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Mohamed Althaf

Director, Lulu Group International Dr. Mohamed Althaf is a Director at Lulu Group International, responsible for spearheading the company's strategic expansion and identifying new revenue streams. In his role as Director of Y International in the USA, UK, Italy, Spain, and Australia, Dr. Althaf oversees the Group's export and distribution operations across Europe, Australia, and the US. He is also a strategic partner for sustainable food technology companies. With qualifications in Law, Intellectual Property Rights, and Circular Economics, Dr. Althaf is an alumnus of the University of Delhi and the Said Business School at Oxford University. He is an Indian national and a member of several international business forums.

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Sam Balaji

Global Consulting CEO, Deloitte Sam Balaji is the Global Consulting CEO at Deloitte and a member of its Global Executive since 2016. He has lived, operated on 3 continents, and has had significant Technology, P&L and Global experiences, advising CXOs and Boards across industries and geographies on vital strategic matters such as Technology, Growth, M&A, Innovation, Business Models, Operations, Cyber, and Risk. He is also an experienced Board Director having served for 6 years, including as board Vice-Chair and Compensation committee Chair for 3 years. Sam has been recognized on the Top 50 Consulting CEOs list two years in a row. He has a M.E. in Computer Science & Automation from the Indian Institute of Science.

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Sujit Banerjee

Managing Director, K1 Operations Sujit Banerjee is a Managing Director at K1 Operations. He is responsible for leading K1 Operations and its proprietary IOps initiative throughout the portfolio. Previously Mr. Banerjee was a Managing Director at Element Partners, a Partner at Bluerun Ventures and a Management Consultant at Pricewaterhouse coopers. Mr. Banerjee began his career at Synoptics Communications where he designed networking equipment. Mr. Banerjee is a graduate of the Wharton School of Business, where he received an MBA, and of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he received a BS in Electrical Engineering with Eta Kappa Nu academic honors. Mr. Banerjee has served as a director and founder of numerous technology companies and currently serves on the Wharton Graduate Executive Board as well as the Rensselaer Silicon Valley Executive Council.

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Ashwin Bharath

Co-Founder and CEO at Revature Ashwin Bharath is the Co-Founder and CEO of Revature, the largest employer of emerging technology talent in the United States. Ashwin co-founded Revature after seeing first-hand that although talent availability is equally distributed, opportunity was being reserved for the elites and privileged. Today Ashwin’s mission is to train over 1M people and to provide employment pathways for those that have the aptitude and attitude to reach their potential as successful Software Engineers. As CEO, Ashwinis responsible for Revature’s strategic vision and strives to fuel the future of work by providing diverse technology talent at scale, while bridging the skills gap and equalizing opportunity for all.

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Shub Bhowmick

Chief Executive Officer & Co-founder, Tredence Shub Bhowmick is the CEO and co-founder of Tredence. For more than 25 years, he has been a problem solver, entrepreneur, and technology leader. In 2013, Shub and his partners launched Tredence, a data science and AI engineering company focused on solving the last mile problem in analytics. The ‘last mile’ is defined as the gap between insight creation and value realization. Tredence is 1,000-plus employees strong with offices in Foster City, Chicago, London, Toronto, and Bangalore, serving 30+ Fortune 500 companies in retail, CPG, hi-tech, telecom, travel, and industrials as clients. Prior to the founding of Tredence, Shub held senior executive positions at Diamond Consultants (now PwC), Mu Sigma, Liberty Advisor Group, and Infosys. Shub holds an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and a Bachelor of Technology with Honors in Chemical Engineering from IIT-BHU, India.

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Navin Chaddha

Managing Director, Mayfield Fund Navin Chaddha is Managing Director at Mayfield. He is a three-time entrepreneur turned venture capitalist who has invested in over 50 companies, of which over 37 have had IPOs or been acquired. He made his twelfth appearance on the Forbes Midas List of Top 100 Tech Investors in 2020, being named in the Top Five. He is passionate about nurturing the Rise of the Individual and an active philanthropist who has supports efforts in diversity, education, equity, health, and hunger. He holds an MS degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University and a B.Tech degree in electrical engineering from IIT Delhi, where he was honored with the distinguished IIT Alumni Award.

