Our speakers

Manas Tandon, Principal, TPG Growth India

Manas Tandon joined TPG Growth in 2010 and is a Director based in Mumbai. Prior to joining TPG in 2010, Manas was a Vice President at Matrix Partners India where he led growth deals in Financial Services, Internet and Mobile. Previously he was based in Boston for many years and was part of the founding team of three successful technology start-ups.

He has an MBA from Wharton where he was a Palmer Scholar and a B. Tech. from IIT Kanpur. He has eight US patents to his credit and has authored several papers. Manas currently represents TPG on the boards of several portfolio companies including AGS, Flexituff and Sutures.

Manasa Rajan, CEO, Jupiter Meta

Manasa is a founding team member of Jupiter Meta, where she heads all business endeavours. Following over a decade in the consumer behaviour function, she will now direct marketing and operations, including building the Jupiter Meta brand, liaising with celebrities, artists and brands, driving partnerships and associations, and planning and operationalising the asset classes. Manasa will also lead brand and enterprise communications. 

In addition to working on PR for Indiabulls’ IPO, Manasa’s career thus far has centred around health coaching and food design. Her business acumen and considerable industry knowledge laid the foundations for a food startup, which helped her communicate with numerous food brands. At Curefit, she was in charge of nutrition and health products and doubled up as a health expert. 

Manasa has donned different hats while interacting with varied clients—she has been a coach, an entrepreneur, and an analyst of behavioural aspects of the Indian consumer. She has interacted with these clients through brands involved in financial services, holistic health, fitness and food products, nurturing meaningful change amongst people in the food-health ecosystem. 

Manasa’s foray into the metaverse is an extension of her understanding of business opportunities and learnings in consumer behaviour. She aims to bring people new immersive experiences by fashioning ideas on how we interact, advertise, and participate with popular culture. 

Manasa holds an MBA from Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies with additional degrees from Stony Brook University and Cornell University.
Manasa, unsurprisingly, loves food and travel and follows the science around health & longevity. 

Manasij Ganguli, Co-founder & CEO, ThreadSol

Manasij Ganguli is the chief executive at ThreadSol, a one of a kind startup working in the sewn products domain. Pioneers in Enterprise Material Management, with products intelloBuy and intelloCut, ThreadSol is saving manufacturers in 50+ factories and 8 geographies (India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Thailand, Turkey and Vietnam) 10% of their fabric cost amounting to millions of dollars. ThreadSol is set to launch their third product intelloTrace in China in September 2015 which will bring the technology used by Apple and Google to sewn product manufacturers. 18 months young and seedfunded by Blume Ventures in 2014, ThreadSol is profitable and running on 100% quarter on quarter growth.

Manasij Ganguli has 13 years of experience writing code for multinationals like Boeing and Visa in UK and US. Leading a team of 60 with offices in 7 locations, Manasij works as the Chief Everything Officer heading the business development by the day and doubling as the coder by the night. Manasij is an avid blogger and an enthusiastic cyclist. Prior to ThreadSol, Manasij was the early member of a valley based startup - Terracotta which had a 90 Million dollar exit in 2012.

Manav Bansal, CIO, Neev Fund

Manav has over 20 years experience in PE and investment banking. Prior experience includes heading India operations for Brightlink Partners Inc., being a founding member of Maquarie’s infrastructure team in India and Director at SNC-Lavalin India infra fund. Manav has also worked at advisory/corporate finance at PwC and KPMG. Manav holds a MBA and an engineering degree.

Manav Dhanda, Group CEO, Sri Adhikari Brothers Group

Manav is the currently the CEO of SAB Group, Indian media's first Public Listed company (BSE:530943 | NSE:SABTNEQ) with a market cap of over Rs. 2000 Cr.  With 17 years in Media with broad range of experience in business & operations, programming strategies & creative, sales solutions, He actively leads businesses across multiple verticals including broadcast, production, digital & print publishing, studio's etc. Reporting directly into the Board he is responsible for the group's growth across businesses and initiation of new business opportunities.

He is an adventure junkie. Does bungee to sky dive and has achieved various levels of certifications. As an Adventure enthusiast - he is a certified professional in Snow skiing, water skiing, para gliding, scuba and many more such adventure sports. He on one hand has this adventurous side also has this responsible side who believes in giving back to the society - a member of a music band which exclusively performs for pre - schoolers a look which is out of contrary to the corporate suit and the core of doing this is to impart entertainment knowledge & values.

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Manav Garg, Founder & CEO, Eka Software Solutions

Manav is the CEO and Founder of Eka Software Solutions. Manav provides overall leadership and direction in strategic areas such as product direction, growth strategy, and talent acquisition. As a former commodities trader with a large global commodity trading house, Manav witnessed first-hand the deficiencies in traditional trading and risk management software. Realizing the market opportunity, and combining this with his passion for technology, Manav founded Eka in 2004.

Since then, he keeps Eka focused on meeting the needs of the company’s global customers. He constantly strives to achieve ever higher levels of organizational excellence and customer satisfaction by encouraging responsibility and accountability at all levels.

Manav graduated as an engineer from Regional Engineering College (REC) in Jalandhar, and followed this with an MBA from Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) in Delhi. In 2014, he was named to Fortune Magazine's "40 Under 40" compilation of executives in India.

