Muru joined CDC in October 2013 having worked previously in senior roles in private equity and investment banking in India. His private equity experience includes a stint at Actis in India and more recently, he headed the infrastructure fund at UTI Capital.

Muru has been an investment banker for over 13 years having served on the Board of ICICI Securities, one of India’s leading Investment Banks with direct responsibility for investment banking. His previous investment banking experience was with Cazenove in the UK and in India, where he headed the Indian operations of the firm.

Muru holds a masters degree in Law from Cambridge University.

Mr. Chandra joined Bain Capital as a Managing Director in early 2008, and is a part of the firm’s leadership team in Asia.  He is an engineer by training having received his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from VJTI, Bombay University, post which he worked at India's leading engineering & construction firm, Larsen & Toubro. He then received his MBA from Boston College and was awarded the school's Distinguished Alumni in 2007.

Prior to joining Bain Capital, Mr. Chandra spent most of his professional career at DSP Merrill Lynch, a leading investment bank in India. At the firm, he had direct oversight of its Global Markets & Investment Banking business, which included the firm's substantial principal businesses. He retired from DSP Merrill Lynch in 2007 as its Board Member & Managing Director, to move to Private Equity.  

Mr. Chandra was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2007 and was named Next Generation Philanthropic Leader of the Year by Forbes in 2013.  He is currently a Member of the Board of Directors of Genpact, L&T Finance, Tata Investment Corporation and Emcure Pharmaceuticals, and recently retired from the Board of Piramal Enterprises. He is also active in India’s not for profit space and serves as a Trustee of two of the Tata Trusts –Navajbai Ratan Tata Trust & Jamshetji Tata Trust, Founder & Trustee of Ashoka University, and as a Trustee/Board Member of The Akanksha Foundation (providing education to less privileged children) and GiveIndia (India's leading philanthropic exchange).

Anand Prasanna is a Managing Partner at Iron Pillar, a fund manager focused on mid-stage technology investments in India. He spends his time working with new generation of Indian technology entrepreneurs, building global technology businesses out of India or domestic consumer tech companies.Previously, he was with Morgan Creek, a global investment management firm, where he helped manage their Asia portfolio out of Shanghai. Anand have extensive work experience in India and rest of Asia, including firms like Sequoia Capital, McKinsey & Co and Squadron Capital.

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Mr. Arun Prakash S. Korati is a Senior Managing Partner at IIML Asset Advisors Limited. At IIML, he advices Yatra Capital, a Euronext listed real estate fund. Prior to joining IIML, he worked as MD & CEO at Axis Private Equity, a private equity arm of Axis Bank. There he managed an Infrastructure fund.  He also worked at New Vernon as head of their Private Equity, where he invested around $ 126 mn across many asset classes using various financial instruments. He started his PE carrier in 1992 and worked at Pathfinders and Actis prior to joining New Vernon. In his private equity career spanning nearly 22 years, Arun was directly involved with 28 investments. Arun is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering (RV College of Engineering), AMIE (Civil Engineering) with Masters in Marketing (NMIMS). He is also a qualified cost accountant (ICWA)

Mr. Atul Chaturvedi, aged 52 years, holds Master’s Degree in Zoology from University of Delhi, India. He joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1986 - Assam Meghalaya cadre. Since then he has held several important positions in Government of India and Government of Assam. The major previous assignments in Government of Assam included tenures with State Electricity Board, Department of Tourism, Department of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary, Department of Agriculture and Department of Disaster Management. The major assignments in Government of India included tenures with Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Planning Commission, Ministry of Tourism and Ministry of Sports.

Presently Mr. Chaturvedi holds the position of Joint Secretary in the Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion, Ministry of Commerce & Industry at New Delhi. He is looking after formulation of Foreign Direct Investment Policy and Promotion, approval and facilitation of FDI, Investment Promotion and International Cooperation related to Europe, Development of Leather in India. He is also in-charge of ‘Make-in-India’ publicity initiatives in the Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion recently launched by Prime Minister of India on 25th September 2014.

@atul1chaturvedi

Bharti Gupta Ramola is the India Market Leader for PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and a member of the India Leadership Team. She has over 30 years of work experience, a large part of which has been with PwC. Prior to her current role, she was the India Deals Leader. She has also led the Infrastructure, Government & Utilities & Energy Sector Advisory for PwC India. Bharti has been a member of PwC Global Diversity and Inclusion Council.

In her personal capacity, Bharti serves on the boards of BASIX and Srijan, two of India’s foremost organisations promoting livelihood development. She has been Chair of the Board of PRADAN.

Bharti has a Post Graduate Diploma in Management, Indian Institute of Management -Ahmedabad, and a Bachelors Degree in Science (Hons) - Physics, from St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi.

Bryan Stewart is a director at Liberty Global Partners and has been with the firm since 2006. Bryan directs private equity research at Liberty Global Partners, as well as having responsibility for the firm's institutional investor coverage in Asia.

Prior to joining Liberty Global, Bryan began his work in private equity with the Global Horizon Fund, an emerging markets PE fund of funds. Earlier, Bryan worked in international development in Eastern Europe and South Asia with the Peace Corps and Winrock International. Bryan earned a BA from Grinnell College, and a MALD from The Fletcher School with a focus on International Business.

