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N. R. NARAYANA MURTHY Founder Infosys Technologies
Chairman, Jury, TGEA 2020

JURY PANEL

N. R. Narayana Murthy
Founder Infosys Technologies Jury Chair
Prof. Jagdish Sheth
Charles H. Kellstadt Professor
of Business, Emory University
Gururaj “Desh” Deshpande
President and Chairman, Sparta Group LLC
Ms. Ping Fu
Co-founder Geomagic
Board Director | Entrepreneur | Author
Dr. Simon Galpin
Bahrain Economic Development Board
Rich Karlgaard
Publisher and Columnist, Forbes
Dr. Orna Berry
Chief Scientist, Israel
Steven Sonsino
Author and Professor,
London Business School
Tim Draper
Founder, Draper University

MENTORS

Bala V. Balachandran
J L Kellogg Distinguished Professor (Emeritus in service) of Accounting & Information Management Kellogg School of Management
Kavil Ramachandran
Professor and Executive Director, Thomas Schmidheiny Centre for Family Enterprise at Indian School of Business

ECOSYSTEM AWARDS

Most Active Angel Network/Group in the World

Best Performing VC Fund,
Global

Best Incubator / Accelerator

Accelerator with the highest investments into its portfolio, threshold at nnn Million

Best Corporate Entrepreneurship Development Program

Highest # of Start-up investments (as ratio of global revenue)

Best Global University/Institution for promoting Entrepreneurship

Highest number of start-ups incorporated by graduating classes (per 1000 students)

Best Entrepreneurial Ecosystem by (Federal/State/City Government)

Introduced Start-up policy in last 3-5 years and its effective implementation through programs/Creation of Institutions – YoY increase in # of Start-ups incorporated, Growth in Start-up Funding activity

UNICORN AWARDS

Fastest Unicorn

A first-gen entrepreneur who created a unicorn in shortest possible time

Fastest to Public Listing

A first-gen entrepreneur who listed the company to a Billion Dollar Market Capitalization in the shortest possible time

Bootstrapped to Billions

A first-gen entrepreneur who created a unicorn without raising any external capital

HONORARY AWARDS

Life Time Achievement (Creator)

A first-gen entrepreneur who has created global scale enterprises which will outlive the entrepreneur and is an inspiration to the generations

Life Time Achievement (Transformer)

A second-generation entrepreneur who has taken the family business to the next orbit on a global scale

Most Innovative Startup in the World

A start-up which created highly innovative technology or business model and is well recognised and most visible during the last 18 months

AWARDS WINNER

HONORARY AWARDS

Bill Gate

Lifetime Achievement First Generation (Creator) Award

Bill Marriott

Lifetime Achievement Family Business (Transformer) Award

Jeremy Achin

Most Innovative Startup Award

UNICORN AWARDS

Ron Hovsepian

Lightning Unicorn Award

George Scangos

Rapid Listing Award

Ben Chestnut

Bootstrapped to Billions Award

Tech Coast Angels, Irvine,
USA Brian Horner

Most Active Angel Network in the World

Sequoia Capital, CA USA
Douglas M. Leone

Best Performing VC Fund, Global

Y Combinator, California, USA
Michael Seibel

Best Incubator Accelerator in the World

Google / Alphabet for
Startups Sundar Pichai

Best Corporate Supporting Entrepreneurship Development

Stanford University, USA
Marc Tessier-Lavigne

Best Global University Promoting Entrepreneurship

Enterprise SG
Chairman

Best Government Agency Supporting Startup Ecosystem