Abdulla Hisham is the Co-founder and Executive Director of Foradian Technologies, a Bangalore-based company that builds innovative web applications for education domain. Foradian successfully initiated and implemented Fedena in all the 15,000 schools of Kerala, India in collaboration with Government of Kerala, which is one of the largest deployment of open source software of its kind in the world.Hisham played a crucial role in growing Foradian from a small town startup to a profitable technology company and helped in winning prestigious awards like MIT TR35, Edustars and A League of 10 in NASSCOM Emerge 50 for innovation in education. Foradian was honored by Education Minister, Kerala for the achievements in Education sector and featured in CNBC TV18 Young Turks. He mentors various other product startups from India. Hisham was invited as speaker for various international conferences like International FOSS Conference India, Indiana LinuxFest USA etc. He was also a speaker for the TedxKids@cubbonpark. Before starting Foradian Technologies, Hisham worked as a control system and automation engineer and lead the famous automation project of the largest University in Middle East. Hisham is a graduate in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Kannur University, India.He is 2013 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Bangalore.

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Abhishek Patil is the Founder & CEO of Oliveboard, an adaptive learning platform with a vision to personalize education. Despite having a diverse set of family business options to choose from, he decided to launch Oliveboard to pursue his desire of using technology and data to solve a problem. Within a month of launching in Aug 2012, Oliveboard was selected as one of the top education startups in India by Edustars and Yourstory. Prior to Oliveboard, Abhishek was the Head of New Markets at Inmobi where he was instrumental in expanding Inmobiâs presence across Japan, Korea, China, W. Europe and Australia. He was recognized for his outstanding contribution to Inmobiâs international growth by the CEO and the Co-founders. He has been a part of small businesses all through with diverse experience in hospitality, manufacturing, gold trading and movie making. His movie also won the State award for Best Film in 2006. Abhishek completed his MBA from the University of Notre Dame. In his free time, he likes to play chess and was the captain of his college chess team. He loves traveling to and exploring new places while meeting people of different cultures. He is a 2013 Fellow at the Startup Leadership Program in Bangalore.

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Adarsh Natarajan is the Founder & CEO of Aindra Systems, a company whose vision is to use Artificial Intelligence to solve huge problems in the society at large. This, he believes, is his way of giving back to the society, through a successful ‘for-profit’ Business Enterprise. Aindra Systems, has provided an innovative solution in the Education space to plug subsidy leakage in aid-linked schools. He is now pursuing using the core technical component in the MedTech sector to address a problem that is huge in its societal impact. Prior to starting up, he worked for over 10 years in the IT industry in various companies and roles. Starting as a techie and progressing in the typical growth path for all techies, he realized that this was not what he wanted to do in life. His interest in Business drove him to transition into Business Development for a large IT services company where he cracked several multi-million dollar deals in Europe. His restlessness also drove him to do an MBA in IIM Bangalore, after which, he decided his life’s calling was being an Entrepreneur. In the period after his graduation in Mid-2011 and prior to starting Aindra Systems in early 2012, he dabbled in Management & Business Consulting for very early stage startups and a startup in the mobility enterprise space, which had to be wound up due to co-founder conflicts. He is an avid reader whose interests range from Management and Business to Fiction. He is an outdoor person who loves to travel and experience new cultures, trek, hike, play football and badminton. He is 2013 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Bangalore.

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Layak Singh is the Founder and CEO of Fullerene Solutions and Services (P). , a service and cloud product company focused on e-Learning, dating and fashion. Under this company, he works for dateIITians.com (Indian dating portal), COGXIO.COM (Global dating portal), estudyCorner.com and LivingStylish.com (Fashion and Lifestyle e-Magazine). Prior to Fullerene Solutions he worked at Edudigm Education Services (P), where he was project manager for education technology related products. Layak has also worked at IOCL, DRDO as internship. He is an expert in business management, operations, digital marketing, strategy, and research analytics. .He holds a degree in Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering. He is a fan of Gautama Buddha and believes in his priples. Layak is passionate about solving the problem of human relationships through technology, sharing knowledge and real life interactions.He is 2014 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Bangalore.

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Sandeep is a Social Entrepreneur and Co-Founder of Avasarshala (https://www.avasarshala.com). He is an IIM-Bangalore and ESADE-Barcelona alumnus. Former co-founder of CatalanLabs, he has been selected to international platforms, like Startup Chile Accelerator and been invited to present at Shift Conference- Croatia, IOT World Congress- Barcelona and has won the Hivos Social Innovation Awards- Amsterdam. Avasarshala - an EdTech startup that connects K-12 students with aspirational opportunities with regional, national and international scope. Avasarshala has received People's Choice Award at Youth Co:Lab (UNDP and AIM), recognized Internationally as Top 10 Purpose Driven Innovations by Bridge-for-Billions and Top 30 Most Inspiring Digital Innovations by Partos-Netherlands. He is a 2016 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Bangalore.

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Solomon Suresh is the Founder and MD of Resurge Academy, a maverick learning and development solutions company designed to unleash the unfathomable potential of aspiring leaders in order to enable them to become masters of their destiny. A forward thinking, energetic, ambitious, affable, adventurous, unconventional dreamer with excellent communication and behavioural skills he has been inducted as a member into the Continental Who’s Who registry of professionals and executives for outstanding leadership and achievement. An expert in HR, he was responsible for leading the cultural transformation by shaping the mind set and behaviour that impact the firm's operational and financial outcomes. Organizations partnered withlude HCL Technologies, Genpact and JP MorganChase. Solomon qualified the UGC national education test in Psychology (Master’s level) and was awarded the junior and senior research fellowship. He stood first in the university in the postgraduate degree in Psychology and holds a doctoral degree in organizational behaviour from IIT Madras. He is a martial artist (brown belt in Taekwondo) who can also be seen pumping iron frequently. Solomon is passionate about helping people bridge the chasm between their ability and opportunity. He is 2014 Fellow in the Start-up Leadership Program in Bangalore.

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Srinidhi is the CEO, Founder and Inventor of Reinventio, an educational tech startup. He also leads IEEE India Student Activities as its Vice Chair. He is a frequently invited motivational speaker across India, an award winning author, a mentor to dozens of startups and has served in various roles across student communities. Having started up at the age of 12, he continues to inspire others to startup and chase their dreams. He has more than fifty hobbies, ranging from Hindustani music through graphite art to making faces at street dogs. He one day hopes to change India positively by being in active politics.

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Viswa Swaroop Dandu is the CEO at Roomye.com, an online accommodation finder for India. He describes himself as a story-teller and a puppeteer, attempting to find his ground in the tech space. Viswa works as Creative Director at wisepuppet.com, an Explainer videos website that makes short and creative animated videos and currently employs 7 employees, seeking to serve marketing campaigns of organisations both in India and abroad. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from DNR College, Bhimvaram and a Master’s degree from PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore. Viswa is a 2015 Fellow at the Startup Leadership Program Bangalore Chapter.

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