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State Governors
Ram Kumar Varma (Andhra Pradesh, India) is a varsatile and experienced entrepreneur currently living in Vizag. He is passionate about explore & learn new things and mentor people from Rural background & support them to become successful.
E: ramkumarvarma at the rate gmail.com M: +91-9000588800 |
Naheed Khan (Rajasthan, India) is a educationist and activist living in Jaipur. She has build a successful business called SmartNatives. She wants to develop Rajasthan as the hub for Women Entrepreneurs.
E: naheedkhan111 at the rate gmail.com M: +91-9829073937 |
City mayors
Vishal Naik (Pune) is a young social entrepreneur who is deeply rooted in bringing social change in our society.
He is keen to bring innovative ideas/models to life, enable industry collaboration and build the local community. E: vishalnaik at the rate gmail.com M: +91-8668219333 
Himank Dixit (Kolkata) wants to build state of West Bengal as entrepreneurs hub.
E: himank007 at the rate hotmail.com M: +91-9088339556 
Chayanant Tiyatrakarnchai (Bangkok)
Chayanant or Per (as people call her) is a traveller. At last count, she has travelled over 50 countries in the world. After working 25 years in corporate, she now works in academia and manage her consulting business in Bangkok. E: chayananttiya #at the rate# gmail dot com M: +66 - 826565194 
Soumen Das (Guwahati)
Soumen is one of those audacious breed of IIT-IIM graduate who pursue the path of least travelled of entrepreneurship. After dropping out MS from University of Michigan and leaving job with GM, he decided to go back to his native state of Assam (India) and fall in love with ideas. He run an NGO called Bhavishya and founded 'Kinder garden' - a chain of pre-schools. E: soumendas.iitg #at the rate# gmail dot com M: +91- 9435734333 
Laura Künzig (Nairobi)
Having studied whatever and traveled wherever she wanted, Laura is about to turn her various experiences into her first entrepreneurial venture. One day she wants to be an organic farmer in Sweden, but for now she is fine with bringing people from different hemispheres together, while growing herbs on her tiny balcony. E: laura.kuenzig #at the rate# googlemail dot com M: +254-714914937 
Yevhen Bilchuk (Kyiv)
Yevhen, wishes to merge scientists and inventors with entrepreneurs for joint welfare society. Нe created Сivil association «Ukrainian Union Educators and Scientists» and inspired by the experience of Frederick Terman. E: ukrunioneducators #at the rate# gmail dot com M: +38 0630594721 
John Hayes (Waterford, Ireland)
John loves networking, sales and direct response marketing. He likes nothing more that having his face stuck in a self improvement book and enjoying a strong Americano. One of his key thoughts on achieving success in business is that all of the ‘learning’ or knowledge in the world is USELESS unless you take ACTION! E: john.hayes #at the rate#raincloudwebdesign dot com M: +353-86-2583456 
Alexander Guy (London)
Alex is the Global Marketing Manager for Startupbootcamp, a global startup accelerator with programs in 9 countries. An expat with a retweeting addiction, Alex previously worked as the product marketing lead for an emerging cloud computing platform. He loves Hemingway and falafel. He doesn’t understand cricket. E: alexanderwguy19 #at the rate# gmail dot com M: +44-78791468885 
Angela Single (Cambridge)
A nurse by background Angela is passionate about the different that technology can make to patients lives and wants to change the world! She lives in Cambridge UK, and loves walking in the countryside and doing Pilates. E: angelajsingle #at the rate# gmail dot com M: + 44(0) 7534408388 
Adnan B. AlKendi (Dubai)
Adnan is among rare breed of local Emirati's whereas in United Arab Emirates (UAE) 90% of the population is an expat. He is an Entrepreneur - Founder & Managing Director of Solutions Makers Consultancy. Like most of the Arab men, he likes food and travel. E: adnan.alkendi #at the rate# gmail dot com M: +971-503477727 
Pratap Behera (Bhubaneswar)
