Ajit Kumar

Ajit Kumar leads Evolvence India Fund, an India focused niche and differentiated PE Fund sponsored by New York Life Insurance/Gold Point Partners and Evolvence Asset Management. He is responsible for the core operations of the fund, from deal originations to exit as well as investor relations and regulatory compliance. During his investment career spread over 25 years he has been involved in Private Equity investments in more than 175 funds, direct and co-investments across various themes and strategies, sectors and geographies. He represents EIF on the Advisory Boards, Investment Committees and board of the various investments. He holds a MBA from London Business School.

Anjali Bansal

Anjali Bansal is the Founding Partner of Avaana Capital, which manages Avaana Climate and Sustainability Fund - investing in technology and innovation-led start-ups catalysing climate solutions and sustainability and delivering exponential returns. Previously, Anjali has been the Non-Executive Chairperson of Dena Bank, appointed by the Government of India to steer the resolution of the stressed bank, eventually leading to a merger with the Bank of Baroda. Prior to that, Anjali was a Global Partner and Managing Director with TPG Growth PE, responsible for India, SE Asia, Africa and the Middle East. She started her career as a strategy consultant with McKinsey and Co. in New York.

Anjali has invested in and mentored various successful start-ups including Delhivery, Urban Company, Darwinbox, Nykaa and Lenskart. She also serves as an independent non-executive director on several leading boards including Tata Power (Chair, Sustainability Committee), Nestle (Member, CSR and Sustainability Committee), and Piramal Enterprises, and chairs the “Climate Council” within Indian Venture Capital Association. She has previously chaired the India board of Women's World Banking, a leading global livelihood-promoting institution and been a board member at GSK Pharma, Siemens, Voltas and Bata.

Anjali is a Member of the Niti Aayog Evolution Review Committee, India’s premier policy think tank chaired by the Hon’ble Prime Minister. She has been appointed on the Expert Advisory Committee for the Start Up India Seed Fund Scheme announced by the Honourable Prime Minister. She is also a member of the Advisory Council for the Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC), the world’s first open access infrastructure for digital commerce and serves on the CII National Committee on Corporate Governance. She has previously served as President of the Bombay Chamber of Commerce, and has co-founded and chaired the FICCI Center for Corporate Governance program for Women on Corporate Boards. She is a member of the Young Presidents' Organization and a charter member of TiE. She has been listed as one of the “Most Powerful Women in Indian Business” by India’s leading publications, Business Today, Fortune India and Forbes India.

Ankit Bengani

Ankit is the Principal & Director at Marwar Capital, where he leads the global investment efforts for the family. Marwar Capital is the single-family investment office of the Bengani Group and as a family office it’s been investing into Indian alternatives markets since 1998 and since 2009 have been gradually investing in funds selectively in US & Asian markets. The family owned business conglomerate has a continued history of over a century in conducting businesses across various sectors worldwide, while adhering to the highest standards of trust, ethics & integrity. Prior to Marwar, Ankit spent over 14 years gaining knowledge in the financial & capital markets by working with firms like Samena Capital as head of global fund raising, Motilal Oswal as head of international business and Kotak Investment Banking. Ankit holds a Finance degree from H. R. College of Commerce, Mumbai and post-graduate degree in Business Management from University of Mumbai. Ankit is been active in various social & philanthropic interests of the family, while also assisting in the education and healthcare focussed welfare activities in rural Rajasthan and Maharashtra.

