MENTORS

Dr. Sanjay K. Panda, IAS

Dr. Sanjay Kumar Panda, an IAS, is a renowned administrator, skill developer, writer, sericulturist, and scientist. He was Chairman of Tripura Skill Development Mission Executive Committee, Government of Tripura, and dealt with policy and coordinating all skill development related matters in the state of Tripura. Also as the Chief Secretary of Tripura Govt, he headed the administrative set up dealing with promotion of textiles industry both in the organised and unorganised sector at national level. Dr. Panda is an M.Sc from Ravenshaw College (now university), Cuttack. For a brief period he was a lecturer in chemistry in Govt. Science college, Rourkela. Later he joined the Indian Forest Service (IFS) (1978-80) and then, from 1980 to 2015, he served in the Indian Administrative Service (IAS).

Mr. Mrinal Das, VP, Marquee Semiconductor Inc.

Mr. Mrinal Das, a BE in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Jadavpur University, is a techno-entrepreneur. Mr. Das has started several initiatives in emerging technologies from scratch, scaled up to size and successfully transitioned to the next set of leaders. He was Design Manager of Texas Instruments, Co-founder VP of Sankalp Semiconductor, Founder and Chief Mentor of Electronic Center of Excellence, and VP of Marquee Semiconductor Inc. He played a key role in building a strong Analog team in Texas Instruments India. As a co-founder of Sankalp Semiconductor he played a pioneering role in developing Analog design in Second Tier Cities in India. Under his supervision, Sankalp grew to 700+ people, had two successful acquisitions and got bootstrap funding for growth. He made Electronic Center of Excellence a rapidly growing platform that has sharp focus to nurture the Electronics Industry ecosystem in India with a combined effort towards Industrial Training, Production-worthy Research and enable ESDM start-ups.