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Building the infrastructure for design-led ventures for the future.

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Amit Chowdhury

Design & Product Leader

Amit is a design and product leader with deep experience across enterprise software, AI-first product experiences, and large-scale design organisations. He has held leadership roles at EY, Adobe, Samsung, Google, Microsoft, and other global technology companies, working across 0-to-1 products, platform transformation, design systems, and multidisciplinary design teams. His work sits at the intersection of product imagination, organisational design, emerging technology, and enterprise-scale execution.

Amit is a design and product leader with deep experience across enterprise software, AI-first product experiences, and large-scale design organisations. He has held leadership roles at EY, Adobe, Samsung, Google, Microsoft, and other global technology companies, working across 0-to-1 products, platform transformation, design systems, and multidisciplinary design teams. His work sits at the intersection of product imagination, organisational design, emerging technology, and enterprise-scale execution.

Vishal Apte

Founder, Energy & Technology Leader

Vishal is a founder and energy-sector leader with over three decades of experience across energy markets, renewable infrastructure, grid-scale storage, software, data, and systems architecture. He is the founder of Greenflash, BatteryOS, and 1E9 Advisors, and has previously held senior leadership roles at BNP Paribas, Barclays, American Electric Power, and Enron. His work spans commodity markets, energy transition, storage infrastructure, data analytics, and technology-led systems.

Vijay Gakhar

Product, Brand & Growth Leader

Vijay is a product design leader with experience across AI and automation-led platforms, fintech, HRTech, enterprise SaaS, brand, and growth. Based in San Francisco, he has led global design teams, shaped early-stage product direction, built design practices, and worked closely across product, engineering, marketing, and sales. His work connects user-centred design with business outcomes such as adoption, retention, revenue, and category differentiation.