Nisha Biswal
President, US India Business Council
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Nisha Biswal is president of the U.S.-India Business Council (USIBC) at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce where she provides strategic guidance and leads advocacy efforts on behalf of USIBC’s more than 300 member companies, promoting long-term commercial partnerships to advance the bilateral trade relationship between the U.S. and India. Biswal served as assistant secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs at the U.S. Department of State from 2013 to 2017. During Biswal’s tenure, bilateral commercial trade between the U.S. and India nearly doubled, reaching $115 billion in 2016. Biswal was awarded the prestigious Samman Award by the president of India in January 2017.
S. Vijay Iyer
COO and VP Miga, World Bank
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S. Vijay Iyer is Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), the political risk insurance and credit enhancement arm of the World Bank Group. He is responsible for overseeing the Guarantee Operations Group of the Agency and leading the Agency’s partnerships with the World Bank Group, other Multi and Bilateral institutions and Governments. Iyer served at the World Bank Group between 1993 and 2015, where he has held various positions, including Sector Manager, Africa Energy; Director, Sustainable Energy and Extractives; and Senior Adviser, Infrastructure. He joined MIGA from Rio Tinto, a leading global metal and mining company, where he served as Managing Director in India for the past three years. Iyer previously had important positions in public administration and economic development as a member of the Indian Administrative Services, and experience in banking and private industry. He holds MS Chemistry from Jabalpur University India, and a Masters in Management from Yale University.
Dr. Marshall M. Bouton
Director, Center for Advanced Study of India
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Dr. Bouton is current Acting Director and Visiting Scholar at CASI. He was president emeritus of The Chicago Council on Global Affairs from 2001 to 2013, influencing the discourse on global policy issues. Dr. Bouton’s previous positions include Director of Policy Analysis for Near East, Africa and South Asia in the U.S. Defense Department, special assistant to the U.S. Ambassador to India, and founding U.S. executive secretary of the Indo-U.S. Sub-commission on Education and Culture. In 2013, Dr. Bouton was awarded the Friend of India Award from India Abroad to commemorate his five decades of diplomatic service and scholarly work on India.
Kavita Gupta
Founding Managing Partner, Consensys
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Kavita heads a unique VC-Hedge Fund, investing in next-generation Ethereum Blockchain technologies revolutionizing our current systems. Kavita is a recipient of the UN Social Finance Innovator Award in 2015 for being an integral part of the founding Green Bond team at The World Bank. Over her 16-year career she has set up innovative investment funds across East Africa, Middle East, South Asia and most recently in the US through World Bank, IFC,
Venkat Badinehal
Managing Director, RBC Capital Markets
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Venkat (Vinnie) Badinehal joined RBC Capital Markets in April 2017 as the Head of the Financial Institutions Group within Global Investment Banking based out of New York. Based in New York, Mr. Badinehal specializes in providing strategic, capital markets, balance sheet and M&A advisory services to financial institutions clients. Prior to RBC, Venkat was Managing Director at Deutsche Bank and before that at Merrill Lynch in the Financial Institutions Investment Banking Group. Venkat has served as an advisor on some of the industry’s most notable transactions. He has been part of over 200 M&A and capital markets transactions globally with an aggregate transaction value of greater than $500 billion. Venkat also has an MBA from The Wharton School and infact was the founding Chairman of the Wharton-India Economic Forum.
Dr. Amy Gadsden
Executive Director, Penn Global
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As Executive Director for Penn Global, Amy Gadsden works with Penn’s schools and centers to develop and implement strategies to increase Penn’s global engagement both on campus and overseas. Prior to joining the Provost’s Office, Dr. Gadsden spent five years as Associate Dean for International and Strategic Initiatives at Penn Law. She has demonstrated experience and expertise in International Law and Development, Foreign Affairs, Politics, Policy Analysis, and Political Science. Dr. Gadsden has also consulted for the Pew Charitable Trusts, the United Nations Development Programme, and the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. She holds a B.A. from Yale College and a Ph.D. in Chinese legal history from the University of Pennsylvania.
Gautam Tambay
Co-founder and CEO, Springboard
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Gautam is a successful entrepreneur working at the heart of education and technology. Having worked as a strategy consultant, venture and private equity investor and startup advisor, his latest venture 'Springboard' is a rapidly-growing workforce development company that has educated 200K+ students on new economy skills with 1:1 mentorship from industry experts. It has raised a successful Series A and has its biggest revenue markets in US and India. He is also a Wharton MBA from the class of 2010
Teresa Barger
Co-Founder and CEO, Cartica
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Teresa Barger is the CEO and co-CIO of Cartica, an alternative asset manager dedicated to Emerging Markets investment. She spent 21 years at the International Finance Corporation investing in emerging markets companies in nearly all regions of the world. At IFC, among other positions, she was Division Manager for Africa, Deputy Director of Credit/Investment Review, and Director of Private Equity and Investment Funds. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and also serves on the Advisory Councils for the Pacific Pension and Investment Institute and the Global Corporate Governance Forum. Ms. Barger received her AB magna cum laude from Harvard College and her MBA from the Yale School of Management.
