Arun Kumar Ramchandran - known as 'Rak' - is the Chief Executive Officer of QBurst, a global product development and consulting firm backed by Multiples Private Equity. Appointed in April 2025 following a $200M investment, Rak brings 25 years of leadership experience spanning Infosys, Virtusa, Capgemini, and Hexaware Technologies. An IIT Bombay and IIM Calcutta alumnus based in Palo Alto, he is driving QBurst's transformation into an AI-first engineering services company with his 'High AI-Q' framework - embedding generative and agentic AI into every layer of software delivery.
Abhishek Jha is the Co-Founder and CEO of Elucidata, a San Francisco-based AI company making biomedical data AI-ready for drug discovery and pharmaceutical R&D. A trained physical chemist with a PhD from the University of Chicago and postdoctoral work at MIT, he spent years at Agios Pharmaceuticals contributing to four FDA-approved first-in-class therapies before co-founding Elucidata in 2015. Under his leadership, the company has raised over $22.7M in funding, grown to 170 employees, and achieved $22.2M ARR, while evolving from a data-curation platform into an AI company solving out-of-distribution (OOD) problems in biomedical research - work that earned Elucidata recognition as one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies in 2024.
Abhishek Kumar is the co-founder and CTO of Xoxoday, a Bengaluru-based SaaS platform that powers rewards, incentives, and employee engagement for 5,000+ enterprises worldwide. An IIT Bombay alumnus who previously co-founded EveningFlavours (an early food-discovery startup), Abhishek has helped grow Xoxoday from a 2012 experiences marketplace into a $100M+ funded global platform processing 250,000 transactions daily, with products spanning employee engagement, sales gamification, consumer loyalty, and API-based transactional rewards.
Chandra Singh is the CTO and Co-Founder of Rescale Technologies, a Thane-based technology firm helping global enterprises navigate digital transformation through cybersecurity, IT staffing, M&A support, and product development. An IIT Bombay graduate, Singh co-founded Rescale Technologies in 2022 alongside Pawan Kumar and Gaurav Meena, positioning the company at the intersection of creative strategy and technical execution.
Deepak Diwakar is the Co-Founder and COO of Mindtickle, the AI-powered revenue enablement platform that became a $1.2B unicorn in 2021. An IIT Bombay computer science graduate and former machine learning engineer at PubMatic, Diwakar built Mindtickle's technology infrastructure from the ground up, helping transform how enterprise sales teams learn, practice, and perform. Under his watch, Mindtickle raised $281M in total funding, hit $118M+ in revenue, and earned recognition as a Forrester Wave Leader in Revenue Enablement Platforms.
Rahul Tyagi is Co-Founder of Safe Security (formerly Lucideus), the Palo Alto-based Autonomous Cyber Risk Management platform that processes over three billion signals daily. A Certified Ethical Hacker who graduated from Lovely Professional University in 2011, he co-founded the company at IIT Bombay in 2012 alongside Saket Modi and Vidit Baxi. He has spent over a decade pioneering cyber risk quantification - using FAIR model frameworks and MITRE ATT&CK integration to give Fortune 500 boards a dollar figure on their digital exposure. Featured in Fortune India's 40-under-40, he discovered vulnerabilities in Intel, Sony, HP, TED, and dozens more before pivoting from pen-testing to platform. His most recent chapter: leading Safe Security's CyberAGI vision after closing a $70M Series C in July 2025.
Rushil Goel is the CEO and Co-founder of Nirvana Insurance, an AI-native commercial trucking insurance company valued at $1.5 billion after a $100M Series D in December 2025. Before founding Nirvana, he spent five years at Samsara scaling fleet telematics from zero to $400M+ ARR, where he spotted the gap between how much safety data existed and how little insurance companies used it. An IIT Bombay CS grad with a Wharton MBA, Goel has built two companies and scaled products across India and the US - from mobile payments at Ola to connected fleet operations - before channeling everything into rebuilding commercial insurance from the ground up.
Rukesh Reddy is the Founder and CEO of Deccan AI, a Mountain View-based AI data and post-training company that raised a $25M Series A in March 2026 led by A91 Partners with participation from Susquehanna International Group and Prosus Ventures. Built as a 'born GenAI' company in October 2024, Deccan AI serves frontier AI labs and major tech companies - including Google DeepMind and Snowflake - with high-precision training datasets, reinforcement learning environments, and enterprise evaluation suites. Reddy brings over 15 years of experience spanning finance, strategy consulting, and digital transformation at firms including J.P. Morgan, Monitor Group (now Monitor Deloitte), and Citi, where he led CX and digital transformation for the global retail bank.
Poojan Kumar is a serial entrepreneur and cloud infrastructure pioneer who co-founded Clumio, a cloud-native backup-as-a-service company that raised $261M before being acquired by Commvault in September 2024. A Stanford-educated IIT Bombay alumnus, Kumar previously co-founded PernixData (acquired by Nutanix in 2016) and was the founding engineer behind Oracle Exadata. At Clumio he built one of the leading AWS data protection platforms, amassing 1,000+ enterprise customers including Atlassian and LexisNexis, and now serves as Chief Product Innovation Officer at Commvault.
Mayank Bawa is the CEO and co-founder of WorkSpan, the leading Ecosystem Business Management platform that manages over $50 billion in joint pipeline for the world's top technology companies. Before WorkSpan, he co-founded Aster Data Systems - a Big Data pioneer acquired by Teradata for $325 million in 2011. Armed with a PhD from Stanford and a B.Tech from IIT Bombay (where he ranked 4th in the national entrance exam), Bawa has spent his career building category-defining companies at the intersection of data, automation, and enterprise collaboration. WorkSpan's Series D funding in 2025 marked the company's pivot toward AI-powered partnership automation, with 15,000 companies on its network.
Prasad Raje is a serial founder turned enterprise product executive who built and sold two SaaS startups before rising to C-suite roles at RingCentral, Outreach, and Udemy - and is now SVP Product Management at Salesforce, where he works at the center of the GenAI/Agentforce revolution. With a Ph.D. from Stanford, 9 patents, and a career arc spanning three decades of cloud software, he is one of the rare operators who has been a founder, a CEO, and a CPO before landing at the world's leading CRM company.