Meet The Team

Kiran Bettadapur is a practising advocate and patent lawyer. A qualified industrial engineer and company secretary, Kiran is an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur and IISc-Bangalore. He has expertise in the Hitech, EdTech, Green-Tech, Food-Tech, Energy and other verticals, in both B2B and B2C markets. He has co-founded and bootstrapped many ventures. In his corporate career with HCL-Hewlett Packard and Birlasoft, Kiran provided strategic vision; managed operations; and, achieved business goals in international markets. Passionate about market-driven innovation and disruptive entrepreneurship, Kiran invests in, advises and mentors technology startups too. His book, Gita and the Art of Selling was nominated for the “Crosswords Book of the Year” Award.

Srikanta Prasad has over 35 years of experience in various facets of electronic product development and services for industry verticals like Industrial Automation, Textiles, Telecommunications, Scientific Instruments, Healthcare, Renewable Energy and Energy Storage. Has worked in senior management positions with several multi-nationals including, EnerSys India, Schneider Electric, GE Healthcare, Tata Elxsi, Texmaco, Fujitsu and Kirloskar Electric. He has excellent knowledge of embedded analog and 8-, 16- and 32-bit digital systems and application software, RTOS, communication protocols, IoT, Networking (Ethernet, Wi-Fi, ZigBee, LAN/WAN Bridging, etc.), embedded web servers & cloud platforms; firmware safety compliance to UL1998 & IEC60730; etc. He has an M. Tech (Electronics Design Technology) and BE (Mechanical Engineering) degrees from IISc Bangalore and NIE Mysuru respectively.

Dr. Smitha Rao C.V., has a Master’s in Microbiology from University of Mysore and Doctorate in Biomedical Sciences from KU Leuven, Belgium. She has worked in India and overseas on various R&D projects. Dr. Rao’s areas of expertise encompass Microbiology, Molecular Biology, assay development in early-stage drug discovery and high-throughput screening. She has published several research articles and literature reviews in international-peer reviewed journals (in the area of novel targets) and a book chapter on Antibiotics.

Prof. H.R. Badrinath is a Fellow of the I.I.M., Bangalore, with specialization in Finance. He has over 21 years of rich experience in industry and academics with stints at N.A.L., Canara Bank, Alliance University and Kautilya Entrepreneurship & Management Institute, among others. His primary area of expertise is in Finance, more specifically the areas of financial markets, international finance, commodity markets, and BFSI. His interests extend to the areas of Entrepreneurship, Family Business Ventures; Education & Ed-Tech; and related domains.

Simha has over three decades of rich experience in product design and allied fields. His expertise extends into all aspects of integrated solution delivery─ from ‘conceptualization’ and ‘prototype design’ to ‘productionization’ and ‘go-to market’. He has steered teams in the areas of Industrial Design, CAD, CAE, CFD, Electronics and Mechatronics. A graduate of Industrial & Production Engineering, Simha holds a Post Graduate Degree in Industrial Design from IIT Bombay. He has deep insights and domain knowledge in the industry verticals of Consumer Durables, Electronics, Medical Devices, Automobiles, Lifestyle Products, Industrial Equipment, Furniture Design and more.

Sai Vissa possesses over 30 years of experience in manufacturing, information technology, ERP, systems integration and law. An industrial engineer with PG degree in management, he also holds a LL.B. degree and a PG Diploma in Cyber Law. An alumnus of IISc Bangalore and NLSUI-Bangalore, Sai’s expertise encompasses several industry verticals, including Steel, Chemicals, Oil & Gas, Engineering, Services and Manufacturing, both discrete and process. His interests are inter alia in Intellectual Property Rights, Data Privacy & Protection, Cyber Forensics and Cyber Security.

Atul Manoj is a practicing advocate with litigation experience in Courts & Tribunals. He specializes in real and intellectual property rights, civil, corporate and commercial dispute resolution. A graduate of CNLU, Atul has expertise in the Automotive, Information Technology and Healthcare sectors. His knowledge extends into digital security, data privacy & protection.

Sanjay Godbole has almost 40 years of rich experience as a production, product design & development, system testing and process automation engineer. He has also implemented ERP and paperless office solutions. In his leadership roles, he streamlined operations too. With a BE degree in Mechanical Engineering, Sanjay has conceived, prototyped, productionized and taken to market several innovative ideas during his corporate career. A steadfast believer of frugal innovation, he has designed, developed and inducted many tools, facilities, systems and equipment. Sanjay’s domain knowledge encompasses the Heavy Electricals, Defense, Electronics and Discrete Manufacturing sectors. He loves to dabble with technology and has expertise in web design, graphics design, micro-controller programming, Protel Schematics, PCB layout, and much more. He is passionate about his avocations of carpentry & gardening; a voracious reader, he enjoys sci-fi books and films.

Manikanta KM is a practicing advocate with about 8 years of experience handling civil, commercial, corporate litigation and criminal prosecution in various Courts & Tribunals. He specializes in tangible & intangible property matters; debt recovery; land acquisition, insolvency & bankruptcy and other cases. A graduate of Karnataka State Law University, Manikanta has expertise in the legal aspects of Software and Real Estate verticals.