 Deepak I. Shahdadpuri is the Founder and Managing Director of DSG Consumer Partner and Beacon India Private Equity Fund. Deepak has over 15 years of private equity and venture capital experience and is an active angel investor focusing on consumer businesses with a strong emphasis on food and beverage value chain. Before this, Deepak held senior roles at Gem India, Reuters VC, Bain & Company and Ernst & Young. Deepak is on the board of Baker's Circle, Impresario, Eazy Diner, Exito Gourmet, India Lends, Indostar Capital, Indian Home Gourmet, Mswipe, Saffronart, Saraf Foods, Sula Wines and Veeba Food. Deepak’s investment experience also includes RBL Bank, OYO Rooms, Cleartrip, Redmart, F&B Asia and Furtado’s School of Music.

Deepak serves on the board of Magic Bus, a non-profit organization helping develop underprivileged children through sports, and on the advisory board of Dawn Capital, a UK focused Venture Capital Fund. He has an MBA (Distinction) from INSEAD where he graduated on the Dean’s list, a LLB (Hons) from King's College London and a FCA from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England & Wales.

@dishahdadpuri

Devinjit Singh is a Managing Director focused on significant sized growth capital and buyout opportunities across sectors in India. He is based in Mumbai.

Prior to joining Carlyle, Mr. Singh was Managing Director and Head of Citigroup's Mergers & Acquisitions business in India. In this role, he led several landscape changing transactions including Tata's acquisition of Jaguar Landrover from Ford, Wipro's acquisition of Infocrossing, the sale of Larsen and Toubro's RMC business to Lafarge and the sale of Punjab Tractors to Mahindra and Mahindra. In previous assignments over ~20 years at Citigroup, Mr. Singh advised and led several capital raisings for India's leading corporates.

Since joining Carlyle in 2008, Mr. Singh has been involved with investments in HDFC (NSE: HDFC) and India Infoline (NSE: IIFL). He is a member of the India Advisory Board of The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. He received his MBA from The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, and has a B.A. (Honors) in Mathematics from the University of Delhi.

Dhiraj Poddar is the Country Head, India at TA Associates Advisory Pvt Ltd. He focuses on investments in growth companies in India and other emerging markets. Poddar has advised on TA’s $40 million investment in Tega Industries Ltd and a minority stake in e-payment processing services provider BillDesk (part of IndiaIdeas.com). He also sits on the board of both companies.

Previously he worked with Standard Chartered PE, where he served as a director responsible for origination and evaluation of investment opportunities, leading investments, managing portfolio companies and handling exits. Before this, Poddar worked with Progeon, the ITES arm of Infosys, as part of the team that set up the KPO division. He has also served a stint with ICICI Securities as a assistant vice president.

Poddar holds a degree from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

Gopal is the Founder Chairman & MD of TVS Capital Funds Limited, with the vision of supporting and nurturing India’s mid-cap businesses into world-class companies. It manages assets of over Rs 1,100 Cr, and which makes it amongst the largest domestically raised funds in India. He has been a strong advocate of participation of domestic capital pools in private equity and venture capital funds, and actively supports initiatives for that cause as a Vice Chairman of IVCA (Indian Private Equity & Venture Capital Association).

Gopal was the Chairman of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) National Committee for Private Equity & Venture Capital for the fiscal year 2010-2011. He is also the Director in TVS & Sons Ltd, the holding company, and a member of the Board of several Group Companies.An entrepreneur at heart, Gopal is also actively involved in the promotion of entrepreneurship as an angel investor. He is a founding member of The Chennai Angels, and is closely associated TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) where he provides guidance to the budding entrepreneurs on incubating businesses. Gopal earned a B.Com from Loyola College, Chennai and an MBA from University of Michigan, US.

@GopalSri

Gordon Fairclough is the South Asia bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal, overseeing coverage of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and Maldives, with a team of more than 20 reporters. Prior to coming to New Delhi, Mr. Fairclough was the Journal's Central Europe bureau chief. He has also served as a correspondent in China, Korea and Southeast Asia. He has reported for the paper from more than two dozen countries. He was part of the team that won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, which honored the Journal's coverage of China. He is a graduate of Yale and the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

@gefairclough

Haresh is an Investment Manager in Aberdeen's Alternative Investments team and covers private equity and venture capital fund allocations and co-investments for India, Southeast Asia and Australia. He joined Aberdeen from FLAG Capital, a global PE fund of funds, where he worked in a similar capacity.

Prior to FLAG, Haresh was an investment professional in Ares Management's India real estate team, where he was responsible for evaluation and execution of transactions and management of portfolio companies. Earlier, he was a part of the operations team at Laing O'Rourke, UK's largest private project management firm, at their Middle East office.

Haresh earned his Masters in Business Administration from Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, where he was the recipient of Torchbearer award, and is an engineer by training from Delhi College of Engineering.

Harsh Pais is a Partner of Trilegal, and is part of the corporate practice group, focusing on M&A and private equity. In the course of his practice, Harsh advises institutions and corporations extensively on cross-border acquisitions, joint ventures and structured investments. Harsh also advises sponsors and LPs in the context of private equity/investment funds. Aside from his transactional practice, Harsh also provides governance, securities and crisis-management advice.

Harsh is ranked and recognized by Chambers & Partners, IFLR and RSG as a leading lawyer for M&A and Private Equity in India.

