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Manish Lunia
Co-Founder, Flexiloans.com
Manish Lunia
Co-Founder, Flexiloans.com
Manish Lunia, a career financial services professional with 20+ years of experience co-Founded Flexiloans.com - one of India’s leading embedded ecosystem lenders for MSME Loans. FlexiLoans has raised over USD 200 mn in debt and equity so far and has disbursed over 60,000+ loans in 2000+ cities in India.
He leads the Risk and Credit, Co-lending and Strategic Partnerships & Alliances, Collections and Legal functions at Flexiloans. Before he co-founded FlexiLoans in 2016, he spearheaded multiple M&A deals at Aditya Birla Group and was a part of CEO's office for Aditya Birla Financial services in their formative years and growth journey for 7+ years. He was the Circle Finance Head for Tata Teleservices Limited in Gujarat leading finance for the fast growing telecom player.
Manish is also a part of the Executive Committee of the Digital Lenders Association of India (DLAI), spearheading various policies that would help in the growth of the industry.He is a regular speaker at various conferences and events like Tie-Con Mumbai, ISB Conclaves, DLAI Annual Conference, Fintegrate, etc. He is a Rank holder Chartered Accountant and an MBA from Indian School of Business (ISB, Hyderabad) (Dean’s List).
Sunil Dhall
CFA-Investment Management, Al Rajhi Ekhwan Group Co.
Sunil Dhall
CFA-Investment Management, Al Rajhi Ekhwan Group Co.
Siddharth Kothari
Chief Investment Strategist, Om Kothari Group
Siddharth Kothari
Chief Investment Strategist, Om Kothari Group
Siddharth is Chief Investment Strategist at Om Kothari Group. The Group has interests in Engineering Infrastructure, Automobile Dealerships, Manufacturing, and Real Estate. Their flagship company, Om Infra, is listed on the NSE and BSE.
Siddharth invests in listed and private companies across sectors and stages.
His notable startup investments include Beardo (acquired by Marico), Sirona (acquired by GoodGlamm), and Innov8 (acquired by Oyo). His growth stage investments include MobiKwik, Progcap, NSE, Waaree Energy and Nazara Tech.
Vegan since 2010, Siddharth has a special interest in plant-based ventures. He is a Partner at Ahimsa VC, India's first fund investing exclusively in sustainable alternatives to animal-based products.
Siddharth is a Partner at 2Point2 Capital PMS, a Venture Partner at Venture Catalysts, and an LP at Carpediem Capital. He is also a member at EO Gurgaon.
Siddharth is Chief Investment Strategist at Om Kothari Group. The Group has interests in Engineering Infrastructure, Automobile Dealerships, Manufacturing, and Real Estate. Their flagship company, Om Infra, is listed on the NSE and BSE.
Siddharth invests in listed and private companies across sectors and stages.
His notable startup investments include Beardo (acquired by Marico), Sirona (acquired by GoodGlamm), and Innov8 (acquired by Oyo). His growth stage investments include MobiKwik, Progcap, NSE, Waaree Energy and Nazara Tech.
Vegan since 2010, Siddharth has a special interest in plant-based ventures. He is a Partner at Ahimsa VC, India's first fund investing exclusively in sustainable alternatives to animal-based products.
Siddharth is a Partner at 2Point2 Capital PMS, a Venture Partner at Venture Catalysts, and an LP at Carpediem Capital. He is also a member at EO Gurgaon.
Siddharth is Chief Investment Strategist at Om Kothari Group. The Group has interests in Engineering Infrastructure, Automobile Dealerships, Manufacturing, and Real Estate. Their flagship company, Om Infra, is listed on the NSE and BSE.
Siddharth invests in listed and private companies across sectors and stages.
His notable startup investments include Beardo (acquired by Marico), Sirona (acquired by GoodGlamm), and Innov8 (acquired by Oyo). His growth stage investments include MobiKwik, Progcap, NSE, Waaree Energy and Nazara Tech.
Vegan since 2010, Siddharth has a special interest in plant-based ventures. He is a Partner at Ahimsa VC, India's first fund investing exclusively in sustainable alternatives to animal-based products.
Siddharth is a Partner at 2Point2 Capital PMS, a Venture Partner at Venture Catalysts, and an LP at Carpediem Capital. He is also a member at EO Gurgaon.
Siddharth is Chief Investment Strategist at Om Kothari Group. The Group has interests in Engineering Infrastructure, Automobile Dealerships, Manufacturing, and Real Estate. Their flagship company, Om Infra, is listed on the NSE and BSE.
Siddharth invests in listed and private companies across sectors and stages.
His notable startup investments include Beardo (acquired by Marico), Sirona (acquired by GoodGlamm), and Innov8 (acquired by Oyo). His growth stage investments include MobiKwik, Progcap, NSE, Waaree Energy and Nazara Tech.
Vegan since 2010, Siddharth has a special interest in plant-based ventures. He is a Partner at Ahimsa VC, India's first fund investing exclusively in sustainable alternatives to animal-based products.
