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StartupWind’s mission is to empower startup and SMB entrepreneurs by democratizing the entrepreneurial know-how that is typically available only to the elite start-ups, and make it available to main street entrepreneurs and help them avoid costly mistakes that result into business closures.

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Our Team

Naren Patil

Naren Patil

Founder & CEO,

25 years in General Management, Marketing & Strategy, MBA from Kellogg/Northwestern

Uday Dhanikonda

Uday Dhanikonda

Co-Founder & VP of Engineering

20+ years in Software Development, University of Madras

sandhya

Sandhya Patil

SVP AI & Software Engineering

vishal

Vishal Wankhede

Co-Founder, Sr. Director Engineering

sarbani

Sarbani Chakraberty

Associate Director, Marketing & Customer Success

Board of Advisors

Mohanbir Sawhney

Prof. Mohan Sawhney

Board : Reliance JIO

Associate Dean, Digital Education Kellogg Northwestern

Sonali Sambhus

Sonali Sambhus

Member Board of Directors, AvidXchange,

Inc (NASDAQ: AVDX), Advisor, Illuminate Ventures,

Former Head of AI & Machine Learning Platform, Square

Mark

Mark Moeremans

Managing Director and Co-founder of The Journey Venture Studio

Ido Sarig

Ido Sarig

VP Marketing, Intel

VP Marketing Mercury Interactive

Aakash

Aakash Patil

Post-Doctoral Research, Stanford University, Deep Learning, Predictive Modeling, Complex System

Ned Staebler

Ned Staebler

CEO TechTown

Michigan Econ Dev

Sanjit Singh

Sanjit Singh Dang

Chairman of U First Capital, former Investment Diretor, Intel Capital

IPO: PLTR, DOCU, PINS

Robert Wolcott

Prof. Rob Wolcott

Chairman, World Innovation Network Northwestern Kellogg Chicago Booth

Karen Steele

Karen Steele

Chief Marketing Officer at LeanData, Inc, Former GVP Corporate Marketing Marketo, Founder & Advisor Alloy

Elizabeth Xu

Dr. Elizabeth Xu

Former CTO, BMC

Board: Remark Holding

Suraj Madnani

Suraj Madnani

VP, American Express, Product Strategy Expert

Mahesh Rajshekharan

Mahesh Rajshekharan

Partner Global Private Equity & CEO Cleo Software

Craig Cook

Craig Cook

Director of Strategic Partnership, Google

Lax Sakalkale

Lax Sakalkale

SVP Product Strategy,

25+ years of product strategy & marketing,

MBA, Santa Clara University

Madhukar Govindraju

Madhukar Govindraju

CEO Numly, Former VP of Engineering TriNet

Stephanie

Stephanie Sims

Founder of Finance-Ability

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