FOUNDING COMMUNITY

Eminent business leaders, tech entrepreneurs and academicians are a part of Plaksha community. They are deeply involved in all aspects of the university from program design and research initiatives to mentoring students. Know more about our Founders, Faculty, Academic Advisory Board and the team

Founding Group

Founding Group
Academic Advisory Board

Aakash Chaudhry

Co-Founder & Chief Mentor, AESL

Aashna Gupta

Changemaker

AESL

Corporate Donor, Plaksha University

Ajay Arora

Managing Director, D’Decor Home Fabrics

Ajay Bhardwaj

CEO, Anthem Biosciences

Alok Goyal

Partner, Stellaris Venture Partners

Alok Mittal

Founder & CEO, Indifi Technologies

Aman Singla

Co-founder at Immersa

Ambarish Raghuvanshi

Co-Promoter and former CFO, Info Edge India Ltd.

Ameet Kumar Gupta

Whole Time Director, Havells India Ltd.

Ananda Sen Gupta

Founder, Trackmybeat

Anil Chawla

Co-Founder & Promoter, Clix Capital

Anil Rai Gupta

Chairman & Managing Director, Havells India Ltd.

Anjali Rattan Nashier

Chairperson, Rattan India Enterprises Limited

Anjan Malik

eClerx

Anthem Biosciences

Corporate Donor, Plaksha University

Anurag Goel

General Partner, Cactus Venture Partners

APL Apollo

Corporate Donor, Plaksha University

Apurva Parekh

Executive Director, Pidilite Industries Limited

Arjun Bhagat

Chairman & CEO, Calibrated Group

Arumugam Aramvalarthanathan & Kazi Zaman

Gestalt Network LLP

Ashish Gupta

Founder, Benori Knowledge Solutions

Ashish Kacholia

Director, Lucky Investment Managers Pvt Ltd

Ashish Kumar

Managing Partner and CIO, Infinity Alternatives

Ashok & Seenu Samuel

ATE Chandra Foundation

Corporate Donor, Plaksha University

Atin Kukreja

CEO, Rippledot Capital

Atul Gupta

Blue Circle Medi Services

Axis Bank

Corporate Donor, Plaksha University

Ayush Agarwal

Consultant, InfoEdge Center for Entrepreneurship

Barkha Dutt

Mojo story

Bharti Foundation

Corporate Donor, Plaksha University

Binny Bansal

Founder, xto10x | Co-founder, Flipkart

Brijesh Agarwal

Founder & Director, IndiaMART InterMESH Limited

Carl Georg Duerschmidt

Chairperson of the Supervisory Board, Nagarro

CP Gurnani

Co-founder, AlonOS

Dalip Pathak

Special Limited Partner, Warburg Pincus LLC

Deepak Goyal

Managing Director & Senior Partner, Boston Consulting Group (BCG)

Deepak Raj

Founder, Raj Associates

Deepinder Bhatia

Changemaker

Devashish Chopra

Global Industry Analyst at Wellington Management International Ltd.

Dilipkumar Khandelwal

Managing Director and CEO, Deutsche India

Dinesh Agarwal

Founder & CEO, IndiaMART InterMESH Limited

Divyata Ashiya

Partner, Just Transition Capital

Diwakar Nigam

CMD, Newgen Software Technologies

Dixon

Corporate Donor, Plaksha University

Dr. Anant Agarwal

Founder and CEO, edX

Dr. Anupam Sobti

Applied Machine Learning, Embedded Systems/IoT

Dr. Arvind Raman

Senior Associate Dean of the Faculty, Purdue University

Dr. Ashish Gupta

Senior Managing Director, Helion Ventures

Dr. Ashish Nanda

Former Director, IIM Ahmedabad

Dr. BN Jain

Former Vice Chancellor, BITS Pilani; Professor, IIT Delhi

Dr. Frances Ligler

Professor and Eppright Chair in Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University

Dr. Howard Griffiths

Co-Chair, Cambridge Global Food Security Interdisciplinary Research Centre

Dr. James Holloway

Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs University of New Mexico

Dr. Jennifer Cochran

Addie and Al Macovski Professor of Bioengineering. Stanford University Schools of Medicine and Engineering

Dr. Julia Ross

Dean of Engineering, Virginia Tech

Dr. Kaushik Basu

Professor of Economics and Carl Marks Professor of International Studies, Cornell University

Dr. Krishna Palepu

Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

Dr. Manoj Kannan

Associate Dean, Student Life

Dr. Nandini Kannan

Dean of Academics & Director of Data Science Institute

Dr. Pankaj Jalote

Founding Director, IIIT Delhi

Dr. Rajesh K. Gupta

Professor and Qualcomm Endowed Chair, University of California, San Diego

Dr. Rajesh Nair

Co-founder and President, Indegene

Dr. Ravi Jasuja

Director, Translational Research & Discovery BWH, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Rudra Pratap

