Our speakers

Mohan Lakhamraju, CEO & Co-founder, Great Learning

Mohan Lakhamraju is the Founder and CEO of Great Learning, an e-learning platform for working professionals to upgrade their competencies and succeed in the digital economy. He cofounded Great Learning with a vision to make it a lifelong learning partner for India’s young professionals. Great Learning has already delivered over 2+ million hours of learning to thousands of professionals from across India and conducts its hybrid programs across 6 cities in India presently.

Mohan also serves as the Vice Chairman and CEO of Great Lakes Institute of Management, one of India’s leading business schools, where he spearheads its growth and innovation. Over the past 6 years, he set up and developed its second campus in Gurgaon.

In prior life, he was Managing Director, India for Tiger Global where he focused on investments in India and other Emerging Markets. He also spent close to 10 years in Silicon Valley, first as an entrepreneur helping build a SAAS (software as a service) company called Stratify (now a division of HP) and then as a Venture Capitalist at Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ).

Mr. Lakhamraju received a B.Tech in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay where he was the recipient of the Hughes Best Scholar Award, an MS in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley where he was a recipient of the Regents Fellowship and an MBA from Stanford Business School where he was the recipient of the David Packard Fellowship.
He is very passionate about high quality education and its ability to transform one’s life, having experienced it firsthand and has made it his mission to enable others in India have similar transformational opportunities.

Mohan Lakhamraju, Founder and CEO, Great Learning

Mohan Lakhamraju is the founder and CEO of Great Learning, an e-learning platform for working professionals to upgrade their competencies and succeed in the digital economy. He cofounded Great Learning with a vision to make it a lifelong learning partner for India’s young professionals. Great Learning has already delivered over 1,500,000 hours of learning to thousands of professionals from across India and conducts its hybrid programs across 6 cities in India presently.

Mohan also serves as the Vice Chairman and CEO of Great Lakes Institute of Management, one of India’s leading business schools, where he spearheads its growth and innovation. Over the past 6 years, he set up and developed its second campus in Gurgaon.

In prior life, he was Managing Director, India for Tiger Global where he focused on investments in India and other Emerging Markets. He also spent close to 10 years in Silicon Valley, first as an entrepreneur helping build a SAAS (software as a service) company called Stratify (now a division of HP) and then as a Venture Capitalist at Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ).

Mr. Lakhamraju received a B.Tech in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay where he was the recipient of the Hughes Best Scholar Award, an MS in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley where he was a recipient of the Regents Fellowship and an MBA from Stanford Business School where he was the recipient of the David Packard Fellowship.

He is very passionate about high quality education and its ability to transform one's life, having experienced it firsthand and has made it his mission to enable others in India have similar transformational opportunities.

Mohan Nair, CMO, Avenues India Pvt. Ltd

Mohan is the Chief Marketing Officer at Avenues. The company's first initiative, CCAvenue®, a payment gateway, was launched in September 2001. ResAvenue®, the second initiative is the fastest growing Hospitality solution in the Indian Sub-continent. EventAvenue®, the third Initiative was launched in 2006 and was India's first and the industry's leading online registration and payment gateway software.

 

Before joining Avenues, Mohan has a successful track record of 22 years in reputed organizations like Macmillan Publishers India Ltd., CitiFinancial Consumer Finance India Ltd., GE Countrywide Consumer Financial Service Ltd., Marico Industries Ltd., and Colgate Palmolive India Ltd.

 

Mohan is a management graduate from Sydenham with specialization in Marketing.

Mohandas Pai, Chairman, Manipal Education

Mohanjit Jolly, MD, DFJ India

Mohanjit Jolly is the Managing Director of DFJ India. Mohanjit relocated to India in September, 2007 to establish the DFJ India office and help manage DFJ's India portfolio. Mohanjit currently serves on the Boards of Attero, Canvera, Cleartrip, iYogi, Mchek, Naseeb Networks, Pressmart, and Seventymm.

Mohanjit Jolly has spent the last ten years working with and investing in technology startups. Prior to DFJ, Mohanjit was Managing Director at Garage Technology Ventures, a seed and early stage venture capital firm. While at Garage, Mohanjit worked with over 30 companies, including LeftHand Networks, PureSight (BCGI), Jibe Networks (CTRX), Qumu, Thermoceramix, Kaboodle (Acq: Hearst Media) and SimplyHired. Prior to joining Garage, Mohanjit was part of the strategic planning group at Mattel where he helped launch the Mattel/Intel joint venture, Intel Play. He also spent several years in both engineering and business development roles with Itek Optical Systems, a manufacturer of high-resolution reconnaissance systems for both military and commercial use. While earning his M.B.A from the Anderson School at UCLA, Mohanjit helped launch ViaSpace, a technology incubator in Southern California in conjunction with Caltech and Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Mohanjit earned a B.S. and M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT, with a specialization in electric propulsion systems.

