Our speakers

Ganesh Rengaswamy, Co - founder, Quona Capital

Ganesh Rengaswamy focuses on Quona’s investments in India and Southeast Asia. Before co-founding Quona, Ganesh led Accion Frontier Investments’ work in India. Ganesh is a seasoned entrepreneur and venture investor. Prior to joining Accion Frontier Investments in 2014, Ganesh was a General Partner of Lok Capital, a venture growth fund that invests in social enterprises with innovative and technologically advanced services in financial inclusion, education and employability. Ganesh previously served as the Asia Director for Unitus Inc., a global organization that works to reduce poverty by finding commercially sustainable solutions in financial inclusion. Prior to Unitus, he led the entry of Silicon Valley-based venture capital fund Greylock Partners into the Indian market and co-founded Travelguru.com, which was acquired by Travelocity. Early in his career, Ganesh worked for Infosys where he was responsible for customer acquisition and growth engagements for US-based Fortune 1000 clients. Ganesh current and past investment and entrepreneurial advisory roles include Unitus Seed Fund, Village Capital, the Indian Angel Network, Accion Venture Lab, GSF Accelerator, IIM-Ahmedabad and ISB, and he has been featured on Bloomberg, CNBC, and The Economic Times. Ganesh previously served on the boards of Hippocampus Learning Centres, Rural Shores and Shubham.

Ganesh Thyagarajan, Vice President & Global Head of Cloud Channels, Automation Anywhere

Ganesh Thyagarajan is the Vice President & Global head of Cloud Channels at Automation Anywhere. Having spent over 24 years in the IT industry, Ganesh has donned various leadership positions in Technology, Global Delivery, Product Development, and Engineering to mention a few. He has also helped strategize on product roadmaps and platforms with startup’s, as well as large firms like Capillary technologies, OnMobile, Infosys, Baxter International, Arcot Inc, and has had an entrepreneurial stint as well. Prior to current role, he was the global head of Partner Success and he has helped build the partner enablement program for over 1500+ partners globally.

Ganesh Vasudevan, CEO, IndiaProperty.com

Ganesh Vasudevan is the Chief executive officer (CEO) of IndiaProperty.com Pvt. Ltd., a company that runs and manages online realty portal IndiaProperty.com. He is a seasoned business leader with extensive business development experience across roles in Sales, Strategic Alliances, Key Account Management and Direct Marketing. He has been particularly successful in seeding and growing greenfield ventures into large business in both the B2B and B2C spaces across consumer internet, banking, financial services and consumer durables industries. He began his career in sales at BPL Ltd, Chennai, where he was instrumental in launching what was probably the first online durable loan approval program in the country with HDFC Bank in 1999.

He was also credited with developing a rural marketing program to cover towns in the 50K pop stratum nationally. He subsequently moved to Standard Chartered Bank, where he established the Customer Value Management Channel for the Bank for South India. After a stellar stint at Standard Chartered, Ganesh took on a challenging role at Tata-AIG Life Insurance Co Ltd, where he established direct marketing and CRM programs for the company and subsequently handled national level positions in Sales and Channel Management. In his latest responsibility, he was head of National Accounts and Wealth Management, with a specific focus on strategic alliances in the NBFC vertical.

Ganesh holds a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Central Electrochemical Research Institute, Karaikudi where he stood second in the university. He is an alumnus of T A Pai Management Institute, Manipal where he specialized in Marketing and Finance. Passionate about music, Ganesh enjoys singing and is part of a local music band in Chennai. He also loves tinkering with gadgets and assembling them.

Garima Batra, Project Leader, Public Sector and Development Practice, The Boston Consulting Group

Garima Batra is a Project Leader at the Boston Consulting Group's India office in the Public Sector and Development Practice.

