Summary

Mr. Madhavan Nambiar specialises in the policy and practice of infrastructure development, innovative emerging industries, and the design and management of government-industry partnership. His 36-year record of public service as an officer of the Indian Administrative Service has seen policy, programme, and regulatory work across key infrastructure and industrial sectors, culminating in in his appointment as Secretary to the Government of India at the Ministry of Civil Aviation. Mr. Nambiar has led major national and State infrastructure programmes. As Secretary, Civil Aviation, Mr. Nambiar directed the design and development of some of India's largest public- private partnership (PPP) projects, formulating core financial and coordination frameworks for Indian airport development. These now constitute the national policy standard, and have been used to develop India's two largest airports. As chairman and managing director of Tamil Nadu's apex industrial development agency, TIDCO, Mr. Nambiar conceptualised and commissioned the State's first public-private toll road project; the State's first information technology (IT) park, TIDEL; and its first biotechnology park, TICEL. Mr. Nambiar has also developed policy ecosystems for innovative, emerging industries. At the Department of Information Technology, he led the formulation of India's first Semiconductor Policy (and its accompanying incentive programmes), and policies for electronics hardware manufacturing; the reworking of national law and regulation to facilitate a growing IT industry; and the establishment of India's first cybersecurity and emergency response agency, CERT-IN. A Fellow at Cambridge University's Judge Business School, Mr. Nambiar has taught public policy at Oxford and Columbia Universities. He holds a master's degree in business administration from the Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi University, and a bachelor's degree in economics from Loyola College, Madras University.

Skills

Business

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Dr. Rathan U Kelkar IAS

Secretary, Electronics and Information Technology

Summary

C Balagopal recently retired from Terumo Penpol Ltd., the company he founded 28 years ago, post his 6 years successful stint as Indian Administrative Service officer in states like Manipur and Kerala. Today, Terumo Penpol operates the largest blood bag manufacturing facility in the world. In 2013, he sold his shareholding to Terumo Corp., Japan after a successful partnership with them spanning 14 years. TPL is today respected for the quality of its life saving products which are sold in more than 50 countries across the globe, and dominates the market in India. Balagopal now divides his time between mentoring and investing in startup ventures, especially those engaged in healthcare, community development activities, and writing. Currently he is the Charter Member and first President of TiE Kerala. He also serves on the ethics committee of Rajiv Gandhi Center for Biotechnology. C Balagopal is also mentor to Medical Technology Business Incubator, SCTIMST.

Skills

Business Strategy, Business Development, Team Management, Strategic Planning

Dr Suresh Nair, alumnus of Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay has spent his initial career at R&D Lab of Ministry of Information Technology, Government of India. Later he shifted to NeST, a multi national private industry as Chief Technology Officer. He has designed and developed many novel products and many are finding excellent market acceptance globally. Dr.Suresh is also the founder of Innobreeze Technologies, Biophoton Technologies, companies concentrating on development of bio-photonics based healthcare devices. He is also Advisor/consultant to many other global companies. Dr. Suresh has more than 107 publications, 17 patents, co-authored a book and more than 150 technical reports to his credit. He has been conferred with many awards, the recent one being the prestigious DST Lockheed Martin award 2014 for the top innovation as Rank No.1 in India. He was invited to Silicon Valley and his idea was identified as the one with great commercial potential. He is Chairman of many Government of India committees on R&D, member in various government Steering committees. He is member in many University boards, Fellow IETE, Fellow OSI, Senior member IEEE. He is currently Chairman of IEEE Kochi Subsection. Dr. Suresh is an active promoter of academic industry association, and his passion is to mentor youngsters as entrepreneurs.

Dr. Alex James received his PhD degree in 2 years from the Queensland Micro and Nanotechnology Centre, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia. He works on brain-inspired circuits as well as algorithms and systems. He is actively engaged in research commercialization and startups. He has several years of experience managing industry projects and academic projects in board design and pattern recognition circuits and data and business analytics consulting for IT and semiconductor industry. He is a mentor to several tech startups and co-founded companies in machine learning and computer vision. He has authored several peer-reviewed publications and is a reviewer to international journals and conferences such as IEEE ISCAS, IEEE ICECS, TCAS, TVLSI, TCAD, TCyb, TEC, and TIP. Dr. James has been the founding chair of IEEE Kerala Section Circuits and Systems Society and an Executive Member of IET Vision and Imaging Network. He is a member of IEEE CASS Technical Committee on Nonlinear Circuits and Systems. He was an editorial member of Information Fusion, Elsevier, and is an Associate Editor for HCIS, Springer, IEEE ACCESS, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence (2017-18) (Guest associate editor), and IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems 1 (2018-present). He is a Senior Member of IEEE, Life Member of ACM, and Senior Fellow of HEA.

