Krishnan Narayanan is a veteran of the IT industry with 18 years of experience in various roles, including marketing emerging technologies and solutions, advising global CXOs on innovation and technology, managing alliance programs, and founding startups. He has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras and a PGDBA in Marketing from XLRI Jamshedpur.

Krishnan has worked with several notable organizations throughout his career, including IFB Industries Ltd, GlaxoSmithKline, and Infosys, where he served as Associate Vice President for over 12 years. During his time at Infosys, Krishnan established a multi-million dollar commercialization business, marketed emerging technologies and solutions, advised Global 1000 CXOs on technology-based business innovations, managed an alliance program with Microsoft, and collaborated with innovation clusters worldwide.

Over the last three years, Krishnan has been heavily involved in the startup scene, founding Innokriti Cleantech Solutions, which applied advanced information technologies to water space, and advising the Government of Netherlands on their IoT and big data analytics research strategy in India. He also chronicled the history of Indian IT over the last 60 years in a project funded by Kris Gopalakrishnan, co-founder of Infosys, and launched a mobile app in 2016 to present the history in a reimagined digital platform. Krishnan is the board member at Actyv® and the former president of the IIT MADRAS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.

Krishnan is a published author with a novel based on the IT industry available on Amazon. He is also one of the founding members of the pan-IIT India executive council and founded a popular startup event in Bangalore called the "IIT Entrepreneurs Adda." Follow him on Twitter at @krishnan8gk.