Our speakers

Sanjeev Dasgupta, CEO, Ascendas Property Fund Trustee

Sanjeev has around 22 years of experience in the areas of real estate fund management, corporate finance, strategy and financial control. Immediately prior to joining Ascendas, he was working as President of Real Estate at ICICI Venture Funds Mgmt. Co. Ltd., a leading private equity fund manager in India. In that role, he was responsible for investments and portfolio management of the Real Estate funds of around USD 600 million. His key achievements included creation of a real estate structured investment product and a managed account platform through which he led investments in Mumbai, NCR and Bangalore. He also played a key role in significant performance improvements of certain assets through changes in the development mix, cost reduction, refinancing and other initiatives. Prior to joining ICICI Venture, he managed real estate investments of around USD 430 million as Managing Director at Future Capital Real Estate, a leading real estate development oriented fund manager. He led several landmark investments in metros such as Mumbai and Bangalore and in high growth tier 2 cities.

Sanjeev's prior work experience included stints with organisations such as Tata Group and Merrill Lynch across India, Hong Kong and London. He is a qualified chartered accountant, graduate company secretary and holds a Master of Business Administration from London Business School.

Sanjeev Dasgupta, President – Real Estate, ICICI Venture

Sanjeev Dasgupta has over 20 years of experience in the areas of Corporate Finance, Strategy and Financial Control. Prior to joining ICICI Venture, he was the Managing Director at Future Capital Real Estate. In this role he led investments in Retail and Mixed-use assets. He played a key role in equity investments of USD 300 Mln and development of real estate assets of around USD 1.5 Billion and in fund raising for the domestic fund, Kshitij (Rs. 350 Cr.), and the offshore fund, Horizon (USD 350 Mln).

Prior to this, Sanjeev has worked with companies such as Tata Exports, UTI Inc, Salomon Smith Barney, Merrill Lynch, Tata Teleservices and Epicenter Technologies.

Sanjeev's experience spans domestic & international tenures in London & Hong Kong. In these assignments he has handled Finance, Investment Banking & Business Development Functions.

Sanjeev is a qualified Chartered Accountant , Company Secretary and an MBA from London Business School.

Sanjeev Duggal, CEO & Director, Centum Learning Ltd

Sanjeev Duggal is the CEO and Director of Centum Learning and Co-Chairman of FICCI Skill Development Forum.

Sanjeev, with his unwavering commitment to creating employability in the country, coupled with his entrepreneurial flair and passion for developing people, has shaped the mandate of Centum Learning.

Centum Learning has figured among the Top 15 Leaders in Training Outsourcing Worldwide for four consecutive years. It was also conferred with the Excellence in Training Award at the World HRD Congress 2010 & 2011; UK India Skills Forum Award 2010 and featured in the Sales Training Watch List 2012.

Prior to joining Centum Learning, Sanjeev created and led India's premier training and consulting organisation, which spearheaded several initiatives aimed at creating employability skills in multiple domains.

His thought leadership on subjects like -"People, Capability and Development, Skilling and Employability in India", at national and international forums have been recognized by industry, government leaders and media. He was a visiting faculty at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. He is also an honorary trustee of a leading international Human Rights NGO called Breakthrough.

Sanjeev Mantri, Head, Rural & Inclusive Banking, ICICI Bank Ltd

Sanjeev Mantri is Sr General Manager, with ICICI Bank Ltd., the largest private bank in India and a leader in SME banking services. Sanjeev drives SME & Agri Corporate lending portfolio across the country, in addition to SME Private Equity and M& A advisory services for the Bank. Under his leadership, SME & Agri business of the bank has shown significant growth.

He joined ICICI Bank Ltd in 2003 to take charge of the Corporate Linked SME lending portfolio and has been responsible for introducing various innovative products to service the needs of this segment.

Prior to joining ICICI he has spent over 7 years with BNP Paribas, Mumbai handling diverse responsibilities in Corporate Banking space.

Sanjeev is a qualified Chartered Accountant and Cost Accountant. Often quoted in the Indian media, he is a regular speaker in many national and international forums for SME Banking.

Sanjeev Moghe, President and Head- Cards and Payments, Axis Bank

Sanjeev Mohanty, CEO & MD, Jabong.com | @JabongIndia

Sanjeev Sehrawat, Sr Director - Private Equity, ICICI Venture

Sanjeev Sehrawat is Sr Director, Private Equity at ICICI Venture.

