ABOUT ME

Monce is Director, THEV.

A management specialist – his expertise includes Marketing, Branding, Strategy, Building Innovation Capability, Thought leadership, Organization Effectiveness and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Backgrounds for the entrepreneurs and business leaders consulted include Harvard, UPenn, Columbia, Cambridge, ISB, World Economic Forum Young Global Leaders (WEF YGLs), Fortune 500 CEOs, IIMs, IITs, RECs, non-profit founders and top level management.

Monce has served as a ‘Mentor of Change’ for the first ever selected Mentor India Batch at the national Atal Tinkering Labs, Atal Innovation Mission (2018 – Present); Jury Member at Africa’s Business Heroes, Jack Ma Foundation‘s flagship philanthropic program in Africa to support entrepreneurs (2024, 2023, 2022); Jury Chair for FMS Annual Case Competition (2024) ; Mentor at MIT Solve : 2021 Jacobs Foundation Conference Solveathon, Octava Social Innovation Challenge (2021); Mentor at Paytm Build For India Entrepreneurship Bootcamp (2019); Mentor at Centre for Entrepreneurship, Ashoka University (2019, 2018); Jury Member at Ingenious Faces (2020, 2019, 2018); Mentor & Jury Member at Startup Safari (2018, 2017, 2016); Mentor at the national Startup India program (2017 – Present); Jury Member, India at Global EdTech Startup Awards / GESA – world’s largest EdTech startup competition (2017); Mentor at Nexus – Startup Hub (2017); Mentor at Seedstars World (2022, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017); Mentor & Jury Member at CII YI Dream Startup Challenge (2018); Jury Member at Enactus NSUT Aspire (2017); Judge at Startup Weekend (2024); Mentor at Startup Weekend (2016); youngest Expert Assessor at National Skills Development Corporation ‘NSDC’ Power to Empower Challenge (2014); youngest Jury Member at founding event of VGSoM IIT Kharagpur Saamanjasya (2010).

Prior initiatives include heading the Marketing and Research function for the Indian Venture and Alternate Capital Association (IVCA) at 24 years of age and working as a Member of the Founding Team of a global hi-tech venture with a Marquis Who’s Who serial entrepreneur & global innovator.

Monce was invited to be on the Board of Advisors for the World Economic Forum Global Shapers Madhya Pradesh Hub, and was also the youngest Alum to have been invited to join the Old Columbans Trust (OCT) of the prestigious St. Columba’s School, New Delhi in the capacity of Exec Secretary. Monce was also invited by Alma Mater to be a Member of the Platinum Jubilee Core Committee (PJCC), St. Columba’s School, New Delhi on the occasion of the Platinum Jubilee (75 years) of the institution. Monce was invited to share in the nomination and was elected to the Old Columbans Association (OCA) Executive Committee for 2023 – 2025. Monce was awarded with the recognition as a Global Ambassador of Human Rights and Peace, by the International Human Rights Advisory Council (IHRAC) and All India Council of Human Rights, Liberties and Social Justice (AICHLS).

In 2015, Monce was invited by ‘Child Rights and You (CRY)’ to run the ‘Airtel Delhi Half Marathon (ADHM)’ (21.1 Km) as a Care Champion (Diamond) – With no prior history or training in distance running, Monce completed his first ever Half Marathon with a finish time of 2:15:31 (certificate). Within the next 3 months, in Feb 2016, Monce attempted and successfully completed his first Full Marathon ‘New Delhi Marathon 2016’ (42.2 Km) as Child Rights Champion for ‘Nine is Mine’ initiative with a finish time of 4:31:21 (certificate). In 9 more months, within his first year of having attempted long-distance running, Monce successfully completed his first Ultra Marathon ‘Bangalore Ultra Marathon 2016‘ (50 K – enduring muscle pulls for almost 25K of the distance) as Child Rights Champion for ‘Nine is Mine’ initiative with a finish time of 7:22:46 (certificate). In his second year, Monce attempted the 100K Ultra Marathon in ‘Bangalore Ultra Marathon 2017‘ as a Wish Champion for Make A Wish India but was able to earn only the 75K Finisher Medal with a finish time of 14:06:02 (certificate). Most recently, Monce was invited for, and qualified, the tryouts for Bajaj Allianz Life Plankathon 2022, where he was part of a mass effort of holding the plank to honour the Indian Armed Forces which made it to the Guinness World Records for “Most people holding the abdominal plank position, with 4,454 participants”. In 2024, Monce got back to running long distance running in 2024 with the Dwarka Half Marathon 2024 with a finish time of 2:50:06 (certificate) with no prior preparations. Within the next 3 months, in October 2024, Monce ran ‘The Vedanta Delhi Half Marathon 2024’ (21.1 Km) as Inclusion Champion for Tamana with a finish time of 2:31:59 (certificate).

Monce scored in the 97th percentile in the 2014 Mensa IQ test, placing him in the top 3% IQ of the world, and is an autodidact and polyglot.

Monce is represented by The Outstanding Speakers’ Bureau, the leading organization in India & Asia, for all his speaking engagements. Monce has been hosted to address gatherings at : AICRA Global Artificial Intelligence Summit & Awards 2019 (Media – English | Media – Hindi) ; Research Connect Forum 2019 co-hosted by IIT-Gandhinagar and Elsevier ; Seedspace Dar es Salaam Bootcamp 2019UIncept iXi Summit 2020 (Media) ; NSUT E-Summit 2020 (Media) ; LATOKEN Online Roadshow ; AIESEC YouPhoria 2.0 Summit (2021) ; BML Munjal University, India (2022)Chitkara University, India (2022) ; University of Stirling, Ras Al Khaimah, UAE (2022) amongst other leading organizations.

Monce did his schooling from St. Columba’s School, New Delhi and holds a Bachelors Degree (First Class with Distinction) in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Anna University.