Ananth Rangarajan is a Process Design Specialist at Flipkart.com, India's largest online marketplace. His focus areas are Industrial Engineering and Supply Chain Innovation. He earned his Bachelors in Industrial Engineering from the University of Pune, India and has graduated from the Postgraduate Program in Management at the Indian School of Business with concentrations in Finance and Operations Management. Ananth has served with Mercedes-Benz India in Assembly Line & Plant Management, Logistics & Supply Chain Management and Production Planning.

He has been involved in academic research since his deputation to the University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada as an Undergraduate Exchange Scholar. He has published over a dozen conference and journal articles on financial modelling, simulation, service sector process flows, urban transportation, healthcare, back office operations and e-commerce. He also serves on the panel of peer reviewers for multiple international journals & conferences and often features as an invited speaker in select forums.

Arvind combines his passion for technology and interest in life sciences at Verily, a Google subsidiary, to create tools that ensure people lead healthier lives. As early as in college, he showed a deep and abiding understanding of Electronics and Communication. Arvind and his team were selected to present "poochi" the robot that they created in Japan (Nagoya University). After a stint at Robert Bosch, he went on to do his Masters in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University. Arvind got a role as a product development engineer at Ford, where he worked on power electronics for electrified vehicles. Subsequently, he moved to Qualcomm and worked on several projects related to wireless power. With 14 patent applications to his credit, along with his professional career, Arvind is currently pursuing his PhD in wireless power technologies from North Carolina State University.

Madhu comes from a farming family in a village called Perugugudem in Andhra Pradesh. He did his undergraduate education in Aerospace Engineering from IIT Kharagpur and is now at Stanford University for an MBA. Madhu is one of the only 3 Indians to be selected by both Harvard and Stanford Universities for their MBA classes of 2017 and is also the recipient of the prestigious Stanford Dhirubhai Ambani Reliance and Narotam Sekhsaria Fellowships.

Until recently, Madhu has led product development at the Institute of Transformative Technologies (ITT), a novel initiative supported by the TATA Trusts, Rockefeller and Schmidt Foundations to productize and commercialize transformative technologies for social impact. Prior to ITT, Madhu was a management consultant at the Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA) - a government agency that supports the Prime Minister in catalyzing the agricultural sector, and at Dalberg, one of the world's leading strategy consulting firms in the development sector. His long-term career goal is to be a catalyzing business leader who leverages technology to make a difference in this world.

Nupur leads strategy and focuses on identifying a pipeline of innovative technologies and developing feasible and scalable business models for commercialization in India and other geographies of focus at the Institute of Transformative Technologies (ITT).

Prior to ITT, Nupur was a Project Manager at Dalberg Global Development Advisors, a strategy consulting firm, where she engaged in over 50 projects with leading clients in the international development space. Her projects involved market assessment, long-term strategy development, and performance evaluation, across education, health, inclusive business, access to energy, gender and community development. In addition to this, Nupur has designed and led several management-level client workshops for a selection of early and medium stage social enterprises. Outside of projects, Nupur served as the lead for Business Development and Strategic Initiatives for Dalberg Asia in 2015. She has spent some time in Glocal Healthcare's, an emerging rural hospital chain in West Bengal, India, where she represented their technology product portfolio with special focus on a medical diagnostic software solutions for doctors and health workers in rural settings.

Nupur holds a BA in Economics and Statistics from St. Xavier's College, along with a completed honors program in applied statistics, Mumbai and an MSc in Economics from Warwick Business School, UK.

With a solid background in Six Sigma and Project management, Sampath is currently the Lean Six Sigma Lead (Master Black Belt) at Hewlett Packard (HP), United Kingdom. He focuses on implementing business process management programs to improve Customer Operations, Supply chain, Delivery operations, IT, finance and HR. Working with diverse teams across the company, he has not only developed training materials but has also trained and mentored other Green and Black belts to successfully deliver projects. Prior to HP, Sampath worked in GE as a technology manager. His worked on designing and developing new products by applying Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) methodology. Sampath has also worked in Brakes India limited, where he led the production engineering and continuous improvement activities.

Sampath has an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering and a Masters in Strategic Quality Management from the University of Portsmouth. He is currently pursuing his PhD in Operations Management from the University of Portsmouth.