TheTechPod

Prafulla Mathur is the Cofounder at Vossle. Prafulla started his entrepreneurial journey in 2010 when he co-founded Queppelin which focuses on Spatial Computing, Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality. The startup quickly got global exposure when Oracle showcased their platform in Mobile World Congress Barcelona. During an interaction with TheTechPod - "It is an often misunderstood concept because people combine AR, VR & MR," says Prafulla Mathur.

Prafulla also cofounded student housing startup called WudStay. He has raised a total of $4 Million investment from marquee investors like Mangrove Capital Partners and Simile Ventures. He has also been an investor in an Indonesia based online travel platform.

Marc Kaplan is the Cofounder & CEO at ChekMarc. Marc is a visionary and began the ChekMarc journey with a vision for a free, positive and uplifting community. Where people could connect and drive change. He is beyond excited and

Prior to founding ChekMarc, Marc was a Partner at Deloitte. Where he held several executive roles, including P&L responsibility for a large business, Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer for one of the four business areas of Deloitte, and was a member of one of the firm’s Board subcommittees. Over the course of his career at Deloitte and before, Marc has a track record of leading, growing and transforming businesses.

Himanshu Gupta is the Co-founder and CTO at Shipsy. He always draws towards leveraging data and technology to revolutionize the global supply chain. A strategic thinker with strong business acumen, he implements new technologies that yield a competitive advantage for all partners in the logistics ecosystem. Also, in his current capacity, he aligns Shipsy's technical strategy with its business goals and drives rapid technological innovation in Shipsy and across the organization’s partner ecosystem. During an interaction with TheTechPod - "Logistics Industry has embraced technology to the betterment," says Himanshu Gupta.

He is an Electrical Engineer in Information and Communication Technology from IIT, Delhi. Himanshu is highly skilled in system architecture design, distributed systems, and cloud computing. He has been associated with leading global brands throughout his career before co-founding Shipsy in 2015. This includes working with Qualcomm as Research Intern and Samsung Electronics as a software engineer. Also, he is a great cook and an avid reader of fiction.

Tejas Fadia is the Head (Product, Consulting, Implementation) at Infomatics. Tejas is a Product specialist with Infomatics where he also heads the Consulting and Implementation for the Finance and Compliance Solutions career that spans over 16 years. Also, he has played multi roles beginning with Sales and Relationship Management and moving on to Business Analysis, Consulting, and Implementations. During an interaction with TheTechPod - "Consumer demands are driving the use of technology in supply chain," says Rajat Gupta.

Tejas is an Engineer and a Marketing professional by training. Also, he had a brief stint in academia Teaching Statistics, Operation Research, Research Methodology at N. L. Dalmia Institute of Management Studies. During his spare time, he enjoys reading, traveling and watching sports.

Sijo Kuruvila George is the Executive Director of the Alliance of Digital India Foundation (ADIF), a think tank for India’s digital startups that liaisons between the government and the regulatory bodies. Sijo is responsible for all executive decisions and communications of the foundation. During an interaction with TheTechPod - "Zomato is the IPO of hope and aspirations," says Sijo Kuruvilla.

With his wealth of experience in entrepreneurship gained from over a decade in the start-up space, Sijo is a member of the Central Government’s Science & Technology Policy Expert Committee of Entrepreneurship. He was a leading contributor to the formulation of the Science, Technology and Innovation Policy 2020.

Before joining ADIF, Sijo held various leadership positions in technology startups and committees aimed at safeguarding the Indian Startup Ecosystem. He was the Founding CEO of Startup Village, India’s first PPP Technology Business Incubator. Referred to by the Malayala Manorama as the ‘Megamind behind the treasure trove in Cochin’, Sijo is credited for bringing startups and entrepreneurship into the wider public.

Rajat Gupta is the Founder & CEO of TESSOl. He is the mastermind behind TESSOL’s proprietary Thermal Energy Storage technology and is TESSOL’s chief innovator. Rajat started TESSOL in 2013 with the vision to revolutionize the farm to fork cold chain in India. During an interaction with TheTechPod - "Consumer demands are driving the use of technology in supply chain," says Rajat Gupta.