Prior to joining ICICI Venture as ‘Senior Director’, Sanjeev spent 14 years in ICICI Bank with his last assignment being the Retail Business Head (West) for the Retail Banking Group. Prior to Retail Banking Sanjeev worked in Home Finance, Retail Liabilities & Business Banking, Corporate Banking where his areas of expertise included Treasury Sales, Structured Finance, Corporate Credit Risk Management, Loan Portfolio Management and Corporate Sales.

Sanjeev is a B.Sc. (Hons.) with a Post Graduate Diploma in Management with specialization in Finance and Strategy from IIM, Bangalore.

Sanjeev Vashishta, CEO, SRL Ltd. | @srlcare

Sanjeev Vashishta is the Chief Executive Officer of SRL Limited, the largest Diagnostics Company in India having over 330 Labs and 7500 Collection Points. A Fortis Group Company, SRL has the complete range of Diagnostics services including Lab Medicine, Imaging, Clinical Trials, Companion Marketing and Wellness and has a very committed team of 6200 employees including 700 Doctors / Scientists. Sanjeev is instrumental in turning around the Company. He has successfully managed to drive the profitability margins 2.5x and taken the EBITDA numbers 4x in less than four years of his association with SRL.

Prior to joining SRL, Sanjeev worked in Fortis for over 6 years where he successfully ran Hospitals. Previously he spearheaded the Mergers & Acquisition function for Fortis where he successfully expanded Fortis presence to all parts of India and also led International acquisitions. He has a unique distinction of running businesses both on the Healthcare delivery (Hospitals) and Diagnostics side.Sanjeev has been associated with various business / professional bodies like FICCI, CII, NHRD network and NATHEALTH etc. A graduate (B.Com Hons.) from Delhi University, Sanjeev is a qualified ‘Company Secretary’ and also done Masters in ‘Business Administration’.

Sanjeeva Shivesh, Founder & CEO, The Entrepreneurship School

A former civil servant, he quit civil service in 10 years to join Booz Allen Hamilton, London as an Expert for Public Private Partnerships. Subsequently, he joined a PE Fund - FIRE Capital Fund as Executive Director (Investments) 

In 2009, Sanjeeva took entrepreneurial plunge to start Smart Wave Education, Smart Wave Consulting, in addition to LMR Connect for providing outsourced engineering maintenance services. In 2013, Sanjeeva started The Entrepreneurship School where he nurtures people who want to become Entrepreneur.  He actively nurtures and mentors budding entrepreneurs in their quest for idea and handholding them to through various stage of launching their ideas into high performing enterprises. Some of his protégés have successfully launched their enterprises in the recent years.

An avid researcher and consultant in areas of innovation, entrepreneurship and infrastructure development, Sanjeeva has been consultant to diverse set of organizations. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of entrepreneurship quotient, entrepreneurial teams, commercializing innovation, design thinking and product prototyping. His passion for academics has kept him actively engaged in teaching course (s) on entrepreneurship, innovation and strategy in institutions like MDI, Gurgaon and FMS, Delhi University in addition to being the Member of Entrepreneurship Skills Council set up by Government of India. 

Sanjeeva is a B. Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and MBA from Cranfield School of Management, U.K.

Sanjib Jha, CEO, IntelleGrow

Sanjib is the CEO & Director of Mumbai-based IntelleGrow, a venture debt financing company for small and medium growing enterprises.

Prior to joining as the CEO of IntelleGrow in 2012, Sanjib led the corporate affairs and finance functions for Intellecap and its group companies. He worked closely with the Managing Director, Chief Operating Officer, and the Boards of Intellecap and its group companies strategizing and executing the next steps in the growth of Intellecap. He also served as an internal advisor to Intellecap's subsidiary companies. He conceived, conceptualised and lead the acquisition of Arohan by IntelleCash (first major acquisition in the Indian Micro finance Industry).

He has over 14 years of experience in business planning, mergers and acquisitions, transaction structuring, negotiation, execution, deal closure and portfolio management, management information systems, financial accounting, relationship management with institutional investors, venture capital funds, and key partners.

In the past, He was among the initial founding team member at ATS Services, a domestic BPO, and later joined Actis, where he concentrated on transactions and facilitated exits through public markets in the financial services, FMCG, pharmaceutical and automotive sectors. After Actis, Sanjib played a role in setting up Lok Capital in India. At Lok, he was also responsible for investments with major Indian MFIs. Sanjib is a qualified Company Secretary. He serves on the boards of Intellecap Software Technologies, Arohan, IntelleCash and IntelleGrow.