Our speakers

Rajan Mehra, Co-founder & MD, Nirvana Venture Advisors

Rajan is a Co-founder and Managing Director at Nirvana Venture Advisors. An MBA from the Darden Business School, USA, he is an internet industry veteran, with 17 years of experience in consumer internet and business services. Before co-founding Nirvana, he was a venture partner at Clearstone Venture Advisors, the India Advisory of Clearstone Venture Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Santa Monica, Ca. Prior to Clearstone, he was Country Head for eBay in India and a member of the Asia Pacific Leadership Team of eBay.

Rajan’s early years in the Indian internet were at the start-up Baazee.com where he was a member of the management team. Baazee was acquired by eBay in 2004 in one of India’s earliest internet exits. Rajan is a Founding investor in CarTrade and has invested in/is a board member of Billdesk (India’s largest electronic transaction processor), Games2win (India’s leading Casual & Social gaming company),  Zopper & Housing.com.

Rajan R. Navani, Vice-Chairman & MD, Jetline Group of Companies JetSynthesys

Rajan Navani is the Vice Chairman & Managing Director of Jetline Group’s JetSynthesys, a new age digital entertainment and technology company with a portfolio of world class products, platforms, and services, aiming to touch the digital lives of billions of consumers in India and around the globe. Under his leadership and strategic direction, JetSynthesys has built diversified business divisions spanning gaming, wellness, fintech, music, digital & social entertainment, currently serving millions of users globally and 100+ clients worldwide by harnessing advanced capabilities in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, blockchain and AR/VR.

In addition to helming affairs at JetSynthesys, Rajan has been the National President of the Indian Digital Gaming Society (IDGS) since the institution of the body in 2018. He is currently the Chairman of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)’s National Council on India@75 and founding trustee of the India@75 Foundation, through which he is working with multiple stakeholders, including government, corporates and civil society in helping build a Dream India of 2022, seventy-five years since its independence. He is the Chairman of the CII National Council on Future Businesses, and the Past National Chairman of the CII Young Indians.. He is a global board member of the US-India Business Council (USIBC) and a member of the Purdue-India Executive Council. He is also a trustee of Aspen’s Ananta Centre in India, a fellow of the Aspen India Leadership Initiative 2011–2012 and member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network, the world’s foremost group on values-based leadership across all walks of life. He is also a BMW Herbert Quandt Foundation’s Young World Leader. Rajan is also playing an active role in helping shape the US-India partnership on the government and business front and is a member of the Singapore-India and Israel-India Track II strategic dialogues. He is a Government of India nominated CEO of the India Japan Business Leaders Forum, member of the India Sweden Business Leaders Forum and is a founding board member of Indiaspora, a powerful network linking the Indian American Diaspora with India.

Rajan holds a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA, under a NASA grant, majoring in Digital Satellite Imaging and Remote Sensing graduating with the award for outstanding academic achievement. A gold medallist at the University of Poona, India in the Bachelors of Electronics and Telecommunications program from College of Engineering Pune (COEP), Rajan also has a diploma in Business Management. He worked with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Centre, Maryland, USA is  before joining the family business.

Rajan Singla, Sales Director, Enterprise GTM, HPE Financial Services

Rajan Vasa, President, TiE Ahmedabad

Rajan Vasa has recently been elected President of TiE Ahmedabad chapter.  Mr. Vasa is the Chairman & Managing Director of Contech BPO Services Private Limited (CBSPL) – A Healthcare, Music and Customer Interaction BPO Services Company based out of Ahmedabad. CBSPL works with various clients in the US, UK, Europe and India.  Mr. Vasa is also the Managing Director of Rajka Realty Pvt. Ltd, a Real Estate Development, Marketing and Maintenance Management services company.  

Mr. Vasa has recently been appointed as Senior Advisor to KPMG India, to help KPMG establish and grow strong presence in Gujarat.  Prior to this, Mr. Vasa was Managing Director of Contech Software Limited.

Earlier, Mr. Vasa has spent eight years in the US and prior to returning to India, had received Practical Training as a Product Marketing Manager at Oracle Corporation, USA for close to two years.

Mr. Vasa has more than twenty years experience in the Services Industry.  He is a dynamic leader and a strong believer in Human Relations.  Due to his long stay in the US and good understanding of the Global Market, he has been seamlessly working on combining the business opportunities and strengths of the Global Clients and Indian Resources ever since his return to his homeland of Gujarat in 1990.    
 
