Sugata Jain

Sugata is a serial entrepreneur who specializes in developing early stage ideas from scratch. Her 13+ years of work experience has been primarily in setting up businesses, working across countries to facilitate business contracts between governments, co-founding and mentoring start-ups and leading innovative projects for corporations. She enjoys working with multi-national, multi-cultural organizations in creating agile (tech based) processes, training and onboarding leaders and assessing investment decisions. She has done projects with major players in various sectors such as IT, Retail, Defence, Energy & Construction, Social Apps, Personal Development and growth, etc. She regularly collaborates with international organizations such as the UN and EC. Her biggest passion is the Global EdTech Sector.

Corporate Experience

• Independent Consultant, Global, 2018 - Present

• Director Startup Lab, Spain, IE Business School, 2015 - 2018

• She designed and ran the Start-up Lab of IE Business School for 7 editions, which is on the top B- school incubators of the world

• Co-founder LifeStrong Coaching, Spain, 2013 - 2018

• Co-founder Startups Made in Spain, Spain, 2014 - 2015 (a google funded project)

• Associate Director, IE Business School, Spain, 2008 - 2012

• On-going projects in Defence Research

Academic Experience

• Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship, IE University, Spain, 2018 - Present

• Workshops on Lean Startup and Investments in various incubators

Academic Background

• Certificate of Business Excellence, UC Berkeley, US, 2019 - Present

• International MBA, IE Business School, Spain, 2007

• A certified Leadership Trainer from CTI, Spain / US, 2014

• Bachelor in Finance and Investment Analysis, Delhi University, India, 2005