Panneerselvam, CEO – SHMC Global – A management consulting firm.

An innovation professional with a strong background of both industry and startup experience.

With over 23 years of experience in research, strategy consulting, innovation and entrepreneurship, has a proven track record of building companies, scaling businesses and enabling innovation both at corporate and start-up level.

He himself has been entrepreneur and successfully ran his company for over 7 years before becoming Vice President & Chief Innovation Officer of T-Hub (A Govt of Telangana Organisation) his recent assignment where he had the responsibility of nurturing innovations and scaling entrepreneurs, as part of this he was instrumental in mentoring over 100+ start-ups, including Sky Root India’s first cryogenic rocket engine start-up and many other start-ups which has been scaled under his mentorship.

His expertise lies in providing, creating market access, corporate innovation and funding support for the start-ups, he himself invested in start-ups as an angel investor in the last few years.

He started his career as a consumer behaviour researcher with expertise in both qualitative and quantitative research for both Indian and Multi-National Companies. The area of work which included product development, assessing market potential and launch of products and services for both companies and start-ups.

During his careers he has advised and handled projects for the best known brands in the country