Naman Galhotra

MBA

Business Administration

Economics

INVEST INDIA, INVESTMENT PROMOTION AGENCY OF INDIA

Manager, Senior Innovation Specialist

- New Delhi, India - Founding member of AGNIi-national tech commercialization program for 4.8K scientists, 300 research labs, and 35K startups - Manager, Senior Innovation Specialist (promoted from Assistant Manager, Innovation Specialist in 2020 - 2019-2020 - Business and Social Impact: Post COVID-19 - Initiated business continuity programs including monetary and operational assistance for 730+startups with five tech giants - De-risked development of 23 tech (30% of database) to fight COVID-19 through 32 partners in areas of regulation, testing - Spearheaded national level discovery and government procurement of preventive, diagnostics, treatment, recuperative - 38 procurement successes - Business and Social Impact: Pre COVID-19 - Led commercialization facilitation in 5 sectors-highest in the team, covering 34% of 7200+ tech database - Individually achieved - 90% Year 1 program targets for market access, tech transfer policy simplification, and open - Generated - $0.8M revenue/ funding for 35+ startups - Leadership and Mentoring - Indirectly supervised two associates and an intern - Mentored nine team members - Chosen to represent Indian innovation ecosystem at 8 national and international conferences - Among the top 5% performers