Founding Vice Chancellor

Dr. Sanjay Sarma

Professor of Mechanical Engineering, MIT

Dr. Shankar Sastry

Founding Chancellor, Plaksha University

Dr. Sharad Malik

Chair, Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University

Dr. Shashikant Pawar

Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer

Dr. Srikant Srinivasan

Associate Dean, Academics

Dr. Sriram Rajamani

Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Research India

Dr. Venkatesh Narayanmurthi

Benjamin Peirce Professor, Harvard University

Dr. Vijay Kumar

Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Vishal Garg

Energy Efficient & Smart Buildings

Dr. Vishal Garg

Dean of Research

Dr. Vivek Deulkar

Sustainable Carbon Efficient Energy Systems, Smart Grids, Battery Storage Management, Renewable Energy and its reliable integration

Dr. Yannis C. Yortsos

Dean, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California

DSP

Corporate Donor, Plaksha University

eClerx

Corporate Donor, Plaksha University

Gagan Hasteer

VP, Content Engineering, Netflix

Ganesh Ramani

Partner, Goldman Sachs

Gaurav Suri

CEO, Arcesium LLC

Gayatri Sondhi

Private Investor, Multipoint Capital LLC

Gopal Jain

Managing Partner, Gaja Capital

Goutham Rao

Changemaker

Guru Pangal

GM Storage, Google Cloud

Harish Bahl

Founder & CEO, Smile Group

Harish Shah

Chairperson, Harish and Bina Shah Foundation | Managing Director, Signet Capital Pvt Ltd

Harsh Nanda

Changemaker

Havells

Corporate Donor, Plaksha University

Hema Hattangady

Changemaker

Hitesh Oberoi

Co-Promoter, MD and CEO, Info Edge India Ltd.

HT Parekh Foundation

Corporate Donor, Plaksha University

Incedo

Corporate Donor, Plaksha University

Indegene

Corporate Donor, Plaksha University

Indorama Ventures

Corporate Donor, Plaksha University

Indus Towers Ltd.

Corporate Donor, Plaksha University

IndusInd Bank Ltd

Corporate Donor, Plaksha University

InfoEdge

Corporate Donor, Plaksha University

Jai Rajpal

Founder and CEO, Crescent Asset Management Asia

Janmejaya Sinha

Boston Consulting Group

Jefferies

Corporate Donor, Plaksha University

Jitendra Gupta

Founder, Citrus Pay

Jitin Sahni

Chief Operations Officer

John Firth

Director, Global Health and Development, Rethink Priorities

Kalyan Krishnamurthy

Changemaker

Kanchi Khanna

Director, Admissions & Outreach

Kapil Agarwal

Chief Architect & Founder, Upaya Solutions

Karan Gilhotra

Changemaker

Kaushal Aggarwal

Co-founder, Avendus | Head of Credit Solutions & Wealth Management, Avendus

Kavita Iyer

Managing Trustee, SIFF (Singhal Iyer Family Foundation)

Krish Mantripragada

Chief Product Officer, Seismic

Lalit Agarwal

Chairman and Managing Director, V-Mart Retail

Madhav Bhatkuly

CEO & Chief Investment Officer, New Horizon Investments Inc

Madhusudan Kela

Founder, MK Ventures

Manas Human

Co- Founder, Nagarro

Manish Gupta

Co-founder and CEO, Indegene

Manish Krishnan

Senior Advisor, Nagarro

Manmohan Gupta

Founder, Nagarro

Manu Gulati

VP of Engineering, Qualcomm

MCKS Trust Fund

Corporate Donor, Plaksha University

Mekin Maheshwari

Founder & CEO, Udhyam Learning Foundation

Mohit Gupta

Co-founder, Lyskraft

Mohit Thukral

Chief Executive Officer, Arise Virtual Solutions Inc.

MolBio Diagnostics

Corporate Donor, Plaksha University

Monik Sameer Koticha

Managing Director, Fortress Group

Motilal Oswal

Corporate Donor, Plaksha University

Mphasis

Corporate Donor, Plaksha University

Mukesh Sharma

Chairman and Director, Prometheus School

Mukul Agrawal

Chairman, Param Capital

Murugavel Janakiraman

Founder & CEO, Matrimony.com

Nagarro

Corporate Donor, Plaksha University

Narinder J Singh

Avina Holdings

Natasha Malpani Oswal

Kae Capital

Navin Chaddha

Managing Director, Mayfield Fund

Neeraj Aggarwal

Chairman, Asia Pacific Boston Consulting Group (BCG)

Nicomatic India Electronics Ltd.

