Aamir is a Co-Founder and Director of Karma Recycling. Prior to founding Karma, Aamir was an M&A investment banker with UBS and Mitsubishi Securities across New York, London and Tokyo and a professional investor in troubled middle market companies in the USA. Leaving a cushy corporate life and choosing India with his feet, Aamir focused his entrepreneurial energies on alleviating the grim electronic waste predicament facing India. Using software applications to design product take-back systems for retailers and consumers, Karma has active consumer facing operations in 24 cities across India and is a go-to provider of exchange programs and trade-in solutions for organized retailers. A big believer in the concept of Karma, Aamir is an Industrial Engineer from Northwestern University where he was Ford Motor Company Dean Scholar.

Alex is the co-founder and Managing Director of Overcart, the next generation e-commerce company that sells excess, unboxed and refurbished stock for brands and retailers. Overcart has raised two rounds of funding from GSF SuperAngels and GrowthStory.

Before setting up Overcart, Alex spent six years as a consultant with CEB in London & Gurgaon. He has also worked with the World Health Organization in Egypt and the Aga Khan Development Network in France.

Alex holds an M.A. from the University of St Andrews & an M.Sc. from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.

Amit heads SlideShare’s Delhi office. He focuses on product management, content and community. Before co-founding SlideShare, Amit had a career in consumer goods marketing and sales. His previous employers include PepsiCo, Asian Paints and Godrej. He holds an MBA from the Faculty of Management Studies, University Of Delhi and a mechanical engineering degree from REC/NIT, Jaipur. Amit is an active participant in the Indian startup circuit, speaking frequently about building and scaling startups.

Ankur is the founder and CEO of Akosha. He left his cushy job as a corporate legal advisor at Linklaters LLP, London to start Akosha in 2010. Akosha helps consumers and brands in resolving customer service issues. He has built Akosha from scratch to a 100+ organization. A graduate of National Law School of India, Bangalore, Ankur is a classic-film buff, and loves reading biographies.

Anshoo joined Lightspeed Advisory Services India in 2009 and brings eight years of operating and consulting experience to his role advising the firm’s investment activities in India.

Prior to Lightspeed, Anshoo was a Senior Consultant at Bain & Company in Boston and New Delhi. While at Bain, Anshoo advised corporates on growth strategy, customer segmentation, go-to-market and performance improvement with a focus on the retail, telecom and IT sectors. He also provided extensive advisement to private equity clients on the business diligence of targets in a wide range of industries in India, including education, media, industrials, infrastructure, airlines, and financial services. Prior to Bain, Anshoo worked in telecom product development at Motorola and Hughes Software in India, where his focus was on converged/next-generation networks.

Anshoo holds a BS in Computer Science from Delhi University and an MBA from IIM-Ahmedabad.

Ashish Kashyap is the founder & CEO of ‘ibibo Group'. ibibo is India's leading online travel group that owns properties such as Goibibo.com (Leading B2C Online travel aggregator) ; redBus.in (No 1 online bus ticketing platform) and travelboutique (51% stake in the leading B2B online travel platform).

Besides organically and inorganically building out the online travel assets, Ashish also launched ibibo’s payments unit (Hived off to Naspers global payments unit in January 2014) and Tradus.com (mobile marketplace). Ashish also serves on the management board of PayU global. Ashish has also driven the acquisition of redBus.in, a significant milestone in the evolution of Indian internet industry. Besides this he has driven various M&A transactions and investments in the internet and mobile space.

Prior to founding "ibibo Group", Ashish was the ‘Country Head’ of ‘Google India’, wherein he set up the India facing operations from ground up. Before joining Google, Ashish "founded" E-Commerce businesses at Indiatimes.com and drove them to a profitable and scale position. He architected first of its kind “Reverse Auctions"; "Travel Auctions" platform and launched the online marketplace business, Indiatimes Shopping.

Ashish holds an "Economics (Honors)" from University Of Delhi, India and a diploma in "International Masters in Practicing Management (IMPM)" from Insead, Fontainebleau, France.

