech student at IIT-Kanpur, majoring in Material Science. Farid has been running Mohalla in stealth mode for last 15 months. He is a fan of Elon Musk and MS Dhoni. Farid is passionate about solving 3rd world problems through completingomplete data-sets. He is 2014 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in New Delhi. He is also the founder of ShareChat.

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Hamish Patel, Founder & CEO at a stealth mode startup Hamish is the founder at a stealth mode startup set out to disrupt the mobile devices space where he works with a team of researchers on innovation around NUI, new media design/mobile devices etc. When he's not working you'd ideally find him playing with his xbox or reading up on economists.

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