@harshpais

Brig. Arvind Lal is a pioneer in bringing laboratory services in India at par with the Western world. He is an alumnus of the Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC), Pune, having received his graduate and post-graduate medical degrees from the prestigious institute. In 1977, Brig. Lal took charge of Dr Lal PathLabs, the medical diagnostics laboratory founded in 1949 by his late father. Under his expert guidance and leadership, Dr Lal PathLabs (LPL) has become one of the most reputed laboratories in Asia having to its credit a record of 27 labs accredited from the National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL, Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India) with another 10 labs in the pipeline.

Dr. Lal is a member of many expert and advisory bodies constituted by the central and the state governments. He is accredited to having the first PPP (Public Private Partnership) in the field of laboratory testing with the Govt. of Tripura since 2004 and later with Govt. of Gujarat for testing over 30,000 new born babies between 2011-2013.He is currently the Secretary of the newly formed NATHEALTH, Healthcare Federation of India, an association of eminent Healthcare stakeholders on the lines of NASSCOM and is the Founder Treasurer of the same organization.

Dr. Lal was appointed as the Honorary Physician to the President of India in 2001. He has also been serving as a pathologist to almost all the present and past Presidents’ and Prime Ministers of India. Conferred with the Padma Shri, Brig. Lal is also the first civilian doctor to be granted an honorary Brigadier’s rank in Armed Forces Medical Services. He is also the recipient of many other awards from various national and international organizations.

Jaganath Swamy joined HarbourVest in 2013 to focus on primary investments in India and Southeast Asia.

Jaganath joined HarbourVest from Northgate Capital in Delhi, where he was a principal with overall responsibility for developing and growing Indian fund investments and was co-lead for Southeast Asia investments.  Previously, Jaganath was a Founding Director of Ananta Capital, co-founding a specialized acquisition vehicle in the specialty and advanced materials space in India and led fundraising, negotiating with potential acquisition targets, and developing post-investment strategy.  His prior experience also includes McKinsey and Company in Mumbai and Singapore, and Evalueserve Inc., in India.

He received a Bachelor of Technology in Civil Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi in 2001 and an MBA (with honors) from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 2009.  He speaks Hindi, Telugu, and Oriya.

Prior to co-founding CX Advisors LLP, Mr. Basu was a Director with CVCI, where he had over eight years of investing experience. During his tenure with CVCI, Mr. Basu worked to identify and invest, manage and exit a large number of companies across a wide spectrum of industries including, among others, IT enabled services, financial services, auto, metals and mining, infrastructure, pharmaceutical and specialty chemicals, oil and gas services, media and textiles. Prior to CVCI, Mr. Basu had several years of Corporate & Investment Banking experience with Citi. Mr. Basu serves on the boards of the following CX Fund 1 portfolio companies: Matrix, Sutures, SIS, TSI, Minacs and Ujjivan. Prior to this, Mr. Basu has also served on the board of several CVCI portfolio companies, as a director or an observer, such as Daksh, Progeon, HT Media, Globe Capital, among others. Mr. Basu earned a Masters in Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and a B.A. in Economics from St. Stephen's College, Delhi University.

Jurgen Rigterink joined FMO’s Management Board as Chief Investment Officer in 2008. He was appointed to Chief Risk & Finance Officer in 2014. He started his career at Bank Brussels Lambert working in  Brussels, Chicago and New York before joining ABN AMRO in 1997. He has since served in a variety of senior positions including Sector Head for Central & Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa. In 2005, he was appointed Chairman of the Management Board and Country Executive at ABN AMRO Bank Kazakhstan. Jurgen has a Masters degree in Economics from Rijks Universiteit Groningen, the Netherlands, and is also a Member of the Board of Directors of the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT).

@JRigterink

Sri Kalvakuntla Taraka Rama Rao, Cabinet Minister for Information Technology and Panchayat Raj, has been representing Sircilla Assembly Constituency since 2009.Sri K.T. Rama Rao was born in Siddipet, Telangana, on July 24, 1976, and grew up in politically and socially active environment. He has completed his schooling from St. George’s Grammar School, Hyderabad. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Microbiology from Nizam College, Hyderabad. He has two post-graduate degrees - M.Sc. in Biotechnology from University of Pune and the other is MBA in Marketing and E-Commerce from Baruch College-City, University of New York, New York.

 After completing his MBA, Sri K. T. Rama Rao worked as IT Professional for six years - from 2001 to 2006. His keen observation of political activism as a child, his international exposure as a student, and his strategic role as IT professional empowered Sri K.T. Rama Rao to join ‘fulltime’ in bandwagon of politics. He became the full-time TRS activist in the year 2006. His go-getter tendency, never give-up mindset, inclination to fight for the deprived enabled him to get connected with wide spectrum of the political arena. He established the required convergence from grass root level workers to the national level leaders. He actively participated in the Telangana movement between 2009 and 2014.

Sri K.T Rama Rao has been putting relentless efforts in streamlining the two vital portfolios - Information Technology and Panchayat Raj. As an IT Minister, Sri K.T. Rama Rao has come up with omniscient vision to cater the multi-dimensional requirements of the IT industry. Several complementary initiatives are launched under his noble leadership to address the needs of the industry.

