Our speakers

Rajagopal G , Director & Group CEO, KITES Senior Care & Columbia Pacific Communities

Raj is the Co-Founder & CEO of KITES Senior Care, a single specialty brand in geriatric care founded in Bangalore, South India in 2016. KITES Senior Care operates geriatric care centers and provides geriatric care at home & at senior living facilities. With 150+ beds under its management in three centers in Bengaluru & Hyderabad, KITES Senior Care has cared for over 4,500 elders since its inception both at their care facilities and at the residence of the elderly.

Raj commenced his healthcare journey as the CEO of Motherhood, a specialty in maternity care. He orchestrated a successful PE fund raise & a strategic acquisition which helped scale the brand from a single unit operations to multi-city multi-unit operations and its foray into treatment of infertility. 

Prior to his entrepreneurial journey, he also served as the Chief Executive of HCG Milann, leader in the space of reproductive medicine offering infertility treatment solutions & related research initiatives where he worked closely with the Board in formulating the growth strategies of the company and was responsible for its successful execution.

In the past, he has had the privilege of having worked with an eclectic mix of successful organisations Eastern Spices, AOL Time Warner, Cairn Energy India & HPCL where he had the opportunity to learn and contribute meaningfully at various levels.

His success stories include building/scaling brands, taking companies through Strategic M&A deals/PE fund raising, setting up of businesses (start-up/bootstrap) including scaling them. He strongly believes in effective teams to deliver organizational goals and hence strives to invest, build and grow high performing teams. Raj's strengths as a leader are in (a) Customer centric approach (b) People/Process/Value based Governance and (c) Sound Strategy with Execution.

Raj is a Fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, New Delhi, an alumnus of ISB, Hyderabad (AMP) and holds a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Madras University. He also serves on the boards' of a super specialty hospital and a healthcare focused strategic advisory firm. He is extremely passionate about mentoring start-ups & sharing knowledge with budding entrepreneurs.

Rajan Anandan, Active Angel Investor & MD, Google India

Rajan Anandan is the Managing Director of Google India.  In this role Rajan is the Vice President responsible for Sales and Operations for Google in India.
 
Prior to Google, Rajan was Managing Director of Microsoft India, responsible for all aspects of Microsoft’s software, OEM and services business in India. Under his leadership, Microsoft India was recognized as the Number 1 subsidiary among the emerging markets worldwide (China, Russia, Brazil, Mexico, Turkey, South Africa and India).
 
Before joining Microsoft, Rajan was the Vice President and Country General Manager of Dell in India where he grew the Dell business from $250 million to over $800 million and also held several leadership roles including being the Executive Assistant to Chairman Michael Dell.

Before Dell, Rajan was a Partner with McKinsey & Company in Chicago. He holds an MSc from Stanford and a BSc from MIT.

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.

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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.