A Chartered Accountant by training, Abhinav has always had the entrepreneurial bug. He has started and sold off a profitably run executive search firm in the past and has also had a great career record with organizations like Google, American Express and KPMG. However, travel and tourism has always been his first love and it is his intense knowledge of the Indian tourism sector that led him to launch www.IndiaOffbeat.com, a speciality and experiential travel firm focused on India

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A travel enthusiast, Akshay is the Founder and CEO of The Indian Backpacker, a company which provides all the necessary information and service details to people to wish to backpack across India. Within a short period of time, Akshay has made IndianBackpacker a credible source of information and bookings for backpackers coming to India. His vision is to popularize India as a backpacking destination and to create awareness about the beauty, culture and heritage of this country. He has earlier worked with WNS as a travel expert for the customers of Travelocity.com. Akshay’s previous projects alsolude working with companies like Exposure Media Marketing (which publishes Selling World Travel magazine), Eventus India and Aegis Global Vantedge. He has done BTec in Computing & Business Applications, which he supplemented with MBA in National Economic Planning and Entrepreneurship from IIPM. He is 2014 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Delhi.

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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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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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Prabhat Bhadauria, Founder, Delhi Food Adventure Prabhat Bhadauria is the Founder of Delhi Food Adventure, which has brought the concept of Food Tourism to India (www.delhifoodadventure.com). What started out as a hobby in 2010, has now become a full time setup. The concept is loved by travelers from around the world and has been profitable since inception. He loves to travel and is working to open similar chapters in cities within and outside India. Prabhat holds a bachelors (B.E) and masters (M.Sc) degree (BITS - Pilani), and has worked with leading technology companies - Intel, Fiorano and SapientNitro from 2007 - 2011. Prabhat was also the Founder of Project IM-Possible, a community project aimed at providing employment opportunities to Street beggars in Bangalore (2009-10). He is a 2012 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in New Delhi.

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A Management Graduate who is extremely passionate about Sports and is striving to improve the landscape of Sports in India. He is passionate about change management, and wanted to create an ecosystem that provides change master especially those in social entrepreneurship, access to marketing avenue, better ROI on their dollar spend, and access to crowdfunding. He is a Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program 2015 - New Delhi Chapter.

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