Mr. Ashutosh Garg is an MBA and has worked in the corporate sector for twenty-five years. He spent seventeen years of his career at ITC Limited, where he rose to become the youngest ever managing director of any ITC group company. In January 1995, he was recognized as the &lsquoGlobal Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland. He left ITC the same year and spent eight years in the aerospace industry. In 2003 he started the chain of health and beauty retail outlets in north India under the brand name Guardian Pharmacy, which has now grown to over 117 outlets. He is also the author of the bestselling book &lsquoThe Buck Stops Here.

Mr. Garg is the member of the Young President Organisation since 1994 as well as a charter member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs). He serves on the board of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization and several companies.

Bharat Sethi is a start-up and tech enthusiast with special interests in understanding customer behaviour, e-commerce, and retail design. He founded PosterGully in early 2012 as India's first fan merchandise store powered by designers. Since then he's been integral in getting over a million users to the unique marketplace with unusually high conversion rate & gross margins. The team bootstrapped to $175,000 in nine months before being incubated & raising funds from GSF India. The company grew twenty times in top line under his leadership to become the default merchandise store within its target audience in a short span of time. He's a hardcore negotiator & salesman with seven years of experience in selling online; including highly profitable Ebay stores.

Bharat holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics from University of Delhi (2011). He enjoys running, watching documentaries, quizzing & discovering new artists on Soundcloud. Deeply interested in digital marketing & world politics, he's a keen follower of usability design trends that shape how people interact with spaces around them. Bharat has a passion for motivating young people to start-up and start soon.

Hitendra is the Founder and CEO of RLC. Before starting RLC Hitendra was the business unit head for $400 million Microsoft’s OEM business in India. Before Microsoft he was instrumental in building an IT enabled reverse logistics company in the US (Newgistics). A computer engineer from IIT with an MS and MBA from US Hitendra has over 20 years of experience in software/IT, multi-channel retail, and supply chain solutions. He has worked for Ernst & Young and A.T. Kearney/EDS. Apart from consulting for large Fortune 100 companies he has successfully held interim CEO and CMO roles for 3 VC funded start-ups.

Hitesh is a Co-Promoter, MD and CEO of Info Edge India Limited. Apart from the country's leading job site, Naukri.com, Info Edge also owns 99acres.com, Jeevansathi.com, and Shiksha.com and has investments in various internet startups as well.

With almost 15 years of experience in the internet industry, he is part of various industry forums. He is a charter member of the TiE, New Delhi and also the past Chairman of IAMAI - The Internet and Mobile Association of India.

Prior to Info Edge, Hitesh worked for almost four years as the Regional Planning and Distribution Manager (North India) for the Ice Cream Division of Hindustan UniLever Limited, the Indian arm of Unilever Plc.

An alumnus of IIT Delhi and IIM Bangalore, he won the Prestigious Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year award along with his Partner Sanjeev Bikhchandani for Business Transformation in 2008.

Ishan Gupta is a passionate education entrepreneur, investor, speaker and a published author.

He is the CEO of EduKart.com, India’s largest destination for enrollment into distance and online education courses. Over the last three years, the company has helped thousands of students and working professionals to get access to high quality degree, diploma and certificate courses  in the most convenient manner.

Prior to launching Edukart.com, Ishan was managing the One97 Mobility Fund, a $100 million venture fund. One97 Mobility Fund happens to be the only mobile sector focused fund in India. He has also worked as a General Manager at One97 Communications and was responsible for new product creation at One97.
 
Before working at One97, Ishan was leading the growth and marketing efforts of Facebook in India as its sole representative in the country.

Ishan had earlier founded Appin Knowledge Solutions, an education services company in India. Appin Knowledge Solutions is currently one of the leading players in the field of information security training and consulting.

Ishan has also worked at Helion Venture Partners, an India focused venture fund.

Ishan is a published author - he published the book "Make the Move - Demystifying Entrepreneurship" in 2007. The book has a foreword by Sabeer Bhatia, founder of Hotmail and a message from then President of India, Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam. The book also contains views from some of the leading entrepreneurs from India. Consequently, he was featured on Young Turks, CNBC for his work in the field of education and promoting entrepreneurship. The book has sold more than 10,000 copies till date.  Further, Ishan has spoken at venues like the Stanford University, London Business School, Indian School of Business, IIT Delhi, IIT Mumbai, IIT Roorkee on topics like Leadership and Entrepreneurship. He has also represented education entrepreneurs in a committee formed by Government of India on Implementation of Technology in Higher Education.

