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The Venture Center team offers a variety of advisory / consulting services for technology entrepreneurs and enterprises.


Venture Center Staff

Name Background, Skills & Interests

Technology Startup Funding Advise, India

Kaushik Gala
  • Semiconductor software R&D, Intellectual property analysis & licensing, Technology entrepreneurship, Business planning, Venture capital.
  • MBA (UT, Austin), MS-EE (UM, Minneapolis)

Sujata Bogawat
  • Corporate finance & accounting, Company affairs, Financial planning, Fund management, General management
  • MBA (NMIMS), CA

Manisha Premnath
  • Biotechnology, Microbiology, Molecular & cell biology, Biotech commercialization, Planning and setting up tech dev programs and labs, Program management
  • PhD (Bio-technology), University of Pune; Post doc - Univ of Cambridge

Venture Center Affiliates

Name Background & Skills

V Premnath
  • Tech commercialization, company start-up, IP planning, tech roadmapping/ landscaping/ assessment, market research, business planning.
  • Head, NCL Innovations; Head, Intellectual Property Group; Scientist, Polymer Science & Engineering Division, NCL.
  • PhD (MIT), B. Tech (IIT-B) (Chemical engineering, Polymers, Biomedical materials); Chevening Technology Enterprise Fellow (Cambridge/ London Business School)

Vinita Panchanadikar
  • Biotechnology R&D, technology development, project management, lab development
  • Scientist, NCL Innovations; Previously, Project Leader for Biotech projects at NCL and RRL-Bhubaneshwar.
  • PhD (Microbiology); PGDIPR (NALSAR)

A D Kulkarni
  • Intellectual property, Patents, Law/contracts/ agreements
  • Technical Officer, NCL Innovations; Legal Counsel and Mentor, IP Group, NCL; Previously, IPR Coordinator, NCL.
  • Lawyer and Patent Agent. Basic training in Chemistry.

Magesh Nandagopal
  • New product development in chemical/material sciences, Assessment, Valuation, portfolio management & marketing
  • Scientist, NCL Innovations
  • PhD (Polymer Science) & MBA (Finance & Operations), University of Connecticut

Nitin Shukla Tewari
  • Patent drafting & prosecution, IP portfolio planning, management and value addition
  • Scientist, IP Group / NCL Innovations
  • PhD (Biomed Research), WoS-C fellow of DST, Patent Agent