Our speakers

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.

Sanjith S Shetty, Vice Chairman & MD, Soham Renewable Energy Pvt. Ltd.

Mr. Sanjith Shetty, Vice Chairman of the company, heads the day to day operations of the company. An Industrial Engineer, he graduated as Class Valedictorian from the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University – a Top 10 Business School in America and is an alumnus of the prestigious Harvard University. A serial entrepreneur, he has headed ventures including manufacturing of Alcoholic Beverages, Energy conservation systems, IT Education, E-validation Services, etc.

He is actively associated with several Business Owner Organisations such as The Young Presidents Organisation (YPO), and Entrepreneurs Organisation (EO). Both are worldwide peer to peer networks of over 20,000 CEOs. Sanjith helped start the EO Bangalore Chapter and has served as its Past President as well as Area Director of all India chapters.

He has been serving the YPO Bangalore Chapter Board as its Finance Chair for the past 2 years. Upon invitation he currently serves on the India Alumni Advisory Board for Duke MBA as well as, in its Global Alumni Council.

Sanjiv Aggarwal, Partner, Energy, Actis

Sanjiv joined Actis’ Asia team in 2008 and is responsible for Actis’ energy industry activities in Asia. Prior to joining Actis, Sanjiv was at Citigroup for eight years, where he worked extensively in the Indian infrastructure sector, culminating as Head of Power, Energy, Chemicals, Mining and Transportation for India. Prior to Citigroup, Sanjiv worked at ANZ Investment Bank for nine years, where he headed the project finance team for urban infrastructure and oil and gas and was Head of Eastern India.

Sanjiv holds a Bachelor of Technology from the Indian School of Mines and a MBA from the Xavier Labour Relations Institute.

Sanjiv Kapur, MD, Wolfensohn India Advisors Private Limited

Mr. Kapur currently serves as the Managing Director in Asia for Wolfensohn & Company, a private investment firm focused on private equity in emerging markets.

From 2002 to 2005, Mr. Kapur was Senior Partner and Head, Asia Pacific Private Equity for Henderson Private Capital in Singapore. In this capacity, Mr. Kapur managed a successful $210mn Asian private equity fund that invested in China, India, Korea, Singapore and Thailand. He served as a Director/Observer on the Boards of HT Media (India), Maginet (Singapore), Jubilant Organosys (India), and Airmate (China).

From 1999 to 2001, Mr. Kapur was the Chief Investment Officer, Private Capital for AMP Henderson Global Investors in Sydney, Australia where he established the successful India infrastructure fund jointly with UTI that invested in ports, telecom, and gas distribution. He has served on the Investment Committees of several private equity funds including Capital Z Asia II, AXA-AIG Select Global Fund of Funds I and Asia Equity Infrastructure Fund. He also headed the $235 mn Henderson Global Fund of Funds investing in US, Europe and Asia.

From 1989 to 1999, Mr. Kapur held various investment positions at the IFC in Washington including Head of Private Equity and Head, International Securities Group, and invested in companies and funds across Asia, Latin America, Central Europe and Africa. He served on the Boards of Handlowy Heller (Poland) and CIC (Chile).

From 1986 to 1989, Mr. Kapur worked in New York at the HSBC Group (Vice President, Sovereign Risk Management) and also at AIG (1982-86). From 1981-82, he was at State Bank of India in New York. Mr. Kapur has a B.A. in Economics (Honours) from St. Stephen’s College (Delhi University) and an M.B.A. with Distinction from the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird). He was elected to the Executive Committee of the Singapore Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (2003-05).