Meet our Team & Mentors
Our team and mentors bring deep expertise across entrepreneurship, design thinking, and social impact to accelerate innovation towards the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals.
Team
Suraj Kripalani
Founder and CEO at BonBillo;
Previously Portfolio Manager at BlackRock
Previously Portfolio Manager at BlackRock
Julia Turnbull
Program Advisor at BonBillo;
Assistant Director of Custom Programs at MIT Sloan Executive Education
Assistant Director of Custom Programs at MIT Sloan Executive Education
Dan Thiffault
Advisor at BonBillo;
Head of Product and Engineering at Tern
Head of Product and Engineering at Tern
Mayank Kumar
Director of Technology at BonBillo;
Co-Founder at McAwesome
Co-Founder at McAwesome
Mischke Le Cordeur
Marketing Manager at BonBillo
Ashna Thakkar
Program Lead at BonBillo
Payal Thiffault
Creative Director at BonBillo;
Co-Founder at Juniper Rag and Atelier ID Global
Co-Founder at Juniper Rag and Atelier ID Global
Prachi Apte
Program Advisor at BonBillo;
Product Manager at Expedia Group
Product Manager at Expedia Group
Mentors and Advisors
Entrepreneurship
Elaine Chen
Director at Derby Entrepreneurship Center at Tufts; Founder and Managing Director at ConceptSpring
Suraj Kripalani
Founder and CEO at BonBillo;
Previously Portfolio Manager at BlackRock
Previously Portfolio Manager at BlackRock
Katelyn Bourgoin
Co-Founder at UNIGNORABLE; CEO at Customer Camp
Patricia (Trish) Cotter
Executive coach & Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan Executive Education
Lucy Heskins
Founder at Oh Blimey
Julia Turnbull
Program Advisor at BonBillo;
Assistant Director of Custom Programs at MIT Sloan Executive Education
Assistant Director of Custom Programs at MIT Sloan Executive Education
Swapnil Chug
Founder at INSEAD Learning Hub
Valeri Werpetinski
KEEN Instructional Catalyst at The Grainger College of Engineering
John Breslin
Personal Professor at the University of Galway; Co-Founder at PorterShed
Fatema Basrai
Managing Director at Innovate Health Yale and the Sustainable Health Initiative at Yale University
Neil Kothari
Co-Founder and Board Member at Drip Capital
Blake Sims
Director of the BVR Research + Design Center at Country Day School; Founder and CEO at Epiic Solutions
Ritvik Singh
Co-Founder & CEO at Saaf Finance
Cheryl Kiser
Executive Director at The Institute for Social Innovation, Babson College
Sunay Shah
Co-Founder at e.pop AI
Swapnil Shah
Founder and CEO at Freight Tiger
Nsovo Nkatingi
Startup Program Manager at Brabantse Ontwikkelings Maatschappij (BOM)
Vaibhav Hegde
Co-Founder and CEO at Cambrian Bioworks
Customer Acquisition
Katelyn Bourgoin
Co-Founder at UNIGNORABLE; CEO at Customer Camp
Lucy Heskins
Founder at Oh Blimey
Razy Shah
Business Director at 2Stallions Digital Marketing Agency
Rukaiya (Kanchwala) Rangwala
Founder at Around the Table; Ex-Chief Digital Business Officer at Marico Ltd
Lauren Abda
Founder at BranchFood; Co-Founder at Branch Venture Group
Marc Blackmer
Vice President of Marketing at Corero Network Security; Business Owner at Blackmer Consulting
Per Heistad
VP of Strategy and Market Insights at cloaked; Venture Partner at RallyCry Venture
Shruti Rya Ganguly
Filmmaker & Founder at Honto88
Zoey Farooq
North America Marketing & Communications at Accenture
Impact and Sustainable Investing
Sachin Rudra
Founder at Crest Spring; Ex-CIO at Acumen Fund
Alkesh Wadhwani
Director Health, India Country Office at Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Shruthi Cauvery Iyer
Founder & Managing Partner at Vaia Climate
Suraj Kripalani
Founder and CEO at BonBillo;
Previously Portfolio Manager at BlackRock
Previously Portfolio Manager at BlackRock
Maya Chandrasekharan
Co-founder & Partner at Green Artha; Co-founder at Women in Investing Network
Kunal Paymaster
Managing Director at SightLine Partners and 10K Lakes Capital
Rahil Rangwala
Managing Partner at Accion Venture Lab
Yaquta Fatehi
Impact Assessment Professional at William Davidson Institute at The University of Michigan
Amrit Paul Singh
Impact Investor at Acumen
Yash Vardhan Gaddhyan
Consultant at Acumen
Aditya Dhar
Investment Director at Climate Fund Managers B.V
Gunjan Banati
Chief Risk Officer, Managing Director at The Royce Funds
Alberto Gómez-Obregón
Managing Partner at CO_Capital; Strategic Advisory Board Member at Latimpacto
Jess Brooks
Vice President, Investor Relations at Social Finance; Advisory Board Member at Sunwealth
Chetan Doshi
Director at Griha Pte Limited; Co-founder at Vinner Ventures
Fabien Couderc
Managing Partner & Co-Founder at ALTALURRA Ventures
KL Mukesh
Mentor at Villgro; Founder at Akeso Healthcare
Mohammed Al Rasbi
Founder & General Partner at R&D Labs; Managing Director at Oman Technology Fund
Pankaj Jethwani
Chief Executive Officer at 2070 Health; Executive Vice President at W Health Ventures
Katia Ostrovsky
Principal at Fremont Group
Anuj Shah
Managing Director, ESG & Impact Advisory Practice Lead at Stax
Jacqui D'Angelo Smith
Adjunct Lecturer, Finance at Bentley University; Portfolio Manager at Reynders, McVeigh Capital Management, LLC
Andy Kaufman
Chief Investment Officer at Community Capital Management, LLC
Arun Nair
Innovative Finance at UNICEF
Jalal Ghiasi-Razavi
Director at Allan Gray Orbis Foundation
Leadership, Teamwork, and Culture
Patricia (Trish) Cotter
Associate Managing Director at MIT Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship
Kari Heistad
CEO at Culture Coach International
Swami Swaminathan
Ex-Chairman at Manipal Health Enterprises; Previously MD & CEO at Infosys BPO
Ivan McAdam O'Connell
Co-Founder at VIVOS
Lara Kumar
SVP at Scholastic
Michael Smith Jr.
