City Mayors

The role of the City Mayors is to organise the meetings and build up the local community. If you are interested in joining the team, then do send us an email or Apply Here. The commitment is only 2 hours per month in organising the physical meetings.

From Bangkok to Boston, our dynamic City Mayors are connecting the entrepreneurs around the world.

Mak Khan (Boston)
With 17 years of experience, Mak Khan has seen it all. He is tennis enthusiastic, who thinks Rodger Federer is the best entrepreneur on planet.
E: mujahidsbm #at the rate# gmail dot com
M: +1 508 836 9593

Rachna Ghiya (Jaipur)
With 4+ years’ experience in Branding & Marketing, Rachna is currently giving voice to start-ups by producing awesome affordable animated explainer videos at CrispTalks.com Other than work, she loves reading books, watching rom coms & chilling out with friends. What else? Connect with her to know more.
E: hi #at the rate# rachnaghiya dot com
M: +91-9829494287

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

Sue Kamal ( Kuala Lumpur)
Sue lives in Kuala Lumpur and Dubai - two wonderful & modern cities. She is co-founder of Solutions Makers Consultancy headquartered in UAE. When she is not doing business; she likes traveling, food and smiling.
E: suekamal97 # at the rate# gmail dot com
M: +60-132242533

Juhi Rai (Mumbai)
Juhi treats networking as a religion, a network marketeer for 5 years and an entrepreneur since 23. She is the Editor of Chicken Soup for the Indian Soul At Work, And Chicken Soup for IIT Soul. She is an passionate traveler, painter and dancer. Among more useful arts, she practises event management, and cooks for parties.
E: juhi.rai #at the rate# gmail dot com
M: +91-9820276838

Budhaditya Sengupta (Kolkata)
Budhaditya is a young entrepreneur and founder of Einix Technologies. He wants to create small to mid size contact centers; focused to provide high quality services. He loves to cook, travel and enjoy paragliding. He is also writing a book on social issues in India.
E: budhaditya.sengupta #at the rate# gmail.com
M: +91 90-51-519960

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

Kaoutar Abbahaddou (Rabat)
Kaoutar is truly passioned about entrepreneurship. Last year, she founded Vernet, a social venture trying to solve the problem of one billion people in the world: lack access of safe drinking water. Her goal in this life is to inspire people and to have a positive impact within the society.
E: kaoutar0abbahaddou #at the rate# gmail dot com
M: +212 -644718758

Akanksha Sinha (Hyderabad)
Akanksha is a business Analyst on paper and a start-up enthusiast at heart, witnesses the closely knit realm of engineering and business at work and loves conceptualising new ideas and implementing them. Her experiences from volunteering for social causes and passion for learning make her hungry to learn more from the entrepreneurial ecosystems so that she could found her dream social venture someday. She also enjoys traveling, playing guitar and reading.
E: akanksha.sinha91 # at the rate# yahoo dot com
M: +91-9676625417

Sandeep Dave (Rajkot)
Innovation and Entrepreneurship are Sandeep’s craze and life-mantra. He is first generation entrepreneur and (serial) entrepreneur by choice. He is also very crazy about real life and business adventures and networking. He may be roaming without purpose or playing crazy games, when he is not working.
E: thought.annex #at the rate# outlook dot com
M: +91 98790 98733

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

Anima Nivsarkar (Indore)
Anima is a voracious reader, reading anything that she could lay my hands on and an avid traveller, having traversed half of India. Her father once told me “To be big, think big “. So here she is, stepping in this big organisation among all the big-wigs, determined to make it big.
M: +91- 8224991848
E: anima1993 # at the rate# gmail 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

Sushant Paretkar (Raipur)
Sushant running his own venture in advertising. As a student he have participated & won many state level GK & Business ideas competition. Born and brought up at Raipur, having a love for entrepreneurship the organising becomes easier and it will be a great platform for all the budding entrepreneurs to come under one roof in the upcoming metro city of Raipur.
E: paretkarsushant #at the rate# gmail dot com
M: +91-9406378884

Yash Roongta (Mumbai)
Entrepreneur at Heart. Also, Cofounder at Startup Jugaad where he is trying to build a startup community based in mumbai. Previously, headed a leading incubation programme of a renowned financial house. Very enthusiastic and a student at NMIMS, Mumbai
E: yash12392 #at the rate# gmail dot com
M: +91-9819710520

Arun Kumar (Chennai)
Arun is a seasoned professional often called as a start up guy , with over 12+ years of experience in Sales and Business Development in the media sector including digital, mobile and online media. He strongly believe sales is the back bone for any successful organisation and the passion drives him towards sales and sales management. His expertise lies in creating the brand from scratch, scale, strategic selling, create high performing sales teams, generate revenue and scale.
E: arun.events81#at the rate# gmail.com
M: +91-9840644439

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

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

Panth Mehta (Ahmedabad)
Panth is engineer by profession, a startup lover by heart who thinks startups journeys are scary,and yes! But it’s even more exciting. That fear of uncertainty, that feeling of not knowing the outcome, The emotions are so rare;for which the English dictionary has no words for it! A founder of the curated commerce website themobo.com and content creator at iscribblers.com. In his free time he loves to spend time with his guitar.
E: panth.mehta #at the rate# gmail.com

