TheTechPod

Naveen Bachkethi is the Co-founder and Investor of CBNITS and ConnectBud. He is a seasoned professional with 15+ years of experience in Software Outsourcing and Enterprise Security. Also, he holds an extensive enterprise background providing solutions to Healthcare and Edtech industry. During an interaction with TheTechPod - "Fail Fast is the Mantra in USA, Indian startups play a waiting game!", says Naveen Bachkethi.

McAfee, Intel, VMWare, QLogic are some of the companies Naveen has had the opportunity to work with. During his stints, he has worked for multiple start-ups and has had a track record of successfully impacting business growth metrics. A strong background in handling start-up engineering drove him to start and co-fund CBNITS, an IT services and enterprise solution provider to start-ups and SMEs across the globe.

Vineet Arya is the founder and director at COHIRE with a corporate experience spread across over 2 decades. With a vision to bring a revolutionary change in the white-collar gig economy, Outsourced CMO & COHIRE helps companies to work with a comparatively cost-effective C-level executive to scale faster in shortest span of time. With COHIRE, he has successfully helped various start-ups in the manufacturing, e-commerce, edtech, and service industries.

He has worked with some of the most-sought-after MNCs, including AMD, SanDisk , Tata Power Solar at senior marketing positions. During his career span of 23 years, he has managed entire marketing bouquet right from brand building and PR to ATL, BTL and Digital marketing.

Ashutosh Dabral is the Chief Product Officer at MoneyTap. He has 15+ years of product management experience across startups, Fortune 50 firms, and leading tech companies in the areas of consumer internet, eCommerce, and Fintech. He has built products in hyper-growth as well as transformation scenarios. He is passionate about building new products and improving the lives of customers.

Prior to his role at MoneyTap, he was the founder of 2 startups - 

Hush.Company - a social network for Indian Employees and raised VC and angel funding,

VoyageUp - a friend and activity finder app. 

He has also been a guest Lecturer @ IIM Calcutta covering topics like Online Advertising and Strategy. Ashutosh completed his MBA in 2002 from IIM Calcutta. 

Harshit Jain is the Founder and CEO of Doceree - the First Global Network of Physician-only Platforms for Programmatic Marketing. With Doceree, he is aiming to address the acute problem of rising cost of healthcare by bringing in efficiency and effectiveness in marketing to Physicians by pharma brands on digital platforms with methodical use of data and creativity.

A healthcare innovator, he is driving health transformation across the globe, delivering life changing, creative and sustainable ideas. Recognized as Elite 2020 Disrupter Award by premier global PM360 Magazine for his venture, Dr Harshit has addressed some of the biggest health challenges – Immunization, Vitamin D deficiency, Diabetes by creatively and innovatively using data. In his over 13 years of professional journey, he weaved together his domain expertise of medicine and his marketing acumen to come up with out-of-the box ideas and campaigns in the healthcare space.

Preeti Sheokand is the Co-Founder & CEO of DesignShift, a UX/UI Design training academy. She is a post-graduate in human-centred Design from Srishti and an Inspire Fellow. She founded Designshift 3 years ago with Sudhir Mor. DesignShift has been running weekend batches till now and is now venturing into the Zero Upfront cost ISA model.

New 30 weeks full-time course focuses on building industry-relevant skills and helping students start a career in the digital design space.

Sonal Patni is the Chief Technology Officer of SMECorner. He is responsible for establishing the technical vision and driving all aspects of SMECorner's technology platform. He is an experienced technology professional with 17 years of experience working with global technology companies like Avaya Inc, Cognizant, and Tech Mahindra where he was responsible for setting up and leading high-performing engineering teams and executing product and platform strategies.

He is an experienced technology professional with 17 years of experience working with global technology companies like Avaya Inc, Cognizant and Tech Mahindra where he was responsible for setting up and leading high performing engineering teams and executing product and platform strategies.

He is a Management Graduate from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and holds an engineering degree from Mumbai University.

Viral Vora is the CEO of CAYPRO. A successful 16+ years stint in the talent acquisition and recruitment technology in India and globally has secured Viral Vora the title of one of the most influential name in the business. A follower of his passion and driven by technology, Viral is a 40-years-old astute, innovative and enthusiastic entrepreneur, who has built a world-class Application Tracking System to encounter and address the various challenges faced during the process of hiring such as speed, genuine interests, and more.

Over the years, Viral, India’s leading recruitment software innovator, has been able to develop (from scratch) his ideas into reality with CAYPRO, COGBEE and cFIRST, and offer expert solutions to the changing needs of the market using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. With his expertise, industry insights, extensive business network, and vast experience in technology and talent acquisition, Viral has been able to establish CAYPRO as one of the leading brands in the recruitment industry in India.

Mayank Goyal is the brain behind MoneyHop, India’s first cross-border neo bank offering full-stack global banking solutions catering to the global aspirations of the Indian millennials. As the Founder and CEO of the company, he spearheads its vision of revolutionising banking for millennials and becoming an aggregator of financial services where the consumer’s financial needs can be addressed from a single touchpoint.

A B.Tech graduate in telecommunications, a chartered financial analyst from Chartered Financial Institute and a financial engineering graduate from Imperial College London, Mayank’s inclination towards fintech was an outcome of his personal pain points experienced while conducting cross-border banking. His investment banking background while working for Merrill Lynch and Jefferies, London where he developed investment strategies  and trading algorithms further fuelled his desire to build a seamless and effortless cross-border banking platform . While at Merril Lynch, Mayank had built and managed qualitative investment portfolios worth $650 million for pension funds, hedge funds and Sovereign wealth fund. At Jefferies, he had built low latency, high frequency autonomous trading algorithms which had the ability to trade upto $100million without any human intervention.

Gaurav Tripathi is the founder and CEO of Superpro.ai, a tech-driven, advanced video communications startup that aims to power a sustainable and fulfilling future of work.

A serial entrepreneur, Gaurav, an IIT, Bombay alumnus, began his first venture at the young age of 19 while still at college. Since then, he has founded several tech-led ventures and successfully exited 3 startups before commencing Superpro.ai. In his previous venture, as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Gaurav was the driving force behind Innoplexus, an organization offering Data Science as a Service (DaaS) and Continuous Analytics as a Service (CaaS) products leveraging AI and proprietary algorithms, to help global Life Sciences and Pharmaceutical companies with access to relevant data across the pre-clinical, clinical, and regulatory phases of a drug, headquartered in Germany.

Parikshit has over 17 years of experience in Fintech and leading engineering / product teams in cloud native, mobile applications, SaaS, DevOps and Cloud Computing in Canada and USA. Parikshit started his career in Canada in the Banking sector where he was building derivatives trading & risk management platforms, he then moved on to start an enterprise mobility venture called 6DegreesIT deploying a custom big data analytics platform onto enterprise mobile applications for three $5bn+ companies. Parikshit successfully exited this company to a private equity fund based out of the US, before returning to India.  At StashFin, Parikshit leads the Technology build out & oversees the data science initiatives. Parikshit is an AWS certified solutions architect & an avid technology enthusiast.  Having grown up in a military family travelling all over India, Parikshit is also a certified commercial pilot.