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Amar Bandaru Built a Career in the Machinery Behind the Moment
Before AI became a boardroom reflex, Amar Bandaru spent two decades doing the quieter work beneath it: building applications, leading distributed teams and translating technical possibility into something a client could use.
Deep Chakraborty Is Building Memory for the Rooftop
He arrived in America with one suitcase, a sitar and a ticket he still keeps. Decades later, Deep Chakraborty is trying to give every solar roof something the industry has often misplaced: a continuous memory from first sketch to long-term performance.
Tom Benson
Tom Benson is the founder and CEO of Mitrix Bio, a Pleasanton, California biotech building toward whole-body mitochondrial transplantation. A serial software, hardware, and science entrepreneur, he managed the Linac Coherent Light Source femtosecond X-ray laser at Stanford's SLAC before turning his attention to the cell's power plants. His pitch is audacious and specific: grow young mitochondria from a person's own stem cells in a bioreactor, then transfuse them back to restore cellular energy and push the human lifespan toward 130 years.
Deepak Nagpal
Deepak Nagpal is the CEO of Audax Labs, a Bothell, Washington-based technology innovation company he has led since 2016. With a career spanning over two decades across NTT DATA, Capital One, and Interra Information Technologies, and an MBA from Oxford's Said Business School, he has built Audax Labs into a multi-practice consultancy operating across AR/VR/MR, AI, IoT, cloud migration, and data analytics - serving industries from automotive and healthcare to BFSI and government, with partnerships spanning Microsoft, Google, Amazon AWS, Hitachi Vantara, Oracle, and Rocket Software.