Our Advisory Board

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Dr. Mansingh is Stanford alumnus and has worked with David Packard & Bill Hewlett (Founders, Hewlett Packard), Steve Jobs (Founder, Apple), Michael Dell (Founder, Dell) and John Chambers (Founder, CISCO). He is a global leader, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, author, technology visionary and innovator. He is a widely followed international speaker on the topics of mentoring, success, innovation, global leadership, entrepreneurship and various technologies. He is known for numerous technical papers and six US patents. He has been listed in the “National Who’s Who of the United States” in the year 2000. He has also received India’s highest Chanakya Innovative Leadership Award in 2012 from Public Relations Council of India and IT Man of the Year 2016 from Enterprise Connect, USA.

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Pankaj is a financial service professional with over 24 years of rich investment banking, entrepreneurship & Alternative Asset Management experience in the United Arab Emirates in various leadership roles. Prior to Co-founding Gulf Islamic Investments in 2014, he was Head of Investment Business Development at Allied Investment Partners, a UAE-based investment banking company he contributed to build from inception in 2007, to manage the assets of number of prominent business people and leading members of the Abu Dhabi Royal Family. He was also instrumental in starting Union National Financial Consultancy in 2004, an investment advisory company(which changed its name to Gulf Islamic Investments in 2014) dedicated to assist prominent members of the Abu Dhabi Royal Family in advising on their assets. He has also been involved in many projects and start-ups, and sits on the Management Board & Advisory Board of multiple companies.

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Hari Padmanabhan is a serial entrepreneur, Venture & Angel investor, and mentor. He is currently Executive Chairman of the Encore Group (set up in 2010). He is currently Chairman and Mentor of OS Labs, the creators of INDUS OS. He is also Chairman of Pan IIT Alumni Reach for India (PARFI). Before this, he was the Global Deputy CEO of 3i Infotech until May 2009 and drove their tenfold growth to be a $ 500 M global organization. 3i Infotech acquired INSYST technologies in 2001. In 2009 he was awarded the Distinguished Alumnus Award of the S.I.E.S. group of colleges by Dr Abdul Kalam, the past President of India. He has also produced a full-length feature film, Land Gold Women, that won the Indian President’s ‘ Best English Feature Film’ award. He founded TiE ( The Indus Entrepreneurs ) in Dubai in 2003 and is its Founder and President. He is the past Chairman of Pan IIT Alumni India (the apex body of the alumni of the Indian Institutes of Technology), where he championed the PanIIT Alumni's nation building initiatives across the country.

Our Advisory Board Members Profiles

Dr. Mansingh is Stanford alumnus and has worked with David Packard & Bill Hewlett (Founders, Hewlett Packard), Steve Jobs (Founder, Apple), Michael Dell (Founder, Dell) and John Chambers (Founder, CISCO). He is a global leader, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, author, technology visionary and innovator. He is a widely followed international speaker on the topics of mentoring, success, innovation, global leadership, entrepreneurship and various technologies. He is known for numerous technical papers and six US patents. He has been listed in the “National Who’s Who of the United States” in the year 2000. He has also received India’s highest Chanakya Innovative Leadership Award in 2012 from Public Relations Council of India and IT Man of the Year 2016 from Enterprise Connect, USA.

Pankaj is a financial service professional with over 24 years of rich investment banking, entrepreneurship & Alternative Asset Management experience in the United Arab Emirates in various leadership roles. Prior to Co-founding Gulf Islamic Investments in 2014, he was Head of Investment Business Development at Allied Investment Partners, a UAE-based investment banking company he contributed to build from inception in 2007, to manage the assets of number of prominent business people and leading members of the Abu Dhabi Royal Family. He was also instrumental in starting Union National Financial Consultancy in 2004, an investment advisory company(which changed its name to Gulf Islamic Investments in 2014) dedicated to assist prominent members of the Abu Dhabi Royal Family in advising on their assets. He has also been involved in many projects and start-ups, and sits on the Management Board & Advisory Board of multiple companies.

Hari Padmanabhan is a serial entrepreneur, Venture & Angel investor, and mentor. He is currently Executive Chairman of the Encore Group (set up in 2010). He is currently Chairman and Mentor of OS Labs, the creators of INDUS OS. He is also Chairman of Pan IIT Alumni Reach for India (PARFI). Before this, he was the Global Deputy CEO of 3i Infotech until May 2009 and drove their tenfold growth to be a $ 500 M global organization. 3i Infotech acquired INSYST technologies in 2001. In 2009 he was awarded the Distinguished Alumnus Award of the S.I.E.S. group of colleges by Dr Abdul Kalam, the past President of India. He has also produced a full-length feature film, Land Gold Women, that won the Indian President’s ‘ Best English Feature Film’ award. He founded TiE ( The Indus Entrepreneurs ) in Dubai in 2003 and is its Founder and President. He is the past Chairman of Pan IIT Alumni India (the apex body of the alumni of the Indian Institutes of Technology), where he championed the PanIIT Alumni's nation building initiatives across the country.