NURTURING TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION

Vikrant Varshney

Vikrant, the Managing Partner of SucSEED Indovation Ventures, has 25 years of experience and a highly regarded Leadership reputation in the field of Enterprise Risks Management and Strategy in large Global Corporates like HSBC, Fidelity investments, EXL services, GE CAPITAL, Bank of America, Aviva, etc. Vikrant co-founded IIIT Seed Ventures, a mentor-intensive early-stage Seed Fund to support Deep Tech Innovations in collaboration with IIIT-H foundation and also co-founded SucSEED Venture Partners LLP, a mentoring, consultancy, and seed capital raising services company set up in 2016, which now has substantial investment engagement spread across several countries. He is also supporting various startup activities, through early-stage Investments, syndicating closely with Lets Venture, India Angel Network, Mumbai Angels, Ah Ventures, and Kieretsu Angels, etc. Before SucSEED Indovation, Vikrant served as Chief Security & Fraud Risk Officer for HSBC Global Operations, Services & Technology covering 65000 employees, spread over 32 sites in Globally emerging locations with sites in India, China, Malaysia, Poland, Egypt, Brazil, and Canada and 37000 FTEs in Onshore locations in the UK, USA, HK, France, etc. Vikrant is the first person Globally, since the last 20 yrs of inception, to have been facilitated to be in the Hall of Fame for winning the coveted award of “Industry Personality of Year” consistently four times. Won the Global Award in London in 2018, India & SE Asia level Award in 2018 & 2017, and Global level in London in 2007. Vikrant is an alumnus of the Indian School of Business (ISB) Hyderabad, IMI New Delhi & AMU

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Dhiraj Kumar Sinha

Dhiraj is a commercial corporate lawyer and Company Secretary with around 20 years of experience in Cross-Border fund raising and M&A transactions, contracts negotiations, IPO, Listing, Corporate re-structuring, commercial litigations & settlements, arbitration, dispute resolutions, Insolvency laws, Due Diligence, Legal Strategies, Regulatory Issues and Corporate Laws Compliances. Dhiraj co-founded SucSEED Venture Partners LLP, a mentoring, consultancy and seed capital raising services company set up in 2016, which now has substancial investment engagement spread across several countries. Over the years, Dhiraj worked with large corporate houses engaged in aviation, real estate, financial services, e-commerce and has handled their full range of business operations, fund raising, capital listing, assets restructuring and investors relations. Dhiraj is also an avid angel investor in startups. Dhiraj is a Delhi University alumnus and also an Associate Member of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London.

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J A Chowdary

Mr. J A Chowdary served as Advisor IT at the Rank of Special Chief Secretary to the Government of Andhra Pradesh from 2014-19. He has been advising and assisting the government in bringing in investments, generating employment, and encouraging innovation and start-up activities in Andhra Pradesh. Mr. Chowdary is the Chairman of Blockchain committee at Bureau of Indian Standards, Government of India. Through this, Mr Chowdary is helping state governments in developing blockchain ecosystem in India. Mr. Chowdary is also the Founder of Fintech Forums in India which is newly & uniquely formed by involving various stakeholders like Investment community, Education & Research community, Financial Institutes and Technology communities. On the corporate side, Mr. Chowdary was one of the co-founders of PortalPlayer, and pioneered the development of the chip that went into the very first generation of Apple iPod. The iPod story took PortalPlayer to a successful IPO and subsequent acquisition by the Visual Computing giant NVIDIA. He is also on the boards various companies, including Amara Raja Electronics, Arora Group of Educational Institutions, Talent Sprint Private Limited and MITS Technologies. Mr. Chowdary was the Founding Director of Software Technologies Parks of India (STPI), Bangalore Hyderabad. He was also the Development Commissioner for Hardware Parks of India for Combined AP & Telangana and Tamilnadu. He was one of the key personalities and who was instrumental in bringing about an IT revolution in Hyderabad. Mr.J A Chowdary holds a M.Tech from IIT-Madras. He is mentoring several Deep Tech startup companies

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Lax Chepuri

Lax is CEO of TechnoGen, Inc. overseeing corporate direction and strategy for the company's global operations. Prior to founding TechnoGen, he held various positions at AT&T, Verizon, TimeWarner (AOL) and FannieMae with specific focus on enterprise quality initiatives. In addition to TechnoGen, he is also the co-founder of Focalcxm (www.focalcxm.com), a unique organization that offers CXM Consulting Services and CRM Products to help commercial clients improve sales productivity and deliver enhanced customer experiences. He is also an angel investor in number of startups in India and USA. He mentors young entrepreneurs and provides strategy and direction. He also serves as board member on multiple startups. Apart from being a successful entrepreneur and angel investor, he also successfully completed 5 Marine Core full marathons in DC, he is passionate about social work and is a board member for a number of non-profit and charity organizations in the greater Washington DC, USA. He has Master’s Degrees in both Business Administration & Management Information Systems.

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Ramesh Loganathan

Ramesh Loganathan is Professor Co-Innovation and Research/Innovation outreach Head, for IIIT-Hyderabad Ramesh served as Chief Innovation Officer at State Innovation Cell for Telangana in 2017 Originator of start-up Saturday, a networking platform for budding technology entrepreneurs, Professor Ramesh has been driving early stage startup ecosystem at Hyderabad. Prof Ramesh is part of Hyderabad4Innovation, a think tank group comprised of 14 key leaders in industry Prior to joining IIIT-Hyderabad, Ramesh headed Progress Software’s largest product development laboratory, at Hyderabad as MD & VP of products Prof Ramesh was recently awarded the prestigious Telangana State Award for championing the cause of startups. Prof. Ramesh spent 25 years in R&D after which he moved to academia in 2016. He co-authored “SOA approach to Integration” published by Packt Publishers. He is member of several Standards Experts groups including J2EE 1.3 in product/Startup circles. Ramesh holds an MBA from NUS, Singapore and a M.E in Control Systems & Instrumentation from Anna University, Chennai

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V V S N Raju

V V S N Raju is a well-known and distinguished name in the corporate, real estate and financial sectors with over 24 years of experience. Mr.Raju is also on the board of Venture Capital Management Company, which is a joint venture between ICICI Knowledge Park and NASSCOM. He founded Juris prime in the year 2005 after he moved from ICICI Bank, where he was Corporate Legal Head, AP, at that time. He has negotiated and structured a range of commercial transactions for domestic and multinational corporations. Over the few years, his practice is primarily focused on arbitration, banking, corporate law, litigation, recovery of money, real estate, foreign investments, start ups, and drafting of contracts. He is an angel investor having invested in a number of companies , an entrepreneur, Rotarian and Toast master. He is involved in numerous charity projects and is also on the board of business bodies and angel networks. Raju holds a B.Sc in Botany, Zoology and Chemistry from Andhra University and LL B from Osmania University.

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