Jeeva Bhat

Jeeva Bhat has over 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur across various sectors that include IT/software, event planning, and consumer retail in India and Russia. In each of these entrepreneurial stints, she has been in operational and marketing/branding roles where she helped set up the firms, hired and trained personnel, helped design and create the marketing collateral, and then responsible for ongoing operations. She has also been an Independent PR and Branding Consultant to various businesses that range from art fairs, retail, to the F&B industries.

She led the implementation of Microsoft’s Highway to a 100 Unicorns and Project Amplify initiatives across India, SEA and APAC. Jeeva is the Program Director who leads the initiatives to support the planning, execution, and engagement with Start Ups and ecosystem players across all the various geos. She is passionate about the environment and currently is promoting conscious textiles, rehabilitating weaving communities and supporting farmers. Her volunteering activities include a Farmers Market to promote chemical and pesticide free products grown by close to 250 farmers from Himachal and the interiors of UP, being an activist for Vermicompost pits and close to zero waste by first creating a model example in her neighborhood, to programs to teach skills to the differently able. She has organised several events end to end for TIE, CII, and the F&B industry over the past 2 decades. She has also participated at the TechCamp, Khatmandu, Clean Air for S Asia and helped in organising a panel for Microsoft at the UNEP Conference in Delhi in 2019.