As promised, here's Ashwin's Insta page: https://www.instagram.com/ashwinsavephotography

Follow RoadBounce: https://www.instagram.com/roadbounce5
Follow Ranjeet on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ranjeetdeshmukh
Follow Aniruddha on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aniruddhapawade

Follow Ram on his Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ram_balmur

IMPORTANT LINKS:
Report Cyber Crime on National Cyber Crime Portal: https://cybercrime.gov.in
Fraudulent Communication: https://sancharsaathi.gov.in/sfc/

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About Dr. Jagat Shah
He has a PhD. in International business, is a Diamond technologist, is certified as a cluster development expert by UNIDO and is a Certified management consultant (CMC) from ICMCI, USA. He is based in Ahmedabad in India with operations inUSA and Canada. After his studies, he worked for 10 years in MNC’s like Xerox. 

In 1996 he started his for profit company, Global Network, where he and his team work as advisor to overseas governments and companies on Trade (Exports and Imports), technology transfer, Joint ventures and Investment. 

In 1997, he started an international trade training school in Ahmedabad, India - Global Network Institute (GNI), since 27 years and has conducted 214 cohorts of international business program, attended by 6100 business owners, including MNC’s, corporates & SME’s from around the world who have become established exporters. 

In 2004, he started his not-for-profit company, Cluster Pulse, where he and his team has implemented international market strategies, technology development projects, cluster development, import substitution, innovation and competitiveness related projects for World Bank, USAID, UNIDO, GIZ, DFID, GCC, ADB, IADB, The commonwealth secretariat, European Union, Nokia and Microsoft in many countries, besides India.

In 2017, Under his not for profit company, Smart village, he and his team implemented a smart village program which are adopted by Indians living in The USA. Under this program, they convert the 62 NRI ( USA ) adopted villages in 19 states of India into smart villages in 1000 days.

In 2015, he started a for profit company, Vibrant Markets, which is a global market research firm conducting primary & secondary market research for global and Indian markets. He and his team has served 600 clients in several countries.

In 2015, he launched his Mentor on road drive in India which was a popular program, self driving to 22 states of India, driving 12,000 kms, meeting small medium companies and start ups to understand their pain points of doing business and submitted a 49 one - liner policy recommendations to PMO to improve ease of doing business in India. In 2017, he launched his Mentor on road USA road drive, supported by US
Commercial Service and EDC - US department of commerce and Start up India under which, he completed self driving, 21,000 kms in USA to 35 states and 35 cities in USA over 82 days meeting 4000+ American companies, start ups, women owned businesses and Indian diaspora explaining them through presentations on “New India 4.0 and business opportunities for American companies in India”.

His most challenging assignment so far has been in Afghanistan where he worked with thousands of carpet weavers, dry fruit farmers and women entrepreneurs in handicrafts, to train and connect them to global markets. He is currently mentoring Afghan women entrepreneurs online.

He is a Speaker in several national & international Management schools. He is a Rotarian and managing trustee of two charitable trusts.

He thanks his wife Rupal Shah for constant support & encouragement in his journey and has two children, son Nisarg Shah who is into AI & data analytics and a daughter, Monisha Shah who lives & works in Canada in peace & conflict management area.

About Priyanka Gidwani
Priyanka Gidwani is a dynamic and accomplished leader with over 30 years of cross-industry experience in Hotels, Retail, and FMCG. Currently serving as the CHRO of Mahindra Holidays, with a rich background working across esteemed Tata entities including Tata Pharma, Taj Group of Hotels, Croma Retail, Tata Global Beverages, and Tata Coffee.

Priyanka is a hands-on leader with strategic outlook, growth mindset, strong People management skills and has demonstrated ability to work across multiple sectors, organizational levels and stakeholders. Her expertise spans a wide range of areas including Human Resources, Inclusion Equity & Diversity, Culture, L&OD, HR Technology, Change Management, Business Development, and Business Excellence.

With a Master's degree in Human Resource Development & Management from the prestigious Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS) in Mumbai, and an Executive Leadership Program by Michigan Ross School of Business she brings a strong academic foundation to the vast professional experience.

An example of his contributions is successful execution of the Lean Manufacturing Clusters, launched by the Ministry of MSME, Govt. of India. About 130 MSMEs were directly benefited with direct positive impact on their bottom line. Mr. Karandikar has also been a substantive contributor in building institutions like National Agriculture and Food Analysis and Research Institute (NAFARI), Auto Cluster Development & Research Institute Ltd. (ACDRIL) and MCCIA Electronic Cluster Foundation (MECF). He has done several representations to the Government in the Ease of Doing Business area and is engaged with Ministers and Senior Officers to follow up on the representations.

About Nandita Khaire
Nandita Khaire is a Brand Strategist with immense experience across industries. 

She has worked with manufacturing, services, retail, hotels, restaurants, food, wines, real estate, education, health, fitness, leisure, media, logistics, infrastructure, NGOs evaluating and addressing their branding and marketing needs. Having had experience in running an advertising agency, she is familiar with advertising and marketing communications strategy, including digital marketing. She has successfully consulted a number of SMEs in branding and marketing.

She teaches as a guest faculty on advertising, brand management, and marketing communications in some of the leading undergraduate and post-graduate schools. She has also written textbooks for distance learning on advertising and marketing communications (Marcom) and currently writing a book on marketing in the new environment.

She collaborated on a coffee table book ‘Merchants of Pune’ with Sakal Publications. The book profiled 100-year-old business families of Pune who enriched the city created employment opportunities and created something unique for the city. 

She regularly writes for ‘Sampada’ on branding for SMEs. Sampada is the monthly magazine from Mahratta Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture (MCCIA) and Rubber, the trade magazine for the Indian rubber industry.

She has served as a jury member for digital marketing awards. She is a mentor at Malhotra Weikfield Foundation, deAsra Foundation. She is an avid Iyengar yoga student and has many other interests.