ASEAN Startup & Digital Native Sales Leader at Microsoft
Vandana Goyal
Managing Trustee and co-CEO at Avanti Fellows; Board Member and Ex-CEO at Akanksha; Young Global Leader at World Economic Forum
Product Design
Swapnil Chug
Founder at INSEAD Learning Hub
Sid Gidwani
Head of Engineering at Stripe
Dan Thiffault
Advisor at BonBillo;
Head of Product and Engineering at Tern
Head of Product and Engineering at Tern
John Breslin
Personal Professor at the University of Galway; Co-Founder at PorterShed
Payal Thiffault
Creative Director at BonBillo;
Co-Founder at Juniper Rag and Atelier ID Global
Co-Founder at Juniper Rag and Atelier ID Global
Mayank Kumar
Director of Technology at BonBillo;
Co-Founder at McAwesome
Co-Founder at McAwesome
Garud Iyengar
Avanessians Director and Professor at Columbia University
Baargav Duggirala
Lead, Startup Ecosystem Partnerships at Chargebee
Christopher Napoli
Head of Wealth & Asset Management at Snowflake
Ebrahim Nalwala
Co-founder & CRO at Work 365; Founder & MD at IOTAP
Michelle May
Co-Founder at Atelier ID Global and Juniper Rag
Karthik Durvasula
Assistant Professor, Linguistics & Data Analysis at Michigan State University
Moody Hadi
Head of Credit Analytics New Product Development at S&P Global
Will Sanchez
COO at TalkingHeads Wireless; Mentor at MIT Sandbox Innovation Fund Program; Board Member, Advisor at Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship
Abhishek Gupta
Owner at NEGT FZE
Bhavik Katira
CEO at TenDelta
Neha Swaminathan
Founder at Little Zen Rebels; Co-Founder at Yogi Power Ltd
Dilip Lukose
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer at Orkes
Siddhartha Goyal
CEO at Nivi
Strategy & Operations
Elaine Chen
Director at Derby Entrepreneurship Center at Tufts; Founder and Managing Director at ConceptSpring
Swami Swaminathan
Ex-Chairman at Manipal Health Enterprises; Previously MD & CEO at Infosys BPO
Rukaiya (Kanchwala) Rangwala
Founder at Around the Table; Ex-Chief Digital Business Officer at Marico Ltd
Manasi Mashru
Managing Director, Strategy and Consulting, Southeast Asia at Accenture
Sujay Mashru
Vice President, Asia Pacific & Growth Markets (MEA, Russia and LATAM) at LivaNova
Kunal Dalal
Regional Director, South East Asia & Korea at LivaNova
Zachariah George
Managing Partner at Launch Africa Ventures; Chief Investment Officer at Startupbootcamp Africa
Dipti Rao
Regional Strategic Operations & Enablement Director at SEEK Asia
Ankeet Dedhia
Principal, Financial Services Industry Lead at AWS
Micah Chase
Entrepreneur In Residence at Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Principal at Checker Real Estate and Investment Management
Paul Mitchell
Founder at Blockhouse Consulting; Co-Founder at Kecks
Parul Sahai
CEO of U.S. at Training the Street
Kunal Dayal Jesrani
Senior Vice President - Operations Support at Tech Mahindra Business Process Services
Vivek Shyamasundar
Global GTM & Strategic Partnerships at NVIDIA
Sumeet Nagar
Managing Director at Malabar Investments
Brian Kim
Portfolio Manager at Alpine Global
Karine Makhijani Malagon
Director at EM-ONE Energy Solutions
Marc Rovers
Head of European Credit at Legal & General Investment Management
Lubna Maria Elia
Chief Administrative Officer at BlueHub Capital; Founder of New England Impact Investing Initiative
Shamik Shah
Managing Director at East Bridge
Yury Geyman
Managing Director at BlackRock
Frederic Bonfanti
Advisor at Cyber-security and Defense
Avinash Advani
Founder & CEO at CyberKnight