Anshu Gupta

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Anand Unnikrishnan

Anand Unnikrishnan Managing Partner - Fund of FundsAnand has over two decades of experience across India and Australia in areas such as investment management, finance and consulting, of which, 12+ years have been in investment management in India. Through his career, Anand has been involved in several direct and fund investments in sectors such as roads, power, healthcare, renewable energy and real estate.He joined NIIF in 2018 and is currently the Managing Partner for NIIF’s Fund of Funds. At NIIF, he is responsible for developing and executing the strategy of the NIIF Fund of Funds, which is diversified fund investing into various sectors and strategies through third party fund managers. Prior to joining NIIF in March 2018, Anand was a senior member of Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA) team in India for about 10 years. He was part of the core team that established MIRA’s infrastructure funds management business in India in 2008. During his tenure with MIRA, in addition to his involvement with investments and his role on the Investment Committee of the India dedicated fund, Anand held many roles including head of finance, head of operations and an active role in fundraising for MIRA’s India fund and a broader Asia fund. Before MIRA, Anand worked with KPMG for over seven years in India and Australia, in the audit and financial advisory services divisions. During this period, Anand primarily worked with large clients primarily in the consumer, industrials, pharma and media and entertainment sectors. In the early part of his career, Anand has also worked with Universal Music Group in Mumbai as their Finance Manager for the India business. Anand holds a Bachelor of Commerce and is an Indian Chartered Accountant. He has also completed his Certified Public Accountancy (US).

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Ashish Kumar

Ashish Kumar Co-founder & General Partner Fundamentum Ashish is a Founding Member of Fundamentum Advisors, the Asset Management Company that manages Fundamentum Fund(s). He has been with Fundamentum since inception and leveraging his understanding of entrepreneurial journey, he has helped the fund build a high quality portfolio with two unicorns. Ashish has over 20 years of experience as a technologist, serial tech entrepreneur, angel investor and venture capitalist. He has multi-country exposure and has worked in varied sized companies, spanning three countries (USA, India and Singapore) and a multitude of industry segments. At Fundamentum, Ashish leads the fund raise and the investment process. He continues to lead the fund’s successful investment strategy of investing in start-ups with strong fundamentals, exceptional entrepreneurs and also spends time on identifying new investable areas and sectors for the Firm to invest into. He wants to help build businesses that have the potential to grow into behemoths. Ashish has screened over 500 deals at Fundamentum and has built a strong network within Indian start-up ecosystem. His board experience include Pharmeasy (Unicorn), Spinny (Unicorn), Fareye, TravelTriangle. He has been an active participant in business building of these companies and helped founders navigate inflection points while scaling business. With successful deployment of Fund I, delivering superior returns, Ashish has led the fund raise process for Fund II. The fund was oversubscribed and raised $227 MM. Prior to Fundamentum, Ashish used to invest his personal capital in small to mid-sized public market companies as well as promising technology start-ups in an Angel capacity. His Angel portfolio is at a 7X return currently. With his deep interest in all things digital, coupled with hands-on experience in business and finance, Ashish has founded several successful companies. As an Entrepreneur, Ashish co-founded 4 Technology / Technology-Assisted start-ups and raised money for 2 start-ups, while exiting from 2 start-ups profitably. The start-ups were of different models serving different markets – Enterprise / B2B and B2C. He became skilled at multiple stages of business - ideation, conceptualization, scaling and sustaining. As a Founder/CEO of global software services company, he grew it to a multi-million-dollar revenue organization worldwide. Ashish holds a degree in Computer Science from IIT Kanpur.

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Dave Richards

A tech entrepreneur for 20 years and a scaler for 15 years in the ‘Global South, Dave Richards, Managing Partner at Capria Ventures, is an early-growth investor which includes strategic investments in local early-stage VC funds in Global South and is passionate to mentor startup CEOs and emerging GPs.

He co-founded Capria in 2012, Unitus Ventures in 2005 and quickly grew into one of South/Southeast Asia’s most experienced global investors. As a Managing Partner, his responsibilities currently include investment sourcing and diligence, portfolio management, fundraising and investor relations, and oversight of finance, business operations, compliance and administration.

Dave brings to Capria deep experience as an entrepreneur, executive, and global early-stage and early-growth venture capital investor. At Capria, he has been on the leadership team launching and operating 2 early-stage India venture funds (under Unitus Ventures brand), and the Capria GP Accelerator and Capria Fund, investing in 40+ early-stage and early-growth funds and tech companies across the global south in sectors including fintech, edtech, logistics, healthtech, agtech, jobtech and consumer.

