Abhiraj is the Cofounder of UrbanClap. UrbanClap is a marketplace which helps customers hire reliable local services at the push of a button. From plumbers to wedding photographers, interior designers to yoga instructors, UrbanClap helps you hire trusted pros for all your service needs. Over the past 1.5 years, UrbanClap has scaled to 7 cities in India, built a network of 30,000+ service professionals, and caters to 5000+ customers every day.

Prior to UrbanClap, Abhiraj was a consultant with The Boston Consulting Group, advising Fortune 500 companies across India, Germany and South East Asia. He holds a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur, and an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad. When not busy at UrbanClap, Abhiraj enjoys immersing himself in interesting experiences, be it running marathons, sky-diving, scuba diving or cooking his wife Urvi’s favourite dish.

@abhirajbhal

Aditya Gupta is the COO and Co-founder at TranServ, a leading digital payments company based out of Mumbai. He currently leads the B2B operations for the brand where he plays a key role in bringing in the digital payments solutions for merchants, businesses and agent network. Alongside, he also spearheads the white label wallet solution for partners and businesses.

With TranServ, Aditya is looking to create a highly secure environment along with partner merchants in which customers will be offered the best payments experience through a seamless payments ecosystem. Prior to co-founding TranServ, Aditya was Senior Vice President at HSBC where he spearheaded various the National/ Business portfolios for products like Cards , Loans and mortgages . During his stint, he was also instrumental in setting up and managing a pan-India distribution channel for credit cards and other loan products.

Aditya Roongta is the Business Head of SoundSeal, the manufacturers of the SoundSeal™ range of security bags. After completing his schooling from the prestigious Dhirubhai Ambani International School in Mumbai, Mr Roongta completed his Chartered Accountancy at a very young age of 21 years and joined the family business with a clear idea of diversifying into more contemporary & modern packaging concepts in polymers. He closely studied the growing need for secure transit packaging for industries like banking, logistics, e-commerce with reference to how they have evolved in the developed countries. He has been instrumental in developing specialised security packaging solutions for the Indian packaging users in these fields, including unique solutions such as the SoundSeal™ SecureZip™ Doc Bags which are the first of its kind in the country.

Aloke is the dynamo who drives ixigo with his passion and eye for detail. He is responsible for providing strategic leadership and direction to the team with his business acumen and consumer-centric thinking. His creativity, intuition and perseverance have had immense impact on ixigo’s growth story.

An IIT Kanpur Electrical Engineering alumnus and an MBA graduate from INSEAD, he loves creative writing, history and gadgets. Prior to launching ixigo, he worked in technology roles at Amadeus SAS, Nice, France, where he was part of the team that built the world’s first web-based cruise-line booking engine for agencies. Since then, his love for Internet products and Croissants has never ebbed.

Aloke has also recently won the Young Achiever Award at Mobby's 2013. He is a TiE charter member and a mentor to several startups, incubators and accelerators.

He is also an advisor to 10+ Startups including: Playcez (acquired by IndiaMart group), Bluegape, Dogspot, Azoi.

@alokebajpai

An IIT Delhi 1999 alumni, Amit Jain co-founded the Jaipur based IT outsourcing firm Girnar Software Pvt. Ltd. in 2007 along with his brother Anurag Jain, also an ex-IIT Delhi student. Following his visit to the auto expo of 2008, the idea of Cardekho.com kicked off as the flagship portal of GirnarSoft.

Amit started his career with Trilogy, an Austin based company and due to his knowledge and expertise in the field of technology development, he moved up the ranks quickly to take on the role of Product Manager with the company. After spending 8 years with the company, his passion for innovation steered him towards starting his own venture, GirnarSoft. His decision of acquiring leading auto portals Gaadi.com and Zigwheels.com brings the group company GirnarSoft another step closer to the goal of being a multi-billion dollar company before 2021. Amit’s zeal towards fostering entrepreneurship and creating products that create a superior consumer experience has led him to be an angel investor to various internet startups. He is also a regular speaker at Tie Events.

Angira Agrawal is the Vice President, Delhi Circle, for Vodafone Business Services. As part of this role, he is responsible for the overall business for enterprise customers across the NCR, including Sales, Marketing, Customer Service, Delivery and Assurance.

Prior to Vodafone, Angira ran the Asia Pacific Sales & Marketing for Accelerite, the product division at Persistent Systems. He has been the Country Manager, Cloud at NEC; General Manager, Enterprise Mobility and Cloud, Tata Communications, and Director, Asia Pacific at Unimobile.  He has also spent time at Oracle as their Regional Manager for SME, and at HCL Technologies.

Angira is passionate about technology, and has worked extensively in creating new solutions and processes to increase customer centricity. He is an MBA from XLRI Jamshedpur, and a BE from MSU Baroda.

Ankit Khanna is the Senior Vice President - Product Management at Snapdeal.com. He has been an integral part of Snapdeal ever since its inception and was responsible for developing the ‘product’ as a whole. He is now leading their payment product among others. Prior to joining Snapdeal, Ankit co-founded itasveer.com, an online photo printing and personalized merchandise service based in India. An IIT Delhi graduate, Ankit has also worked in the corporate sector for two years and dabbled in software engineering before moving on to the online space. 