Pratap is an entrepreneur - having founded a successful pre-school startup, now he is working in healthcare domain. When not working, Pratap is seen collaborating with other entrepreneurs or reading about high tech start-ups and how they are disrupting their respective market. A avid rock music lover, he believes rock music originated out of chaos lives and hence, perceives chaos as an opportunity. E: p.behera66 #at the rate# gmail. dot com M: +91- 7381091238 
Manish Harodia (Pune)
Manish is a management graduate with a passion for start-ups. Currently into his third, www.dreamwallets.com, he takes active pleasure in making the ideas reach a marketable phase. When not loaded with work, he enjoys traveling and cricket E: manish.harodia # at the rate# gmail.com M: +91-9096273453 
Matias Aycaguer (Santiago)
Matías is strategic designer and believes that entrepreneurship is the way to overcome existentialism and that together we can create better opportunities for ourselves and to help others !. And ''what better way than sharing our experiences and with a coffee in hand?'' E: matias.aycaguer #at the rate# gmail dot com M:+569-76161236 
Ilsmail Iftissen (Fez)
IIsmail is a young entrepreneur who launched www.t9dya.com an Ecommerce Startup 2 years ago in Fez. He is dream is to expend his business in different cities of the Kingdom. Ismail is ambitious, active with the spirit of innovation, creativity, and passionate relationship. E: iiftissen #at the rate# gmail dot com M: +212663299604 
Hans C Ritschard (Zurich)
Live , think and dream (nightmares very often too) with the entrepreneurial spirit, he create , improve , develop and help business people with experience, business models , facilitation and network. Hans has founded 12 companies over the last 28 years in 3 different continents and make several business broking deals with private to public companies. His passion is to help young entrepreneurs and ancient knowledge. E: hcr #at the rate# ritschardhc dot com M: +41-765081970 
Sikiru Akeem Babatunde (Ogbomoso)
Sikiru is best describe as an entrepreneur, administrator and scientist. I am Chief Operating Officer of a company I co-founded and currently in addition to this, am a postgraduate student at a leading Nigerian university. E: akeembaba01 #at the rate# gmail dot com M: +2348160942976 
Pavan Kirpalani (Central London)
Pavan Kirpalani (PK) is an MBA, a Qualified Accountant and working with one of the Big 4 Consulting Groups in London. PK loves to try different cuisines and when at home alone tries to recreate his favorite dishes which he admits, sometimes turn out 'heavenly' and sometimes 'unpalatable'. Long live Cup-Noodles! M: +44-7707152285 E: pavankirpalani #at the rate# hotmail dot com 
Luis Soares (Edinburgh)
Luis is "the road runner" (he runs 10k everyday). He never turn the face to a long run, mainly when the last mile in the innovation scale arrives. His next mile is to become a Doctor (PhD doctor not the real one) and he is running towards starting his own business - The Brand Luis. Cheers !! E: soares.luis.lourenco #at the rate# gmail dot com M: +44-7931716873 
Gaurav Luthra (Gurgaon)
An Alumni from IIFT, loves Networking and member of Organisations like TIE, BNI & CII-YI. What's Up Gurgaon was a culmination of his Idea to present the best in class offerings of the city in an interesting way. Someone who loves to Multitask and Socialise, He is also the Co-Ambassador of Internations an EXPAT Community. E: info #at the rate# whatsupgurgaon.in M: +91-9911648877 
Allan 'Big Al' Connolly (Perth)
Allan is interested Economic, Business and Community Development. He is been twice awarded one of Perth’s 100 Most Influential in small business, he am a Promoter for the Nabo Social Network, Vorian Agency, Nifnex Success Academy, The Collaborative Hub, Founder of The Buyerdirect, Whealth Group’s, City Mayor for the Global Entrepreneurs Café Network and Partner at the Entrepreneurs Institute. E: email #at the rate# bigalconnolly dot com M: +61-411 468 337 
Yudhveer Singh (Singapore)
Petroleum Engineer by profession, but always an entrepreneur by heart. With 4+ years experience since 2011 for oil & gas industry in India, UAE & Singapore. E: singh.yudhveer # at # icloud dot com M: +65 93971033 
Youssef EL BOUJAMAOUI (Meknes)
Youssef is a Moroccan entrepreneur for more than 3 years & also the founder of Souky Heber (Web services) , and also the founder of Souky ( Social Project ). He started this entrepreneurship with love and wanted to help all active person to start their business. E: youssef dot boujamaoui #at# gmail dot com M: +212 6 91 150 221 
