Ajit Mohan is the CEO of Hotstar, India’s largest premium streaming platform. Under his leadership, Hotstar, launched in 2015 as a platform offering drama, movies and sports on demand, raced to become one of the fastest adopted new apps in the world.

Prior to Star, Ajit spent five years at McKinsey & Company, first in New York in its media practice, and later in India as a Fellow at the McKinsey Global Institute, where he co-authored India's Urban Awakening, a 2010 report outlining a policy approach to India's rapid urbanization.  Between 2011 and 2012, he was a columnist for Wall Street Journal's India Real Time.

He holds an MA in Economics and International Relations from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University, an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and BASc in Computer Engineering from NTU in Singapore.

 @secondatticus

Akash Banerji is the Head, Marketing & Partnerships for the Viacom 18 digital ventures. Prior to this role, Akash was the Head of Marketing for Hotstar (2014-15) where he was responsible for the big bang launch and driving consumer acquisition.

He has thirteen years of consistent high performance in the marketing & sales/distribution domain with leading consumer centric MNCs in the area of managing & growing brands profitably. Akash has worked across various spectrums like Digital, Sports, General Entertainment & business integration (post acquisition) and led teams (marketing & cross-functional) with the aim of gaining market & mind share.

An alumnus of Faculty of Management Studies (FMS) Delhi, Akash started his career in sales & marketing working for top-notch organizations like Pepsi & Marico straddling different geographies in the country. After spending close to five years in Marico, Akash decided to move to the fast-paced world of media.

Aakrit Vaish is Co-Founder & CEO of Haptik, one of the world's leading mobile personal assistant platforms. Aakrit started the company from his house in 2013, and as of of November 2016, it employs close to 500 people and has marquee investor partners such as Times Internet and Kalaari Capital. Aakrit has been responsible for pioneering the concept of chat based assistance way before companies like Facebook and Google launched assistants in 2016. Prior to Haptik, Aakrit was an early member of the team at Flurry, one of the world's largest mobile analytics and advertising platforms, acquired by Yahoo in 2014. Aakrit received his BS in Industrial Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign and was named as a contender to the Forbes India 30 under 30 list in 2015.

@aakuvaish

Mr. Anirudh Damani brings over ten years of energy experience and procuring energy customers. He owns Artha Energy Resources, an energy consultancy firm and is responsible for adding over 2 billion kWh worth of energy. He has set up a consultancy firm for facilitating investments into power projects across geographies and asset classes like wind, solar, hydro and bio-power. Apart from energy projects, Mr. Damani is an active angel investor and has held investments in several emerging startups including Oyo Rooms, Exotel, Inc42, Mobilewalla and Roadhouse Hostels.

@showmedamani

Mr. Arun Gupta is a technology veteran turned serial entrepreneur with 23+ years of experience and multiple patents to his credit. His visionary leadership offers a business edge to the companies founded, co founded by him or wherein he is Director on board.

Mr. Arun Gupta is the Co Founder of MagicTel Solutions, a subsidiary of MoMagic Technologies. Founded in the year, 2012 MagicTel today, is #1 player in the Retail distribution space in India. Some of the top global mobile apps are part of MagicTel network and distributed through its retail channel -App Junction. MagicTel currently has acquired more than 5 million users for these global Apps through its channel.

Mr. Gupta is also the CEO and Founder of MoMagic Technologies. And Co Founder, mChamp Entertainments, a celebrity driven contest app. Also invested in education startup: EduAce. Prior to venturing on his own, Mr. Gupta has held many significant positions in the IT sector and has expansive experience and profound knowledge base in Product Development and Mobile Technology.

Mr. Gupta was also the Director at MediaTek for almost a decade and the architect of the 1st version of MediaTek handset MMI. Arun holds a Master’s Degree in M-Tech from COEP Pune and Executive Management from IIM Calcutta.

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

Deven Dharamdasani, co-founder of Seventynine, is a high achieving digital industry leader who has developed and executed strategy across varied portfolios and myriad business streams. His strong brand knowledge combined with his natural instinct to thrive in fluid and challenging environment has governed his 15 year stint in the digital eco-system.