In his new role, Ankit is the Chief Product Officer of FreeCharge and laying the foundation for No1 payments company in the country. He is leading various consumer and merchant initiatives at FreeCharge. 

Ananth Narayanan is the Chief Executive Officer at Myntra, the country’s largest m-commerce platform for fashion and lifestyle products. He is responsible to drive Myntra's aspiration to transform how people shop for fashion online and also focus on building category leading Fashion brands.

Featured as one of “India's Hottest 40 under 40 Business Leaders” in 2014, Ananth has deep expertise in driving performance improvement and has a particular passion for product development. Prior to joining Myntra, Ananth was a Director at Mckinsey & Company and has worked with the firm for 15 years across four offices (Chicago, Shanghai, Taipei and Chennai). His role entailed leading the Product Development practice in Asia and working with companies on strategy, operations and organisation. He has successfully helped companies streamline operations and supply, improve product development, develop strategies, business plans and organisational models.

Ananth has a Bachelor degree in Engineering from University of Madras and a Masters from the University of Michigan, in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research. He is on the Industry Advisory Board of University of Michigan’s Tauber Institute.

Fellow member of Institute of Chartered Accountant of India and Associate member of Certified Internal Auditors; overall 29 + years of experience. Currently working in the role of President- Investment Banking at SPA Capital, involved primarily with startups (fundraising and investing) in the healthcare, technology and nutritional foods segment. Immediate prior to this, worked for LT Foods as Director - Finance & Strategy (2012-2015), Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited (2009 - 2010) as Director & Head - Mergers & Acquisitions (currently part of Sun Pharma); first inning was during 2004-2007. Prior to Ranbaxy, worked for two years with Havells-Sylvania as President & CFO, was based at Frankfurt, Germany, a company acquired by Havells India Limited.

Extensively travelled world-wide; good understanding of market dynamics and opportunities particularly in emerging markets viz. BRIC - MT, CIS, APAC, MENA, Latin America, and African markets.Excellent networking with some of the world renowned Investment Bankers, PEs and Banking community. Affiliated to several professional, industry and social forums; have been actively participating as a speaker, moderator at national and international symposium and as facilitator, moderator. My work style: attention to details, passion for profitable growth, focus on execution with excellence, managing team work with high-quality leadership, religious by nature and great confidence in achieving excellence.

Ashwini Vittalachar is a Partner at Samv?d: Partners, and has been instrumental in the establishment of the New Delhi office of the Firm. Ashwini works extensively on private equity and venture capital transactions; as well as M&A and joint ventures. Recently, she has advised on several transactions in the e-commerce sector; the clients being both investors / VC funds, as well as the target companies / promoters. Her expertise extends not just to deal negotiations, but also to general corporate / commercial and advisory matters as well as employment law. The breadth of her expertise helps her provide a full range of services to her clients, and tackle complex issues with a holistic perspective.

Ashwini completed BA-LLB in Bangalore, India and obtained a masters in law (LL.M), at the Law School, University of Chicago, USA. She has authored articles on several topics at national and international fora, including on private equity and employment laws. In addition to being a partner at Samv?d: Partners, she has taught elective courses on ‘Private Equity & Venture Capital Transactions in India’, at the O.P. Jindal Global Law School. ‘Ashwini is singled out by clients for her "communication skills, quick understanding of key business issues, and negotiating ability." She has acted on several mandates for clients in the automotive and pharmaceutical sectors of late.’ (Chambers 2014 and 2015).

Avlesh is the co-founder and CEO at WebEngage - one of the fastest growing SaaS startups in India. Avlesh plays an engineer and marketer at WebEngage. He is known for maintaining technology as company's core DNA and a self-serve platform as its product focus - which, in turn, has helped them scale to acquire thousands of customers globally. Avlesh has been helping build startups in India since 2006. Prior to WebEngage, he was building the technology and engineering stack for Burrp - the company was later sold to Infomedia18.

@avlesh

Bejul Somaia is Managing Director of Lightspeed India Partners Advisors LLP, which advises Lightspeed Venture Partners, a leading global venture capital firm with more than $3B in capital under management. Mr. Somaia established Lightspeed’s India activity in 2008 and has over eighteen years of operating, entrepreneurial and investment experience in the US and India. He was previously Co-CEO of Twiga Fiberglass, a leading manufacturer of building materials in India, and founder and Chairman of Openlist (acquired by Marchex, Inc).

Earlier in his career, Mr. Somaia was an investment professional at General Catalyst Partners, a strategy consultant at Bain & Company and an investment banker with Salomon Brothers.  Mr. Somaia has advised on investments in a number of Indian companies including Oyo Rooms, Indian Energy Exchange, Limeroad, Craftsvilla, OneAssist, Fresh Menu and Shuttl. He holds a BSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and MBA from Harvard Business School.

@bsomaia

Mr.Bishal Lachhiramka is the CEO and co¬founder of Ameyo. He has been a driving force in achieving consistent business growth, and his business intelligence has evolved the company from a small proprietary business to a global Contact Center Software and Enterprise Communications Solutions provider. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science technology from IIT and has over 13 years of experience in VOIP, Telecom network and Enterprise Software domain.

