Rishihood Team

We have seasoned veterans who have been with us for years or our rising stars who are just starting in their careers, every team member plays an integral role in powering our organization forward. We work collaboratively, support each other, and celebrate our successes together.

Mentors of Rishihood

Get industry insights from Day 1.

Rishihood’s mentorship program connects the learners to mentors from top companies and institutes.

The mentorship discussions are on careers, life management, personality development, startups, and anything that the mentor and mentee are interested in.

Meet the Mentors:

Aman Gupta

Farmley; IIT Delhi

Parminder J.

Category Technical Expert - FOODs, Nestle

Sachin Gupta

Co-Founder, Probo
Derivatives Trader
Alumnus, IIM Culcutta

Dr. Siva K. Balasubramanian

Illinois ims of Tech
Prof, Illinois Technology
Harold L Stuart Endowed
Chair in Business

Vikas Gupta

Choco; Ex: Facebook, Uber, Dropbox; Indiana University

Pragya Batra

EY; Kelley School of Business

Charchill Shah

Amazon; Stanford University

Ridhima Dutta

Ex-Wipro CCLG | NMIMS Mumbai

Niharika Gupta

KPMG Global Services | Infrastructure & Climate Advisory | PPP

Yoshita Dutta

Manager at NielsenIQ

Varun Bakshi

Goldman Sachs; Ex Citi Bank

Sahil Gulati

BCG; IIM Ahmedabad

Omkar Joshi

Amazon; Univeristy of Maryland

Naina Gera

Amazon; Cornell University

Kushagra Dhingra

Amazon; Ex: BYJUs; CA

Jaya Gupta

Amazon; IIT Kanpur

Anurag Sarin

London Business School

Ankur Aggarwal

Amazon; Ex: McKinsey, A T Kearney; IIT Roorkee, IIM Calcutta

Akshit Goyal

Kellog; Ex: Novartis; BITS Pilani

Aalekh Sharan

BCG; Ex: NITI Aayog; IIT Delhi, Chicago Booth

Shreyans Mehta

IIM Calcutta; Ex: McKinsey, Citizens for Accountable Governance

Somnath Krishnaswamy

Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft

Sangram Kadam

Manager, Data Science and Analytics, Amazon

Abhishek Sharma

Director - Product Lifecycle Planning, Microsoft

Vivek Rohilla

Product, DataRobot

Avinash Panga

Senior Manager, Google

Sukhada Palkar

Former VP Data & Insights, Strella Biotechnology

Partha Somayajulu

Senior Manager, Software Engineering, Amazon

Purvi Vaidya

Senior Manager, AWS Organizations

Mihir Vaidya

Director of Engineering, Meta

Kousik Chakraborty

Senior Business Intelligence Engineer, Amazon

Kaustubh Agrahari

Software Development Engineer, Amazon

Ankit Chandra

Product Management, Amazon

Sugandha Sahay

Technology Strategy and Program Management Leader, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Abhishek Desikan

Software Development Manager, Amazon

Tarun Gupta

Senior Technical Program Manager, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Vashishta Herekal

Software Development Engineer II, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Sopan Kadam

Software Development Engineer II, Amazon

Ketan Deshpande

Software Engineer, Amazon

Abhishek Ojha

Innovation and Design Engineer, Amazon

Parag Dharap

Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft Corporation

Alok Goyal

Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft

Suresh Pillai

Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft

Mili Shah

Applied Scientist, Microsoft

Harysh Menon

Principal Product Manager Lead, Microsoft

Aakash Mathur

Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft

Visiting Faculty - Office of VC

Prof. Patrick McNamara

Community Development & Social Entrepreneurship

Dr. Shashidharan

Adjunct Professor

Visiting Faculty - School of Psychology and Education

Prof. A.G. Ramakrishnan

Former Chairperson and Professor (Retd.), Electrical Engineering
Indian Institute of Science

Prof. VijyaLakshmi Ramasamy

Chair and Associate Professor
Director MSCIS Program
Department of Computer Science
College of Business, Economics, and Computing

Dr. Sanjay Kumar

Oxford Brookes University

Dr. Charru Sharma

Associate Professor, University of Delhi, India

Visiting Faculty - School of Creativity

Prof. Bilal Abid

Product Design & Development

Prof. Seema Srivastava

Art and Design History

Prof. SG Ranjan

Fine Arts and Fashion (Handicrafts & Hand Looms)

Mahesh Borse

Textile Design

Giles Henry Rupert Tillotson

Indian History and Architecture

Prof. Lalit Kumar Das

Professor Emeritus, School of Creativity
MA, Royal College of Art, London

Prof. Aftab Gharda

Professor Emeritus, School of Creativity
FRSA, Birmingham City University, UK

Prof. MM Pant

Professor Emeritus, School of Entrepreneurship
University of Western Ontario, IIT Kanpur

Tim Edgar

School of Creativity
University of South Wales, Arts University Bournemouth

Joshua Enck

Furniture Design, Architecture & Sculpture

Preeti Sood

Printmaking

Ishaan Dixit

Architecture & Visual Communication

Abhijit Chand

Advertising & Marketing

Peter Boeckel

San Francisco
Experience: Intuitive, Steelcase

Arpan Yagnik

Pennsylvania
Experience: Penn State University

Sachin Behere

Strategic Experience Design Consultant
Founder, Director of Aarambha Asia
Former Design Director at Philips Singapore

Saptarshi Prakash

Banglore
Experience: Swiggy, Zeta

Visiting Faculty - School of Entrepreneurship

Akshay Chopra

Managing Partner, Investor

Chirag Gujarati

Entrepreneurship, Marketing & Strategy

Dr. Mridula Dwivedi

Business Research

Prof. Bart Norre

Visiting Professor, Rishihood University

Dr. Umesh Menon

Sr. International Investment and Finance Expert at UNIDO

Dr. Kavita Saxena

Faculty at Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India

Dr. Vetri Selvi

Associate Professor, Department of Management, Mettu University

CA Sandeep Kapoor

Chartered Accountant and visiting faculty at The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

CA Rajeev Puri

Chartered Accountant and visiting faculty

Muthuraman Thirunavukkarasu

Visiting faculty, Rishihood University

Dr. Ferojuddin M. A. Khan

Director at S&F Commerce Academy

Dr. Radhika Lunawat

Associate Professor
Accounting, UCI Paul Merage School of Business,
University of California

Dr. Ramakrishna Dantu

Assistant Professor,
California State University,
Sacramento College of Business Administration

Sakshi Sharma

Coordinator -- SoEn

Adjunct/Visiting Faculty - School of Healthcare

Dr. Sanjeev Upadhaya

Member - SHF, Former Health Specialist, UNICEF and USAID

Dr. Shashank Kraleti

Senior Vice President at UAMS, USA

Dr. Amit Samarth

Director - TigerMan Sports Pvt Ltd

Sonika Raj Goel

Adjunct Faculty, Public Health Masters Program

Sidra Farooqui

Junior Research Associate, Visiting Faculty

Adjunct/Visiting Faculty - NST CS&AI

Dr. Parag Singla

Professor, Department of Computer Science, Indian Instiute of Technology Delhi

Dr. Siddhartha Jayanti

Research Scientist at Google Research and AI; United States
PhD, MIT Boston

Dr. Kishor S. Trivedi

Hudson Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University

Dr. Prasad Jayanti

Professor and Former Head of Computer Science at Dartmouth

Dr. Karthik Mohan

Affiliate Professor, University of Washington

Gita Pendharkar

Lecturer/Senior Teacher, RMIT University, Australia