Our speakers

Sashi Reddi, Founder, AppLabs

Sashi Reddi is the founder and executive chairman of AppLabs, the  world’s largest software testing and quality management company. Since its founding in April 2001, Sashi has grown AppLabs from a 3 person outfit in a shared office space in Philadelphia to its current size of 2,000 employees in the US, UK, and India.

A serial entrepreneur, Sashi has started two other companies prior to AppLabs. His first company was EZPower Systems, a developer of products for building and maintaining large-scale web applications. EZPower was acquired by DocuCorp and then eventually by Oracle. EZPower technology continues to be a part of Oracle’s document management offerings. Following EZPower, Sashi founded iCoop, a group purchasing dotcom company. He began his career consulting on technology and strategy to Fortune 500 companies in the travel, financial services, automotive and consumer packaged goods industries.

Sashi is also the founder and chairman of FXLabs, a leading developer of high quality game products for PC’s, consoles, and online. He is also the founder and chairman of Sricapital, a venture capital firm.

Sashi received his BTech degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi. He went on to gain an MS in Computer Science from New York University and later a PhD from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Sateesh Andra, Managing Director, Endiya Partners

Sateesh Andra loves entrepreneurs with grit, clarity, and focus on execution. Technology start-ups with clear value proposition drive Sateesh. His investing, co-founding, leadership and engineering experience, for the past twenty-plus years in U.S/India, all veer around technology.

As the Managing Director at Endiya Partners, Sateesh serves on boards of AlphaICs, Darwinbox, and Kissht. Some of his past investments include Seclore, Little Eye Labs (Facebook) and mGinger (ValueFirst). Prior to Endiya, he was a Partner at Ventureast and DFJ.

Prior to DFJ, Sateesh was Founder/CEO of Euclid (Synnex), a Silicon Valley start-up, in the IT Management Software space and was instrumental in raising VC funding ($35 M+), besides acquiring and managing marquee customers and partners. He has also served in product marketing and engineering leadership roles at Tsqware (Synaptics), LSI Logic (Broadcom), and VLSI Technology (NXP).

Besides helping evolve ideas into real businesses, Sateesh is involved with the Pullela Gopichand Badminton Academy with the objective of popularizing sports and promoting awareness of chronic diseases in the corporate world. Sateesh was a top-ranked Table Tennis player representing A.P State in Nationals.

Sateesh holds a Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering.

Sateesh Andra, Managing Partner, Ventureast Tenet Fund

Sateesh Andra is a Managing Partner at Ventureast, primarily overseeing the Ventureast Tenet Fund, a premier seed-stage VC Fund consisting of investments across technology (Mobility, Cloud, Internet) and technology-enabled (Education, Healthcare, Financial services, Cleantech and high-impact, invention-based social businesses) sectors. He has worked in or with venture-backed technology start-ups in U.S/India for the past fourteen years. With hands-on start-up experience and in-depth knowledge of the dynamics of VC funding, he looks for highly motivated and energetic entrepreneurs as partners.

Prior to joining Ventureast, Sateesh was Venture Partner and was one of the founding members of Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), India. He helped launch Hyderabad Angels, a platform to provide seed capital to start ups. As a private investor earlier, Sateesh has also invested in early stage American and Indian venture capital funds.

Prior to DFJ, Sateesh co-founded Euclid, a leader in the IT Management Software space and was instrumental in raising VC funding ($35 M+), acquiring, and managing marquee customers and partners. He has also served in product marketing and engineering leadership roles at Tsqware (Conexant), LSI Logic, and VLSI Technology (Philips). Sateesh holds U.S. patents in Communications and Networking and has published several articles on Business - IT Alignment.

Sateesh has a B.Tech degree from JNTU, Hyderabad, and a Master's in Electrical Engineering from SIUE. He is a Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE). He is actively involved with the Pullela Gopichand Badminton Academy with the objective of popularizing sports, and promoting fitness consciousness in the corporate world. Sateesh co-founded Health Awareness Promotion Project India (HAPPI), which creates awareness about Non Communicable Diseases  among IT professionals.

Sathya Ramanathan, Director - Technology Investment Banking, EY LLP

Experienced and trusted advisor to technology companies, both established and emerging, in Corporate Strategy, Mergers & Acquisition (M&A) & Capital raise matters.

Sathya has 11 years of work in Corporate Finance and Strategy areas, he acquired and demonstrated highly specialized skills in M&A and Capital Raise activities while advising and assisting Private Equity, Private, and Listed company clients. In addition to his skills in Strategy and Finance, he also possesses a deep understanding of the technology sector in the Software Products, Services and Infrastructure areas.

