Mahesh Ramachandran
Mahesh Ramachandran is a successful Serial and Social Entrepreneur turned investor. He is an angel investor, mentor, independent director supporting innovative startups and helps build the ecosystem.
He is the founder of Tech Innovations, an investment platform that provides liquidity to Founders and Investors alike. He is a distinguished Sloan Fellow of London Business School.
Mahesh is Leadership Council and Programme Management Group member of FinBlue - FinTech Centre of Excellence set up by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India at STPI, Chennai.
He is General Partner of Pontaq Cross Border Innovation Fund based in the UK (Regulated by FCA) and India (Regulated by SEBI).
He chairs TiE FinTech Special Interest Group and was on the Governing Council of TiE Chennai. He is the founder of Commonwealth Inclusive Growth Services Ltd which operates in over 30,000 locations across 20+ states in India. It handles over 10,000 crores of government to citizen benefits every year servicing over 6 million rural customers.
He is the founder and chief mentor of Trusted Donations which connects CSR and donors to verified NGOs.
Mahesh is also a visiting faculty of Indian School of Business, Krea University and National Police Academy where he teaches FinTech, digital transformation, and entrepreneurship. He holds an MBA from the University of Westminster, Sloan Masters in Leadership & Strategy (Distinguished Sloan Fellow of London Business School) from the University of London.
Mahesh heads the London Business School Alumni Club in Chennai. He is part of Stanford SEED Transformation programme and acts as Mentor in Stanford Spark initiative.
Mahesh Ramachandran brings with him several decades of rich & varied experience in the field of Entrepreneurship, Investing, FinTech, Rural Marketing, Digital Transformation, Leadership, Mentoring & Governance. His entrepreneurial ventures include peer to peer foreign exchange portal, targeted advertisement and digital payment solution and financial inclusion. His areas of interest include Machine Learning, Game Theory, and Systems Thinking.