Snehal Vichare (Central Mumbai)
A passionate, dynamic and self-driven consultant. She was instrumental in setting up the startups in most innovative ways. She has played many roles over 12 years of experience in her professional life and in multiple domains like Operations, Education, Sales, and Telecom, currently in Advertising, Events and PR firm E: snehal dot vichare 2003 #at# gmail dot com 
Saurabh Shrivastava (Indore)
Saurabh's Journey started as A Engineering Student where he had first experience of Garage Startup with his friend which ended up Financing Engineering Royally for complete Team. As Team members moved to respected Organisation with Promise of coming back with Experience & Resources, Saurabh decided to become. He started City's First & Finest Lifestyle Oriented Wellness Hippie Theme Cafe & Fitness Studio. He uses Technology to boost Sales, Space usage & Time utilization all via Smart Analytics of Data Captured using Traditional Methods. Being the Best in Business for years. E: Saurabhshrivastava #at# ymail dot com M: +91-9526130858 
Ajay Mittal (Kolkata)
"An opportunity maker, enthusiastic about personal growth and startups. I run an education consultancy firm. I am Global Shaper, an AIESEC Alumni. I spend a lot of my time with Non-profits activities at Project Life Force and HIVE India. Currently building a workshops discovery and booking platform called MeraWorkshop." E: ajaymittal033 #at# gmail dot com M: +91-9836612019 
Julio A. Vargas (Peru, Lima)
I'm an entrepreneur who has develop an enterprise (www.jvcconsulting.com) to training other entrepreneurs, in addition I look forward to be involve in social matters, like sanitation and helping people to improve there incomes. Also I would like to helping other people like me to generate Ideas for making a huge social impact, in addition a look forward to learn about other people who likes makes this world better for everyone. E: julio dot vargas #at# jvconsulting dot com M: +511990880549 
Surya Akasam (Hyderabad)
Surya is an entrepreneur by thought and heart, deeply interests in Authorization & Access Management space. He is on a mission to fix the counterfeiting problem of the world with his second interation, where first was failed even making it to TOP tech 30 Companies by Yourstory He worked in IT Industry for more 13+ years with roles from Software Engineer to Business Analyst to Project Manager E: suryac dot akasam #at# gmail dot com M: +918519821982 
Deepu Sajeev (Trivandrum)
Mr. Deepu received his B.Tech degree in Production Engineering from Sree Chithira Thirunal College of Engineering, Trivandrum. His Masters degree was from College of Engineering Trivandrum (CET) in Industrial Engineering. He is the Coordinator and Nodal Officer of Trinity IEDC supported by Kerala Startup Mission (Former Technopark – Technology Business Incubator). Cluster Head Coordinator for Cluster 1 of KTU's IEDC Cluster Committee(13 Engg Colleges of Tvm). Freelancing Tech support for 2 startups in Trivandrum.” E: erdeepusajeev #at# gmail dot com M: +91 7736806371 
Veronica Smith (Peel,WA)
Veronica is a full-time entrepreneur and youth advocate, with a vision to bring leading edge thinking to the education sector. Believing in the value of all young people learning enterprise skills, she models these values to her own six sons as well as the other young people she works with. E: veronica #at# veronicasmith dot com M: +61-400 130 07 
Lubna Maelzer (Kolkata)
A simple, straight forward person who loves to see others SMILE.. I am also the Founder of GPE ( Girl Power Empowerment ) a community that focuses on Women Empowerment. It is a known fact that networking and lifelong learning are keys to business success and overall development of a society. We at GPE believe that we can be a change agent by: (i) providing networking and learning capabilities (ii) working with companies committed to advance women (iii) closing gender gaps and (iv) truly investing in women E: lubnamaelzer #at# gmail dot com |
Reda Tamanine (Marrakech) - according to him 'this life is beautiful', he want to create the environment for people to make it even better.
