Shyam Sekar, a Business Growth Coach and Startup (Mentor) Expert with over 25 years of professional experience is the Founder, Chief Mentor and Strategist at Startup Xperts, a Business Consulting and Digital Marketing firm aimed at supporting Startups and SMEs in India and abroad. His entity 'Startup Xperts' is a pioneer in the startup consulting arena in India. His passion is to build our entrepreneurship ecosystem, and scale up our Small and Medium Enterprises (SME)!He is a highly recognised mentor in the startup arena and has been a mentor; for Startup Weekend, a Seattle based, globally spread initiative, mentor for IIT-Kharagpur's E-cell, IIT-Madras, IIT-Bombay, BITS Pilani, Entrepreneurship Development and Innovation Institute (EDII), and also the Chairman for the Mentor Advisory Panel-MAP of BYST (a 25 year young, not-for-profit initiative),. Startup Xperts is also the Ecosystem Partner for CII - Startupreneurs initiative and Knowledge Partner for numerous platforms/events.He is an International Accredited Mentor (City and Guilds, UK). Has numerous articles, cover stories in the press and media.Shyam has scaled up businesses in IT and ITES, across global markets encompassing North America, UK, EMEA and APAC. He has successfully built enterprises both from start-up to business steady mode, and expansion of businesses for large multinational conglomerates. Shyam has travelled across 25 countries, and had lived in the US for a few years, till 2012. After returning back, he started to pursue his passion in supporting entrepreneurs to build and accelerate their business growth. He continues to mentor startups, and acts as strategy & growth consultant, Virtual CMO, and as Advisory to Board.Shyam acts as a Startup and Business Coach! He coaches entrepreneurs (incl. aspiring ones) through workshops/boot camp.He also writes cover stories, column articles, in the ‘Small Enterprise’ Entrepreneur business magazine, and also contributed for Business Standard's newsletter. Besides, he is a Keynote speaker, panellist, moderator for various events across India.