Venu has a Bachelors in Computer Science and Economics from BITS Pilani and an MBA from University of Texas, Arlington.

Venu has served on the Board of New Jersey Technology Council and is the current Co-Chairman of CIO council. Venu received a Masters in Engineering from City College of New York (CUNY), New York and Bachelors in Engineering from Andhra University, India.

Shashi is currently Senior Vice President at Zurich Financial Services in Chicago. Before this, he was an Associate Partner at the consulting firm McKinsey and Company in their Retail Technology practice. Shashi also works actively in the non-profit sector, especially in the area of human rights advocacy.

Shashi obtained an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts. Prior to rediscovering his love for cricket, Shashi was on Indian national rowing team for 10 years.

An alumnus of BITS Pilani, Shiv has spent over 19 years in the IT/BPO offshore outsourcing space-working with the HCL group for 16 years before his tenure as head of global sales & marketing at Oakhill Capital?s portfolio company EXL Service, which had an impressive NASDAQ listing in 2006. Shiv embarked on his entrepreneurial journey with a mission to institutionalize his pioneering ?Microsourcing? outsourcing model and is actively engaged in several educational and philanthropic initiatives to foster University-Industry collaboration for creating a vibrant Rural BPO business in India, apart from serving on the boards of several private and publicly listed outsourcing firms in the India-US business corridor.

Boria is General Editor General Editor, Sport in the Global Society Series, (Routledge) and Deputy Executive Editor, International Journal of the History of Sport, Taylor and Francis, London. Boria is a Research Fellow at Latrobe University in Melbourne and a Fellow of the International Olympic Museum at Lausanne. He has taught both at University of Chicago and University of Toronto.

Boria's book credits include The Illustrated History of Indian Cricket, New Delhi: Roli Books, India and Tempus, UK, October 2006; Goalless: The story of a unique footballing nation, with Kausik Bandyopadhyay, Penguin-Viking, January 2006; and Lost Histories of Indian Cricket: Battles of the Pitch, Routledge, (2005). He is also the author of the forthcoming monographs/edited Collections: World Cup 2007-Tales of a sad caper-Harper Collins, Delhi, 2007; Olympism: The Global Vision, From Nationalism to Internationalism, co-edited with Sandra Collins, Routledge, 2007; Cricket, Race and the 2007 World Cup, co-edited with Jon Gemmell, Routledge, 2008 and Revisiting 1857-Myth, Memory, History, co-edited with Sharmistha Gooptu, Roli Books India, 2007.