Asher John Sathya is <div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size:larger;">'''Serving as a University Innovation Fellow and an undergraduate student of Mechanical Engineering at UIF Since: '''Fall 2016</span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size:larger;">'''School: '''CMR Institute of Technology, Bengaluru</span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size:larger;">'''What he does now: '''Works with Enterprise Tech, IndiaUrban Tech & Healthcare startups at The CoWrks Foundry - an early stage startup accelerator </span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size:larger;">'''What that means: '''Helping startups grow their business, enable access to mentors & industry experts, conduct events, help create startup pitches and raise funds. [[File:Asher John Sathya Profile Picture.jpg|thumb|Asher John Sathya Profile Picture.jpg]]His areas of interest are </span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br/></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size:larger;">'''Contact him about: '''Anything startups, Facilitating workshops, collaboration, raising funding for change programs, commercial aviation, football (the aerospace industry one where you actually use your feet!) and product designcoffee!</span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size:larger;">'''Email: '''ashersathya@gmail. Originally com</span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size:larger;"></span><br/></div> Asher is a University Innovation Fellow and a graduate of Mechanical Engineering from the state CMR Institute of Tamil NaduTechnology, Asher is based in Bengaluru since 2011, India. He chose to pursue his higher studies currently works as an Associate at The CoWrks Foundry - a startup accelerator, where he helps early stage B2B startups in Mechanical engineering to help him learn more about his desired field India and USA scale their business. He works with a portfolio of Aerospace technology. At CMRITstartups in Enterprise Tech, he was exposed to the UIF program by his project mentorUrban Tech (with Columbia University & Brown University) and Healthcare (with Yale Institute of Global Health).
Asher’s interest with the startup ecosystem started while in college, where he worked actively to foster a culture of innovation and collaboration, before ultimately helping set up the ‘Innovation Entrepreneurship Center.’ The center continues to be an active hub for innovation, research and Social Entrepreneurship. As a University Innovation Fellow, Asher is currently involved conducted regular workshops in Design Thinking both in his campus and heading two project groups at events such as Google Developer Days Asia, Developer Student Club Summit etc. He continues to conduct these workshops for the past yearstartup founders he interacts with. In his spare timeAsher was trained as a University Innovation Fellow in Fall 2016, he is often seen discussing varied ideas and solutions with his peers attended the Silicon Valley meetup in March 2016. He has helped host the March 2018 Silicon Valley meetup and faculty membersthe May 2018 Eastern Hemisphere Meetup as a ‘FAB’. Asher has a wide range of professional interests. He has always been known held prestigious roles such as an enterprising individual ‘School Prefect’ and 'Treasurer' for the 'Society of Mechanical Engineers' at CMRIT. In his free time, he looks to put this to good useis actively sampling new types of coffee and experimenting with brewing methods, besides reading or watching football.
Asher has discovered his passion to be a techno-entrepreneur. The recent events occurring world over have piqued his desire to help the world, and he wants his future endeavours to have a social touch to them. Since middle school Asher has been an avid reader, debater, creative writer which have won him many awards. He was also involved in theatre until his high school days. He is a leader and has held prestigious roles such as ‘School Prefect’. On his campus, he wants to create a Social-Entrepreneurship wing along with the UIF Leadership Circle.
== Related links: ==
==== [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/CMR_Institute_of_Technology CMR Institute of Technology] ====
==== [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/CMR_Institute_of_Technology_Student_Priorities CMR Institute of Technology Student Priorities] ====
UIF Fellows from CMRIT:
[http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Priyanka_Srivastava Priyanka Srivastava]
[[Abhay_RanganAbhay Rangan|Abhay Rangan]] [https://youtu.be/4pRH92rQ9Ww Pitch Video]
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