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

Mouhsine Fatine (Casablanca)
Moushine thinks world can be a better place if we have few million more entrepreneurs. He lives in Casablanca and want to start his own company on Mars, once they start a colony there. May be next year !.
E: Mouhsine.fatine #at the rate# gmail dot com
M: +212 628 879 01

Pulkit Verma (New Delhi)
Pulkit is a computer science enthusiast who thinks programmers are tools for converting caffeine into code and ideas. He loves working in entrepreneurship ecosystem, is always hungry for grabbing opportunities and implementing ideas.
E: xxpulkitxx #at the rate# gmail dot com
M: +91 - 9582947079

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
M: +91-9824077694

FATIMA EZZAHRA AMALOU (Marrakech)
A teacher told her once " you are special fatima ezzahra", this brief compliment changed her whole aspect on her learning and shaped her personality and her thoughts to be a productive and a positive person. Fatima says that she is a happy person who wants to share his happiness with everyone . She love entrepreneurship and i believe In it!
E: fatimzhra.amalouuu # at the rate# gmail dot com
M: +212 632 133 214

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

Rishie Sinha (Faridabad)
Rishi, a hybrid student-startup enthusiast with an engineer's brain, a
musician's soul and a problem solving heart wants to change the way social entrepreneurship is looked at in the world. He wants to use his success to be either Batman or Iron Man: whichever's applicable.
E: rikusin14 # at the rate# gmail dot com
M: +91-7838921940

Puneet Choudhury (Jorhat)
Puneet is passionate to bring India's North-East region to the mainstream growth path. He is currently working as Assistant Professor at Kaziranga University. He heads North East Entrepreneurship Centre (NECE) that focuses on building entrepreneurship spirit among young students.
E: puneet #at the rate# kazirangauniversity dot in
M: +91 7896-357777

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

Athokpam Dinesh Singh (Imphal)
It is my business to know the path where Successful people had gone. I am passionate for learning new things and generating creative ideas. I love playing Badminton but just to burn my fats not to be a sport star. I have a dream big to become a successful entrepreneur of Manipur for a better tomorrow.
E: dinaathok #at the rate# gmail dot com
M: +91-9085484207

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
M: +91 8105786528

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

GVS Chaitanya (Vizag)
I'm a gadget freak and tech guy who always swirls with technology all the time, I also love working with start up ecosystem and taking the start up community to a wider extent where entrepreneurship is nothing a big deal who has a great vision and an idea .
E: gvschaitanya93 #at the rate# hotmail dot com
M:+91-8008691620

Omaïma EL KABILI (Grenoble)
Omaïma is a young entrepreneur, very sociable and dynamic, she loves traveling and discovering new different cultures and their lifestyles, that why she wants to start her own business project after her studies : a world-tour agency.
E: elkabili.omaima # at the rate # gmail dot com
M: +33 7 70 26 33 85

Abhimanyu Singh (Coimbatore )
Abhi believes that entrepreneurship is about challenges and opportunity. The challenge of calculated risk.Entrepreneur is the life which gives discomfort of risk which result in so that the world can remember you in future by being a profit making, man making and nation making Entrepreneur.
E: singhabhimanyu10000 # at the rate # gmail dot com
M: +91-9629393049

Vishwas Kumar (Singapore)
Vishwas is a budding technology entrepreneur based out of Singapore - the city of growth and entrepreneurship. He is fascinated by the Singaporean spirit, in his own words, "In Singapore, I always look people doing something new which i never saw it before".
E: er.vishwas.kumar #at the rate# gmail.com
M: +65-85902672

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

Mohammed Maanaoui (El Jadida)
Mohammed is a young entrepreneur. After graduation from l'ENCG, he worked for two years in a bank as Risk Manager. Now he is running his own business.Very passionate about entrepreneurship, networking and trying new experiences , he will defiantly surprise people at El Jadida.
E: m.maanaoui #at the rate# gmail dot com
M: +212 6-44-68-55-45

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
M: +91 9923755034

Girish Prabhu (Kochi)
Girish founded 2 start-ups earlier and exited. He like to help start-ups and young entrepreneurs to align to their goals. He conducts a virtual mentoring program - JustStarting (www.juststarting.in), through which he help people with little software knowledge to get into software / internet business.
E: girish.s.prabhu #at the rate# gmail dot com
M: + 91 956 200 1115

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

Ankur Aggarwal (Greater Noida)
One of the youngest I.T Sales & Marketing Manager in Tech Mahindra. Doing my 2nd startup which is in Breakfast Delivery space (Bitefast). A regular at hackathons & have won "startup weekend". Also run a meetup group on meetup.com with the name "Fixing Healthcare" that aims to get 5 startups up & running in a year.
E: startupankur #at the rate# gmail dot com
M: +91 9971890091

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

Prem Nadar (Navi Mumbai)
Prem is Founder & CEO, Startup Cruise Startup Cruise is a community that fosters entrepreneurship & innovation in India. www.startupcruise.in He cofounded, Pynee, Pynee is a home automation & NFC app start-up, currently in prototype stage. Prem am a graduate in Bachelors of Financial Markets and an amateur guitarist.
E: prem #at the rate# startupcruise.in
M: +91-9869715167

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