Our speakers
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, Co-founder and General Partner, Bluehill.VC
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.
Manu Iyer is the Co-founder and General Partner at Bluehill.VC, a SEBI-registered ?400 Cr venture capital fund investing in deep-tech startups across defense, space, semiconductors, energy, water, materials, IoT, industrial tech, and agri-tech in India. The fund has already backed two startups: one developing a reusable medium-lift launch vehicle, taking on SpaceX in the process and another building counter-drone defense systems with contracts signed with the Coast Guard and Army. Prior to this Manu has actively invested in various deep-tech ecosystems and incubators including the IITs, IISc, NITs and others. An IIT Madras Electrical Engineering alumnus and Duke MBA, Manu has a strong focus on the EV and energy ecosystem, with investments in Raptee, AutoNXT, Plugzmart, The Energy Company, Fyn Mobility. Post his MBA, he worked in Financial Services in the US and later in India founded an algo-trading platform and has invested in 30+ startups as an active angel investor, also being part of The Chennai Angels, Indian Angel Network, and a TiE Charter Member.
He serves on boards of companies like Detect Technologies, Raptee, Pi Beam, Mage, Mobiveil, Skillveri and sits on the Advisory Committee and Investment Committee of Immersive Technology Entrepreneurship Labs (ITEL), a a deep-tech lab (section 8 company) led by Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala of IIT Madras, supported by leaders like Kris Gopalakrishnan, Sanjeev Bikhchandani, Anand Deshpande, Arun Jain and Mukesh Bansal.
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.