Dave has constructed a robust position in the Global South startup and VC ecosystem through his continuous work to boost impact. His entrepreneurial experience and success have led him to discover and support many early-stage ventures in the Southeast Asia markets which are front-runners in creating impact-led solutions in the region.  Early in his career, Dave had developed and led multiple high-growth technology businesses at RealNetworks, Sybase and Symantec from startup to multiple hundred million dollar global enterprises. He is a Partner with Social Venture Partners Seattle and co-founder of the SVP Fast Pitch startup impact angel fund.

Deepak Padaki

Deepak Padaki President As President of Catamaran, Deepak is responsible for driving the overall performance of the firm’s portfolio by formulating and executing its investment strategy, asset allocation and risk management policies. Deepak has over 30 years of experience in the Global IT Services and Software Product industry. He was Executive Vice President, Group Head of Strategy & Chief Risk Officer at Infosys Limited (NYSE: INFY) until June 2022. He played various roles at Infosys – including Strategy, M&A, Venture Funding, Risk Management, Business Development, Software Engineering and Project Management. He was a member of the Board of Infosys’ Software subsidiaries in Israel, the Netherlands, USA, Japan, and India. He was the Vice President of the Indo-Australian Chamber of Commerce, a lead member of the start-up and Knowledge Management Councils of the Confederation of Indian Industry and a member of the Strategy and Risk Officers’ Councils of the World Economic Forum. In his spare time, he is active in community theatre and serves on the managing committee of Bangalore Little Theatre. Deepak holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science from the University of Mysore, India.

Jai Rupani

Jai is a man who wears many hats. As the Head of the Dinesh Hinduja Family Office (DHFO), he oversees investments across all asset classes for the group: real estate, equities, bonds, structured products, private equity, and venture capital. Mr. Rupani led the real estate development efforts at Gokaldas Lifestyle, a group company of DHFO, for several years before taking the helm at the family office.

Before joining the Gokaldas Group, Mr. Rupani was part of the investment team at True North (erstwhile India Value Fund), a USD 2.2 billion private equity fund in Mumbai. During his tenure at True North, Jai led the investments into Merucabs (one of India’s first taxi-aggregation companies) and ACT Broadband (a leading IPTV and broadband service provider). Prior to True North, Mr. Rupani was an investment banker with The Royal Bank of Canada Capital Markets Group in their San Francisco office for several years. At RBC Capital Markets, Jai was integral to the technology investment banking team managing IPOs, private placements, and M&A deals. He has completed his formal education at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (BBA) and the University of Texas at Austin (MBA) in the United States. In his free time, he enjoys mentoring start-ups, playing golf, and spending time with his family.

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Karthik Prabhakar

Karthik Prabhakar is Managing Partner at PeerCapital, an early stage tech focused VC fund.

In his previous role where he was Managing Director and Partner at Chiratae Ventures, he has donned multiple hats as global head of fundraising as lead investment advisor in many companies some of which went on to be among the best outcomes for the firm.

A few notable investments as lead advisor include PlaySimple Games (acquired by MTG), Fibe / EarlySalary , NestAway, PlayShifu and others.

He has been part of the Indian tech ecosystem since 2005 with experience spanning engineering, product development, marketing, fundraising, investment advisory and fund management.

Prior to Chiratae, Karthik worked with Intel in their Ideas to Reality team, a technology incubator focused on building IoT products. As a tech marketing person, he played a key role in rapid prototyping, conceptualizing field trial plans and creating Go-To-Market strategies for new product ideas. He has also worked on developing innovative embedded solutions and has co-authored a patent in the area of Wireless Networks.

K.I.Mani

More than three decades in the banking space (a decade with Indian Bank and more than two decades with SIDBI) covering various facets including Credit functions especially lending to MSMEs. At the time of taking voluntary retirement from SIDBI in 2019 as CGM, was heading treasury. Having handled fund of funds operations along with risk capital for nearly four years, including Fund of funds for Startups [FFS] a flagship programme under the Startup India, have deep engagement with the start-up and venture capital eco system in India. Currently associated with TVS Capital Funds as Sr. Advisor and active in policy advocacy through IVCA platform.

