Arjun Malhotra

Patron

Saurabh Srivastava has co-founded and Chaired key institutions of modern India focussed on IT and entrepreneurship: NASSCOM; Indian Venture Capital Association; TiE Delhi-NCR; Indian Angel Network

He is a Padma Shri awardee & received an award from PM Shri Narendra Modi for his contribution to the Indian IT Industry as one of the 4 founders of NASSCOM.

After a stint with IBM and Unisys in the US and India, he founded several successful IT companies and India’s first private sector VC Fund, creating companies like India Bulls and Avendus. He has invested in around 100 start-ups, mentored hundreds of entrepreneurs and leveraged his global networks across investors, corporates, academia and technologists to build best in class companies and invest in them. Just like he built the foundations of the software industry which became the face of New India, he has led from the front in putting Indian biotech / healthcare innovation on the global map.

Govt boards/committees have included National Innovation Council, Government’s Start up Fund of Funds, SIDBI Venture Fund, Punjab and Rajasthan State VC Funds, STPI, SEBI Committee on AlFs, BSE Hi-Tech Advisory Panel, Telecom Centre of Excellence, Railway Expert Committee.

He served on the Advisory Board of Imperial College Business School London, has a Masters from Harvard University, a B Tech from IIT Kanpur (“Distinguished Alumnus Award”), Honorary Doctorate in Technology from the University of Wolverhampton, UK; DQ Lifetime Achievement Award for IT; Patrick J McGovern Lifetime Achievement Award for Entrepreneurship.