Interviews

At Columbia Business School, Executive Education, Dil is responsible for key commercial relationships and stakeholder engagement activities with private, public and not-for-profit organizations. Executive Education (Online, Open Programs and Customized Programs) fall under his remit along with accountability for financial performance and working with Columbia’s world class faculty turn ‘Theory into Practice’. Dil Sidhu has a rich and varied set of experiences gained from the retail, government and professional services sectors.

We often hear the phrase, “Chase your dreams” and to be fair, many startup founders live this philosophy and can go to any lengths to make it happen. It was rather refreshing to meet one such individual, the Founder of DronStudy, one who has gone to great lengths himself in making a difference.

A chartered accountant by profession with more than 18 years of experience in Consulting, audit, IT products and finance, Sundeep is the Founder Director of Mynd Solutions.

We’ve been industry practitioners from the start, and have a relentless focus on hiring people with industry know-how and experience. This strategy is working for us and will continue to be center stage.

NASSCOM staff writer in conversation with Mark Kahn, Founding Partner, Omnivore. Mark Kahn is a Founding Partner of Omnivore, an impact venture fund that invests in Indian startups developing breakthrough technologies for food, agriculture, and the rural economy.  Mark serves as a Director for multiple Omnivore-backed startups, including Skymet, Eruvaka, and MITRA.

Previously, Mark was the Executive Vice President (Strategy & Business Development) at Godrej Agrovet, one of India's foremost diversified agribusiness companies. At Godrej Agrovet, Mark was responsible for corporate strategy, M&A, R&D, and new business incubation. 

Vijay Pratap Singh Aditya is a first generation technology entrepreneur and renowned rural markets, digital financial services & agriculture sector expert working on financial inclusion, supply chain and market access issues of rural communities. In last 20 years, Vijay’s work has focussed on rural India, enabling access to markets, agriculture value chain, financial and enterprise services for rural businesses, financial inclusion, farmer-producers and artisans.

Ritu Verma is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Ankur Capital Fund. She has a PhD in physics and worked on investing in IP led renewable technologies globally. Ankur is a social impact driven fund that invests in business models that address core challenges in agritech, food, healthcare, skill development and education. Here we talk about her unique outlook and aproach to technology. 

Sujata Sahu founded 17000 ft Foundation, a not for profit that is dedicated to go to the remotest villages of Ladakh, in areas that are ignored and forgotten and help build an eco system of growth and opportunity, for its children and its people. 17000 ft works in over 200 village schools today, to improve education via digital intervention, create opportunities and transform lives.