Grand Finale Judge – Jayesh Parekh

Jayesh Parekh is a Senior Advisor at Jungle Ventures. He was a Co-Founder of Sony Entertainment Television. He is on the board of Milaap, Sanctum Wealth Management and One Animation. Jayesh spent 12 years at IBM in Houston and Singapore, and was part of the team that brought IBM back to India. Jayesh is on the Investment Committee of social impact equity funds: Aavishkaar India II Fund, Aavishkaar Frontier Fund and Aavishkaar Africa Fund. He is an Advisory Board member of Akhand Jyoti Eye Hospital a non-profit in Bihar, India. Jayesh studied at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda and at the University of Texas at Austin. He is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at INSEAD.