Our speakers
Hari Buggana, MD, InvAscent
Hari Buggana is the Managing Director of InvAscent India - a private equity firm focused on the Indian life sciences sector. Prior to this, he was a consultant with McKinsey & Company. During his stint at McKinsey, Hari primarily worked with life sciences businesses in the US, Europe, and India on a variety of issues ranging from corporate strategy, mergers & acquisitions, product-market strategy, R&D productivity, organizational effectiveness, and operations improvement.
Prior to joining McKinsey, Hari worked as a scientist in the Pharmaceutical Products Division of Abbott Laboratories, USA. He has a MBA from Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University and a M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago.
Hari Buggana, CMD, InvAscent
Hari Buggana is the Managing Director of InvAscent India - a private equity firm focused on the Indian life sciences sector. Prior to this, he was a consultant with McKinsey & Company. During his stint at McKinsey, Hari primarily worked with life sciences businesses in the US, Europe, and India on a variety of issues ranging from corporate strategy, mergers & acquisitions, product-market strategy, R&D productivity, organizational effectiveness, and operations improvement.
Prior to joining McKinsey, Hari worked as a scientist in the Pharmaceutical Products Division of Abbott Laboratories, USA. He has a MBA from Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University and a M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago.
Hari Buggana is the Managing Director of InvAscent India - a private equity firm focused on the Indian life sciences sector. Prior to this, he was a consultant with McKinsey & Company. During his stint at McKinsey, Hari primarily worked with life sciences businesses in the US, Europe, and India on a variety of issues ranging from corporate strategy, mergers & acquisitions, product-market strategy, R&D productivity, organizational effectiveness, and operations improvement.
Prior to joining McKinsey, Hari worked as a scientist in the Pharmaceutical Products Division of Abbott Laboratories, USA. He has a MBA from Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University and a M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago.
Hari Buggana is the Chairman and Managing Director of InvAscent – a Private Equity firm focused on Indian healthcare, pharma and medtech industries with AUM of ~ $500Mn and 33 investments to date.
Prior to establishing InvAscent in 2005, Hari was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. During his stint at McKinsey, Hari primarily worked with life sciences businesses in US, Europe, and India on a variety of issues ranging from corporate strategy, mergers & acquisitions, product-market strategy, R&D productivity, organizational effectiveness, and operations improvement.
Prior to joining McKinsey, Hari worked as a scientist in the Pharmaceutical Products Division of Abbott Laboratories, USA.
Hari has an MBA from Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University and a M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA.
Hari Hara Mishra, Director, UV ARC Limited
Hari Hara Mishra is an ex-banker from State Bank of India (SBI), having joined as a probationary officer of 1982 batch. After two decades of working in SBI, he shifted in 2014 to join first Asset Reconstruction Company India Limited. For last 15 years he has been working with various Asset Reconstruction Companies (ARC). At present, he is a professional director in UV Asset Reconstruction Company Ltd. He has been part of various regulatory initiatives on ARC Sector. He was a member of leading Industry body Assocham’s special task force in 2017 to deliberate on setting up of a bad bank in India*.
He writes in various publications and speaks on various occasions and appears on print/electronic media. In 2013, he was winner of readers’ choice for 2nd annual ‘World’s great investment columnist’ contest held by Wall Street Journal’s web portal MarketWatch.
Hari Hara Mishra, CEO, Association of Asset Reconstruction Companies in India
Hari Hara Mishra, Director, UV Asset Reconstruction Company Ltd.
Hari Menon, Co-founder & CEO, Bigbasket.com
Hari Menon is the CEO of BigBasket.com, a company he co-founded in December 2011 with a vision of setting up India’s finest online food and grocery company. With operations having commenced in Bangalore, Hyderabad and Mumbai, BigBasket.com plans to expand to another 10 cities over the next 2 years. BigBasket.com delivers the entire range of groceries, fresh fruits and vegetables, fresh meat, dairy products, processed foods, toiletries, personal care products, gourmet foods and a wide range of household products. Their range has about 10,000 products.
Before his entry into grocery e-tailing,Hari was the CEO of a vocational training company called IndiaSkills, a joint venture between City & Guilds, UK and the Manipal Education group. Prior to IndiaSkills, Hari co-founded Fabmall - a pioneer in internet and grocery retail.
An aluminus of BITS-Pilani, Hari started his career with ORG Systems, subsequently moving on to work with many of the best and respected names in the country, including TVS Electronics, Wipro Infotech, Planetasia.com and Integrated Data Systems.
Hari Nair, Director - Digital Business, Sony Music Entertainment
Hari is currently heading Digital business of Sony Music Entertainment India. He has more than 16 years of industry experience and has been in the digital space, especially mobile value added services, for over a decade. Last heading the P & L for Mauj Telecom; content & operation divisions for Comviva & Soundbuzz (Motorola). Prior to that he was with Reliance & Repro, where he was responsible for building and delivering technology solutions.
Hari Shankar Mishra, SVP- Customer Experience, Future Generali India Insurance Company Limited
Head of Customer Experience at Future Generali. Responsible for setting up the Service-Structure and Customer-Culture of the organization which is recognized by customers and partners alike. Managing the Customer Insights program and Insurance Awareness and Consumer Education activities. Also designated as the Grievance Redressal Officer (GRO). With his Service Leadership, the organization has received many national and international awards and recognitions viz. Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service, Medallia Expy Award, Impresa Award for Fair Business and others. Recognized as 50 Most Influential Customer Service Professionals by CXELA.
Hari Srinivasan, Senior Manager (Products & Solutions), Equinix
Hari TN, Head HR & Strategic Advisor, Big Basket and The Fundamentum Partnership
Hari is a senior seasoned HR Leader whose career could be broadly divided into two chunks:
The first 14 years were spent with Tata Steel. Of this the first 11 years were spent as a mechanical engineer on the shop floor, in procurement, and in corporate planning. The next three years were in HR helping restructure the company to cope with post-liberalization challenges where CIS countries were dumping steel at below our cost prices.
The next 18 odd years were with a string (5 of them) of agile and high-growth start-ups. The first four saw successful exits (Daksh was acquired by IBM, listed Virtusa on NASDAQ, Amba Research was acquired by Moody’s and TaxiForSure was acquired by Ola). In each of these startups, he played a key role in shaping their growth and exit.
In addition, during the last 5 years, he has been an advisor and sounding board to numerous young entrepreneurs and startups. He has straddled the entire start-up ecosystem (mentor at accelerators like Techstars, Silicon Road and NUMA; he is an advisor to an early stage VC fund as well as a late stage VC fund set up by Nandan Nilekani and Sanjeev Aggarwal).
He has studied at IIT & IIM and worked at an executive level with multiple start-ups/scale-ups. His strength and passion are in scaling organizations through clear thinking and relentless execution. Because of his education and aptitude, he has good understanding of a wide range of topics that matter for any business.
LinkedIn had identified him as the one of the Top Voices in India for three years in a row (2016, 2017, and 2018). He has written and shared learnings extensively on various platforms and has authored 3 books in the last three years. The fourth one is slated to be published by Penguin in August. His recently Co-authored books are
a) Cut the Crap and Jargon – Lessons from the Startup Trenches
b) Cutting the Gordian Knot – India’s Quest for Prosperity
c) Saying No to Jugaad – The Making of Bigbasket.
d) The fourth one slated for publication in August is, “From Pony to a Sustainable Unicorn”