Aradhya Malhotra

Arad Malhotra, is an award winning Social Entrepreneur with a passion to create, lead and advise disruptive startups that create meaningful impact. Arad, is a global expert in the application of immersive games across multiple industries and the co-founder of Skyless Game Studios, a highly decorated organization that uses the immersive video games as an active learning medium to drive social impact through engagement.

Skyless Games collaborates with non profit organizations, corporations and governments to empower global philanthropic missions or address specific training needs. They focus on designing multi-platform products (PC,Mobile,AR/VR) that educate people about issues like healthcare awareness, minority empowerment, autism therapy etc. One of their keystone projects 'Follow The Money' is a customizable game simulation that governments and corporations use for international anti-corruption and anti-money laundering training.

Arad's contributions have been featured in various international publications including Forbes, VentureBeat, HuffPost, WSJ etc and he has been invited to speak at multiple national and international fora including the United Nations Conference of State Parties (Panama '13), Forbes 30 under 30 summit (USA '14-18), the International Anti-Corruption Conference (Malaysia '15), Gitex Tech Talks (UAE '19), Ogilvy Millennials in Marketing Summit, International Entrepreneurship Summit, multiple top universities (University of Pennsylvania, Drexel, Villanova, St.Joseph's University) etc.

In 2018, the U.S government recognized Arad's original contributions and granted him the 'Genius' visa (EB1-A) reserved for 'Individuals with Extraordinary Ability or Achievement such as Academy Award / Nobel Prize Winners'.

Arad is recognized as being in the top 1% of his field in the world and was featured on the global Forbes 30 under 30 list (2016) for Games.

He currently serves on the jury for the Stevie-International Business Awards and often coaches / trains senior leadership / executives at multiple Fortune 500 companies.