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Dr Rajat Chauhan is a student of running (for the past thirty-seven years) and pain. He is also an aggressive promoter of GOYA (Get Off Your Arse). He is the founder and race director of La Ultra, an epic ultramarathon held in Ladakh since 2010. The ultramarathon features categories ranging from 11 km to 555 km, with altitudes varying from 11,000 feet to 17,400 feet. He is the author of Move: Get Fit in 15 Weeks and La Ultra: cOuch to 5, 11 & 22 km in 100 days. Dr Chauhan has been a columnist for Mint and Hindustan Times, besides being a guest columnist for national newspapers and magazines. He is a senior fellow at Livonics Institute of Integrated Learning and Research.
Dr Chauhan got his MBBS degree from Manipal College of Medical Sciences, Pokhara, Nepal. Because of his running, he had a head start of more than nine years over his medical college peers in knowing how the human body and mind work in synchronization to perform at an optimal level, one baby step at a time. Dr Chauhan went on to marry his passion and profession by doing his MSc in sports-exercise medicine from Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK. This was followed by membership of the London College of Osteopathic Medicine, London, UK, and several other certificates and diplomas, which give him a unique approach to human performance.
He was exposed to strength training for both performance and rehabilitation for the neck and back pain while heading the medical department at Kieser Training, a German chain of centres, in London. He was the founding head of the sports medicine department at Manipal Hospital, Bangalore, and the (quit) chairperson of the World Congress of Science and Medicine in Cricket, held during the 2011 Cricket World Cup which was hosted by India. He was also the founding director of the sports department at Manipal Hospital, and the principal running technical consultant and head coach for Adidas India. He was also the founding director of sports and exercise at Ashoka University.

Vaibhav Vats was born in Delhi in 1986. He studied literature at Delhi University and journalism at Columbia University. He has worked as a reporter for The Indian Express and Tehelka. This is his first book.

Aroona Reejhsinghani has written several books on a variety of subjects, and has contributed to several newspapers and magazines. She featured in the Limca Book of records for writing the highest number of cookery books in India.

T.T. Ram Mohan, professor of finance and economics at IIM Ahmedabad, graduated from IIT Bombay and IIM
Calcutta and obtained his doctorate from Stern School of Business, New York University. In the course of a varied career, he has donned several hats: management consultant, financial journalist, banker, investment banker, academic and independent director on the boards of companies. And so he has had the opportunity to closely study the working of a variety of firms.

Ram Mohan has served on committees of the Reserve Bank of India and the Securities and Exchange Board of India. In 2001, he was visiting faculty at Stern School of Business. For over fifteen years, he wrote a widely read fortnightly column for the Economic Times. He has contributed to several other leading publications including The Hindu, Asian Wall Street Journal and Economic and Political Weekly as well as authored six books.

Sanil Sachar is a national best-selling author from India, traversing through prose, poetry, short-stories, scripts and couplets that have been critically acclaimed and received by readers around the world. With over 200 works of poetry and short stories, Sachar is one of the few Indian authors to be published in all forms of literature.

Sanil’s work in the world of business also includes him founding an incubator in New Delhi, India, by the name of Huddle, which has incubated leading sector agnostic start-ups in the consumer, blockchain, electric vehicle and health sectors, to name a few. An avid sportsperson, Sanil Sachar is also one of the co-owners of the global sports brand Tru, whose flagship innovation and product, Trusox, high-technology performance socks, are worn across nine sports and across the globe.

A highly acclaimed columnist, a triple TED Speaker, addressing international audiences, apart from his material on innovation through creativity, with the likes of Google, JCB, TCS and Wipro, Sachar is an artist and innovator with a passion to drive change, one word at a time.

Dhruv Nath is former professor at the Management Development Institute, Gurgaon. He is also an active angel investor and a director with Lead Angels. He has invested in over ten start-ups and has mentored several others. He was earlier a senior vice president with NIIT Ltd, Nath has been a consultant to the top management of several organizations such as Glaxo, Gillette, Nestlé, Indian Oil Corporation, Thermax and Bajaj Auto, as well as to the prime minister of Namibia and the chief minister of Delhi. This is his fourth book.

Sushanto Mitra has been associated with the early-stage start-up ecosystem in India for more than fifteen years, with prior experience in consulting and financial services. He founded Lead Angels with a team of three, all from IIT Bombay. Today Mitra has taken the network to more than 130 members and a full-time team of twelve people. The company is now a full-stack financial services provider for start-ups, covering advisory and professional services. He was earlier the founding CEO of Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SINE), IIT Bombay, and the director of Hyderabad Angels. He frequently speaks at industry events and writes for business journals. He can be reached at sushanto@leadangels.in

JATIN PARANJAPE inherited many things from his father: dashing good looks, a passionate love for cricket, a keen understanding of how people and sport work and, for good measure, a sense of humour that entertains others even as it allows him to occasionally laugh at himself. Having won the Ranji Trophy four times with Mumbai, played with the best in the business and represented India on the world stage, Jatin has had a long journey in cricket. An untimely injury cut short his playing career, but it took him to sports management, entrepreneurship and beyond. When not watching a game of cricket somewhere in the world as a national selector, Jatin lives in Mumbai with his wife, Gandhali, and dotes on their twins, Aditi and Dhruv.

ANAND VASU wandered from the halls of his college straight into the Cricinfo offices at the age of nineteen, to spend a couple of months exploring cricket journalism. More than two decades later, he is still at it, having moved from Cricinfo to Hindustan Times and then to Sports Illustrated India magazine and Wisden India. He has won four national awards, including the prestigious Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award. Anand’s work has appeared in leading publications globally.