Ishan has a MBA from Stanford University, California, USA and a Bachelor of Engineering from University of Delhi, India.

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.

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Mahesh Murthy is a founding partner at Seedfund, and has over 26 years of marketing and communications experience, of which 15 years are in online marketing. Mahesh has worked with Grey in India and Ogilvy in Hong Kong, where he won notoriety and awards as a creative director on HP, The Economist, Pepsi and MTV.

He moved to a Silicon Valley firm, CKS Partners (later, USWeb/CKS) as Creative Director, GM and Partner – where he helped launch the first commercial version of Yahoo in 1995 and the Earth’s Biggest Bookstore campaign for Amazon.com in 1997. Mahesh then returned to India to run Channel V, till its sale to Newscorp in 2000 and then founded Passionfund to invest in startups. He also set up Pinstorm in Bombay which is today among the world's leading digital marketing firms.

Mahesh has a passion for early-stage investing and teamed up with Pravin Gandhi and Bharati Jacob (ex-Infinity) in 2006 to set up Seedfund, today a leading early-stage venture capital fund in India.

Manish Singhal is founder & CEO of LetsVenture. He is a serial entrepreneur and active angel investor. After doing his engineering from IIT Kanpur in 1992, he has been instrumental in building several products and teams in different startups and established organisations like Sling Media, Ittiam Systems and Motorola. He has contributed to the MPEG standard and also holds two patents to his name in video technology. .

Nirmal is Founder and CEO of Wheebox, He is responsible for Wheebox reach across geographies, Product Management and Investor relationship.

Prior to Wheebox, he was a Country Head for Higher Education Business at NIIT Limited. Primarily focused on setting up Talent Centres across India and advising Universities and Colleges to set up COEs.

Previously served in key leadership roles at New Horizons for over five years, as SAARC Head for New Horizons consumer division.

Nirmal has over 16 year of working experience and he is Masters in Business Management and Masters in Education Management.

Mr. Pankaj Dinodia is the Chief Executive Officer of Dinodia Capital Advisors and leads a diversified team of young Investment Bankers at the firm. He started his career at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in New York in the Investment Banking division. He was later handpicked to move to India to set up Goldman's Private Equity business (Principal Investment Area) in Mumbai. He was involved in the execution of numerous investments including Mahindra & Mahindra (US$ 175 Mn), Sudhir Gensets (US$ 50 Mn) and TVS Logistics (US$ 25 Mn). 

Mr. Dinodia’s prior work experience also includes Cue Ball Capital (a venture capital firm based in Boston), Lehman Brothers (Investment Banking in New York), Deutsche Bank (Private Wealth Management in New Delhi) and Ernst & Young (Management Assurance in New Delhi). Most Recently, Mr. Dinodia has been felicitated as the ‘Entrepreneur of the Year 2013- Financial Services’ by Franchise India, Asia’s largest retail and franchise solutions provider.

He is the founder of the Global Wharton India Mentoring Network and the Co-Founder and former President of the Wharton Alumni Association's Delhi Chapter. He also sits on the Executive Board and Management Committee for the Harvard Business School Club of India and is a Charter Member for TiE Delhi.

He graduated magna cum laude from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania for his B.S Economics Degree (concentration in Finance) where he was on the Dean's List and received an MBA from the Harvard Business School (HBS), where he graduated with second year hono.

Ankit Prasad studied Mathematic and Computing at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.  He dropped out in the final year to pursue his interest at Touchtalent. He swiped almost all major student awards during his stay at IIT Delhi including Best Fresher Award, Best Hostel Representative Award, Best Chief Editor Award, Cumulative contribution to Board for Student Publication award etc. Apart from these awards, he has many more awards to his credit; He was finalist at TiE International Business Plan Competition representing Touchtalent, Kairos Fellow for the year 2012-2013 and Global Student Entrepreneurship Award, South Asia 2013. He is also an official TEDx youth speaker. 

Ankit was always interested in Technology; He wrote his first program at the age of 6 and got appreciation from the district collector. Incorporated and made his first technology company profitable at the age of 16. During his stay at IIT Delhi, he was associated with number of technology start-ups. Before founding Touchtalent, he was the CTO of another IIT Delhi Start-up.