Siddharth is a Partner at 2Point2 Capital PMS, a Venture Partner at Venture Catalysts, and an LP at Carpediem Capital. He is also a member at EO Gurgaon.
Nitesh Aggarwal
CIO, Baldota Family Office
Nitesh Aggarwal
CIO, Baldota Family Office
Nitesh Aggarwal is the Chief Investment Officer at Baldota Family Office fund with a deployable corpus of $130mn. The investment focus in to largely invest in the unlisted space into start-ups and VC/PE funds. They have already deployed ~40mn across 35 funds and 25 start-ups across India/US and Israel.
An alumnus of Indian Institute of Management - Bangalore, he has over 17 years of experience investing in the PE/VC asset class.
Nitesh was earlier associated with funds like Q Investments, New Enterprise Associates, and Edelweiss, among others.
Devashish Khanna
CIO- Private Market Investments, Capri Global Family office
Devashish Khanna
CIO- Private Market Investments, Capri Global Family office
Devashish has been in the Family Office Investing space for the last 18 years and has led 4 Family Offices in India. He has spent time across asset classes with passion to invest in Private Markets. Current portfolio has more than 15 LP positions and 40 direct investments.
Dr. Bala G. Dharan
Managing Director, Berkeley Research Group
Dr. Bala G. Dharan
Managing Director, Berkeley Research Group
Dr. Bala Dharan, Ph.D., CPA, is Robert B. and Candice J. Haas Professor and Senior Lecturer at Harvard Law School and Research Affiliate at MIT Sloan School of Management. He is also a Managing Director at Berkeley Research Group. He has provided consulting and expert testimony on corporate finance, accounting and auditing, business valuation, and corporate governance issues. He has been invited three times to the United States Congress to testify on financial reporting issues and has been a frequent invited speaker at various corporations and industry conferences. He has provided valuation and strategic consulting for several start-up businesses and helped co-found a software technology business serving the banking industry.
Professor Dharan is an award-winning teacher and has designed and taught dozens of corporate executive education offerings at Wharton School, Rice University, Indian School of Business, and other institutions. He has been a professor or visiting professor at leading global business schools, including MIT Sloan School of Management, University of California at Berkeley, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, Indian School of Business, and Jones School of Management at Rice University. His research centers on the strategic use of financial information by managers and investors. He is a co-author of four textbooks.
Professor Dharan is a Certified Public Accountant (USA) with ABV (Accredited in Business Valuation) and CFF (Certified in Financial Forensics) credentials. He has a B.Tech degree in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, PGDM (MBA) from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and MS and Ph.D. degrees in accounting from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.
Sridhar Ramachandran
Partner, Grant Thornton Bharat LLP
Sridhar Ramachandran
Partner, Grant Thornton Bharat LLP- Assistance in planning and execution of very large investments in India in the Special Economic Zones/ Free Trade Zone Models.
- Assistance in structuring foreign direct investments in various sectors including Special Economic Zones, manufacturing, wholesale and retail trading, e-commerce, financial services, infrastructure, real estate etc. in a tax efficient and regulatory compliant manner.
- Assistance in setting up business entities in India for various businesses in Company, partnership and LLP forms, including in Special Economic Zones (sector specific, free trade zones or multi product/ service units) or domestic units.
- Assistance in setting up offices abroad, making overseas investments and structuring acquisitions
Sridhar has over 24 years post qualification experience in tax and regulatory matters. A significant part of his career was spent in Delhi where he gained expertise in dealing with complex and varied tax and regulatory matters of multinational corporations. He shifted to Chennai in 2006 and prior to joining the Firm, ran a boutique consulting firm which specialized in tax, regulatory and M&A functions.
Sridhar is a tax partner in Grant Thornton LLP where he is responsible for the tax practice of Chennai and Kochi offices. He also responsible for the Transaction Tax practice of the firm for South India. Some of his key experiences include:
Sridhar is a regular speaker at forums across India, including the ICAI, ICSI and various trade/professional bodies where he speaks on foreign direct investment policy, exchange control law, special economic zones and income-tax law. He has contributed to Policy making on the Special Economic Zone laws across state and central government agencies.
He is the author of a book on Exchange Control Law in India published by Bloomsbury.
Anil Talreja
Partner, Deloitte India
Anil Talreja
Partner, Deloitte India
Anil is a Partner with Deloitte India and is a part of the M&A Tax group. He has over 28 years of experience in handling matters pertaining to Indian tax and regulatory. He is a Chief Growth Officer for Tax in Deloitte South Asia region. Anil has been seconded to the London office of Deloitte where he has obtained international work experience. He has worked with the Deloitte UK M&A Tax team. He specialises in matters under the direct tax laws which have been in force in India, including international taxation.
Anil has also been involved in conducting tax due diligence and tax structuring assignments of various clients including listed companies in India. He has been providing tax structuring advise to several upstream companies in India with regard to their outbound investments.
Anil has been speaking on various public forums on taxation. He has been writing articles published in various newspapers and technical magazines.
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