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1. 5 P : +91 98-802-20037 E : nandini@carmagroup.in Prof. Nandini Vaidyanathan www.carmagroup.in forstartups.blogspot.com

2. My passion Making every Indian an entrepreneur

3. I started my company Startups to help create magical thinkers, like Prometheus who stole fire from the fire gods

4. ___ _______ ____ ___ ___________ ___ Free Template from www.brainybetty.com 4 Mentored over 500 entrepreneurs in the last four years Domain agnostic Mentoring from concept to profit

5. Four of us started CARMa (Creating Access to Resources and Markets) to make India an Entrepreneurially Progressive Nation by making opportunity-based SME’s robust, scalable and profitable Free Template from www.brainybetty.com 5

6. ___ _______ ____ ___ ___________ ___ Free Template from www.brainybetty.com 6 Alumnus of Delhi School of Economics And London School of Economics

7. ___ _______ ____ ___ ___________ ___ Free Template from www.brainybetty.com 7 Twenty years in MNCs Working on all inhabited continents

8. Teacher and Mentor Last five years teaching Entrepreneurship in ivy league biz and engineering schools in India, US, UK and Singapore Mentor with New Ventures India, a joint venture between World Resources Institute, Washington, and Confederation of Indian Industry – Sohrabji Green Business Centre, Hyderabad, promoting clean-tech entrepreneurship. Mentor with Mentor Square, an online mentoring platform for entrepreneurs. Mentor with iaccelerator and Mentor Edge, Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship, IIMA Free Template from www.brainybetty.com 8

9. ___ _______ ____ ___ ___________ ___ Free Template from www.brainybetty.com 9 Entrepreneurship Development Centre at PES School of Engineering, Bangalore, with incubator

10. ___ _______ ____ ___ ___________ ___ Free Template from www.brainybetty.com 10 Published in reputed Indian and international journals Regular monthly column in the magazine Entrepreneur

11. Micro-enterprises Startups mentors entrepreneurs on a pro bono basis. Startups is also actively involved in helping women below the poverty line in building micro enterprises in economies as plural as India, Afghanistan, Ethiopia and other countries in the Sub-Saharan Region. Free Template from www.brainybetty.com 11

12. ___ _______ ____ ___ ___________ ___ Free Template from www.brainybetty.com 12 On the Boards of several companies Frequent Speaker at conferences Avid blogger

13. The me that friends know Greedy for crime and legal thrillers Back-to-back movies in multiplex Impromptu back-packing holidays with my daughter Admiring our lab Mocha as she admires her Cindy Crawford mole Gourmet cook, all my Libran creativity gets channelized into feeding people Sobbed my heart out watching Hatchiko ___ _______ ____ ___ ___________ ___ Free Template from www.brainybetty.com 13

14. ___ _______ ____ ___ ___________ ___ Free Template from www.brainybetty.com 14 Unfulfilled ambition To open a restaurant called concoctions Where Imagination is the only permanent ingredient