Our speakers
Gaurav Nagar, Co-Founder & CEO, Evren
Gaurav Ranjan, Vice President, Prime Ventures
Gaurav Sachdeva, Managing Partner, JSW Ventures
Gaurav Sachdeva is Managing Partner at JSW Ventures - an early-stage technology-focused fund. Set up in 2015, JSW Ventures partners with passionate entrepreneurs focussed on leveraging technology to build capital efficient businesses.
In a career spanning more than 17 years, Gaurav has passionately built businesses across banking, technology and investing. Gaurav was a founding member of Corporate Finance teams at Citibank, N.A. & Bank of America and led sales for Infosys in Continental Europe. Gaurav is extremely passionate about the role of technology in transforming business models and building consumer experience. At JSW Ventures, he actively manages Purplle, Indus OS, LimeTray & Homelane.
Gaurav is an MBA from Indian School of Business.
Gaurav Saraf, Director, Epiphany Ventures
Gaurav launched Epiphany Ventures, focused on investing in early stage companies in 2008.
He started his career as a management consultant at Diamond Technology Partners Inc. (DTPI), a strategy consulting company, headquartered in Chicago. At DTPI, Gaurav advised fortune 500 clients on leveraging technology to further their business objectives and enhance efficiencies. There, he gained tremendous experience in a wide range of disciplines and sectors, including Retail, e-commerce, Knowledge Management, Merger Integrations, etc.
After his return to India, in 2004, Gaurav founded a business in the mining sector, to supply iron ore to steel manufacturers in India and abroad. He has also served as the Vice-President, M&A for the $250 million Facor Group. He sits on the boards of his portfolio companies, MXC Solutions (Cartrade.com), Brattle Foods, iLevel Solutions and Vserv.
Gaurav has a B.Sc in Electrical Engineering from University of Pennsylvania, and M.Sc in Finance from City University, London. He is passionate about helping entrepreneurs and mentors them actively through his association with TiE as Charter Member. He is also a member of Entrepreneurs’ Organization, which brings together the best young entrepreneurial talent across the globe, and a dynamic angel investor through his participation in Indian Angel Network and Mumbai Angels.
Gaurav Sekhri, MD, Tinna Viterra Trade Pvt. Ltd
GV started his career with his family promoted Tinna Group of companies in 1993.
GV is 39 years old and promoter of M/s Tinna Group. In 2009, GV was instrumental in formation of the joint venture with M/s Viterra Inc., of Canada in 2009. Viterra is one of the largest Agri businesses in the World. Prior to this venture, GV was actively involved in the groups trading business dealing in procurement of various dry bulk commodities like Rice, Wheat, SBM and sugar.
In 1998, GV played a key role in identifying ADM as a partner and actively participated in formation and promotion of the joint venture with M/s Archer Daniels Midland (ADM). Until 2009, he oversaw running of all business verticals, including cargo handling operations, oil seed processing, branding and marketing of edible oils and marketing of oil ingredients for the joint venture.
Since 2009, GV is heading Tinna Viterra operations in India as its Managing Director. Based in Delhi, he works closely with Viterra in building Viterra's business in India.
GV is served as a trustee of Visakhapatman Port Trust Board during 2002-2010 and headed various council's in The Solvent Extractors Association. GV is also a member of the Delhi chapter of Young President's Organization.
Gaurav Sharma, Partner, Mckinsey
- developing investable themes for private equity and strategic clients in the technology services and business process outsourcing space
- driving a post-merger management program—including value protection and synergy estimation—for a leading Indian IT services company
- developing the strategic transformation and sales acceleration blueprint for a digital service company based in Silicon Valley
- driving a comprehensive strategic and growth transformation program for a leading Indian IT services company
Gaurav coleads our Private Equity & Principal Investors Practice in India, serving the world’s leading investors on investment strategy, origination, portfolio value creation, and exits. Gaurav also leads our work for investments related with technology services as well as M&A and post-merger management in Asia. Gaurav’s current research focuses on capital-led value creation and returns maximization through M&A.
