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Pranav Bhasin, Sr. Vice President & Head Of Product, MakeMyTrip.com

Pranav Bhasin is Senior Vice President - Online Product, leading Online Product development since January 2015. He joined MakeMyTrip.com in 2011 as Director - Mobile, Innovation & Content, leading the Mobile agenda. He has been instrumental in establishing mobile channels for all the MakeMyTrip businesses.

Pranav set up the product and revenue delivery functions for mobile and under his guidance his team launched notable innovative applications like Route Planner and TripIdeas. He garnered global recognition for MakeMyTrip’s mobile dev efforts such as PhocusWright Award for Most Innovative B2C Company (2013) and the Eyefortravel Award – Best Mobile Strategy and Best Mobile Solution (2012). He has over 15 years of experience in technology space specifically in Internet and Mobile related technologies. Prior to joining MakeMyTrip, he was Founder & CEO of Lifeblob.com, a social timeline service. Earlier, he was a part of the team that bootstrapped Austin-based Trilogy’s operations in India.

Pranav holds a Computer Science degree from Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology. Besides technology, his other passions include Cycling, Running and Photography.

Pranav Jhawar, Executive Director, JICS Losgistic Ltd

Pranav Jhawar young and dynamic businessman, he did his Graduation in Industrial Engineering and Business Management from United States of America. In Last 8 years, as a director of the group in the areas of Warehousing of commodities & Logistic, Agricultural Equipment Manufacturing and Automotive Engineering Industry by his knowledge and ability he made the group technically more advanced. During initial years of his business journey under guidance of his Grandfather Late Shri Jai Narayan Jhawar and Father Shri Anil Jhawar he has given new heights to the business. In 2009, Mr. Jhawar corporatizes the whole business and given a dynamic look.

Mr. Jhawar is Executive Director in M/s JICS Logistic Limited a leading warehousing and logistics solution provider in India with a capacity of 3.5 Lac MT of warehousing capacity equipped with owned Laboratories and professional staff. In 2011 by inviting an institutional investor (ILFS) to the group Mr. Jhawar has set a mark in the warehousing industry for all the solutions under the single umbrella. Now under guidance of Mr. Jhawar, JICS become a Brand in the industry and now coming with a owned capacity of 4.5 Lac MT capacity on PAN India Level.

Mr. Jhawar is also director in M/s Indra Marshal Power Private Limited a leading and 45 year old company in sector of Agricultural Engineering in Indore, Indra Marshal is a all India level Brand with dealer network of 350 dealers and PAN India presence. Now under directions of Mr.Jhawar Indra Marshal is entering into sector of manufacturing of Power Generating Sets, Power Tillers, Rotary Tillers and Lightweight Commercial Vehicles.

Pranav Jyoti, Chief Investment Officer, Royal office of HH sheikh Ahmed Bin Faisal Al Qassimi; Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Mirai Capital Global

Pranav Marwah, Co-Founder, ThinQbate

Pranav moved back to India from the United Kingdom in 2011, after earning a degree in law at the University of Warwick. His initial career plan involved joining the fourth-generation family business - this changed quite quickly when he became acquainted with India’s vibrant and burgeoning start-up ecosystem. Pranav’s first investment stemmed from a passion for technology and sport. Encouraged by the overwhelming success of the company, and stimulated by the time he spent with the young and dynamic founders, he was inspired to forge a more unique career path for himself. In 2015, Pranav conceptualised and founded 'thinQbate', Mumbai’s foremost start-up incubator, focussed on building sustainable growth across a variety of sectors. Pranav remains actively engaged with each of thinQbate’s portfolio companies and derives tremendous satisfaction from helping build early-stage companies in sectors ranging from agri-tech to smart water management from the ground up. Independent of this, Pranav has also built a portfolio of investments in companies in the sports sector, making a total of 24 direct investments over the last 5 years.

Pranav Pai, Founding Partner, 3one4 Capital

Pranav Parikh, Managing Partner - Private Equity, Nuvama Asset Management

Pranav Parikh is the Managing Partner and heads Private Equity at Nuvama Asset Management. He has over 20 years of successful investment experience in US and Indian Markets.

He has a long-standing buy-side experience across the most sophisticated capital structures and various strategies including public and private equity as well as credit strategies.

