The INDUStry Show

Deepa Prahalad is an author, activist, consultant, entrepreneur, and speaker. Deepa's work has been published by Bloomberg, Businessweek, Harvard Business Review, and Huffington Post among others. Deepa has conducted workshops at Harvard Business School and her book 'Predictable Magic' was rated one of the best design books of the year.

Shankar Ram is the founder & chairman of Netwin Solutions/ GTKonnect, Inc, and the CEO of Continental Foods-a specialty food manufacturing and distribution company. Shankar has founded, mentored, and exited several successful startups in various industries. Shankar currently presides on the boards of non-profit organizations, and multi-million-dollar tech companies, a digital marketing company...

Mohnish Pabrai is the dynamic founder, CEO, and Managing Partner of Pabrai Investment Funds - overseeing assets with an intrinsic value of over $500mn. Mohnish counts Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger amongst his friends and mentors, and has beaten market returns by over 1000% since the year 2000. A Harvard Business School alum, Mohnish is also the author of best-sellers: The Dhandho Investor, and...

Vandana Tilak is a multi-faceted, multi-talented social entrepreneur - a movie producer, an Ayurveda practitioner, a trained classical singer, partner at Almex USA - the list goes on. Most importantly, Vandana is the Director and Advisory Board member of Akshaya Patra USA, along with Deepak Chopra, N. Narayana Murthy, and Fareed Zakaria. Vandana is overseeing the development of 30 new Akshaya Patr...

Manu Shah is the co-founder of M S International. MSI is the world's leading supplier of natural stones. Manu was awarded the prestigious Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2007.

Ravi Patel, an entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist, filmmaker, actor - has become a steadily rising entertainment commodity since heading west a decade ago while building equity as someone who knows his way around a Wall Street business plan as well as a Hollywood soundstage. He currently serves as co-CEO of fast-growing snack/social enterprise company, he is star and co-director of MEET THE PA...

Sramana Mitra is the founder of One Million by One Million (IM/IM), the world's first and only global virtual incubator/accelerator with a goal to help a million entrepreneurs globally to reach a million dollars in annual revenue, building a $1 trillion in global GDP and creating 10 million jobs. Sramana founded three companies: Dais (off-shore software services), Intarka (sales Lead generation an...

If you've watched any entertainment at all in the Last decade, you've seen the actor named Rizwan Manji. He played the lead role Of Rajiv on NBC's groundbreaking comedy, Outsourced. He has appeared on the big screen in everything from The Wolf of Wall Street to Transformers and on the small screen in 24, Better Off Ted, Workaholics, and, of course, a Geico ad.

Don Ganguly is the CEO of Home Union and an 11T-Kharagpur and Wharton Business School alumnus. Home Union uses data-driven proprietary analytics to incorporate over 120M homes and 200,000 neighborhoods into their database serving 17 locations across US. Home Union has closed more than $50 Million in transactions and raised $23 Million to date. Ganguly has recently appeared all over the media, from...

Reshma Shetty is a British-American television and film actress and singer best known for her role as Divya Katdare on USA's Royal pains. Shetty played the lead role in A.R. Rahman's/Andrew Lloyd Webbers' first tour of Bombay Dreams. She has made multiple TV appearances, from 30 Rock to CSI: Miami, from Showtime's Happyish to Bravos Odd Mom Out. Shetty is one of the faces of Cindy Crawfords "Meani...

Hasan Minhaj is a comedian, actor, and writer in New York. He is a correspondent on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. His critically-acclaimed one-man show, Homecoming King, recently returned Off-Broadway after a sold-out run in 2015. A 2014 'Just for Laughs New Face', he hosted the documentary special, Stand Up Planet, produced by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He has been featured in coun...

Payal Kadakia is the CEO and Co-Founder of ClassPass, a monthly membership program that provides people of all fitness levels unlimited access to the best boutique fitness classes and gyms across the US and internationally. Since its launch in 2013, ClassPass has facilitated over 15 million reservations across 8,000 studios in 59 cities globally. Payal is also the Founder and Artistic Director of...

Melanie Chandra is an actress and co-founder of the non-profit Hospital for Hope, India. Melanie is starring in CBS's new medical drama CODE BLACK as "Malaya Pineda". She has appeared in THE BRINK, RULES OF ENGAGEMENT, PARENTHOOD, and NCIS LA. Melanie holds a 2nd-degree black belt in Shotokan Karate.