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INSEAD Alumni Association India

Governance

Leadership & office bearers

The people who run the Association — the Board of the legal entity, the Executive Committee that runs things across our city chapters, and the office bearers of our interest clubs.

The Board

The directors of the Association's legal entity.

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Raja Parthasarathy

Director

MBA '99J

Raja is a Managing Director and Co-Head of Morgan Stanley India Infrastructure. Before joining Morgan Stanley he was a partner at IDFC Private Equity, and earlier worked with Jet Airways, UBS, Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers.

He brings more than three decades of investing and operating experience to the board. He holds an MBA from INSEAD, an MA in Economics from Tufts University and a BA from Hamilton College.

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Nikhil Singhi

Director

MBA '06J

Nikhil is a Senior and Managing Partner at Singhi & Co., Chartered Accountants — a leading Indian assurance, tax and corporate-finance practice — where he heads the Western India practice. He is an independent director and angel investor, and a member of the Young Presidents’ Organisation (YPO).

He has served the INSEAD Alumni Association in India for many years, including as its President from 2021 to 2024. He holds an MBA from INSEAD and is a Fellow Chartered Accountant.

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Chaitanya Kalipatnapu

Director

MBA '06D

Chaitanya is Co-Founder and Executive Director of Eruditus, and Co-Founder of its online division Emeritus — a global executive-education group that partners with more than 85 leading universities, including MIT, Cambridge, INSEAD and Wharton, to make high-quality learning accessible worldwide.

He also lectures at INSEAD. He holds an MBA from INSEAD and a master’s in information systems from BITS Pilani.

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Vivek Subramanian

Director

MBA '03J

Vivek is Co-Founder and Executive Director of Fourth Partner Energy, one of India’s leading distributed-solar platforms, serving over 400 commercial and industrial clients. He earlier spent seven years as a partner at Avigo Capital, a mid-market private-equity fund, and began his career in management consulting at Accenture.

He holds an MBA from INSEAD and a degree in mechanical engineering from SPCE, Mumbai.

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The Executive Committee

Led by our President, with the chapter heads who run the Association in their cities.

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Yohaan Dattoobhai

President

MBA '06D

Yohaan is President of the Association. An entrepreneur and investor with over 20 years in the consumer space, he has spent more than a decade as a food entrepreneur in India — founding Kaboom, the country’s first farm-to-fork omni-channel food chain, and the artisanal ice-cream brand Sucres Des Terres — and is now building a venture to improve food systems and climate-tech innovation.

He was earlier International Director and India MD at Which?, one of the UK’s largest consumer charities, and a strategy consultant at Deloitte. He holds an MBA from INSEAD.

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Neha Sharma

Delhi-NCR Chapter Lead

MBA '12D

Neha leads the Delhi-NCR chapter and co-leads the Association’s AI & ML club. She is Chief AI & Revenue Officer at CompIQ AI, and has built and led data-science and analytics teams at Citi, BCG, IIFL and Accenture, with earlier stints at McKinsey and Bank of America.

She holds an MBA from INSEAD and a master’s in economics from the Delhi School of Economics.

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Club office bearers

AI & ML

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Dharmendra Yashovardhan

AI & ML Club Co-lead

MBA '05J

Dharmendra Yashovardhan is a technology entrepreneur focused on how artificial intelligence is reshaping work, learning, and economic systems. He co-founded one of India’s leading travel technology platforms and has since returned to hands-on coding. Today he runs a consumer chess platform and is building an AI-first cricket venture. He writes and (sometimes) speaks on how firms and individuals must redesign systems of work for a world where intelligence is abundant but coordination, execution, and judgment remain scarce. He holds a B.E. from the Marine Engineering & Research Institute, Kolkata, and an MBA from INSEAD.

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Neha Sharma

AI & ML Club Co-lead

MBA '12D

Neha leads the Delhi-NCR chapter and co-leads the Association’s AI & ML club. She is Chief AI & Revenue Officer at CompIQ AI, and has built and led data-science and analytics teams at Citi, BCG, IIFL and Accenture, with earlier stints at McKinsey and Bank of America.

She holds an MBA from INSEAD and a master’s in economics from the Delhi School of Economics.

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Ramlah Merchant

AI & ML Club Co-lead

MBA '25J

Ramlah co-leads the AI & ML club. She works at the intersection of AI literacy and education at the Central Square Foundation, where she leads EdTech & AI for AI Samarth, a national initiative building AI readiness across India’s K-12 system. She earlier designed large-scale digital learning at upGrad and emerging-technology learning at NYU.

She holds an MBA from INSEAD, a master’s in digital media design for learning from NYU, and a BA from Barnard College, Columbia University.

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