Specialties:

Cross-border M&A – both Sell side and Buy side
Corporate Strategy
Capital Raising and Private placements
Corporate Finance and Valuations
Negotiations
Technology Sector (Software Services, Products and Infrastructure)
Mentoring and People Management

Academic Background:
BE – Mechanical, College of Engineering Guindy, Chennai
IIM Cancutta – PGDM

Satish Chander, Managing Director, True North

Satish joined True North in 2006 and is based in Bengaluru, where he works with True North companies across many industries including media, healthcare and industrials handling special focus areas in each sector.A Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from IIT, Chennai, and a holder of a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM, Kolkata, Satish was earlier closely involved with Indian pharmaceutical and consumer goods companies at Accenture. Prior to that, he worked with JP Morgan's India equity research team and Tata Motors.

Satish Chander, Partner, True North

Satish joined True North in 2005 and is based in Bengaluru. He joined the firm as part of the business management team and worked with companies across healthcare, media, retail and industrials. He is now part of the investment team and is responsible for investments in healthcare sector.

He holds a Mechanical Engineering degree from the IIT, Chennai and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from the IIM, Kolkata. Prior to joining True North, Satish had six years of experience working with Tata Motors, Accenture and JP Morgan in India.

Satish Kannan, CEO, DocsApp

Satish Kannan, Co-founder & CEO, MediBuddy-DocsApp

Satish Kannan is a pioneer in the online healthcare industry. With a singular focus to bring a paradigm shift in the healthcare industry, he has, in a relatively short period of time, ushered his organization to a leadership position. He is well on his way to achieving his goal of making high-quality healthcare accessible to everyone across the nation. Satish Kannan or SK as he is popularly known is an alumnus of IIT Madras - B.Tech & M.Tech in Electrical engineering. After completing his education, SK started his career with Philips Healthcare, being involved with Research and Development on specialized equipment, used by cardiologists for conducting surgeries.

Post that SK began his leadership journey by co-founding DocsApp (a 24x7 online doctor consultation platform) to make high-quality healthcare accessible to over a billion people in India. SK is now at the helm of affairs of the vastly expanded entity of MediBuddy-DocsApp as Chief Executive Officer.

SK’s achievements have been acknowledged by Forbes - he has been featured in the Forbes 30 under 30 list, 2017 (Asia) and Forbes 30 under 30 list, 2018 (India), for his contribution to the Indian health-care sector. Recently, he won the title of “Young Achiever of the Year” at National Awards for Marketing Excellence 2020.

When not focused in transforming the healthcare sector, the former IITian loves to read books, travel, and practice yoga.

Satish Kataria, MD, Catapooolt

Satish brings with him more than 14 years of experience across various domains including public relations, brand management, investor relations and fund management.

Some of his unique achievements include:
     •  Pioneered crowdfunding in India through his earlier venture - Springboard Ventures
     •  Operationally headed Vistaar Religare Film Fund -  India’s first SEBI registered venture capital fund investing in films and media properties
    •  Closely associated with Indian start-up ecosystem and was consulting editor with DARE - which is India’s first media platform on start-ups and entrepreneurs and is amongst the portfolio of Cyber Media    India Limited - country’s one of the largest B2B and niche publications publisher

Prior to co-founding Catapooolt - Satish had founded Springboard Ventures - wherein he partnered with Grow VC International - an European based crowdfunding platform - focusing on enabling crowdfunding for start-ups. Besides crowdfunding, Springboard Ventures was also involved with enabling start-ups through events, mentorship and fund support. Before Springboard Ventures - Satish was operationally heading Vistaar Religare Film Fund - which invested a corpus of around USD 45 Million in across 13 various national and international film projects. Satish also headed investor relations and fund-raising at Indiareit Fund Management – which is amongst one of the largest real estate funds in India.

Satish Kishanchandani, Co- founding Partner, DSK Legal

Satish is a founding partner of DSK Legal with more than 30 years of rich experience in advising various multinational and domestic companies and funds across sectors and negotiating many complex commercial transactions relating to mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, strategic alliances and joint ventures.

He brings  a very deep understanding of the Indian market and the legal and regulatory regime that governs it, having previously worked for more than a decade  as a partner with a leading domestic law firm as well as an international accounting firm in its tax and business advisory practice. His counsel is regularly sought by Fortune 500 companies and large domestic conglomerates on their Indian operations.

Satish’s  diverse sectoral experience is unmatched in the profession, having advised private equity funds and investee companies in power, education, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, media, financial services, microfinance, and transportation.