And the esteemed judges @ Innovate Delhi are.....
1. Vinod Rai, Former CAG
Mr. Vinod Rai took over as the Comptroller & Auditor General of India in 2008. His previous position was as Secretary in the Ministry of Finance, Government of India, where he was responsible for managing the Financial Services sector, including banks and insurance companies. He has been a Director on several Boards including the State Bank of India, ICICI Bank, IDBI Bank etc.
Mr. Vinod Rai (born on 23.05.1948) has a Masters Degree in Economics from Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. He has a Masters Degree in Public Administration from Harvard University, USA.
2. Navyug Mohnot, CEO & Founder of QAI
Navyug Mohnot is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. After his B.Tech from IIT, he went to the US on a fellowship, to do a PhD from the University of Rochester. He returned to India and set up QAI India to evangelize the concepts of Process and Quality. Navyug has been awarded the IIT Alumni Award for "Outstanding Contribution to National Development". In a survey by Dataquest, the leading IT trade press publication, he was recognized as 1 of the 50 leaders who have shaped and are shaping the Indian IT industry. He is a TiE Charter Member, a mentor on the NASSCOM Emerge Forum, on the editorial advisory board of India for India's first journal on consulting titled “Consulting Ahead” etc.
3. Vishnu Dusad, MD, Nucleus Software
Vishnu R. Dusad is the CEO and Managing Director of Nucleus Software Exports Limited. He founded Nucleus in 1986 along with three other professionals and has since been steering the course of the company to its current success. It has been his vision and faith that established Nucleus as one of the few software companies with a very strong Product focus.
Mr. Dusad's experience encompasses areas of software development, creation of strategic alliances, business development, and strategic planning. He has technology background and 22 years of valuable professional experience in the exciting space of Information Technology Solutions for the BFSI sector.
In 2007, Forbes listed Nucleus amongst the Best 200 Under A Billion Companies in Asia. Mr. Dusad is a member of executive committee of FICCI and also a part of Indo-Australia Joint Business Committee, FICCI. -
4. Rajnish Kapur, President, DMI (Former CIO of Makemytrip)
Rajnish is President (India Operations) at Digital Management, Inc . He is an internationally experienced technocrat with track record as a technology entrepreneur with successful exits. Created and managed organizations, developed & implemented solutions in various geographies and developed products for the global market. His previous positions include CIO at MakeMyTrip.com, Executive Vice-President at Kale Consultants among other prestigious ones. He has an Economics degree from Shri Ram College Of Commerce.
5. Sharad Sharma - Co-Founder, iSPIRT.
Sharad Sharma is Co-founder and Governing Council Member at iSPIRT Foundation. Sharad is one of the active technology angel investors in India with about two dozen investments, and is a member of Indian Angel network. He has held a number of senior executive positions with leading technology companies. Most recently he was a SVP at Yahoo! and CEO of India R&D. He co-founded Teltier, now part of Cisco, and is currently the CEO of BrandSigma Inc.
6. Shanti Mohan, Co-Founder, LetsVenture
Shanti Mohan is one of the Founders at LetsVenture. Her previous position was as Senior Program Manager at Hewlett-Packard, Cupertino.
Even though Shanti Mohan identifies herself as an Entrepreneur and Angel investor, she has hands-on experience in Product Design, Development and Deployment of solutions along with Strategy, Program Management across cross functional teams.
7. Sumeet Kapoor, Founder & CEO, Employwise
Sumeet is a serial entrepreneur with a deep understanding of human relationship management in business. He is among the early ones to appreciate the power of SaaS (software as a service) as an enabler for taking automation to millions of small and medium businesses across the world.
Sumeet has over 26 years' experience in the IT industry. He started his career with Tata Unisys and went on to worked with Wipro Systems in its pioneering days as a product software company before promoting his first venture, Chipsoft Technology and helped build it into one of the most respected multi-vendor IT support services company. In 1999 Sumeet co-founded a software company that built first a CRM Product and then EmployWise.
8. Arun Jay - SlideShare
Arun Jay identifies himself as “Designer wearing multiple hats. “ He is the UX Design Manager at LinkedIn, Principal Designer at SlideShare Inc and Co-founder at Mooco Bicycle Co. His interests and specialisations include Design Management, Metrics Informed Design, User Experience, Growth Hacking, Typography among others.
9. Manish Singhal, Co-Founder, LetsVenture
Manish Singhal is one of the founders at LetsVenture and identifies himself as an Entrepreneur, Coach and Angel Investor. Mentor at CIIE (IIM-Ahmedabad), Start-up Village(Kochi) & Venture Lab (Stanford University)
Member Indian Angel Network. His specialities include Building excellence in all spheres of any business - starting from strategy to operations to people, "Whatever it takes" combined with "Do it right" approach,
10. Sunil Goyal, COO, Sopra India
He is responsible for all functions including software delivery, HR, IT, Finance, and administration.
He earlier co-founded Momentum India with almost nil seed capital in 1993. Along with his co-founder, he became one of the largest channel sales partners for Wipro InfoTech for their IT products in India. He was instrumental in diversifying into software services business and, subsequently raising 1.5 million USD funding from Citibank.
He was part of the management team that engineered Momentum's acquisition by Newell and Budge in March 2005, one of the largest IT companies of Scotland. This company was subsequently acquired by Sopra Group in July 2005, a billion Euro French company with more than 13000 people worldwide.
11. Rohan Malhotra, Investopad
Rohan is a co-founder at Investopad which is a complete ecosystem, campus and hub for breeding startup entrepreneurship for India’s next generation of tech stars.
Investopad has been commissioned as a 100,000 sq. ft. project, and provides entrepreneurs at the startup stage, training and access to state-of-the-art resources for learning, research and development in the field of technology entrepreneurship.
Rohan looks after the funding, as well as the managerial aspects of Investopad, including providing access to professional services such as Legal, Administrative, Managerial, Financial and Business and Brand Development to the startups working out of Investopad. Investopad also provide access to seed, angel and VC funding across a global network.
12. Dr. Pankaj Jalote, Director, IIITD
Before joining IIITD, he was the Microsoft chair professor at Dept. of computer science and enginering at IIT-Delhi. Before that, he was a Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at IIT - Kanpur, where he was also the head of the dept. from 1998-2002. From 1996-1998, he was VP (quality) at Infosys. He is also the author of the highly acclaimed book CMM in Practice.
13. Ranjit Bhatia, Investment Analyst, Sequoia Capital
Ranjit Bhatia is an Investment Analyst with Sequoia Capital in India. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital, Ranjit was a strategy consultant with Booz & Company, where he served clients across sectors including financial services, telecommunications, industrials and agribusiness. Ranjit holds a Bachelor of Commerce and a Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honours from the University of Melbourne.