Joydeep is a senior Brand and Marketing Strategy & Operations professional with 16+ years of experience in driving Marketing Strategy, Advertising Communication, Media Planning and Execution. He is currently a Regional Lead for Brand Strategy at Brand Capital, the investment arm of Times of India Group, and based in Mumbai.

He has extensive experience in areas including Brand Strategy, Marketing Communications & Advertising, Media Strategy, result oriented Growth Strategy, GTM, New Market & Product Launches and P&L Management across a range of industries including Media & Entertainment, Telecom, ITeS and Consulting.

Having worked in varied organizations from large corporations to start-ups, across geographical locations in India - with Indian and International clientele and stakeholders, Joydeep is adept at engaging with people across various cultures and corporate environments.

He is an avid traveller and amateur photographer and blogger in his personal time.

Specialties: Brand Strategy, Media Strategy & Planning, Marketing Communications, Marketing Operations, Product Management, Strategic Operations, Business Development.

Ankita is an edupreneur and heads Digital Operations at Orange Health Digital, a strategic digital marketing firm, specialising in the healthcare sector working with clients such as Glenmark, Roche Diagnostics India, Abbott India, Sanofi, Jaslok Hospital, Gleneagles Global Hospitals (Network), Nanavati Hospital etc. among others.

Being a digital marketing & web analytics enthusiast, Ankita has been immensely passionate about delivering digital marketing training via an experience-based teaching methodology. She has trained more than 8000 students - across top B schools in India (S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research, Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, etc.) and large corporates alike. Ankita has also been actively involved as a Consultant Digital Marketing Mentor with education companies such as UpGrad, Edu Pristine, Zell Education etc. and business incubators such as SPJIMR Start-Up Incubation Center.

Ankita has over 10 years of experience in digital marketing across various industries and over 5 years in healthcare digital marketing

Rohit is a dynamic and passionate individual with an MBA in Marketing having over 21 years of experience working with iconic brands like Raymond, Videocon, AstraZeneca and The Times of India. With Advanced Strategic Management from Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Lucknow, Digital Marketing & Analytics from IIM- Bangalore and various leadership courses from Indian School of Business (ISB) Hyderabad he believes in continuous knowledge upgradation. His expertise in Brand Building, Consumer Insights, Product Marketing, P&L Management, Brand communication and Advertising have resulted in achieving a proven record of conceiving & implementing ideas that have fuelled market presence and driven revenue.

During his tenure he has launched numerous new products in the market and established them as large brands. His experience working with large organisations as well as start- ups, enables him to leverage varying business challenges and convert them into opportunities. In his illustrious career, his work in consumer engagement has been registered in Limca Books of Record and his consumer campaigns and ideas have won the prestigious ABBYS awards.

Vivek is an Engineer, patent agent, advocate and strategist. Over 13+ years of experience in Intellectual Property domain Vivek had handled 2000+ patent applications and assisted innovators, creators, entrepreneurs, institutions and incubation centres in devising their strategies revolving around innovations, executing these strategies and monetizing in accordance with focused marketing plans. The business centric solutions provided by him enable stakeholders to maximize their return on investments.

Vivek has been working closely with aggregators and accelerators in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore and helping his Indian clients in providing access to global market as well as investors.

Suraj is an astute and diligent Chartered Accountant, IFRS – Program & Finance Management Professional with 16+ years of experience Accounts in Strategy Planning, Financial Planning, Corporate Financing, Financial Closing, Taxation Matters (Direct & Indirect), Statutory Compliance's & Accounts Operations.

-Proficient in Project Finance, Working Capital Management, Credit Control, Loan and Debt Funding.

-Expertise in overall management, business planning, execution and proficiency in devising and implementing strategic plans to achieve organizational vision and strategic direction.

-Experienced in spearheading a wide spectrum of finance, investments, cost control, legal compliance and budgeting encompassing finalization of accounts and cash flow management.

-An excellent communicator with demonstrated capabilities in developing and managing accounting systems and implementing complex financial analytic s successfully and efficiently.

Dr. Haldankar is associated with SP-IT since 2010. Overall he has an experience of over 17 years inteaching. With an Master's in Electronics and Bachelor in Electrical Engineering; he has acquired significant knowledge in his domain. He would love to mentor startups in the core tech areas like Power Electronics, Instrumentation, Embedded systems, etc. Dr. Haldankar has published over 10 papers till now.

Dr. Sutar is associated with SP-IT since 2002. Overall he has an experience of over 20 years in teaching. He is Master's in Electronics and Bachelor in Electrical Engineering. Currently he is also serving as Dean Academics at SP-IT. Having publish 13 papers till now, he is interested to support startups in the domain of biomedical electronics, Artificial Intelligence and power electronics.

Dr. R. Shankarmani is the Dean- Quality Assurance and HOD Information Technology. With over 35 papers and 5 books published; she has immense knowledge in the filed of IT. She would love to work and contribute to startups in the field of Simulation & Modeling, Software Testing, Business Intelligence, Data Mining, Big Data Analytics and Software architecture.

Prof. Parmar is associated with SP-IT as a professor of Electronics and Communication Having publish 20 papers and 2 patents till now, he is interested to support startups in the domain of Internet of Things, Computer Networking, Cyber Security, Embedded systems and Computer Architecture.

Dr. Kalbande has been serving SP-IT since 2000 in the department of Computer Science. Dr. Kalbande is also an entrepreneur with his startup Skinzy incubated at SP-TBI. Dr. Kalbande has published over 115 papers and 7 patents. He has completed over 6 research projects and 2 industry projects. Dr. Kalbande is happy to support startups in the core technology areas of AI-ML, Deep Learning and User Experience Design.

Dr. Y.S. Rao is the Vice Principal at SP-IT. with over 30 years of teaching experience. Dr. Rao is associated with SP-IT for last two decades. Till today. Dr. Y.S. Rao has published over 61 papers and 5 patents. He has completed 7 research projects and 3 industry projects.Dr. Rao would love to support startups in the field of Embedded systems and IoT (hardware and software)..

Dr. Pooja is the professor and head of MCA department at SP-IT. With over 17 years of teaching and 5 years of industrial experience; her support for students and startups have been highly appreciated. Dr. Pooja has published over 26 papers and 1 patent. She has completed 2 research and 2 industry projects too. Dr. Pooja is here to support any startup in AI-ML and Data Sciences Technologies.

Dr. Reena Kumbhare is an associate professor at SP- TBI. She has over 19 years of experience in the teaching industry. Dr. Reena has over 51 paper published and 1 patent on her name. Her area of expertise are RF Antennas and Subsystems, Semiconductor, Device Modeling, Mixed Signal VLSI Design, Communication and Digital Signal Image Processing.

Dr. Rajendra Sawant is one of our entrepreneur professors. He is currently incubated at SP-TBI with his startup called ITEM-C Lab. He is a professor at SP-TBI with over 2 decades of experience. Dr. Sawant has published over 36 papers, 2 research projects and 6 industrial projects. Dr. Sawant is here to support any startup working in the field of Power Electronics & Industrial Electronics.

Dr. Sutar is an associate professor as SP-IT. She is into teaching since last 26 years. In her long career, she has published over 32 papers, 1 patent and 1 research project. She is interested to support startups related to core technologies in Microwave Engineering, Software design radio, communications etc.

Professor Talele is associated with SP-IT for last 25 years. He is one of the founding members of SP- TBI. Prof. Talele has published over 62 papers, and 15 patents. He has completed 2 research projects in his field. Professor Talele is here to support startups in the field of Machine Learning, Image Processing, Computer Vision and Edutech.