E: redatamanine80 at the rate gmail.com M: +212-666988075 
Malti Lakhani (Baroda)
Malti puts wings on the people. As Director of an aviation academy, she has trained hundreds of wanna be aviators and service providers. During her free time, she enjoys the small things in life like smiling and making other people smile. E: maltilakhani #at the rate# rediffmail dot com 
Sofia Gonzalez (Bogota)
Sofia is a passionate for learning and entrepreneurship who strongly believes in collaboration, co-learning and global networking for human development and positive impact. She is a business consultant and she currently works for entrepreneurs and small enterprises. E: dsofiagonzalezg #at the rate# gmail dot com M: +57-3013789173 
Bénoni Martin (Paris)
With 12+ years of experience, Bénoni is a jack of all subjects, ranging from Finance to Quantum Mechanics, and concerned by climate issues. These days, he spends his time writing pitches and closing partnerships for the company he is co-founding. E: benoni_martin #at the rate# hotmail dot com M: +33 (0) 6 71 57 73 63 
Saket Chourasia (Nagpur)
Saket is chartered accountant by profession and working as a business consultant. He wants to build an enterprise where people should know him by the enterprise name and not by his own name. He loves driving .... his idea of relaxation is to get on the four wheels and zooooommm......... E: saketchourasia #at the rate# yahoo dot co dot in M: +91 87960 77000 
Yvonne Herbst (Gainesville)
Yvonne is a technical writer on U.S. Federal Procurement Policies, a yoga studio owner, and since 2009 as a digital marketing consultant to small businesses. She enjoys coaching and assisting small business owners to leverage the power of the internet to grow their sales and revenue. E: yvonne.herbst #at the rate# yahoo dot com M: +1-540-729-4076 
Paolo Bouquet (Trento)
Paolo got his master degree in philosophy in 1991, in 2000 has become a professor in computer science and since 2010 he has undertaken the exciting challenge of being an entrepreneur by starting OKKAM http://www.okkam.it/ ... Incidentally, a philosopher's name :-) For sure he had no planned all this, but things couldn't be better. And the best is still to come. E: bouquet #at the rate# okkam dot it M: +39-335 6006338 
Sujata Sahu (Bengaluru - East)
Sujata has over 15 years of extensive IT experience in Project Management, outsourcing, training, R&D and currently involved in Product Marketing. She is a PMI certified project management professional. She has managed various projects in embedded system development and web based software. She has been involved in service innovation research project in NUS, Singapore and as an Academic Associate in Republic Polytechnic, Singapore. She is a focused leader with polished communication skills with the ability to adapt rapidly to organisational changes. E: vksujata1 #at# gmail #dot# com 
Chirag Gujarati (Surat)
Chirag (like any other Gujarati from his native state), is jack of all business/management subjects, ranging from Marketing, Strategy to Innovation and so on. These days, he spends much of his time training professionals on management skills and consulting organizations on marketing entry and growth strategies. When he is not working, he sings and reads. E: cdgujarati # at the rate# gmail dot com M: +91-9558058383 
Ittai Flores (Cuernavaca)
Ittai is a former radio broadcaster, who has worked in the creativity area, he is an active member in projects and debates about political youth policies and entrepreneurial training. He is the founder and CEO of EÓN Advertising Company based in Mexico. E: ittai.flores # at the rate# gmail dot com M: +52 1 7771292230 
Subranil Gangabasi (Bengaluru)
I am a passionate innovator and entrepreneur, which always help me envision long term business solutions for my clients. I love to learn from people and their experience. I am a passionate sports person, love home entertainment and car driving. My Friends call me " Idea shop" .... may be I can run an idea selling business :) E: subranilg #at the rate# gmail dot com 
Guido Guerberg (Buenos Aires)