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Nishith Desai

Founder and Managing Partner, Nishith Desai Associates Nishith Desai is an international tax and corporate lawyer, researcher, author and lecturer. He is founder of Nishith Desai Associates. Nishith has substantial experience in the Fund sector, advising a large number of offshore investment funds and playing a seminal role in structuring several private equity funds, in addition to structuring several domestic venture capital funds. He has advised the Small Industries Development Board of India and the Department of Electronics, Government of India, on their domestic venture capital fund. Nishith serves as a Member of Advisory Board at Avendus Advisors Private Ltd. He is on the Advisory Board of the New York State Bar Association’s International Law Review. He is also the Chairperson of Taxation Committee of LAWASIA and a senior country correspondent for “Tax Notes International”, US. He is a member of the International Bar Association, American Bar Association, Inter Pacific Bar Association, LAWASIA, International Tax Planning Association, and Supreme Court Bar Association. He has been voted ‘External Counsel of the Year 2009’ by Asian Counsel and Pacific Business Press and the ‘Most in Demand Practitioners’ by Chambers Asia 2009. He has also been ranked No. 28 in a global Top 50 “Gold List” by Tax Business, a UK-based journal for the international tax community. He is listed in the Lex Witness ‘Hall of fame: Top 50’ individuals who have helped shape the legal landscape of modern India. He is also the recipient of Prof. Yunus ‘Social Business Pioneer of India’ – 2010 award. In November 2004, he also was ranked as No. 28 in a global Top 50 “Gold List.” Nishith also holds a special license from the State Bar of California to practice Indian law.

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Inder Dosanjh

President, Fremont Automotive Retailing Group Inc. Inder Dosanjh has worked in the automotive industry for nearly 35 years, beginning as a mechanic at Central Valley Automotive in Modesto, California. After five years in this role, he was promoted to the position of service advisor. Between 1987 and 1995, Inder Dosanjh would eventually move into the positions of service manager and fixed operations manager at Central Valley. Following his time with Central Valley, Mr. Dosanjh remained in the Modesto area and joined Alfred Matthews General Motors as a general manager. After two years with Alfred Matthews, he returned to Central Valley Automotive Nissan as a partner and general manager. He stayed with the company for an additional six years before becoming president of California Automotive Retailing Group, Inc., a Chevrolet dealer. He still works in this position today, while also serving as president of Hawaii Automotive Retailing Group, Inc., Oakland Automotive Center, and Fremont Automotive Retailing Group, Inc.

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Debbie Dreisman

Vice President, Frank Islam and Debbie Driesman Foundation Debbie Driesman has lived in the Washington DC area for almost four decades, having grown up in Ontario, Canada. She worked as a computer engineer in NASA’s communication division at Goddard Space Flight Center until she retired in 1999 to oversee the construction of a home. She and her husband Frank Islam have since built another new home in Potomac, MD. Debbie has been involved in the Potomac Area Newcomers Group since 2002. Debbie is the Vice President of the Frank Islam and Debbie Driesman Foundation. Debbie serves on the Board of Directors of the National Symphony Orchestra, the Honorary Board of the Halcyon Foundation, the Board of Trustees of the Montgomery County Public Schools Educational Foundation, the Board of Directors of Washington Performing Arts, the Board of Governors of the Folger Shakespeare Library and on the National Council of the White House Historical Association. She and Frank are members of the Kennedy Center International Committee on the Arts, the Abraham Lincoln National Council at Ford’s Theater, the Wilson Center National Cabinet, Meridian International’s Cultural Diplomacy Leadership Council, the Monticello Cabinet, the Global Leadership Council of the UN Foundation, the Washington Cabinet at Mount Vernon and the Madison Council at the Library of Congress.

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Gary Gauba

Founder and MD, The CXO Fund Gary Gauba is a serial entrepreneur who is passionate about innovation and entrepreneurship. Most recently, Gary launched The CXO Fund, focused on early-stage investment (seed and pre-seed) and curating companies through close working relationships with several top University in the US. The CXO Fund investment thesis revolves around three key verticals: DeepTech, Healthtech, and Fintech. These verticals and our thesis will evolve based upon the expertise in the fund – i.e. the CXO investors that are predominantly Former and current senior executives from Fortune 500 companies (90+) Prior to founding the CXO Fund, Gary was President and CERO at CenturyLink – the 2nd largest U.S. telco, global internet backbone provider. Entrepreneurship is in Gary’s DNA and over the past two decades he has boot strapped, self-funded and successfully exited three companies: Cognilytics, Systech and Softline. Cognilytics was one of the first companies globally to focus its whole strategy around big data, machine learning, and AI and was acquired by CenturyLink in 2014. Entrepreneur Magazine in 1997 ranked Softline as the second fastest growing company in the U.S.A. — prior to acquisition by KPMG. Gary is a supporter of several charitable organizations including El’s for Autism, NextGen, GenYouth Foundation. Gary is also on the board of several emerging startup companies (TruU, Pyxis, Cogni, Balbix, Coddle) as well as Saison, Michelin 3-star restaurant and on the advisory board of Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) and DocuSign. His hobbies include food and fine wine, golf and powerlifting.