P Suresh Babu has more than 30 years of managerial experience in diverse areas. He has served as a Commissioned Officer in the Indian Navy in the engineering branch for 21 years in different capacities and took voluntary retirement as a Commander. After leaving Navy, he worked in the corporate for 2 years. Then he worked in the Lawrence School, Lovedale as the Head of Administration & Finance and worked as the Registrar of Centre for Development Studies before joining Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Kerala as Registrar.

He holds a B.Sc degree from Kerala University,  B.Tech degree from Madras Institute of Technology and MBA.

Anoop P Ambika

Chief Executive Officer, Kerala Start-Up Mission

S. Venkat Raghavendar is an Electronics & Instrumentation Engineer by profession and holds MBA degree in Marketing. He has 16+ years of experience in Banking, Engineering, Procurement, and Construction domains. He is currently serving as Manager - Program Implementation at Maker Village.

Before Joining Maker Village, Venkat worked as a Relationship Manager in HSBC & Indus Ind Bank for over 7 years. He was handling Product & Service Portfolios of companies registered under SME/MSME and Start Ups. His expertise includes conducting Project Assessments, Valuations, Evaluation of Strategic Plans, Reviewing and Analysing Financial Data, Identifying Market Trends, Market Analysis, Evaluation of Financial and Performance Reports of Projects of SME/MSME’s.

After his stint in Banking domain, Venkat had worked as a Project Manager in an EPC company headquartered in Middle East. He was involved in Project Conceptualization, construction of Project Portfolios, making new Project Proposals, Project Documentation, Project Bidding, Project Costing and Budgeting, Strategic Planning, Resource Planning and Mobilization and Procurement for various large-scale project of PSU like IOCL, BPCL, HPCL, GAIL, CIAL & Kerala Feeds.

Venkat’s area of interest is in Project Management right from conceptualization to execution of the Project.

.Rajeev Kumar C N is the Administrative Officer Cum Purchase Officer at Maker Village. He holds an MBA in HRM and has more than 30 years of experience in handling multi-tasking responsibilities. Before joining Maker Village in June 2019, he accomplished Senior/Middle level Command in Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF, Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India) with history of overseeing Administration, Management, HR, Public Relation, Recruitment, Training, Planning and execution of Organizational Events and Police/Military operations. Strategic planner with demonstrated track record and core strengths in Command as well as persuasive skills in Administration and Human Resource Management. Decorated with numerous awards and recognitions during 28 years of unblemished and relentless service to the Nation before opting for a Voluntary Retirement from Service in September 2018.

Vineeth Jacob Maman is a dedicated engineer with a B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) and a Master’s degree in Applied Electronics Engineering and Communication Systems. He began his career at Keltron Controls Ltd, where he was deputed at the Naval Physical and Oceanographic Laboratory (NPOL) for sonar system testing and commissioning.

Vineeth later joined Kerala State Electronics Development Corporation (KSEDC) as a Hardware Engineer and Account Executive, managing networking and IT requirements for government entities. His leadership in various government projects, including eHealth initiatives and data center projects for Kerala University, Mahatma Gandhi University, Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), and Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit (SSUS), showcases his technical acumen and project management skills. He has also served as a technical committee member for several government projects.

In 2022, Vineeth joined Maker Village, driven by his passion for learning and his commitment to supporting startups. At Maker Village, he oversees funding schemes and program organization, leveraging his expertise to bring significant traction and growth opportunities to startups.

Vineeth's extensive experience in engineering, project management, and government collaborations makes him a valuable asset to Maker Village and the startups he mentors.

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Anshad K

Vipin Babu

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ABCD

Summary

Prof. Rajasree M.S. Professor & Head, Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering assumed charge as Director of IIITMK, GoK. Prof. Rajasree has more than 23 years of service in government in several capacities including 10 years as Professor, 3 years as Head of Institution, Asst. Professor, Lecturer and Computer Engineer. Dr. Rajasree was the senior most Professor in Computer Science and Engineering under the Directorate of Technical Education and serves as a member in several committees constituted by the government as a technical expert. In addition a subject expert in selection committees of the Kerala Public Service Commission, and selection committees in several other institutes. Dr. Rajasree has been associated with several National and International conferences and workshops as member of programme committee, session chair, reviewer etc. and delivered expert talks in other engineering colleges on new and emerging topics.

Skills

Software Engineering, Pattern Recognition, Object Oriented Patterns

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Dr. Vinod Gopal

Associate Professor, Amritha Viswa Vidyapeetham

Dr. Alex P James

Professor - IIITMK, Professor-in-Charge - Maker Village, Associate Dean - DUK

Dr. Santosh Kumar MB

Associate Professor, CUSAT, Kochi

Dr. Rajeev Rajan

Associate Professor, Barton Hill, Trivandrum

Prof. Bobby Mathews

Professor & Head Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, ASIET, Ernakulam

Prof. Jose Joseph

Assistant Professor, Digital University Kerala

Paul KI

Principal Engineer, Broadcom

Anish S

Deputy General Manager, CSL

Arun Nair

Executive Director, TiE Kerala