Deven's entrepreneurial journey kicked-off at Quasar Media, where he was part of the founding team, followed by Blazar media which he co-founded and all through the span he was highly effective developing and cultivating deep relationships with top-level executives (CXOs) but also capable to interact and contribute at grass-root level (campaign managers, analysts). Both Blazar and Quazar were acquired by WPP group eventually.

He aces at new business creation; from business plan development, hiring and mentoring talent, revenue, to market leadership. For the past decade or so, he has been deeply involved with efforts to drive digital marketing growth in the region through advocacy, education, and innovation.

Deepit Purkayastha is Co-founder & Chief Strategy Officer of Inshorts, erstwhile, News in Shorts. In his capacity as Chief Strategy Officer, he is responsible to oversee the business and strategic roadmap for the enterprise. In his 4th year of IIT Kharagpur, Deepit teamed up with Azhar Iqubal and Anunay Pandey to build Inshorts the pioneer of short form content in India. 

In his leisure time, Deepit is fond of playing musical instruments. 

Mr. Dilip Asbe is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) since August 2013 prior to which he had been Chief Technology Officer (CTO) since inception of the company i.e. January 2010.He has played a leadership role in setting up and management of National Financial Switch (NFS) as well as Cashnet, the first and second largest Domestic Switching Networks in India having very high processing capabilities. He has also designed and operationalised one of the first real time mobile top up processing platforms in India.

He has to his credit major achievements like setting up of entire backbone infrastructure for Euronet worldwide in Asia Pacific region and for Prizm Payments Services in India before joining NPCI. During his stint as CTO at NPCI, he has designed and operationalised IMPS (Immediate Payment system), RuPay (India's Own Card), Automated Clearing House (ACH) platforms. He has built high capacity platforms and strong team within NPCI, which is processing over 700 million transactions a month.

@dilipasbe

Dr Aparna Hegde is the Founder, Chairperson and Managing Trustee of ARMMAN, a Mumbai-based nonprofit dedicated to the wellbeing of mothers and children under the age five. ARMMAN’s projects make innovative use of mobile technology to maximize outreach and achieve scale and have impacted more than 6 lakh lives. Dr. Hegde is also one of the very few fellowship trained urogynecologists in the country. She is the Co-Founder and Director of UPHI (Urogynecology and Pelvic Health Institute), a tertiary, clinical and academic centre of excellence in Urogynecology and Pelvic reconstructive surgery in Gurgaon, Delhi NCR, India. She was awarded a two year IUGA (International Urogynecological Association) fellowship which she completed in the prestigious department of Urogynecology at Cleveland Clinic Florida. She is an accomplished researcher with a master’s degree from Stanford University and is a member of the Editorial Board of the International Urogynecology Journal and the Education Committee of the IUGA. She is invited internationally to speak on her research in multicompartment imaging of the pelvic floor.

Dr. Hegde is a TEDx speaker and was also featured as one of the five global women leaders featured in the 2015 Voice of America documentary, “A Single Step: Journeys of Women Leaders” narrated by Academy award winning actress Sally Field.

@hegde_aparna

Gautam is a global executive with 30 years of rich experience including a wealth of startup and industry expertise. He is currently the CEO of Times Internet Ltd., the digital arm of The Times of India Group, where he drives the strategy, vision and execution for all the internet, mobile and telecommunication properties of the group.

Prior to Times Internet Ltd., Gautam was the Chief Operating Officer of CashEdge Inc,  a company based out of New York and California working in payments and wealth management, where he worked since 2001 building and leading the company from startup to profitability.  Prior to CashEdge, he held senior management positions at Sevant, Aspect Communications, at the Neural Applications Corporation, and at the Ministry of Defense in India (DRDO). He believes in the Indian startup ecosystem and is an active early stage investor.

Being Vice President of Yeahmobi Investment, Founder & Managing Director of Cyber Carrier VC Fund, Ms. Jessica Wong is a dynamic professional and a specialist in business network consolidating. She is responsible for all Yeahmobi’s investment operation in India, which covers business development, brand building and management, investment strategic planning and execution, and post-investment incubational management etc.

