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related to Business Plan Preparation; Project Appraisal J B Patel
& Entrepreneur Assessment & Enterprise Service B.Sc. (Chemistry)
Providers for Growth. He was HoD of Industrial B.Sc.(Chemical Technology)
Engineering Department in School of Technology, PDEU jbpatel@ediindia.org
as well as Dean of Faculty of Engineering & Technology,
PDEU, for five years. So, Dr. Parikh has more than 40 Over three decades of experience in the areas of
years of experiences across various domains of industry business opportunity identification, project
– finance, training, project consultancy & formulation, project appraisal, counselling and guiding
education. entrepreneurs. Conducted more than 10 international
programmes and worked as an expert in a number of
developing countries in the above-mentioned fields.
Harkesh Mittal He is also the Local Representative for the Netherlands
B.Sc. (Dairy Technology) Senior Experts Organisation.
PGDMA
hkmittal@ediindia.org
Bhasker Jani
B.E. (Electronics & Commun.)
Alumnus of National Dairy Research Institute and IIM bhasker@ediindia.org
Ahmedabad, Shri Harkesh Mittal, Former Adviser &
Head, NSTEDB, DST, Govt. of India, has been
instrumental in giving a new vibrancy to promoting A practitioner with over 39 years of experience in
innovation and entrepreneurial acumen among a wide initiating and successfully managing various industries,
section of Indian entrepreneurs ranging from grass- including manufacturing of mechanical and electro-
roots industries to high-end deep-tech enterprises for
mechanical components and sub-assemblies,
nearly four decades. He was responsible for the industrial valves, fabrication shop, foundry, etc. He is
conceptualisation and implementation of many also involved in mentoring potential and existing
innovation and entrepreneurship development entrepreneurs. He was Director and CEO of M/S. Odhav
programmes. He continues to be a key figure in the Estate Infrastructure Development Ltd., an SPV for
promotion of innovations & start-ups in India and his development and upkeeping of the Odhav estate.
services are being used by many Governments.
He is on various high-level committees of the
Shailesh Modi
Government of India. In 2017, he was awarded the
Best Mentor award by the Ministry of Skill PGDBA
Development and Entrepreneurship, Govt. of India. ssmodi@ediindia.org

Mayank Upadhyay A practising management consultant with a multi-
disciplinary work record. His experience encompasses
ACWA
work on SME sector, social entrepreneurship, energy,
mayank@ediindia.org
hospitality, tourism, textiles, transport and food
processing sectors, in addition to the development
sector. Has also worked extensively in the areas of
Specialises in the areas of finance, management business plans, market research, sectoral studies,
accounting, project planning and strategic cluster diagnosis and design & management of
management, with extensive experience in development programmes for large companies,
development banking, commercial banking, bilateral and multilateral agencies, Indian development
management consulting and NGO management. institutions, and state & central governments. He was
Involved in conceptualising and conducting of a an independent director on the Board of some private
number of national and international programmes in companies and has worked as the Planning Advisor for
corporate financial strategic planning and a large urban transport government company. Has
management, project formulation and appraisal, authored two manuals on direct help to small
microfinance and management control systems. entrepreneurs.

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