@KTRTRS

Mr. Wu is a managing director of HQ Capital, based out of Hong Kong. A Chartered Accountant with twenty years of experience in primary/secondary fund and direct investments, including stints with Henderson Private Capital and Electra Partners Asia, Mr. Wu has successfully deployed and harvested capital across four market cycles in Asia, multiple geographies and strategies since 1995. Immediately prior to joining Auda, Mr. Wu was for six years a managing director with Paul Capital, the global secondaries firm, co-heading its Asian business.

Fluent in Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese, Mr. Wu holds a BSc in Mathematics with First Class Honours from Imperial College, University of London, and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales as well as the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Mathew Cyriac is the Co-Head of Private Equity in India.

Since joining Blackstone in 2006, Mr. Cyriac has been involved in Blackstone’s investments in Allcargo Global Logistics, CMS Infosystems, FINO, FTIL, Gateway Rail, Gokaldas Exports, International Tractors, MCX, MTAR Technologies and Nuziveedu Seeds. Mr. Cyriac currently serves on the boards of CMS Info Systems, FINO, Gateway Rail, Gokaldas Exports, International Tractors and MTAR.

Before joining Blackstone, Mr. Cyriac served as Head of Corporate Development & Strategy of iGATE Corporation (NASDAQ:IGTE) and Chief Financial Officer of Quintant Services, where he led all the financing and other strategic transactions of Quintant and its eventual sale to iGATE.

Prior to joining Quintant, Mr. Cyriac was a Vice President in the Investment Banking Group at Credit Suisse First Boston. Mr. Cyriac also worked in the Private Equity Group at Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette and the Investment Banking Division of Bank of America and in the Engineering Division of Tata Motors.

Mr. Cyriac received a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and an M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, where he graduated at the top of his class.

Prior to co-founding Kedaara Capital Advisors, Manish served as a Senior Managing Director of Temasek Holdings, where he founded their India office in early 2004 and headed all of their investments and other activities in India. He also held multiple responsibilities in Temasek Singapore. He was a core member of its senior leadership team and a key member of Temasek Holding’s Senior Management Committee (SMC), and it’s Senior Investment & Divestment Committee (SIDC). Prior to joining Temasek, he was a Partner at McKinsey and Company. and had been a part of their New York, Cleveland and Mumbai offices. He has also worked at Goldman Sachs and at the World Bank. He is an active member of the Young Presidents’ Organization and was named a Young Global Leader (YGL) by the World Economic Forum in 2005. In 2007, he was profiled as one of the “25 hottest young executives in India” by Business Today. Manish is a graduate of Dartmouth College and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he graduated as a Baker Scholar.

@RealManishK

Michael is a Senior Vice President of Portfolio Advisors, based in Hong Kong, and serves as a voting member of one or more of the firm's Investment Committees. Michael joined Portfolio Advisors in 2013 and primarily supports Portfolio Advisors' Asia Pacific activities. Previously, he was a Vice President in the UOB Investment Management Divsion's alternative investment fund-of-funds advisory business where he had worked with Portfolio Advisors since 2006 through a joint venture, Asia Select Management, Ltd.

Mr. Bhandari is a Senior Partner of Apollo Global Management LLC, Managing Director AGM India Advisors Pvt Ltd, and Managing Partner at AION Capital Partners. He joined Apollo in 2006 in the New York office, worked in the London office and then launched Apollo’s India advisory firm (AGM India Advisors Pvt Ltd) in Mumbai in 2008.

Prior to that time, Mr. Bhandari was managing director of The View Group, an India-focused boutique private equity and investment advisory firm. He was an early participant in the sourcing, execution and development of transactions and enterprises which leveraged operating resources in India and has been integrally involved with approximately twenty such transactions, several of which were pioneering in their structure, strategy and timing.

Mr. Bhandari was also previously a member of the private equity team, and later a manager of hedge fund capital at the Harvard Management Company, which manages the endowment of Harvard University. He serves on the board of directors of Dish TV India Limited and Welspun Corp Ltd. and was previously on the boards of Wire & Wireless India Limited and SOURCECORP and approximately a dozen other companies. He graduated with distinction in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (S.B. ’87) and the Harvard Business School (MBA ’92).

Munesh leads the Corporate Finance and Business Restructuring Services practice in India. Previously held senior Investment Banking and Corporate Advisory roles at Grant Thornton, Arthur Anderson, NM Rothschild & Sons and DSP Merrill Lynch. He was General Partner at Halcyon - A structured debt funded by Seth Klarman’s Fund Baupost, and has over 25 years of experience in the financial, regulatory and taxation domain.
Over the years Munesh been instrumental in materialising number of private equity, M&A and restructuring deals besides being the brain behind successful IPOs like Cairn Ltd and Air Deccan. In his advisory role he has facilitated Dr Reddy’s acquisition of Beta Pharma, acquisition of Tetley Tea Business by Tata Tea Ltd, acquisition of PowerGen India by Tata Power, helping Times of India Group raise fund through Radio Mirchi’s IPO and restructuring of MTNL & BSNL, to name a few. A Chartered Accountant by profession Munesh holds Bachelor’s degree in Commerce from DAV College.

M.K. Sinha (“MK”) is an investment professional with over 24 years of experience. He is currently the Managing Partner & CEO, IDFC Alternatives Limited (“IDFC Alternatives”), one of the largest multi-asset class fund managers in India with ~USD 3.1 billion under management. Earlier, he was the President & CEO of IDFC Project Equity (2007- 2012).  In this role, he was responsible for setting up and managing the Infrastructure Asset Class. In his earlier role at IDFC (2005-2007), he was the Executive Director, Project Finance & Business Development.

