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Rohit Jain, Principal, SAIF Partner

Rohit Jain joined SAIF in 2013 and is currently Principal. Prior to joining SAIF, Rohit has had a long career in leading technology companies both in US and India. He has worked with Microsoft, IBM Research and Google in various technology and product roles in areas such as distributed systems, mobile, search and advertising, and cloud infrastructure systems. He has published numerous research papers and holds multiple patents in these areas. He was also the co-founder of Mobisoc, a mobile technology startup. His primary area of focus is early stage investments.
 
Rohit has a B. Tech from  IIT Delhi and MS from University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, both in Computer Science.

Rohit Kapoor, Chief Executive Officer, India & South East-Asia (INSEA), OYO

Rohit is currently the CEO for OYO India & South East Asia [INSEA] across businesses which includes key leading markets  - India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Philippines. Started in 2013, OYO Hotels & Homes today is the world’s leading technology and revenue growth platform for small hotels and homeowners. He joined the company as CEO of real-estate business and in less than a year he took the charge to lead India & South Asia business and has recently taken on the larger mantle of driving growth in the South-East Asia region. He led OYO India during the once in a lifetime pandemic year transforming the business across financials, partner and customer NPS. He has contributed to the efforts of building OYO as a top talent destination while delivering supply and revenue growth goals. He is also a partner with other leaders on handling brand, PR and communications for the group across OYO global. 

A seasoned professional with over 20 years of experience, Rohit has worked in various leadership positions across sales and finance in several companies such as Max India Limited and Mckinsey & Company. Prior to joining OYO, Rohit was the Executive Board Member at Max Healthcare for close to 5 years. He has also been Senior Director-Strategy & Business Performance at Max. Before Max India, Rohit was serving as the head of strategy for the Religare group and was involved in shaping the company’s presence across sectors. In the past, Rohit has also worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company for close to a decade. During his tenure with McKinsey, he gained extensive exposure to multiple international markets. 

Rohit holds a PGD from Indian School of Business where he was ranked among the top five students in his batch and was the recipient of the Young Leader Award, for best all-around performance in the class. Rohit has recently been featured as one of ISB’s most influential alumni in the book “ISB Portraits.” In addition to the PGD, he is also a certified Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA Institute, USA).  

Rohit is extremely passionate about a quality education, and for access to opportunities being given to all. For this reason, he has been appointed as visiting faculty at SP Jain Institute of Management and Research, Harappa Education, IMT Ghaziabad, and Vedica Scholars- a programme for women to broaden their horizons. He also dons the hat of an investor across the domains of prop tech, health tech and fintech to name a few as he believes that entrepreneurial ambitions must be nourished, and is actively entrenched in the startup ecosystem of India. He continues to mentor and invest in startups such as OFBusiness, Fitternity, Mosaic Brands, Tjori, Oye Rickshaw, Meddo, to name a few.

Rohit Kapoor, Sr. Director - Strategy and Business Performance, Max India Limited

Rohit is the Senior Director- Strategy & Business Performance for the Max India group - a diversified conglomerate with interests in insurance and healthcare businesses. In his current role he reports to the Managing Director and is part of the group leadership team.

In addition to his role at Max India, Rohit is a member of the Governing Council of Max Healthcare and Leader of the Transformation Office (TO). As leader of the TO, he is responsible for several transformation initiatives related to the health of the business and growth projects.

Rohit is also a board member on Max Specialty Films, Antara Senior Living and Max One Distribution Services

Prior to joining Max India, Rohit was Head of Business Strategy at Religare Enterprises Limited, which is an emerging market financial services company. As part of the role, he was responsible for strategy across capital markets, NBFCs, insurance businesses and asset management.

Rohit was a consultant with McKinsey&Company for close to a decade before Religare. Since joining the firm in 2000, he worked across consulting and practice research functions. In addition to his client commitments, he was a core part of McKinsey’s recruitment efforts in India, and led the learning function for early tenure consultants. He was also a core member of the Financial Institutions operations and technology practice in India.

