NCG Team

Anil Bisht is the Chairman of NetConnect Global

Anil has taken NCG to be a preferred partner, who are Industry leaders in their domain.

Under his Leadership, NCG has served customers accelerating Technology and digital initiatives to strengthen NCG leadership in technology innovation. Anil acts as an executive sponsor for large engagements and enables end to end digital transformation for clients.

As a serial entrepreneur, Anil has founded 1to1help.net, India’s pioneer and market leader in Employees Assistance Program(EAP) and POSH services. He also founded Computer Garage, one of India’s first and largest third Party Maintenance organizations in the private sector.

An alumnus of IIT-R and IIM Ahmedabad, Anil is a sports enthusiast. He has completed 30 half marathons and one full marathon. As a University level Tennis and Cricket player, Anil motivates all NCGians.

Dr. Philip DesAutels, Ph.D. is the Advisory Board at NetConnect Global

Building on 25 years of industry experience managing technology Philip is a rare mix – a technologist who understands how to enable business value and an entrepreneur who understands how to leverage the transformative power of technology.

Philip builds on his wide-ranging experience inside and outside the technology industry to head product at Tondo. Prior to this, Philip served as Executive Director of IoT at the Linux Foundation leading global open source projects in consumer and industrial IoT.
He was CTO at LogMeIn where he co-founded, built and launched Xively, the world’s first commercial IoT platform – recently sold to Google. He was a co-founder of IOT Works, an Internet of Things research and investment group. Philip spent nearly ten years at Microsoft running strategy and evangelism teams. Philip co-founded Ereo, a cloud-based image analysis and search service. He was Chief Scientist at Matchlogic/ Excite@Home. Philip served on the research team of the MIT’s W3C, where he worked for Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web on security, trust and privacy. Philip actively applies his skills as a technologist with numerous socially focused organizations across the globe.

Philip lives in Waltham, MA with his wife Michele, who he met while they both served as Peace Corps Volunteers in Uzbekistan. He holds a PhD in Industrial Marketing from LTU in Sweden where he researched the challenges faced by product companies as they transition to a world of connected IoT products, BS and MS degrees in Industrial and Management Engineering from RPI and is a graduate of the nation’s oldest trade school, North Bennet Street school where he studied preservation carpentry

Dr. Jaydeep Mukherjee is the Advisory Board at NetConnect Global

He is the Director of the NASA Florida Space Grant Consortium (FSGC). Through his expertise and strong Leadership, FSGC supports Florida’s space industry’s expansion and diversification by providing grants, scholarships, and fellowships to students and educators from Florida’s public and private institutes of higher education.

Dr. Jaydeep Mukherjee received his Bachelor’s degree in Physics from St. Xaviers College, Mumbai, and Master’s degrees in Physics from Mumbai University, India, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Astronomy from the University of Florida. He was also the Director of the Florida Space Institute from 2006 to 2011. He is currently serving on the Board of Directors of the National Space Grant Alliance and the National Space Grant Foundation. He is on the industry advisory board for the Engineering Physics department at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University.

In 2011 the National Education Society of India presented him with the 2011 National Eminence Award. 

In 2011, he was a member of the Inaugural Lunabotics Mining Competition presented the Group Achievement Award by NASA for outstanding teamwork for the highly successful Lunabotics Competition, engaging hundreds of students and partners in science, technology, engineering, and math. In 2003, he was a member of the Radio JOVE team that received the Group Achievement Award from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center for excellence in outreach. In 1993, he was also awarded the Kerrick Prize by the Astronomy Department at the University of Florida to commit to the education of the public and their understanding of Astronomy.

His primary interest is in close binary stars and STEM Education. His research interests include the synthesis of observable quantities for interacting binaries, understanding binary star mass transfer, mass loss, and particularly interesting or unusual close binary stars.

Premkumar Seshadri is the Advisory Board at NetConnect Global

Over three decades, Prem has been at the forefront of Technological innovations and was instrumental in conceptualizing and achieving scale through many disrupting ideas.