She has worked on numerous assignments in the Mumbai, Delhi and London offices of BCG since 2005.  Over the last 3.5 years, Garima has focused extensively on the education sector across ECE (Early Childhood Education), K-12, and higher education segments. She is deeply passionate about  the cause of education quality improvement in India and is currently leading BCG's work with the Govt. of Haryana on a state-wide 'Quality Improvement Program'(QIP). The program has already shown some early evidence of impact through improved student learning outcomes basis third party assessment results.

Garima also has experience supporting the set-up of a new private university, the Shiv Nadar University, where she worked for a period of about 2 years. She holds an MBA from INSEAD and a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Delhi.

Gaurav Agarwal, Co-Founder, 1 mg

Gaurav is the Founder and CTO of 1mg, India’s #1 integrated healthcare platform with more than 10 million downloads of its app and 22 million monthly visits across its web and app properties.

Gaurav was born and raised in Kanpur. He is a Computer Science Graduate from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD). Prior to 1mg, Gaurav was the CTO and Head pf Product at HealthKart, India’s #1 Nutrition eCommerce Company. Till 2013, before returning to India, Gaurav was the Business Head at Zynga for its globally bestselling online social gaming Business Farmville.

Gaurav Agarwal, Co-founder, 1mg

Gaurav is the co-founder of 1mg, India's #1 Health platform. With over 18 million app downloads, and 160 million monthly Page Views, 1mg is the favorite app for health consumers across the country. Gaurav was born and raised in Kanpur.

He is a Computer Science graduate from Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi (IIT-D). Prior to 1mg, Gaurav was the Business Head at Zynga for its globally bestselling online social gaming business, Farmville.

Gaurav Ahuja, Managing Director, ChrysCapital

Gaurav Ahuja is a Managing Director with ChrysCapital and has been with the firm since 2004. He is responsible for the LP Relations and Fund Raising functions at ChrysCapital. Mr. Ahuja is a member of the Investment Committee and sits on the board of Infogain, ChrysCapital’s IT Services portfolio company. Prior to joining ChrysCapital, he was in the M&A group at Lazard Freres in San Francisco and Merrill Lynch in New York. Mr. Ahuja received an MBA from INSEAD and a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce and Economics from the University of Virginia.

Gaurav Chaturvedi, Partner, Kae Capital

Gaurav is a Partner at Kae capital. An IITB alumnus, he co-founded ThinkLabs in 2006 and helped it grow into one of the largest STEM education companies in India. After the acquisition of ThinkLABs in 2016, Gaurav continued running the business for one more year before successfully exiting

He loves closely working with founders and helping them. A firm believer in lifelong learning, He thinks that the best way to learn for an investor is to work with the best entrepreneurs. At Kae Capital, Gaurav currently spends time overseeing investments in B2B, SaaS, and emerging technology. He sits on the boards of companies like Zetwerk, Hiver, Hippo Video and Disprz.

Gaurav Chopra, Co-founder, Indialends.com

Gaurav has over 9 years of experience in consumer and business unsecured credit across the US, UK and Indian markets. Before Indialends he held various senior positions in marketing, business development and credit risk at Capital One. He has an MBA from the London Business School, MSc. From the London School of Economics and BA (Hons) in Mathematics from St. Stephens, New Delhi.

Gaurav Dalmia, Chairman, Dalmia Group Holdings

Gaurav Dalmia is the Chairman of Dalmia Group Holdings, a holding company for business and financial assets. It invests in private equity, real estate, public markets, structured debt and fixed income.

He is an early investor in and a Board member of True North, a leading Indian private equity fund, which manages approximately $3.5billion. He is also the founder and Chairman of Landmark Holdings, a real estate investment firm. He co-founded GTI, a long term investment vehicle for India focused investments.

He is a member of the Governing Board of The Institute for New Economic Thinking in New York. He is Chairman of the Indian Advisory Board of Room to Read, a global education charity. He is a Board member of the Centre for Social and Economic Progress. He is an op-ed contributor to The Economic Times, The Times of India and The Financial Times.

Gaurav Dalmia was selected as a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum in 2000. Gaurav Dalmia received an MBA with Beta Gamma Sigma honors from Columbia Business School.