Kanan Dhebar has extensive work experience, starting in 2001 as a Senior Resource Executive at Excellency Search. From 2002 to 2007, Dhebar worked at Birla Group as an Operations & Marketing Manager. Following that, from 2007 to 2008, Dhebar was a Consultant at NIIT. Then, from 2008 to 2010, Dhebar worked at Aptech Ltd as an Assistant Manager - Project Management. From 2010 to 2011, Dhebar held the position of Head Co-ordination at Birla TransAsia Carpets Ltd. In 2011, Dhebar joined MeritTrac Service's Pvt Ltd as an Assistant Project Manager. In 2013, Dhebar became a Project Manager at IIT Bombay and held this role until 2016. Since 2016, Dhebar has been working at the Society for Innovation & Entrepreneurship - SINE IIT Bombay, where they have held the roles of Project Manager, Senior Project Manager, and currently, Vice President - Projects.
Kanan Dhebar completed a Bachelor of Science degree in Botany from the University of Mumbai from 1991 to 1994. Additionally, they pursued a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management with a specialization in Customer Relationship Management from Symbiosis Centre for Distance Learning, although the specific dates of this program are unknown.
Society for Innovation & Entrepreneurship -SINE IIT Bombay
Society for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (SINE), is an umbrella organization at IIT Bombay for fostering entrepreneurship and nurturing tech start-ups. SINE, is a technology business incubator providing ‘Start to Scale’ support for technology-based startups/innovators and facilitates the conversion of research activity into entrepreneurial ventures with a focus towards economic growth across sectors. Established in the year 2004, SINE has gained recognition as one of the pioneers of the startup incubation ecosystem in India. SINE actively collaborates for various initiatives with Corporates, Government, Institutions, and International organisations and has gained a leadership position in the business incubation community in India. SINE has been selected as “Centre of Excellence” by DST- GOI (Department of Science and Technology). In addition to CoE, DST has also selected SINE as an implementation partner to run its nationwide program for funding innovators for prototyping their ideas. SINE has also set up a BIO-Incubator (BioNest) to encourage the MedTech entrepreneurs under BIRAC & DBT-GOI (Department of Biotechnology) and is also selected as BIG partner. MeitY-GOI (Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology) also supports SINE.