Jules Miller
Partner @ IBM Blockchain Accelerator & Co-Founder/Partner @ Prose Ventures
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Jules is an investor, 3-time entrepreneur and ‘intrapreneur.’ She currently leads IBM's new Enterprise Blockchain Accelerator and previously ran IBM's Blockchain Garage for North America, managing a team of technical experts who use the best practices of the startup world to build out innovative enterprise blockchain solutions. She is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Prose Ventures, the first independent VC fund focused on professional services, including legal and compliance technologies, where she leads investments in blockchain and marketplaces. She was previously a Partner at LunaCap Ventures, a venture debt fund investing in military veteran, women and minority founders, and was COO of gender lens investing pioneer BRAVA Investments.
Rick Rossow
Wadhwani Chair, CSIS
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Richard Rossow is a senior adviser and holds the Wadhwani Chair in U.S.-India Policy Studies at CSIS. In this role he helps frame and shape policies to promote greater business, economic, and defense engagement between the two countries. He joined CSIS in 2014, having spent the last 16 years working in a variety of capacities to strengthen the partnership between the United States and India.
Tania Ahuja
Managing Director, US operations, Arkera Inc.
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Tania Ahuja is Managing Director of US Operations for Arkera Inc. Based in London, Arkera is an AI-powered platform empowering self-directed investors to make exciting investment decisions by connecting news content to investment products. Prior to Arkera, Tania was Director, Citigroup in Credit and Operational Risk Analytics (CORA). She serves on the Board of Overseers at Stern School of Business, NYU, as well as other higher learning organizations including the Center of Advanced Study of India (CASI) at the University of Pennsylvania. Tania earned her Ph.D. in Finance from Stern School of Business, New York University.
Josh Felman
Former Head International Monetary Fund India , Advisor to PMO
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Josh Felman is the principal at JH Consulting, a macroeconomic consulting firm based in Washington DC. He is also an advisor at True North, India's largest private equity firm, and a columnist for Project Syndicate. Previously, he had a long career at the International Monetary Fund, where he held a number of senior management positions, including Assistant Director of the Research Department. He has had an extensive association with Asia and with India in particular. During the mid-2000s he ran the IMF's India office, and during 2015-17 he returned to Delhi to provide technical assistance to the Ministry of Finance, where he worked closely with the Chief Economic Adviser, Arvind Subramanian. Over the course of his IMF career he was in charge of the IMF's operations in Korea, Thailand, and Philippines; and during the East Asian crisis he was stationed in Indonesia, where he worked closely with the authorities to rebuild their financial system after a historic collapse. He did his post-graduate work in Economics at Oxford University.
Bharat Poddar
Senior Partner and Managing Director, Boston Consulting Group
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Bharat Poddar is a Senior Partner and Managing Director in BCG’s New York Office. He is a core member of BCG’s Financial Institutions, Insurance, Operations, and People and Organization practices. Since joining BCG in 2003, Bharat has worked extensively across the banking, consumer goods, insurance, and industrial goods sectors. He is a global practice leader for 'Digital' in financial institutions and has experience in digital, automation, operations, strategy and trasformation across geographies and expertise in the US and Indian markets
Prasanna Krishnan
Founder, Chief Product Officer, SmartyPal
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Prasanna Krishanan is an experienced founder, and product leader. After starting her journey as a consultant at Mckinsey and venture capitalist at DJF, she transitioned into building products for large tech companies such as Microsoft and Comcast, as well as startups such as Jetsetter acquired by TripAdvisor. Five years ago, Prasanna turned into an entrepreneur by launching SmartyPal, which blends technology, learning science, and design to create engaging and effective educational experiences. She is also an MBA from the Wharton School, where she was a Palmer Scholar, and Masters in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she was a Siebel Scholar
Shekar Ayyar
EVP Strategy & Corp Dev & GM, Telco Group
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Shekar Ayyar joined VMware in 2007, bringing more than 20 years of senior leadership experience in enterprise software, communications and semiconductors. He currently holds a dual role leading the company’s strategy and corporate development efforts as Executive Vice President, as well as General Manager of VMware’s Telco group, which focuses on helping CSPs accelerate innovation and launch 5G services faster. Prior to joining VMware, Shekar held senior roles at BindView, Instantis and Lucent, spanning product management, marketing, and business development, and was a consultant with McKinsey. He is on the Board of the VMware Foundation. Shekar also has an MBA from The Wharton School and infact was the founding Chair of the Wharton-India Economic Forum.
