Balaji Srinivas is a Managing Partner for the Aureos South Asia region, based in Bangalore, India. He began his career with Tata Steel as a financial accountant, then with Corporate divisions of Sterling Holiday Resorts and BPL Mobile Communications. Balaji then became an associate director at Intel Corporation where he established Intel India's Venture Capital operations in 1998 and led 14 investments in technology SMEs. He was also Vice-president for The Carlyle Group's investments in India.

K. Kumar is a Professor of Entrepreneurship and Chairperson in the N.S. Raghavan Center for Entrepreneurial Learning at IIMB. He started his career with a two-year stint as a Marketing Officer with Crompton Greaves Ltd, then he spent the next three years during his career as an entrepreneur, and successfully co-promoted two ventures in the services and consumer products domains. He also served as a Product Manager at Computer Point (I) Ltd. Kumar has over 18 years of experience in the industry in various capacities. He was the first CEO of Trigent Software Ltd, a mid-sized; Bangalore based software services company, between 1995 and 2001 and later served as its President between 2005 and 2006. For over four years he worked as Management Consultant at TCS.