Our speakers

Sabina Chopra, Co-Founder, Yatra

Sachid Madan, MD, Technico Agri Sciences Ltd

Sachid Madan is Director of Technico Pty Ltd, Australia (Technico), a wholly owned subsidiary of ITC Ltd, and a part of its Agri Business. He is also the Chairman of the Agri Committee of FICCI.

ITC's US$900 million Agribusiness Division (ABD), which Mr. Sivakumar leads, is engaged in sourcing a variety of agricultural products, commodity exports, rural marketing and specialty retailing. ITC Ltd. works predominantly in agriculture and rural India with over a century's experience in engaging with farmers.

Previously he was the VP at Agro Tech Foods Ltd., a subsidiary of ConAgra Foods Ltd., for 6 years, CEO at Mafatlal Denim Ltd. for 3 years, and Operations Manager at Hindustan Unilever Ltd. for 13 years.

Sachid is a Commerce graduate from Shri Ram College of Commerce.  He is also a Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India & Company Secretary from Institute of Company Secretaries of India. 

Sachin Bansal, Ceo & Co-Founder, ,Flipkart.Com

Sachin Bansal, 28, is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Flipkart.com. Sachin hails from Chandigarh and did his schooling there before pursuing his engineering at IIT Delhi. He started his career at Techspan, a systems-integration and consulting firm, delivering business and IT solutions. In 2006 he moved to Amazon.com, after realising that his interests lay in developing software products.

After a short stint at Amazon, Sachin and Binny Bansal (also from Chandigarh and classmates at IIT Delhi) launched Flipkart.com, in 2007, with the intention to be the leading e-commerce destination in India. The experience at Amazon and personal experiences with the Indian e-commerce market helped Sachin define Flipkart’s service offering. Flipkart was and is about creating an e-commerce portal that offered superior customer service and delivered what it promised. Starting with books, Flipkart is today India’s largest online bookstore and have recently forayed into new categories such as Music, Movies, Games and Mobile Phones. Sachin is a connoisseur of electronic gadgets and if he has his way, Flipkart will have reasonable chunk of its revenue in the coming years, coming in from electronic goods.

Sachin Bhartiya, Principal, Lighthouse Funds

Sachin has a rich experience in the field of corporate finance and brings an unique blend of lending and advisory background. He began his career with Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI), one of India’s largest financial institutions and subsequently, worked with GE Capital (India), and Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (IL&FS), another leading, Indian financial services organization. In a career spanning over a decade, he has originated and executed a number of transactions both as a lender and advisor for debt and equity, especially, for middle market corporate, covering a variety of industries including power, telecommunications, engineering, cement, steel, paper, auto ancillaries, textile, sugar, etc.

Sachin holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Kolkata University and is a qualified Chartered Accountant.

Sachin Bhatia, CEO & Co-founder, Truly Madly

Sachin Bhatia is Co-Founder and CEO of TrulyMadly, India’s No 1 dating app for singles, which he co-founded in 2014.

Sachin also co-founded MakeMyTrip, where he served as Chief Marketing Officer and later led new product development to launch rail, bus and cab bookings. He helped  MakeMyTrip become one of India's top travel brands and moved out from an operating role in 2010. He remains involved as an independent advisor to the company.

He is currently an active angel investor and mentor to many technology and mobile startups in India & South-East Asia like Shuttl, LittleBlackBook, Tripoto, GoVoyagin, CatchThatBus etc.

Sachin is a fitness enthusiast and a keen cyclist.

Sachin Bhatia, Founder & Chief Growth Officer, Exotel

Sachin Bid, Fund Manager, Venture Capital, Nippon Life India AIF Management Limited

Sachin Bid is currently Fund Manager, Venture Capital at Nippon India Alternative Investments, a 100% subsidiary of Nippon Life India Asset Management (NAM India). Nippon Life Japan owns ~75% of NAM India. He is responsible for fund raising, investing and managing portfolio of India centric early stage technology venture funds and directs. He serves on the advisory boards (LPAC) of several India focused venture capital funds. Prior to Nippon India, he co-founded, built and scaled an travel start-up focused on cruising, MyDreamHoliday, which was acquired by a market leader (Ark Travels) in the industry. Prior to that, he was an investor with Ncubate Capital, a mid-size family office where he participated in incubating and supporting scale-up of consumer companies which grew from concept to double digit monthly revenues ($ in mn) and which were subsequently backed by marquee private equity funds in India. Prior to Ncubate Capital, he was an investor at Nine Rivers Capital investing from its Fund-I in early growth stage companies, primarily in manufacturing and engineering companies. He is an MBA candidate at The Wharton School. He is a CAIA member, CFA (ICFAI) and MBA – Finance, IBS Mumbai.

Sachin Chandiwal, MD and Head Corporate Finance, DAM Capital Advisors Ltd ( formerly IDFC Securities Ltd)

Sachin Chopra, MD, Everstone Capital Advisors

Sachin Chopra is a Managing Director in the private equity team of Everstone Capital Advisors. Prior to joining Everstone in 2011, Sachin had over 10 years of investing experience in US and India. Sachin previously worked with Warburg Pincus in India and General-Atlantic in the US. He holds an Electrical Engineering Degree from Gujarat University, a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and an MBA from Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. 

Sachin Dalal, Cofounder Infibeam.com, Shipdroid.com

Sachin is currently heading logistics SaaS platform, Shipdroid.com, for marketplace sellers and also leading the entire distribution and logistics network for Infibeam.com. Prior to cofounding Infibeam.com, Sachin was one of the early hires of Amazon.com India where he led major subsystems of Amazon's Payment Webservices and Checkout by Amazon. Over the years Sachin has led many functions from engineering, product, general management and operations primarily in systems, payments and ecommerce domain.