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Saurabh Adeeb, Head of Operations & Partnerships, The/Nudge Foundation

Saurabh is the Head of Operations at The/Nudge Foundation, a non-profit that exists to alleviate poverty, sustainably and scalably. Having been closely involved since the foundation's inception, he is, by his own admission, excited by the vision of building a world class organization in the development sector and bringing about sustainable change among the youth. In his earlier stints, he has spent 15 years in the corporate sector working with companies like Google where he led and grew the strategic publisher partnerships business by 60%, and Motorola where he led key software deliverables for flagship mobile handsets. He had also cofounded a startup that he shut down prior to joining The/Nudge.

Saurabh completed his engineering from BIT Ranchi and has an MBA from ISB Hyderabad.

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Saurabh Aggarwal, Founder & CEO, Octro

He has successfully led Octro since 2006, from when Octro created the world’s first Mobile VoIP client, before shifting focus to mobilizing locally popular games. Currently, Octro's three games, Octro Teen Patti, Octro Rummy and Octro Tambola stand amongst the top 5 in the gaming section for India, making Octro Inc. the largest mobile gaming company in India.

Saurabh is a technologist with business vision. Through Octro, he has built one of the most complex backend, powering game developers to build highly engaging multiplayer games, catapulting those mediocre to outstanding. Moreover, he uses his business acumen to create mass following for these games, cutting through social classes by re-imagining Indian games made in India for Indians.

Before Octro, Saurabh was the Co-Founder of PDA apps, the creator of VeriChat, a mobile IM solution, that got acquired by Intellisync in 2005. Saurabh started his career at Packeteer Inc. where he was part of the core engineering team. He holds an MS in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Saurabh Agrawal, Chief Strategy and Investment Officer, Mafatlal Family Office

Saurabh Arora, Founder & CEO, Airwoot

Saurabh believes that it's an era of internet of customers and social media plays an important role in connecting billions across the globe. Saurabh realized that there existed a huge gap in technology that would allow brands to deeply engage with their customers on social media and that was the trigger to build Airwoot: a company that brings artificial intelligence together with customer intelligence to drive customer delight. Saurabh sees a world where the brands have the power to engage with their customers on social media to the “power of one” and getting to know them like never before. Prior to kickstarting Airwoot, Saurabh worked as a doctoral researcher at Hasso-plattner Berlin in the area of security & usage control of data.

Saurabh Arora, CEO & Co-founder, Lybrate

Saurabh Arora is the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Lybrate, India’s first and largest mobile healthcare communication and delivery platform. With Lybrate, he is striving to make healthcare more accessible in India and bridge the demand-supply gap of healthcare experts by seamlessly connecting doctors and patients with the help of technology and letting them communicate using mobile phones.

Saurabh brings huge entrepreneurial product experience to the venture. Prior to founding Lybrate, Saurabh worked with Facebook Inc in the United States where he connected SMEs and large advertisers to their customers using Facebook Ads.

While working with Facebook, Saurabh decided to come back and fix the fundamental issue that plagued the Indian healthcare, which was inaccessibility of doctors. He noticed that people were blindly relying on chemists, who were not even qualified to prescribe medicines, for fixing their health problems. The thought of the situation being much grave in tier 2 and 3 cities, and the conviction to find out a solution, prompted Saurabh to incorporate Lybrate, where he connected patients to doctors much in the same way he connected SMEs and large advertisers to their customers using Facebook Ads in Facebook.

Lybrate provides people the opportunity to seek multiple opinions from doctors and bridges effectively the yawning demand-supply gap of healthcare experts in the country. With a strong network of 80,000 doctors from across India, Lybrate acts as the world’s largest online Out Patient Department (OPD).

Saurabh is an MBA from Columbia Business School. He pursued his Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering from the country’s premier Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi.

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 Chandra, CEO & Founder, Ati Motors

Saurabh Deep Singla, Chief People Officer, Ecom Express