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Rohan Mirchandani, Co-founder & CEO, Drums Food International

Rohan Mirchandani is Co-Founder and CEO at Drums Food, makers of India’s first Greek yogurt – Epigamia. At Epigamia, Rohan’s role is to develop the company vision and strategy and lead the company’s effort in establishing a unique brand that will spur the next wave within the FMCG sector.

Rohan grew up in the United States and moved to Mumbai in 2013. Before moving to India, and becoming one of the youngest leaders in the FMCG space, Rohan led a career in the finance sector with S&P's Corporate Valuation Group (now a division of Duff & Phelps Investment Bank) where he spent time in Tokyo working on on of the largest M&A transactions in history. He then joined his family owned company, the Ross Group, where he was responsible for re-branding the logistics business and supply chain based solutions.

Rohan holds a Bachelor's degree in Finance and International Business from NYU's Stern School of Business and an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He is a foodie and a student of gastronomy, which is closely linked to his passion for travel, loves playing and watching basketball and is an art aficionado.

Rohan Pagey, Regional Vice President, Slack India

Rohan Sikri, Senior Partner, The Xander Group Inc.

Rohan Sikri is Senior Partner at The Xander Group Inc. Based in Singapore, he is also Managing Director, Xander Investment Management, heads the firm’s real estate investment management program for Asia and chairs the investment committees for all Xander fund vehicles, and the credit committee for Xander Finance. He is also a member of the firm’s management committee.

Earlier, from 2005 to 2010, he co-founded and subsequently supervised Xander’s India investment program and built a US$ 1.5 billion equity investment portfolio across direct acquisitions, development partnerships, and platform joint ventures, across real estate asset classes such as office, retail, hotels, residential and industrial. The portfolio has already seen profitable exits in excess of US$ 1.4 billion. In 2010, he co-founded Xander Finance, the group's credit platform in India, where he serves as Chairman of the board.  In 2014, he led the firm’s Office core plus strategy, which attracted capital largely from pension funds in Europe and the United States, currently ~7 MM SF, ~US$ 650MM, and is slated to scale further.  In 2019 he established the firm’s first industrial real estate JV, slated to construct a $250 million warehouse/ logistics portfolio over the next 24 months. He is also a board member of Virtuous Retail South Asia Pte. Ltd., a Singapore headquartered integrated retail mall developer, owner and asset manager for India, set up in 2016 as a US $800 million JV between APG Asset Management and Xander Retail Partners.

Rohit Agarwal, Entrepreneur, Investor & Former GM, Amazon Education

Rohit Agarwal is the former General Manager of Education at Amazon. His last company TenMarks was acquired by Amazon in 2013. Prior to Amazon, Rohit has been a founder and senior executive at several startups that have been acquired by the likes of IBM and Cisco.

Rohit Agarwal, CEO, Founder, Framebench technologies

Rohit Agrawal, CEO, Mcapital & CFO, Mswipe

Rohit Agrawal is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Mcapital, he is also the Chief Financial Officer at Mswipe Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Mcapital is into the business of lending to small and ,medium businesses. It is a 100% subsidiary of Mswipe Technologies Pvt. Ltd. - an independent POS merchant acquirer and network provider. RŽhi?? a Cha??e?ed AccŽ???a?? b? ??Žfe??iŽ? hŽld? a bachelŽ??? deg?ee i? cŽmme?ce f?Žm I?dŽ?e University. He brings with him more than 15 years of corporate experience in banking and new age businesses. Prior to joining Mswipe, Rohit was the National Head of Ecommerce and New Age business at Kotak Mahindra Bank and was instrumental in setting it up and building the Ecommerce and new age business at Kotak. He worked with Kotak Mahindra Bank for 15 years and handled key portfolio in the Corporate Bank. At Mswipe, Rohit leads the entire accounts and finance team along with managing investor relationship and driving entire lending business for the group.