Over the last 4 years, TESSOL has grown to be recognized as a pioneer in the sustainable cold chain space globally. Rajat has a strong inclination towards technology and passion for product development. He brings in a deep understanding of product design, technology commercialization and market entry strategy and has been instrumental in leading the organization from its inception to date as its CEO. He brings with him extensive experience in the energy space across India, Europe and the USA.

Parth Chadha, a name synonymous with the person who never misses his target. He is a man of great passion and ambition. He is the Founder & CEO of EWar Games. Parth has always been a keen lover of building tech products from scratch. He completed his graduation in Information Science from Ramaiah Institute of Technology. During an interaction with TheTechPod - "Light weight game apps would rule the gaming industry," says Parth Chadha.

He has a brief entrepreneurial stint with friends in the college building a b2b solution for retail. In later years, post his graduation, Parth worked with JP Morgan for almost 3 years building internal fintech solutions in the investment banking space.

With his expertise and knowledge in the industry, Parth is also focused on helping young and emerging game developers. By giving them a platform to submit their games. With EWar, Parth is aiming to reach out to the gamers of different interests, and geography. By providing the gaming experience in 8 separate vernacular languages.

Puneet Agarwal is the VP & Head of India Engineering of ThoughtSpot. Prior to ThoughtSpot, he was the co-founder and CTO for KredX. A platform that helped small businesses with their working capital. In his 2 years at KredX, he built the team and the platform from ground up and was responsible for all key functions of the business. Before starting on his own, Puneet spent about a decade with Google In Bengaluru and San Francisco. Conceptualizing and building innovative new systems to solve key problems across areas like Websearch, Ads, YouTube, and Apps. Puneet holds a Master’s in Computer Science from Stanford University. During an interaction with TheTechPod - "The Consumerization of Analytics is happening around us," says Puneet Agarwal.

At ThoughtSpot, Puneet is building a passionate team to solve some of the hardest technical challenges in making enterprise data, truly accessible and useful for businesses.

Himanshu Aggarwal is the Co-founder and CTO of Qandle, an all-in-one HR platform. As the CTO, he is responsible for building, managing and overseeing the complete technological aspects of the company. During an interaction with TheTechPod - "Knowledge and ability to learn is more valuable than the certification," says Himanshu Aggarwal.

He graduated from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee in 2007. Post his graduation, he started his professional career working as a Software Engineer at Tekriti Software and The Ibibo Group. Later, he held the position of Technology Lead at Naukri.com from 2010-12 and was the Head of Engineering at US based Food-tech startup MunchAdo 2014-15. In 2016, he decided to start Qandle with Mr. Chayan Mukhopadhyay, Co-founder and CEO.

Himanshu believes that most HRMS products out there are still systems of record, while the need is to look at HRMS solutions as systems of intelligence. Thus, there is a huge scope for adding Machine Learning and predictive analytics in the HR domain and he continues to work with the Qandle team towards providing such solutions to their customers.

Rohit Gawli is the Chief Executive Officer of Lokal Kitchen. Rohit is an engineer with over 5 years of experience in the technology and corporate sector. He has worked with brands from TripAdvisor HQ to other hyper-growth start-ups that have a global presence now. Through the course of his career, he has managed and developed scalable businesses. With deep understanding of the global technology market and enterprises’ growing digital needs. Also, as Lokal Kitchen’s CEO, he actively provides consulting expertise to all his C-level executives on a regular basis regarding strategic decisions and new ideas. During an interaction with TheTechPod - "We are not in the business of mass production but mass customization", says Rohit Gawli.

Rohit built Lokal Kitchen keeping in mind two important aspects; Create a value proposition for the growing Indian passion for home cooked food. And, address the social cause of women empowerment and entrepreneurship. Moreover, via Lokal Kitchen Rohit wants to unlock the talent and culinary potential of millions of home chefs and help them become self-reliant. By leveraging his knowledge in Sales Operations, Business Operations and Financial analysis, Rohit introduced heuristic-based concepts in products and services to achieve unprecedented reliability and stability.