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Sandeep Goenka, Co-founder, Zebpay

Sandeep Goenka loves to live in the future. He is an entrepreneur, investor and a geek. He’s co-founder of Zebpay, India’s biggest bitcoin exchange. Zebpay was in ET last month as it was the first bitcoin company in India to cross Rs 100 crores in trading volume. Zebpay also emerged as winners among global bitcoin companies at CoinAgenda 2014, Las Vegas.

He’s also member of LetsVenture.com and Indian Angel Network, two of India’s biggest tech funding platforms. He’s a charter member of TiE Ahmedabad. He has been voted as one of top angel investors in India by Inc42.

Originally from Mumbai, he’s based in Ahmedabad since 2006. Sandeep did his schooling and college from NM College, Mumbai. He then switched streams and did BSc Engineering from De Montfort University, UK. On returning, he did his MBA in Entrepreneurship from SP Jain, Mumbai.

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Sandeep Goyal, Vice Chairman, The Mogae Group

Sandeep Goyal is the Vice Chairman of The Mogae Group. A well-known name in the world of media & communication, Sandeep was the Group Chairman of Dentsu’s India operations from 2003 to 2011. He was earlier Group CEO of Zee Telefilms & is a former President of ad agency Rediffusion DY&R. Sandeep remains Founder Chairman of Dentsu India, and is Chairman of Mogae Media.

An MBA (FMS Delhi ’84) and an Honors graduate in English literature (gold medalist) from Panjab University, Sandeep did his schooling & college in Chandigarh.

Sandeep has been on the governing bodies of the Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI), Indian Broadcasting Foundation (IBF), Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI), Media Research Users Council (MRUC) and the US-based National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences of (NATAS), over the years.

The first Indian on the global jury of the Emmy Awards (2002), Sandeep wrote ‘The Dum Dum Bullet’, a bestseller on the business of advertising in 2003. The book was published by Penguin. A regular contributor to The Economic Times, Financial Express, Business Standard, Hindu Business Line, Business World and other publications of repute, Sandeep is a much sought after speaker in industry forums.

Sandeep Jethwani, Managing Partner & Head of Advisory, IIFL Investment Managers

Sandeep is Managing Partner and Head of Advisory at IIFL Investment Managers. His team advises and manages key clients at the firm on overall portfolio structuring. He has more than 12 years of experience in direct client and team management with regional responsibilities including setting up of new branches. As a part of the founding team at IIFL Investment Managers, Sandeep led the setup of offices in various locations including Mumbai, Pune, Goa and Gujarat. He is an alumnus of IIM Bangalore and VJTI Mumbai.

Sandeep K Dewangan, President & Group CIO, Safexpress Private Limited

Sandeep Mantri, CFO, Datamatics Global Services

Sandeep leads the entire finance and accounts function at Datamatics Global Services Ltd. He is responsible for Corporate Finance, Accounts, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Planning, Risk Management, Treasury and Taxation.

He has rich experience in various areas, including Corporate Strategy, Mergers & Restructuring, Financial Planning & Analysis, Cost Reductions, Internal Audit, Statutory Compliances, IFRS, Treasury, SAP Implementation and Tax Compliances.

He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Fellow Chartered Accountant (FCA) from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), a holder of Certificate Course on Valuation by ICAI, Cost Accountant from the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India (ICWAI).

Sandeep has more than 16 years of professional experience, out of which for 9 years he played a key role as CFO/Controller. Prior to joining Datamatics, he worked with Network 18 Media, as VP – Finance and Accounts.

Sandeep Murthy, Partner, LightBox | @lbvc

As an early investor in InMobi, InfoEdge and Shopclues, three of India's billion dollar technology companies, Sandeep Murthy is one of the builders of India's Internet economy. And he hasn't just seen the highs and lows play out as an investor, but actually roughed it out in operational roles including one as the CEO of Cleartrip in 2006 for three years.

A dreamer from the start, who doesn’t believe in choosing between “this or that” he did his undergrad in both business and engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. Like all good Penn grads he dove into investment banking. However, since it was the height of the dot.com boom, he did it a little differently by moving out to Palo Alto, California to join CSFB Technology Group.

