Alok Bardiya

Alok has been in the tech industry for 25 years, working both in India and in the US. He has seen both sides of action in the tech world: as a VC investor, as a Board Member, as an advisor - working closely with high-growth startups, and as a CEO/CXO/Entrepreneur, setting up new businesses and scaling them successfully.

He is currently a Venture Partner at Social Alpha and also an Advisor (Corporate Development) at WSO2 – a pre-IPO enterprise software company. In the past, he has worked with Bain & Co in the US and with Tata Group (TAS) and Cisco in India, where he led their VC and M&A arm for the Asia Pacific.

Alok holds a B.Tech in EE from IIT-Delhi and an MBA from Wharton Business School.