Having been credited for creating one of the first successful incubation in India by a foreign fund and the first 100% private equity owned company to have raised $100 million in secured debt locally in India. He has been recognized in the past as Private Equity Deal Maker of the Year, India by the Global M&A Network, New York.

Pranav has led early stage investments in Edelweiss and sits on the board of companies such as Bridgei2i Analytics solutions (Data analytics, AI, Digital Enterprise), Tonbo Imaging (Electro-optics and sensing technology) and Revv (car sharing and subscription platform).

He is C.F.A. charter holder from CFA Institute, USA and holds a B.E. in Industrial Engineering from MS University, Baroda and graduated with honors in the M.B.A. program from University of Texas at Arlington, with a concentration in Finance.

Pranay Chulet, CEO, Quikr

Pranay Chulet is the Chief Executive Officer, Quikr India Private Limited. Under Pranay’s leadership, Quikr has grown to become India’s leading horizontal classifieds company in just two years since its inception. Today, www.quikr.com has a presence in 40 Indian cities; across 150 categories.

Prior to joining Quikr, Pranay spent eleven years in New York where he was a Principal in the Media Practice at Booz Allen, subsequent to which he founded Zobyx, a company focused on creating unique online content in the entertainment and education sectors. Pranay helped a number of media companies in the US structure internet businesses while he was in management consulting, and closely saw the internet classifieds business grow from its infancy in the late 90s to its current dominating position in the US. Earlier in his career, he also incubated an internet venture at Walker Digital, the company behind Priceline.com. Before moving to New York, Pranay worked in Brand Management at P&G in India.

Pranay earned a B. Tech. from IIT Delhi and graduated with a Gold Medal from IIM Calcutta.

Pranay Gupta, Joint CEO, CIIE

Pranay Gupta as the Joint CEO at the Center for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship, Pranay has been leading the IIM Ahmedabad's incubator to become the foremost organisation in early stage incubation in India. He has been instrumental in setting up and scaling various programs at CIIE, including iAccelerator. During his tenure, CIIE has incubated more than 20 startups and has raised funds to the tune of $2mn.

He is a board observer to more than 10 startups, where he helps them with setting up internal processes, deciding their business startegy, networking, and reaching out to the right kind of people. Apart from helping startups, Pranay enjoys creating opportunities for students to get involved in entrepreneurship - be it through the various courses and projects that CIIE provides to IIM students, or through internships for others.

Previously, he has worked with Lehman Brothers and Nomura, leading Investment Banks and helped them set up their India equity practice. He has also worked on shorter stints with promoters in a variety of fields including data analysis, luxury adventure tourism and educational magazine.

He is passionate about building organisations from ground up, and is currently getting his highs through his work with startups and by building CIIE & CIIE Initiatives.

Pranay Surana, Co-founder & COO, Flyrobe

Pranay is currently the co-founded & COO of Flyrobe - India's largest fashion rental service started in June 2015. Flyrobe has been nominated on the 2017 list of top 50 Global startups by Bloomberg and featured under Forbes 30 under 30 Asia.

He is graduated from IIT Bombay in 2013 (Mechanical engg). He has worked with Deutsche Bank for 2 yrs (June' 13 - May' 15) within their Investment Banking division covering EMEA Industrial clients.

Praneet Garg, Managing Director, Asia Alternatives (Hong Kong)

Praneet Garg is a Managing Director in Asia Alternatives’ Hong Kong office. Mr. Garg is on the Firm’s Investment Committee. Mr. Garg co-leads Asia Alternatives’ investments in India and Southeast Asia, and is primarily responsible for deal sourcing, due diligence, deal execution and portfolio management of private equity fund investments and direct co-investments in these geographies. Mr. Garg also co-leads the Firm’s Special Situations and Secondaries efforts across Asia and leads Asia Alternatives' market research function.

Prior to joining Asia Alternatives, Mr. Garg had over five years of consulting and research experience with the Private Equity Practice at McKinsey & Company in the Delhi and London offices. He worked with McKinsey Private Equity client teams on issues of Private Equity strategy, organization, performance and due diligence. He also led the Private Equity research team and authored several market research pieces on Asia Private Equity and other related topics.

Mr. Garg holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree and an M.B.A. from Mumbai University. Mr. Garg is fluent in Hindi, Punjabi and English.

Mr. Garg currently serves on the Advisory Boards of several of Asia Alternatives' Indian and Indonesian funds.