Jessica Wong has extensive experience in the field of venture capital investment for TMT project and corporate clientele business development through association with hi-tech companies, fund managers and other investors in China, India and the US.

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

A seasoned entrepreneur with a penchant for start up success, Martin is the architect behind the nanu business. Martin has made a career out of delivering profitable high tech sales and communications solutions to the maritime and software industries, spanning Asia and Europe. Product expertise includes CRM, ERP, CCTV, SIM card, banking and voice over internet protocol (VoIP) software.

nanu was conceived from Martin’s singular mission to revolutionize the telecommunications industry and put an end to telco dominance.

@chiefnanu

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

Nidhi Agarwal is the Founder & CEO of KAARYAH Lifestyle Solutions Pvt. Ltd.. Aside from being promoted by Mr. Badri Agarwal (ex-President, Airtel) KAARYAH has secured investments from Mr. Ratan Tata and has raised its Series A funding from The Saha Fund & Mr. Mohandas Pai.

Nidhi has 15+ years of experience in Strategy Consulting and Auditing. She was the Director, Strategy at Honeywell, India where she helped them develop their Space and Missiles business, enabling component sales for the ‘Mangalyaan’ mission.

Prior to that, she was the Strategy Consultant at Bain&Co where she drafted market entry strategies for FMCG companies. She has also worked for KPMG and Bharti Airtel before joining Honeywell. Nidhi developed and launched India’s first M-commerce product at Airtel where she discovered her interest in Marketing Analytics and Strategy. She is a Chartered Accountant and has a MBA degree from Kellogg School of Management, where she received the prestigious Dean’s Service Award.

@NidhiWall

Nilesh Kothari has 23 years of corporate finance, underwriting and treasury experience in tech, consulting and financial services. Prior to this he was the M.D. - Ventures and Acquisitions at Accenture plc., a $30 Billion global technology and consulting company. Previously he was CFO of Accenture Credit Services, HeroBPO and Systems America.

He has deep operational experience in building several large businesses and creating successful exits like Zenta. He has experience of Structured Finance and Ratings at ICRA (A Moody’s Associate) and Debt Funds Management at JM Mutual Fund. He has a master of management Studies (MMS) degree from BITS, Pilani and AICWA.

Pradeep Lokhande’s goal to reach out and contribute to the development of rural India inspired him to embark on a mission 20 years ago, which is today known as Rural Relations. Banking on one of his prime area of interests, Information Technology, Pradeep installed used computers in rural secondary schools, where the interest and curiosity of students is very high. Till 2009 Rural Relations was able to install 20,000 used computers directly or indirectly across 10 states in India.

Post the success of this initiative, Pradeep embarked on yet another movement named Non-Resident Villagers (NRV) movement. With the help of NRV, till date 3,280 Gyan-key libraries in rural secondary schools have been established. In addition to this Pradeep is also credited with the game changer initiative villagewiKY, which is an open information platform of key and feeder villages of India.

@pradeeplokhan de

Mr. Chandrashekhar is President of NASSCOM, the premier trade body for the IT-BPO Industry in India. He has had an illustrious career with rich experience in Government. He has been Chairman of the Telecom Commission and Secretary in the Department of Telecommunications in the Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Government of India from September, 2010 till his retirement from Government service at the end of March, 2013.

As Telecom Secretary, he was responsible for driving several key policies and strategies covering licensing, spectrum management, National Broadband Plan, Convergence, Manufacturing, Investment, security, R&D and the National Telecom Policy 2012. As the Secretary of the Department of Information Technology, he steered the formulation of national policies for the IT sector and for promoting Electronic System Design and Manufacturing and R&D in the Electronics and IT sector. Earlier, he established the first Department of Information Technology in the country in the state of Andhra Pradesh and was Secretary of the Department from June, 1997 to December, 1999.

He was conferred the Prime Minister’s Award for Excellence in Public Administration for the year 2007-08.  He has been conferred several awards including Data Quest Path Breaker of the Year Award in 2005 and Distinguished Alumnus award of IIT-Mumbai in 2010.