Prior to joining IDFC, MK worked with the General Electric Company in the Structured Finance Group for over 10 years in various locations - Stamford (USA), London, Hong Kong and Singapore. Before that, MK worked with Bank of America and SBI Capital Markets in the Corporate Finance and Investment Banking areas respectively.

MK holds a Masters in Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and a B.Tech (Hons.) in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

Nishant Parikh is a partner based in Trilegal’s Mumbai office, and regularly represents a broad range of private equity funds, hedge funds, banks and financial institutions on complex corporate transactions, with a particular emphasis on cross-border transactions.

Nishant’s practice focuses on advising clients in evaluating, structuring and negotiating private equity investments and acquisitions, structured financing/investments, restructuring existing investments, exits with strong experience on implementing exit strategies in contentious or distressed situations, and M&A transactions. Of late, he has been involved in effectively strategizing, structuring and successfully implementing exit strategies for some of the biggest funds and financial institutions in connection with their Indian investments. He has extensive experience across several sectors (with particular focus on real estate, banking and financial services, IT/e-commerce, agribusiness in addition to broader manufacturing and services sectors), advising on regulatory issues that typically arise on Indian deals and negotiating with Indian promoters.  Nishant has acted as counsel on numerous headline making transactions over the past decade.

Nishant’s clients include The Blackstone Group, The D. E. Shaw Group, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America-Merrill Lynch, Standard Chartered Bank, Farallon Capital, TPG, 3i Group, Sithe Global, Citadel Investment Group, Nomura, UBS, Black River Asset Management and Citigroup.

Nupur is the regional lead for IFC’s private equity & venture funds business in South Asia. Based in New Delhi, she has been covering IFC’s private equity fund activities in South Asia since 2011, including originating, negotiating and closing private equity and venture fund investments on behalf of IFC, and supervising the portfolio, including serving on investee fund advisory committees. Nupur joined IFC in mid-2007 as the Regional Risk Officer for South Asia, responsible for designing and integrating risk management frameworks within investment operations across IFC’s industry sectors.

Nupur has deep experience in the South Asia region, including structuring and implementing complex business transactions and partnerships in a variety of settings. Prior to joining IFC, Nupur was the Regional Chief Financial Officer covering South Asia for Wolters Kluwer, one of the world’s largest publishers of material for the scientific and technical sector. There, she was part of a 3 person team leading integration of 6 acquisitions and setting up independent business operations in the region. Previously, she has worked in finance and consulting roles at Discovery Networks and PwC.

Nupur holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the MIT Sloan School of Management, has executive education from Harvard Business School and is a Chartered Accountant.

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.

Ravindra Bandhakavi is Partner, Trilegal, and part of the corporate practice group with a focus on M&A and private equity transactions. An experienced practitioner in corporate law, Ravindra has been associated with a number of large M&A and private equity deals.

Ravindra has been ranked as one of the leading lawyers in India by Chambers and Partners Asia Pacific Guide 2015. As per Chambers & Partners 2014 he is considered by fund managers to be a "go-to guy for any legal, regulatory or structural advice." He acts for a number of high-profile international funds, and is praised for being "very commercial, much focused, and a lawyer who always demonstrates a very positive approach". Ravindra is an alumnus of National Law School, Bangalore and London Business School, UK. He is a member of Bar Council of Maharashtra & Goa, India.

Rehan Yar Khan is Founder & Managing Partner of Orios Venture Partners, an early stage India technology venture capital firm, currently investing from its Fund II predominantly in consumer focused startups. Orios' portfolio includes Yumist, PrettySecrets, IntelligenceNode, PharmEasy and ZipGo. Rehan has previously led investments in OlaCabs and Druva. Rehan has been an entrepreneur since 1992 building 3 companies and was also closely involved in the establishment of Indian Angel Network and Harvard Angels.

@rehanyarkhan

Reshmi Khurana is a managing director and head of South Asia at Kroll based in India. She has more than 16 years of experience in the U.S., South Asia and South East Asia conducting complex corruption investigations, litigation support and due diligence on the management, operations and business models of organizations. Her experience includes helping clients identify and bridge gaps in internal controls and corporate governance through people, processes and technology. Her clients include asset management companies, law firms, and corporations in the financial services, infrastructure, power, real estate, consumer goods and pharmaceutical industries.

Roopa Purushothaman is a Managing Director and Head of Research for Everstone Capital Advisors.

Prior to joining Everstone in 2006, Roopa had over six years of experience having worked as a Vice President and Global Economist at Goldman Sachs, where she published papers on topics including long term growth, global trade and migration in the BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India and China). Roopa holds a Bachelor’s degree in Ethics, Politics and Economics and in International Studies from Yale University and a Master’s degree in Development Studies from the London School of Economics.

Rubi has over 18 years of professional experience in Business Strategy, Real Estate and General Management. At Milestone, she is responsible for designing Milestone’s overall corporate strategy, vision and future initiatives for business expansion, as well as the company’s representative at Global as well as Indian investor forums.

Under her leadership, Milestone has showcased its full cycle capability of fund raise, deployment, nurturing and profitable divestments and has invested as well as returned over Rs. 2800 crores  to the investors by way of timely exits and investment income across all funds.

