Yatish Rajawat is an entrepreneur working at the intersection of design, policy, and business, with a track record spanning newspapers, digital media companies, and think tanks. As founder and CEO of CIPP, he leads a think-and-do tank that collaborates with union and state governments on livelihoods, job creation, agriculture, and cultural policy — with a particular focus on building cultural assets as an engine for employment and economic growth. He is also Founding Partner of the Hundred Million Jobs Mission, a national initiative co-launched in October 2025 with the ambition of catalysing 100 million sustainable jobs in India over the next decade.
Arun Singh brings close to two decades of experience in the institutional equity markets, having witnessed firsthand the evolution of the Indian economy and capital markets since the mid-1990s.
He relocated to Bengaluru in 2012 to actively participate in the emerging startup ecosystem during its formative years. Since then, he has co-founded and funded early-stage ventures, while also advising growth and late-stage startups on value creation strategies and IPO readiness.
In addition to his work in finance and entrepreneurship, Arun has contributed to the social sector as a Director of an NGO focused on blood transfusion services.
He holds a degree in Chemical Engineering and a Master’s degree in Finance from the University of Mumbai.
Dr Gayathri Sampath is a scholar, consultant, and ICF-certified leadership coach with three decades of experience spanning management consulting, entrepreneurship, and academia. She began her career at firms including Deloitte and Avalon Consulting, working across strategy, market entry, and business model evaluation for clients in India and globally, before pursuing a PhD to examine the strategic and institutional questions she had encountered in practice. Her doctoral research on strategic agility directly informs her current work on governance reform and public sector effectiveness, while her active research programme covers gender in entrepreneurship, diversity and inclusion, and the digital economy. She has held faculty and leadership positions at NMIMS, Krea University, and K J Somaiya Institute of Management, where she has taught MBA and executive programmes, chaired departments, and supervised doctoral researchers. Alongside her academic work, she has logged over 1,500 coaching hours with senior and mid-level leaders.
Dr. Ganesh Natarajan is a renowned technology futurist, business builder, and entrepreneurship mentor with decades of experience creating corporate success at prominent IT companies APTECH and Zensar. He brings to CIPP extensive expertise in business leadership, implementation, and policy insights from his work with social enterprises and start-ups.
Gopalan Ramachandran is a financial and digital systems designer. He provides data-driven solutions, structures and strategies to the financial sector, enterprises, companies and governments. He was a member of India’s SEBI Economists Forum, a World Bank consultant and a member of the Government of India’s steering committees on disinvestment, financial and commodity derivatives, clearing houses and warehouses between 1992 and 2004. He has taught at IFMR (1989-1991) and at Goldman Sachs (2007-2016). He was an op-ed writer for The Hindu Business Line between 1994 and 2013.
OP Singh is a 1992-batch IPS officer and Director General of Police, Haryana, with over three decades of experience across senior command and advisory roles in the state. A proponent of technology-driven, community-centred policing, he has been recognised with both the Police Medal for Meritorious Service and the President’s Police Medal for Distinguished Service. Beyond the force, he is an author and podcaster whose work spans crowd behaviour, social change, and drug abuse prevention, and the creator of the Play for India sports campaign, which mobilised thousands of young people across Haryana.
