Dr Ganesh Natarajan is the Founder of 5F World, a platform dedicated to investment and mentoring of start-ups, skills platforms and social enterprises. He is also Chairman of Honeywell Automation India Ltd. Skills Alpha, Pune City Connect and the Lighthouse Communities Foundation and Co-Founder of Global Talent Track, Kalzoom Advisors and Center for AI and Advanced Analytics. He is a distinguished alumnus award winner of IIT Bombay and NITIE. Ganesh led two corporate success stories with distinction, APTECH from 1991 to 2001 and Zensar from 2001 to 2016. Zensar in the last five years had a CAGR market value growth of 44 % annually, a record in the industry. He is an Independent Director on the Boards of State Bank of India, Principal Asset Management, Hinduja Global Services, LHI Digital, Educate Girls, 1 Crowd and the Asian Venture Philanthropy Network. Ganesh is a member of the Chairmen's Council of NASSCOM and the National Council of the All India Management Association. He has been Chairman of NASSCOM and NASSCOM Foundation, President of HBS Club of India and served multiple terms on the National Council of CII.