Sridhar Pabbisetty is the Founding Director of Kautilya School of Public Policy. He is spearheading the setting up of the school to be a leading home grown institution that contextualizes global advances in public policy for India. He is a well-known Public Policy and Inclusive Governance specialist.

He is also the Chief Enabler at Centre for Inclusive Governance, a citizens collective for social actions on public problems. Sridhar has devised various innovative campaigns and executed public policy interventions and legal strategies to ensure these campaigns culminate in meaningful action. For his outstanding contribution to societal change, he was awarded the “Distinguished Alumni Award” in 2018 by his alma mater - Ramaiah Institute of Technology.

Sridhar is a regular speaker at various national and international fora on the issues of open governance, inclusive growth, emerging technology and also advises various government departments on the same. This includes the Harvard India Conference, Mobile India Conference and IIMB Management Review Conference on Global Supply Chain Management. Sridhar is a prolific writer having co-authored - a case study for Harvard Business Review, a book chapter in “How Think Tanks Shape Social Development Policies” published by Penn Press of University of Pennsylvania, apart from regularly writing columns and features in various leading newspapers and magazines. He is a regular media panellist in various national and regional news channels.

He was an expert member in the drafting committee of the Joint Legislative House Committee on Conservation of Lakes in Bengaluru. He was also a member of the Bellandur Lake Rejuvenation Monitoring committee setup by Government of Karnataka to develop a comprehensive development plan for revival of Bellandur Lake.

He has been an advisor to the Government of Karnataka's Sakala Mission in improving Transparency and Accountability in Governance. He was part of various government committees including Simplification of Citizen oriented forms in BESCOM. He was a special invitee to the Karnataka Tourism Vision Group.

He specializes in nurturing inclusive enterprises across the world and helps them to develop long term corporate strategy and build business models with focus on scalability and sustainability. He has also worked on Electoral Reforms being part of the National Election Watch and leading the NEW efforts for the 2008 assembly and 2009 Lok Sabha elections in Karnataka.

Sridhar was the Chief Executive Officer of Namma Bengaluru Foundation (NBF). NBF is a notfor-profit organization founded upon the growing desire and pressure to make collective social engagement more effective in improving the city and citizens’ life.

Prior to joining Namma Bengaluru Foundation, Sridhar was the Chief Operating Officer of the Centre for Public Policy, IIM Bangalore. His focus was on building and maintaining relationship with all members in the public policy ecosystem - government, regulatory bodies, industry, opinion leaders, researchers, partner institutions and foundations that are focused on policy research. He has also served as the Chief Programs Officer at the Bangalore Political Action Committee (B.PAC - www.bpac.in). Earlier Sridhar has worked with fast growing hi-tech companies including Zyme Solutions, Aditi Technologies and iCOPE Technologies.He has been on the panel of judges of various start-up competitions including the Acara Challenge.

Sridhar has an MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and a BE in Computer Science with distinction from Bangalore University.

Lectures and talks frequently given on topics including: Empathy led redesigning of Government Services, Social Cartography, Doing Business in India, Decision Making Under Uncertainty, Indian Governance, Urbanization, Sustainability, Public Policy and Law - ranging from drafting of new laws, Government procedures, Information Visualization, Right to Information Act, Right to Public Services, Public Interest Litigations and Social Audits.

Passionate about the power of communication, storytelling and digital marketing. Teaching, mentoring start-ups and empowering women is what drives her....

Malavika founded Brand Circle in 2018, a Consultancy Firm working in the areas of Digital Communication, Storytelling, Mentoring Start-ups, Women Entrepreneurs and Corporate Leaders. She is Resident Mentor at the NSRCEL of IIMB. She also mentors start-ups at various other incubators.

In her earlier avatar she founded and ran Saatchi & Saatchi Focus in India for 25 years where she worked on brands like Bosch, Coats, Reliance Polymers, Infosys, Microsoft, Astra Zeneca, Pfizer, Novartis, Mead Johnson, AIS and Novo Nordisk amongst others. She has 38 years of experience in communication and entrepreneurship. Brand Consultancy, Strategic Planning and Training are her focus areas.

After her accountancy training and MBA from the IIM, Bangalore Malavika joined HMT Watches. She then ran her own interior design and packaging firm before joining Saatchi in 1993 after a stint at Mudra Communications. Malavika trained briefly at Saatchi & Saatchi in London, New Zealand and Singapore.

Malavika was one of the first Gurukul Chevening Scholars, selected by the British Government for a special program under Lord Meghnad Desai at the London School of Economics on Globalization. Malavika is the first woman to win the Distinguished Alumni Award from IIM Bangalore.

She is on the Board of Governors of the Indian Institute of Management, Vishakapatnam, on the Governing Council of Mount Carmel College and on the Advisory Board of the NSRCEL of the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. At NSRCEL, she is actively involved in mentoring start-ups in the profit and non-profit sectors, to reach their full potential.

Malavika was President of the IIMB Alumni Association and the Advertising Club Bangalore.

Malavika teaches Marketing and Communication at various post graduate institutes of management and communication in India and abroad. She has been doing this for the last 27 years because she believes that sharing knowledge is the only way to learn.

Sri Krishnan is a senior industry leader with an extensive track record of leading Hi-tech business and development of software, hardware and innovative products successfully.

A seasoned professional in the aerospace and automotive sectors, Sri started his career at ISRO in the Satellite centre working on satellite telemetry and remote sensing payload data handling systems. Later he worked with Tata Aero Space systems developing indigenous navigation systems for defense applications.

Sri joined Bosch in 1999 in the Blaupunkt - Car Multimedia division. Later he was Business Unit Head, responsible for Automotive Safety (Airbag, ABS, ESP and Driver Assistance systems), Car Multimedia (Navigation systems, Head Units, Radios), Engineering tools, Automotive Base software and Data Analytics till 2017. He also worked in Bosch USA and Germany for four years. He was instrumental in development of Indigenous Automotive Telematics system that has been launched globally.

In the recent past, Sri was Senior VP heading the business unit Innovation & Digital, responsible for incubating digital technologies, emerging business domains and startup alliance. He nurtured innovation culture leading to successful market forays. Healthcare, Agriculture and connected products are some of the new business areas incubated by him. The healthcare products have won CES Innovation awards. Sri established the Bosch Centre for AI in India. Blockchain and Quantum computing are some the technologies incubated.

Sri is a multifaceted personality, other than the business and technology leadership, he is a performing musician playing Carnatic Violin, he writes blogs and short stories, he is a speaker at prestigious events, grows Orchids and cooks authentic food occasionally. After the long corporate career, now Sri is working with of startups, GCCs and IT companies consulting on strategy and innovation.