Board of Governors, IEEE Technology & Engineering Management Society
India Region Lead, IEEE Entrepreneurship
Regional Director, Founder Institute
Chintan has total 24 years of intrapreneurship experience in the Technology & startup ecosystems.
Chintan is an alumnus of IIT Mumbai, UC Berkeley, and Oxford University. In 2022, he also completed the Innovation and Technology Commercialization Professional Certification from Georgia Tech. In 2022, NASDAQ recognised Chintan as Top Mentor for their startup programs.
He spent an equal amount of time in his career with Reliance and Tata Group, deploying strategic telecom projects on a national and international scale.
At present, Chintan is the local leader of Founder Institute in Mumbai and, as Regional Director, helps the Founder Institute expand in India. Chintan collaborates with entrepreneurs, helping them with go-to-market strategies and scaling up the technology. He has worked with 102+ cohorts across six continents and has mentored over 320 plus entrepreneurs as they launch and scale their businesses.
Chintan’s articles and blogs have been published by various journals and magazines. He has authored three books under National Agricultural Higher Education Project, a World Bank initiative. His fourth book “Ram Aayenge” has been released on Amazon Kindle.
Chintan is an active volunteer at PMI, IEEE, TEMS, Bombay Management Association, Emerging Technologies Forum, Indian Merchants Chamber and Rotary International.
Chintan is on the advisory boards of various startups and academic institutions. He has been an angel investor in three startups. He is part of the investment committee for various venture capital funds, collaborates with investment syndicates and angel investors.
This year, Chintan is the India Region Lead for IEEE Entrepreneurship. Various virtual events for entrepreneurs are being conducted. He also serves as Entrepreneurship Liaison at the Board of Governors at IEEE Technology Engineering Management Society.
Chintan is Member of Council for Alliance Taskforce at Startup20. Startup20 is newly formed engagement group within G20 under India’s presidency in 2023.
In 2023, Chintan became co-founding member at the Quantum Information Technology workgroup established under the umbrella of IEEE Future Networks. It is a trans disciplinary workgroup aiming to define the vision for quantum information technology for next 10 years. Chintan has also delivered workshop themed on Entrepreneurship at the IEEE Quantum Week in 2022 and 2023. He also has standing invite to conduct the same in 2024.
In July 2023, Chintan delivered a talk on “Leadership imperatives for Transformation in Business and Social Practices for a Sustainable Future” at the Sustainable Business and Climate Change Summit organised by the Consulate General of the United Aram Emirates in Mumbai. This was a side event as part of COP28 being held in presidency of the UAE in 2023.
Recently, Chintan was invited to the BRICS Innovation Forum, which was held in Moscow on August 27-29, 2023. The forum is an emerging global platform to discuss the future of cities as technology hubs. The theme of this year’s forum is Cloud City: how digital technologies help communities, governments and companies successfully address modern challenges, create sustainable urban environments, and deliver a new quality of life. Chintan attended three panel discussions and had opportunity to network with global leaders from BRICS member countries.