The following are the panelists:

	Jishnu Bhattacharjee Nexus Venture Partners Jishnu is a Vice President at Nexus Venture Partners, a leading venture capital firm in India and US, focused on investing in innovative early to growth stage companies. Jishnu brings to Nexus several years of investing and operating experience in hi-technology start-ups. His interests include software and services, internet, digital media, mobile, systems and clean-tech. He currently serves on the board of Gluster and Vdopia, and observes the board of VMOps. Prior to joining Nexus, Jishnu worked as an associate at Foundation Capital, a silicon-valley based venture capital firm. Before joining the VC industry, he held engineering management and product management roles at a leading communication systems start-up, Scintera Networks, where he was a member of the founding team and a leading circuits and systems company, Maxim Integrated Products. Jishnu is an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he ran the Venture Capital Club and South Asian Students Association and co-led GSB Principal Investing Conference. Jishnu is also an MS, EE from Georgia Institute of Technology and a BTech from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He has more than twelve US patents issued and has authored six IEEE papers. Jishnu is a member of IEEE and is actively involved with TIE. Top
	Sudheer Kuppam Managing Director of Intel Capital Sudheer Kuppam is a Managing Director at Intel Capital, overseeing investments in India, Japan, Australasia and South East Asia. Sudheer is part of the investment committee that approves all investments in this region. He's based out of India and manages a team of investment professionals. He is also responsible for the $250M Intel Capital India Technology Fund. Under his leadership, Sudheer and his team drove multiple exits for Intel Capital including Epichem (acquired by Sigma Aldrich); Clearshape (acquired by Cadence); Trichem (IPO in Japan); NIIT (PIPE deal listed on BSE); Sasken (IPO in India); FPT (IPO in Vietnam); ADA Cellworks (acquired by GTL LTD - BSE); Sharekha (acquired by Citigroup VC); Nipuna (acquired by Satyam - BSE). Sudheer is a board observer at Real Image Media Technologies Pvt Ltd, Tejas Networks India Pvt Ltd and Vignani Technologies Pvt Ltd. Sudheer joined Intel Capital in 2000. Prior to Intel Capital, Sudheer was an Engineering Manager, managing a US$100M operational area in Intel's Technology & Manufacturing Group. Prior to joining Intel, Sudheer was a process development engineer at LSI Logic. Sudheer has a Bachelors degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and a Masters degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA. Top
	Pooja S. Pathak Principal at Oxford Biosciences Pooja joined Oxford Bioscience Partners in 2006, she is currently a Principal in the Boston office. Pooja works on investments across life science sectors including therapeutics, medical devices, diagnostics and bioenergy. She has been involved in the investment and monitoring of portfolio companies such as Claros Diagnostics (point-of-care diagnostic), SmartPill (gastrointestinal capsule technology) and Luca Technologies (natural gas production technology). Pooja also follows Oxford's public positions in Acadia Pharmaceuticals (ACAD) and Antisoma (ASM). She is currently a Board Observer with Molecular Biometrics (in vitro fertilization diagnostic). Prior to joining Oxford, Pooja was a Senior Associate Consultant at Bain & Company, a global strategy consulting firm, where she worked with leading pharmaceutical companies to address their issues in the areas of product and portfolio strategy, business unit growth, salesforce optimization, manufacturing process management and cost reduction. Pooja has a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For her graduate thesis, Pooja studied cancer angiogenesis at the Steele Laboratory for Tumor Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital. She is a recipient of the National Science Foundation fellowship. Top
	Shikhar Ghosh - Moderator Professor at Harvard Business School Shikhar Ghosh is the MBA Class of 1961 Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. He will be teaching The Entrepreneurial Manager (TEM) in the Winter Term of the 2009/10 academic year. Shikhar has been a successful entrepreneur for the last 20 years. He has been the founder and CEO or Chairman of eight technology-based entrepreneurial companies and was the past Chairman of the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council ( MTLC) and The Indus Entrepreneurs ( TIE) - two leading entrepreneurial organizations. He was selected by Business Week as one of the best Entrepreneurs in the US, Forbes as one of the ‘Masters of the Internet Universe’ and Fortune as the CEO of one of the 10 most innovative companies in the US. Companies he founded were selected as both the ‘hottest’ and ‘coolest’ emerging companies by business publications. Shikhar joined the Boston Consulting Group after getting his MBA from HBS in 1980. At BCG he focused on organization and innovation in large organization. He was elected a worldwide partner of the firm in 1987. Shikhar left BCG in 1988 to become CEO of Appex , an early-stage venture backed company that built the inter-carrier infrastructure for the US mobile phone industry. Appex provided centralized services that enabled independent mobile carriers to operate as a single seamless network. Appex’s services included call forwarding across carriers, fraud prevention services, billing and customer service. Appex was bought by EDS in 1990. By the time Shikhar left in 1993, Appex’s revenues exceeded $100m with an order backlog of over $1 billion. It was selected by Business week as the fastest growing private company in the US. Shikhar founded Open Market in 1993. Open Market was one of the pioneering companies in the commercialization of the Internet. It built the first commercial infrastructure for enabling secure commerce on the Internet and provided the software and services that enabled companies like Time Warner and AT&T to offer their services on the Internet. Open Market was one of the first internet companies to go public. It was selected by numerous business publications as one of the companies that helped to make the Internet what it is today. After leaving open Market Shikhar has been the founder, CEO or Chairman several companies in the wireless, payment, Internet marketing, and on-line retailing industries. He has worked in all facets of the entrepreneurial process – starting companies with technical teams, providing and raising capital with venture capitalists, buying and selling companies, or taking them public and closing down unsuccessful companies. His ideas and interviews have multiple media. He has been a keynote speaker in numerous conferences on innovation, entrepreneurship, digital media and on the future of the Internet. Top