@RentalaShekhar

Rishi Batra is co-founder, COO and CFO of Fashalot, India’s first O2O location-based fashion store discovery platform. He takes the lead in overseeing finance and operations, retailer partnerships, offline marketing, team building and strategic management of the organization. Rishi’s exceptional skills and deep understanding of media, retail and digital industries has led to the launch of Fashalot, along with co-founders Amit Koshal and Amit Sharma.

Rishi started his career as a senior analyst with Copal Partners. In his earlier stint as a chief manager with the Times Group, Rishi was leading investments and strategic partnerships in digital, media and travel for Brand Capital (North). He has spearheaded marquee transactions foronline travel, B2B portals, e-commerce, insurance aggregators, social networks, mobile, Internet fashion brand, IT hardware and handset manufacturers like Yatra, Yepme, Indiamart, Matrix Cellular and Policybazaar to name a few. He has also participated in growth initiatives and business strategies of investee companies. With over a decade of experience in scaling up businesses by devising media strategies and investments for market share and revenue growth, Rishi’s contribution in setting up Fashalot has been phenomenal. Rishi works to build a strong and profitable business with an intention to capture 1 per cent of India’s fashion retail market revenues by 2018.

After graduating in mechanical engineering from University of Pune, he went on to pursue MBA from IMT Ghaziabad and FDU, USA. Rishi hails from a well-known business family with a successful chemical business run by his father.  Rishi nurtures his philanthropic side whenever time permits.He participated in spreading awareness on gender equality by joining in the “Kickstart Equality” campaign run by CEQ. Apart from his interest in travel and sports, he loves to spend quality time with his family.

Sachin Bhatia is Co-Founder and CEO of TrulyMadly, India’s No 1 dating app for singles, which he co-founded in 2014.

Sachin also co-founded MakeMyTrip, where he served as Chief Marketing Officer and later led new product development to launch rail, bus and cab bookings. He helped  MakeMyTrip become one of India's top travel brands and moved out from an operating role in 2010. He remains involved as an independent advisor to the company.

He is currently an active angel investor and mentor to many technology and mobile startups in India & South-East Asia like Shuttl, LittleBlackBook, Tripoto, GoVoyagin, CatchThatBus etc.

Sachin is a fitness enthusiast and a keen cyclist.

Sandeep is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Lumis Partners. At Lumis, Sandeep brings an entrepreneur spirit, a hands-on investing experience in India, and over fifteen years of global operating experience.

At Lumis, Sandeep is focused on building portfolio across higher education segment and human capital services in emerging markets. He is an active member in this sector and leads several activities across various public/private organizations in this ecosystem.

He began his professional career with Technology Management Leadership program at GE. His prior experiences include quality and technology leadership roles across various businesses of GE; and senior operating positions at 3Com.

Sandeep completed his undergraduate studies in Computer Science from the Delhi Institute of Technology followed by postgraduate program from the London School of Economics.

Sanjeev Aggarwal is a co-founder of Helion and has served on the Boards of MakeMyTrip and Unitedlex. He is currently on the Boards of IndiaHomes, Azure Power, Amba Research, Eye-Q and ShopClues. Prior to Helion, Sanjeev was the Founder and CEO of Daksh, having been with the company from its inception in 2000 to its acquisition by IBM in 2004. Sanjeev ran the company as its CEO till June 2006. Daksh was a pioneer in BPO sector in year 2000 and had over 20,000 employees by June, 2006. During this period, Daksh was rated as the World's Best Managed BPO company (Black Book of Outsourcing) and was ranked as the #1 employer in Indian BPO market by IDC. Sanjeev was chosen "Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the year" in 2002.

Prior to founding Daksh, he worked for 15 years with leading technology companies serving the domestic Indian market. Sanjeev led the Strategic Initiatives at Motorola India. He worked with Digital Equipment Corporation in delivering technology solutions and was recognized as the "Decathlon Winner", a recognition given to top 1% managers worldwide. He also served as the CEO of 3COM India.

Sanjeev has a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and an MBA. Aggarwal - Senior MD, Helion Advisors Pvt. Ltd

Sanna Vohra is the Founder and CEO of The Wedding Brigade, an inspiration, planning, shopping, and services portal for Indian weddings. The company recently raised its seed round of funding lead by Blume Ventures. Prior to The Wedding Brigade, she worked in technology investment banking at Morgan Stanley in New York. She graduated Magna cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Brown University in 2012, where she co-founded the university's largest student-run business.