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Chandra Gnanasambandam

Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company Chandra co-leads McKinsey’s Software practice globally. He previously founded and led Fuel—a McKinsey company focused on start-ups—as well as our work in the software space in North America. He was also a founding partner of McKinsey’s Bangalore office. Prior to McKinsey, Chandra was a Java Architect at Sun Microsystems. Chandra has advanced degrees in Engineering from Georgia Tech (US) and University of Saskatchewan (Canada). He lives with his family Palo Alto, CA.

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Kanav Hasija

Cofounder and Chief Product Officer, Innovaccer Kanav Hasija, cofounder and Chief Product Officer at Innovaccer, developed the proprietary Innovaccer Data Activation Platform. Hasija is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and holds a master’s degree in patent law from the University of New Hampshire.

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Frank Islam

Chairman and CEO, FI Investment Group Frank F. Islam is an entrepreneur, philanthropist, civic leader and thought leader. Frank has a special commitment to civic, educational and artistic causes. In all of his endeavors, he strives to create opportunities that are sustainable and uplifting for humanity — guided by the virtues of hard work, focus, quality, innovation and kindness. Frank currently heads the FI Investment Group, a private investment holding company that he established in 2007 after he sold his information technology firm, the QSS Group. Frank founded the QSS Group in 1994 and built it from 1 employee to more than 3,000 employees and revenues of approximately $300M before its sale. Frank devotes the majority of time currently to a wide variety of civic and philanthropic activities.

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Sesh Iyer

North America Regional Co-Chair, BCG X Sesh Iyer is the North America regional cochair for BCG X, Boston Consulting Group’s tech build and design unit. He is a member of BCG’s Technology and Digital Advantage; Technology, Media & Telecommunications; and Energy practice areas. Sesh also leads the firm’s work in the Americas in lean services and operations in technology and IT, cloud computing, and the firm’s work with the IT Capability Maturity Framework (IT-CMF). He is a member of BCG’s Big Data and Advanced Analytics advisory board. Since joining BCG in 2008, Sesh’s client work has focused on the high tech, IT services, energy, and financial services sectors. He has worked extensively in North America, Europe, and Asia, helping clients transform their businesses and their IT functions. His expertise spans a wide range of topics, including business strategies, large-scale technology-enabled change, and competitive advantage through the use of technology and data. Sesh anchors on bringing people together into high performance teams to deliver material and long-lasting impact to BCG’s clients. He believes in the art of exploration and the science of experimentation to translate ideas into real outcomes. Prior to joining BCG, he worked at Motorola, Accenture, the Software Engineering Institute, and two startup firms.

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Ajay Jain

Founder, President & CEO, Vector Flow, Inc. Ajay Jain is President & CEO of Vector Flow, Inc., a data science and AI company offering physical security automation platform, where he drives company’s strategic direction and manages overall operations. Previously, he was the Founder & CEO of Quantum Secure, Inc. (acquired by Assa Abloy: OTC-ASAZY and HID Global), Mokume Software (acquired by Versant) and Market First Software (acquired by Pivotal). Ajay has also spent the initial years working for companies such as Netscape, Clarify and Cadence Design Systems in various engineering and executive roles. He is passionate about entrepreneurship and philanthropy. An avid fitness buff and hiking enthusiast, in his spare time, he likes to listen to music, read books, play golf, travel and sports He earned an MS degree in Computer & Information Science from Clarkson University, and an MBA from Santa Clara University

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Vasu Jakkal

Corporate Vice President & CMO of Security, Compliance and Identity, Microsoft Vasu is the Corporate Vice President & CMO of Security, Compliance and Identity at Microsoft. She is a passionate, customer-centric and purpose-driven marketing & business leader, able to drive transformation, build inspiring brands, create disruptive thought leadership and bolster demand. Recognized by Forbes as “CMO Next” one of 50 Marketing Chiefs redefining the role and shaping the future of marketing. Recognized as Top 25 women in Cyber Security by the Software Review. Recognized as 10 Best CMOs of 2019 by Silicon Review. 2018 Woman of the Year finalist by Women in IT Awards. Marketers that Matter Innovation Council 2018, 2019. Silicon Valley Exec Network Board of Directors. 20+ years in tech across marketing (brand, comms, products, demand, operations), strategy and general management in Cloud, CyberSecurity, IoT & Mobility. Inspires change by leading with vision and strategy balanced with driving measurable results. Recognized for building modern, creative and human-centric marketing. Awarded for thought leadership, storytelling & creating content to inspire actions. Track record for driving growth, pipeline and scaling businesses in challenging markets. Values-based leadership philosophy with a passion for inspiring & developing teams to achieve big. M&A experience [9 M&As]; Advisor to Startups. Recipient of several industry awards & recognitions for being a high impact creative & strategic executive.

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