Ajay Batra is an entrepreneur, mentor, angel investor, and an active contributor to the innovation and startup ecosystems. He has been recognized for his ground-breaking work in Design Thinking and Startup Incubation. Currently he is an Executive Vice President at Wadhwani Foundation, leading the global Wadhwani Venture Fastrack program. He is the Founding Director of Centre for Innovation Lab Entrepreneurship at Bennett University, where he also headed Bennett Hatchery — the startup incubator. Ajay has co-founded QAI Global, International Education Exchange, and Lutyens Startups; and has consulted with stellar organizations like Accenture, IBM, Sony, Wipro, HCL and Azim Premji Foundation. He was the only Indian to be selected for IDEO’s global program on Design Thinking for Social Impact and has recently been recognized as Top 10 educators in the world by Arist, USA.