Ameyo enjoys a widespread range of customers on a global level with over 1500+ installations across more than twelve industry verticals including BPO, E-commerce, BFSI, Telecom, Travel & Tourism, Healthcare, and Retail. Ameyo has been consistently recognised for its outstanding contribution to IP contact center technology and customer experience management, earning several awards and accolades from industry experts worldwide.

@blachhiramka

Deepak Gaur is Managing Director in SAIF Partners,one of the largest and active funds in the country across early and growth stage companies. Deepak joined SAIF in 2006 and in his prior role was a consultant with McKinsey & Company focused on Consumer products/services, IT, telecom and the automotive sector. He also worked with IBM Global services in their Telecom and Media services division. His primary area of focus is growth equity investments in technology driven businesses. Mr. Gaur was awarded the Chairman’s Gold medal in IIM Lucknow and has a B.Tech. in mechanical engineering from IIT Kanpur.

@gaurdeepak123

Deepesh Garg has over 17 years of deal-making experience. He co-founded o3 Capital in 2007 and has been a key strategic leader and financial advisor to a range of companies in the Consumer and Internet & Digital Technology practice. Deepesh is a B.S. graduate from Rajasthan University and holds an MBA degree from K.J. Somaiya. 

@Deepesh_o3

Eric Lange serves as VP of Customer Experience at Flipkart, where he is responsible for ensuring a high quality experience for customers from end-to-end. Eric is a Silicon Valley veteran with 23 years of experience in both product management and engineering from companies like Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo. He has a degree in computer engineering from Case Western Reserve University and an MBA from Duke University.

Gajinder Singh, Founder & CEO of PayMango and IIT Delhi Alumnus, believes that ‘Future of e-commerce is local commerce happening over mobile’. By seamlessly connecting local customers to local businesses through PayMango Marketplace network, partners and apps. He aims to make local commerce over mobile more accessible and convenient, opening up more possibilities for local customers and more business for local merchants. With more than decade of experience in online marketplaces, online payments, and consumer internet. He has proven to be an exceptional reader of business opportunities, inspirational leader and creative problem solver. With his partner Ram Singla, Founder & CTO of PayMango and IIT Delhi batch mate. He is deeply committed in solving the complex and challenging problems of local commerce.

Harshil started Razorpay after discovering the dismal state of online payments in India. He graduated from IIT Roorkee in 2013 and worked at Schlumberger before quitting his job to start Razorpay.

With an idea to change the way online payments function in India, Harshil quit his full-time job. By early 2014, Razorpay was conceptualised with a vision to simplify online payments. Razorpay is one of the only two India-focused companies to be selected for the prestigious Y Combinator (YC) programme where Harshil and co-Founder Shashank gathered industry expertise & insights from some of the biggest VC’s and entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley.

After the three-month programme at YC, founders and CEO’s of some of India’s most famous unicorns invested into Razorpay’s vision of simplifying payments. These include InMobi, Freecharge and Snapdeal founders, along with internet entrepreneurs & investors Justin Kan and Tikhon Bernstam among others. Along with the reputed investors, the company is also backed by Tiger Global Management, Matrix Partners and Mastercard.

Harshil was recently featured in an eclectic list of 30 promising young Indian talent under the age of 30, by Forbes magazine. While Harshil is a mechanical engineer by degree, he has been coding since his schooldays and has worked on multiple software projects in college.

@harshilmathur

Ishwar Sridharan is the co-founder and COO of Exotel Techcom Pvt Ltd, one of India's leading cloud telephony companies. Exotel helps businesses of all sizes manage their customer communication over calls and SMS without having to invest in infrastructure.

Ishwar finished his Engineering in IT from SASTRA University. He then went on to do his Masters in Engineering from IIIT, Bangalore. He joined Yahoo! as a Principal Engineer right after. He worked on a bunch of things at Yahoo! including creating and implementing the video search algorithm for which he holds a couple of patents. It was at Yahoo! that he met Shivku, the CEO of Exotel. And when Shivku started Exotel, he asked Ishwar to join him.

Since then, Ishwar has donned different roles across Exotel. Mostly, it involves being cool! Ishwar loves startups, building stuff, hacking, science, music, sketching, and problem solving. The order is up for debate, though.

Kabir leads investments in technology, consumer and financial services at Eight Roads Ventures India (formerly Fidelity Growth Partners). He brings over 15 years of experience in management consulting and private equity. Kabir has led investments/sits on the board of several companies including BankBazaar, Icertis, CredR, ShadowFax, Toppr, AbsolutData, Milk Mantra, ClassTeacher, Cygnus, Greenlight Planet and Chai Point.

Prior to joining Eight Roads, Kabir was with Warburg Pincus where he completed investments in a leading budget hotel chain, a port and a BPO company in India. At the firm, he worked extensively in healthcare delivery, financial services (including managing portfolio investments in Kotak Mahindra Bank, Max India) and IT Services/BPO. Kabir has worked at leading consulting firms, McKinsey & Co. in India and the Boston Consulting Group in the US. His consulting projects were in the areas of strategy and operations in the US, UK and India. Kabir holds a BA Hons degree in Mathematics from St. Stephen's College and an MBA from the University of Oxford.

