Vijay is a serial entrepreneur, the key visionary behind Proto.in, who has had prior experience in bootstrapping companies and building them into successful businesses in Canada. As one who is passionate about technology and its progress, Vijay strongly believes that it is the right mix of Technology, Business models , execution and timing that great companies are made of. As a revolutionary in heart (as is every entrepreneur), He seeks to change the global perception to India being much more than just an outsourcing destination.

Vijay Anand currently works with TeNeT in the Indian Institute of Technology in overseeing Technology Developments as an Architect, as a business mentor in bootstrapping companies and also in the strategic positioning of established companies.

He blogs quite sporadically at www.vijayanand.name

Email: vijay@proto.in

Ravi with a technology background is rooted to business and manages our partner alliances. Ravi considers bold and scalable innovations as the key to unlock India's potential in the global economy and believes proto to be the catalyst of this vision. He is passionate about business development. Ravi is an avid tracker of International markets and is currently working at an investment bank.

He blogs at www.raviinaction.blogspot.com

Email:ravi@proto.in

Siddharta, a software developer and entrepreneur from Chennai, India. His primary interest is in improving the way software is delivered. He takes great interest in agile software development methodologies. He is also interested in the social aspects of software development and how it relates to the technical aspects. He is also passionate about computer science, technology and startups. He runs his own company, Silver Stripe Software Pvt. Ltd and has written a product for managing distributed agile software development. He is also a regular blogger and maintains a technical blog at http://www.silverstripesoftware.com/blog/ and a semi-technical blog at http://siddhi.blogspot.com/

Email: sid@proto.in

Kausikram is the E-Cell head of his College. Entrepreneurship is his only passion. He has been part of the team and is the current Website Administrator for Proto. He has been with The Knowledge Foundation from its inception and has helped organize various events.

He blogs at www.chaosbudha.blogspot.com can be reached for help at +91 9884246490.

Email: kausikram@proto.in

Jagadishkumar is better known as Jaggy to everyone. Jaggy has a technology background and a lot of interest in business and management. "Everything can be done in better way than how it is being done", these words of Henry Ford is a source of inspiration for him. He firmly believes that technology is to make things simple and more effective. He wants to use technology for the betterment of masses. He is taking part in the Hospitality team.

Jaggy rants at http://www.jaggyscorner.com/ and can be reached at +91 9884381760

Email: jagadish@proto.in

Ramanujam is an aspiring entrepreneur and is passionate about technology, blogging and web 2.0. Currently in his final year of Computer Science Engineering he wishes to pursue a career in the challenging startup arena. He has been with the Knowledge Foundation since its inception and has actively organized many events under its banner. His past time hobbies include scouting and camping in the woods. Books and movies give him company during free time. He is a part of the Hospitality team for the current edition of Proto.in. He blogs at www.ramanujam.net and can be reached at +91-9884176227.

Email: ramanujam@proto.in

Amit Ranjan (www.amitranjan.com) is a techie turned marketer turned entrepreneur. He is a co-founder and COO of SlideShare (www.slideshare.net), the global website for sharing presentations & slideshows on the web. He heads the Delhi office of Uzanto (www.uzanto.com), the startup behind SlideShare. Amit played a key role in kickstarting BarCamps in India. He tracks emerging trends in the Indian internet/web 2.0 space and writes Webyantra (www.webyantra.net), one of India's most widely read blogs about that space. In a previous professional avataar, Amit was into marketing/sales, having worked for Pepsico, Asian Paints & Godrej before taking the entrepreneurial plunge.

Email: amit@proto.in

Rajiv Dingra was an entrepreneur right out of college who was trying to solve a problem faced by his peers i.e. finding their first job. It led him to start Jobs4freshers.com (www.jobs4freshers.com) which today is one of the promising web startups in India. Along with Jobs4Freshers his love for technology and internet trends led him to create WATBlog.com (www.watblog.com) which soon gained popularity to become one of the best Technology Blogs in India. As fate would have it WATBlog led to the creation of a highly successful web 2.0 strategy consulting arm WATConsult(www.watconsult.com) which services clients like rediff.com and others. Rajiv believes in the power of longetivity and his motto in life is to create companies that outlive his existence. With this goal in mind at a young age of 22 Rajiv successfully manages 2 companies and a highly succesfull blog. Its this passion for technology and entrepreneurship that binds him to an event like Proto.

Email: rajiv@proto.in

Rajesh Segu with roots in technology manges the communication team of Proto. He is presenlty a part of a US based startup Zimbra spreading its roots in India. He strongly believes that he belongs to a new age India full of innovation and entrepreneurship. As a founder member of The Knowledge Foundation he is very passionate about tecno-entrepreneural events and has been a part of many unconferences.

Email: rajesh@proto.in

Syed is an entrepruneur and associated with Fuente System Inc as EVP - Value Creation and founder of Mecosoft Systems Pvt Ltd has been a part of PROTO since its inception. As one of the Cofounders of TKF, he heads the Finances of The Knowledge Foundation and PROTO. He believes in the movement and the organization of TKF as a vehicle that help Entrepreneurs at these vibrant times to gain a global platform for their skills. He brings his project management global experiences into each event . He has always reiterated that PROTO should set Global PMI standards and thus bench mark itself in the Indian Environment.

