Speaker Name : Poyni Bhatt

About Speaker : A qualified legal and compliance professional- Fellow member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India, turned to technology business incubation by chance, helping entrepreneurs for over a decade. An experience of 3 decades in industry and academia. A founding team member of SINE, the technology business incubator at IIT Bombay, and has been managing the incubator since 2004. Involved in 100+ start ups incubated at SINE. Several of them have done excellently, some have failed, and most are active and running their businesses very well. SINE has got partial exits of its equity holding in nearly one third of the startups supported by it. Actively mentoring start-ups and innovators outside SINE as well. Handled several collaborative international programs for innovators and entrepreneurs, most recently with Russia and Switzerland. Prior to SINE, I have a corporate experience of over a decade in manufacturing and finance sectors, where I headed secretarial, legal and compliance functions. I had handled IPOs and fund raising, structured corporate M&A deals, and also dealt with various Indian regulators. I am a member of several Indian government committees on innovation, entrepreneurship and incubation, and also a member on the boards of several incubators in India. I also takes guest lectures on entrepreneurship.