Managing Partners
Shakti Kalyan Badu
Shakti is a customer and partner success leader with 20 years of experience with both bootstrapped and funded startups, and large MNCs. He has been a consultant to start-ups, small and medium businesses from around the world, helping them with customer and partner success, digital transformation, new product/service launch, market expansion, revenue growth, and operational efficiency using his transferable experience. Prior to this Shakti has also been an entrepreneur building a recruitment tech product enabling organizations, hire the right fit candidates. He has a keen interest in enabling technology and digital transformation for businesses impacting their goals. He has a BE from National Institute of Science & technology, Odisha, and a MBA from ICFAI, Bangalore.
Alok Kumar
Alok has close to 20 years of experience in the field of Human Resources, working with various start-ups, social enterprises and MNCs. He has led the HR function for some of the most innovative and successful companies, including Kestone, a marketing services company, redBus - an online bus ticketing platform, and The Media Ant - an ad-tech start-up. Additionally, he led the HR function for Johnson & Johnson's Technology Division. In 2016, Alok co-founded a HR tech start-up that prioritised recruitment process efficiency and culture-fit prediction. The company was later acqui-hired. He consults and advises Founders and CEOs on people, culture and leadership concerns. Having a BA in Political Science from Delhi University, and an MBA from ICFAI Bangalore, Alok is a fitness enthusiast who is passionate about music and art.
Nikhil Mehra
Nikhil is a business leader with over 20 years of global experience in driving P&L for various IT products and services organizations across Europe, Middle East, Africa and India. He has worked with various cultures and created leaders as part of succession planning setting profitable subsidiaries of American and European MNCs. Being an entrepreneur at heart, he has formed a couple of start ups and continue as an investor in some. An Advisor and Mentor associated with AIC NITTE, have been working with new age entrepreneurs to aid them design market relevant solution offerings and monetizing the team effort. A mechanical engineer and masters business administration in Finance & IT, Nikhil has been pursuing his quest for knowledge and attained Certified Negotiation Professional along with Certified international commercial contracts manager (CICCM) from IPSCMI USA et al.