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Shruti Srivastava

Pursuing Electrical Engineering degree at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. Co-Founder and Chief Consultant at Student Consultancy Group, Student President of Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Madras President of ASES, India.

Headline: Entrepreneur
Industries: Cleantech, Computing, Education, Entertainment, Financial, Food and Drink, Information Technology, Lifestyle, Media, Retail, Travel
Skills: Business, C/C++, Copy Writing, Editing, Electrical Engineering, Embedded systems, Engineering, English, Entrepreneurship, Event planning, Fiction, French, Guerrilla marketing, HTML / CSS, Java, Languages, Languages and Platforms, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Public Relations, Public speaking, Viral marketing, Web Development, Writing
Location: Chennai, India
Groups: Genesis 2008 - IIT Madras, Genesis 2011
Interested in: Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding cofounders, Finding experts, Finding hot stories, Finding team mates, Meeting new people, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Providing services to startups, Raising money, Recruiting for my startup, Sharing my projects, Starting a company, Trading services
Tags: Algorithms, clean tech, India, intellectual property, marketing, Photography, poetry, social entrepreneurship
Schools: Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

WORK EXPERIENCE

Employer: Student Consultancy Group
Position: Co-Founder and Chief Consultant
Time period: April 2008 - Present
Description: • An independent initiative of students, supported by the institute and ASES (Asia Pacific Student Entrepreneurship Society)
• Involved in creating and setting up of a database to provide consultancy services to student start-up entrepreneurial ventures, the first such service in India
• Heading a team of 20 students working to provide consultancy services with respect to intellectual property, funding options, market opportunities, exit options etc.

Employer: Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Madras
Position: Student President
Time period: April 2008 - Present
Description: • Responsible for handling a budget of 1 million INR to promote entrepreneurship amongst students
• Actively involved in the initiating and setting up of a technology business incubator in the institute.
• Spearheading efforts for the creation of an alumni-student professional networking site to aid business ventures.
• Handling the “Contribution of IITs towards Entrepreneurship” exhibition to be showcased at the Pan IIT Global Summit scheduled in Dec 2008
• In-charge of organizing Breakthrough, a national level business plan competition, which brings in participation of over 150 student teams all over the country
• In-charge of Genesis, a social entrepreneurship business plan competition, which invites participation of over 200 teams from the student as well as working professionals and NGOs.
• Initiated the publication of a monthly newsletter in the institute to promote entrepreneurship among students

Employer: ASES (Asia Pacific Student Entrepreneurship Society), India Chapter
Position: President
Time period: April 2008 - Present
Description: • Key responsibilities include organizing initiatives to help promote entrepreneurship among students in India
• Facilitated exchange of ideas and networking among Indian students and students from other chapters worldwide

Employer: Ecole Nationale de Superieire de l’Electronique et de ses Applications (ENSEA)
Position: Research Assistant, ECIME lab, Cergy, France
Time period: May 2008 - July 2008
Description: • Explored the option of replacing electrical interconnects in present day chips with optical interconnects
• Compared the technology with previously presented alternatives for higher bandwidths and lesser power
• Key deliverables included a comparative study of the various forms of optical interconnections that could be employed viz, free space optics and guided wave interconnects.
• Proposed a hierarchical system, employing suitable optical interconnects at board-to-board, chip-to-chip and onchip levels to achieve optimum system performance, which was accepted for review.

Employer: Saarang, University Cultural Festival
Position: Sponsorship Coordinator
Time period: April 2008 - August 2008
Description: • Part of a team responsible for handling and bringing in funds through corporate sponsorships, to the tune of 5 million INR, for Saarang, the institute’s annual cultural festival, one of the biggest such events in the country.

Employer: Wilcom Pvt Ltd
Position: Summer Consultant, Antenna Lab, IIT Bombay
Time period: May 2007 - July 2007
Description: • Worked on the designing of microwave filters using literature surveys and commercially available softwares.
• Key deliverables included waveguide filter designs for GSM and Wi-Max applications which were approved by Prof Girish Kumar of IIT Bombay, heading the research, for commercial manufacture
• Performed a survey of the existing firms dealing with microwave filter designing and manufacturing, both at the national and global levels
• The findings were used to help Wilcom understand its market and competitors.

Employer: Technikon Education Services Pvt Ltd
Position: Member of the Editorial Board
Time period: January 2007 - May 2007
Description: • An entrepreneurial venture of a few students from the institute, Technikon is a magazine for undergraduate and graduate engineering students providing career counseling and soft skill training.
• The work profile included collecting, writing and publishing articles and tutorials for the magazine along with training new members.
• Responsibilities also included managing trial publicity and distribution plans.
• The initial response to the magazine launch has been quite encouraging with the magazine gearing up for full scale market launch.

Employer: Tata Asset Management Limited
Position: Winter Trainee, Head Office, Mumbai
Time period: December 2007
Description: • Assisted in a research project on asset allocation and equity investment strategies
• Worked with proprietary tools to carry out secondary research and gather information on different industries
• Key deliverables included the compilation of a ready referral outlining various portfolio investment strategies and the corresponding profiles, to be used by the company for HR training purposes.

EDUCATION

University: Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Degree: Electrical Engineering

PUBLICATIONS

Papers: Presented a paper on “Indigenous scientific knowledge for biodiversity conservation” in the National Children’s Science Congress, Department of Science and Technology, Govt of India in 2000. The paper was selected for presentation at the State level.

INFORMATION

Sports: Represented the institute at the Annual Inter IIT Aquatics Meet 2007, held at IIT Bombay.
Awards: • Represented the Indian region at the ASES Stanford Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2008 held at the Stanford University, US from April 6-13, 2008. 48 students all over the world had been selected for the same
• Secured All India Rank 640 (99.8 percentile) in the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) for admission to the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT).
• A recipient of the prestigious All India Talent Search Award, sponsored by Children’s Trust of India, in 2002-03.
• A recipient of the prestigious State Science Talent Search Award, instituted by the Madhya Pradesh State Government, in 2003-04.
• Quizzing: A quizzing enthusiast, have represented the school at the All Asia Bournvita Quiz Contest in 2000 and were runners up in the semi finals (among top 8 teams), a national level finalist at the CBSE Intel Science Quiz 2005, All India Rank 2 in Fishers of Knowledge organized by Junior Science Centre, Chennai (1999)
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