Mr. Karan Mohla is Executive Director at IDG Ventures India Advisors and is involved with the investments in  Brainbees (Firstcry.com), Yatra.com, Vserv, Peel-Works, HealthifyMe, POPxo, Aurus (Superprofs.com), Tripoto, LittleBlackBook and Silverpush. He has been investing in Indian companies since 2009 and leads the sector coverage in Digital Consumer investments at IDG Ventures.

Prior to IDG Ventures, Karan worked with QVT Finance LP, a US based hedge fund and was a founding member of their Asia-Pacific practice heading investments in technology companies in the region. He earlier worked in the technology banking group at Jefferies & Company (formerly Broadview International) in Silicon Valley, where he helped several emerging technology companies in capital raising, M&A and strategic partnerships. Later, Karan helped start the Jefferies India office.

@KaranMohla

Kashyap Deorah is an entrepreneur and investor. Over fifteen years, he has split his time between Silicon Valley and India building global technology companies. Besides India and US, he has done business in China, South East Asia and Northern Europe. Kashyap has started and sold three companies, worked with public companies in the US and India, invested in a score of startups, and mentored many more. He started his first company RightHalf.com during his final year at IIT Bombay in 2000. After an acquisition by a Silicon Valley company, Kashyap spent seven years in the US. He returned to India in 2007 to start Chaupaati Bazaar, a phone commerce marketplace, then merged it with India’s leading retailer Future Group. In 2012, he co-founded mobile payments company Chalo and sold it to San Francisco based OpenTable, a leader in the restaurant reservations space. He is passionate about traveling to new places and telling a good story. He lives in New Delhi with his wife and three year old son. Hear him tweet @righthalf.

Kaushal Dugar is the founder and CEO of Teabox, an e-commerce company that is disrupting a $40 - 60 billion tea industry with its innovations in technology and the supply chain. Teabox and Kaushal's story has been featured in NYT, Forbes and has been rated as one of the hottest start-ups in the Food+ tech category. Kaushal is an alumnus of Singapore Management University and KPMG.

@Kaushal_dugar

Mr. Kiran Murthi is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of AskmeBazaar.com - India’s fastest growing marketplace that recreates the great Indian shopping experience online. With over 16 years of management experience, Kiran brings rich multi-industry exposure across ECommerce, Healthcare, Consumer Durables, Information Technology and Media Entertainment. He has worked with leading brands like Philips, J & J, Cadbury, AOL and Hindustan Times along with start-up experience in mobile payment and transit payment card industries.

Prior to joining AskmeBazaar, Kiran was with Fever 104 FM, the radio business of the HT group, for more than two years. He holds a post graduate degree in Marketing and Strategy from IIM Bangalore and is an Electrical & Electronics Engineer from IIT Madras. He carries with him a rich experience of driving design, market evelopment and new product adoption across consumer & technology products.

@kiranmurthi

In his role as Head-E-Commerce, Ketan is in charge of setting up a dedicated vertical for the fast growing e-commerce business out of Corporate Banking Vertical.
Ketan started his career in 2000 with Kotak. He was part of Kotak Securities for 2 years as Head, Gujarat Region, India for Online Trading. After 3 years with Kotak Securities he was transferred to Kotak Mahindra Bank in October 2003. He was part of the mortgages team and headed the western region.

Subsequently, in May 2008, he was transferred to Kotak Wealth Management, the Private Banking arm of Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd., where he assumed the role as Team Head focusing on NRI Business.

In 2010, he moved to UK to set up the Private Banking Business for Kotak Group and was heading it till March 2015. He has moved across continents post that to expand the business. Ketan holds a Masters Degree in Management Studies from Mumbai University.

Manoj Gupta is the Co-Founder of Craftsvilla, a leading ethnic online platform in India. Craftsvilla was established in 2011, with a vision of making the brand a go to destination for anything and everything ethnic. A passionate entrepreneur, Manoj and his wife Monica were inspired to make a difference to the lives of underprivileged artisans across the country As a co-founder of one of India’s fastest growing e-commerce platforms, Manoj is CEO of Craftsvilla.com Prior to Craftsvilla, Manoj was Principal at Nexus Venture Partners where he was helping early stage companies and passionate entrepreneurs to build scalable business. He has also been a board member with various ecommerce companies enabling him to get an in-depth understanding of the e-commerce industry. Manoj also started a Tech company in US in San Diego which was later acquired.

Manoj has completed his B.Tech, Engineering from IIT- Mumbai and MS in Electrical Engineering from University of Illionis at Urbana Champaign. He has CPhil in Electrical and Electronics engineering from University of California, San Diego and an alumina of IIM-A batch 2006 where he completed his MBA.

Manoj loves to travel and run.

