Poyni Bhatt is a qualified legal and compliance professional, turned to technology business incubation by chance, helping entrepreneurs for over a decade. She has an experience of 3 decades in industry and academia. She is a founding team member of SINE, the technology business incubator at IIT Bombay, and has been managing the incubator since 2004. She has been involved in 140+ start ups incubated at SINE. At SINE she has handled several collaborative international programs for innovators and entrepreneurs, most recently with Taiwan and Switzerland and European Union.