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Dr. Ganesh Natarajan

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Dr. Ganesh Natarajan is an angel investor and entrepreneur from India. He is the founder of 5F World, a platform dedicated to investment and mentoring of startups, skills platforms and social enterprises. He is also Chairman of Skills Alpha, Pune City Connect and Social Venture Partners India and a Co-Founder and Chairman of Global Talent Track.He has co-founded two Indo-US JVs, Kalzoom Advisors and Centre for AI and Advanced Analytics. He is a distinguished alumnus award winner of IIT Bombay and NITIE. Ganesh led two corporate success stories with distinction, APTECH from 1991 to 2001 and Zensar from 2001 to 2016. He is an independent director on the boards of State Bank of India, Principal Asset Management, Hinduja Global Services, LHI Digital, Educate Girls, 1crowd, AVPN and SVP International. Ganesh is a member of the Chairmen's Council of NASSCOM and the National Council of the All India Management Association. He has been Chairman of NASSCOM and NASSCOM Foundation, President of HBS Club of India and served multiple terms on the National Council of CII. Ganesh is an alumnus of BIT Mesra, NITIE, IIT Bombay and the Harvard Business School. He is the author of four McGraw Hill Books on Business Process Reengineering and Knowledge Management and other publications on the IT industry and inspired leadership of coming generations.