Rubi leads and mentors the top management and continues to drive the company’s active management philosophy and devotes her time to putting together the team’s combined knowledge and experience towards securing profitable deals, right from investment to divesting. Prior to joining Milestone, Rubi was Global Head – HR at Kingfisher Airlines and has also held various senior positions at companies like Asian Paints & Price Waterhouse Coopers.

Engg. graduate from BITS (MESRA), MBA from XLRI, Jamshedpur and Executive Programme at Harvard Business School. Holds Certificate of Excellence from “The Directors’ Club”,  a unique accredited certification program by Hunt Partners and Board Evaluations Ltd. (UK) aimed at elevating effective governance on the board of directors at Indian as well as global organisations.

@RubiArya30

As an early investor in InMobi, InfoEdge and Shopclues, three of India's billion dollar technology companies, Sandeep Murthy is one of the builders of India's Internet economy. And he hasn't just seen the highs and lows play out as an investor, but actually roughed it out in operational roles including one as the CEO of Cleartrip in 2006 for three years.

Sandeep did his undergrad in both business and engineering from the University of Pennsylvania as well as an MBA at Wharton. After teaming up with a friend to build a digital music company and a few years of living the Bay Area dream, he moved to New York City to join InterActive Corp (IAC) where he helped launch Gifts.com. He started to explore the India technology opportunity and ultimately moved to Mumbai to manage investments for Sherpalo Ventures, a fund based out of Menlo Park in California.

Today he's a co-founder and partner at Lightbox, a Mumbai-based venture capital firm investing in Indian consumer technology companies. The firm’s most recent investments include Furlenco, Droom, Melorra, Embibe and Faasos. He works closely with entrepreneurs to build out internet-based models of consumption in India.

@sandeepm1

Sanjay is a Co-founder & Managing Partner at Blume Ventures (www.blumeventures.com). Blume has emerged as one of India's leading early-stage funds, having invested in over 50 startups since its inception in late 2010.

Blume's portfolio includes Taxiforsure (acquired by Olacabs), Zipdial (acquired by Twitter), Qubecell (acquired by Boku), Grey Orange Pte Lte, Mettl, Webengage, Hotelogix, Exotel, Rolocule Games, and Carbon Clean Solutions, amongst others. Many of Blume’s portfolio companies have secured follow-on financing from top tier global VCs including Tiger Global, Accel, Matrix, Bessemer, Cisco Ventures, to name a few.

Prior to Blume, Sanjay was also an active angel investor through Mumbai Angels. His angel investments include Inmobi, Appsdaily (formerly Onward Mobility), Little Eye Labs (acquired by Facebook), Tonbo Imaging and Svasti amongst others.

Sanjay’s experience spans the US and India, and ranges from management consulting (PwC and IBM Global Services), product marketing and operations (Sun Microsystems) and angel investing (thru Mumbai Angels). Most recently, prior to founding Blume, he co founded Loxodrome, a legal outsourcing company with dual-shore operations in San Francisco and Pune, India. Early in his career, Sanjay supported the growth of Kanbay (Nasdaq IPO in ’04), then acquired by Cap Gemini for $1.25BL in ‘06.

Sanjay has earned an MBA from UCLA’s Anderson Graduate School of Management and also holds an undergraduate major in Information Systems from BITS, Pilani.

@sanjaynath

Sanjiv joined Actis’ Asia team in 2008 and is responsible for Actis’ energy industry activities in Asia. Prior to joining Actis, Sanjiv was at Citigroup for eight years, where he worked extensively in the Indian infrastructure sector, culminating as Head of Power, Energy, Chemicals, Mining and Transportation for India. Prior to Citigroup, Sanjiv worked at ANZ Investment Bank for nine years, where he headed the project finance team for urban infrastructure and oil and gas and was Head of Eastern India.

Sanjiv holds a Bachelor of Technology from the Indian School of Mines and a MBA from the Xavier Labour Relations Institute.

Sanjay Chaudhary joined Tata Capital Private Equity in August 2010. Prior to joining the Tata Capital Growth Fund in April, 2015, he was with the Tata Capital Healthcare Fund where he led the investments in four companies and served on the board of 2 companies. He is experienced across private equity, transactions, and strategy consulting.

As a strategy consultant, he has extensively advised private equity funds and companies on transactions. Sanjay has led and supervised more than 30 transactions and related engagements that have included strategic and business due diligences, deal structuring, fund raising, negotiations, and monitoring of 100 day agenda, post transaction closure.

Prior to joining Tata Capital, Sanjay ran his own advisory practice focused on healthcare transactions and consulting. He was one of the founder members of the India practice of Strategic Decisions Group (SDG), a boutique strategy consulting firm based out of Palo Alto. He started the transactions and private equity practice of SDG in India.

Sanjay has around 20 years of experience and has an MBA from Columbia Business School, Columbia University, New York city and Asian Institute of Management, Manila. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee.

Sasha Mirchandani is Managing Director and Founder of Kae Capital and Co-founder Mumbai Angels. Previously, he was at Blue Run Ventures as Managing Director for the India operations. Before joining Blue Run Ventures he was CEO and Founder of Imercius Technologies, a BPO focused on the healthcare space. Earlier he was at Mirc Electronics (Onida) where he was Head of Corporate Affairs and new business. His investments include Fractal Analytics, Inmobi, Healthkart, Myntra, Greendust, Cloudbyte, Canvera and Mettl. Sasha sits on the Boards of Hathway Cable and Datacom Limited, Ador Welding and Mumbai Angels Venture Mentors among others.

