Our speakers

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.

 

Sainath Ramanathan, Director - Private Equity, ICICI Venture

Sainath has 19 years of experience in Private Equity investing and Management Consulting across sectors.

Prior to joining ICICI Venture in July 2014, Sainath worked as Chief Operating Officer of a consumer technology startup – Qwik Entertainment India Limited, setting up India’s first cable based Video on Demand service.

In 2006, Sainath joined 3i India as part of its founding team. From 2006 – 12, he was part of the Growth Capital business of 3i in India.

Sainath has made several successful investments across sectors including Consumer, Media & Entertainment, Healthcare, Ports and Business Services.

Sainath began his career in Management Consulting, first at Accenture and then at the Monitor Group. He worked with several Indian and International clients across sectors such as healthcare, manufacturing, oil and gas, auto etc. advising across multiple disciplines from strategy, operations to M&A.

Sainath holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from Indian Institute of Management (Ahmedabad) and a B.A. (Honours) Economics from Hansraj College, Delhi University.

Sairee Chahal, Founder, SHEROES.in | @SHEROESIndia

Sairee Chahal is the Founder, CEO www.sheroes.in - an online career destination for women. The SHEROES Community has access to high growth career resources, mentorship and support. SHEROES engages with businesses to help them connect with female talent in form of employees, partners, customers and business owners.

Sairee is India’s foremost women at work evangelist and earlier co-founded Fleximoms. She is also the Convener, The SHEROES Summit and has been instrumental in bringing businesses and women professionals on a common platform.

Sairee is the winner of Sunday Standard Devi Award 2014. Nominated for the Editor’s choice for L’oreal Femina Women’s Award, she is also a Cartier Women’s Award Initiative for 2012 alumni, a TED speaker, Business Today, Most Powerful Women in Indian Business 2012 and has been featured on shows like Young Turks, Pioneering Spirit and What Women Want. A believer in work-life redesign, serial entrepreneur, mentor, an occasional writer and mother of a 7-year-old.

Sairee started her career as a journalist with Advertising & Marketing magazine and quickly moved on to set-up world's first daily for mariners - www.newslinkservices.com.
Sairee has worked in start-up mode as well as in large set-ups in research and consulting capacities. This includes setting up Russia and CIS practice for Heidrick & Struggles HSII www.heidrick.com and Confederation of Indian Industry www.cii.in.

Sairee went to Jawaharlal Nehru University for an M.Phil in International Relations and to IMT, Ghaziabad for a PG in business management.

@Sairee

Saitu Gupta, Head- Digital Partnerships, Federal Bank