Our speakers

Sanachit Mehra, Founder, CTO, Cateina

Sanchit Goyal, Principal Consultant, Mosaic Digital- An HT Media Group Company (Moderator)

Sandeep Adukia, Senior Managing Director, BPEA Credit

Mr. Sandeep Adukia has 29 years of experience across wholesale lending, retail lending and institutional brokerage with specialized knowledge of Indian capital markets. As Senior Managing Director, Mr. Adukia leads business development efforts developing valuable sourcing channels for the business and managing investee company relationships. Mr. Adukia also oversees fund raise efforts in India. Prior to joining BPEA Credit, Mr. Adukia was head of the Capital Markets business at Religare Finvest Limited, managing all aspects of wholesale and retail lending for capital markets. Before that, Mr. Adukia worked at Citigroup as Head of Capital Market Finance and with HDFC Bank in the Capital Markets business. Mr. Adukia started his career in Collections with India Securities Ltd in addition to his work in Capital Markets business. Mr. Adukia holds an MBA from Mumbai University.

Sandeep Aggarwal, Founder & CEO, Droom

Sandeep Aggarwal is the Founder & CEO, Droom. Sandeep is the only tech entrepreneur in India to Found two-unicorns back-to-back i.e. Droom and ShopClues and author of best-selling book Fall Again and Rise Again.

In April 2014, Sandeep started Droom, an AI and data sciences-driven e-commerce platform offering 21st century experienced for the automobile. In Oct 2010 Sandeep started ShopClues first ever marketplace in India and the 5th Unicorn in India and fastest way to reach Unicorn at that time. Prior to ShopClues Sandeep worked as the top-ranked Wall Street analyst in Silicon Valley and also with Microsoft and Scwab.com. Sandeep is MBA from Washington University in St Louis and holds a US patent.

Sandeep Aggarwal, Founder & CEO, ShopClues.com

Sandeep is the founder and CEO of “ShopClues.com”. He has 16 years of global experience in business operations, strategy and investment, focusing on Internet and technology. He is counted amongst leading Internet experts globally, and has regularly appeared on CNBC, Fox, ABC News and regularly quoted by Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Forbes and other prominent media outlets.

Prior to founding ShopClues.com, Sandeep was among the top Internet analysts on Wall Street based out of Silicon Valley, providing research coverage on the global Internet sector and all major Internet companies including Google, Yahoo!, eBay, Amazon, Netflix, Priceline, Microsoft, MakeyMyTrip etc.

Sandeep Aggarwal, Founder, Droom.in

Sandeep Aggarwal is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, internet visionary and philanthropist. He is widely regarded as the father of marketplaces in the Indian Internet ecosystem - having founded ShopClues in 2011 - India’s first managed marketplace, which became 5th Unicorn in Consumer Internet in India & Droom in 2014 - India’s first marketplace for automobiles.Droom is only auto portal in the world to own the entire ecosystem for automobile with marketplace, pricing, inspection, history and fintech tools. Sandeep is passionate about Digitizing India through mentoring startups, especially on entrepreneurship traits and skills.

Sandeep has an MBA from Washington University in St. Louis and holds a US patent.

Sandeep Ahuja, MD, VLCC Health Care Ltd

Sandeep Ahuja is Managing Director with VLCC Health Care Ltd. Prior to his current assignment Sandeep was responsible for VLCC’s foray in international markets, based out of Dubai and earlier led the Group’s subsidiary that manufactures and markets personal care products.

Sandeep’s wide and varied experience of over 2 decades spans marketing, brand communications, new market development and profit-centre management. Prior to joining VLCC, he was Director & CEO of Lexicon PR & Corporate Consultants Ltd., an affiliate of the Omnicom Group company, Fleishman-Hillard, Inc., one the world’s largest communications consultancies. He was largely responsible for establishing Lexicon as one of the top 10 communications consultancies in India and worked with a host of prestigious companies as clients, including Avon, Domino’s, Goodyear, Lufthansa, Timex and United Airlines.

A graduate in economics and a postgraduate in marketing & advertising, Sandeep started his career in advertising. Later, he settled down to a long and loaded stint at Escorts Limited, one of the largest engineering conglomerates in India, before taking up the challenge of establishing a full service communications consultancy from the ground up. He moved on to join VLCC in 2002.

Sandeep is also the Chairman of the Wellness Committee as well as a member of the National Executive Committee of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) for two years running now.

Sandeep Aneja, Managing Partner, Kaizen Private Equity

Sandeep's passion for investing in innovative companies drove him to establish Kaizen Private Equity. As the Founder of the fund, he has been instrumental in driving the overall strategy and building the firm's knowledge and client network across the globe. Sandeep’s passion is to work closely with entrepreneurs who have a deep sense of purpose and a solid plan for identifying and owning emerging white spaces and leveraging initial ownership to build highly valuable differentiated and sustainable companies. One of his professional commitments is to promote and improve the overall human wellbeing in emerging markets by investing in opportunities such as education, wellness and smart living. Sandeep has been a part of the venture capital and private equity industry since 2002 and has been credited with numerous successful transactions in the United States and in Asia. He sits on the boards of various education companies and is a frequent speaker on emerging education trends globally. He has an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.

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Sandeep Aneja, Founder and the Managing Director, Kaizen Private Equity

Sandeep's passion for investing in innovative companies drove him to establish Kaizen Private Equity in 2009. As the Founder of the fund, he has been instrumental in building the firm's knowledge and client network across U.S, Europe and Asia. He believes in forming trusted partnerships with companies and their management teams on a shared commitment to achieve excellence and growth.  Sandeep’s passion is to work closely with entrepreneurs who have a deep sense of purpose and a solid plan for identifying and “owning” emerging white spaces and leveraging initial “ownership” to build highly valuable differentiated companies.

One of his professional commitments is to promote and improve the overall human capital development environment, by investing in companies that have a progressive impact on the economic growth of societies. Sandeep has been a part of the venture capital and private equity industry since 2002 and has been credited with numerous successful transactions in the US and in India. Some of his prior investments include Reconnex, (sold to McAfee) Bridgestream (sold to Oracle), Clairmail (sold to Monitise), LassoLogic (sold to Sonicwall), and Xactly Software. He sits on the boards of various education companies and is a frequent speaker on emerging education trends globally.

He has a MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.

Sandeep B Ghule, Co-Founder & Chief Marketing Officer, TranServ Pvt. Ltd

Sandeep is a co-founder & Chief Marketing Officer of TranServ, which has been at the forefront of building & implementing innovative electronic payment products in India.

TranServ Shmart!TM products simplify making and receiving payments - on mobile devices, on the web or in shops across India. Shmart!TM is built around a digital wallet platform which allows individuals to receive funds from own sources as well as from other individuals or corporate entities and such funds can be used across the online as well as offline points.

Sandeep has spent 15 years building & marketing payment products at leading Banks in India. Prior to TranServ, Sandeep was Senior Vice President and Head of Card Products at HSBC India where he was responsible for Product & Marketing Strategy, Card Spends and delivering a seamless customer experience by working in close co-ordination with other payment functions such as distribution, technology, operations, customer service, compliance and risk management.