Mohit is a Managing Director with Sequoia Capital and serves on the board of Citrus Payment CleverTap, DailyHunt, Ideacts Innovations, Knowlarity, Near, nearbuy, Octro, OneAssist, Shuttl & Zomato. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital, he served as the Senior Vice President at BhartiAirtel where he helped scale the business from a few states operation into a leading national wireless carrier. Earlier, he co-founded Bright pod, a wireless start-up in the US, by orchestrating a spin off from Ericsson Mobile Systems. He has received an MBA from UNC Chapel Hill and an MSEE from Virginia Tech.

Mohit invests in early stage tech companies across technology sub sectors of Payments, SaaS, Consumer Mobile Internet & analytics.

@mobhat

Mohit Kumar is the co founder and Chief Executive Officer of Roadrunnr. He graduated in Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from PES University in 2010. Mohit Kumar started his career as Lead Engineer in HolidayIQ in October 2010. After 26 months of services he became Senior Product Manager in Ola. He was responsible for building a robust taxi dispatch infrastructure and built apps for drivers. He worked with Ola for 13 months till November 2013.

Mohit co founded Roadrunnr in February 2015 at Bangalore. The company is focused on business to business deliveries and they are into hyper local delivery. The company uses on demand model to partner with delivery boys and manage lean and peak demand. They charge a flat rate per delivery of the products. Roadrunnr is serving 150+ order per day and has 150 vendors.

Naveen is Logistician with more than one and a half decade of experience in Supply Chain Management. In 2009 Naveen moved out of APL Logistics to set up Holisol along with two more seasoned logisticians, Rahul Dogar and Manish Ahuja .Since 2009 Holisol has worked with various renowned companies in setting up & managing their Supply Chain Operations.

@rawatnaveen

Navneet Singh serves as the Co-Founder of PepperTap, the fastest on-demand grocery delivery service platform in the country. With an expansive experience of over a decade across financial services, transportation & logistics industries.

As Founder of PepperTap, they bring a well-established repute and expertise of running operations in 18 cities across India with over 1200 employees at NuvoEx which remains an ongoing business apart from PepperTap. In his earlier avatar, Navneet held different positions with companies like Delhivery, World Bank (IFC), ExxonMobil etc. He also had a major role in setting up Indian operations of a UK-based fund and was instrumental in acquisition of GharPay at Delhivery.

Navneet an alumnus of IIM-Ahmedabad and was acknowledged as the President’s Gold Medal Winner at T.S. Chanakya, India’s premium Merchant Navy Training Institute. A movie buff and gadget-freak, Navneet likes to be with his kid and read tech blogs in his free time.

@peppertappernav

Neeru Sharma, is the Director of Platform Business Service Department at our Company. She holds bachelor’s degree in Computer Science & Engineering from Maharshi Dayanand University and holds a master’s degree in business administration from Carnegie Mellon University. Before joining infibeam, she has worked with Alcatel Development India Private Limited, Tata Consultancy Services, Amazon Global Resources Inc.in, EDS-Electronic Data Systems (India) Private Limited and NIGPL at various key positions. She has a background in Business Development, Project Management, Financial Analysis in technology Sector, Product Management, Business Planning, Strategic Analysis, Corporate Finance roles and led R&D related projects in the Intelligent Network services domain for major telecom partners in India, Australia and France for more than 14 years.

@neeru19

Nitin Nayar is a Managing Director at Warburg Pincus India Pvt. Ltd. He is based in Mumbai and joined Warburg Pincus in 2003 and has been working with the firm’s Indian affiliate since 2004. He is involved in the firm's investment advisory activities in India and evaluates opportunities in the technology and media sectors. Prior to joining Warburg Pincus, Mr. Nayar was business development manager for Epoch Partners, a boutique U.S. investment bank and worked in the technology investment banking group at Merrill Lynch in Palo Alto. He is a director of MXC Solutions India Private Limited (Car Trade) and Capillary Technologies. Mr. Nayar holds an A.B. from Harvard College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Nitin is a Chaiwala, who is Mechanical engineer by education and helped save his clients millions of dollars in his past life as a management consultant. He is the founder of Chaayos, NCRs biggest chai cafe chain. With their amazing chais, Chaayos is trying to revolutionise the way India drinks Chai. Nitin is a big Formula 1 fan and in his free time he likes to work upon his daughters puzzle books.

@Salujanitin

Peyush Bansal has established himself as not just a passionate online entrepreneur with 4 successfully running portals, but also an expert in the eyewear industry. He embarked on his journey with internet-based innovations when he founded India’s first online campus classifieds portal, Searchmycampus.com in 2007. The portal helped college students meet their basic needs of finding affordable accommodation, books, tutorials, food etc.

After attaining sufficient success and profound knowledge in the domain of e-markets, the online enthusiast incepted Valyoo Technologies in 2008. With his unique ability to connect the dots from strategy to tactics, he laid the foundation of Lenskart.com in November 2010. The company, since then, has been driven to success with an aim to provide great value for money and customised eyewear products. After getting a good grip over the eyewear market, he started targeting other verticals like watches, bags and jewellery with his other ventures WatchKart.com, JewelsKart.com and BagsKart.com in 2011.

His deep understanding of human capital, organisation development and finance has brought in a revolutionary transformation in his ventures. Under his dynamic leadership, LensKart has emerged as the industry leader in its category and has been instrumental in the success of the company in a fiercely competitive market.

