§ 01 · Who we are

Built by people who lived the problem.

Every person on this team has a personal relationship with the system we are fixing — as athletes, as educators, as builders and as institutional leaders.

Founders2
Mentor to the board1
Board advisors5
Leadership team3
Combined domain years120+
§ 02 · The founders

Founder–market fit is rare. Here it is lived, not claimed.

Sanand Salil Mitra
01Founder & MD
Founder · Managing Director

Sanand Salil Mitra

You cannot build what you have not lived.

International archer still training for LA 2028. Two decades at the intersection of elite sport and advanced technology. Background in AI and predictive systems, applied to competitive sport. Multi-sector operator. 20 years navigating India’s broken sports infrastructure firsthand.

1stSports-tech patent in India
LA 2028Training for
20yrElite sport + deep tech
Pinaze Dubash
02Co-Founder & Chair
Co-Founder · Board Chair

Pinaze Dubash, PhD

Institutions fail to adopt technology for predictable reasons. We designed around every one of them.

First-generation entrepreneur. PhD in Learning Disabilities from Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth. Background in Educational Leadership from IIM Calcutta. Founded Little Gurukool preschool and Edgez Educare; trained hundreds of teachers and consulted schools across all boards. Leads operations and compliance.

PhDLearning disabilities
IIMCEducational leadership
20yrInstitutional adoption
§ 03 · Mentor to the board

The person guiding our evolution into a global institution.

Dr. Ritesh Jain
Mentor to the board

Dr. Ritesh Jain

Delivered the world’s first Apple Pay tokenisation as part of Visa’s core team. COO Digital Technology at HSBC. Industry-first solutions at Maersk. Advises on national payment infrastructure — India UPI, Sweden P27, US FedNow. Chair of Payments at India FinTech Forum. Advisor to the World Bank and G20 GPFI.

Visa · Apple Pay global launch HSBC · COO Digital Tech World Bank advisor G20 GPFI advisor UPI · P27 · FedNow

Philosophy: clarity — connect — capital.

§ 04 · Board of advisors

Five advisors. Complete ecosystem coverage.

Not a list of impressive names — a deliberate advisory architecture. Each advisor owns a specific part of the ecosystem SporTech is building for.

Coverage map
Sports BusinessSports Tech & eSportsBusiness StrategyDeep Tech & InnovationSports Science
Hemant DuaSports Business

Hemant Dua

CEO, Seattle Orcas · Major League Cricket

Previously CEO of GMR Sports — parent of Delhi Daredevils (IPL), UP Yoddhas (Pro Kabaddi) and Dilli Veer. Former Director Asia at Octagon. Two decades inside India’s largest sporting properties.

Dr. Keshav GuptaSports Tech & eSports

Dr. Keshav Gupta

Faculty · Fox School of Business, Temple University

Sport & Recreation Management. Research in eSports, gamification and digital infrastructure for elite sport. Guides SporTech’s academic credibility and international positioning.

Dr. Suren SistaBusiness Strategy

Dr. Suren Sista

Faculty Marketing · IIM Calcutta

Institutional strategy, brand architecture and go-to-market thinking. Advises on the public-sector landscape and the global sports ecosystem SporTech must operate within.

Dr. Mukesh KestwalDeep Tech & Innovation

Dr. Mukesh Kestwal

Chief Innovation Officer · iHub-AWaDH, IIT Ropar

AI, data infrastructure and deep-tech innovation. Guides SporTech’s technology architecture decisions and research partnerships.

Dr. Rahul TiwariSports Science

Dr. Rahul Tiwari

Performance Analyst · IIS

Elite athletic performance, data-driven development, integration of sports science into institutional training programmes at the Inspire Institute of Sports.

5 ×

Five domains. Every corner of the ecosystem we are building for — covered by people who operate at the top of their field.

§ 05 · Leadership team

The people who run the day-to-day.

Vivek Chaturvedi
Chief Executive Officer

Vivek Chaturvedi

20+ years leading growth across categories in India’s most competitive consumer markets. Has shaped Timex, Tupperware and Tynor. A seasoned P&L leader with a track record of launching and rejuvenating brands at scale.

Brand growthP&L leadershipConsumer
Edward Francis Paul
Chief Human Resources Officer

Edward Francis Paul

22+ year HR career across Travel+Leisure (RCI), Exide Industries, ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank and Hyundai. Gallup- certified strengths coach. Leads governance, compliance and operational scaling — making sure the institution built externally is mirrored internally.

GovernanceComplianceScale ops
Darsshan Wagh
Head · High Performance Division

Darsshan Wagh

20+ years in high-performance sports science and strength-and-conditioning. Heads SporTech’s High Performance division, setting protocols for athlete assessment, injury prevention and long-term development.

Athlete assessmentInjury preventionLong-term development
§ 06 · Hiring philosophy

We build people the way we build systems — from the ground up.

Every role at SporTech is a succession role. We hire at the layer below where we eventually need someone, then groom them for the layer above. Every department. Every division. Every role. The institution is built inside-out.

01
Hire below the need

If we need a head tomorrow, we hire a senior manager today. If we need a senior manager, we hire a manager. The person we need is the person we grew.

02
Groom inside the role

Every hire has a succession ladder from day one — the role they are in, the role they are growing into and the role after that. Promotions are pre-written, not post-hoc.

03
Every department, every division

The rule holds across engineering, product, ops, HR, compliance, performance and the field teams. No exceptions — because the institution has to outlast every one of us.