Dr. Pal is a distinguished theoretical chemist and currently the Director, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India. Dr Sourav Pal obtained his integrated masters degree in Chemistry from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur in 1977. He received his Ph.D. degree from Calcutta University and joined NCL in 1982. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Florida, Gainesville, USA (1986-87) and has been Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Heidelberg, Germany (1987). He was a visiting Professor at the University of Arizona, Tucson, USA (1995) and the Institute for Molecular Sciences, Okazaki, Japan (1997). He is currently also an adjunct Professor at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune. Dr. Pal has been recognised by several awards and honours for his contribution to science and technology including the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in Chemical Sciences in 2000.

Dr. Sivaram is the ex-Director of NCL and Founder Chairman of Venture Center. He is a polymer chemist by training. His research career spans a wide variety of areas in polymer science including polymer synthesis, new and improved catalysts for polymerization, novel processes for monomers and formulated products for specific end applications. After obtaining his master’s degree in chemistry at IIT Kanpur in 1967, he moved to Purdue University, Indiana, USA for his PhD, where he associated with Professor Herbert C. Brown, Nobel Laureate. Subsequently, he spent a few years at the Institute of Polymer Science, The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, USA working with Prof J.P. Kennedy as a Research Associate in the area of polymer chemistry. Before joining NCL in 1988 he was heading the Research Center at Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Ltd. (IPCL), Vadodara.

Mr HK Mittal currently heads the National Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Board, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.
Shri Mittal has over two decades of experience in technology based entrepreneurship development; skill development; trainers training and faculty development; establishment of entrepreneurship development institutions like institutes of entrepreneurship development at the state level, Technology Business Incubators, Science & Technology Entrepreneurship Parks, Entrepreneurship Development Cells in the educational institutions; development of micro-enterprises; working for income generation activities for underprivileged sections like: women, scheduled castes/tribes, physically challenged etc.
Mr Mittal is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad. He has previously worked with the Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India - Ahmedabad and also served with UNIDO.

Dr Rajendra Lagu is currently working as Intel Innovations Manager at Intel Technology India Pvt. Ltd. Most recently he has headed the Applications team in Computational Research Laboratories (a Tata group company) at Pune. Prior to joining the group in May 2006 he was the Project Director and member of the Governing Board of Society for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (SINE) -- the technology business incubator at IIT Bombay. At IIT Bombay, Dr Lagu championed the cause of technology entrepreneurship and made important contributions to the inception and successful operationalization of SINE, thus demonstrating the latent potential for business creation from scientific / academic institutions in India. He has a Ph.D from University of Florida, USA and a total experience of 22 years in organizations like IIT Bombay, Mastek Limited, K & P Infotech.

Mr Anand Kusre has over 30 year's experience in commercial and development banking. He has been responsible for formulation and implementation of national and international programmes aimed at development and commercialisation of new technologies. He has been associated with more than 250 companies and technology institutions engaged in development of innovative products and processes including large number of first generation entrepreneurs. Currently, Mr Kusre is Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. In addition, Mr Kusre is Chairman, MITCON Consultancy Company Limited. Mr Kusre is actively engaged in the fields of Innovation and Entrepreneurship being Member, Governing Board, Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India and Member, High-Powered Committee, New Millennium Indian Technology Leadership Initiative.

Dr. Krishna N Ganesh did his Ph.D (1976) in Chemistry at Delhi University (Guide: Prof GBV Subramanian). He was awarded a Commonwealth Fellowship to pursue higher studies University of Cambridge, UK which resulted in a second Ph.D degree to him in 1980 (Guide: Prof JKM Sanders). In 1987, he moved to National Chemical Laboratory, Pune to establish a Bioorganic Chemistry research group. He became the Head of Organic Chemistry (Synthesis) Division in 1994. During his tenure at NCL till 2006, he was involved in policy development, resource generation and design, execution and evaluation of institutional research programmes in Organic Chemistry. In July 2006, Dr Ganesh was appointed as the First Director and Professor of Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune.

Dr. V. Premnath holds a B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. He has also been a Chevening Technology Enterprise Fellow with the Centre for Scientific Enterprises, London Business School and Cambridge University, UK. He brings with him considerable experience in technology development and commercialization (two successfully commercialized families of products), working with start-up companies (in Cambridge-UK and India) and engaging with large corporations on research and consulting projects as project leader.