Shubhashis Gangopadhyay

Shubhashis Gangopadhyay
Managing Trustee & Research Director
India Development Foundation

Shubhashis Gangopadhyay is Managing Trustee and Research Director of India Development Foundation. Till December 2008, he was Advisor to the Finance Minister, Government of India, and was the youngest ever Secretary in the government. He got his PhD in Economics from Cornell University, USA, in 1983, his Bachelor’s degree from Presidency College, Kolkata in 1978 and did his schooling in Calcutta Boys’ School. He joined the Indian Statistical Institute as a lecturer in 1983 and was promoted to full professor in 1991. He took over as founder-director of IDF, an independent research organization, in 2002. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, in October 2006.

Currently, he is the Chief Editor of the Journal of Emerging Market Finance (Sage Publications), and an associate editor of the Journal of Financial Stability (Elsevier). He is a member of the South Asia Chief Economist’s Advisory Council of the World Bank. He is also the founder-President of the Society for the Promotion of Game Theory and its Applications. He has published widely in international journals, and has a number of books, in economics and finance.

He has served on the Board of the Industrial Reconstruction Bank of India (IRBI) and as a member of the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) Advisory Group on Bankruptcy Law. He has been a consultant to the Ministries of Finance, Planning, Industry, Rural Development, etc. He has led important government research projects like the leading indicator of economic activity, the impact of steel de-control on SAIL and the use of the Hajira-Bijapur-Jagdishpur gas pipe-line. As a member of the PSFT Task Force on the plantation sector, he has developed a new financial instrument for reducing the impact of price volatility on plantation growers.

He has worked closely with industry both in India and abroad. He has lectured widely to foreign industry delegations coming to India, attended their world meets as a resource person and has held closed-door, one-on-one discussions with their management teams.

He has a rich experience of advising students at the PhD level and has a number of students both in India and abroad.


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Promod Haque
Managing Partner
Norwest Venture Partners

Promod has 19 years of experience in the venture capital industry and currently serves as managing partner at Norwest Venture Partners. He has been ranked as a top dealmaker on the annual Forbes Midas List for the past nine years, and in 2004, Forbes named him as the #1 venture capitalist based on performance over the last decade. In 2006, Promod was presented with a Global Leadership award from NASSCOM.

Promod focuses on investments in semiconductor and components, systems, software and services. He was an early investor and a board member of Cerent (acquired by Cisco), Siara Systems (acquired by Redback Networks), OnDisplay (acquired by Vignette), Winphoria Networks (acquired by Motorola) and Extreme Networks (Nasdaq: EXTR).

Prior to Norwest Venture Partners, Promod spent 18 years in various operational roles ranging from product development, marketing, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Executive Officer at various public and private companies - Siemens International, Thorn EMI, Emergent Technologies and Dimensional Medicine, Inc.

He received a bachelor of science in electrical engineering from the University of Delhi, India. He holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Northwestern University and an MBA from Northwestern's Kellogg Graduate School of Management, where he serves on the advisory board.

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