Nipun Mehrotra

Nipun’s thirty-five years, global tech career as a business and technology leader has seen him lead large operational businesses and lead major strategic and restructuring initiatives, while residing in India, Shanghai, and Singapore. A firm believer in the impact and power of the ecosystem, Nipun led many transformational ecosystem-led initiatives in IBM India/Asia Pacific before leaving the organisation as the Chief Digital Officer in 2019.

He continues to advise and actively collaborate with IFC-The World Bank, Government of India, State Governments of Telangana, Karnataka etc, CII, NASSCOM, global Foundations, Academia like IISc, PJTSAU and various Start-ups to strengthen national capability to solve some of India’s nagging developmental challenges.

In 2021, this approach took birth as “The Agri Collaboratory” (TAC) along with co-founders from diverse disciplines. The Agri Collaboratory [TAC] is a “non-compete” not for profit, enterprise Agriculture “Think and Do Tank” – aiming to build Digital Public Goods for Agriculture with the vision of enabling the Indian small & marginal farmer to be profitable, sustainable, and resilient.

The journey is backed by the following convictions derived from his expansive experience:

• The power of Eco-systems to solve complex societal issues;
• Attracting a borderless “inside out”, pool of global expertise;
• Establishing integrated collaboration across Government, Private & Academic institutions;
• Coopetition and Collaboration trumps Competition;
• Open-source technologies accelerates innovation and break silos;
• Sustained impact needs Governance and Transparency;
• Ambidexterity between a long-term vision and short-term execution.