Mr. Vasa is also involved in several professional organizations like IACC, TiE, GESIA, AMA, NASSCOM, CII, FICCI, ASSOCHAM and GCCI.  He has contributed to the cause of the Industry and Entrepreneurship in the State of Gujarat, India by founding and/or heading organizations like Gujarat Electronics And Software Industries Association (GESIA), TiE Ahmedabad Chapter, Indo American Education Society (IAES) and IACC Gujarat. He has been a committee member of Gujarat Chamber of Commerce and Industry ( GCCI ), Ahmedabad Management Association ( AMA ) and an advisor to the Government of Gujarat.  Mr. Vasa is an active member of Stanford and USC Alumni Associations.

Rajan Venkatesan, CFO, LatentView Analytics

Rajat Bansal, CTO, Games 24X7

Rajat Gandhi, Founder and CEO, Faircent | @Faircent1

A marketer, strategist, and brand builder with over 20 years of experience, Rajat Gandhi is the Founder & CEO of Faircent, India’s largest peer-to-peer lending platform.  As one of the earliest Internet professionals in India, Rajat has leveraged his extensive expertise in online and digital realms to pioneer the concept of online peer-to-peer lending in India and establish Faircent as the largest P2P lending platform in the country.

Through Faircent, Rajat has been playing a critical role in extending the benefits of financial inclusion to India’s traditionally underserved populace and democratising debt by enabling access to cheap and fast credit for borrowers including the SME/MSME segment. It also provides a new asset class to investors looking to maximise returns on their idle funds. This focus on offering greater value for all stakeholders in the lending value chain has been the key driver behind Faircent’s exponential growth.

Rajat holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration, and has been involved in launching and building online portals and communities as well as e-commerce, classifieds, and digital advertising businesses for some of the leading organisations in the country. He led multiple initiatives during his time at The Times Group and was deeply involved in the launch of new portals like Timesjobs.com, Magicbricks.com, and Simplymarry.com as a founding member. Before founding Faircent in 2013, he was associated with Performics, a digital marketing agency of Chicago-based Publicis Group, as its Senior Vice President.

@rajatgandhi

Rajat Goel, CEO, Eye-Q Vision Pvt. Ltd

Rajat Goel, is Co-founder and CEO of Eye-Q hospitals. He has 16 years of corporate experience in companies like Godrej and Bausch & Lomb including 3 years as Head of surgical business for Bausch & Lomb for SAARC countries.Rajat is an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad.

Eye-Q Super-specialty Eye Hospitals is a leading eye care chain in North India. Eye-Q hospitals are committed to providing the best quality standardized eye care at truly affordable costs right across the country. They are an ISO 9001-2000 registered organization.

Presently Eye-Q have hospitals in Gurgaon, Rewari, Haldwani, New Railway Road, Gurgaon, Rohtak, Rudrapur, Saharanpur, Muzaffarnagar, Yamunanagar, Hisar, Roorkee, Fatehabad, Surat, Lucknow, thus making the best of eye care available to a substantial segment of the population. Eye-Q is the dynamic new code in super-specialty eye care. It covers everything, from maintaining optimum vision, preventing deterioration to correcting vision related problems. All this through thier exceptional array of preventive and corrective procedures and cutting-edge practices.

Rajat Gupta, Founder CEO, Tessol | @indiancoldchain

Rajat is the Founder CEO at TESSOL, a VC backed Cold chain technology startup in Mumbai. He is passionate about building solutions for a farm to fork affordable and sustainable cold supply chain in the country. He has worked across continents with a large conglomerate like Robert Bosch and several early stage startups like 3Tier, Flodesign, Promethean Power. Avid reader and a music enthusiast, he holds a mechanical engineering from IIT Delhi and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

@ragupta13

Rajat Malhotra, VP Product & Engineering, ZipDial

Rajat is currently the VP Products and Engineering at ZipDial. He has over 7 years of web based commercial and SaaS product management and overall more than 15 years of SDLC experience. Rajat is a graduate from IIT Kanpur.

Prior to ZipDial Rajat worked as VP Engineering at Naukri.com, CTO at Too Step, Consultant at Headstrong, and Analyst at Wipro.