SUBROTO BAGCHI

Subroto Bagchi is an entrepreneur, author and public servant. He co-founded Mindtree, India’s first venture-capital funded software services company that went all the way from idea to IPO. He has authored eight bestselling books including The High-Performance Entrepreneur, Go Kiss the World and The Professional.
After stepping down from Mindtree in 2016, he took up a full-time, pro-bono assignment as chairman of Odisha Skill Development Authority in the rank of a cabinet minister. During his eight-year stint there, he made acknowledged contributions to skill development, management of the Covid-19 pandemic as well as institutional capacity building.