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Top 100 Asian Stars in UK Tech 2015

Shailendra Vyakarnam
Director of the Bettany Centre for Entrepreneurship
at Cranfield
Dr Shailendra Vyakarnam is currently the Director of the Bettany Centre for Entrepreneurship
at Cranfield. He is also presently Co-Founder and Director of AcceleratorIndia, which helps
fast-track business expansion of technology companies in the Indian and European markets.
Dr Vyakarnam is Trustee of The GEN Initiative. He is Senior Member of Darwin College and
Resident Senior Member of Wolfson College. Dr Vyakarnam worked in industry for several
years before completing his MBA and PhD at Cranfield.
From 2003 to 2015 he focused on the development of practitioner-led education for
entrepreneurship at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School, Centre for
Entrepreneurial Learning and has held Visiting Professorships at University of Reading and
University of Aarhus, the Indian Institu є