Guido is an Entrepreneur, very passionate about things and always looking for the happiness! I believe entrepreneurs have the chance to rule their own life and do what the love! I think i can give and receive a little help from each other to make us better! I love coffee, how can i be out of something like this? E: guerberg #at the rate# gmail dot com M: +54911 - 58609415 
Menzo de Munick Keizer (Amsterdam)
Menzo loves international connections. In particular he loves helping startup companies to find their international contacts and to build their connections. While having fun is as least as important as doing business. E: mdmk44 #at the rate# hotmail dot com M: +31651468796 
Narjes Merimi (Tunis)
Narjes strives through organizing events and activities to share experience and knowledge and o bring together a community of entrepreneurs, educate users, and training operators with good practice both technically and professionally. E: narjes.merimi #at the rate# forumelearningtunisie dot com M: +216 20 973 933 
Amey Karmali (Goa)
Amey is the Manager at Centre for Incubation and Business Acceleration, Verna- Goa. He is very passionate about redefining his journey by venturing into different sectors. He like networking with people and mentor them throughout. His only aim in life is to create beautiful lives by providing all kind of support that he can do. E: amey.karmali #at the rate# gmail dot com 
Prasana Ramarathnam (Bristol)
Prasana works as an Independent IT Contractor for his own company and provide IT Services and also an Independent Business Entrepreneur interested in Networking and also exploring new business ideas and venturing in to new concepts. M: +44 -7814113024 E: prasana.ramarathnam #at the rate# hotmail dot com 
Sameer Garg (Delhi)
Sameer is founder of Billionables.com . World's first website for differently abled people. 
Angelos Parmatzias (Cyprus)
Angelos Parmatzias is the founder and president of CIP ( www.citizensinpower.org). Angelos is working to promote people requirements in Cyprus and Europe through trainings, research, democratic dialogues and motivational speaking. Angelos through his extensive knowledge in educational projects, he provides trainings related to entrepreneurship and democratic dialogue. Angelos is passionate about democratic dialogue and entrepreneurship and he is dedicated to their development in Cyprus and abroad. E: angelos_parmatzias #at the rate# msn.com M: +357 96619661 
Anzar Siraj (Doha)
Anzar started learning entrepreneurship from his family owned Business in the year 2001. Right now he manage Franchise business in International Brands in Hospitality. He love coffees and love to have healthy conversations. His passion is to open his signature cafes in every town in the world where people could come , relax and share ideas" E: getanzar #at the rate# gmail.com M: +974 334 66 195 
Shahid Ansari (Srinagar)
Shahid is the founder & CEO of Zenataur Creative Systems. He believes one of the key skills for entrepreneurial success is innovation. And entrepreneurial innovations helps build nations. What attracts and challenges him is the continuous struggle to achieve and excel in whatever he do. He wish to help young and budding entrepreneurs achieve their dream by mentoring & connecting them with the right people. E: shahidansari #at the rate# outlook.com M: +91-9900084514 
Ejjahel Hamza (Oujda)
Ejjahel is founder of Speedjobs - a platform that aims to connect peoples over 18 years old, who look for job (occasional and determined), with individuals or companies to satisfy a socioeconomic need. He have been passionate about the Web design since a very young age, especially the user experience with respect to the Design (Concept UXD). E: hamza.ejjahel #at the rate# gmail dot com M: +212 60024 00 05 
Abdessamad Allaoui (Agadir)
Founder and director of Lingo center, teacher of English , and students advisor. He studied Commerce, Accounting, Marketing, Sociology and Psychology with 7 years of experience. He is keen on global networking and entrepreneurship. He has a great sense of responsibility and team work. He loves sharing and learning in favour of a prosperous world. E: abdessamadallaoui #at the rate# gmail.com M: +212 668 197 001 
