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Saurabh Bajaj, Senior Principal Associate, Proterra Investment Partners

Saurabh Bajaj works at Proterra Investment Partners based in Mumbai, where he is responsible for deal sourcing, investing, portfolio monitoring and effectuating exits. Proterra was spun out of Black River Asset Management (a division of Cargill) and is focused on food & agri investments. Prior to this role, Saurabh has worked in the M&A team at Louis Dreyfus covering investments in Middle East and Africa, out of their Dubai office and in the Investments Team of Olam International out of their Singapore office. He is a management graduate from IIM Calcutta.

Saurabh Bakliwal, Managing Director & Partner, BCG

Saurabh Bhat, CEO, Venus India Asset Finance Pvt. Ltd.

Saurabh Bhat, an enterprising and high achieving veteran of the Indian financial services sector has joined Venus India Asset-Finance Private Limited as its CEO and a member of the board of directors.

Prior to joining Venus, he was the CEO and Director at Ambit Finvest Limited, an NBFC which was part of the Ambit Group and which focused on structured lending in mid-market and SME space. At Ambit, Saurabh was instrumental in growing the asset book through several structured transactions, launching the debt syndication business for Ambit as well widening the liability profile for the NBFC through banking and other capital market limits.

Prior to joining Ambit, Saurabh was the Senior President & Managing Director - Development and Sustainable Banking (DSB) at YES Bank and part of the Management Committee of YES Bank.

He has over 17 years of experience in various capacities in leading organizations like Calyon Bank, Citibank, Rabobank, and ICICI Limited.
Saurabh is also a Visiting Faculty at premier MBA Institutions including IIM Lucknow and XLRI Jamshedpur. Saurabh holds an MBA Degree in Finance from XLRI, Jamshedpur, a B.Tech (Chemical) from IIT Bombay and M.S from University of Wyoming, USA.

Venus Capital founder and CEO, Vik Mehrotra says, “We are excited to have an experienced and results oriented professional like Saurabh join the NBFC as its CEO who will help take the firm to the next level.”

Venus India Asset-Finance Private Limited is the investment vehicle through which the Venus India Structured Finance Fund invests in the Indian market

Venus has global reach with local knowledge. Venus has been investing in India, since 1994 and is one of the earliest FII’s. Over the years, Venus has invested over a $1B in India and is recognized for its low risk strategies.

Saurabh Deep Singla, Chief People Officer, Ecom Express

Saurabh Ganeriwala, Group CDO/CIO, Jindal Steel & Power Ltd.

Saurabh Garg, Partner and Co-Founder, Four Fountains De-Stress Spa

A chemical engineer from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay Saurabh also holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad. He has worked with Hindustan Unilever for 3 years as Area Sales & Customer Manager - Gujarat (Rural). At Four Fountains De-stress Spa, Saurabh is Director - Operations & Finance.

Saurabh Gupta, Group CIO, SAR Group

Saurabh Jhalaria, CIO - Alternative Credit Strategies, InCred Alternative Investments

Saurabh has 20+ years of experience across the credit and financing business in Asia and has been part of the founding team at lnCred Group since 2016.

Saurabh is the CIO for alternative credit strategies for lnCred Capital and also looks at the SME lending business at lnCred Finance, the NBFC arm.

Prior to joining lnCred, Saurabh was a Managing Director at Deutsche Bank leading the private financing and performing credit business for India and Southeast Asia. He was running a team of 25 analysts and structurers split across India, Singapore and Hong Kong and was responsible for the direct lending, leverage, and acquisition financing and holdco financings.

Prior to this, Saurabh worked for Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong as part of their private equity business focused on Indian markets. He started his career at ICICI Securities in their investment banking services.

Saurabh has post graduate diploma in management from 11M Bangalore, is a CFA charter holder and an undergraduate degree in commerce and accounting from St Xavier's College, Kolkata.

Saurabh Kochhar, CEO (India) and CBO (Global), Foodpanda.in

Saurabh Kochhar is the CEO of foodpanda India and Chief Business Officer of global operations. Saurabh is at the helm of the the strategic growth of the company, which has established itself as the largest online food ordering platform over the last few years.

Saurabh embarked upon his entrepreneurial journey with printvenue.com in the year 2012. Prior to co-founding Printvenue.com Saurabh worked with top global organisations such as McKinsey & Co and Oracle India. It is in these companies that he garnered the sound professional grounding and business acumen that he applied to his own enterprise and foodpanda thereafter.

A recipient of many prestigious accolades, Saurabh has been named as “The Most Talented Retail professional of India” by Asia Retail Congress and “Entrepreneur of the year in Manufacturing Business - Printing 2014”. His entrepreneurial accomplishments are suitably complemented by an illustrious academic track record. He has a B.Tech degree from IIT-Roorkee and an MBA from IIM-Calcutta, where he was the sole recipient of the Shri Ratan Tata Scholarship for the year 2009.

When not working, Saurabh enjoys travelling and spending time with family and friends. His interests include music, reading, movies.

Saurabh Kochhar, CEO & Co-founder, Foodpanda | @foodpandaIndia

Saurabh Kochhar is the CEO of foodpanda India. Saurabh is at the helm of the strategic growth of the company, which has established itself as the largest online food ordering platform over the last few years.

Saurabh embarked upon his entrepreneurial journey with printvenue.com in the year 2012. Prior to co-founding Printvenue.com, Saurabh worked with top global organisations such as McKinsey & Co and Oracle India. It is in these companies that he garnered the sound professional grounding and business acumen that he applied to his own enterprise and foodpanda thereafter.

A recipient of many prestigious accolades, Saurabh has been named as “The Most Talented Retail professional of India” by Asia Retail Congress and “Entrepreneur of the year in Manufacturing Business – Printing 2014”. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Technology from IIT-Roorkee and also holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from IIM-Calcutta, where he was the sole recipient of the Shri Ratan Tata Scholarship for the year 2009.

Saurabh enjoys travelling and spending time with family and friends. His interests include reading and watching movies and playing cricket.

@saurabhkochhar