@sanna_vohra

Srivatsa Krishna is currently Secretary, e-governance, and Chairman of KUIDFC (Karnataka Urban Infrastructure Development and Finance Corporation). He led the team that launched MobileOne, which was certified as the world’s largest mobile governance platform with over 4,000 services; set up India’s first Startup Warehouse; runs India’s largest e-procurement platform; launched free public Wi-Fi in Bangalore and is now setting up India's 1st Big Data city.

Earlier he worked in the Strategy, Finance and Risk Management Vice Presidency, World Bank Group, running one of their largest capital investment funds, performance management, offshoring and various PPP projects. The World Economic Forum at Davos recognised him as a Global Leader of Tomorrow and Thinkers50 as one of the top thought leaders in 2013. He is a prominent and influential commentator in both, national print and electronic media.

@SrivatsaKrishna

Sri Rajan is the Chairman of Bain India, with over 19 years of management consulting experience in India and the US. He was one of the founders of the Indian operations of Bain & Company. He has been responsible for the creation and execution of turnaround strategies for multiple diversified firms. Sri also has significant experience working with Private Equity firms and companies across the industrial, telecom and technology sectors.

Sri has been the co-founder of a tech startup in Silicon Valley and has also been on the Board of the American operations of CRY. He is currently on the board of an e-commerce logistics startup as well as a leading foundation focused on education. He is also on the advisory Board of Bridgespan India, which is an affiliate of Bain & Company that focuses on advising foundations and non-profit organizations. He has invested in and is on the advisory board of various startups in India. He writes regularly for top-tier publications such as Mint and The Economic Times. He is a member of the Global Agenda Council on India of the World Economic Forum.

@srirajan8

Subrat is the CEO and Co-Founder of Vidooly, India’s only video marketing & analytics product for online video content creators, MCNs & brands. Before starting Vidooly, he worked for companies like Jabong & IndiaMART as a product manager and oversaw business critical product launch initiatives & fine-tuned the existing products. 

An avid blogger, author and analyst; Subrat has represented Vidooly in many conferences and industry events.  He has been an active part of the Indian startup ecosystem and has written articles on online video that have been published in Forbes, Kissmetrics and many other prestigious online publications. Despite studying Chemical Engineering in college, online video has always been his passion and his aim is to make Vidooly, the Nielsen of Online video industry.

@subratkar

Suchita Salwan is the founder & ceo of Little Black Book (www.lbb.in)- a web and app based local discoveries & recommendations platform. Little Black Book reaches out to over a million users every month, and is available in Delhi, Delhi, Bangalore and Bombay (launching soon). The platform sees some of the biggest brands in the world- including Airbnb, Samsung, Taj, Pepsi, Coca-Cola, Nestle- and a plethora of local brands connect and engage with a local audience.

She has graduated from Delhi University with a degree in Economics, after which she worked with Wizcraft and the BBC. Her forte and domain interest lies in Marketing, Social Media, Brand Building and Sales. She started Little Black Book as a platform for young, urban audiences to access the best things that were happening in their city- across interests and locations. Today, she runs LBB with her co-founder Dhruv Mathur and 50 colleagues.

Sunil K. Goyal is the founder and CEO of YourNest Angel Fund. Prior to founding YourNest, Sunil has won recognition for playing instrumental roles in well-known business like Bharti Group & Dabur. Sunil is also an independent director on the Board of Bharti Telecom Limited (Holding company of Bharti Airtel Limited) and Bharti Hexacom Ltd (A JV with TCIL, a GoI undertaking).

Sunil is a former member of TiE, Indian Angel Network & Mumbai Angels. His passion for early stage ventures has led him to invest in 9 start-ups on his own, before he set-up YourNest. Recently, Sunil got an exit to global players from his first personal investment company ZipDial, which has been acquired by Twitter and in VuClip, which has been acquired by PCCW.