Neha Grover

Neha Grover is currently Regional Lead of IFC’s South Asia Funds group where she is responsible for identifying and investing into PE Funds, managing the current PE portfolio and focusing on co-investments. She serves on Advisory Boards of 6 (six) PE Funds.

Her professional and personal investing experience spans across private and public markets and across diverse industries with specific focus on Consumer, Healthcare, Financial services, Manufacturing and Education sectors.

Prior to IFC, she has worked across 2 complete fund cycles at Baring India for over 12 years. She was Principal and India CFO at Baring Private Equity Partners India – a leading emerging markets private equity group with over USD 14 billion under management.

Neha features as one of the top 100 women in finance in India (AIWMI 2019 list). She is an all-India rank-holding Chartered Accountant, a Company Secretary, and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow (Ranked top 5).

Pranav Pai

Pranav Pai is Founding Partner and Chief Investment Officer at 3one4 Capital - an early stage venture capital firm based in Bangalore, India. Pranav leads investments and portfolio construction at 3one4 Capital. As CIO at 3one4, he has made over 70 seed and venture capital investments across several investment categories in India and the US. He has been integral in leading 3one4’s investments in their category-leading companies that include Licious, Darwinbox, Betterplace, Jupiter, Open, Loco, Dozee, and Koo. The fund has been consistently ranked as one of India's top VC firms. Pranav serves on the boards of several of the companies in the portfolio. Pranav is also responsible for 3one4’s Investor Relations and Capital Development efforts. 3one4 is amongst the fastest growing Indian VC firms, having closed five funds for a combined corpus of INR 2300 Cr/USD 310 Mn and has raised capital from top-tier institutional investors in India, USA, Japan, and Singapore. Pranav works closely with institutional and strategic investors to help develop the venture ecosystem in India and to increase global allocations to the asset class. Through an independent dedicated LP strategy, Pranav also engages with an extended funding ecosystem of over 30 different investment vehicles across private equity over different sub asset-classes such as early and growth stage venture capital, public markets, real estate project financing, and venture debt in India and the US. His engagement with the ecosystem is driven by the objective of building feed-forward loops from venture to other alternative segments and develop the pipeline for listings in India. Pranav is deeply involved with the startup ecosystem in India. As a former Co-President of the Stanford Angels and Entrepreneurs network in the country, Pranav continues to help cultivate a cross-border cooperative system of innovation in the early stage between academia, corporations, market leaders, investors, subject-matter experts, and tech startup founders. Pranav has served as an Investment Committee Advisor of the Reliance Jio Gennext Accelerator in Mumbai. He was also the National Vice Chairman of the All India Management Association’s (AIMA) Young Leaders Council – a platform for young professionals from industry, the arts, non-profits, and government to collaborate on common agendas. Previously, he was an early employee and Lead Product Manager at EdCast, an education technology startup in the San Francisco Bay Area. At EdCast, Pranav helped launch multiple products that continue to serve several Fortune 100 clients and raised capital from top tier venture capital and corporate investment firms like Softbank, GE Capital, and Menlo Ventures. EdCast was acquired in 2022 and was amongst the largest exits in the vertical. Pranav was awarded the “35 under 35” for 2017 by Entrepreneur Magazine and the “40 under 40” Alternative Investments Professionals of India for 2020 by the Association of International Wealth Management of India (AIWMI) and the Indian Association of Alternative Investment Funds (IAAIF). He was also on the GQ List of 25 Most Influential Young Indians 2020-21. Pranav graduated with a Master's in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and with a Bachelor's in Electronics and Communications Engineering from RV College, Bangalore.

Radhika Rajan

Radhika is a results-oriented financial-market professional with over 20 years of profit-responsible experience, primarily in New York. Ms. Rajan has focused on India as an investment destination since 1999, when she became the New York based Executive Vice-President of Mphasis, an Indo-US IT services startup, which is now a leading IT services company. 

Prior to joining DSP, she advised TCG and several other private equity groups on various companies and proposed investments in the US-India corridor. Prior to 1999, Ms. Rajan worked as a global-macro proprietary trader at JP Morgan (formerly Chemical Bank), Itochu, UBS, Bank of America and Bank of Montreal. 