Rohit Bansal, Co-founder - AceVector, Titan Capital & Snapdeal

Rohit Bansal is a technology entrepreneur and investor, and the co-founder of Titan Capital. He co-founded AceVector group, which brings together distribution channels, consumer brands and SaaS platforms across the tech-enabled retail ecosystem. Its businesses include Snapdeal (E-Commerce), Unicommerce (Retail SaaS) and Stellaro (House of Brands).

Rohit is extremely passionate about entrepreneurship and through Titan Capital supports entrepreneurs with capital and mentorship. As an operator investor, Rohit leverages his experience and network to guide entrepreneurs through the formative stages of their business journeys. He’s also currently the Chairman of FICCI’s Start-up Committee, through which he is involved in catalyzing a greater connection between India’s start-ups and large established businesses to create learning and growth opportunities for all stakeholders.  Rohit has been awarded a range of honors including Economic Times “40 Under Forty”, Ernst n Young Entrepreneur of the Year – Startup, Fortune Magazine 40 under 40.  Rohit completed his Bachelor’s and Master’s in Computer Engineering from IIT Delhi. He is an avid traveler and a fitness enthusiast, and lives with his family in Gurgaon.

Titan Capital is an early-stage venture investment firm with investments across 250+ companies, including half a dozen unicorns and many other absolutely stellar founders and companies. Some notable investments include Mamaearth, Urban Company, Ofbusiness, Razorpay, Ola, and Shadowfax, amongst others. If you're working on something interesting, we would love to learn more.

Rohit Bhayana, Managing Partner and Co- founder, Lumis Partners

Rohit is the Managing Partner and co-Founder of Lumis. Working across a global footprint, Rohit has created strategies & built a synergistic portfolio of businesses; run technology businesses; managed M&A; and led large Outsourcing Initiatives.

In Lumis, Rohit has been actively involved in the critical blocks across - building the Team, executing the Operating philosophy of the fund, and honing on the thematic synergy in multiple ecosystems and portfolios that have been built. He directly owns the fund's strategy in Supply Chain and has been actively building the Portfolio.

Before Lumis Partners, Rohit was at GE, and in his last position, he led GE's Software business (GESS), which eventually merged with Genpact. Rohit's career at GE spanned across multiple businesses including leading GE's Global Outsourcing Initiative.

Rohit is a postgraduate from the London School of Economics and an Engineer in Computer Science from Delhi University.

Rohit Chaddha, Co-founder & CEO, Food Panda

As the founder, Mr. Rohit Chadda was the key strategist in establishing foodpanda to what it is today - the largest online food ordering platform globally with a presence in 45 countries across 4 continents and a coverage of over 22,000 restaurants. Foodpanda is currently live in over 200 cities globally in less than two years from its inception.

He spearheaded the brand to make it one of the top food ordering platforms by concentrating on optimizing operations and increasing customer reach through most optimal online & offline marketing channels. He has associated the brand with all the big-wigs like Pizza Hut, Dominos, McDonalds and KFC on one platform spoiling the customer for “choice”.    

Rohit has had the distinct honour of receiving the ‘Aditya Birla Award’ for Business Leadership for two consecutive years in 2007-08 & 08-09. He has been featured on priciple television networks and TV shows like CNBC TV18 Young Turks & CNBC Awaaz Entrepreneur. Additionally, top international magazines like Fortune and Forbes have featured a cover story and a case study respectively on Foodpanda and him.

Before venturing out on his own, Rohit was previously an investment banker and has worked with Bank of America Merrill Lynch in London, Hong Kong as well as Mumbai. With regrads to education, he is an MBA from IIM Calcutta and a Computer Engineer from Delhi College of Engineering.

Rohit Dhar, President - Products, upGrad

Rohit, an entrepreneur himself, had co-founded Brainybatch Internet, India’s first lending platform focused on making education affordable by providing short-term. He has vast experience in managing products for leading companies like OLX, Flipkart, e-Bay, PayPal, and StubHub. He is the Head of Products at upGrad and leads the entire Product, Data Science, Analytics, and Design verticals.