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Sandhya Suri is an ex-Naval Officer, proudly one of the first women officers to serve on warship, and a cross functional professional with both domestic and international experience spanning a period of over two decades. A hands on highly adaptive and creative person, she has the ability to positively approach challenges. Her diverse experience has enabled her to set up Human Resources and Administrative Operations for two key conglomerates in Nigeria.

She currently covers a multi-faced role as a Management Consultant, Motivational Speaker, and Victory Coach. The third Indian Naval Academy batch had got 14 lady cadets. One among them was, Sandhya Suri, who was preparing for her IPS exams back then when she received the joining instructions in 1994. As her fate might have it, she rose to become one from the handful of women officers to be posted on board a warship.

Piyush Sharma was appointed by Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (ZEEL) as its CEO - New Initiatives, India and APAC in February 2015. He spearheaded the factual entertainment piece for Zee under the Living portfolio. He launched the first channel under the Living umbrella, Living Foodz, in September 2015, which is now present across India, Africa, the US, and APAC.

Sharma, an alumnus of the University of Cambridge, UK has been credited with creating successful case studies at Burda International while bringing the licensed editions of some of the world’s most powerful international media brands into the country. He helped launch and successfully build, among others, brands such as Sports Illustrated, Travel + Leisure, Better Homes and Gardens, and Maxim. In a career span of over 20 years, he has a successful track record of building brands and businesses from the scratch as also being core part of teams successfully managing Rs 2500 crore plus businesses.

Mr. Pranshu Singhal is the founder of Karo Sambhav Pvt Ltd which is a PRO (producer responsibility organization) Karo enables producers to fulfil their compliance obligations, inspires people and institutions to responsibly recycle, motivates waste collectors and aggregators to transform and legalise, and uses a mobile technology platform to make participation by all extremely easy and environmentally impactful. He was previously the Director of digital learning strategy- Microsoft India (2014-17)

Collaborated with Ministries of Education and Education Leaders to support them in implementing major learning and technology programs in the drive for anywhere anytime learning. He is presently a fellow of KINGS College London. He did his MSc in Environment Management & Policy from Lund University, Sweden.

Mr. Jitin Chawla is an eminent career counsellor & educationist and has been doing a number of shows on NDTV, CNN-IBN, Delhi Aaj Tak, Headlines Today, Lok Sabha TV, Doordarshan, ZEE Business and writes for various newspapers and Magazines like the India Today - Aspire , Outlook, HT , Dainik Bhaskar, Amar Ujala, Hindustan Hindi, Dainik Jagran and Times of India . He has been answering student's queries on AIR 102.6 F.M., Voice Tap, & Delhi University Community Radio also.

Mr. Chawla is an alumnus of the Faculty of Management Studies and currently is the Director of the Centre for Career Development. CCD is into Aptitude Testing, Career Workshops, Career Fairs, and Career Resource Centres and conducts a no. of workshops for students, teachers & parents. Mr. Chawla & his team have already conducted more than 16,500 workshops in different educational Institutions & corporates.

Mohit Mamoria is a serial entrepreneur, avid reader, occasional blogger and regular twitter. He is the founder and CEO of OwlGrin and currently the curator of a weekly newspaper, Unmade, which delivers one idea from the future to your inboxes. He was a super early miner of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. He is inclined towards promoting and spreading awareness about Blockchains using the most powerful weapon of the era, i.e., Social Media. Introvert in nature, he have been writing software since he was 11 years old, and founded his first company at the age of 18 when he was in college. After running it profitably for two years, he shut it down to start a product company, which later pivoted into Horntell.

Shivam Ahuja is a successful entrepreneur who’s the founder of Stealth Mode, Co-founder at ExpertVidya.com, CEO Delhi Startup, and CEO of Delhi Angels. He is also the chief trainer and founder of SkillCircle. In 2012, Mr. Ahuja Joined Micromax Informatics and helped them in Building their Sales channel for Delhi Region. He also contributed to Micromax’s massive growth for the period 2012-2015 and got awarded as "Best Sales Professional" for a quarter in 2014. In 2014, he started Delhistartups.org Community along with his good friend Shaurya, Director Marketing EDC IIT Delhi. From a Facebook group of just two members they raised it to a community of 25,000+ invite only startup-preneurs and helped 15+ different startups in raising funds of $4 million seed fund. He has impacted more than 1500 startups and more than 15000 attendees served in 2015 & 2016 alone through their impactful events. In 2016, the pair launched DelhiAngels, and invested $100,000 in one of tech startup through our group of investors.

Ms. Anu Goel is a Clinical Psychologist, Counselling Psychologist and Psychotherapist in Connaught Place, Delhi. She has practiced in Mumbai and is currently practicing Nuero Psychiatric Clinic in Connaught Place, Delhi She is also the member of the Counsellor’s Association of India. She completed MA - Psychology from Annamalai University and PGDPC (Post Graduation Diploma In Psychological Counselling) from S.I.E.S.. She has had many happy patients in her 22 years of journey as a Psychologist.

She has specialized in many therapies such as Rational Emotive therapy, Hypnotherapy, Cognitive behaviour Therapy, Past life regression therapy, Neuro Linguistic Programming therapy etc. She has been a part of the panel team for many television shows, events and documentaries.

She has conducted many workshops for various age groups which include parenting, stress management, interpersonal relationships, Conflict resolution and emotional empowerment workshops. ConferencesMrs. Anu Goel has also been a speaker on vario us topics of mental health in several conferences and seminars conducted in many different parts of India.