Team – Welcome to SFURTI | KIIT Technology Business Incubator

Meet the Team

Dr Mrutyunjay Suar

CEO, KIIT-TBI

Dr Mrutyunjay Suar

Entrepreneurial professor with Masters in Marine Biotechnology from Goa University, PhD in Molecular Microbiology from University of Delhi in 2003 and Postdoc at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He returned to India and established the School of Biotechnology in 2007 under KIIT University in Bhubaneswar. To promote technology and innovation, he also established KIIT-Technology business incubator (KIIT-TBI), promoting deep tech start-up companies. He is a strong promoter of technology for all and works especially in the sector of public health innovation and technology development. Under his leadership, KIIT-TBI nurtured more than 200 start-up companies and created almost 4000+ jobs and established Centre of Excellence, supported by DST, GoI. He is committed to replicate the successful incubation model in other states of East and North East regions of India, for which BIRAC has established the BIRAC Regional Centre @KIITTBI focusing on East and North East states of India. He also founded two companies and has a very active research group in the area of Salmonella biology and nano-biomaterials and published more than 100 research articles and filed 4 patents.

Sh. Samarendra Sahu

Advisor, KIIT-TBI

Sh. Samarendra Sahu

Samarendra Sahu joined as Advisor of KIIT Technology Business Incubator. He is pivotal in the institution to strengthen the startup eco-system with special focus on cluster innovation. He is from Indian Economic Service batch of 1983 and retired as Additional Development Commissioner, MoMSME, Govt.of India in 2015. He also served as Director General, Institute of Entrepreneurship Development (IEDO), Odisha and CEO of Startup Secretriat, Odisha.

Anshik Hota

Sr. Manager - Cluster Network

Anshik Hota

Anshik Hota joined KIIT-TBI in SFURTI project as Manager – Cluster Network. A project coordinator with demonstrated capability of working in the architecture & planning industry, skilled in procurement, project planning & coordination and Microsoft Projects. He is a strong program and project a management professional with a Master’s degree focused in Advance Construction Management from National Institute of Construction Management & Research (NICMAR). He has done his BTech with specialization in Civil Engineering having previous experience in ANJ Turnkey Projects focused into interior and civil designing .

Debashis Tripathy

Sr. Manager - Cluster Network

Debashis Tripathy

Debashis Tripathy joined KiiT-TBI as Sr. Manager – Cluster Network. He is a Chemistry graduate, MBA in Marketing and HRM and has worked in diverse industry domains, such as social sector development, e-commerce, web & online marketing, software, telecom & audio-video conferencing, healthcare & hospital administration. He has extensively worked in content ideation and creation (website, blogs, press release, infographics & social media), project formulation (proposals, concept notes, DPR) as well as implementation, client coordination and govt. liaisons. At KiiT-TBI, he is looking after project formulation along with marketing consortium development, cluster innovation and vertical expansion strategies.

Bhaskar Singh

Manager - Cluster Network

Bhaskar Singh

Bhaskar Singh is currently working as Manager – Cluster Network in SFURTI project at KIIT Technology Business Incubator, KIIT Deemed University.

Before joining KIIT-TBI, Bhaskar worked in the environmental services sector for 2.3 years in the field of municipal and hazardous waste management having experience in operations excellence, logistics, and team management.

He has worked in Ramky Enviro Engineers Limited and Saahas Waste Management Pvt. Ltd.

He pursued his Bachelor of Technology with specialization in Mechanical Engineering from KIIT Deemed University, Bhubaneswar.

Manoranjan Maharana

Associate-Cluster Network

Manoranjan Maharana

Manoranjan Maharana joined KIIT-Technology Business Incubator in SFURTI Project as Associate-Cluster Network. An ambitious and dedicated civil engineer with practical and technical skills and a range of experience within construction engineering and project Implementation. Before joining KIIT-TBI, he has worked in VEE JAY ENGINEER Pvt. Ltd. for 3 years Experience of Building Construction and also Experience of working on major foundations, reinforced concrete and steelwork structures including specialized construction. He pursued his Bachelor of Technology with specialization in CIVIL Engineering from Eastern Academy of Science and Technology (EAST),Bhubaneswar.

Sipra Prusty

Program Executive - Cluster Network

Sipra Prusty

Sipra Prusty joined KIIT-TBI in SFURTI Vertical as Cluster Network Program Executive . Working on reports for the cluster-specfic projects and coordinating the Implementation team.

Subhasmita Sahu

Young Professional - Cluster Network

Subhasmita Sahu

Subhasmita Sahoo joined SFURTI vertical of KIIT-TBI as a Young Professional. She has completed MBA in Rural Management from KIIT School of Rural Management, Bhubaneswar and B. Sc. (Botany Honors) from Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology (OUAT), Bhubaneswar. Prior to joining KIIT-TBI, she did her internship in the areas of community development programmes, rural livelihood development, and strategic handholding of small and medium enterprises through Mission Swavalamban (SIDBI).