Our speakers

Shantanu Roy, Chairman and Managing Director, BEML

Shantanu Roy, Executive Director, BEML Ltd.

Mr. Shantanu Roy is presently heading BEML Ltd.’s Delhi Office as Executive Director and is responsible for International Business Division, Strategy & New initiatives, Coordination and northern region operations for all the three business verticals (Defence, Mining & Construction, and Rail & Metro). An Electrical Engineering Graduate from NIT Raipur and an MBA in Financial Management, he is having more than 29 years of extensive experience in the capital goods sectors for Defence, Mining & Construction, Transportation, Transmission, Renewable and large power projects involving the entire gamut of  Business Operations including Marketing, Strategic Business Planning ,Brand Management & Positioning, Contracts Management, Project Management, Manufacturing Operations & Planning, Procurement & Operations, Logistic Management, Vendor Development, Team Management, Business Excellence & TQM activities. He is a speaker / panelist at CII, Exim Bank, Rail and EEPC seminars.

A Six sigma Black Belt certified professional and widely traveled , he is adept at various models of project financing, mechanisms and processes for financial closure of large projects,  international laws, arbitration rules, international legal & arbitration cases and statutory & Legal  Compliances and has undergone training on leadership and strategic alliances from IIM Calcutta and IIM Ahmedabad respectively.

In his earlier stint as Head of  BHEL's Marketing and Business Development team for Neighboring countries, Middle East & Americas and After sales business for entire overseas operations , he was responsible for positioning BHEL in the international market  for the supercritical thermal power segment with the largest ever export order of US$ 1.5 billion for the 2X660 MW Maitree STPP in Bangladesh, further consolidation of BHEL’s presence in Bhutan by securing orders for three major Hydroelectric Power Project and entry of BHEL in subcritical thermal power segment and large Gas Turbine based power plant in the Middle East. Prior to that, he lead the production and operations for manufacturing of  high voltage rotating electrical machines and traction applications at BHEL’s Bhopal Unit and underwent Training on Rolling Stock electrics and rotating electrical machines in Netherlands and Germany respectively.

Shantanu Surpure, Managing Attorney, Sand Hill Counsel

Shantanu Surpure is Managing Attorney at Sand Hill Counsel, a law firm with offices in Mumbai and Silicon Valley. Shantanu focuses on venture capital and private equity transactions and has extensive experience in representing venture capital and private equity funds in fund formations and venture capital and private equity financings in addition to representing emerging and public companies in venture capital and private equity financings, mergers and acquisitions and public offerings. Shantanu has a special focus on cross-border India-US transactions and has previously practiced law with large US law firms in Silicon Valley.

Shantanu holds a BA from Brown University/London School of Economics, an MA Juris from Oxford University and a Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School. Shantanu is admitted to practice law in India, California, New York and England and Wales. Shantanu is a Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) and is active in mentoring entrepreneurs and start-up companies in developing the Silicon Valley "ecosystem" in India. Shantanu is also a founder director of the Mumbai Angels, which is an initiative for organized angel investing in India.

Shanti Mohan, Founder, LetsVenture

Sharad Agarwal, CEO, Sify Infinit Spaces Ltd.

Sharad Agarwal takes over the mantle of the Chief Executive Officer of Sify Infinit Spaces Limited, wholly owned subsidiary of Sify Technologies Limited topping a diverse career path with 28+ years of consistent growth. A decade of it was spent in Technology Implementation, Professional Services and Consulting and close to two decades in management; among them finding solutions to complex problems at multi-billion dollars scale at high double-digit growth rate.

Sharad moves into this role on the strength of his technopreneurship across several domains like ecommerce, logistics, retail, Cloud and Data Center. An active industry veteran, he comes equipped with a combination of sales and project management skills that will help him expand the footprint and acceptance of Sify’s data centers. He is active on the industry front, scripting the narrative between the industry and the regulatory and also a committed advocate of the use of renewables in the Data Center business.

Prior to Sify, Sharad was at Vantage, where he was mandated to build their Data Center business. This was preceded by a long stint at Amazon Web Services where he front-ended capacity delivery for an APAC region.

Sharad Bhatia, Managing Director, Multiples Alternate Asset Management

Sharad has over 39 years of experience in the financial services industry, including the last 18 years in the area of distressed debt. He worked in various capacities with ICICI group, Kotak Mahindra group and Axis Bank and is presently Managing Director at Multiples Alternate Asset Management Private Ltd, where he leads the Stressed Assets team. Before joining Multiples, he served as President-Stressed Assets at Axis Bank and as CEO at Phoenix ARC Private Limited.

