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Kashyap Dalal, CEO, Inkfruit

Kashyap and Navneet (Co-founder) started Inkfruit.com in May 2008 with the goal of being India's first co-creation based lifestyle products brand. In last 3 years, Inkfruit has consolidated its position as the first and largest co-creation based lifestyle brand in India and the most active artist community in the country, with all products being created through community participation. Building on its strong community and brand, Inkfruit has diversified to include Apparel, Footwear, Bags and Accessories into the list of offerings for its fans and followers.

The vision behind Inkfruit is to build it into the largest online products brand, offering distinctive high quality products at attractive prices across all Lifestyle product categories.

Prior to starting Inkfruit, Kashyap was working with Hindustan Unilever Ltd as a Sales and Marketing Manager. Kashyap holds a PGDM from IIM Lucknow and is a B.Tech from IIT Bombay.

Kashyap Deorah, Author of The Golden Tap, .

Kashyap Deorah is an entrepreneur and investor. Over fifteen years, he has split his time between Silicon Valley and India building global technology companies. Besides India and US, he has done business in China, South East Asia and Northern Europe. Kashyap has started and sold three companies, worked with public companies in the US and India, invested in a score of startups, and mentored many more. He started his first company RightHalf.com during his final year at IIT Bombay in 2000. After an acquisition by a Silicon Valley company, Kashyap spent seven years in the US. He returned to India in 2007 to start Chaupaati Bazaar, a phone commerce marketplace, then merged it with India’s leading retailer Future Group. In 2012, he co-founded mobile payments company Chalo and sold it to San Francisco based OpenTable, a leader in the restaurant reservations space. He is passionate about traveling to new places and telling a good story. He lives in New Delhi with his wife and three year old son. Hear him tweet @righthalf.

Kashyap Mehta, Head E-Commerce, Infiniti Retail Ltd

Kashyap is currently spearheading the ecommerce and all multi channel initiative for Infiniti retail (A Tata Enterprise) in the capacity of Business Head. His role is charted with developing strategy, preparing business plan with successful execution and operating P&L responsibility for massively-scalable and economically sustainable platforms that help extend the reach, growth and value as a standalone business vertical within Infiniti retail ltd. He comes with a strong 360 degree experience of working in various critical ecommerce functions like Internet Marketing, Product, Category Management and Operations. After working for 10 Years into ecommerce industry with some of the major players like eBay, Novator and Rediff, he has developed a bird’s eye view for this industry. He enjoys to work with a entrepreneurial bend of mindset and build things from scratch.

He was a core part of Baazee.com team (Oct 2001 to May 2006) and worked in various roles of category management and later in Marketing at eBay Motors India (eBay bought over baazee in Jun'04). He was instrumental in building the Computer & Peripherals category which contribute for more than 30% of revenues for the company. With eBay Motors as Buyer Marketing Manager; he prepared the blue print of entire dealer buyer marketing program and finally rolled out successfully.

Kashyap Vadapalli, CMO & Head - New business, Pepperfry

Kashyap brings to Pepperfry.com, diverse and rich experience in Marketing, Sales and Business Strategy. Prior to joining Pepperfry, Kashyap was the Chief Marketing Officer of eBay India and has had prior stints at Google and Tata Interactive Systems in marketing and business development.

An Electronics Engineer from Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi and an MBA from IIM, Calcutta, Kashyap began his career in consumer goods sales and marketing with Cadbury.

At Pepperfry, Kashyap oversees all aspects of marketing including brand, digital marketing, social media, insights, creative, corporate communications and popular culture. He additionally leads the development of new categories and business segments for Pepperfry. 

Katelyn Donnelly, Executive Director, Pearson

Katelyn Donnelly is an Executive Director at Pearson where she leads the Affordable Learning Fund, a venture fund that invests in early-stage companies serving low-cost schools and services to schools and learners in the developing world and seeks market-competitive returns. Katelyn is also an active advisor on Pearson's global strategy, efficacy, research and innovation agenda, as well as a consultant to governments on education system transformation and delivery. She serves as a non-executive director and strategic advisor for several start-up companies across Europe, Asia and Africa. Previously, Katelyn was a consultant at McKinsey and Company in San Francisco and New York and graduated from Duke University with high distinction in economics.

Kaushal Biyani, Senior Partner and Head Structured Credit, Alpha Alternatives Holdings Pvt. Ltd.

Kaushal Dugar, Founder & CEO, Teabox | @TeaBoxInt

Kaushal Dugar is the founder and CEO of Teabox, an e-commerce company that is disrupting a $40 - 60 billion tea industry with its innovations in technology and the supply chain. Teabox and Kaushal's story has been featured in NYT, Forbes and has been rated as one of the hottest start-ups in the Food+ tech category. Kaushal is an alumnus of Singapore Management University and KPMG.

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Kaushal Shah, Head of the Financial Services Practice, Kotak Investment Banking

Kaushik Anand, Head of India Investments, CapitalG

Kaushik Anand heads India for CapitalG. Prior to CapitalG, Kaushik worked at Sequoia Capital and McKinsey & Company. He has also started four companies in US and India in energy and internet including the travel search site, Cleverlayover. Kaushik graduated with an engineering degree from IIT Madras where he won the CA Sastry Endowment Award and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar.

Kaushik Bellani, Vice President and MD, Mcgraw-Hill Education India Pvt Ltd

Mr. Kaushik Bellani is the Managing Director of McGraw Hill Education India Pvt. Ltd., a digital learning company with a global footprint and a 100 year old legacy.

Mr. Bellani has been in IT industry for more than two decades. He has worked with technology leaders Cisco, IBM, Hewlett Packard and Wipro and has spent the last 3 years in the Start up Eco-System - scaling a IT Services company - Saviance Technology and Setting up the India footprint of iYogi - a Tech-Support via the cloud B2C and B2B company offering subscription based services. He has worked extensively in the Business Development, Sales & Marketing functions in large multi-channel, multi-product and services companies. He has a proven ability to create, sustain, grow and drive businesses from scratch to sustainable levels. He has owned and driven P&Ls, created new business segments and developed channels.