Utkarsh Amitabh

Utkarsh Amitabh is the CEO of Network Capital, one of the world’s largest mentorship platforms that empowers 7.5 million+ school students and 200,000+ young professionals to build meaningful careers.

He is a writer at Harvard Business Review, a PhD Scholar at the University of Oxford, and a World Economic Forum Global Shaper who represented the community at the Annual Meeting in Davos.

He is the author of two best-selling books published by Sage and Penguin. He recently co-authored two books published by Harvard Business Review Press.

An engineer by training, Utkarsh studied philosophy at the University of Oxford and earned his MBA from INSEAD where he was recognized as the Andy Burgess Scholar for Social Entrepreneurship. He is also the Torchbearer of Ashoka University’s Young India Fellowship.

Utkarsh also worked at Microsoft for 7 years across US, Europe and India, leading business development for big bet projects. He is a TED speaker, Raisina Fellow, and the recipient of the INK Fellowship.

He is also a trained actor and played “Major Metcalf” in one of the world's longest-running plays. He loves to travel and has been to more than 80 countries.