Changemaker

Nina Mehta

Associate Director, Brand and Communications

Niten Malhan

Founder & Managing Partner, New Mark Advisors LLP

Nitin Rakesh

CEO, Mphasis

Pallav Nadhani

Founder & CEO, Charts.com

Pallav Nadhani

Fusion Charts

Pallavi Jain

Co-Founder and Chief Strategist

Pallavi Jain

Project Leader, Boston Consulting Group

Pankaj Agarwal

Founder, Hello Travel

Pankaj Chaddah

Founder, Zomato

PD Mundhra

eClerx

Prabakar Sundarrajan

Co-founder & Chief Strategist , The Fabric

Prabakar Sundarrajan

The Fabric

Pramod Bhasin

Chairman, Clix Capital

Prashanth Prakash

Founder, Accel India | Co-founder, UnboxingBLR Foundation

Priya Baveja

Entrepreneur | Mentor

Priya Baveja

Changemaker

Priya Jadhav

Assistant Professor, IIT Bombay

Rajeev Leekha

Partner, Complus Asset Management

Rajesh Magow

Co-Founder and Group CEO, MakeMyTrip Limited

Rajesh Sachdeva

Founding Partner, Flowering Tree Investment Management

Rajiv Goel

Executive Director, Havells India Ltd.

Rajiv Kuchhal

General Partner, Exfinity Venture Fund

Rakesh Bharti Mittal

Vice Chairman, Bharti Enterprises

Rakesh Jaggi

Sr. VP Sales & Commercial, Schlumberger

Rimy Oberoi

Director, Centre for Employability Research

Rishi Nath Khanna

Chairman, TreeForest Capital

Rishi Nath Khanna

Trimaster Pvt. Ltd. Erstwhile C&S Electric

Rishi Yadav

Founder & CEO, Zettabytes Inc

Ritesh Malik

Founder, Innov8 Coworking

Rohit Arora

Founder and Chairman, Silverskills

Rohit Kaila

Head of Technology & Site Leader - Wayfair India TDC

Rohit Kaila

Walmart Global Tech India

Rosen Sharma

President & CEO, Bluestacks Systems Inc. USA

Ruchir Godura

Director, Enterprise Account Sales at Outreach

Sachit Ahuja

Managing Director, Tillman Global Holdings

Sachit Malhotra

Founder, GMP Proprietary Trading

Sameer Brij Verma

Managing Director, Nexus Venture Partners

Sameer Jain

Founder & CEO, Net Solutions

Samir Mehta

J O Hambro Capital Management

Sandeep Tyagi

Chairman & CEO, Estee Capital

Sandeep Tyagi

Estee Capital

Sanjay Bhatnagar

Registrar

Sanjay Kukreja

Chief Investment Officer, ChrysCapital

Sanjay Parikh

Co-founder, Executive Vice President and Board Member, Indegene

Sarika Gupta Bhattacharyya

Head, Institutional Advancement & Industry Partnerships

Saurabh Mittal

Chairman, Mission Holdings

SK Jain

Founder and Managing Partner, RatnaTraya Capital

Snehal Shah

Independent Director, Gala Precision Engineering Ltd.

Srabani Ghosh

Director, Office of Corporate Partnerships and Careers

Srikanth Velamakanni

Co-Founder, Group Chief Executive and Executive Vice Chairman, Fractal

Sriram Nadathur

Co-head at Nadathur Group

Suchitra Lohia

Member, Board of Directors and Deputy Group CEO of Indorama Ventures PCL (IVL)

Sudhir Jangir

Founder & CTO, Zettabytes Inc.

Sujeet Kumar

Co- Founder, Udaan.com

Sumit Sanghai

ICICI Bank

Sumita Ambasta

Founder and Executive Director, Flowering Tree Inc.

Sunny Singh

Partner, RoundGlass

Sunteck

Corporate Donor, Plaksha University

Sushil Dharmarha

Director, Polarities Co. Ltd

Sushil Dharmarha

Polarities Co. Ltd

Umesh Sharma

Chief Financial Officer

Ursheet Parikh

Partner, Mayfield

V Mart

Corporate Donor, Plaksha University

V. Vaidyanathan

Managing Director & CEO,IDFC FIRST Bank

Varna Puvvada

Senior Director of Engineering, Meta

Vartika Bharti

Senior Manager, Human Resource

Vikas Khemani

Founder and CEO, Carnelian Asset Management & Advisors Pvt Ltd

Vikas Taneja

Managing Director & Senior Partner, Boston Consulting Group

Vikram Sehgal

Chief Operating Officer, Nagarro

Vikrant Bhargava

Managing Partner, Veddis Ventures

Vineet Nayyar

Former Executive Vice-Chairman, Tech Mahindra

Vishal Tulsyan

Managing Director & CEO, Motilal Oswal Private Equity

Vivek Khare

General Partner, SamVed VC | Strategic Advisor, LetsVenture

Vivek Vaidya

Founder and General Partner, Super{set} Venture Studio

Yogesh Agrawal

Managing Director,Ajanta Pharma

*Representative list