Sasha completed his Business Administration from Strayer University and MMDP program at IIM, Ahmedabad. He is a Charter Member at TiE Mumbai. He is also Past President of Entrepreneurs Organisation (EO) Mumbai and is a member of the Mumbai Chapter of the Young Presidents Organisation (YPO). He is also on the Board of Governors of the Universal Business School.

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Sateesh Andra loves entrepreneurs with grit, clarity and focus on execution. So, when he finds strong entrepreneurs, he rolls up his sleeves and becomes part-coach, part co-founder and part investor.

Technology start-ups with strategic focus and clear value proposition drive Sateesh. His investing, co-founding, leadership and engineering experience, for the past sixteen years in U.S/India, all veer around technology.

As the Managing Director at Endiya Partners, Sateesh serves on several boards including Darwinbox. Some of his past investments include Seclore, Little Eye Labs (Facebook) and Cleartrip. Most recently, he was Partner at Ventureast and DFJ.

Prior to DFJ, Sateesh was Founder/CEO of Euclid, a Silicon Valley start-up, in the IT Management Software space and was instrumental in raising VC funding ($35 M+), besides acquiring, and managing marquee customers and partners. He has also served in product marketing and engineering leadership roles at Tsqware (Conexant), LSI Logic, and VLSI Technology (Philips).

Besides helping evolve ideas into real businesses, Sateesh is involved with the Pullela Gopichand Badminton Academy with the objective of popularizing sports, and promoting awareness of chronic diseases in the corporate world. Sateesh was a top-ranked Table Tennis player representing A.P State in Nationals.

Sateesh holds a Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering.

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Mr. Saugata Bhattacharya is Senior Vice President and Chief Economist at Axis Bank. He was previously with Unilever in India and with Infrastructure Development Finance Company (IDFC). He has studied at the Delhi School of Economics and Oxford University.

He was a member of the RBI’s Group on of Monetary Policy (2010) and the Finance Ministry Group on Estimating Foreign Savings (2011). He was part of the Core Group supporting the Percy Mistry Committee on Making Mumbai an International Financial Centre in 2007.

He is a member of the CII National Growth and Investment Council and a Special Invitee to the CII Western Region Council. He is a columnist for the Financial Express, and a regular contributor to other newspapers.

Saurabh has over 11 years of experience in Capital Markets and Equities. He joined Ambit in 2010 from Execution Noble. Saurabh co-founded Clear Capital, a British equity research firm, in 2003. After helping sell Clear Capital to Execution Noble, Saurabh set up and led Execution Noble’s Indian Equities business. Saurabh has a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Economics from the London School of Economics.

Dr. Shubhada Rao is the Chief Economist at YES BANK. She is responsible for the Economics Knowledge Banking providing macroeconomic research outlook at the Bank. She is a member of YES Bank’s Asset and Liabilities Committee (ALCO). Shubhada brings with her over 25 years of experience in academia and industry wherein she has pioneered research design geared to facilitate business decisions.

Prior to joining YES BANK, Shubhada has worked with Kotak Institutional Equities as Chief Economist, with Bank of Baroda as Economist with Risk Management and as Head, Economic Advisory at CRISIL Advisory Services. She also served as Chief Economist with Times Bank. She began her career in banking with ICICI in their planning and treasury department after completing a PhD in Economics from the University of Mumbai.

Shubhada is an active member of the Economics Committees of Industry Associations and is a member of CII National Economic Policy Council, New Delhi, Co-Chair of Economics Committee at ASSOCHAM and a member of the Monetary Policy Group - Indian Banks’ Association (IBA). She had also served as Chairman of Economics Committee of Bombay Chamber of Commerce & Industry between 2009-11.

Simon Hopkins is a successful entrepreneur who has been a senior figure in the international investment management industry for more than two decades. He was an early advocate of hedge fund investing for institutional investors, and has been a prolific capital raiser for single manager funds, funds of funds and listed closed-end funds. He is passionate about emerging markets arena, having launched numerous closed end fund structures, and more recently a number of UCITS funds.

Mr. Hopkins started his career at S.G. Warburg, and UBS, subsequently holding senior roles at HSBC James Capel and Nomura International, in 1996 he created one of the industry's first dedicated research and investment consulting businesses in 1996 to provide truly objective analysis for investors. At its peak Global Fund Analysis (GFA) had over 27,000 registered users around the globe. Concurrently, he played a pioneering role in seeding many of the incipient European hedge funds through the Fortune Group, an award-winning alternatives investment advisory, and fund of hedge funds business. 

In 2011, Mr. Hopkins founded Milltrust International, an award-winning investment platform focusing on investment management in Emerging Markets, and specialist real asset solutions, driven by the changing demographics of the developing world. In addition to the group companies, he serves as an investment advisor to the British Innovation Fund, a U.K. University Venture Fund. He also serves as director of East India Investments Pte Ltd, SwallowcourtLimited, a healthcare business, Xoomtrip, a GCC-based online travel agent, Novare Fund Manager, an African asset management firm, Asian Film Fund, CITIC Securities One Belt One Road (CSOBOR), and Roslin Technologies (University of Edinburgh).  He sits on the International Council of the National University of Singapore Hospital Systems.