Manav Sethi, Group CMO, ASKME India & Findit Malaysia

Manav is Group Chief Marketing Officer & Head Digital Platforms at Getit Infoservices that owns & operates ASKME, ASKME Bazaar, AKSME Pay, ASKME Grocery & ASKME Furniture/Mebelkart in India and Findit Malaysia. He has been instrumental in not only creating digital strategy & platforms for the group but has also launched these while devising overall communication strategy. These disruptive platforms and consumer brands have already acquired near leadership position as integrated offering in local search, classified, deals & marketplace.

Within 6 quarters of launch, ASKME & ASKMEBazaar has acquired leadership position with 14M+ SMEs in searchable database, 70M monthly searches, 1M+ new classified ads every month, 15000+ paid advertisers per month, 15M+ APPs, 100k online SME storefronts with 3.5M SKUs available to be sold. Findit Malaysia was launched formally in March 2015 and has been downloaded 0.5M times with 0.4M merchants online.  ASKME Grocery & Mebelkart has been scaled to 20 cities and formal brand launch of these and ASKME Pay is being worked upon. Manav is also working towards launching Findit marketplace in Malaysia and launches in Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Africa, Kuwait and Middle East.

In his earlier stints, Manav exited a startup in stealth mode that created an IP that helped telecom towers reduce their energy costs. In his last corporate role he led corporate strategy for Reliance Entertainment India and was founder of then India’s largest online local search platform that got investment interests from Navteq & acquisition interest from India’s largest online yellow pages company. While at Reliance, he also worked on launching businesses across FM Radio, Music, Motion Pictures, Movie rental & download, online gaming & a JV with Dreamworks Animation SKG. With formal education in Management & Law, he is very active in start-up ecosystem across India & Silicon Valley.

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Mandar Agashe, Founder & Vice Chairman, Sarvatra Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Mandar Agashe is the founder and Vice Chairman of Sarvatra Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (www.sarvatra.tech), India’s leading provider of fintech and payment platforms like UPI, IMPS, AEPS, BBPS, with key customers like ICICI Bank and Equitas. Sarvatra has been instrumental in making 500+ banks across 27 Indian states and 3 UTs join the national payments ecosystem through its unique SaaS model. Sarvatra’s EFT Switch won the Economic Times BFSI Innovation Tribe Award 2018 in “Technology” category and was awarded “Best Banking Tech” of the year 2019 by IAMAI.

Mandar completed his BE (Computer Science) in 1990/91 from PICT, a leading engineering college in Pune, and has been active in the fintech industry for the last 28 years. His unique banking technology invention has won patents in India and South Africa. Mandar comes from an Indian business family having generations of experience in various fields like Farming, Sugar factory, Pharmaceuticals, Banking, Steel and many allied industries.

Mandar is also the founder of Brihans Natural Products, whose GreenLeaf® Aloe Vera skincare range is a leading product with natural active ingredients in India (www.brihansnatural.com). He holds a US patent in manufacturing aloe vera products without preservatives.

Mandar pursues his hobby of singing and music direction. In 1996, he was the co-music director with Pt. Hridaynath Mangeshkar for a Marathi film song. His Indipop music videos featuring him as a singer, like the popular song Nazar Nazar Mili Jo Kal (www.youtube.com/mandaragashe), have topped the MTV charts in the late 90’s. He recently released a Marathi pop album with Asha Bhosle, celebrating her 82nd birthday (www.82pop.in).

Mandar Agashe is the founder and Vice Chairman of Sarvatra Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (www.sarvatra.tech), India’s leading provider of fintech and payment platforms like UPI, IMPS, AEPS, BBPS, with key customers like ICICI Bank and Equitas. Sarvatra has been instrumental in making 500+ banks across 27 Indian states and 3 UTs join the national payments ecosystem through its unique SaaS model. Sarvatra’s EFT Switch won the Economic Times BFSI Innovation Tribe Award 2018 in “Technology” category and was awarded “Best Banking Tech” of the year 2019 by IAMAI.

Mandar completed his BE (Computer Science) in 1990/91 from PICT, a leading engineering college in Pune, and has been active in the fintech industry for the last 28 years. His unique banking technology invention has won patents in India and South Africa. Mandar comes from an Indian business family having generations of experience in various fields like Farming, Sugar factory, Pharmaceuticals, Banking, Steel and many allied industries.

Mandar is also the founder of Brihans Natural Products, whose GreenLeaf® Aloe Vera skincare range is a leading product with natural active ingredients in India (www.brihansnatural.com). He holds a US patent in manufacturing aloe vera products without preservatives.

Mandar pursues his hobby of singing and music direction. In 1996, he was the co-music director with Pt. Hridaynath Mangeshkar for a Marathi film song. His Indipop music videos featuring him as a singer, like the popular song Nazar Nazar Mili Jo Kal (www.youtube.com/mandaragashe), have topped the MTV charts in the late 90’s. He recently released a Marathi pop album with Asha Bhosle, celebrating her 82nd birthday (www.82pop.in).

Maneesh Bhandari, Director - Pune Operations, CIIE, IIM-Ahmedabad

Maneesh is an Entrepreneur turned active Angel investor. Started career at Citigroup as an Intrapreneur and launched industry's first distributed computing security product. Founded Identity Management venture SENA Systems in the US in 1998 with offices in UK, India, and Australia, got an exit after 10 years and moved to Pune in 2009. Recently joined CIIE @ IIM-Ahmedabad to expand its operations to Pune. B.Tech from IIT Kharagpur and MBA from Stern School of Business, New York University.

Manesh Mahatme, Head, Payment Acceptance, Amazon Payments