Sruthi Kannan

Sruthi is a business leader at Cisco Systems, where she orchestrates meaningful outcomes for startups in their scale up journey through Cisco LaunchPad. She works with deep tech startup founders on fine tuning their business strategies, co-creating end-to-end digital solutions and opening up joint go-to-market opportunities as well as instrumenting follow on funding.

As a member of the CII National Startup Council as well as an Executive Advisory Member of DPIIT’s Startup India Fund as well as DST’s NIDHI, Sruthi is a strong advocate for startups that play a critical role in accelerating and amplifying the goodness of digital transformation. In addition to degrees in Engineering and Psychology, Sruthi holds specializations in Digital Transformation and Entrepreneurial Leadership from UC Berkeley and Stanford University respectively and is a Doctoral Scholar on Entrepreneurship at IIT Kharagpur.