Janak Pandey

ICSSR National Fellow

Former Head, CBCS, University of Allahabad

Former First Vice Chancellor, Central University of Bihar

Former Head, Department of Psychology, University of Allahabad

Prof. S. K. Sinha

CEDT, IISc, Bangalore

Prof. Sinha did his BE in Electrical Engineering from Bihar College of Engineering, Patna (now NIT, Bihar) in 1967 and joined the Indian Railways. However, his heart was in academics and he came to the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in 1977 where he did BE in Electrical Engineering and then was offered a research position leading to PhD. Prof. Sinha was offered a faculty position in the Department of Electrical engineering at IISc where he worked till 1995. He set up a new Parallel Computing Lab in the EE department and most of his research efforts were directed towards applying the parallel and distributed computing techniques for industrial drive applications. He then moved over to the Centre for Electronics Design and Technology (CEDT) at IISc where he set up an Embedded Systems Laboratory. The Lab has now matured into a leading training and development centre in the area of embedded computing. He has held various administrative positions at IISc, the most significant being his 4-year stint as the Associate Chairman and then another 4 years as the Chairman of the Centre for Scientific and Industrial Consultancy, which is the primary window of IISc to the outside world. His current research interests are in the broad area of embedded systems. However, most of his efforts are directed towards product development and not into pure research.

Alakh Verma

Experienced Business leader,"Passionate about growing business with Cloud, Social, Mobile, Video, Big Data Analytics"

Alakh Verma is working with Oracle Corp, based at Redwood Shores, CA and evangelizes Cloud,Social and Mobile business. Alakh Manages outbound Product Strategy for Oraclea€?s Enterprise 2.0 solutions that comprise of WebCenter Portals, Enterprise Content Management(ECM), Sites and Oracle Social Network. Alakh is working with KPMG, PwC and IBM and leading Regional Partners to establish Thought leadership in Cloud, Social and Mobile solutions. a€?Alakh is a charismatic business leader with deep insights and passion for leveraging technology for customersa€? success. I have found his strong experience in product management to be a great source of motivation for creative business and technology campaigns with partners. His creativity and visionary thinking combined with his understanding of the ecosystem and a helping attitude enables him to quickly establish rapport and inspire trust of his business partners. Alakh is fun to work with and will be a great asset in senior ranks of any technology organization.a€?

Alok Kumar Mehta

Alok Kumar Mehta is BE in Production Engineering and an eminent technology Expert and a leading Entrepreneur in the State of Bihar. He was the member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represents Samastipur constituency of Bihar. . He is the president of youth Rashtriya Janata Dal political party and recently elected from Ujjiharpur in the 15th Assembly Polls held recently in 2015.

Dr. P. K. Mishra

Director - School of Computer Science, Indraprastha University, New Delhi

Dr.P.K.Mishra who has spent 10 years at IIT Kanpur before joining National Informatics Center and later brought the developments in the field of IT to Bihar through initiatives, like e-Courts, Unix OS for HP and now, is Director at Indraprastha University, New Delhi.

Dr. Piyush Kumar Sinha

Dr. Piyush Kumar Sinha joined Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad after a 20-year service in academics and industry. Prior to joining this Institute, he was the Dean at Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA). He has also taught at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and XIM, Bhubaneswar.

Prabhat Kumar Sinha

Co-founder and Director of the Board of ASTRIC Computers (India) Private Limited. He holds B.E degree in Computer Science & Technology. He has been one of the flag bearers of the group since inception with enterprising and natural ability to take risks and build upon dreams having a wide experience of almost three decades in IT industry. He is one of a distinguished professional in the state known for his devotion and abilities as first generation entrepreneurs. He has an aspiring ambition and passion to turn the competition into collaborations with tremendous entrepreneurship skills. He has the ability to educate the best minds with his innovative solutions in shortest possible time and passion for social transformation. He is basically responsible for creation of alliances, business development and strategic planning. His philosophy to redefine IT as Incubation for Transformation has helped setting up new business ventures, providing overall management support, guidance and review mechanisms to several budding entrepreneurs.

Pravin Kumar

Is a graduate engineer (Electronics) in 1990. He has a technology bent of mind and has finesse in negotiating with technology providers and all with a smiling face, has the skill set of knowing the market level knowledge and foreseeing the benefits for the organisation much before competition. Has ample passion to make competition sweat and run, has tremendous entrepreneurship skills and can educate the best minds with his tricks and solutions in shortest possible time. Has an extensive background in optimization and prioritization of marketing initiatives. He has a leadership experience in the IT Sales & services industry with extensive experience of building businesses has vast experience in relevant brand management and advertising with a strong knowledge and appreciation of sophisticated marketing principles. Is without a doubt the brain of the group.

Rimjhim Singh

Holds a M.Sc. degree from Burdwan University, West Bengal. She has an extensive administrative and managerial skill as a leading women entrepreneur in the state. Her focus is to empowering women and organizing various workshops in line with the motivational skill for inclusive growth. Her efforts towards capacity building of honing the employability skills of the youth across the state with special focus on under privileged masses is remarkable. She is one of the pillars in the organisation who has the skill set of managing home, office and collaborative sessions of officials and students on a very limited time lines and has always excelled in all the fields.

Kiran Gupta

Is a graduate with work experience of around 20 years. She is one of the architects for the group who has been responsible for the overall management of accounts, logistics, Human Resource and day to day centre activities, infrastructure and program co-ordination. She is the jewel for the group in taking the leap towards the major objective of women empowerment and team building initiatives required in motivating the youth. She is another pillars of the organisation with expertise in management and logistics. Her focus is to empowering women and organizing various workshops in live with the motivational skill for inclusive growth and becoming self-dependant.

Rajeev Ranjan

Is the CIO cum Master Trainer with Astric group. He is BE in Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering with Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), CISCO Certified Network Associate (CCNA), with knowledge of JAVA Advanced, Post Graduate Diploma in Information & System Management (PGDISM), Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing Management (PGDMM)keen researcher and mind blowing trainer today in the IT industry, successfully fulfilling responsibilities in the system study, development, implementation stages of various projects. Worked as Senior Executive at TCS Ltd. (Previously TATA INFOTECH) and Earlier as Customer Support Manager at Wipro Infotech (East Region) - 8 Years Was involved in managing / heading local service franchisee which had the base of 200+ UNIX Servers installed at different Govt. Organisations and 10+ SUN Servers installed at different Corporate Sectors. Man management from analysis of breakdowns to closer of breakdowns along with all revenue based activities was the part of responsibilities.

Sanjay Ranjan

Is the Advisor Skill and Social Development Projects. He is MBA - Finance with over 18 years of rich experience in the domain of Training and Skill Development and functions across implementation, business development and project management. He has a very comprehensive understanding of the sectors such as Telecom, Retail, Consumer durables, Healthcare and various informal sectors. His deep understanding of the states of Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Orissa, has led way for many successful projects being implemented in these locations. His width of experience spreads itself across various projects that are sponsored by the government and Corporates, both for community development and internal performance enablement goals.

Pradeep Kumar Sundarka

Is the Statutory Auditor of Astric Group since its inception. He holds academic qualification of B.Com (Hons) and professional qualification of FCA, ISA Year of ACA 1984, FCA in 1990. He has rich experience of over 35 years in the domain of financial consultation and functioning across various audit implementation. He has been our financial advisor and a guiding force in ensuring the statutory compliance. His width of experience and professional consultation has helped us meet the timeline of all financial works and achieve milestones of success.