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Visionary industry leaders, innovators and experts shaping the next generation of tech talent.
CXO practitioners who teach, mentor and hire — an active network of leaders from the companies that set the standards, working with every VBSI cohort from day one.
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MENTORS
Co Founders and Business Leaders
| # | NAME | ROLE |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Mr. Sandip Panda | CEO & AI and Cyber Security Business Leader |
| 02 | Mr. Aurobinda Nanda | CEO & AI Business Leader |
| 03 | Mr. B. Vasu | CEO & ESDM Business Leader |
| 04 | Mr. Devang Shah | CEO & Semiconductor Business Leader |
| 05 | Dr. Sanjeev Kubakaddi | CEO & Med-Tech Business Leader |
| 06 | Mr. Pratap Behera | CEO & AI Business Leader |
| 07 | Mr. Sudipto Basu | CEO & AI & Cloud Business Leader |
| 08 | Mr. Kailash Nahak | CEO & Design & AI Business Leader |
| 09 | Mr. Asit Padhi | CEO & AI Business Leader |
| 10 | Mr. Nagaraj Gopalan | CEO & Ed-Tech Business Leader |
| 11 | Mr. Sundar Ramakrishnan | CEO & AI Business Leader |
| 12 | Mr. Aman Lamba | Founder & Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) |
| 13 | Dr. Om Prakash | CEO & Cyber Security Leader |
| 14 | Mr. Brij Goyal | MD & AI Business Leader |
| 15 | Mr. Aditya Malik | CEO & AI Business Leader |
| 16 | Mr. Tejas Tallam | CEO & ESDM Business Leader |
| 17 | Mr. Sunay Narkar | CEO & ESDM Business Leader |
| 18 | Mr. Biswa Ranjan Nayak | CEO & ESDM Business Leader |
| 19 | Dr Arun Kumar Singh | CEO & ESDM Business Leader |
| 20 | Dr. Shishir M | CEO & Tech Business Leader |
mentors
CTO/CIO and Tech Leaders
| # | NAME | ROLE |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Major Gen Manjeet Singh (R) | Head - Strategic Programs & Senior Cybersecurity Tech Leader |
| 02 | Mr. Vishal Jaitak | Deputy CISO – Senior Cybersecurity Tech Leader |
| 03 | Mr. Ashish Bhardwaj | Senior Director - Software Engineering & Tech Leader |
| 04 | Manu Dwivedi | Sr.Partner - Big 4 Risk Consulting & Tech Leader |
| 05 | Mr. Karthik Dugga | Director – AI & Tech Leader |
| 06 | Mr. Sumit Aggarwal | Director – Software Engg & Tech Leader |
| 07 | Mr. Manish Karlekar | Head of Digital - India Technology Center & Tech Leader |
| 08 | Mr. Ramesh Kauta | ex CIO & CISO & Cyber Security Tech Leader |
| 09 | Mr. Amneek Singh | Head - Engineering & AI Tech Leader |
| 10 | Mr. Sikhin Tanu Shaw | Head – IT & Tech Leader |
| 11 | Mr. Jayashankar Attupurathu | Fractional CTO & AI Tech Leader |
| 12 | Mr. Rajeev Barnwal | CTO & AI Senior Tech Leader |
| 13 | Ms. Geetha Panda | COO & Senior Tech Leader |
| 14 | Mr. Ashok K Sahoo | AVP & Chief Architect & AI Senior Tech Leader |
| 15 | Mr. Amitabh Das | Chief Technology Architect & Senior Tech Leader |
| 16 | Mr. PVJ Menon | Sr. Advisor – Semiconductor Tech Leader |
| 17 | Mr. Chandrapal Panwar | AI & Cloud Architect and Senior Tech Leader |
| 18 | Mr. Pankit Chapla | CTO – Senior Game and AR-VR Tech Leader |
| 19 | Mr. Varun Bhatia | VP & CTO & Senior Electronics Tech Leader |
| 20 | Mr. Avidnyat Chiddarwar | Fractional CTO & AI Tech Leader |
| 21 | Mr. Praveen Kumar | CTO & Senior Tech Leader |
| 22 | Mr. Mahesh Shivanna | CTO & Senior Tech Leader |
| 23 | Mr. Ashutosh Parida | Head of Engineering ( Engineering Site Lead, India |
| 24 | Mr. Arun Kumar Patil | Principal AI Scientist |
| 25 | Prof. Vibhuti Dubey | AI Tech Leader and researcher |
| 26 | Mr. Srinivasa Rao Dukkipati | VP & ESDM Tech Leader |
| 27 | Mr. Arun Sonar | VP & ESDM Tech Leader |
| 28 | Mr. Prakash Sonwalkar· | ESDM Tech Leader |
| 29 | Mr. Ganesh Subramanian | ESDM Tech Leader |
| 30 | Mr. Yogesh Srivastava | VP, Analytics |
| 31 | Mr. Nitin Sachdeva | Head AI |
mentors
HR and L&D Leaders
| # | NAME | ROLE |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Mr. Surya Prakash Mohapatra | Director -HR and L&D & Senior HR Leader |
| 02 | Ms. Githa Heggde | Dean & Principal at MICA |
| 03 | Ms. Aparna C | CHRO & Senior HR Leader |
| 04 | Ms. Archna Bhardwaj | Chief People Officer Senior HR Leader |
| 05 | Mr. Rajesh Srinivasan | CHRO & Senior HR Leader |
| 06 | Mr. Anjan A | Vice President: Talent Management & Learning |
| 07 | Ms. Mahasweta Paul | Head of People and Culture |
| 08 | Dr. Augustus (augie) Azariah | Regional Director & Human Resources Leader |
| 09 | Mr. Manoj Kumar Sharma | Group Head –IR & Senior HR Leader |
| 10 | Ms. Vandana Nayar | HR Leader |
| 11 | Mr. Saurabh Shah | Head of People Operations |
| 12 | Mr. Nitin Nahata | HR Leader |
| 13 | Mr. Hemanth Sali | HR Leader |
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