PROGRAM TEAM

The ThinkStartup program team consists of seasoned entrepreneurs who have been through the startup process themselves and have built successful companies. The program has been designed in collaboration with experienced educators who understand how students think and learn.

Shivani Kapoor

Founder of ThinkStartup is an entrepreneur and educator. She is an engineer from IIT Delhi and has done her executive management studies from IIM Calcutta. She has 20+ years of industry experience. Her corporate career spanned multiple continents, business functions and industry verticals. Armed with this multi disciplinary experience Shivani then launched herself into the world of startups and entrepreneurship and her last venture went through a successful acquisition. With deep domain knowledge in building a startup from the ground up and a firm belief that entrepreneurship can be taught Shivani is passionate about inspiring the next generation of Indian students to become the job creators of tomorrow.

Sanjeeva Shivesh

Sanjeeva Shivesh is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor and the Founder of The Entrepreneurship School. In his previous avatar, he served as civil servant with Government of India. Subsequently, he worked as Strategy Consultant with Booz & Co. at their London Office and as Executive Director of Investments at a private equity firm. His passion lies in teaching Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Design Thinking. He has been Adjunct Professor at MDI Gurgaon, FMS and TERI University, besides teaching at Singapore Management University, IIM Rohtak, IIM Kashipur and IIT Delhi. He is an active panelist on economic affairs and policy on CNN News, India Today TV, Doordarshan and AIR. Sanjeeva is a B. Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and MBA from Cranfield School of Management, U.K.

Anjeet Khandelwal

Anjeet comes with 18 years of diverse experience in the fields of Education, Consulting, Management Training, Business Development across India & GCC. She has a Masters in International Business from Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, has been associated with several colleges in the past for teaching assignments across MBA & Undergraduate programs. In her other roles, she has worked with Corporate houses in structuring & delivering training on business communication, cross cultural changes, negotiations & leadership skills.
She has been instrumental in creating markets from scratch in countries like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait & Dubai in alpha industries such as heavy construction, oil & gas, air/road & rail transportation. She has also headed a Consulting outfit in pursuit of its venture into the field of Education. Her natural ability to build & nurture potential/ existing clients, understand their specific requirements & meet deadlines provides her an edge in CRM.
She has published several papers on Economics, International Business & Marketing along with being the Editor for College journals & magazines. She has conducted workshops in India & Qatar on varied subjects such as Green Sustainability, BRIC economies, Corporate Communications, amongst others. Anju as she is fondly called is a People person who is highly regarded as a mentor by her students. She is described by her students as someone who made a difference to their lives with her coaching style.

Siddhartha Samuel

Siddhartha is the Business & Creative Head at ThinkStartup. He is an entrepreneur and a startup man and has worked with various startups in the past across functions like marketing, sales, creative designing & product development. He has an experience of Founding & Scaling his own startups in the field of Real-Estate and Student-based Community Services. He has done his Psychology (H) from University of Delhi and Post Graduation in Entrepreneurship & Venture Management from The Entrepreneurship School, Gurugram. With solid people’s & team management skills, in-depth knowledge of Product Development, Creative Designing and Marketing & Sales, his vision is to associate & work with the visions & ventures of the future that solve a problem or optimise the processes of the world as we see it today for the good of the society & mankind.

Sayanti Sengupta

Sayanti Sengupta is the Course Coordinator at Thinkstartup. With a Degree in Chemistry from University of Calcutta and a decade of varied experience in operational/process domains along with her knowledge of customer interaction, she manages Thinkstartup’s data collection and evaluation processes, strategic plan implementation and the coordination of Live sessions and support groups.

Ramesh Verma

Ramesh is the IT Head at ThinkStartup. He has about 10+ years of IT experience in which he covers the complete software development life cycle process for different cases by designing, developing, integrating and testing applications in PHP and Python Django Environment. Working as the Technical Team Lead, successfully developing various web applications and Mobile Application Proficient in programming using Technologies (PHP & Python), he is good in Relational Database Management System MYSQL. He is an Active team player and a self-starter, capable of working independently and to motivate a team of professionals. He entails good communication and interpersonal skills. He likes to be updated in his field and as well as posses good knowledge of other relevant fields.

Abhishek Verma

Abhishek has an experience in various spheres of industries. He is well-versed in English and Russian Language. He has an outgoing personality. He is a solid manager with years of experience at working in team environment, strong competitive nature.Strong Leadership are also the qualities that he brings to the table.

Binu Gupta

Binu is the graphics & video editing team leader at ThinkStartup. She has over 5 years of experience in her field. She has completed her graduation from NEFTU, B.Ed from CRSU (HR.), also done diploma in multimedia from Ftec.

Our Advisors

Our advisors are hugely accomplished individuals who guide us and mentor us on our journey of changing the world one student at a time. They are people who have themselves changed the world for the better in their own ways and inspire us to constantly deliver value to all our stakeholders.

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Harish Chaudhry

Harish Chaudhry is an Associate Professor with the Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi. He did his schooling from The Doon School, Dehradun, B-Tech from IIT Kanpur and PGDM in IIM, Bangalore. He has worked in companies like Dunlop India Ltd., NIIT and RAAG Systems before joining academics with the Department of Management Studies, IIT, Delhi.
He has taught courses in the area of Marketing such as marketing research, advertising and sales promotion, product management, sales and distribution, etc. Mr. Chaudhry has conducted more that 100 training programmes in areas such as expert systems, Information technology, behavioural sciences and technology management. He has been a trainer for organizations like Godfrey Philips, ITC, Network Ltd., PCL, IRCON, RITES and STC. He has carried out a number of sponsored research projects for the erstwhile Planning Commission of India, National Knowledge Network amongst others.
Harish Chaudhry has organized a number of conferences for school leaders at IIT Delhi and IIT Madras. He has conducted over 100 training programs for school principals and teachers in India and abroad and led delegations of school principals to schools in Australia, Finland, UK and USA. He has conducted numerous researches into school education including a research on “assessments effectiveness” funded by IBM under their Global Faculty award scheme. He has been a part of the organization team of numerous national and international conferences and presented research papers in a number of national and international conferences.

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