Our speakers

Robin Moses, Founder & CEO, Reach Accountant

Reach Tax’s founder and CEO, Robin Moses, has a nationally recognized name in the tax and accounting world. He is also the founder of www.reachaccountant.com , a website which provides tools to create a virtual office for a Tax Professional. In his current tenure, he has started several stunning initiatives in the tax preparation industry. Reach Tax is his initiative to make taxes easy for the small business owners.

Robin started his first food and distribution business a few months after leaving college at the age of 21. A Chartered Accountant by education he was never happy as an accountant and was bitten by the entrepreneurship bug again in 2005 when he founded Reach Tax a Retail Tax Preparation Company. It eventually did not do too well, but taught Robin about SaaS, Franchising and Online Marketing. Later in 2010, he founded Reach Accountant, A SaaS based next generation accounting software company.

Roch Dsouza, Marketing Head, BrandFactory ( Future group)

Armed with an MMS degree in Marketing and experience in Retail, FMCG and Real estate, Roch has worked his way up the corporate ladder and is now heading Marketing for Future's Group's Discount format Brand Factory, which is an 1000 crore format. Prior to this, he has driven the launch and management of "Payback" Loyalty program in Future Group to help the group acquire common loyalty objectives.

Roch has also been exposed to the US Market where he was responsible for marketing and brand building activities for Hirco Developments . Apart from these, he has also led Pantaloons  and Central concepts by Future Group in National Level Role. A thought leader that is, Roch has led multiple teams through multi crore formats, and efficiently so.

Rochak Kapur, EVP & Head - Enterprise Products & Business Operations, Vodafone Idea Limited

Rochak Kapur is the EVP & Head – Enterprise Products & Business Operations of Vodafone Idea Limited. He is responsible for defining & executing the strategy for Enterprise Products and their GTM, Enterprise Marketing, Sales Operations & Digital Transformation.

Rochak’s professional experience of 28+ years spans across diverse cultures and geographies with leadership roles in Business strategy, Business Management, Sales Management, Services Sales & Operations management with Telecom OEMs and CSPs. Prior to the merger of Vodafone & Idea, he was Head – Broadband & Business Solutions in Idea Cellular. He started his career with C-DOT in 1992 and has worked with Motorola in multiple senior roles across Network Planning & Design, Network operations, Solution Sales for both wireless and wireline portfolios in a career spanning 15 years in EMEA region.

Rochak is passionate about application of Technology and Digital Transformation to resolve business problems and improve organisational efficiencies and operations. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering from NIT, Tiruchirapalli and an MBA from University of Strathclyde, Graduate School of Business, Glasgow.

Rochelle D'Souza, Principal, Lighthouse Funds

Rochelle is a Principal at Lighthouse and leads investments for the fund in consumer-focused sectors like Food, Agri, Retail and Pharma. She is currently serving the boards of Wow Momo and V2 Retail. Prior to Lighthouse, she was an Investment Banker at SBI Capital Markets where she focused on equity capital market transactions. Rochelle has a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Communication from Rastriya Vidyalaya College of Engineering (RVCE), Bangalore and an MBA from S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research.

She is passionate about music and plays the guitar. She loves trivia, travel and reading. Rochelle is part of few initiatives where she mentors students and young adults on entrepreneurship and career.

She was recently featured in the ‘Top 100 Women in Finance - 2019’ Award by AIWMI (Association of International Wealth Management of India).

Rohan Ajila, Managing Partner, Capvent India Private Equity

Rohan is a Managing Partner at Capvent India Private Equity (CIPE) and Partner at Capvent AG. He is responsible for sourcing and managing our fund investments in India. He has been working with Capvent for three years, and came on board CIPE in 2007. Previously, he was Founder & CEO of Indiamarkets.com, a pioneer in the online and offline B2B eCommerce in India with volumes over US$ 1 billion in transaction volume over the past four years.

He began his career as a credit rating research analyst with CRISIL-S&P, then as an Investment Banker at Trans Arabian Investment Bank (TAIB) and advised MAPE, an Indian investment bank, on investment opportunities in India. He holds a Masters degree in Finance and International Business from the University of Houston.

Rohan Ghosh Roy, Partner - Corporate, Trilegal

Rohan Ghosh Roy is a Partner at Trilegal and a part of the Corporate practice group. He has worked with several leading funds, financial institutions and multinational corporations, including Ant Financial (Alipay), Alibaba Group, GIC (Singapore), the SoftBank Vision Fund, the 3i Group, International Finance Corporation, the Blackstone Group, BAce Fund and the D.E. Shaw Group.

Rohan has advised top-tier clients on a variety of high-value and complex investments into India’s leading payments, e-commerce, technology and consumer internet companies – advising on investments of over $3.5 billion into the likes of Paytm, Flipkart, Zomato, Swiggy, BigBasket and PolicyBazaar.

As a trusted advisor, Rohan continued to be involved with these businesses post-investment, and these long-tail engagements have helped provide Rohan with unique insights and develop deep domain expertise.

Rohan has also represented corporate and private-equity clients on contentious exits, and investment disputes (including, advising a private-equity client on its contentious exit from Krishnapatnam Ports, and advising Alibaba (the largest shareholder) on the recent $1.3 billion-acquisition of BigBasket by the TATA Group).

Rohan Jahagirdar, Head - Marketing, Teabox

Rohan currently leads all marketing efforts at Teabox. Prior to this, Rohan led e-mail marketing as a channel at Flipkart.com where he developed the company's retention program, and worked with the technology team to build an internal product to manage, run and optimize email campaigns.

In 2011, he started working with Taggle.com, a VC funded startup in group-discount space, where he managed city operations for Hyderabad and later was part of the core team when the business pivoted to a pure-play e-commerce model.

Rohan holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from NIT Rourkela.

Rohan Kalia, Account Manager - Alternative Investments, SS&C Intralinks

Rohan is an Account Executive at SS&C Intralinks, overseeing the Alternative Investments activities across India.

His responsibilities entail supporting high-stake transactions like Fundraise, Audit, Portfolio exits, Investor Communication, etc., through secure and IRM driven technology solutions.

Rohan Mirchandani, Co-founder & CEO, Epigamia

Rohan is the Co-founder and CEO at Drums Food International Pvt. Ltd., the makers of India’s first Greek yogurt brand – Epigamia. At Drums Food, Rohan’s role is to lead the company’s overall business development to create a unique program/ proposition that will outline the next big influx in the FMCG space.

He 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 one 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.

Rohan Mirchandani, Co-founder, Drums Food International Pvt. Ltd.

Rohan Mirchandani is a Co-Founder and CEO at Drums Food International, makers of Epigamia Greek Yogurt, India’s first branded Greek yogurt, and Hokey Pokey ice cream. Rohan moved to India from the United States, where he grew up, in 2013 to pursue Drums Food’s foray into the FMCG space. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Finance & International Business from NYU’s Stern School of Business and an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.