Mohd. Arshad Suhail Siddiqui, President & CEO - Rasna Beverage Divisions, Rasna Pvt Limited

Mr.Siddiqui is a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management from Institute of Management & Technology, Ghaziabad and a Commerce graduate from Jamia Milia Islamia University. He has an experience of over 16 years in the areas of Marketing, Sales & Distribution, Strategic Planning and Business Development. Before taking as President & CEO   he served as Director Sale and Market for SRL limited after his assignment as Chief Marketing Officer with Hamdard Laboratories, New Delhi. In Hamdard, he has been widely credited for restructuring sales & distribution channel & rejuvenating Hamdard’s  brands like RoohAfza, Safi, Chinkara which led to a double digit growth in the top and bottom lines for the company. He has managed brands  Meswak (Balsara), Nutrilite (Amway), Bristol, Capstain and Flake ( ITC brands) to name few.

Mr.Siddiqui has also been associated with some of the leading Fast Moving Consumer Goods and healthcare players like Balasara, Smithkline Beecham, Amway, Dr.Morpen Limited and ITC in various capacities.

Mohit Bahl, Partner, Transaction Services, KPMG

Mohit has over 12 years of Transaction Services experience of working closely with a cross section of clients - both Corporate and Private Equity buyers. He has spent 3 years in London advising clients in UK and Europe on transactions in Consumer and Industrial markets, Retail, and services related sectors. 

He has extensive experience of working with Private Equity houses on their investments and understands the drivers that influence these investments. He specialises in Financial due diligence and has been involved in various, pre-deal assessments, data rooms, full due diligences, listing engagements and final negotiations for various transactions. He also has a lot of experience of advising sellers on sell-side assistance and vendor due diligence engagements.

Mohit Batra, Executive Director, ICICI Venture

Mohit Batra is the Executive Director on the Board of ICICI Venture, which is ICICI group’s alternative assets company, where he leads the Infrastructure practice. He joined ICICI Bank in 1992 and worked in the areas of corporate and project finance across a range of manufacturing sectors. He then moved to Mumbai as a part of ICICI Bank’s newly set up Infrastructure SBU and in 2004 was given the responsibility to Head the Project Finance Group which worked across the entire spectrum of Telecom, Manufacturing, Infrastructure, and Oil & Gas industries. In addition, Mohit was also involved in the strategic finance and advisory services offered by ICICI Bank including M&A, transaction structuring, acquisition financing etc. for the period 2006-07. Mohit has experience of around 150 deals including Public Private Partnerships. He has worked across the entire Capital structure including equity, subordinated /mezzanine debt and senior debt with total financing committed of around USD 36 billion.

Mohit has operated at the board level of companies and has had hands on experience in project finance, corporate banking, equity investing, strategic finance and resolution of stressed assets. He has in the past worked on several infrastructure policy initiatives undertaken by the Government in the areas of power, telecom and roads.

At ICICI Venture, Mohit is responsible for infrastructure investments including Resurgent Power, which is a Power Platform co-sponsored with Tata Power for buy-out of Indian power assets. Resurgent has recently completed the acquisition of Prayagraj Power Generation Company, a 1980 MW supercritical plant as part of the stressed asset resolution process initiated by the lenders.

Mohit is an engineer and has an MS in Management from Purdue University, USA.

Mohit Bhatnagar, Managing Director, Sequoia Capital India Advisors

Mohit is a Managing Director with Sequoia Capital and serves on the board of Citrus Payment CleverTap, DailyHunt, Ideacts Innovations, Knowlarity, Near, nearbuy, Octro, OneAssist, Shuttl & Zomato. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital, he served as the Senior Vice President at BhartiAirtel where he helped scale the business from a few states operation into a leading national wireless carrier. Earlier, he co-founded Bright pod, a wireless start-up in the US, by orchestrating a spin off from Ericsson Mobile Systems. He has received an MBA from UNC Chapel Hill and an MSEE from Virginia Tech.

Mohit invests in early stage tech companies across technology sub sectors of Payments, SaaS, Consumer Mobile Internet & analytics.

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Mohit Chawla, MD, Bimtek Group Family Office

Mohit runs his single family investment office, Bimtek group, in India.

Bimtek Group is a Single Family Investment Office across Capital Markets (Public, Private Equities), Real Estate (commercial, residential), Infrastructure (logistic parks, warehouse), and early stage venture investments across geographies.  Our sector and stage agnostic fund, Bimtek Capital, invests across Public (listed) and Private (unlisted) Equities, Debt (Capital markets) as well as direct early stage investments across consumer technology focused businesses in India. We’re also LP investors in blue chip Venture Capital, Private Equity funds.  Read more about us here: www.bimtek.co.in

The  Founder, Managing Director, Mr. Mohit Chawla, is an alumni of Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Stanford University and HEC Paris School of Management. Prior to launching the family office in 2019, Mohit has been an investment banker with Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley in London and a Fund manager with Asia's largest Infrastructure Private Equity firm - Equis Funds Group (GIP). He’s a featured profile in Forbes publication on “Young Leaders of the Future, 2017”