@skg69

Sunil is referred to as the techno-savvy mind behind designing the Oxigen Technology for dispensation of various service & products to the Retail in India. He is designated Deputy Managing Director, in October 2011, to support the Chairman of Oxigen in overall conduct of Oxigen business.

Sunil has successfully led the company's development & growth and would now be focused on Oxigen's biggest opportunity covering Banking , Remittances, Mobile wallets, Merchant payments, IMPS, to propel Oxigen into its next growth phase. He will also be responsible for effective strategy on Risk mitigation and Fraud prevention.

In his new role as Chief Strategy Officer,Tushar guides GroupM’s future focused vision by harnessing data, digital and content. He works closely with regional and global teams to develop relevant solutions for emerging categories like ecommerce.Tushar had launched Digital Media business unit (Interaction) for GroupM India and build up the team and expanded services in areas like search, mobile and social. GroupM digital Media practise (MindShare Interaction, Maxus Interaction and MEC Interaction) is leading digital media solution provider with more than 140 clients.

Tushar was also part of SureWaves start-up team. SureWaves is creating the SureWaves Media Grid – An integrated Ad Aggregation, Content Delivery, Network Management, Media Planning & Reporting Platform for multiple forms of digital media other than Internet. Tushar has been speaker at various online, mobile & digital media summit and was part of IAMAI governing council.

@tushvyas

Vasuta Agarwal is the GM - India at InMobi. In this role, Vasuta is responsible for the strategic roadmap and revenue for InMobi's India business including developer, brand and commerce partnerships. In her previous role as VP for Business Development, she managed the global partner management team responsible for account management and revenue growth of all key publisher/supply side relationships across North America, LATAM, Europe and Asia Pacific.

Vasuta is a graduate from BITS and has an MBA from IIM Bangalore. Prior to joining InMobi, she worked with McKinsey for 2 years.

@VasutaAgarwal

Vikas Agarwal is the General Manager - India at OnePlus. At OnePlus, he is responsible for driving strategic partnerships and the fully localized service operations in India.

Overall, Vikas has close to 12 years of cross-functional experience across private equity, real estate and e-commerce domains. Prior to joining OnePlus, Vikas served as a Director of Corporate Excellence at IBIBO (part of MIH-Naspers Group) where he led the business operations of their marketplace vertical.

Earlier, he was part of the founding team and part of the investment team at Ivanhoe Cambridge India (real estate vertical of La Caisse, one of the biggest pension fund in North America).

In 2004, Vikas graduated from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi with B.Tech and M.Tech degrees in Chemical Engineering. Later, he received his Masters in Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad in 2007. Vikas currently lives in Bengaluru, along with his wife and son.

@Vikas_AGL

Virginia Sharma is the Director of Marketing Solutions at LinkedIn India. As part of the senior leadership team at LinkedIn India, Virginia’s focus is to help leading enterprises and marketers meaningfully engage with professionals on the LinkedIn platform, with relevant and valuable content. She leads a sales team who consult marketers and agencies create and execute high-impact content marketing campaigns.

Virginia has been a marketer all her life. Before this role, she was the Director, Marketing for LinkedIn APAC, where she designed and drove effective marketing campaigns to grow the LinkedIn Talent Solutions Business. Virginia started her career at IBM and held several marketing leadership positions across North America, APAC and India, including Vice President of Marketing and Communications for IBM India/South Asia. Before joining LinkedIn, she had to her credit 15 years of experience in the marketing industry and has won several awards including Asia’s Most Influential CMOs in 2015 by CMO Asia.

An alumnus of New York University, Virginia is a global marketer who brings extensive business and leadership experience to her role at LinkedIn.  

Vishal brings with him over fifteen years of leadership experience in the telecom and mobile internet space with organizations such as Yahoo! India and BPL Mobile, and ten years of product and brand management experience at Parle, Warner Lambert and SBI Cards. Appointed in January 2016 as Vuclip’s Country Manager for India, Vishal’s core responsibilities include driving consumer adoption, engagement and monetisation for its OTT video on demand (VOD) services in India through strategic partnerships, service innovation and consumer insights.

Vishal is a founder partner at Serendipity Investments since the year 2013. His advisory experience to start ups in the consumer internet space will help Vuclip enhance their portfolio in India.