Operating Team

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Neha Sharma

Chief Executive Officer,

Ms. Neha is Doctorate in Entrepreneurship, with more than a decade and a half of experience in cross-practice research and multiple domains of business processes. She has worked closely with stakeholders like startups, academia, researchers and policy makers to enable the startup ecosystem in her previous roles.

She has recently been recognized among Top 100 Women Leaders as Entrepreneurship Expert in India by GlantorX and Zee News, 2022.

Her passion to help small and medium enterprises, startups and entrepreneurs prompted her to enrol into Doctorate program in Entrepreneurship from EDII which she completed in 2020. She received a Fellowship and research grant to accomplish the doctorate degree.

She has also been engaged with many academic institutions as a visiting Faculty for MBA program. During her tenure with EDII she got many opportunities to deliver lectures and training programs to students and professionals from India and abroad in different capacities.

While working with NASSCOM Center of Excellence, she has helped deeptech startups in their journey under the accelerator program. As a part of the core team of the CoE, she drove initiatives for co-creation and co-innovation. She was deeply involved in strengthening the Indurstry 4.0 research segment for the center. She organized research conferences with an objective to provide a platform where researchers and practitioners could come forward to discuss problems and solutions.

Since the beginning of her career, she has worked across multiple-industry functions.
She has worked with Government of India, a multi-national company, technology Start-ups and a leading industry association (NASSCOM) in different roles.

Dhruv Patel

Manger – Incubation MSME

Mr. Dhruv Patel has completed their Master of Engineering in Mechanical and Post Graduate Diploma in Intellectual Property Rights (PGD-IPR). He is currently working as an Incubation Manager – MSME at Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India. He has a total 6 years of professional experience in the core Incubation field.

Mr. Dhruv Patel has filed 7 design applications at India Patent Office on their name and all the 7 applications were granted by the Patent Office with 100% filing to grant ratio. Dhruv has also published 3 research papers in the field of 3D Printing and active review member in two research journals. Mr. Dhruv Patel is also recognized with an award and certificate by GTU for excellent contribution in IPR in Gold Category. He got 1st rank in the IP Quiz and 3rd rank in IP Blog writing as a part of World IP Day event organized by ISERD.