Rohit holds an PGD from Indian School of Business where he was ranked in the top 5 students in the batch and was the recipient of the Young Leader Award which was awarded to four students for best all round performance in the batch. In addition to an PGD he is also a certified Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA Institute, USA). He is also a visiting faculty at SP Jain Institute of Management and Research.

Rohit Karkera, Co-founder and Head Investments, Cervin Family Office and Advisors Pvt Ltd.

Rohit Krishna, SVP, Chief of Commercial & Market Development, Vodafone M - Pesa

Rohit has played a pivotal role in establishing the mobile money business, leading the way for digitization of payments and financial inclusion for Vodafone M-Pesa. His professional experience of 20 years spans across industries and geographies, building a strong track record of transformational leadership, successful turnarounds and leading for impact.

Having joined Vodafone in 2007, Rohit has held several senior management positions across India including being the National Head for Postpaid Business and S&M Head for M&G circle. He has been associated with Vodafone M-Pesa for 3 years now. He is passionate about financial inclusion and digitization, and technology lead disruption.
Prior to joining telecom, Rohit gained valuable sales experience in the Banking Industry with renowned names like Kotak Mahindra and Standard Charted Bank.
Rohit is an alumnus of Symbiosis from where he completed his MBA in Marketing & Finance.

He likes to spend time with his family which includes an adorable set of twins, travelling and socializing.

Rohit Kumar, MD - South Asia, Elsevier Health Sciences

Rohit Kumar joined as MD - South Asia, Health Science Division, Reed Elsevier India Pvt. Ltd. in July 2009. He is the President of Association of Publishers in India.

 

Armed with his degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Rohit started his career with Accenture and worked on IT projects in India and Turkey. After 3 years, he decided to pursue his MBA with Wharton & thereafter, he continued his consulting career with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in Chicago. The prospects of working on new technologies prompted Rohit to join Oracle in the Silicon Valley where he worked on strategy, product development and product marketing.
 
Following a 9 year stint in the US, Wipro presented Rohit with the opportunity to relocate back to India. Apart from growing this sales vertical organically, notably from winning big deals such as Shell, Rohit was also instrumental in leading Wipro's first overseas acquisition of American Management System's (AMS) Global Energy Practice, as well as the integration of this newly acquired division into Wipro. This milestone achievement has paved the way for future acquisitions for Wipro.

 

With this successful track record, Rohit joined Microsoft India as country head of the Public Sector vertical where his key area of focus was on building the business through deepening key relationships with various government bodies, including the healthcare department.

 

Prior to joining Elsevier, Rohit was the President of Higher Education with Educomp Solutions where he was responsible for starting up a new business in the 'brick and mortar higher education space'. In addition to this, he was a Board Member for three startups in the field of online education, online lead generation as well as online supplemental education

 

He is the Secretary of Association of Publishers of India (API) and member of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) Publishing Committee. He is also the founder and President of the Wharton Club of Delhi.

Rohit Kumar Pandey, Co-founder & CEO, SigTuple

Rohit started SigTuple along with Apurv and Tatha in July 2015. He is responsible for product evangelism, operations, strategy and partnerships in SigTuple. Rohit is a technology enthusiast who enjoys challenging tasks. He is passionate about delivering value powered by technology. Prior to starting SigTuple, Rohit was Director of the Big Data Platform Engineering team in AmEx Big Data Labs. He was responsible for the development of Big Data Platform and delivery of intelligent data products for AmEx customers.

Rohit has rich experience in building strong tech teams, delivery of large scale systems powered by machine learning and big data. Rohit has earned a masters degree in Information Technology from IIIT Bangalore in 2007.

