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Mudit Vijayvergiya, Co founder, Curofy

Mudit Vijayvergiya is the co-founder of Curofy, India’s first verified social network of doctors. With Curofy, he is striving to engage doctors on a single mobile platform for professional discussions. The whole healthcare industry can communicate with doctors via mobile phone with the help of technology thus removing  the inefficiencies prevailing the system today.

Born and brought up in a family of doctors, Mudit is a dual degree graduate in chemical engineering from IIT Delhi. Prior to founding Curofy, Mudit worked with Axtira Inc on health informatics and analytics for an year. He has been an active part of various entrepreneurial avenues like Jagriti Yatra, TIE, youth forums and draper university in silicon valley.. While at college, multiple internships with healthcare startups exposed him to the ground realities of the sector in India and that gave birth to Curofy. He is passionate about sports and travelling.

Curofy provides Doctors the opportunity to seek opinions from other doctors, apply to jobs with a single click, read latest medical news on the go. It also bridges effectively the yawning demand-supply gap of superspecialists in the country. With the high engagement numbers of doctors, Curofy is all set to include businesses who want to reach out to doctors without intruding the latter.

Mukesh Bansal, CEO, Myntra Designs Pvt. Ltd

Mukesh founded Myntra.com in February 2007 with a vision of creating India's largest on-demand personalization portal. Since then, the company has consistently innovated and expanded into fashion and lifestyle retailing. Today, Myntra.com is the largest ecommerce platform of fashion and lifestyle products with over 500 brands under its banner. Myntra is funded by top tier Venture Capital funds and is among the best funded e-commerce companies in the country.

 

Mukesh has over 14 years of experience in multiple early stage start-ups in Silicon Valley [NexTag, eWanted, Centrata, newScale] where he has held various senior management positions in Product Management, Marketing and Product Development.

 

Mukesh holds a B.TechDegree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

Mukesh Gandhi, Co-founder & Director finance, Mas Financial Services Limited

Shri Mukesh Gandhi is one of the  promoters and Director Finance of MAS Financial Services Limited,  Ahmedabad, an NBFC engaged in retail lending business predominantly in the states of Gujarat, Rajasthan and Maharashtra.He has done his Masters in commerce and has been actively involved in strategic decisions of the companysince last 24 years.

He is Chairman of Gujarat Finance Company Association & Committee member of Finance Industry Development Council (FIDC).He was a professor at Nav Gujarat College and was visiting faculty member of ICFAI business school.

Mukesh Jha, CEO & Co-Founder, Autowale.in (Ubida Solutions Pvt. Ltd.)

An engineering graduate from IIT Kanpur, where he focused on exploring everything available at the institute, right from education, sports, music, politics, etc. Joined in Chemical engineering stream but knew right from second year that he wanted to work in the computers field, so he kept learning things about computer science. After spending decent number of years in corporate career in Australia and Singapore with large multi-nationals in telecom and banking, decided to explore more than just a comfortable weekday job and weekend parties. He wanted to work on problems within India to give people a better life style by using technology, therefore chose Autowale. He is still passionate for Music, singing in karaoke parties with friends.

Mukesh Sharma, Chief Technology Officer, Paisabazaar.com

Mukesh Sharma is the Chief Technology Officer of Paisabazaar.com - India’s largest independent digital marketplace for lending products.

With an overall experience of 14 years, Mukesh has been at the realm of many industry-first innovations at Paisabazaar including India’s first Chance of Approval Model and Digital Stack that makes lending easy, convenient and transparent for consumers.

He has also played an instrumental role in helping Paisabazaar build India’s largest credit awareness initiative through its free credit score product.

While working at Paisabazaar, he has been recognized with the Innovation Heroes 2020 and Cloud Achievers 2020 awards by Dynamic CIO. Further, under his leadership, Paisabazaar AI innovations have been awarded by Forbes AI awards under the categories Best AI application in BFSI and Elevating Customer Experience with AI

Before joining Paisabazaar, Mukesh worked as the Technology Lead with companies like Righster and Mobicules Systems.

