Vikrant Bhargava is Founder & Chairman of First Tech Challenge UK, which equips young people with the technical knowhow and soft skills to succeed, connecting them with mentors to design robots, take on industry linked missions and compete in tournaments. The Indian-born British businessman was the co-founder and former marketing director of online casino operator PartyGaming. Vikrant joined PartyGaming (formerly iGlobalMedia) as marketing director in early 2000. In July 2001, he oversaw the marketing for the launch of PartyPoker, and was the face of Partygaming when it went public in 2005, at the time the London Stock Exchange's largest IPO of an internet company, valued at over $8 Billion.

Prior to joining PartyGaming, Bhargava was a credit officer at Bank of America, responsible for managing credit exposure and revenue for corporate clients, and a business analyst in the business development division of British Gas. After stepping down from PartyGaming, he became the head of a private investment company, Veddis Ventures, registered in Gibraltar. Vikrant is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, and also holds a bachelor's degree in Technology in electrical engineering from IIT Delhi.