He has served on the Boards of several leading corporates and is a regular speaker on issues relating to distressed debt and asset reconstruction.

Sharad is a chemical engineer with a postgraduate degree in business management. He also attended the AMP at Insead, France.

Sharad Devarajan, Co-Founder & CEO, Graphic India

Mr. Sharad Devarajan is a media entrepreneur, creator and producer. He is the Co-Founder & CEO of Liquid Comics/ Liquid Studios, a digital entertainment company that uses the medium of graphic novel storytelling to develop original content for various digital platforms, publishing, theatrical live-action films, animation and games. He was previously the Co-Founder, CEO & Publisher of Virgin Comics LLC and Virgin Animation Pvt. Ltd, a set of companies he co-founded, with Sir Richard Branson, authors Deepak Chopra and filmmaker Shekhar Kapur.

Mr. Devarajan is also a Producer / Executive Producer on a number of theatrical live-action film and television projects in development. In digital entertainment, Mr. Devarajan worked with filmmaker John Woo and Tiger Hill, to produce the animated web series, “John Woo Presents: 7 Brothers,”.

Prior to Liquid, Mr. Devarajan was Co-Founder & CEO of Gotham Entertainment Group, which was a leading South Asian youth magazine publisher that launched the Indian publishing activities for DC Comics, Marvel Comics and Cartoon Network. In 2010, Mr. Devarajan led a project with the Open Hands Initiative, to bring together students with disabilities to work together and create a new superhero that reflected their shared challenges and shared values. The superhero, “Silver Scorpion,” received worldwide acclaim for promoting advocacy for the rights of the disabled in the Middle East.

For his activities, Mr. Devarajan was featured as CNNfn’s ‘Maverick in The Morning’ and covered in numerous media including The Wall Street Journal, Businessweek, Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, Fox News and NPR’s Fresh Air.

He holds a BFA from Syracuse University and an MBA from Columbia University where he is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School teaching the popular class, Media Marketing and Entrepreneurship, as well as, Transmedia & Transcreation: How Technology and Globalization are Transforming Media.

Sharad Gohil, Managing Director, IndoSpace Capital Advisors Pvt. Ltd.

Sharad Gohil joined IndoSpace in 2015, and currently oversees asset management across the platform. He has over 18 years of experience in real estate, specializing in asset management and investments across the core, value add and development real estate sectors in the UK, Europe, and India. Sharad has previously worked for Apollo Global Management Real Estate Funds in Europe, Asia Pacific and India, as well as, Citigroup Property Investors Asia Pacific, AXA REIM and The Portman Estate in the UK.

Sharad Malpani, Director, Venture Capital Investments, ICICI Venture

Sharad currently co-heads IVen Amplifi Fund which is a new early growth fund from ICICI Venture. He joined ICICI Venture’s Private Equity team in 2016. He has over 23 years of experience with ICICI Group, spanning across operating businesses, strategy, advisory & investments. He has spent last 14 years in Private Equity investment business and has managed transactions at multiple stages of the business with smaller to larger ticket sizes. Sharad has worked on transactions across sectors which include Consumer / Consumertech, BFSI / fintech, Agri, Manufacturing etc. He was founding member of team for early-stage growth private equity investment fund & has managed full life cycle of the fund. He also heads the ESG responsibilities for private equity business at ICICI Venture.

In his earlier role with SME Group of ICICI Bank, Sharad has seen larger set of companies across multiple industries across economic cycles. Sharad has also spent time with International Banking Group earlier with assignments in various countries.

Sharad holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Chemical Engineering and MMS degree from University of Mumbai.

Sharad Mittal , Executive Director & CEO, Motilal Oswal Real Estate Investment Advisors

Sharad joined MORE in 2013, spearheading the firm’s real estate fund practice and has been instrumental in rebuilding and scaling up the MORE business from an AUM of Rs. 200 Cr to more than Rs. 2,000 Cr over this period. Under his leadership, MORE has successfully raised two funds – IREF II (Rs. 500 Cr) and IREF III (Rs. 1031 Cr) and has a Prop Book/PMS of more than Rs. 300 Cr. During this period, the Funds have established a strong track record of profitable exits from investments and have received awards and accolades at the CNBC Awaaz Real Estate Awards. (“Real Estate Fund of the Year” for 2016-17). Sharad has over 16 years of experience in Real Estate investing, lending and fund raising.