Saikat Chaudhuri
Executive Director, Mack Institute for Innovation Management, The Wharton School
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Saikat Chaudhuri serves on the faculty at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is also executive director of the Mack Institute for Innovation Management, a research institute at Wharton distinguished by a dual focus on academic thought leadership and industry impact. Saikat’s research focuses on external sources of innovation for firms, encompassing two streams: high-technology acquisitions and high-end outsourcing. His recent publications span scholarly and managerial outlets, including Organization Science, a Stanford University Press book chapter, and the Harvard Business Review. Saikat has received several teaching awards from the Wharton School, and has also been a finalist for multiple dissertation and best paper awards at the Academy of Management. He received his BSE and BS from the University of Pennsylvania, his MSE from Stanford University, and his DBA from Harvard University.
Sashi Reddi
Managing Partner, SRI Capital
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Sashi Reddi is a successful technology entrepreneur, business leader, and early stage investor. Sashi runs an early stage venture capital fund, SRI Capital, that is typically the first institutional investor in various technology start-ups in both the US and in India. A serial entrepreneur, Sashi has started four companies including AppLabs which was the world’s largest independent software testing company and was funded by Westbridge Capital. AppLabs was acquired by CSC, post which Sashi served as the VP & GM, Big Data and Analytics at CSC, reporting directly to the CEO. . He received his BTech in Computer Science from the IIT Delhi, an MS in Computer Science from NYU, and later a PhD from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Vinay Nair
Founder and Chairman at 55ip; Visiting Professor at Wharton
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Dr. Vinay Nair is Founder and Chairman of 55ip, a leading investment science and technology based company that helps financial advisors and wealth managers custom design tax-managed asset allocation strategies. Dr. Nair was previously the CEO of Ada Investments, where he helped form an investment platform and team to design portfolio solutions using financial research and quantitative methods. He authored ‘Investing for Change’ (Oxford University Press, 2008), a book on the use of social considerations in investment management.
Anjan Lahiri
CEO, Birlasoft
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Anjan is the CEO and Managing Director of Birlasoft and has led a transformation of the company since April 2015 when he joined. Prior to this he served as the Chief Executive Officer of Sasken Communication Technologies, a leading R&D technology solutions company till Sept 2014. In 1999, he co-founded MindTree, a global technology firm and established its operations in the US and then in Europe. He held several executive positions over his 14-year tenure at Mindtree, and eventually was the President of the company’s global IT Services Business from the Mindtree headquarters in Bangalore. Anjan’s vast career also includes experience at Cambridge Technology Partners, a Boston based consulting company, and Wipro. Prior to doing an MBA from the University of Florida, he earned a degree in Electronic Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology (BIT), Mesra, where he is recognized as a distinguished alumnus.
Abhay Singhal
Co Founder InMobi
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Abhay is the Co-founder and President of Advertising Cloud at InMobi. He has don multiple hats at the company since its inception - Chief Revenue Officer & Head of Human Resources are just to name a few. As an entrepreneur at heart even during his undergraduate years, he co-founded TeN and raised VC money shortly. He headed sales at TeN and contributed to a significant revenue growth under him. His love for entrepreneurship and urge to build a company of a global scale took him to Mumbai along with Naveen, Amit and Mohit where the disruptive journey of InMobi began at their shared apartment growing to 1.6 billion unique users across over the globe. He is also a graduate of Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur where he received the ‘distinguished alumnus award’ in 2013
Kevin Werbach
Wharton Faculty Lead Blockchain; Supernova Founder
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Kevin Werbach is an expert on business, policy, and emerging technologies such as blockchain, broadband, and big data. An influential figure in Internet and communications law, Werbach served on the Obama Administration's Presidential Transition Team in 2008. He founded the Supernova Group, a technology consulting firm, and organized the annual CEO-level Supernova technology conference. He created one of the most successful massive open online courses, with over 450,000 enrollments, and co-wrote For the Win: How Game Thinking Can Revolutionize Your Business. He was named Wharton's first-ever Iron Prof in 2010. Werbach was one of the first technology scholars to focus on blockchain and cryptocurrencies. His book, The Blockchain and the New Architecture of Trust, will be published November 27, 2018 by MIT Press. Earlier in his career, he edited the influential technology newsletter Release 1.0, and helped develop the US Government's Internet and e-commerce policies as FCC Counsel for New Technology Policy in the Clinton Administration.
Shaunak Roy
Founder, Yellowdig
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Shaunak is the Founder & CEO of Yellowdig, a digital learning platform that connects learners and empowers educators. Yellowdig is used by 190,000 learners across 35+ US-based universities in their online and hybrid programs. Shaunak holds an undergraduate degree in engineering from IIT Bombay and a graduate degree in engineering systems from MIT. Shaunak spent almost a decade in various engineering and management roles before starting Yellowdig.
Vivek Chauhan
Co-President Block Chain Club ; Director of Annual Big Tech Trek
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Chair of the Penn Blockchain club : currently the second largest student blockchain club in the world with more than 530 members (across MBA, UG, Engineering, Law school etc) interested in blockchain and cryptocurrencies.
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