Our speakers

Sachin Maheshwari, Founder & CEO, EzCred

Sachin has over 18 years of investing, operating and consulting experience in India and the United States. Prior to starting EzCred he was Managing Director at Zephyr Peacock, a private equity firm based out of Bangalore, India. He has previously been at Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Opus Capital (venture capital firms in the Silicon Valley). He started his career in Silicon Valley with companies like EFI and Unimobile (wireless startup). He has a B.Tech in Computer Science from IIT Kanpur and an MBA from Wharton.

Sachin Maheshwari, Director, Zephyr Peacock

Sachin Maheshwari is a Director for Zephyr Peacock India Management and is based in Bangalore. He is responsible for deal origination, evaluation, structuring and portfolio monitoring activities.

Sachin has over 12 years of investing, operating and consulting experience in India and the United States. Prior to joining Zephyr, Sachin was a Principal at Draper Fisher Jurvetson India and focused on investments across sectors in India. He also has experience in US investing from his stint at Opus Capital in the Silicon Valley.

In addition, Sachin has operating expertise from his roles at EFI, Inc. and Unimobile, a wireless startup. He later joined the Corporate Strategy group at EFI and worked on developing the channel strategy for EFI products. Sachin has also worked for Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in their San Francisco office.

Sachin received an MBA from the Wharton School where he graduated as a Palmer Scholar. He also holds a B.Tech. degree in Computer Science from IIT Kanpur.

Sachin Oswal, Co-Founder & COO, Infibeam.com

Sachin is the COO of Infibeam.com. As a Co-founder, he has been instrumental in setting up the technology, category management and operations functions for Infibeam.com. Currently, he heads marketing & sales and is building out the Digital division @ Infibeam.

Prior to Infibeam.com, he was a technologist at Amazon.com in the Digital Video and Seller Central teams. He had his first experience in distributed systems at ADP-Wilco where he built service farms for claims processing & brokerage services.

He has a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University.

Sachin Purohit, MD, Geneombio Technologies

Sachin Purohit is the Managing Director of Geneombio Technologies Mr. Purohit holds a Masters degree in International Management from Thunderbird, American Graduate School of International Management, USA. A proud recipient of the coveted P&U scholarship during his academic tenure at Thunderbird, he also has worked with several international companies of repute including Microsoft and Pharmacia Upjohn. With excellent leadership qualities he guides the organization on all major policy matters related to business and expansion.

Sachin Tagra, Head Financial Sevices, Brand Capital

Sachin is a management graduate with sixteen years of prolific business experiences and deep understanding of consumer and retail businesses. He has driven P&Ls of large businesses and made significant contributions in various organizations from the start-up phase of the businesses to profitable scaling up.

Currently he is the Associate Vice President in Brand Capital, strategic investment arm of Times Group and focused on driving investments in Fintech and consumer services and is also leading Incubator Capital, the start-up initiative of Brand Capital.

Before Times Group, he had the opportunity of managing and driving businesses with Reliance Retail and The Friedman Group (US based world’s largest retail consulting and training organization) as India Business Head. Also lead team size of 90 people including all business functions.

He strongly believe in the data driven approach and analytics for understanding and driving consumer behavior to build businesses.

Sachin has keen interest in Business simulations for training purposes and is the founding and youngest member of IndSAGA (Indian Simulation & Gaming Association).

Sachin Tagra, Managing Partner, JSW Ventures

Sachindra Rudra, Senior Investment Director, Navis Capital Partners

Sachindra Rudra has studied and worked in India, the UK and the Americas.

Prior to joining Navis, Sachindra was with Piramal Healthcare Ltd in India where he looked after Strategy, Business Development and had P&L responsibility for an SBU. Before Piramal Healthcare, he was with McKinsey & Company, Inc. where he worked on solving a variety of strategic and operational issues for clients, both Indian and international. Sachindra started his career as a sales and marketing professional with Hindustan Unilever Ltd (the Indian subsidiary of Unilever).

Sachindra received his MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM A). He also has a Masters degree in Economics from the London School of Economics, UK and a BA in Economics from Cambridge University, UK.

Sadashiv Nayak, CEO, Big Bazaar

Sadashiv Nayak is part of the strategic business team at Future Group. His responsibility is in formats of Food Bazaar, f bb chain of fashion stores and Big Bazaar. Prior to Future group he has worked with Hindustan Unilever and Asian Paints.

Sadashiv graduated Engineering from NIT, Karnataka and completed his post graduation in Business Management from XLRI Jameshedpur. He stays in Mumbai with his wife Radhika and twin sons.

Sadeesh Raghavan, Former Managing Partner, Asia, Accenture

Sadeesh Raghavan has worked and lived all over the world. He did his undergraduate at IIT Madras, then his MBA at UCLA USA, and has worked in the US, China, Korea, Indonesia, Singapore, and for the last 4 years has been based both in India and Malaysia/Singapore. He was Managing Director at Accenture where in his last role he ran their Products(Manufacturing & Distribution) practice across Asia Pacific and then most recently all their India businesses. He has spent his career advising MNCs and the top Asian players on their market entry and growth programs and strategies revolving around the rapidly growing Asia Pacific market. He is very active in venture philanthrophy and angel investing and sits on numerous boards including the Global Advisory Board and Investment Committee of Acumen Fund, a US based not for profit venture philanthrophy fund.

Sagar Apte, CEO and Founder, CarIQ Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Sagar Apte started CarIQ in 2012 to build India’s first connected car platform. At CarIQ, Sagar is the CEO with direct responsibility for sales, and marketing. He has over 16 years of experience across diverse domains such as product management, sales, support, operations, and marketing. He has a diploma in Electronics, Graduate in Computer Science, and a MBA in marketing. He is a avid reader and loves driving.
More about Sagar at: http://in.linkedin.com/in/aptesagar/