Arun Chopra

Chairman, Co-Founder & CFO at BlackBelt Help

CFO
CampusEAI Consortium

With over 40 years of experience in finance, higher education and information technology, worked as a Sr. Consultant to California State University (CSU) and Case Western Reserve University's (CWRU) information technology departments. As a Sr. Consultant, was responsible for overseeing a number of information technology projects including CSU and CWRU's enterprise portal, email/calendaring, mobile, voice-over-IP, wireless and IPTV projects.

During the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, founded and managed several companies in the textiles, food, hospitality, and real estate industries.

Peesh Chopra

Chairman of PVC's Investment

Peesh Chopra is the Managing Partner with PVC and is the Chairman of PVC's Investment Committee. He leads PVC's largest industry segments in education and mobile apps and currently serves as a Director of eight PVC portfolio companies. Chopra is a successful entrepreneur, experienced in finance, business strategy, product management, sales, marketing and capital formation.

Peesh Chopra and his career spanning two decades where he has ventured into building enterprises from scratch and has become a venture capitalist. Peesh Chopra is providing mentorship and funding to help budding entrepreneurs with disruptive ideas start and grow a business confidently.

Nikhil Agarwal

CEO, FIRST, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

Nikhil Agarwal currently working as CEO FIRST at IIT Kanpur. "Foundation for Innovation & Research in Science & Technology" is responsible for incubation and innovation at IIT-Kanpur.

He is the former CEO, Innovation Society, Government of Andhra Pradesh. The role of the innovation society is to kickstart the innovation agenda and promote entrepreneurship in the sunrise state of India.

Dr Agarwal has founded businesses and advised firms on strategic matters in last 20 years of his career. He has worked with global multinationals like Cadbury's and Zensar (RPG Group). He has lectured at leading global universities like Virginia Tech, University of Bradford, University of Edinburgh and University of Cambridge in visiting capacity. His interviews and work has been extensively covered in international media including HBR, Forbes, CNN Money, BBC Radio, The New York Times to name a few.