Radhika Rajan graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and also holds an MBA equivalent degree from India’s top-ranked business school, the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. She was a National Science Talent scholar through her undergraduate and graduate years. Ms. Rajan is an invited author of “The Global Internet Economy,” a book published by MIT Press in 2003. She is an Executive Board Member of TIE Tristate, the New York based chapter of TIE.

Raj Pai

Raj Pai is a Founding Partner of GEF Capital Partners and co-head of the South Asia investment practice. He is based in Mumbai, India where he focuses on middle market growth equity opportunities in South Asia.

Mr. Pai joined Global Environment Fund as a Managing Director in 2008 before founding GEF Capital Partners in 2018.   While at Global Environment Fund, Mr. Pai worked across multiple portfolios and was involved in the establishment of the South Asia investment program.   In addition to overseeing guidance and operations of the South Asia program, including as ESG coordinator, Mr. Pai served as the nominee representative for several portfolio companies, including IEX (exited via IPO in 2017), iClean (sold to Takasago Thermal, Tokyo) and others.  He participated in the exit of Reva Electric Car to Mahindra Electric.

Mr. Pai has over 23 years of professional experience spanning entrepreneurial, operational and venture investing activities in India and in the US.  Prior to joining Global Environment Fund, Mr. Pai was a Managing Director at CID Capital, a 30-year old growth equity investment firm investing growth and expansion stage capital in the US. During this period, Mr. Pai oversaw and/or worked on a number of the firm’s investments, leading efforts in technology, life sciences and clean technology.  Prior to CID, Mr. Pai worked in consulting and in operational capacities for various Fortune 1000 technology companies globally, including American Management Systems (AMS), British Telecom and AT&T.

Mr. Pai currently serves on the board of directors of ESDS, Inc. and is also the nominee representative for Global Environment Fund for Concord Enviro, Rishabh Instruments and Prince Pipes.

Mr. Pai received a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Bombay, a Master of Computer Science from Arizona State University and an MBA from the University of Chicago. He is a dual US–India citizen and speaks three native Indian languages as well as English.

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Ravi Srivastava

Ravi Srivastava is the Head of Research and the youngest Partner in Bay Capital. He drives the entire investment effort from idea generation to final investment and has played an instrumental role in the success of the firm’s flagship product – Bay Capital India Fund, which has been amongst the best performing long only India funds since its inception. Ravi has extensive experience in both public and private transactions. Ravi identified and picked public market stocks like Bajaj Finserv, Nestle India, Britannia and Info Edge for the fund.  On the private side, he has led the investments in businesses like Lenskart, Policybazaar, Delhivery.

Ravi has over a decade of professional experience in investment management, strategy & decision consulting, mergers and acquisitions. Prior to Bay Capital, Ravi was an Engagement Manager with Singapore based strategy consulting firm SLC where he led several engagements with clients across India, Asia-Pacific and US. Prior to SLC, he was part of the Mergers & Acquisitions team of Siva Group in India.

Ravi is an Electronics & Communication Engineer from VNIT, Nagpur and a PGDM from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM A). He is a CFA® charter holder.

Ranjit Shah

Ranjit is a Co-founder and Managing Partner of Gaja Capital and is based in Mumbai. He has over 40

years of experience including 18 years as a private equity investor.

At Gaja Capital, Ranjit has led investments in the consumer and financial services sectors. Besides his

core investment and operating responsibilities, Ranjit has helped strengthen Gaja Capital’s

proprietary deal development and in expanding the firm’s investor base.

Ranjit’s prior experience has been in CXO roles in the telecom / technology sector, financial services,

investment banking and consulting. Ranjit has an MBA from the Ross School of Business, University

of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a Bachelor’s Degree in electrical engineering from IIT Bombay.

He is a member of the India Advisory Board of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and also on the

Asia Council of the Global Private Capital Association (GPCA).

