Our speakers

Michael Liu, Managing Director, Portfolio Advisors

Michael Liu is a Managing Director of Portfolio Advisors and serves as a voting member of the Fund’s Investment. Committee.  Michael joined Portfolio Advisors in 2013 and primarily supports Portfolio Advisors’ Asian activities.  Previously, he was a Vice President in the UOB Investment Management Division’s alternative investment fund-of-funds advisory business where he had worked with Portfolio Advisors since 2006 through a joint-venture.  He joined UOB in July 2006 through the Management Associate program.  Michael has served or is serving as an Advisory Board member of five private equity partnership. (B.S. from Nanyang Technological University).

Michael Lyngdoh, Co-founder, Tripoto.com

Michael Pargal Lyngdoh is as diverse and multi-cultural as his name. Probably why he decided to put his internationally acknowledged business acumen into creating something that documents every possible place a man/woman can be. A platform, of the likes of paperback journals kept by avid travelers who couldn't leave a place without scribbling some evidence of their journey. Tripoto is a brain child of two young men who liked meaningful displacement to beautiful places, and wanted to take you-know-what-happened-on-my-last-trip stories to a next level. In less than 2 years, Michael and his team have helped nurture Tripoto to become one of the fastest growing start-ups in the travel industry.

Michael's educational background includes a Master's in Economics from Delhi School of Economics and MBA from ISB, Hyderabad. Now, Michael efficiently juggles between his passion for technology and travel. And when he is not busy listening to underdog voices of travelers, he indulges in happily falling prey to click-bait articles.

Mihir Gada, Partner, PWC India

Mihir Gandhi, Partner, PwC India

Mihir Gandhi, Partner and Leader, Payments transformation, PwC

Mihir Gandhi, Associate Director, Leader - Payments Transformation, PwC India

Mihir is an Associate Director leading the Payments Transformation practice in PwC India. He has more than 12 years of experience in advising clients on areas like strategy development - market assessment and business plan, payments business build out, operational efficiency and process design, vendor selection and implementation support.

Mihir Joshi, Managing Director, GVFL

Mihir Joshi has been associated with GVFL since last nine years. He has been involved all stages of Venture Capital lifecycle including Fund raising, investing, divesting and distributing profits to the investors. He has significant exposure in various sectors and has been involved in more than 500 proposals, starting from deal sourcing, due diligence, valuation, deal structuring and closure. Mihir holds a degree from the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India and an Associate member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India. He has undergone Venture Capital Training in Hongkong.

Mihir Shah, Founder, UE LifeSciences Inc.

Mihir is a US based mHealth entrepreneur of Indian origin. A computer engineer by training and a socially-motivated entrepreneur by profession, Mihir is passionate to address health disparities for the many, in the developing world. In 2009, he founded UE Lifesciences in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to lead the effort in developing innovative breast health examination tools for regions where vast majority of cases are diagnosed at late stages. Mihir is also the Founder of HEALTHEE, a convenience driven primary healthcare service for urban Indians.

Mihir Sheth, Founder and MD, Springboard Financial Services

Mihir Sheth is the Founder and MD of Springboard Financial Services, the country's first dedicated training loan provider. Springboard partners with training institutes imparting skill development courses and offers loans to students in need of financing.

Prior to Springboard, Mihir worked with the Unique Identification Authority of India in various roles ranging from field research, communications, outreach and project management. Before joining UIDAI he worked in the Investment Banking division of Lehman Brothers (then Nomura International), based out of their Hong Kong office. In that role, he specialized in M&A and capital markets advisory for Asian financial institutions. He has also previously worked at Credit Suisse in their London office, and at IDFC Private Equity in Mumbai.

Mihir graduated from Harvard College with a BA in Economics and is an avid squash player.

Mihir Vora, Chief Investment Officer & Senior Director, Max Life Insurance

Mihir Vora is Senior Director & Chief Investment Officer at Max Life Insurance. He is responsible for the investment strategy and all aspects of the company’s funds management function, leading a team of over 20 highly-qualified investment professionals.

A Mechanical Engineer, he holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow and is also a certified Chartered Financial Analyst from the CFA Institute, USA.

Mihir has more than 25 years of experience across asset classes including equity, fixed income, real estate and alternate funds. He has a long and consistent track record and has consistently delivered superior fund performance in several leading mutual funds and has built high-performing investment teams in multiple organizations. He has managed large mutual funds, sovereign wealth funds across large-cap, mid-cap, sectoral and thematic mandates.

Previously Mihir was with Birla Sun Life Asset Management, as Chief Investment Officer – Offshore and before that he was with the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. He has also worked with HSBC Global Asset Management and ABN AMRO Asset Management as Head -Equities. In the initial part of his career, Mihir worked with ICICI Prudential and SBI Funds Management as Fund Manager.

Mihir joined Max Life in 2014 and since then has been taking our funds to new heights. Mihir and his team handle over Rs. 1,00,000 Crores of assets under management.