Mr. Prashant Gupta, a highly reputed senior member at Aditya Birla Group, heads Aditya Birla Online Fashion (abof), the group’s vehicle for foraying into pure-play fashion e-commerce space. abof went live in September 2015 as the first fashion portal going live from any of India’s large conglomerates. It was the fastest concept-to-launch business that came up in about 8 months”

A young dynamic IIM A pass-out, Mr. Gupta is known for his strategic and business acumen and also for his focus on team development. Before being tasked with incubating and building up a portfolio of e-tailing businesses for Aditya Birla Group in 2014, Mr. Gupta headed the Chairman’s Office for about 3.5 years wherein he assisted Mr. K M Birla in strategic planning and monitoring the diversified businesses. His team advised the Chairman on strategy and operational issues in each business such that he had an independent point of view (in addition to the CEO’s view) on them.

A computer science graduate from IIT Delhi, Mr. Gupta completed his MBA from IIM Ahmedabad in 1999 and graduated with a gold medal. He joined McKinsey in 1999 where he spent over 10 years and served a wide variety of clients across sectors like Infrastructure, Construction, Power, ITS/BPO, Oil & Gas, Retail/Consumer, and Life Insurance. He was a partner at the firm before joining the Group in 2010.

Prashanth Prakash joined Accel in 2008 and focuses on consumer internet, SaaS and marketplace investments. He led Accel’s investments in BookMyShow, HolidayIQ, PropTiger, BlueStone, QwikCilver/GiftBig and WizRocket. Prior to Accel, Prashanth co-founded Erasmic (one of India’s first early stage funds) and founded two companies.  

Prashanth grew up in Bangalore and graduated from Bangalore Institute of Technology and has a Masters from the University of Delaware. 

@prashanthp

Radhika brings over 14 years of marketing experience in diverse industry segments like retail, ecommerce, fashion & lifestyle, advertising & public relations with best-of-breed global brands. As a Co-Founder of ShopClues and the driving force behind its go-to-market initiatives, she has carefully nurtured the brand to make it a household name in less than 4 years.

She is an accomplished speaker and a strong proponent of women entrepreneurship, having shared her thoughts on several fora including TiE and other industry events. Radhika is passionate about empowering women to assume leadership roles within her organization as well within ShopClues’ vibrant community of merchant partners. Before co-founding ShopClues in 2011, Radhika worked with Nordstrom at its corporate headquarters in strategy planning in Seattle and with Goldman Sachs in its Wealth Management group in New York and Menlo Park, USA. Radhika has an MBA from Washington University in St. Louis and a post-graduate degree in Advertising and Public Relations.

Rahul Narvekar, a true Mumbaikar and a serial entrepreneur launched 'Indianroots' in July, 2013; this being his fifth venture as a promoter and second in the e-commerce world. From working as a door to door salesman to pay for his education to leading sales campaigns of brands like Dettol at small paan wallahs in Mumbai’s red light district; to peddling Gillete razors in Akbarallys, Rahul's entrepreneurial abilities were getting honed up from his early days itself.

A multi-tasker, by heart, Rahul joined TS - tele-shopping network at UTV, while pursuing a full time business entrepreneurship course. He became a part of Asia's first Interactive music channel named Oxygen in 1999. The company scaled to revenues of 2 crore a year with the best of clients including Coca Cola, Colgate, HLL and so on.

After dabbling for brief stints with Sun City and DLF, Rahul met a European gentleman called Oliver Jung and became an entrepreneur again and launched the e-commerce site that changed the whole dynamics of e-commerce called, www.fashionandyou.com in 2009.

@rahulnarvekar

Rahul Chandra is a co-founder and Managing Director of Helion and has 20 years of venture capital investing and corporate development experience in technology product and services companies in India and the US. He serves on the Boards of Seclore, Shubham, UnitedLex, Mindworks, Wooplr, CrownIT, Railyatri, Moengage, Rapid Value and Toppr, and manages investments Ezetap.

Between 2000 and 2006, Rahul was based in Silicon Valley as part of the investment team at Walden International, a global venture capital firm with more than $2B under management. Between 2004 and 2005 he also led the M&A efforts at e4e Inc., a Santa Clara, CA based BPO company with more than 4,000 employees across the globe.

Rahul started Venture Capital investing in 1996 in India as the first hire at Walden's India office. In this role he managed investments for Walden's India dedicated Fund between 1996 and 2000.

Rahul has invested in more than 30 early-to-mid-stage companies such as Mindtree, Ikanos (IKAN), e4e Inc and Techspan (Headstrong). Prior to Walden, he worked in the Capital Markets Group at Lazard India, and in the Primary Market Department at the Securities Exchange Board of India.

Rahul has an MBA from University of California, Berkeley and graduated from Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani in 1993.

@rahulchandra77

Rahul Khanna is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Trifecta Capital, India’s first Venture Debt fund. He was previously, Managing Director at Canaan Partners, a global venture capital fund with $4 billion under management. Rahul has twenty years of investing and operating experience in Technology, Media and Telecoms.

