Vedang Vatsa
Computer Engineer, MBA, Chartered Engineer | Young Researcher 2020 Awardee (22 publications) & Young Achiever 2020-21 Awardee
Experience
Growth Advisory (Founder)
Hashtag Web3
Served as Head of Marketing and Growth Lead for several Web3 companies. Built a 100k+ member networking community for Web3, a social-messaging-first forum, and one of the largest channels for Web3 jobs - 55 million post views in the first year. Featured among the top 3 Web3 products of the week by Smoothie and supported by Microsoft for Startups. Hosted weekly Twitter Spaces with high-profile guests (including a band member of Pink Floyd, partners of Big4 firms, the father of digital twin technology, and the CSO of Microsoft), attracting 20-30k live attendees. Partnered with leading organizations like Harvard Blockchain Club, ETH Oxford, Token 2049, ETH Vietnam, Taipei Blockchain Week, Oxford Blockchain Conference, Malaysia Blockchain Week, ETH Brussels, EDCON Tokyo, etc. Published crash courses on NFT, Metaverse, Tokenomics, DAO, Blockchain, and DeFi, with 50,000 accesses in the first month and 40,000 newsletter subscribers. Among top 100 thought leaders & influencers in Metaverse and Smart Cities by Thinkers360. Research reporting on AI and Web3 resulted in 80 million yearly LinkedIn post views & features by LinkedIn News UK & Europe.
Country Head
Prosple
Led user growth to 200K through content, social media & social messaging initiatives - generating over 1.5M geo-targeted web hits. I hosted events with top company executives (Microsoft, Bain & Company, etc.) and partnered with startups and educational institutions.
Consultant
KPMG
Program Management (Minister's Office, Ministry of Electronics and IT, India): Served as Program Manager for Digital-India products and projects under the Ministry. Worked on the Minister's social media strategy, created a personal website, and liaised with scientists, state officials, startup founders, CXOs, and bureaucrats. I gathered data, built dashboards, led growth initiatives, and facilitated high-level reviews. Served as an evaluation committee member for a government innovation challenge. Research and Due Diligence: Commercial Due Diligence (Ecommerce with $2B valuation, Digital Payments - 2500Mn transaction volume). Technical Due Diligence (HealthTech app with 220 million downloads, Social Media with $100 million valuation). Policy Research (National Policy on Software Products, Responsible AI, Data Protection Bill, Fake news, Proceedings on BigTechs, etc.). Business Strategy & Analysis: Designed strategies for KPMG's Analytics Centre of Excellence, a crowdfunding platform, and data centers. Monitored projects in Language Translation, Digital Villages, & AI. Prepared process architecture and delivery model for contactless tracking in India-Posts (world's largest postal network). Multiple Kudos + Top Scorer award in KPMG's Digital Premier League on Emerging Technologies: Received special appreciation by the Partner.
Project Manager (Co-Founder)
Studio Tesseract
Led a 30-member team, delivering 27 web and mobile products across the full development lifecycle. Expanded business development and UI design globally, serving clients on 5 continents. Secured recommendations from the screenwriter for Oscars and CPA+ Israel.
Education
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
BE - Computer Engineering & MBA
President's Gold Medal nominee. Represented 100+ students as the department student representative, led a 40- member Entrepreneurship Cell team, and grew internship offers by 73%. Won "Freshman of the Year," served as Training and Placement Cell Executive Head. Finished Management Development Program on leadership from Indian Institute of Management Indore.
Skills
Key Achievements
Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
Previous Fellows have included Stephen Hawking, Charles Dickens, Karl Marx and Benjamin Franklin.
Issued Japanʼs special visa for Intellectual Figures
Presented my prototype for a low-cost laptop among the top entries at IIT Delhi
appreciated by the Head of MIT Media Labs and Alberto Minetti (Nobel Laureate).
Young Researcher Awardee 2020 and Young Achiever Awardee 2020-21
Felicitated with a medal by the Former Director of Indiaʼs Prime Minister's Office
for winning the Beat Plastic Hackathon.
Represented Indian delegation in the India-Venezuela Youth Dialogue, Harvard Project for Asian & International Relations, India-China Roundtable, India-Norway Youth Conference, India-Azerbaijan Roundtable Dialogue, India-Botswana Dialogue 2018, World Business Dialogue, etc.
Publications
Recent Research (2024-2026)
Device-to-Device Economics and AI Agent Transactions; SSRN Stablecoin Growth and Market Dynamics; SSRN Stablecoins in the Modern Financial System; SSRN Global Stablecoin Regulations and Policies; SSRN Blockchain Ecosystem Evolution; SSRN
Earlier Publications
Estonia's e-governance and public service delivery solution; IEEE Analysis of Global Research Proceedings in Artificial Intelligence; IEEE Identification of Algorithmic Bias Through Policy Instruments; IJAR China's approach to AI: A review of policy, ethics, and research advancements; Responsible AI Forum 2021, Munich Decoding identity in the Metaverse; Yourstory Ethical implications in Artificial Intelligence and Brain Computer Interfaces The emerging Internet of Value; Inc42 Emergence of TechFin in the emerging economies; IOSR Base erosion and profit shifting in multinational corporations; Theoretical & Applied Economics Growth of Digital Payments and the emergence of FinTech ecosystem in India; Indian Journal of Research Coronavirus Outbreak: Trillion-Dollar Crisis and Evolution of New Global Order; Diplomacy and Beyond A literature review on Internet of Things (IoT); IJCS Current Trends and Approaches of Network Intrusion Detection System; IJCSMC Case Study on Mobile Applications Industry; IJIR Security in Ubiquitous Computing and Analysis of security threats in MANET; UGC SAP Conference A Review on Multi-Modal Biometric Systems; IJCTA Comparative Analysis of Coverage Schemes in Wireless Sensor Network; CAE Raspberry Pi based Implementation of IoT using Telegram
Other Projects
ERNST & YOUNG
Sectoral impact of OECD's action plans on Base Erosion & Profit Shifting.
OMIDYAR NETWORK
Led creative strategy for startups in CivicTech event - 3 got funded.
HINDUSTAN PETROLEUM
Analytics tool to monitor sales data of 50+ petrol pumps across the National Capital Region in India.
JOURNALISM WEEK by University of Chicago
Led the media & content for the 7-day multi-city event.
DELL
Intranet portal for micro project management via team update submission.
Interests
Traveling & Photography
Selected among a few photographers to cover the world's largest festival by gathering. Solo-traveled to 17 countries.
Adventure Sports
World's highest canyon swing, National Mountain Biking Expedition.
Public Speaking
Workshops on Computational Social Science, Chinaʼs Approach to AI, Citizens of the Metaverse, Digital Payments in India, Data Privacy, Blockchain use-cases, e-Governance in Estonia, Network States, Responsible AI, etc.
Testimonials
Jack Alison
Screenwriter for Academy Awards (Oscars)
"I always find his work to be of just the absolute high quality. He is always timely, so easy to work with, responsive to notes and always able to explain things to me when it's hard for me to get things. He has my highest endorsement."
Bharath Visweswariah
Director Investments, Omidyar Network
"I am very comfortable to recommend him for any job that requires strict deadlines, taking on new challenges at short notice and dealing with altering priorities, efficient client communication and good analytical capabilities."
Eran Malovani
Founder of CPA+
"He helped me a lot in working closely with me and understand my requirements even though we had some language barriers between us but Vedang has never let these barriers be the reason of any delay in the work."