Examples of Gaurav’s recent work include the following:
Gaurav joined McKinsey in New Delhi, where he was elected a partner. He has served clients across North America, Europe, Japan, and India. Prior to joining McKinsey, Gaurav was a consultant with PwC for three years.
Gaurav Singh Kushwaha, Founder & CEO, BlueStone.com | @bluestone_com
Gaurav is a Computer Science graduate from IIT Delhi and brings almost 10 years of experience in the fields of Technology, E-Commerce and Internet Marketing.
A well known figure in the realm of start-ups, he has been an entrepreneur for almost half a decade. Before BlueStone, he served as the CEO of Chakpak, an online entertainment portal, which he co-founded in 2007. He grew Chakpak.com to over 3 Million unique users a month in less than 2 years and successfully raised two rounds of funding from Accel and Canaan Partners respectively.
Using his experience to his advantage, in this short span of time, he has advised many start-ups in the fields of SEO, SEM and Product Strategies. Gaurav started his career with Tavant Technologies, a global IT services & solutions provider and subsequently worked with Amazon for around 4 years. At Amazon, he was responsible for building web products for the US E-Commerce market.
Gaurav is the Chief Executive Officer of BlueStone.com, an ecommerce jewellery house that was founded with the intent of providing exquisite gold and diamond jewellery to the Indian consumers at affordable rates.
Gaurav believes that dreams can be easily fulfilled and his indomitable spirit is a source of inspiration for the team.
Gaurav Singhal, Director, Heads Up Consulting LLC
Gaurav is a Lawyer and a Chartered Accountant with 24+ years’ experience of helping multi-national as well as domestic clients on their transaction tax, corporate tax, international tax and regulatory matters.
He has worked in past with organizations such as KPMG India, BMR & Associates, and Ernst & Young, as a part of their tax and regulatory practice.
He is a part of Heads Up – a tax boutique firm with offices in Dubai and Delhi.
Professional experience
He has advised clients on key transaction aspects throughout a deal cycle, including conceptualization and development of capital / business restructuring initiatives, as well as re-alignment of transactions to optimize tax benefits and to ensure adherence with tax and regulatory laws of India / UAE.
He has conducted tax diagnostic reviews and health-checks to determine tax exposures and suggesting measures for optimizing their risks.
Gaurav has advised extensively on outbound and inbound investments structures in diverse sectors, entity and jurisdiction structuring, and Intermediate Holding Company structures.
He has advised clients on tax implications - both under domestic as well as international tax laws - of various transactions, arrangements, remittances and business proposals.
Gaurav has worked on a range of corporate tax, international taxation, transfer pricing and regulatory matters, including overseeing of litigation and compliances for multinational clients, large Indian corporates and new age start-ups.
He has represented clients in the course of various tax proceedings, including proceedings before the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT), the Authority for Advance Rulings (AAR), the Dispute Resolution Panel (DRP), and for the purpose of Advance Pricing Arrangement (APA).
Gaurav has undertaken multiple impact assessment studies of developments in tax domain, such as the Multi-Lateral Instrument (MLI), Country-by-Country reporting (CbCR), other changes introduced by virtue of OECD / G20 BEPS Project, Equalization Levy w.r.t. e-commerce transactions, Place of Effective Management (POEM) regulations, General Anti-Avoidance Rules (GAAR), rules for attribution of profits to Permanent Establishments, etc.
He has advised a range of companies doing business in / with the UAE, on applicability of UAE Economic Substance Regulations and / or UAE Corporate Tax laws, and handheld them in transition to a tax efficient yet compliant regime.
Gaurav has been nominated as a Special Invitee of the Committee on International Taxation of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.
He is a regular speaker in various seminars organized by various forums, both national and international, such as the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), the International Fiscal Association, PHD Chambers, British Chamber of Commerce, Dubai Airport Free Zone Authority (DAFZA), Dubai Silicon Oasis (DSO), ICAI Dubai, etc. He is frequently invited by Public Sector Companies, Law firms, Accounting firms and other enterprises to train their employees on recent developments in domestic and international taxation.
Gaurav Sood, Managing Director & Head, Equity Capital Markets, Avendus Capital
Gaurav Srivastava, Head of Technology - BHIM, NPCI