Meet our Team & Mentors
Our team and mentors bring deep expertise across entrepreneurship, design thinking, and social impact to accelerate innovation towards the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals.
Team

Suraj Kripalani
Founder and CEO at BonBillo;
Previously Portfolio Manager at BlackRock
Previously Portfolio Manager at BlackRock

Julia Turnbull
Program Advisor at BonBillo;
Assistant Director of Custom Programs at MIT Sloan Executive Education
Assistant Director of Custom Programs at MIT Sloan Executive Education

Dan Thiffault
Advisor at BonBillo;
Head of Product and Engineering at Tern
Head of Product and Engineering at Tern

Mayank Kumar
Director of Technology at BonBillo;
Co-Founder at McAwesome
Co-Founder at McAwesome

Mischke Le Cordeur
Marketing Manager at BonBillo

Ashna Thakkar
Program Lead at BonBillo

Payal Thiffault
Creative Director at BonBillo;
Co-Founder at Juniper Rag and Atelier ID Global
Co-Founder at Juniper Rag and Atelier ID Global

Prachi Apte
Program Advisor at BonBillo;
Product Manager at Expedia Group
Product Manager at Expedia Group
Mentors and Advisors
Entrepreneurship

Elaine Chen
Director at Derby Entrepreneurship Center at Tufts; Founder and Managing Director at ConceptSpring

Suraj Kripalani
Founder and CEO at BonBillo;
Previously Portfolio Manager at BlackRock
Previously Portfolio Manager at BlackRock
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Katelyn Bourgoin
Co-Founder at UNIGNORABLE; CEO at Customer Camp
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Patricia (Trish) Cotter
Executive coach & Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan Executive Education

Lucy Heskins
Founder at Oh Blimey

Julia Turnbull
Program Advisor at BonBillo;
Assistant Director of Custom Programs at MIT Sloan Executive Education
Assistant Director of Custom Programs at MIT Sloan Executive Education

Swapnil Chug
Founder at INSEAD Learning Hub

Valeri Werpetinski
KEEN Instructional Catalyst at The Grainger College of Engineering
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John Breslin
Personal Professor at the University of Galway; Co-Founder at PorterShed

Fatema Basrai
Managing Director at Innovate Health Yale and the Sustainable Health Initiative at Yale University

Neil Kothari
Co-Founder and Board Member at Drip Capital
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Blake Sims
Director of the BVR Research + Design Center at Country Day School; Founder and CEO at Epiic Solutions

Ritvik Singh
Co-Founder & CEO at Saaf Finance
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Cheryl Kiser
Executive Director at The Institute for Social Innovation, Babson College

Sunay Shah
Co-Founder at e.pop AI

Swapnil Shah
Founder and CEO at Freight Tiger

Nsovo Nkatingi
Startup Program Manager at Brabantse Ontwikkelings Maatschappij (BOM)

Vaibhav Hegde
Co-Founder and CEO at Cambrian Bioworks
Customer Acquisition

Katelyn Bourgoin
Co-Founder at UNIGNORABLE; CEO at Customer Camp

Lucy Heskins
Founder at Oh Blimey

Razy Shah
Business Director at 2Stallions Digital Marketing Agency
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Rukaiya (Kanchwala) Rangwala
Founder at Around the Table; Ex-Chief Digital Business Officer at Marico Ltd

Lauren Abda
Founder at BranchFood; Co-Founder at Branch Venture Group

Marc Blackmer
Vice President of Marketing at Corero Network Security; Business Owner at Blackmer Consulting

Per Heistad
VP of Strategy and Market Insights at cloaked; Venture Partner at RallyCry Venture

Shruti Rya Ganguly
Filmmaker & Founder at Honto88

Zoey Farooq
North America Marketing & Communications at Accenture
Impact and Sustainable Investing

Sachin Rudra
Founder at Crest Spring; Ex-CIO at Acumen Fund

Alkesh Wadhwani
Director Health, India Country Office at Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Shruthi Cauvery Iyer
Founder & Managing Partner at Vaia Climate

Suraj Kripalani
Founder and CEO at BonBillo;
Previously Portfolio Manager at BlackRock
Previously Portfolio Manager at BlackRock

Maya Chandrasekharan
Co-founder & Partner at Green Artha; Co-founder at Women in Investing Network

Kunal Paymaster
Managing Director at SightLine Partners and 10K Lakes Capital

Rahil Rangwala
Managing Partner at Accion Venture Lab

Yaquta Fatehi
Impact Assessment Professional at William Davidson Institute at The University of Michigan

Amrit Paul Singh
Impact Investor at Acumen

Yash Vardhan Gaddhyan
Consultant at Acumen

Aditya Dhar
Investment Director at Climate Fund Managers B.V

Gunjan Banati
Chief Risk Officer, Managing Director at The Royce Funds

Alberto Gómez-Obregón
Managing Partner at CO_Capital; Strategic Advisory Board Member at Latimpacto

Jess Brooks
Vice President, Investor Relations at Social Finance; Advisory Board Member at Sunwealth

