Jury CII Industry-Academia Partnership Awards 2025
The Grand Jury
Mr Vipin Sondhi
Chairman – CII Industry Academia Partnership Awards 2025
Independent Director & Chairman National Board For Quality Promotion
Former, MD & CEO Ashok Leyland & JCB India.
Prof Rajendra Srivastava
Novartis Professor of
Marketing Strategy and
Innovation, ISB
Prof Y S Rajan
Chairman, Board of Governing
Council, National Institute of
Technology, Manipur
Mr Rohit Bansal
Group head of corporate
communications at RIL.
Mentor at JioGenNext.
Mr James Tan
Managing Partner
Quest Ventures
Ms Gitta Perez
Director, Middle East & India
(Region Head)
Business Finland
Dr Geetha Manjunath
CEO & Founder - Niramai.
Mr. Raghupati Mishra
President & Country CFO,
LIBERTY Steel Group India
Award-Winning CFO
| Strategic Finance & M&A Leader | Corporate Governance
Mr. K Ananth Krishnan
Former Chief Technology Officer,
Tata Consultancy Services
Fellow, Indian National Academy of Engineering
Distinguished Alumnus, IIT Delhi
Independent Director | Technology & Innovation Advisor
Professor P. V. Madhusudhan Rao
Professor, Department of Design & Department of Mechanical Engineering
Head,
ICMR National Center of Assistive Health Technology
Coordinator, Design Innovation Centre (DIC)
Co-founder, Assistech Lab
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi
Mr Ninad Karpe
Founder & Partner
100X.VC
Mr Ajit Pai
Strategy Lead Partner at
EY GPS.