Mr. Sanjay has spent over 35 years as a corporate executive, investor, early-stage venture capitalist, teacher, and advisor to funds and entrepreneurs. He has significant experience in M&As and funding startups. Sanjay has written extensively in online and offline publications, including The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Express. He often shares his knowledge with students and corporate executives from various countries on innovation and entrepreneurship, and has been a visiting faculty at Singapore campus of France’s INSEAD business school. He is a mentor and board member of Sattva, a leading impact consulting firm, including ESG.
Career
He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Kolkata’s Jadavpur University and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Bengaluru. He is a cofounder of NICE (Network of Indian Cultural Enterprises), a non-profit company, that seeks to create Indian soft power through entrepreneurial ventures based on indigenous Indian practices and knowhow. In 2016, he authored “Startup Mantras” a collection of 100 distilled insights for entrepreneurs and managers. He cofounded Neta, a Silicon Valley VC backed software company, that became a part of Infoseek/Disney. He was a founding partner of JumpStart-Up, a USD 45 Mn early-stage US-India cross-border VC fund that invested in technology businesses. Early in his career, he spent several years with Wipro in India and overseas, where he established several new business initiatives for the company. He is
an Executive Board Member of the Modular Open Source Identity Platform. He is a Governing body member of TiE Bengaluru and leads the digital diplomacy initiative at ISPIRT, a not-for-profit technology think-tank, and is associated with several venture funds and innovative companies. Further, he also serves as a member of the Risk Management Committee of Alldigi Tech Limited. He is also an Executive Committee member of MOSIP, a TIE Charter Member, and Designated Partner at Aadrutha Consultants LLP.
Details of other Directorships
- Quess Corp Limited
- Alldigi Tech Limited
- Syzygy Consultants
- Private Limited
- Sattva Media and Consulting Private Limited
- Network of Indian Cultural Enterprise
Nationality: Indian