Abhishek Singh is the Founder of Imly.in , the online marketplace to buy and sell homemade food, a place to discover and buy amazing food cooked by home chefs in your city. Abhishek was first bitten by the entrepreneurship bug at the age of 14 and has made several attempts to be bitten by the elusive success bug se then. He dreamt of being an entrepreneur se he figured out what it meant which is why he prefers not to mention the year he spent after college in a 9 to 5 job, ‘figuring out’ what to do with his life. Just to make it absolutely clear, he is still figuring it out. He holds a not so useful Masters of Commerce degree and a much more useful Bachelors of Management Studies degree from H.R College of Commerce & Economics. He also holds unofficial degrees in Design, Programming and a few other things bestowed upon him by the Internet gods. If he had a chance he would live, work and play on a tennis court. He is passionate about creation in all forms and is dedicated to building things that are awesome. He is a 2014 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Bangalore.

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Akash Behl is the Director & Co-founder of Chizel Prints Manufacturing, a 3D printing consultants in Pune focused on finding niche applications of 3D Printing in unexplored domains. Prior to Chizel, he worked at Cogniz-EDU as the Marketing Head. He is a member of the Business Network International. Akash has also worked at MIDAS IT. He is an expert in Engineering, Matlab and Product Development. He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering. He is a 2016 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Pune.

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Anand Kulkarni is the founder of ShoppingAndOffers.com - a web based advertising platform for progressive retailers and pre-shopping research resource for consumers. Over last 14 years, before beginning his entrepreneurial journey, Anand has worked with organizations such as Gruh Finance (subsidiary of HDFC), Tech Mahindra, ICICI Bank and HSBC and has gained rich experience and insights in diverse areas such as Mortgages, Business Process Management (BPM), Internet Banking and Credit Risk Management. Over the years with several organizations of repute, Anand has proven himself as a knowledgeable Business Analyst, effective team leader, motivator and a good team player. During his professional career, Anand has won awards such as 'Employee of the Quarter', 'Employee of the Year' and 'Spark'. He has also been recognized for several out-of-box initiatives which were very well received and appreciated by the senior management. Anand is well travelled in India, UK and USA. Anand is a Science graduate and holds a Masters degree in Finance (MBA). During his free time, he is often seen with his prized possession - his DSLR, photographing portraits, capturing nature and cracking self-assigned commercial advertisement assignments. While most hate commercial advertisements pushed at us by marketers, Anand loves watching both print and TV commercials, to the extent that if someone had paid him to watch ads, he would be a millionaire by now. Anand is a 2013-14 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Pune. In 2014, he founded Voconow, a mobile ad-tech company that transforms static newspaper advertisements into interactive and transactional newspaper advertisements.

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Bhushan Vishwanath worked in Stee, Water, Biotech, ITES, eCommerce fields for 10 years. He had bitter experience of collaboration Launched afresh a product based on funded biotech research recently. He is 2013 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Pune.

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Binit Veshvikar is the founder of ASP e-Ventures (the holding company of OOHZila.com- an online platform for advertisement targeted at SMEs). He is a Mechanical Engineer, with MBA from M. S. University of Baroda and has 10+ years of experience in varied sectorsluding Automobile, Infrastructure & Consulting. He is also Managing Director of ASP Water & Power Projects -an infrastructure company working as a subcontractor with all major EPC companies in Indialuding but not limited to Gammon, HCC, IVRCL, Kirloskar and has previously worked with Tata group on feasibility studies for new Joint Ventures and Deloitte on Valuation projects. Binit has wide experience in building and running a successful enterprise and is a 2014 fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Pune.

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Dhiraj Pillay, Fragstore Retail Private Limited Dhiraj Kumar Pillay is the Founder & CEO of Giftaperfume.com and the Managing Director of Fragstore Retail Private Limited, a paradise for all branded perfume lovers and envisioned to become India's first multi-branded retail chain exclusively into perfumes. Prior to this he was the head of Career Launcher India Ltd.'s Hyderabad business. He is also one amongst the 99.99999 percentile people who started their careers with Coke, uncommonly known as Hindustan Coca Cola Beverages Pvt Ltd. He is a graduate in Statistics and has done his MBA in 2004. He has specialised in International Business from Symbiosis Institute of International Business. He is passionate about outdoor sports and relishes cooking at times. He is 2012 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program at Hyderabad.

