Madan Padaki is the Co-founder & CEO of MeritTrac Services Pvt. Ltd. MeritTrac is India's Largest Skills Assessments Company and is headquartered in Bangalore.

Madan completed his engineering from the National Institute of Engineering, University of Mysore and joined Wipro Corporation - Fluid Power unit in Export Sales. Attracted by the booming IT industry, he moved on to Infosys Technologies into a Product Management & Marketing role. After a year’s stint, he went on to pursue his MBA from S.P.Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai. On graduating in 1999, he joined BFL Software (now Mphasis/EDS) in Business Development and was posted to Tokyo in a role that involved setting up their operations in the Far East.

Bitten by the entrepreneurial bug in Aug 2000, he conceived and co-founded MeritTrac – as a pioneering idea in skills assessment. MeritTrac is today India’s Largest Skills Assessment Company and was recently recognized as a winner of the Red Herring Top 100 Asia, Deloitte Technology Fast 50 India and Fast 500 Asia-Pacific awards as well as the NASSCOM IT Innovation award.

INSEAD, Europe’s Leading Business School has written a case-study on MeritTrac and this case-study is a part of INSEAD’s Entrepreneurship courses where Madan is an invited guest faculty. MeritTrac has also been featured extensively in a book on Entrepreneurship, titled “Mastering Business in Asia” – by Prof. Patrick Turner & Chris Boulton.

Madan is an active speaker at many forums specifically on topics pertaining to Assessments, Talent Pools & Employability Enhancement. He is also the author of several articles on HR & Employability which have been featured in leading publications across India. He is extensively quoted in the media as an expert in the field of assessments, talent pools and featured in articles on entrepreneurship. He serves on the Governing Council of DOEACC, an organisation of the Ministry of IT, Govt. of India to evaluate IT education in India. He is also an active member of NASSCOM, CII, and a charter member of TiE.