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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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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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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Ishmeet Singh, Founder, T3 Ishmeet Singh worked as an Equity research analyst at The Smart Cube, India where he covered leading pharmaceutical companies in Central and Eastern Europe. Prior to this, he was co-founder and CEO of Verostore.com, a premier online grocery store based out of Gurgaon. He was also co-founder and Director at Illuminati eVentures, where he was heading the web application development and the web analytics division. Prior to starting Verostore and IeV, he worked as a Java/J2EE specialist at Wipro Technologies, India. Ishmeet holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Finance from Business India Institute of Finance, New Delhi and a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar. He loves to play chess, read fiction and design forex trading strategies in his free time. He is a 2012 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in New Delhi.

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Shitij Malhotra is onto his third startup. The first is a successful e-learning content services company called FreshLime Media, serving companies like Airtel, Luftansa and Tag Hauer and the second is patented medical device called TransferLife which was sold to MGM Associates. He now runs a 16 months young venture called Traveller Kids which makes fun learning games for children aged 5-11 years.Traveller Kids also has a subscription based service of educational and fun games. A Computer Science Engineer from Pune University, He is also a passionate scuba diver and next on his list is to learn to fly a plane. He is a passionate innovator who loves toying around with new ideas. Coming to SLP with an open mind to learn and make new friends and associates. He is 2014 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Delhi.

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Learner of all trades, master of some. Surabhi is someone who has spent her whole engineering life in being passionately curious about things around and doing experiments to find the best fit for her interests to channelise her immense energy, which she claims is enough to create a dent in the part of the universe that belongs to her. She was the director of an online networking cum merchandising startup, named Witcraft in second year of her college (IIT Delhi) and having existed the startup successfully by selling it out, she joined another hot endeavor in her college named Zumbl.com, which is an online chat platform for strangers. Except coding she did everything in these two startups, ranging from being the only around in the office to serve teas to pitching to investors. Having honed her skills in idea generation, marketing and PR in aforementioned startups, she is now seeking forreasing her knowledge base in social sector. Few other modest feathers in her caplude, authorship of a book on farmers for a fund raising campaign of an NGO, taking India to top 6 position for the first time in a Global market. l consulting competition (CIMA GBC) competing against 5000 teams from 24 nations, coauthorship of 3 research papers (2 Biotechnology, 1 Finance) and being a dramaqueen (quite literally, around 25 play performances in 4 years of college). She loves good places and people. She is a 2014 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Delhi.

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is an Electronics and Communication Engineer by qualification and subsequently worked in the telecom sector after graduation. He soon realized that his interests lied elsewhere, as Vikram is passionate about technology and how it can bring about a difference in India. Vikram was given the opportunity to work with an upcoming startup- Webbzer, which is a DIY website builder. Webbzer gave him the understanding and knowledge needed to start a business from the ground up and the confidence required to being an entrepreneur. After spending 1.5 years honing the product to better suit the target market, he left to begin his own journey with Parkify, a mobile app that helps users to search and book available parking spots. Vikram has been involved with Parkify for 8 months now and plan to launch the product by October. Apart from this, he is a sportsman at heart, ready for a pickup Basketball game when the time allows and is also a self taught guitarist. He is a Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program 2015 - New Delhi Chapter.

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Vinayak Garg is the Founder of Zest.Md, a web based tool which helps Medical Professionals and Health Coaches to create and run their own eClinic, for online patient management and consultation. Vinayak has recently launched Zootzy.com a tool which allows users to create a website using their facebook page as input, and the website then updates whenever new content is posted on facebook page. Prior to this, he co-founded LeapEd Education Solutions, a company focused on education marketing and student leads generation. Vinayak has also worked as a Consultant for Government Reforms with PwC. Vinayak is an expert in online marketing, search engine marketing, leads management and online user experience & engagement. Vinayak is passionate about solving the problem of global access to information. Vinayak holds a degree in Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He also spent a year at Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon, France. Vinayak was awarded as INDIAFRICA Young Visionary 2012, by Government of India. Vinayak is 2014 Fellow in the Startup Leadership Program in Delhi.

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