Our speakers

Rahoul Jain, MD, Capricorn Food Products India Ltd

Rahoul Jain, Managing Director of Capricorn Food Products India Ltd., is a Chemical Engineer by qualification and hails from punjab settled in chennai for the last 35 years. He is from a business family who identified the potentials of Food Industry and promoted Capricorn Food Products India Limited and Shuchi Beverages Ltd., with the objective of manufacturing and selling of fruit pulps and concentrates, frozen fruit dices and vegetable etc., by setting up multiple state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in Andhra Pradesh,  Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra. Over the years, he has acquired vast knowledge in the field of Food Processing and has been successfully running his enterprise over the last 15 years. His extensive growth in such short span has also had him nominated twice in the elite league of India’s Emerging Entrepreneurs at the Emerging India Awards held by CNBC TV-18, CRISIL and ICICI Bank. He further has elaborate plans to establish to further bring about both Vertical and Horizontal growth in his enterprise by setting up many more factories across India and overseas in the years to come. 

Rahul Ambegaoker, Vice President and Sales Head, NTT

Rahul Anand, Founder & CEO, Hopscotch

Rahul Anand is the CEO and Founder of Hopscotch.in, a leading discovery-based e-Commerce destination for Indian moms. Launched in 2012, Hopscotch is transforming the Indian shopping experience and offers a wide range of curated children’s merchandise at affordable prices. The online destination has featured over 2,500 local and international brands across multiple product categories including clothes, shoes, toys, accessories and home. Given the breadth of exciting offerings, Hopscotch.in has developed a community of passionate customers from all over India and has established unique relationships with vendors who value the opportunity to be featured on its platform. Prior to Hopscotch, Rahul was a director at Diapers.com, and earned his MBA from Harvard Business School.

Rahul Baunthiyal, Group Vice President-HR, Hinduja Group

Rahul Bhalchandra, Co-Founder & CEO, YLG Salon

Rahul, CEO and Co-Founder YLG, founded India's fastest growing salon and spa in May 2008. He brings 17 years of experience in diverse industries such as Retail, dot.com and Manufacturing. He has proven expertise in turning around retail business (He spearheaded Health & Glow's growth into India's No.1 Health & beauty Chain) and brings high level domain expertise in the Health, Beauty & Wellness sector. He has exposure to best practices from International Retailers.

Prior to founding YLG, Rahul was Head - Wellness business for the Future Group. He built the Health & Beauty Category, set up the beauty salon chain "Star & Sitara" for the company. He was instrumental in setting up India's first Gym Chain in Malls in a JV with Talwalkars for the Future group. He has played a key role in bringing about the Sachin Tendulkar - Future Group initiative "Sach". Before Pantaloon, Rahul headed the retail business for Arvind brands where he managed brands such as Arrow, Lee, Wrangler and Excalibur. His entry in retail began as the Business Head of Health & Glow, which even today continues to be the most successful format of its kind in India. Rahul has also dabbled with dot.com as Business Head for e-RPG Cricket Portal. Rahul started his career with the RPG Group, working at RPG Cables and Ceat Ltd, in various marketing & sales responsibilities.

He is a Post Graduate from IIM Calcutta and has a B.Tech (hons) from IIT Kharagpur.

Rahul Bhasin, Managing Partner, Baring Private Equity Partners India

Rahul Bhasin is the Founder and Managing Partner of Baring India, and a Senior Partner and Global Board Member of Baring Private Equity Partners (BPEP) International. He is also a member of the Investment Committee of Baring Vostok Capital Partners, and has been an Advisory Board member of the ING Group in India. He has crafted the strategy and execution processes for the investments by the Predecessor Funds since his joining in 1997.

Mr. Bhasin served as the Chairman of Mphasis Limited (now a Hewlett-Packard subsidiary) and oversaw its transformation from a 120-man, US$ 6 million revenue, loss-making company into a 43,000 employee, US$ 1.2 billion revenue, US$ 200 million net profit-making enterprise. In addition, for most of the past two decades, he has served as Chairman or member of the boards of RMZ Corp, JRG Securities (now renamed as Inditrade Capital), Secova, PharmArc, and Auro Mira Energy, among many others. He has also served as the Chair of the Audit and Investment Committee of HOEC, one of the largest independent Oil & Gas players in India. As a senior member of the Baring India team, he has spoken at various conferences in India and overseas, and is a member of the ‘CEO Forum’ at The Economist corporate network, and a charter member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs). His views are regularly sought by the media in India. He presently serves on the boards of Sphaera Pharma, Auro Mira Energy, and RMZ Corp.

Prior to Baring India, Mr. Bhasin joined Citibank in London as a member of the Global and Emerging Market Asset Allocation Committee of the Global Asset Management Group, where he was responsible for asset allocation on a sector and regional basis for all global portfolios. He has actively invested in and managed funds across various asset classes including derivatives in Latin America, Eastern Europe, Russia, Asia, and India. He oversaw and drove business start-ups across multiple geographies in different asset management business. Prior to moving to London, He was the youngest Independent Treasurer to date at Citibank, managing the treasury for Northern India. He has been a public spokesperson on matters of economic policy and administrative efficiency and efficacy, and has given guest lectures at several educational institutions including Wharton, Harvard, and his own alma mater, the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

Mr. Bhasin has a Post-Graduate Diploma in Management (MBA) from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad, Asia’s premier business school.

Rahul Bhuskute, CIO, Bharti AXA Life, Insurance Co ltd

Rahul Bothra, CFO, Swiggy

Rahul Chadha, CEO, Religare Wellness Ltd

Rahul Chadha is the CEO of Religare Wellness Ltd (RWL). He is an MBA from the Said Business School, Oxford and also holds a Post Graduate Degree in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics. He was the MD & CEO of SAK Consumer Retail Services Ltd (SAKCRS) which he promoted in 2003 and which was later acquired by Religare Wellness Limited in Oct’08. Prior to promoting SAKCRS, he was a Senior Manager with the management consulting firm A.T. Kearney and managed a number of engagements in the areas of new business development and organizational improvement. He has also worked with ANZ Grindlays Bank where he was involved in sales and operations.

Rahul Chandra, Managing Director, Helion Advisors Pvt. Ltd | @HelionVC

Rahul Chandra is a co-founder and Managing Director of Helion and has 20 years of venture capital investing and corporate development experience in technology product and services companies in India and the US. He serves on the Boards of Seclore, Shubham, UnitedLex, Mindworks, Wooplr, CrownIT, Railyatri, Moengage, Rapid Value and Toppr, and manages investments Ezetap.

Between 2000 and 2006, Rahul was based in Silicon Valley as part of the investment team at Walden International, a global venture capital firm with more than $2B under management. Between 2004 and 2005 he also led the M&A efforts at e4e Inc., a Santa Clara, CA based BPO company with more than 4,000 employees across the globe.

Rahul started Venture Capital investing in 1996 in India as the first hire at Walden's India office. In this role he managed investments for Walden's India dedicated Fund between 1996 and 2000.

Rahul has invested in more than 30 early-to-mid-stage companies such as Mindtree, Ikanos (IKAN), e4e Inc and Techspan (Headstrong). Prior to Walden, he worked in the Capital Markets Group at Lazard India, and in the Primary Market Department at the Securities Exchange Board of India.

Rahul has an MBA from University of California, Berkeley and graduated from Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani in 1993.

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