Likhitha Palaypu - Interups CEO

Ms. Likhitha Palaypu is Director of Interups Inc. She is an honors graduate from the University of St Andrews in Scotland, where she studied International Relations with special interest in conflict theory and environmental politics. In the frame of her studies, she has worked as a political analyst for Frontier Horizons, a securities and political risk analysis firm based in London, studied conflict at the Galtung Institut in Germany and reported for the Foreign Affairs Review, a rapidly growing online journal for international affairs. While developing reporting and journalistic experience, she has also taken on roles as a negotiator alongside UNCITRAL and the Office of the Special Advisor to the Prime Minister of Guinea Bissau to strategize the passage of key trade agreements. Her involvement in the financial services and asset management fields began in 2011, when under the guidance of her father, Mr. Laxmi Prasad, she began independently managing and building client relationships with IRA customers and various state governmental bodies. With these reporting, negotiating, and interpersonal skills in hand, she was serving the board of the Registrant since 2014. Ms. Palaypu has accepted executive responsibility to handle relationship management for the Registrant, and will be collaboratively working with the Board to handle media and public relations, and corporate internal and external affairs. She is the daughter of Laxmi Prasad, the Registrants Interim Chief Financial Officer. since 2016.