Having returned to India from Silicon Valley in 2005, Rahul has played a key role in the development of the venture capital ecosystem in India and has been an active investor in several high growth companies like Billdesk, LoyltyRewardz, Equitas and Naaptol.

Rahul also supports the startup ecosystem by advising early stage companies and making angel investments. Rahul has an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Rajesh is the Co-Founder of BlackBuck. BlackBuck is an online marketplace for logistics transactions, bridging the demand and supply facets in the road-freight space. The freight market has long been lacking efficiency, reliability and transparency. Keeping technology at its core, BlackBuck has endeavored to revolutionize this space by making the overall transportation process simple and effective, thereby bringing in a seamless transactional experience for both its customers and truckers. Blackbuck has created impact in this ecosystem through its proprietary products and processes, that enable online indenting, real-time access demand visibility, shipment tracking, pricing and performance analytics, fleet management, fair and competitive pricing etc. available both on web-based and mobile-based platforms.

Rajesh graduated from IIT Kharagpur in the year 2010. He started his professional career as a Supply Chain Manager in the Leaf Tobacco Business of ITC Ltd, where he led the supply chain transformation to streamline operations. Post this, he moved into the capacity of Business Manager in the ITC’s Foods business, responsible for building a new FMCG Business Category.

Rajinder is an early stage investor with Matrix Partners India. Matrix has invested in several market leading companies in India such as Ola (local transportation), Mswipe (mobile POS), Quikr (online classifieds), Practo (digital health platform), Dailyhunt (mobile local language platform), Five Star Finance (SME lending), Limeroad (mobile social commerce marketplace), Razorpay (payments), Treebo (digital hotel chain) and OfBusiness (SME lending and B2B marketplace) among others.

Rajinder has had the privilege of working with some of these fantastic founders who have built fast growing marketplaces and is looking to partner with more founders across B2B and B2C sectors that target “Real India”. Rajinder has an MBA from Harvard Business School and did his undergrad at the University of Madras.

@rbalaraman

Mr. Samar Singla, Founder and CEO of Jugnoo is a serial entrepreneur. An alumnus of IIT Delhi and a Physicist by education, Mr. Singla sold his first company, Prodigy foods and followed it with his second venture Click Labs, a profitable SaaS technology solution provider. Jugnoo, his third venture, aims to be an instant on-demand mate for all the daily needs of its customers and uplift millions of people socially and economically by providing them better income and life quality.

@samarsingla

Sameer is the Founder & CEO of HealthKart (www.healthkart.com), India’s leading online fitness and nutrition store. Sameer’s vision to make HealthKart the fitness destination of the country, which can help consumers achieve their fitness goals, be it muscle building, weight loss or general immunity.

Prior to founding HealthKart, Sameer worked for 12 years in financial services and technology industries in the US at UBS Investment Bank, MicroStrategy and Deloitte Consulting. Sameer holds a Bachelor of Technology from IIT Delhi and is a graduate of Harvard Business School.

@sameermahesh

Samir is currently the Managing Director of Inventus Advisory Services India. He has been an early-stage venture investor in India since 2001.

Prior to co-founding Inventus, Samir led the India venture investing team for Acer Technology Ventures, where he made early-stage investments in the technology space.

Prior to his VC career, Samir spent 15+ years in the IT industry in India in Sales, Marketing and Product Management roles. He started his working career with Computer Point in 1986, before spending 10+ years in Wipro Infotech from 1988. He then spent 2½ years with Planetasia from 1999-2001, as Chief Marketing Officer.

Samir is an active Charter Member of Tie Bangalore, where he has been elected to the Governing Body for the past 5+ years. He has also been a Member of the Board of Governors of SINE - the technology incubator at IIT Bombay, since Jan 2013.

Samir earned his B.Tech from IIT-Bombay in 1984 and an MBA from IIM, Bangalore in 1986, where he was awarded the Best All-Round Outgoing student.

@samir_kmr

Saran is currently the CEO of Housejoy. Prior to this, Saran was with Flipkart as VP of Product Management and a key part of the leadership team for close to 3 years. He played a key role in scaling Flipkart by shaping the company strategy, setting up and hiring the product management, design and operations org, heading the consumer experience and platforms teams and running P&L for the advertising business. Before Flipkart, Saran was with Yahoo for about six years in various roles, including senior director for global product management, business management & operations director, among others.

Saurabh Kochhar is the CEO of foodpanda India. Saurabh is at the helm of the strategic growth of the company, which has established itself as the largest online food ordering platform over the last few years.

Saurabh embarked upon his entrepreneurial journey with printvenue.com in the year 2012. Prior to co-founding Printvenue.com, Saurabh worked with top global organisations such as McKinsey & Co and Oracle India. It is in these companies that he garnered the sound professional grounding and business acumen that he applied to his own enterprise and foodpanda thereafter.

A recipient of many prestigious accolades, Saurabh has been named as “The Most Talented Retail professional of India” by Asia Retail Congress and “Entrepreneur of the year in Manufacturing Business – Printing 2014”. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Technology from IIT-Roorkee and also holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from IIM-Calcutta, where he was the sole recipient of the Shri Ratan Tata Scholarship for the year 2009.

