Our speakers
Manoj Gupta, Principal, Nexus Venture Partners
Manoj is Principal at Nexus Venture Partners. He is very active in Internet, Wellness and Agri/Rural ecosystem in India and has been involved in grooming highly scalable businesses in these sectors. He is on the board of companies like Deccan healthcare, Sohanlal and SEDEMAC. Prior to Nexus, he co-founded a semiconductor technology company, WIT, in US which was later acquired by Chrontel.
Manoj has an MBA from IIM, Ahmedabad, B.Tech from IIT Bombay, MS from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and CPhil from University of California, San Diego. He has published several papers in IEEE journals and has filed several patents in the US.
Manoj Kumar, Co-founder & CEO, edabba.com
With 18 years of experience in retail, consumer electronics and consumer durables, Manoj holds a degree of electronics engineering from REC calicut and management from IIM Lucknow. In his corporate stint he has indeed created the company from scratch into an organization with 3000+ employees and $320Mn sales. CEO turned founder, his aim is to build the biggest consumer centric ecommerce company that fulfills aspirations of people in smaller towns of India.He started the first brick,click and flip company in India edabba.com.
Before starting edabba.com he has worked with top Indian houses in different capacities(mangement trainee to CEO) future group, rpg retail, BPL, bajajelectricals,Blowplast and Godrej.
He has been been awarded multiple accolades at a national level. Given his multi disciplinary background .
Manoj Patkar, Executive Director & Partner, 7i Advisors LLP
Manoj has over 10 years of experience in Strategy Consulting & Investment Banking, across diverse sectors including healthcare, chemicals, financial services, manufacturing, FMCG, and telecommunications. He has earlier worked with Accenture India as a strategy consultant. He was Associate Vice President at Equirus Capital Private Limited for almost five and a half years. Manoj holds a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad.
Manoj Paul, MD, Equinix India
Manoj Shikarkhane, CHRO, LTIMindtree
Manoj Srivastava, Chief Information Officer, Easy Trip Planners Ltd.
Manpreet Singh, CDO and TMT Leader, PwC India
Mansi Thapar, Head - Global Cyber Security, Apollo Tyres Ltd.
Manu Chandra, Founder & Managing Partner, Sauce.vc
Manu Iyer, CEO & MD, Bluehill Capital
Manu Iyer runs Bluehill Capital, an early-stage VC fund, focusing on hardware, clean-tech and deep-tech startups, through which capital has been deployed for 8 investments in the space to date. He is also Partner in Bluehill Retail, a retailing and distribution business that partners with several international and Indian electronics, lifestyle and apparel brands. He is a B.Tech Electrical Engr from IIT Madras and has completed his MBA from Duke University in the US. After working in Financial Services in the US, he had shifted base to India, to start off on his own. He is an active angel investor, through Indian Angel Network and Inflection Point Ventures, and a TIE Charter Member. He serves on a board of several startups and also works closely with various startups in the ecosystem to guide and mentor them.