Mr. Saurabh Srivastava chairs the Indian operations of Steria. He founded and chaired IIS Infotech which was listed, post merger, as Xansa on the London stock exchange, till it was acquired by Steria. He has since founded/invested in over 50 start-up ventures. He serves/has served on various boards, both private and publicly listed companies in the UK and India.  He is a co-founder and past Chairman of NASSCOM, the NASSCOM Foundation and the Indian Venture Capital Association. He serves /has served on the National Executive Committees of the two apex industry chambers in India, CII and FICCI and is the Chairman Emeritus of TIE Delhi.  Saurabh serves / has served on several government committees / task forces / boards such as the Indo EU Round Table, PM’s National Innovation Council, IT Ministry’s Committee on software exports, Planning Commission and SEBI Committees on Venture Capital, National and State VC Funds, Media Lab Asia, Railway Expert Committee, CSIR Tech Ltd(set up by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research to commercialise its technologies), Government’s Multimodal Transport Task Force and Task Forces for two of India's largest states, UP and Bihar.  He serves/has served on the Advisory Board of Imperial College Business School, London, on the Entrepreneurship / Incubation boards of IIT Delhi and IIT Kanpur and on the Advisory boards of Uttarakhand and Himachal Universities.  He has a Masters from Harvard University and a B Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur. Awards include “Distinguished Alumnus” from IITK, Honorary Doctorate in Technology from the University of Wolverhampton, UK and Lifettime Achievement award from the IT industry of India.