Amit Ranjan is Cofounder of SlideShare (www.slideshare.net), the world's largest professional content sharing community. Slideshare is like 'Wikipedia for Professionals' - its mission is to empower the world’s professionals through knowledge-centric content. SlideShare was acquired by LinkedIn in 2012.

After exiting SlideShare in 2014, Amit joined the Digital India Program run by the National eGovernance Division, Ministry of Electronics & IT, Government of India. He is the Architect for the National Digital Locker Project (https://digilocker.gov.in/). A key initiative under Digital India, this project is part of #IndiaStack (http://indiastack.org/) and aims to build a nationwide ecosystem for paperless governance by digitizing citizen records & enabling digital usage of these records. Amit is deeply involved in the Indian startup community as an advisor and mentor. He is a frequent speaker at technology conferences and startup events.

Prior to his entrepreneurial venture, Amit had a career in product marketing, sales & consumer research, having worked for PepsiCo, Asian Paints & Godrej. He holds an MBA from FMS, Delhi University & a Mechanical Engineering degree from NIT Jaipur.