You can find him blogging for youth at Work place life.in and his thoughts and ramblings on his personal blog at Serving my time at Earth.

He takes care of Blogger Interaction and Communication for most of the TKF events. He is a passionate and serious investor in the Sensex and Nifty.

Email: syed@proto.in

R.L.Narayanan is a "capital socialist" and a technologist keen in in the areas of Web 2.0, Social Media, Mobile 2.0 and next generation internet services. He is presently the Founder & CEO for 360 Degree Interactive, a product development company based out of Chennai. He is instrumental in building TracBac, a visual collaboration application. He is a regular blogger who blogs both in English and Tamil and have given interviews, spoke at seminars, wrote articles about entrepreneurship, online advertising, semantic web, Web 2.0 and social technologies. In his leisure time, he writes for tamil magazines, and keen foodie to try out new restaurents in Chennai.

Email: narain@proto.in

Sudhir Syal's first interaction with Proto.in was as a journalist covering the event for the Economic Times. So captivated was he by the potential of the event and the energy and enthusiasm of the participants, that for the second edition he will be a part of the organization team. He brings with himself a wide array of experience from the financial and media sectors and currently works with a leading internet portal while freelancing for the Hindu.

Sudhir will be the media co-ordinator for the event.

Email: sudhir@proto.in

Vignesh is currently working as a software developer in a product based company in chennai. He is passionate about technology and startups. He strongly believes India can be very well represented in the IT segment just more than an outsourcing destiniation and the initiatives like Proto will help in making the change. He is one among the founder members of The Knowledge Foundation and actively coordinated all the events organised by the group including Proto first edition. For Proto SE, he is taking part in the Communication team.

Vicky blogs at www.vicky.in

E-Mail : vignesh@proto.in

Aswin Anand is a technology and mobile enthusiast, who has been a part of The Knowledge Foundation since its inception. He has helped organise various events including BarCampChennai, BlogCamp, Wikicamp, Mobile Monday Chennai and Proto.in. He is an upcoming entrepreneur himself and believes that events like Proto.in is a healthy step towards empowering entrepreneurs whilst contributing to the growth of the nation.

Aswin blogs at http://blog.aswinanand.com/

Email: aswin@proto.in

Mohammed Moyeen is working Currently as Associate Consultant in HCL Technologies.He is Passionate about new technologies and gadgets. He has been involved with The Knowledge Foundation from the BarCamp chennai days. He Believes that Proto.in will bring a change in startups focus on the Web World.

Moyeen is a well versed programmer and is responsible for handling the technology that supports the organization of Proto, as a team.

Moyeen blogs at http://blog.moyeen.net and can be contact at +91 9884996694

Email: procoder.net@gmail.com

Kiruba Shankar is a tech aficianado and recently dabbled in entrepreneurship. He helped cofound F5ive Technologies. Prior to this, he was Associate Director at Sulekha. Kiruba is one of the founders of The Knowledge Foundation, the group behind successful events like BarCampChennai, BlogCamp, Proto.in, WikiCamp & Mobile Mondays.. Kiruba loves teaching and teaches at Anna University, Madras Ad Club and Asian College of Journalism. He is a professional podcaster and hosts a show called 'The Kiruba Show' where he interviews CEOs of Indian IT companies. He blogs his daily thoughts at www.Kiruba.com

Email: Kiruba@proto.in

Ashish is an IIT/IIM graduate and works as Product Manager with an Internet giant. He is passionate about technology, products and has a vision of *productizing* India - i.e. building successful global Internet products from India.

He is the official blogger and podcaster for Proto SE, and writes regularly at www.pluGGd.in

Email : ashish@proto.in

A maths graduate with 15 years experience in the advertising industry handling varied clients in technology, heavy engineering, hospitality verticals. Passion - Technology, Music, Theater. Had been an executive committee member of various cultural, entertainment, event management organisations, who started his professional career as a exhibition stall fabricator, then ventured into pharmaceutical retailing, FMCG distribution and then landed in an advertising agency with the event management experience. Always having wanted to do something different, he was involved in the organization of "out of the box" direct marketing activities for technology companies like Intel, BHEL etc. He has gained hands-on experience in resource and time management over a period of 15 years.

He is currently involved with 360 degrees interactive, a company that works in the Web arena.

Yessel actively contributes to the Proto team in bringing valuable feedback and directions for the overall media campaign.

Email: Yessel@proto.in

Jayadev Ramdas is passionate about Entrepreneurship and Business. He took the videos of all the startups during the first Proto.in. Being a part of The Knowledge Foundation since then, he has helped organize various events including Wikicamp and Podworks.in.

Jayadev is currently working with Servion Global Solutions Ltd, Chennai and can be contacted at +91 9940017074

Email: jay@proto.in