ET Entrepreneurship Roundtable: Experts Speak
The expert panel who spoke out their minds in the ET Entrepreneurship Roundtable.
| Kanwaljit Singh MD, Helion Ventures | |
“The founder is also the shareholder and the manager. Somehow you have to find a way to distinguish the two.”
Age: 44 years
Education:
Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from Punjab University
MBA from Faculty of Management Studies, New Delhi
Professional Experience:
Prior to Helion, he was a director and co-head of The Carlyle Group’s India venture operations for 4 years, during which it invested in around half a dozen companies and helped increase the business of portfolio companies. Singh was earlier head of marketing for South Asia at Intel, and spent about three years in building the Intel brand in India. This followed over 10 years with Hindustan Unilever in various roles.
Age: 44 years
Education:
Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from Punjab University
MBA from Faculty of Management Studies, New Delhi
Professional Experience:
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Prior to Helion, he was a director and co-head of The Carlyle Group’s India venture operations for 4 years, during which it invested in around half a dozen companies and helped increase the business of portfolio companies. Singh was earlier head of marketing for South Asia at Intel, and spent about three years in building the Intel brand in India. This followed over 10 years with Hindustan Unilever in various roles.
| K Ganesh Founder, TutorVista | |
"I don’t think any entrepreneur can be dispassionate. Each time I’ve sold a business, it’s a heart-wrenching moment."
Age: 45 years
Education:
Post graduate diploma from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta,
Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Delhi University
Professional Experience:
Ganesh has proved his credentials as a successful entrepreneur and CEO, he founded IT&T, an IT and network services firm, and successfully took it public in 2000. He then went on to become the CEO of Wipro British Telecom/Bharti British Telecom and turned around an ailing company on the brink of bankruptcy to break-even status. He then founded CustomerAsset/ICIC Source, which became one of India’s top BPO firms.
Age: 45 years
Education:
Post graduate diploma from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta,
Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Delhi University
Professional Experience:
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Ganesh has proved his credentials as a successful entrepreneur and CEO, he founded IT&T, an IT and network services firm, and successfully took it public in 2000. He then went on to become the CEO of Wipro British Telecom/Bharti British Telecom and turned around an ailing company on the brink of bankruptcy to break-even status. He then founded CustomerAsset/ICIC Source, which became one of India’s top BPO firms.
| Sanjay Nayak CEO, Tejas Networks | |
"When you start getting visible, that’s when you need to be very paranoid about competition."
Age: 43 years
Education:
Sanjay holds a M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University
Raleigh and B.E in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
Professional Experience:
Prior to founding Tejas, Sanjay held senior management positions in major electronic design automation companies such as Synopsys (where he was the Managing Director of Synopsys-India) and at Cadence Design Systems.
Age: 43 years
Education:
Sanjay holds a M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University
Raleigh and B.E in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
Professional Experience:
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Prior to founding Tejas, Sanjay held senior management positions in major electronic design automation companies such as Synopsys (where he was the Managing Director of Synopsys-India) and at Cadence Design Systems.
| Srini Rajam CEO, Ittiam | |
"You really don’t want the founding team to be clones of the CEO, they should be best in class."
Age: 47 years
Education;
Srini holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from the School of Automation, Indian Institute of Science
Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Madurai University.
Professional Experience:
Prior to starting Ittiam, Srini gained his spurs at Texas Instruments India, where he was the MD during 1995-2000 and led TI India to be among the most valuable R&D centers for TI. Before TI, he worked at Wipro systems as Software
Development Engineer.
Age: 47 years
Education;
Srini holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from the School of Automation, Indian Institute of Science
Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Madurai University.
Professional Experience:
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Prior to starting Ittiam, Srini gained his spurs at Texas Instruments India, where he was the MD during 1995-2000 and led TI India to be among the most valuable R&D centers for TI. Before TI, he worked at Wipro systems as Software
Development Engineer.
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