Sidharth Balakrishna has over 20 years' experience in senior management roles; holds an MBA from IIM Calcutta and an Economics degree from SRCC. 

His experience includes the media & entertainment, artificial intelligence, energy, renewables and education sectors; has been an Executive Board Director and Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer at one of India's largest conglomerates; been employed with Royal Dutch Shell, Cairn India (Vedanta) in Corporate Strategy roles and Management Consultants such as KPMG & Accenture.

Has authored academic 6 books, published by Pearson and SAGE; writes a column for the Economic Times, the Hindu-Business Line. 

 He mentors startups in US, Israel, India; is an Adjunct Faculty at a number of top management institutes including IIM Indore, IIM Shillong, IIM Nagpur, BITS Pilani, SRCC etc; has presented papers in 12+ countries. He has also delivered over 250 training sessions for corporate executives