Chetan Doshi
Director at Griha Pte Limited; Co-founder at Vinner Ventures

Fabien Couderc
Managing Partner & Co-Founder at ALTALURRA Ventures

KL Mukesh
Mentor at Villgro; Founder at Akeso Healthcare

Mohammed Al Rasbi
Founder & General Partner at R&D Labs; Managing Director at Oman Technology Fund

Pankaj Jethwani
Chief Executive Officer at 2070 Health; Executive Vice President at W Health Ventures

Katia Ostrovsky
Principal at Fremont Group

Anuj Shah
Managing Director, ESG & Impact Advisory Practice Lead at Stax

Jacqui D'Angelo Smith
Adjunct Lecturer, Finance at Bentley University; Portfolio Manager at Reynders, McVeigh Capital Management, LLC

Andy Kaufman
Chief Investment Officer at Community Capital Management, LLC

Arun Nair
Innovative Finance at UNICEF
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Jalal Ghiasi-Razavi
Director at Allan Gray Orbis Foundation
Leadership, Teamwork, and Culture

Patricia (Trish) Cotter
Associate Managing Director at MIT Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship

Kari Heistad
CEO at Culture Coach International

Swami Swaminathan
Ex-Chairman at Manipal Health Enterprises; Previously MD & CEO at Infosys BPO

Ivan McAdam O'Connell
Co-Founder at VIVOS

Lara Kumar
SVP at Scholastic

Michael Smith Jr.
ASEAN Startup & Digital Native Sales Leader at Microsoft
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Vandana Goyal
Managing Trustee and co-CEO at Avanti Fellows; Board Member and Ex-CEO at Akanksha; Young Global Leader at World Economic Forum
Product Design

Swapnil Chug
Founder at INSEAD Learning Hub

Sid Gidwani
Head of Engineering at Stripe
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Dan Thiffault
Advisor at BonBillo;
Head of Product and Engineering at Tern
Head of Product and Engineering at Tern

John Breslin
Personal Professor at the University of Galway; Co-Founder at PorterShed

Payal Thiffault
Creative Director at BonBillo;
Co-Founder at Juniper Rag and Atelier ID Global
Co-Founder at Juniper Rag and Atelier ID Global

Mayank Kumar
Director of Technology at BonBillo;
Co-Founder at McAwesome
Co-Founder at McAwesome

Garud Iyengar
Avanessians Director and Professor at Columbia University

Baargav Duggirala
Lead, Startup Ecosystem Partnerships at Chargebee

Christopher Napoli
Head of Wealth & Asset Management at Snowflake

Ebrahim Nalwala
Co-founder & CRO at Work 365; Founder & MD at IOTAP

Michelle May
Co-Founder at Atelier ID Global and Juniper Rag

Karthik Durvasula
Assistant Professor, Linguistics & Data Analysis at Michigan State University

Moody Hadi
Head of Credit Analytics New Product Development at S&P Global

Will Sanchez
COO at TalkingHeads Wireless; Mentor at MIT Sandbox Innovation Fund Program; Board Member, Advisor at Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship

Abhishek Gupta
Owner at NEGT FZE

Bhavik Katira
CEO at TenDelta

Neha Swaminathan
Founder at Little Zen Rebels; Co-Founder at Yogi Power Ltd

Dilip Lukose
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer at Orkes
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Siddhartha Goyal
CEO at Nivi
Strategy & Operations

Elaine Chen
Director at Derby Entrepreneurship Center at Tufts; Founder and Managing Director at ConceptSpring

Swami Swaminathan
Ex-Chairman at Manipal Health Enterprises; Previously MD & CEO at Infosys BPO
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Rukaiya (Kanchwala) Rangwala
Founder at Around the Table; Ex-Chief Digital Business Officer at Marico Ltd

Manasi Mashru
Managing Director, Strategy and Consulting, Southeast Asia at Accenture

Sujay Mashru
Vice President, Asia Pacific & Growth Markets (MEA, Russia and LATAM) at LivaNova

Kunal Dalal
Regional Director, South East Asia & Korea at LivaNova

Zachariah George
Managing Partner at Launch Africa Ventures; Chief Investment Officer at Startupbootcamp Africa

Dipti Rao
Regional Strategic Operations & Enablement Director at SEEK Asia

Ankeet Dedhia
Principal, Financial Services Industry Lead at AWS

Micah Chase
Entrepreneur In Residence at Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Principal at Checker Real Estate and Investment Management

Paul Mitchell
Founder at Blockhouse Consulting; Co-Founder at Kecks

Parul Sahai
CEO of U.S. at Training the Street

Kunal Dayal Jesrani
Senior Vice President - Operations Support at Tech Mahindra Business Process Services

Vivek Shyamasundar
Global GTM & Strategic Partnerships at NVIDIA

Sumeet Nagar
Managing Director at Malabar Investments

Brian Kim
Portfolio Manager at Alpine Global

Karine Makhijani Malagon
Director at EM-ONE Energy Solutions

Marc Rovers
Head of European Credit at Legal & General Investment Management

Lubna Maria Elia
Chief Administrative Officer at BlueHub Capital; Founder of New England Impact Investing Initiative

Shamik Shah
Managing Director at East Bridge

Yury Geyman
Managing Director at BlackRock

Frederic Bonfanti
Advisor at Cyber-security and Defense

Avinash Advani
Founder & CEO at CyberKnight