 He graduated with honours from the University of Bristol's Faculty of Law in1986 and speaks fluent French. He travels extensively but resides permanently with his family in Singapore.

Sudhir is a founding partner with Multiples Alternate Asset Management Private Limited, a leading Indian mid-market private equity fund. He has over two decades of experience in financial services of which the last ten years has been in private equity. He has a strong investment track record and has lead investments across a wide range of sectors including financial services, health care and infrastructure services. Prior to private equity he has experience across investment banking, lending and structured finance.

Suresh Prabhala is a founding partner at ADV Partners Limited, an Asia dedicated private equity platform set-up in 2013 that is currently investing out of its inaugural US$ 550 million fund.

Suresh has over 18 years of experience in Asia with over 12 years on the buy-side. Prior to setting up ADV Partners, he served as Managing Director and Head of India at Mount Kellett Capital, and immediately prior to that as Executive Director and Head of India for the principal investments arm of JP Morgan. Suresh began his career at CRISIL in 1998 where he worked as a Credit Analyst before moving to Arthur Andersen and subsequently Allegro Capital, a boutique advisory firm.

Suresh holds a Mechanical Engineering degree from Delhi College of Engineering, and a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. Suresh is currently based in Singapore.

Tarun Bhatia is managing director at Kroll based in India. He has over 15 years of extensive experience in evaluating, measuring and monitoring risks across corporate India. He has considerable understanding of the Indian financial sector and is a well-regarded industry expert in corporate finance, financial services and structured finance. Tarun’s diverse client roster includes conglomerates, large steel and cement commodity players, and companies across sectors such as energy, oil & gas, infrastructure, real estate, textile, automotive and financial services.

Mr. TC Meenakshisundaram (TCM) is Founder & Managing Director of IDG Ventures India Advisors. He has over 32 years of industry experience, including 13 years of venture experience.

TCM serves on the Board of Lenskart, Zivame, Agrostar, Fintellix, e-Shakti, Creditmantri, Cloudcherry among others.

Earlier as part of Walden International’s team, TCM was involved with investments in Mindtree, Venture Infotek and Jobstreet.

Prior to IDG Ventures, TCM served as Chief Financial Officer and President - Corporate Services at Venture Infotek, a leading payments processing company in India. Prior to Walden International, TCM has worked for 14 years at Wipro where he last served as General Manager - eCommerce Division.

TCM is a Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), Chennai. He is a Chartered Accountant by qualification.

Umang is President and Chief Investment Officer at IIFL Private Wealth. He has more than 15 years of industry experience across multiple asset classes, with his core strengths being equity research, fund selection and asset allocation. Umang is part of the Executive Committee and provides strategic guidance on asset allocation with a focus on continuous product innovation. He is also responsible for deal sourcing, client interaction, 3rd party product manufacturer relationship management and continuous support to the sales team.

Umang started his career with Motilal Oswal Securities Ltd. on the institutional sales desk, followed by HSBC in their wealth management unit and HDFC Bank where he was the Head of Equity Research in their private banking group. He was a Director and Head of Investments at Societe Generale before joining IIFL Private Wealth. Umang is an electronics engineer and holds a post graduate diploma in Management from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute, Mumbai.

Vik is the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of Venus Capital Management, Inc, Boston, MA, USA. Vik has been actively investing in Asia since 1989 and Venus focusses on low risk, alpha generating strategies from India. Venus recently started an NBFC in India, funded by US and European pension and sovereign wealth plans. Venus has offices in Boston, London and Delhi.

Prior to founding Venus, Vik worked at UBS. Vik has a Master’s of Business Administration (MBA) degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is a charter member of The Indus Entrepreneur (www.tie.org), Boston chapter, and a member of the Young Presidents Organization (www.ypo.org), New England chapter.

Vikram has more than 14 years of experience in the field of tax and regulations.  As part of the Financial Services’ tax & regulatory practice of PwC, he has been handling a complete suite of financial services clients like Banks, Non Banking Finance Companies, Alternative Investment Funds (across asset classes and across different investment strategies), wealth / portfolio managers and other portfolio and institutional investors.

In the asset management space, he has been advising clients (both domestic and foreign) on fund structuring, carry structuring, transaction structuring, tax due diligence, advising on capital structure at the time of investments, assistance in exit negotiations from an Indian tax and regulatory perspective, assistance in getting clarity on regulatory matters including seeking various regulatory approvals.

He has been closely working with leading financial services players and industry bodies in  various representations before policy makers and tax authorities. Prior to joining PwC, Vikram worked with the Indian branch of Standard Chartered Bank. At Standard Chartered, he handled tax advisory for Wholesale Banking Division (various products / businesses like custody business, fixed income, derivatives, syndications, corporate loan structuring, offshore leasing, etc.) and was handling Transfer Pricing for the India Group.

Vineet successfully raised and manages investments relating to the Tata Capital Innovations Fund. Vineet’s experience is across private equity, investment banking and manufacturing. He is a nominee Director on Boards of portfolio companies.

Prior to joining Tata Capital he was with Old Lane Private Equity responsible for investments in Indian Infrastructure sector and earlier with Ernst & Young and SBI Capital Markets in their Investment Banking businesses.

Vineet received a Bachelors Degree in Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Rourkela and Masters Degree in Finance from Delhi University. He is also a CFA Charter holder.