In the Banking and Financial sector, Prem lead the most extensive IT Outsourcing growth rate by taking a fledgling USD 25 M Million practice to USD 1 Billion in 5 Years through organic growth. This industry-leading growth was accomplished by building a Global Team together quickly and through path-breaking innovation in solution offering. The first core capital market process offshoring, the first outcome aligned engagement structure that was Win-Win. The first “Run the Business” support strategy that went on to become a standard in the tech sector.

For the Pharmaceutical Industry, Prem designed the first PDA-based Detailing & Field Force Management platform deployed across global leaders and continues to serve as the core of the sales force management across many countries. The same was also the medium of field force automation is one of the largest global Consumer Products companies and a few international players in this sector.

The most extensive, most prestigious & highly secure program of India’s Government was the “Unique Identification Program”- Aadhar. This was delivered under Prem’s role as the Chairman of the MSP in charge of the Project. This has covered over 1.2 Billion Indians by giving them a unique identification card and the standard proof of identity to which various services are tied.

As an executive mentor and strategic advisor, Prem helps organizations align people, technologies & business development to their core strategy, then execute the same through appropriate active governance & participation.

His various other corporate roles included, Group CEO of Apollo Hospitals Group, the largest Hospital Group (50+ Hospitals, 10 K Beds, Over 1500 Pharmacies, 75 Clinics & Health Insurance), and member of several executive teams, including as the CEO of the most extensive Computer Hardware & Systems Integrator company, National Chairman of the IT-ITES sector in Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), the national industry body and think tank & President of HCL Technologies.

Prem is also the advisor & executive mentor to the Board for India’s largest Employee Assistance Program (EAP) company, which is growing exponentially and has been in forefront of Emotional Wellness that touched over 3.7 Million Lives, a platform that has helped prevent over 4500 acute depression actions, through a robust Suicide Prevention Protocol. He is also advising a Full Stack Technology resource company, a global RPO & few consumer product companies in their e-commerce journey. Between his Mentor / Investor companies, he sees two potential Unicorns emerging.

Prem has a diverse portfolio of investments, directly and through the auspices of The Chennai Angels, mentors budding entrepreneurs at Healthcare Technology Innovation Centre (HTIC), an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT – Madras) initiative, and is a Charter Member of TIE, Chennai. He has been an independent Director in various listed and unlisted companies and the Technology, Consumer Products, and Health-Tech companies’ advisory board.

Prem is an ardent sports lover, especially Cricket and amateur dabbling in Psephology. He is presently authoring two books, one on the dynamics of the changing Business to Business landscape & the other collecting anecdotal learnings for business.

R Nagarajan is the Advisory Board at NetConnect Global

Director (Finance) of Power Finance Corporation Limited (PFC) under the Administrative Control of Ministry of Power, Govt. of India, which is a ‘Navratna’ company with an asset size of over Rs.140,000 Crores.
More than 30 years of experience in various areas in Banking and Financial Sector.

 Chairman of the Coastal Tamil Nadu Power Limited (CTNPL),
 Chairman of the Coastal Maharashtra Mega Power Limited (CMMPL),
 Chairman of the Coastal Karnataka Power Limited (CKPL),
 Chairman of the Deoghar Mega Power Limited (DMPL),
 Director of the PFC Consulting Limited (PFCCL),
 Director of the National Power Exchange of India Limited (NPEX),
 Director of the PFC Green Energy Limited (PFCGEL),
 Director of the PFC Capital Advisory Services (PFCCAS)
 Member of the Executive Board of SCOPE,
 Treasurer of the World Energy Council, India Chapter and;
 President of the Power Project Progress Assessment Society (PPPAS)

Saumen Chakraborty is the Advisory Board at NetConnect Global

Saumen has over 30 years of experience in the global information technology industry transcending the hardware, software, network and more recently the AI, ML, blockchain and the visual collaboration era, spanning in diverse industry segments.

During his career he was associated with some the world’s largest fortune 500 companies like DEC, IBM, Quadrant II Technologies, Microsoft, and Hughes.

Across his career spanning 3 decades, Saumen has served as an Advisor, distinguished Faculty, as a member of numerous Trade Associations in its various Committees and Task forces of the Government of India, Global Entrepreneurship and National Policy support groups and software exports as the Chairman of the Electronics and Computer Software Export Promotion Council (ESC) and has lead India’s $100+ Billion software exports.