Our speakers
Sahad P.V., Founder & Editor, VCCircle
Sahad P V is the Founder, Editor and Publisher of VCCircle.com, India's leading online business news publication focused on investments and entrepreneurship. In about six years, he has built a high impact media company from scratch, which now employs about 60 people across editorial, research and sales. He has been a business journalist for more than a decade and has worked with leading Indian media groups like India Today and Business Standard before starting out in 2005.
He holds a masters degree as well as an M.Phil in International Relations from Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University.
Sahaj Kumar, Senior Manager - Research, News Corp Mosaic Digital
Sahaj holds is a Senior Manager- Research at News Corp Mosaic Digital. He bring in professional experience into Strategy Consulting, Product Strategy Research, Business Development & Presales. In his prior roles, he was responsible for collaborating with clients, internal stakeholder and the leadership team along with the business leaders on the client side, to generate insights and advisory content on IDC’s 3rd Platform (Social, Mobility, Analytics, Cloud & Digital Transformation), which helped the stakeholders in making informed strategic decisions. He has also developed research papers, PoV, whitepaper, technology/ vendor spotlights and related services along with helping in developing RFI & RFP frameworks for sourcing strategies to ensure committed value to end-user segment in their technology transformation.
Sahil Baghla, Co-Founder, Bluegape.com
Sahil started his entrepreneurial journey from the dorm room of IIT Kanpur. At bluegape, they are helping users to monetise their content (designs, artwork, logo, photography, one liners etc) through merchandise. One day he wants to fly like a superman, till then chasing his billion dollar company dream.
Sahil Dalal, Director, Advent International
Sahil Dalal joined Advent in 2009. Prior to business school, he was an associate with JLL Partners, a New York-based private equity firm where he focused on buyout and growth equity transactions. Prior to JLL Partners, Sahil spent three years with Bear Stearns in New York as an analyst in its Investment Banking Division.
Sahil has a BBA with High Distinction from The Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Sahil has worked on Advent's investments in ASK Investment Managers Private Limited, CAMS, Crompton Greaves Consumer Electricals Limited, Dixcy Textiles Private Limited and QuEST Global.
Sahil Dharia, Chief Executive, Soothe Healthcare
Sahil Kanuga, Co-Head, International Dispute Resolution & Investigations Practice, Nishith Desai Associates
Sahil Sani, Chairman & CEO, Just Buy Live
Sai Deo, Partner, Bain & Company
Sai Deo, is a member of our Private Equity and Retail practices.
She works closely with our financial investors practice, advising global and India-based investors across a range of topics including asset identification, commercial due diligence, and portfolio strategy.
Sai has also worked extensively with multiple digital insurgents based out of India and the Middle East on a wide range of topics, including international expansion strategy, ecosystem development, M&A and post-merger integration, commercial excellence, and new business incubation.
Sai earned an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and a Bachelor's in Chemical Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani.
Along with client work, Sai has been a frequent voice on topics related to PE/VCc like - private equity investments in startups. She has been one of the lead co-authors of Bain’s flagship reports titled “India Venture Capital Report 2023” & “India Venture Capital Report 2022”
Sai Srinivas Kiran G, Co-Founder & CEO, Teewe
Sai comes from a Gaming background and spent a good part of his life building and shipping consumer products. He holds a Bachelors' degree in Aeronautical Engineering from IIT Kanpur and previously did stints with Zynga and Bharti Soft Bank. At Zynga he was directly responsible for Yoville till 2012 and later setup and did the hiring for BSB's Bangalore based Gaming Studio responsible for titles like SongQuest and over 500,000 downloads on the play store.
Sainath Gupta, Founder & CEO, Aasaanpay
Sainath Gupta has been entrepreneurial from very early on. He started out by being part of family business at age of 11 as a sales person for GLS bulbs in family owned retail outlet. Few years later successfully helped in migrating the business from GLS bulbs distribution to Air coolers manufacturing.
Sainath is Founder and CEO, AasaanPay.com, which is into simplifying offline payments while creating delight to Merchants and their customers. He dropped out of IIIT Hyderabad to start AasaanPay along with couple of his Juniors. Aasaanpay is the first company in MobilePOS in India. Raised a seed round of approx $400,000 in 2012 from Tvaritha Captial.
His forte is execution, technology and predicting technology vectors evolution. He has a strong record of accomplishment in planning and execution of very diverse projects in terms of technology and fields.
He has mentored several companies from IITs, IIMs and BITS Pilani. Currently, he is also advising a bank in India and a payment company in Middle East.
Specialties: Value creation, Bootstrapping, Entrepreneurship, Product Development and Creative problem solving.