Tushar Suhalka (Udaipur)
I am a seasoned recruitment consultant with experience of 7+ years in HR, marketing and public relations. Apart from heading an incubation centre in Udaipur, I also owns a hotel and pub in Udaipur. Talking about startups I conduct small meetups for local entrepreneurs and startup enthusiastic to promote startup culture in Udaipur. E: tusharsuhalka # at # yahoo dot com M: +91 9829897853 
Anas ELABED ELALAOUI (Tangier)
Anas is a passionate entrepreneur, founder of Activeo.ma. With 15+ years’ experience in the IT field, he is perfectly placed to offer guidance on helping SME with their IT strategy. He also provides incredible IT support through a dedicated platform prestodesk.com” E: anas dot elalaoui #at# activeo dot ma M: +212 660 163 861 
Vishal Panure (PCMC, Pune)
After B.Tech Vishal has worked with cognizant for 2yrs as 'External consultant' for a Danish company. Now he is co-founder of startup; Fvilla.in Fvilla.in has 300+ service provider & helps you explore best Beauty & Wellness services nearby. E: panurevishal #at# gmail dot com M: +91 9403954072 
Marwa Khadiji (Tetouan)
I have a master degree in management of information systems and multimedia. I have the experience, commitment and ability to overcome the challenges. I’m currently working on developing my leadership skills. When i start something, I’ll do whatever it takes to finish it, I’m decisive. E: marwakhadiji #at# gmail dot com 
Danhalit Zamalloa (Caracas)
"Founder and CEO of PagoFlash, Global Shaper, AIESEC Alumni. My passion is working with technology for social inclusion, specially in fintech. I am a world citizen born in Venezuela and I belive that technology can be one of the most powerful tools for achieving development goals" E: danhalitz #at# gmail dot com M: +58 - 4141027230 
Kruti Shah (Ahmedabad)
"Adapting, Implementing and Progressing" is my mantra to upgrade my graph of success and hard work. I am an NLP Practitioner and have treasured experience of 9 years in HR, this experience geared me up to stage of entrepreneur which gradually lead me to my destination "Krreative Cloud." E: krshah_17 #at# yahoo dot com M: +91 - 9925036607 
Jaouad BADAH (Nador)
Founder/Business owner at Le Financiator. I am graduate of a Master Degree in Banking & Financial Markets at the University of Sidi Mohammad Ben Abdellah - Fez, Morocco. I would Like to be part of a local network of specialized Startup who provide unparalleled access to new business perspectives, innovative strategies and actionable ideas to as much as possible of CEOs, chief executives and business leaders in my region. I do believe that Entrepreneurship can be one of the most powerful tools for achieving development goals. E: jaouad dot badah #at# gmail dot com M: +212 641 663 478 
Nehal Surana (Indiranagar, Blore)
Nehal is a seasoned professional with expertise in Business Process Excellence and a complex problem solver helping organizations in adding better value to stakeholders interest and helping them achieve sustained business growth. Nehal has deep interest in equity markets and is an avid investment analyst. E: nehal #underscore# 53 #at# yahoo dot co dot in M: +91 8884699077 
Naheed Khan (Jaipur)
This is Naheed .I have a background of serving Indian army as lieutenant for 6 years and then was blessed to be at leadership role at esteemed organisations iciciprudential and hdfc standard life. I am now an educationist by profession and into creating events and social activities. I love to be in creative advertising, marketing and training. Life is a team play and about making extraordinary contribution to people around. E: naheedkhan111 #at# gmail dot com 
Santhosh Thannikat (Kochi)
He has more than 15 years of experience in tourism industry and is passionate about sustainable development. He won British Chevening Scholarship in 2005 (University of Wales, Bangor) and traveled to China in search of Medicine Buddha. Presently working with Rajagiri School of Commerce. E: santhosh dot thannikat #at the rate# gmail dot com M: +91- 9446389679 |