At Touchtalent, Ankit is responsible for product and engineering. He along with his team is working on the most modern technology to create unique user experience. Some of the technology initiatives taken by Ankit at Touchtalent are one of its kind in India, never tried and experimented before. Due to his dedication Touchtalent was recognized as top 100 startups led by university students in the world. 

Through technology Ankit wants to address the most complex problem of content creators i.e secure storage.  Premium content creators are hesitant to share their content online as they do not find any platform that can provide them secure storage.

In his free time Ankit spends his time in writing scripts and making videos. He has to his credits many viral videos that have been appreciated by global media

Praveen Sinha has played a fundamental role in establishing Jabong.com as a brand. In his current role at Jabong.com, he is a Co- Founder and a Managing Director of the company. Praveen’s role encompasses looking after the entire Operations capability along with Supply chain management.  Praveen is an accomplished management consultant and executive with his association / work experience ranging from industry leaders like Mckinsey, Microsoft and MarutiUdyog to diverse small businesses/startups. He is a successful turn-around specialist, specializing in not only strategizing but also implementation, improving operations, and building management systems and process. An alumnus of the reputed Delhi College of Engineering and Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Praveen brings to the table vast corporate experience with an uncanny knack to build a business from scratch. 

Besides this, he also acted as an energy advisory and auditor for plants in China, Thailand, Taiwan and India across sectors - cement, steel and power plants.

Building a business from scratch and taking it to the peak of success is a passion with Praveen and before Jabong.com, and he has proved that as part of office mobile release team for Microsoft, for US based startup Akeebo and consumer durable startup AquaBrim.

Praveen has always been fascinated with the growing e-commerce concept in varied sectors. One of the driving forces behind the formation of Jabong.com was Praveen’s sheer passion and interest in the e-retailing sector and its growth potential.

Praveen’slinkedin profile has also made it to "Power Profiles 2012: The most Viewed Professionals on LinkedIn in India".

Rahul Khanna has over fifteen years of investing and operating experience in ICT across India and the U.S. Having returned from Silicon Valley in 2005, Rahul has played a key role in the development of the venture ecosystem in India and is well recognized as an active investor in several high growth companies.

Prior to joining Canaan India in early 2011, Rahul was the founding director of Clearstone Venture Advisors, a firm that manages investments in India for Clearstone Venture Partners. At Clearstone, Rahul was responsible for building the platform that would focus on early stage investments in verticals like financial services, telecom, media and education. While at Clearstone, he served on the Boards of Billdesk and Games2Win.

During his time in Silicon Valley, Rahul was Area Director Asia-Pacific at Sonim Technologies. Having joined Sonim during its inception, he was responsible for the company's global marketing and sales initiatives including key markets like China and India. Prior to spending time in the Valley, he was part of the team that launched Hutchison Telecom's mobile operations in India during the mid-nineties.

Rahul earned an MBA in 2000 from the Kellogg Graduate School at Northwestern University. He also serves on the Investment Committee of SONG, a social impact fund sponsored by the Soros Economic Development Fund, Pierre Omidyar and Google. 

Sahil started his entrepreneurial journey from the dorm room of IIT Kanpur. At bluegape, they are helping users to monetise their content (designs, artwork, logo, photography, one liners etc) through merchandise. One day he wants to fly like a superman, till then chasing his billion dollar company dream.

http://about.me/sbaghla

Samay is the Co-founder and CEO of Grey Orange, a fast-growing hardware startup that’s disrupting a deeply unorganized industry, Warehousing. His team is building an army of thousands of robots (called Butlers) to take over the warehouses and distribution centers.

Grey Orange is venture backed by some of the very best Venture firms (Tiger Global and Blume Ventures), angel investors, and an advisory panel of technical experts and entrepreneurs who have led billion dollar companies.

Samay has been a keynote speaker at several prominent conferences including Nasscom’s Engineering Summit and CII Innovation Summit.

Samay Kohli is an alumnus of BITS Pilani, has completed his degree in Economics and Mechanical Engineering. Before co-founding Grey Orange, Samay was the Team Lead of Team AcYut that had created India’s first Humanoid that won several medals at RoboGames (San Francisco).

Apart from his technical know-how Samay has helped the BITS Pilani team win a number of accolades and has also reprented India at various countries such as USA, Japan, S.Korea, Germany etc.