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Sachin Bid

Sachin Bid is currently Fund Manager, Venture Capital at Nippon India Alternative Investments, a 100% subsidiary of Nippon Life India Asset Management (NAM India). Nippon Life Japan owns ~75% of NAM India. He is responsible for fund raising, investing and managing portfolio of India centric early stage technology venture funds and directs. He serves on the advisory boards (LPAC) of several India focused venture capital funds. Prior to Nippon India, he co-founded, built and scaled an travel start-up focused on cruising, MyDreamHoliday, which was acquired by a market leader (Ark Travels) in the industry. Prior to that, he was an investor with Ncubate Capital, a mid-size family office where he participated in incubating and supporting scale-up of consumer companies which grew from concept to double digit monthly revenues ($ in mn) and which were subsequently backed by marquee private equity funds in India. Prior to Ncubate Capital, he was an investor at Nine Rivers Capital investing from its Fund-I in early growth stage companies, primarily in manufacturing and engineering companies. He is an MBA candidate at The Wharton School. He is a CAIA member, CFA (ICFAI) and MBA – Finance, IBS Mumbai.

Shivani Bhasin Sachdeva

themes in India such as women becoming more empowered as consumers. Shivani has over 19 years of global private equity experience in the US and in India at top funds including GE Equity, Lightyear Capital and IDFC Private Equity. Shivani has helped shape strategy at market leading companies through board-level involvement and has been instrumental in generating stellar returns for her investors. Shivani has previously served on the boards of HealthCare Global and Gokaldas Intimatewear, and currently serves on the boards of Brinton Pharmaceuticals and Seclore Technology. She is also an Independent Director at Emaar India, one of the largest real estate developers in India with assets in the country of over $3 billion, 5,000 acres of land, and 30 active projects; and at HIKAL Limited, a highly innovative company working across the life science value chain with over 2300 employees and market cap of over $943 million. Shivani has received accolades and recognition for being one of the top women leaders in Finance in India. Shivani received an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in Economics from Mount Holyoke College (Phi-Beta-Kappa, Magna Cum Laude, Sarah Williston Scholar).

Shivani Bhasin Sachdeva is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of India Alternatives Investment Advisors (“India Alternatives”). India Alternatives is a top performing mid-market private equity firm that backs unlisted companies that are the beneficiaries of transformational themes such as: women becoming more empowered as consumers; millennials driving a paradigm shift in consumption; technology reinventing financial services; and an increased focus on health and wellness.  

The Fund has made marquee investments including: TransUnion CIBIL – India’s dominant credit information bureau; NSDL – India’s largest depository; Brinton Pharmaceuticals – India’s fastest growing dermatology focused pharmaceutical company; Gokaldas Intimatewear (‘Enamor’) - a market leader in the women’s premium lingerie space and Seclore Technology - a rapidly growing cyber security company.

Prior to founding India Alternatives, Shivani was a key member of senior management at IDFC Private Equity where she was responsible for deal sourcing, execution and monitoring companies across various sectors including domestic consumption, healthcare and hospitality. Some of her notable investments at IDFC Private Equity include HealthCare Global Enterprises, a company focused on providing best in class oncology care on a pan India basis and Vodafone Essar, a leading telecommunications company.

Shivani previously worked with Lightyear Capital, a private equity fund based in New York, where she made lifecycle investments across sectors including education and financial services. Prior to that, Shivani had successful stints in the US at the private equity arm of General Electric and the investment banking division of Credit Suisse First Boston.

Shivani has been an active member on the boards of all her portfolio companies where she has been instrumental in guiding management teams and shaping strategy. Shivani has served on the boards of HealthCare Global and Gokaldas Intimatewear, and currently serves on the boards of Brinton Pharmaceuticals and Seclore Technology.  

Shivani is also an Independent Director at Emaar India, one of the largest real estate developers in India with assets in the country of over $3 billion, 5,000 acres of land, and 30 active projects; and at HIKAL Limited, a highly innovative company working across the life science value chain with over 2300 employees and market cap of over $943 million.

Shivani is a frequent speaker at domestic and international conferences on private equity including the SuperReturn, Europe and Singapore; Indian Venture Capital Association and AVCJ, Hong Kong and India.