Rohit M A, Co Founder & Managing Director, Cloudnine group of Hospitals

Rohit M A is the co-founder and Managing Director of Cloudnine Group of Hospitals- India’s leading chain of maternity, women and child care service hospitals. Rohit has played a crucial role in the establishment and growth of the company and expanded operations from a single hospital in South Bangalore to other locations in Bangalore and now a multicity-chain across Chennai, Gurgaon, Mumbai, Pune, Navi Mumbai, Chandigarh, Delhi with more than 18 units and in the pursuit to setup 10 more units in the coming years.

As Managing Director, Rohit currently oversees and is actively involved in several core areas of Cloudnine including strategy, digital revolution, public relations, employee engagement and with critical focus on expansion of presence and development of new business models for the company. He has also led and managed the entire gambit of professionalizing the company and attracting top talents who form the core team of Cloudnine and also been responsible for leading the entire journey and stake holder management of private equity investors and has attracted investments of over 100 million dollars through marquee investors, in the likes of Matrix Partners, Sequoia Capital and TrueNorth (previously IVFA) having invested in to the company.

Rohit has graduated from IIMB specializing in Entrepreneurship and with over 18 years of entrepreneurial experience, he also cofounded “Capier Investments” to invest in young startups across various sectors and thus far invested in over 7 companies and with the purpose of enabling more of them in the future.

Rohit has been awarded and commended with many accolades and also brought in several national and international recognition and laurels to the company through the various achievements and helped catapult brand Cloudnine. Amongst many such accolades, he was conferred with “Dynamic Entrepreneur of the Year 2016” through Entrepreneur India Network, featured as Icons of New India on CNBC TV18, one of the Hottest Young Entrepreneur in India, 2016 through Business World Magazine, listed amongst the top 100 customer service professionals through CX100.

Rohit MA, Managing Director, Cloudnine Hospitals | @CloudnineCare

Rohit M A is the co-founder and Managing Director of Cloudnine Group of Hospitals- India’s leading chain of maternity, women and child care service hospitals. He took charge as the Managing Director of the company after being Executive Director at Cloudnine for 9 years.As part of the founding team he expanded operations from a single hospital in South Bangalore to other locations in Bangalore and now a multicity-chain in Chennai, Gurgaon, Mumbai and Pune with more than 12 units and in the pursuit to setup 10 more units in the coming year.

Rohit has previously served on the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) Panel of Healthcare for Karnataka. Currently, he is a member of Bangalore Chamber of Industries and Commerce. He graduated through the MPEFB program from IIM Bangalore in 2010, specializing in Entrepreneurship and has over 15 years of entrepreneurial management experience. He has been responsible for leading the entire journey and stake holder management of private equity investors and has attracted investments of over 100 million dollars through marquee investors, in the likes of Matrix Partners, Sequoia Capital and India Value fund having invested in to the company. He was recently conferred as the Dynamic Entrepreneur of the Year 2016 through Entrepreneur India.

Rohit MA , Co-founder and Managing Director, Cloudnine Group of Hospitals

Rohit M A is the Cofounder and Managing Director of Cloudnine Group of Hospitals - India’s leading chain of maternity, women and child care service hospitals. Rohit has played a crucial role in the establishment and growth of the company and expanded operations from a single hospital in South Bangalore to other locations in Bangalore and now a multicity-chain across Chennai, Gurgaon, Mumbai, Pune, Navi Mumbai, Chandigarh, Delhi with more than 18 units and in the pursuit to setup 10 more units in the coming years.

As Managing Director, Rohit currently oversees and is actively involved in several core areas of Cloudnine including strategy, digital revolution, public relations, employee engagement and with critical focus on expansion of presence and development of new business models for the company. He has also led and managed the entire gambit of professionalizing the company and attracting top talents who form the core team of Cloudnine and also been responsible for leading the entire journey and stake holder management of private equity investors and has attracted investments of over 100 million dollars through marquee investors, in the likes of Matrix Partners, Sequoia Capital and TrueNorth (previously IVFA) having invested in to the company.