"Victims and Victors - That's what the implication would be of the valuation bubble in new age businesses for entrepreneurs and ecosystem."

Sharad Sharma is a co-founder of iSPIRT, a non-profit industry think tank that wants India to be a Product Nation. He has held a number of senior executive positions with leading technology companies. Most recently he was a SVP at Yahoo! and CEO of its India R&D. Previously he turned around VERITAS operations in India. He also brought AT&T/Lucent R&D to India as an intrapreneur. He was given the R&D Visionary Award by Zinnov in 2008.

Sharad is one of the active technology angel investors in India. He is also an entrepreneur. He co-founded Teltier, now part of Cisco, and is currently the CEO of BrandSigma Inc. Sharad has an Electrical Engineering degree from Delhi College of Engineering.