Shivani has won an award for the top 25 women leaders in Finance by AIWMI (Association of International Wealth Management of India) as part of India’s Top 100 Women in Finance campaign. This campaign was designed to identify the most successful and respected women professionals in finance who are talented, resilient, ethical, strong and have grit.

Shivani received an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and a BA in Economics from Mount Holyoke College (Phi-Beta-Kappa, Magna Cum Laude, Sarah Williston Scholar).

Shalil Gupta

Shalil is responsible for research, events and training business that assists clients in improving their capabilities in key process areas. Before this, Shalil was ‘AVP, Research and Consulting’ at IDC India. He has an extensive senior level experience in the ICT industry that enriches his strategic engagements with companies. A much-sought-after speaker at international forums, Shalil also invests his time in leading innumerable focused group discussions in India. With his specialization in the BFSI sector, he covers an array of topics including emerging technologies, digital enterprises, industries and IT sourcing and servicing in his speaking engagements.

Shalil's role extends beyond delivering qualitative research content, and includes preparing forward-looking assessment and analysis and sharing market insights and predictions with senior management teams. He has worked in India, London, Edinburgh, Ireland, Western Europe, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, and Taiwan. During his time in these organizations, he has driven the development of enterprise level technology strategies, managed large transformation and IT programs, and played a leading role in a post-merger IT integration of two banks in the United Kingdom.

A graduate of Computer Science, Shalil holds a postgraduate (MBA) degree from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), a leading business school in India.

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Visalakshi Chandramouli

Visalakshi is the Founding member of Tata Capital Healthcare Fund, an India dedicated
Healthcare & Life Sciences Private Equity Fund. She has spent over twenty-eight years across
Healthcare Private Equity, Equity Research and Pharmaceutical R&D operations.
As the head of the Tata Capital Healthcare Fund, Visalakshi drives the fund raising and
investment management activities of the fund. She has successfully led the fund raise in both
vintages of the Tata Capital Healthcare Funds (I and II), with commitments in excess of USD
200MN from international and domestic institutional investors and corporates. She is actively
involved in portfolio management through presence on Board and other committees of Investee
companies. Under her leadership, the Tata Capital Healthcare Fund has delivered outstanding
returns and boasts a robust performance track record - for which the Fund was awarded
‘Healthcare Investor of the Year’ for three consecutive years, 2018, 2019 and 2020 by Venture
Intelligence.
Visalakshi has a vast experience within the pharmaceutical industry as well as commercial &
investment experience in the industry.
She started her career as a research scientist at Cipla, a global pharmaceutical company and
thereafter, spent over 12 years as Lead Healthcare investment analyst at leading financial
services firms like Kotak Securities and Merrill Lynch where she was Senior Director of India
Healthcare Equity Research and rated No. 2 in Asia for Healthcare for 2008 on the prestigious
Institutional Investor (II) poll rankings.
Visalakshi is a Chemical Technologist from ICT Mumbai (specialization in pharmaceuticals & fine
chemicals) and MBA (finance) from Mumbai University. She is also a graduate in Advanced
Management Program (AMP) from the Harvard Business School. Visalakshi has also been
recognized as ‘India’s Top 100 Women in Finance’ by AIWMI (Oct.’2020). Visalakshi is also
actively involved with industry associations like NatHealth as co-chair Western Region and as
co-chair of Impact Future Project (IFP).
Outside of work, Visalakshi is training in the art of Hindustani and Carnatic Violin instrument
styles. 

Weibo Xiong

Weibo Xiong is a Senior Vice President of Portfolio Advisors. Weibo joined Portfolio Advisors in 2013 and primarily supports Portfolio Advisors’ primary and secondary investment activities in Asia. Previously, he was a Manager in the UOB Investment Management Division’s alternative investment fund-of-funds advisory business where he had worked with Portfolio Advisors since 2010 through a joint-venture, Asia Select Management, Ltd. He graduated from Singapore Management University with a double degree in Economics and Business Management and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.