Sean Blagsvedt is the CEO of Dara.network, the community platform for changemakers and the institutions that support them.

Previously, he was the founder and CEO of Babajob.com, India's largest digital job marketplace for the aspiring labor, with over 8.5 million users and acquired by Quikr in June 2017. Sean moved to Bangalore in 2004 as the 3rd founding member of Microsoft Research India and earlier was a Program Manager in the UX teams of Office and Windows. He also was a White House intern with President Clinton's Internet Policy Czar, Ira Magaziner.

Sean is a TED Fellow, GES Entrepreneur, Unreasonable Goals Entrepreneur and recipient of the Namma Bengaluru award for Best Foreign Resident. He holds 29 patents, degrees in Computer Science and Public Policy from Brown University and writes for the WorldBank and others at http://blagsvedt.com. Sean lives in Seattle and is married to Archana Prasad, COO of Dara.network, founder of Jaaga.in and the Bengaluru Fantastic tech art festival. They share a wonderful son, Vyom, a love of music and techart and two street dogs named Berlin and Madhurai.