Mukesh is an engineering graduate from the University of Rajasthan and holds a Postgraduate degree from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science.

Mukesh Sharma, Co-founder and MD, Menterra Venture Advisors Private Limited

Mukesh is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Menterra. Till recently, he was a Chief Investment Officer at Villgro, India’s oldest and foremost social enterprise incubator. He has over 10 years of experience in impact investing, private equity and investment banking space. He has worked on over 50 buy-side and sell-side transactions across Asia, Middle-East and Europe.

Mukesh is also a non-executive director on the board of Biosense Technologies, a company that produces low-cost, non-invasive diagnostic solutions for the developing world. ?He is a Chartered Accountant and has passed all three levels of CFA from CFA Institute, USA.

Mukul Bafana, Co-founder & MD, Jabong.com

Mukul Bafana is a Co-founder and Managing Director at Jabong.com and oversees product management (website management) and information technology.  Mukul received an MBA from the Harvard Business School (2012) and a BBA from the University of Michigan (2004) focusing in finance and computer information systems.

Mukul has experiences in corporate/business strategy, business development, finance, & entrepreneurial ventures, working with organizations in the United States, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia. Mukul joined McKinsey & Co. after completing his BBA and worked as a consultant for senior management in the financial services, consumer goods, transportation & logistics, and non-profit sectors. After three years as a consultant, Mukul joined Bain Capital as part of their North American Private Equity group, working on global leveraged buyouts/private transactions and operational initiatives at portfolio companies across various industries. Not only this, but he has also added one of the renowned employers around the world to his profile. Highly captivated by Mukul’s ability to developnew businesses for a company, Google hired him to be a part of its global Partner Strategy (Strategic Partnerships & Business Development) group. His most recent stint before Jabong.com was in a business development role at GroupMe, a mobile tech startup that was acquired by Skype/Microsoft.

Mukul completed his schooling from St. Vincent’s (Pune) and in the United States.  He has a penchant for learning and views his varied professional endeavors as continued experiments in learning.  He is passionate about building sustainable Indian consumer internet businesses. Mukul continues to take up challenges with open arms and the happy go lucky attitude he carries off.

Mukul Gulati , Managing Partner, Zephyr Peacock Management India Pvt Ltd

Mukul Gulati, Managing Director, Zephyr Peacock

Mukul Gulati is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of Zephyr Peacock Management India Pvt Ltd.

Mukul has 18 years of experience in the investment business including private equity, investment research and general management. Mukul is responsible for overall leadership of the Zephyr Peacock investment team. He is engaged in deal sourcing and evaluation and serves on the Boards of several investee companies of Zephyr Peacock.

Previously, Mukul worked at Multex, where he was involved in setting up and managing the firm’s quantitative equity research business.

Mukul is a Charter member of the Bangalore chapter of TiE Global. He also serves as an advisor to TechnoServe India. TechnoServe is a global organization that supports entrepreneurship in developing economies.

Mukul received an MBA with honors from Columbia University Graduate School of Business. He is a cum laude graduate of the University of Maryland, where he was a Dean’s Scholar at the Department of Economics.

Mukul Kumar, Co-Founder & Senior Vice President Engineering, PubMatic

Mukul Kumar co-founded PubMatic and leads the company's engineering team. Before PubMatic, he was the Director of Engineering at PANTA Systems, a high-performance computing startup. Prior to PANTA, he was Senior Manager at Veritas India, joining the company as the 13th employee. He helped Veritas India grow to over 2,000 employees. He has filed for 14 patents in systems software, storage software, and application software. He proudly proclaims his love for π and ability to recite it to 60 digits.

Mukul is a graduate of IIT Kharagpur with a degree in Electrical Engineering and resides in Pune, India.