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Gaurav is currently working on teaching India on how to Start Profitable Online Businesses with his business partner Stanley and his fantastic team of 20 employees based in different parts of the world. Gaurav earned his first Paycheck at the age of 14 over the Internet. After a slight detour in Hotel Management, he pursued his true passion with a job in a $450 million company developing traffic monetization solutions. By 21, he had the courage to step into the path of entrepreneurship. He believed he had an idea that would succeed so he took the risk, and started designing web pages for friends and buying domain names. After teaching himself the finer aspects of Internet Marketing, he decided it was time to launch his company, Pragmites. Starting with a dedicated team he set up his operations in Pune, introducing the concepts of SEO to local businessmen in 2005. He branched out into mainstream Internet Marketing and developed the skills needed to grow his business into a complete Internet Marketing Consultancy employing over 35 full time employees. Gaurav never stopped reinventing his company. In 2009 he introduced the concept of work from home, which drew on the untapped skills of students and professionals to turn their talents to content writing. This provided employment to 2300 people across the country. Soon, his customers were not limited to India but came from across the world. Having partnered with several gurus in the Internet Marketing industry, Gaurav has been invited to speak at Industry Events in Las Vegas for a couple of years and regularly conducts MasterMind Seminars and Workshops locally. In 2010, Gaurav sold a minority share of his company to his now partner, Stanley Adams from Austin, Texas.

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Goonjan Mall, Senior Analyst, Bain & Company Goonjan Mall pursued Electrical and Electronics Engineering at BITS, Pilani and graduated with ‘Distinction’. During college, he got involved in various fields ranging from core electronics such as VLSI designing, microprocessors, etc. to new and relatively unexplored fields such as ‘Micro Elctromechanical Systems’ (MEMS). He is currently working as a Senior Analyst at Bain & Company, where he works on developing strategies, go-to-market plans, marketing pitch books, industry benchmarks, etc. and contributes to solve CXO-level problems for various sectors like oil and gas, technology and private equity. He is also the Manager of Communications team of BITSAA International. He is currently the Secretary at Toastmasters Club in Delhi, and volunteers his time at ‘Umeed’, a second home for children who ran away from their home. Goonjan is an avid traveler, and if you will run into him at IHC or a cafe enjoying standup comedy shows. He is a 2012 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in New Delhi.

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Kavita Singh is the founder and CEO of Museum Shop Products India (website : beenthere.in). Her venture is a result of her interest in history and her experience in handling merchandise and branding in the Indian retail industry. Beenthere.in creates and markets contemporary and functional souvenirs about India. Its ‘a little piece of history’ you can buy about a place you have been to. Prior to this she has had an 11 year long career in the Indian apparel retail industry. She began her career with a post graduate diploma from National Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi. She has headed the product/brand verticals of various denim brands. She enjoyed creating and marketing the first line of distressed jeans in India for Wrangler. She worked with Lee Cooper jeans to double their turnover within 2 years. Her last assignment was for Levis before she decided to change track. She went for an MBA from Indian School of Business and was convinced about starting her own venture. She hopes to enjoy this new phase of her career as much or more than her corporate stint. She loves to read historical fiction and has trained in Indian classical dance. Kavita is a 2013 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Bangalore.

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Pramod Nair is a Founder of LearnSocial, a peer-to-peer Learning Platform that connects people who are passionate about a topic and can teach it - with people who are interested to learn new things! Before starting LearnSocial, he worked at D. E. Shaw & Co as a Senior Member Technical. He graduated in Computer Science with Honors from IIIT-Hyderabad. He is passionate about entrepreneurship - especially in creating products that drive the mobile and internet revolution in emerging markets like India. He is a 2013 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Hyderabad.

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Sreepriya is the Founder, CEO of Turnarond Innovision(flipxi.in), a startup focused on leveraging Image processing technologies to make online shopping interactive & intuitive. She technologist turned Entrepreneur developing products in E-commerce, Web & Mobile technologies. Exploring product opportunities in the space of Augmented Reality & Image Processing.Launched a product with patent pending technology, first of its kind, to enable interactive catalogs for e-commerce companies which enable anrease in the conversion rates up to 40%. Working with the biggest e-tailers of India as clients. Prior to starting up Turnaround she worked for Ketera Technologies & ReardenCommerce on building software applications for e-Procurement & Catalog Management Solutions. She holds a Bachelors & Masters degree in Industrial Chemistry from IIT Kharagpur. She is 2014 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Bangalore.

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Suraj Goyal, Founder, Printbindaas.com Suraj holds a B Tech in Electronics and Communications, from Institute of Technology, BHU and has studied MBA from Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar. Over 15 years of time span, Suraj has worked with Indian companies & MNCs like SAP, Wipro and NCR Corp in the Business Development and Partner Management space; and he is now exploring the realm of e-commerce and entrepreneurship. Observing the lofty amount of time, energy and money companies expended each year to promote themselves and their products, Suraj originated printbindaas.com to provide effective yet affordable branding, marketing and printing solutions - all under one roof. He is a 2012 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Mumbai.

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Vedika Hansaria is the publisher of "The Product Journey", a marketing blog aimed at educating e-commerce retailers about online marketing. Along with this, she is also working in the app marketing domain, where she helps other entrepreneurs promote their apps online. Vedika has also worked at Snapdeal, and Wipro Technologies. She holds a degree of M.Tech CS and B.Tech IT. She is a fan of the ecommerce industry. Vedika is passionate about solving the problem of reaching out to the potential user base via an omnichannel approach. She is a 2019 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in (New Delhi).

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