He has successfully led Octro since 2006, from when Octro created the world’s first Mobile VoIP client, before shifting focus to mobilizing locally popular games. Currently, Octro's three games, Octro Teen Patti, Octro Rummy and Octro Tambola stand amongst the top 5 in the gaming section for India, making Octro Inc. the largest mobile gaming company in India.

Saurabh is a technologist with business vision. Through Octro, he has built one of the most complex backend, powering game developers to build highly engaging multiplayer games, catapulting those mediocre to outstanding. Moreover, he uses his business acumen to create mass following for these games, cutting through social classes by re-imagining Indian games made in India for Indians.

Before Octro, Saurabh was the Co-Founder of PDA apps, the creator of VeriChat, a mobile IM solution, that got acquired by Intellisync in 2005. Saurabh started his career at Packeteer Inc. where he was part of the core engineering team. He holds an MS in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Shriram Krishnamachari is responsible for leading the development and execution of the region's strategic plans, Go to Market implementationand ensure highest levels of customer satisfaction.

Shriram brings anin-depth understanding of India SMB market, forging strategic partnerships and building scalable business from scratch. He has over 20 years of sales leadership experience in the SAARC market. Before joining Intuit, he served as Head Channels & Alliances at Adobe India. In this role, he was responsible for partnerships, operations and new initiatives to drive exponential growth in the SAARC market.

Prior to joining Adobe, Shriram was India Country Manager at Macromedia Inc. He has worked with Wipro Infotech as National Business Manager, Product Manager and other key roles.

Sunil K Goyal currently runs YourNest Angel Fund, an early stage venture fund he conceptualized and founded in 2011. Prior to this Sunil has won recognition for playing instrumental roles in well-known business like Bharti Group & Dabur. As a leader he has actively led transformational change and is a strong proponent of positivity at work place. He has led organization and been in positions of importance as COO / CEO / Director at Airtel, Beetel & Airtel Africa.

Sunil is a former member of TiE, Indian Angel Network & Mumbai Angels. He has led investments in diverse sectors. His passion for early stage ventures has led him to invest in 9 start-ups on his own, before he set-up YourNest, which plans to invest in 10-12 start-ups over the next few months. Recently, Sunil got an exit from his first personal investment company ZipDial, which has been acquired by Twitter. He is qualified as a Financial Analyst, Business Economist, and Cost Accountant.

Tanuj started his entrepreneurial journey by co-founding DSYN in 2010 while still studying at IIM Calcutta. Over the course of the next few years, DSYN went on to execute design-led Mobile App Development for clients such as Zomato, Sears, Groupon and delivered more than 100 projects for top brands.

In 2013, Tanuj led DSYN's pivot into a technology product company - Appiterate, which built the world'd first Visual A/B Testing platform for native mobile apps. Appiterate has raised venture funding from SAIF partners and has reputed valley angels such as Greg Badros, Prashant Malik and Amit Rathore as angels investors and advisors.

Vibhu is a co-founder of GradeStack, a mobile learning platform. He is a graduate from NSIT and has worked with Yahoo, Naukri before starting his previous company in the social news aggregation space. He has strong product management skills and good understanding of building scalable systems.
He is a marathoner and loves running.

Vijay Sambamurthi is the Founder and Managing Partner of Lexygen, one India’s most reputable law firms that has a strong track record in advising PE/VC investors as well as companies in fundraising transactions. Vijay has valuable experience of more than 17 years representing exciting start-ups, fast-growing and reputed multi-national corporations, as well as private equity/venture capital funds, providing them with strategic legal and regulatory advice on cross-border and domestic transactions in a wide range of industry verticals.

Vijay regularly represents and advises several global private equity funds and corporations on their Indian investments. Some of his prominent clients include The Carlyle Group, Advent International, Morgan Stanley Infrastructure, Skenzo (now known as Media.Net), Pinnacle Engines, Bessemer Venture Partners, TA Associates, Sycamore Ventures, Changi Airports International, New Enterprise Associates etc.

He has advised both investors and companies on several complex and first-of-kind transactions in Private Equity/venture Capital and M&A, and regularly advises on deals ranging from the Series A stage to growth equity stage to really large buyouts.

Vijay has consistently been ranked as a “Band 1 leading lawyer” in the private equity space by Chambers Asia Pacific.