Advisory Group
Governing Board
Advisory Group
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Badri Seshadri obtained his B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Madras and a Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University. He co-founded Cricinfo.com in 1994 along with several others and worked for Cricinfo till 2004. In 2004, Badri co-founded New Horizon Media (NHM) with K. Satyanarayan and R. Ananthkumar. NHM is a regional language publishing company which has published books in Tamil, English and Malayalam. Badri believes that there is a considerable demand for knowledge content in Indian languages but the publishers have failed in catering to this demand. NHM addresses this need and has succeeded in becoming the number 1 publisher in Tamil now. |
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Sridhar Seshadri is currently the CEO at HushBabies.com. Prior to this, he was working at ICICI bank and has participated in the transformation and quick growth of the bank leading it to become the premier banking institution in India. He was also nominated as an exemplar for the DNA Awards at the Bank for Innovation, Nurturing Talent and Collaboration. Sridhar holds a Bachelors degree in Chemical Plant Engineering from Mumbai University and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow. |
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Karishma Kiri is President and CEO of The K2 Group, a strategy consulting firm specializing in building creative business and technology solutions for emerging markets and scenarios. Previously, Kiri was a Director at Microsoft Corporation. She drove various Emerging Market strategies and incubations, primarily focusing on product strategy and business development. She has co-authored several papers on the rural kiosk space and given presentations around the world. |
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Suranga Chandratillake Suranga Chandratillake, a technology entrepreneur with over a decade of experience in next-generation search, Suranga Chandratillake founded blinkx in 2004 and launched the company in 2005. After early success,Suranga took the company public on the London Stock Exchange in May 2007. Prior to founding blinkx, Suranga was U.S. CTO of Autonomy Corporation and he was responsible for growing Autonomy's research and development division in the United States. Before joining Autonomy, Suranga held a variety of roles in technology, sales and marketing at Morgan Stanley, netdecisions and anondesign. |
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Sreenivasan (Ramki) Ramakrishnan Ramki is an entrepreneur with large-scale experience in the areas of Brand & Marketing management. He has co-founded 2 companies that offer innovative technology-driven marketing solutions to global marketers.Prior to turning entrepreneur, Ramki worked with Procter & Gamble in Brand Marketing. Ramki currently spends most of his time in wildlife conservation and helping social and green business entrepreneurs. |
