Ramaraj was the Co- Founder and CEO of Sify Limited, Sify was the first Indian Internet company to be listed on the Nasdaq National Market in the US (NASDAQ: SIFY). Ramaraj was recognized as the ‘Evangelist of the Year’ at the India Internet World Convention in September 2000. And in 2001, in a CNET.com poll in India, Ramaraj was voted the IT Person of the Year 2000. Currently Ramaraj is the Senior Advisor at Sequoia Capital and is a member of the global Board of Trustees of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs).Ramaraj is the first Indian to be invited to the Board of directors of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers).Ramaraj is a member of the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. R. Ramaraj holds a B.Tech in chemical engineering from the University of Madras and a M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.

Sudhakar Ram is responsible for driving and consolidating growth of Mastek Ltd in markets across the globe. One of the Founder Directors of Mastek, Mr.Ram is at the helm of several strategic initiatives that will help the company achieve its vision of becoming a world class provider of Vertical Enterprise Platforms and Applications that enable business transformation. To that end, he is leading Mastek's drive to become a serious global player in delivering IP-based solutions to verticals such as insurance and government. Within the Mastek organization, his focus is on bringing about a marked shift in leadership, commitment, creativity and culture with a view to accelerated increase in value delivery. Mr.Ram, as a veteran of the IT industry, is also a keen observer of domestic and global IT and business trends. He uses his deep insight into the industry to frequently write articles and columns for leading newspapers.

Mr. Ram is a silver medalist from Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta. Before joining Mastek, he was the CIO of Rediffusion Dentsu Young & Rubicam.

Babu Thiagarajan is the Chairman and CEO of QuScient Technologies Private Limited, a full-service provider for Higher Education institutions in the US and the UK. Before founding QuScient, he was the CEO of TranSys Technologies Inc, a successful software services provider based in Princeton NJ and Chennai India. TranSys was one of the fastest growing small companies in the US with marquee customers and strategic partners. Beginning his career as a Technology Consultant with the US operations of TCS, a software powerhouse from India, he later worked with IBM and Coopers & Lybrand for a decade in New York. Babu is a rank-holding Chartered Accountant from India and holds a Bachelors degree in Commerce from the University of Madras.

Rajeev Mecheri is an angel investor and the Managing Director of Mecheri Smart Capital Pvt. Ltd. As a first generation entrepreneur, he has donned many successful professional hats and has over 18 years of experience in the Safety, Security & Building Automation Industry. Until recently, he was the Managing Director of Siemens Building Technologies Pvt. Ltd, a subsidiary of Siemens Ltd. In his early years, he co–founded DATS India Ltd in 1992, which evolved to become the iMetrex Group and eventually in May 2007, the businesses of iMetrex & Siemens merged to form Siemens Building Technologies Pvt Ltd.

Rajeev is a charter member of Tie Chennai, a committee member of the Madras Management Association (MMA) and a member of the Chennai Angels. He is also the Chapter Chairman of Young Presidents Organization (YPO) Madras and founding member of the Entrepreneurs Organisation (EO), Chennai. As an exemplary alumnus of an international students association, AIESEC, he is one of the select few from across the globe, to have been recently honoured into AIESEC’s Global Hall of Fame.