Saurabh enjoys travelling and spending time with family and friends. His interests include reading and watching movies and playing cricket.

@saurabhkochhar

Sujayath Ali is the Co-Founder and CEO of Voonik, the leader in the unbranded fashion category with an annual GMV rate of over 120 Million USD. It has over 20 Million registered users, with 18 Million app downloads. Voonik has built deep technology to enable personalization that made it the most engaging ecommerce app in India. On the supply side, it has over 15 Lakh products from more than 25,000 sellers. Voonik has a highly scalable ‘lean’ marketplace business model where it operates without inventory and fulfilment centers.

Before Voonik, Sujayath was a Senior Business Leader at Visa. Prior to this, he was associated with Amazon.com as their Senior Product Manager. He started his career as a Senior Software Development Engineer with iNautix Technology. He is distinguishable for being the creator of the first of its kind flagship products in his professional tenure before turning entrepreneur.

An MBA from the Indian School of Business, he also holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science Engineering.

@sujayath

Swati Bhargava is the Co-Founder of CashKaro.com, India’s largest Cashback & Coupons site. At CashKaro, Swati spearheads the Marketing & Business Development team and is responsible for Investor Relations. She is amongst the top 10 women entrepreneurs in Indian ecommerce industry as quoted by Economic Times and one of the top social media influencers in the country. Swati has also represented India at the coveted Blackbox Connect - Female Founders Edition - powered by Google in Silicon Valley, California and is an active keynote speaker in India and internationally.

Swati is an alumnus of the London School of Economics and has worked at Goldman Sachs in London for 5 years before starting UK Cashback business Pouring Pounds along with her husband & Co-Founder, Rohan. The couple launched CashKaro.com in April 2013 in India and pioneered the concept of cashback. CashKaro works with 1000+ retailers including Amazon.in, Jabong, Paytm, ShopClues etc and its members can earn up to 30% Extra Cashback on their online orders.

CashKaro.com raised Rs 25 crores in its Series A funding led by Kalaari Capital, one of India’s leading venture capital firms and recently raised undisclosed amount from Ratan Tata, chairman Emeritus of Tata Sons.

@Swats26

She has an experience of over 12 years in Management Consulting, Supply Chain Management and Private Equity Operational Advisory Business. Swati pursued BE in Computer Science from Delhi College of Engineering and completed her MBA from Carnegie Mellon University. Her professional career began with the role of a consultant in the reputed firm, Bain and Co., located in Boston. She further supervised the setting up of India Operations at Opera Solutions-a famed Data Analytics company based in New York, growing it to 100+ employee strength.

Upasana’s mission is to simplify payment acceptance for retailers in India. Her current focus is to bring a million retailers into the MobiKwik payments network. She is also in charge of bank partnerships, business operations, and talent acquisition at MobiKwik. Upasana comes with a strong background in payments as a senior product manager with PayPal in the Silicon Valley and prior to that with HSBC in San Diego, US.

In 2008, Upasana decided to return to India and contribute to the ecosystem back home. The year after she joined MobiKwik as its co-founder. From a handful of early employees to a headcount of around 250, Upasana has been chiefly responsible for holding things together at MobiKwik, keeping the team focused on the goal of building India’s largest independent mobile payments network.

Upasana graduated with Bachelors in Engineering from NIT Jalandhar and holds a Masters in Management Science from Stanford University. She has 13 years of extensive experience in Payments & Financial Services and has been an entrepreneur in India for over 6 years now. Away from web products and startups, Upasana can be found traveling to offbeat destinations or doing triathlons. Acknowledging her achievements in the tech startup ecosystem of India she was featured by Forbes under "Asia's Women to Watch in 2016".

@UpasanaTaku

Close to 20 years of global experience covering business development, loyalty management, IT consulting and knowledge services. Currently heads India Business Development for Aimia, the world’s leading data-driven marketing company. Previously was India Country Manager at Welcome Real-Time, a leading POS-marketing firm. Prior to that was Senior Manager at Capgemini, where he managed numerous ecommerce, ERP and other IT consulting projects for 10 years, and also co-founded an IT transformation offering. Started his career designing enterprise data warehouses at US Robotics (3Com). Vikram holds an MBA from INSEAD in France, and a BSc in Physics & Computer Science from Gettysburg College in the US. He has been based in Mumbai the past 8 years.

@VikramAdige

Viraj Sawhney is a Managing Director at Warburg Pincus India Pvt. Ltd. He is based in Mumbai and joined Warburg Pincus in 2005.  He evaluates opportunities in business services sectors including logistics and IT, as well as industrials. He is a director of ECOM Express Private Limited, Embassy Industrial Parks Private Limited, Continental Warehousing Corporation (Nhava Seva) Limited and AVTEC India Limited.

Prior to joining Warburg Pincus, Mr. Sawhney was an Engagement Manager with McKinsey & Company, where he spent five years serving clients in the services and industrial sectors across India, S.E. Asia and Australia.  Mr. Sawhney holds a B.A. degree in mathematics from St. Stephens College (Delhi University) and an M.B.A. from IIM Ahmedabad.