Dr Deepak B Phatak graduated in electrical engineering from Indore and then completed his MTech and Phd in Computer Science. Dr Phatak has been working with IIT Bombay since 1971. He has held prestigious faculty position like the first Dean of Resource Development for IIT Bombay. At present he is the Subrao M Nilekani Chair Professor at the Kanwal Rekhi School of Information Technology at IIT Bombay.

Lalit Sawhney spent 18 years with the Unilever Group in India and was head-information systems at Hindustan Lever. He was also awarded the prestigious IS Man of the Year award by Computerworld in 1999, and the Fellowship of the Computer Society of India in 1996. Lalit Sawhney did his graduation in Electronics Engineering from University of Delhi and a P G Diploma in business administration from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

Felix Mohan has held several prestigious roles like member of the National Task Force on Information Security and chairman of the sub-committee on information security standardisation. He has also been a defence representative in the Cyber Regulations Advisory Committee. Felix is an MBA from the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies. He has done IT courses from premier institutes, including IIT Kharagpur and the National Centre for Software Technology.