Our Team
Creatnet is a multidisciplinary community of like-minded people dedicated to fostering a learning and leadership culture.
Meet the Team
Darshan Bhat
Founder | Group MD
Darshan Bhat
Founder | Group MD
Developing Leaders, Designing Frameworks
Darshan believes that, as humans, we are wired to be learners who are self-driven. He has been actively engaged in transforming education and business for over two decades through a systematic, conscious, life-long, integrated, and interdisciplinary learning process.
Neha Puri
HR | Mindfulness NVC
Amrish Shyam
Advertising | Digital
Amrish Shyam
Advertising | Digital
Digital Marketing, Org Development, Communication
Amrish comes with a proven track record of advertising and leading the creative function in a digital marketing company, having worked with leading corporations. He has also been advising and facilitating retail brands on their digital strategy. His strengths lie in strategic areas, and he enables the expansion of vision and its implementation.
Mandeep Singh Kalra
Entrepreneur | Assessments & Hiring
Mandeep Singh Kalra
Entrepreneur | Assessments & Hiring
Hiring, Assessments, Org Development
Mandeep holds expertise in organisation development, strategic HR, and technology consulting. Mandeep has an overall 20 years of experience in the IT sector, covering project management, consulting and delivery, and leadership coaching. Mandeep has held leadership positions at MNCs like Royal Bank of Scotland and IBM as part of his corporate career. In the last 10 years, he has been consulting early-to-growth stage companies and coaching their leaders for high performance.
Mohd. Sharique Farooqi
Innovation | Design Thinking
Mohd. Sharique Farooqi
Innovation | Design Thinking
Sharique brings 30 years of expertise in design education and practice to address business challenges at a strategic level. A graduate from NID, Ahmedabad, he has been engaged with design education at NIFT, Delhi and as the Founder Director of Craft Development Institute, Srinagar. He is a professor of Social Entrepreneurship at Ambedkar University Delhi.
Pavan Singh Sood
Entrepreneur | Supply Chain
Pavan Singh Sood
Entrepreneur | Supply Chain
Connecting people to operations & Finance, OKR, Performance
Pavan, an alumni of IIT Delhi, has been a part of the textile and fashion industries, where he has been a partner in Creatnet’s fashion company. Specialising in operations, supply chain management, and a people's person at core, his shift to OD has been a natural curve. Presently, he works with entrepreneurs and the executive leadership teams of growth-stage organisations across various industries. Through his experience and interests, he enables a process-oriented approach for scaling operations.
Symran Bhue
Tech & Marketing Consultant | Artist
Symran Bhue
Tech & Marketing Consultant | Artist
Technology, Digital Marketing, Org Development
Symran is an engineer with an MBA from SDA Bocconi, Italy and has worked in the intersection of marketing and technology in her career with start-ups and digital marketing in India and the US. Her strengths lie in strategy and execution (with creativity and innovation). She is currently facilitating the next in line leadership at a boutique law firm.
Raman Gulati
Indian Army | Hospitality
Raman Gulati
Indian Army | Hospitality
Org Development, People Management, Operations
Raman gained extensive leadership experience serving as an Indian Army officer for 21 years. Thereafter, for 9 years he led operations of a travel company managing multi-location and diverse teams. Presently , at Creatnet he is actively involved in working with the organisations to develop learning and leadership in both individuals and teams.
Santosh Sood
Consulting | Brand positioning
Santosh Sood
Consulting | Brand positioning
Marketing Strategy, Branding, Communication
IIMA graduate and a specialist in the conceptualization of brand and marketing interventions that result in a hierarchical shift in the business. Equally useful in cases where the business has yet to take off or where a turnaround is required on account of change in the market environment. Hands-on experience on brands at different stages of their lifecycle and in various industries - telecom, healthcare, automobiles, white goods, FMCG and NPOs.
Vijay Sankaran
Tech | Xoogler | Community Builder
Vijay Sankaran
Tech | Xoogler | Community Builder
Technology Mindfulness,
Vijay is an ex-Googler who has a decade-long software engineering experience with different companies and building products, including for Myntra, Juspay, and Amazon. He has a passion for learning and a human-centred technology approach. His strengths are his patience, deep listening, and abstract-thinking abilities. Currently, he leads product and technology for Creatnet.
Kritika Krishna
Business Development | Poet
Kritika Krishna
Business Development | Poet
An IIT Delhi alumna, Kritika is an explorer of alternative ways of teaching, learning, and living with 'education' and 'wellness' as her key areas of interest. She loves to dabble with words and voice as a facilitator, anchor, moderator, voice artist, writer, poet, lyricist and content creator. Having worked across domains from NGOs and KFI schools to corporates, she has deepened her understanding of the challenges faced by humans of different age groups. She is also leading the youth initiatives at Creatnet Education. She has excelled at facilitating workshops and delivering seminars since her college days and loves interacting with people on various topics relevant to lead a meaningful life. Kritika is also an Executive Committee member in the IIT Delhi Alumni Association. Having personally experienced the support that daily meditation offers to face and overcome life’s challenges and inner battles over the years, she now volunteers as a certified meditation trainer with the Heartfulness (HFN) Institute.
Maneet Kour
Soft Skills Developer | Musician
Maneet Kour
Soft Skills Developer | Musician
Maneet has been working in the industry of training and development for more than 17 years. She has been leading programs for transformation and trained leaders at a global level. With experience of leading programs for over 1000+ people and impacting their lives directly or indirectly, she has the expertise to listen and deliver what will empower the other person and how she can make a difference in their lives. Her calm and friendly nature gives space to people where they truly discover their 'Self' and explore the world of possibilities.
Nidhi Rao
Technology | Learning Management
Nidhi Rao
Technology | Learning Management
With a background in Hospitality Business, Nidhi has been involved with multiple hotel chains across the globe. Having a broad understanding of Hotel and restaurant operations , she was extensively involved in managing online distribution and revenue for a number of hotels in the Middle East. She is a passionate driven individual, who is able to adapt easily and has a good understanding and knowledge to create processes and structures in any space. Her knowledge of Excel is excellent and is very useful in any business. Nidhi is passionate about learning and always looks at different ways to recreate things in the business world.