Naresh Priyadarshi

Naresh is CEO of IIITD Innovation & Incubation Centre. His rich experience of 27 years spans across strategy formulation and implementation, management advisory, business development, starting and launching businesses and start-ups. He has held impactful roles at SAIL, AFF (Deloitte), Ernst & Young, American Express, Synovate, Modi Group, FIITJEE before he moved to London in 2014.
During 2017-2020, prior to joining IIITDIC, he was CEO of SSCBS Innovation and Incubation Foundation (SIIF), a company promoted by Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies (SSCBS), University of Delhi.

Naresh holds BBS from University of Delhi, and an MBA from IIM-Ahmedabad (1995-97), where he got the coveted industry scholarship for his excellent academic performance.

He is mentor to many start-ups, and is on the Board of a few reputed schools in Delhi. He likes to read, write and travel. Naresh lives in Delhi with his mother, his wife who works with American Express, and their two daughters, studying in class 3 & 7.