Jay Krishnan

Jay Krishnan, CEO of The Accelerator Centre, is a successful serial entrepreneur, investor, and product management professional. With 20 years of startup and enterprise experience in the US and India, he has held senior executive positions at numerous tech companies, such as Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, and Radifinity Information Systems Pvt. Ltd.

Krishnan also served as the CEO of T-Hub, India's largest startup incubator and corporate innovation accelerator in the B2B and B2C space, and as CEO at IoT Venture. As the General Partner at Mantra Capital and Venture Partner at SRI Capital, he invested in early stage digital India startups. He boasts an Executive MBA in General Management from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, a B.E. in Engineering- Electronics & Instrumentation from RV College Of Engineering, and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Hartford.

His experience in product development and management, as well as venture capital, gives him a unique perspective on how to build successful companies. Krishnan has a passion for sustainability and has dedicated much of his career to help early-stage startups.