Sandhya Shekhar is an Advisor and Strategy Consultant working across industry, academia and the start-up ecosystem. She serves as an independent director on the governing boards of Uno Minda Ltd., MI Torica, Mynda Onkyo, MITIL Polymer Pvt Ltd., Uno Minda Tachi-S Seating Pvt. Ltd., UCAL Ltd. and Minda Westport Technologies Ltd. Earlier she served two terms on the boards of several companies in the Amalgamations group. She is a member of the Committees
constituted by BIRAC Bionest to help scale the bio-tech incubators nationally into a robust innovation ecosystem. She serves on several advisory boards including SOIL Institute of Management and the Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science. She has served on Government of India policy committees.

She was the first CEO of IIT Madras Research Park, the first university research park in the country. She has extensive industry experience, having worked as Director, Asia Pacific Consulting – Gartner Inc.; CTO, BConnectB.com; Head, Knowledge Management Research – Aptech and Group Consultant, NIIT.

She is a recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award from IIM Bangalore and is a University Rank holder in her under-graduation. She earned her PhD from IIT Madras, with her dissertation winning the global award for outstanding doctoral research from the European Foundation for Management Development. She is a recipient of several awards and personal commendation letters from global leaders. She was felicitated as an Outstanding Woman Achiever during the 100th International Women’s Day. She is an author of several books, papers and articles. Her latest book titled ‘Managing the reality of virtual organizations’ (Springer) has received worldwide acclaim. A TeDx speaker, she is frequently invited to speak at international and national conferences and forums.