V. Sridhar

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Sridhar's core expertise lies in Innovation, Incubation and Human Capital.

Sridhar’s dynamic background has been the core-shaper in his success. He is a German citizen, ex-Singaporean PR and now a Bangalore resident, with an MBA from Cal-State and a B.E. (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering.

Sridhar has over 34 years of business experience.

  • Almost 2 decades with Siemens AG in Germany working with Micro-electro-mechanical systems R&D, running a high-tech digital printer production with 1000 workers and 32 doctorates & helping to create 3000 patents.
  • Sales in Europe and Asia Pacific for the $1 billion revenue digital printing division.
  • C-Level Management, for which he was chosen to advise the Siemens Board on Technologies.
  • In Singapore, he was the founding member of Exploit Technologies for the Agency of Science Technology and Research (A*Star) for commercializing the output from 2000 researchers to create jobs in 40 startups.
  • Additionally, he co-founded and exited from 3 high-tech ventures including Facial Recognition Biometrics, Tele-medicine Transmission (listed in ASX Australia), an d a High Frequency Trading Algorithm Company.
  • In India, Sridhar has been an advisor to a reputed Private Equity group www.aarincapital.com (please see website for list of advisors). He was also hand-on as co-founder mentor at www.bhiveworkspace.com (please see About Us section) with 75 start-ups.
  • He has mentored human capital in large companies, startups and educational institutions on a regular basis to re-program their belief system into a successful and positive one. An example includes addressing over 500 people at IIMA “Youth 2 Business” forum and guiding 200 at Cisco.

Sridhar also has strong competencies in imaging, data compression, transmission, indexing and security.

His start-ups have won the Prime Minister’s Office Innovation award in Singapore, Frost & Sullivan Healthcare Innovation award and also the World Technology Network award. Sridhar has worked with top quality boards, has been trained by Guy Kawasaki, Lita Nelsen of MIT TTO and by professors of the reputed Max Planck Institute.

Sridhar was also fortunate to have been groomed by his German billionaire CEO for a decade i n Germany, has been granted funds by one in the US, had been a n advisor to one in India and has also worked with Nobel laureates. He has also taken an extensive Wall Street training and travelled over 60 countries.

Sridhar is not a financial investor and believes that various shareholders cover various capital (intellectual, human, relationship, social and financial) needs in creating value. He has learnt a lot of valuable lessons from the incubator and from his mentors such as Prof. Ramesh Jain, who shared a company with late Prof. C.K. Prahalad.

Creativity, passion, tenacity, learning from failures, customer centricity, nurturing human capital and humility Sridhar believes are keys to real successful companies with profits and free-cash flows.

Sridhar believes in the body-mind-soul equation and has over the last 3 decades, rarely missed his daily hour of meditation. His philosophy revolves around the importance of expanding consciousness to drive personal and professional success, and strongly believes that a soccer-ball sized consciousness leads to a soccer-ball sized understanding of business, awareness and wakefulness!

“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill