Key Speakers || 18th International Entrepreneurship Conference

Jungkwon Ahn

Jungkwon Ahn is Chief Sustainability Officer in Noul. He has worked as an independent social auditor or sustainability officer for more than 10 years in various organisations

Sergio ARZENI

President, INSME a Rome-based International Network for SMEs promoted by the OECD and the Italian Ministry of Economic Development;

Shamsul Bari

Dr Shamsul Bari is the Founder-Chairman of Research Initiatives, Bangladesh (RIB), an NGO established in 2002

Heitor Benfeito

Heitor has more than 15 years’ experience as a VC executive, having been responsible for deal flow for Portugal Ventures for more than 6 years and for all the fund’s international activities in the USA...

Su-Hyun BERG

Su-Hyun Berg is an independent business consultant based in Germany. She is an export specialist to the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA),

Ananya Bhattacharya

Ananya Bhattacharya is an electrical engineer from Jadavpur University and a Commonwealth Scholar

Shahida Cassim

Shahida Cassim has officially retired from her full-time position at the GSB&L at UKZN.

Joe Fernandes

After a successful career as a consultant, setting up new businesses and angel investing, Joe is now fully committed to scaling social impact.

Uma Ganesh

Uma Ganesh has three decades of success in corporate and entrepreneurial ventures covering manufacturing, media, banking and IT sectors.

Raj Gilda

Raj Gilda is a banker turned social entrepreneur.

Vijaya Gupta

Dr Vijaya Gupta is Professor of Economics at the National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Mumbai.

Aki Harima

Aki Harima is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Chair of Small Business & Entrepreneurship of the University of Bremen.

Sibylle Heilbrunn

Prof. Dr. Sibylle Heilbrunn is Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at the Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee

Thorsten Jahnke

Since 2005 Thorsten Jahnke is CEO of iq consult GmbH, an agency working on social innovation and also Co-founder of Social Impact gGmbH in 2010.

Holden Kim

Holden Kim graduated from Boston College with a degree in English Literature and studied Public Health at Seoul National University soon after being discharged from active duty

Abhit Kumar

Co-Founder, Social Hardware International Pvt. Ltd.

Jacob Kwangbin Oh

Jacob Kwangbin Oh is the co-founder and COO of MUNE, Korean medical equipment manufacturing startup that has dedicated itself to make better

Pawan Mehrotra

Founder and Managing Director
Aarna Biomedical Products – A Social Enterprise
www.aarnabiomed.in

Ganesh Natarajan

Ganesh Natarajan is Executive Chairman and Founder of 5F World, a platform for Digital Start-ups, Skills and Social Ventures in the country.

Peng Wu (Patrick)

Patrick Wu is founder and Managing Director of Winnova Enterprise Ltd, a global business development consultancy based in the UK and in China.

Sarika Pruthi

Sarika Pruthi is Associate Professor at the School of Global Innovation and Leadership, at the Lucas College & Graduate School of Business,

Pushkar

Director & Chief Executive, International Centre Goa (ICG), since December 2016

Nirmala Rao

Professor Nirmala Rao is Vice-Chancellor of the Asian University for Women (AUW), Chittagong, Bangladesh.

Sourav Ray

Sourav Ray is Professor and Chair of Marketing at the DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University in Canada.

Suresh Reddy

Suresh Reddy is the CEO and Chairman of LYCOS. Mr Reddy is an Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur graduate and pursued his MS from Iowa State University.

Chang Rok Yun

Chang Rok Yun is Director of Global Development in Noul. Before joining Noul, he had worked in Sae-A trading as Global Compliance Analyst

Subrato Saha

Subrato holds a Chemical Engineering Degree from IIT Kharagpur (1989 Batch).

Madhav Sathe

Madhav Sathe.

Dr Madhav Sathe is an Anaesthesiologist by profession. Works as consultant in the prestigious Bombay Hospital and medical research center.

Simon Taylor

Dr Simon is Project Leader for the Local Economic Development unit at the Graduate School of Business and Leadership, UKZN

Anita Umoh

Anita is the co-founder of Ayzer Center for Entrepreneurship, a non-profit organization located in Lagos Nigeria.

Maharshi Vaishnav

Maharshi Vaishnav is Educate Girls’ Chief of Staff. In his current role, he assists the Founder-CEO to deliver her strategic vision.

Kazuko YOKOYAMA.

Kazuko Yokoyama is Dean and Professor of the Graduate School of Business Administration, Toyo Gakuen University in Tokyo, Japan.

Key Speakers and Panelists