Our speakers

Mohammed Hussain Naseem, Co-Founder & CEO, GetActive

Mohammed has spent two decades with corporate world (GE, Wipro, IBM, Infosys) in senior positions across various continents, before venturing into preventive health management space. He is a graduate from IIT-Powai in Mechanical Engineering & Masters in Industrial Engineering & Medical Physics from University of Cincinnati, Ohio (USA). He is passionate about adventure sports and participates in marathon events across the country.

GetActive is the first wearable tech product indigenously designed from India by 2mpower Health Management Services (P) Ltd, which Mohammed founded in 2011 with few of his close friends. Today, GetActive is one of the leading product in the wearable space and has rapidly gained market share & mind space of people in consumer & corporate segment.

Mohan Alexander, Vice Chairman and Co-founder, Copal Amba

Mohan is Vice Chairman of Copal Amba. He oversees the company’s global operations and manages a number of the core accounts. He was most recently Co-Founder and CEO, Amba Research. Previously he was Deputy Head of Asia Research and Head of India Research at Deutsche Bank. He also worked at Lehman Brothers covering the conglomerate and infrastructure sectors for South Asia and headed its India effort. He has over 24 years of research experience.

Mohan Bhat, MD & Founder, Accops Systems Pvt. Ltd.

Mohan Jayaraman, MD, Experian Credit Information Company of India Pvt Ltd

Mohan Jayaraman, Managing Director, Experian Credit Information Company of India Pvt. Ltd. and Country Manager, Experian India has been with Experian India since 2010. In this role, Mohan works closely with Experian’s global lines of business to ensure that the company’s world class credit bureau products, Decision Analytics, Marketing Services and Business Information Services are available to the Indian market. Experian India helps organisations to make informed decisions when interacting with their customers through the customer lifecycle and help them manage credit and the risk of fraud in their daily lives. 

Prior to joining Experian, He was with ICICI Bank, where he held a number of senior management positions, most recently Joint General Manager, Head of Payment solutions & Enterprise Analytics. In his 8 year stint with ICICI bank he has also handled the retail portfolio buyouts & sell down business besides being involved in strategic buyout deals in the auto, two wheelers, commercial vehicles and the credit cards businesses. He has over 19 years of experience in banking and has been a member of various industry forums driving analytics and credit bureau usage in the Indian banking system.

Before joining ICICI Bank, He was Head of Credit & Operations for the FISAF (FIAT and Sundaram Finance Joint Venture), preceded by 5 years at Sundaram Finance. He graduated from Madras University in Chennai with Bachelor degree in Commerce before becoming a graduate member of the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India, from Kolkata.

Mohan Kumar, Founder & Managing Partner, Avataar Venture Partners

Mohan Kumar is the founding Partner of Avtaaar Ventures. He is an active investor in the Indian Venture space with a focus on B2B/SaaS, Heathcare and Education. He has invested over US$400M+ in the last 8 years. Some of his portfolio company includes Capillary, Manthan, Zenoti, ElasticRun, Swiggy and Thyrocare.

Prior to founding Avataar Ventures, he was a partner at Norwest Ventures and also as Corporate Vice President of Mobile Devices at Motorola.

Mohan holds a B.Tech degree in Electronics & Communication engineering from Indian Institute of Technology & Executive MBA from Kellog School of Management.

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.