After teaming up with a friend to build a digital music company that was incubated by Sony Music – 10 years too early. He ended up selling the company to Sony after the Internet bubble burst. After a few years of living the Bay Area dream, he moved to New York to join InterActive Corp (IAC) the owners of Expedia, TicketMaster, Home Shopping Network where he helped launch Gifts.com. He started to explore the India technology opportunity and ultimately moved to Mumbai to manage investments for Sherpalo Ventures, a fund based out of Menlo Park in California. Today he's a co-founder and partner at Lightbox, a Mumbai-based venture capital firm investing in Indian consumer technology companies. He has raised over $350M from leading investors. His most recent investments include Droom, Faasos, Furlenco and AI-platform Embibe, which got a $185MM investment commitment from Reliance, India's internet super power. This is the largest AI investment in edtech any where in the world. Most of his time is spent figuring how to make something unprecedented happen. With an all-in, nothing-held-back style, he loves diving in, getting to the heart of a matter, trying new things and getting as many people as possible involved. This approach helps to find multiple solutions: some surprising, others straightforward. In a somewhat unpredictable market, Sandeep’s investment success stems from a combination of deep product instinct and unconventional thinking, that has been the basis of all his investments — from pre-revenue startups to multi-billion-dollar businesses.

Sandeep Naik, Managing Director, General Atlantic

Sandeep Naik is a Managing Director at General Atlantic and serves on the firms Executive Committee. He is located in General Atlantic's Mumbai office, where he serves as head of operations in India and Asia Pacific. Mr. Naik manages and oversees all of GA’s investments in the region, which include BillDesk, House of Anita Dongre, Citius Tech, IndusInd and National Stock Exchange.

Previously, Mr. Naik served as a partner and co-head of the India office for Apax Partners, leading their investments in healthcare, financial & business services and retail & consumer sectors. Prior to joining Apax, he was a Global Marketing Manager at Medtronic Inc, a scientist at Mayo Clinic and a Consultant with McKinsey. He is also the co-founder of a medical device start up firm, InfraScan Inc., which is focused on detecting bleeding inside the brain using a handheld device. Mr. Naik is an avid community worker. Among other philanthropic endeavors, he co-founded ToolBox India, an organization that brings professionals and non-profits together to improve productivity and efficiency within the social sector.

Mr. Naik holds a BTech in Instrumentation Engineering from the University of Mumbai, an M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from the Medical College of Virginia and an M.B.A. in Finance from The Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Naik was selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and served on the Global Agenda Council of ‘New Order of Economic Thinking’. Mr. Naik is also a member on the Wharton Asia Board.

Sandeep Naik, Co-Head, Apax Partners

Sandeep Naik works for Apax Partners, a global Private Equity firm and is currently the Co-Head of the India office leading their Investments in Healthcare, Financial & Business Services and Retail & Consumer group. Prior to joining Apax, Sandeep was a Global Marketing Manager at Medtronic (a leader in medical devices), Scientist at Mayo Clinic and a Consultant with McKinsey. He is also the co-founder of a medical device start up firm, InfraScan Inc. which is focused on detecting bleeding inside the brain using a handheld device. Sandeep is an avid community worker and amongst other things has co-founded ToolBox India an organization that brings together professionals and non-profits to improve productivity and efficiency within the social sector. Sandeep has done his BTech in Instrumentation Engineering from University of Mumbai, an MS in Biomedical Engineering from Medical College of Virginia and an MBA in Finance from The Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania. Sandeep was also recently selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.

Sandeep Pendharkar, Sr. Director & General Manager, Cloud Services HPE India

Sandeep Reddy, MD, Peepul Capital Advisors

Sandeep is the co-founder of Peepul Capital. Prior to the launch of Peepul Capital in 2000, he had 10 years of experience in Strategy Consulting with PriceWaterHouse in San Francisco and with Andersen Consulting in London.

Sandeep has been one of the early participants in the rapidly evolving Indian Private Equity industry having been active for over ten years. He takes overall responsibility in defining and executing Peepul Capital's strategy. In that role he has spawned and built a number of entities as well as driven migration through their lifecycles.

Sandeep received a BS in Computer Science and Finance from Utah State University and an MBA from IMD (Switzerland).