Our speakers

Saravana Kumar, CEO - Special Projects, NSIC Venture Capital

Mr. Saravana Kumar is a Post graduate from IIM- Bangalore, holds degree in B.Tech., Risk management program from GARP- USA, CAIIB from Indian Institute of Bankers and attended Management Development Programme at Merrill Lynch Global Headquarters at New York. He has over 35 years of professional experience in Venture Capital, Private equity, AIF, AMC, Insurance Industry, PMS, SME sector, Finance & Accounts, Risk Management, Resource mobilisation, Treasury management and Corporate planning.

Mr.Kumar  is the CEO of the  NSIC Venture capital Funds. The above said Venture Capital Fund manages the Self Relaint India (SRI) Fund -a fund of funds scheme of Government of India for SMEs. He worked as a Senior management professional in ICICI Ventures and ICICI Bank and worked as Chief Investment Officer in SBI Funds Management, LIC Nomura Funds Management, etc.

He was a Consultative working group committee Member of (a) IRDAI on restructuring the investment for life insurance sector in 2011 (b) SEBI on developing the AIF funds and (c) Core investment committee member of American International Assurance (AIA)-Hong Kong. He had received in person the "World Finance" Award for the Best AIF Fund from London Stock exchange in March 2013. "World Finance" i.e. UK based investment publication had distributed above award.

Saravanan. M, Co-Founder & CEO, Bharath Home Medicare Pvt Ltd

A multi-faceted healthcare professional who has held senior management and leadership roles across India, far East and MENA regions in multinationals, such as Pfizer, Wanbury and Insta Health Solutions before laying the foundation for Bharath Home Medicare (Home Healthcare Company with pan India presence).

Sarit Chopra, Partner, Special Situations, Bain Capital

Sarth Jain, Managing Director, Xponents

Sarvana Kumar, CEO - Special Projects, NSIC Venture Capital

Sasha Mirchandani, Founder & Managing Partner, Kae Capital

Sasha Mirchandani is Managing Director and Founder of Kae Capital and Co-founder Mumbai Angels. Previously, he was at Blue Run Ventures as Managing Director for the India operations. Before joining Blue Run Ventures he was CEO and Founder of Imercius Technologies, a BPO focused on the healthcare space. Earlier he was at Mirc Electronics (Onida) where he was Head of Corporate Affairs and new business. His investments include Fractal Analytics, Inmobi, Healthkart, Myntra, Greendust, Cloudbyte, Canvera and Mettl. Sasha sits on the Boards of Hathway Cable and Datacom Limited, Ador Welding and Mumbai Angels Venture Mentors among others.

Sasha completed his Business Administration from Strayer University and MMDP program at IIM, Ahmedabad. He is a Charter Member at TiE Mumbai. He is also Past President of Entrepreneurs Organisation (EO) Mumbai and is a member of the Mumbai Chapter of the Young Presidents Organisation (YPO). He is also on the Board of Governors of the Universal Business School.

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Sashank Rishyasringa, Co-founder and MD, Capital Float

Sashank Rishyasringa co-founded Capital Float, a digital lending company in 2013. Under his direction, the company has grown to become the largest digital lender in India. With him as Managing Director, the company has pioneered technological innovations which have altered the lending landscape in the country. Prior to co-founding Capital Float, Sashank was a Senior Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company, where he advised several Fortune 500 companies, national governments, and non-profits on business strategy, product innovation, and organizational design. He possesses an extensive understanding of the global Fintech space and has prior experience in investments, financial inclusion and mobile technology from his time at McKinsey.  Sashank holds an MBA from Stanford University and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Princeton University by specializing in Economics and Finance.

Sashi Reddi, Founder, AppLabs

Sashi Reddi is the founder and executive chairman of AppLabs, the  world’s largest software testing and quality management company. Since its founding in April 2001, Sashi has grown AppLabs from a 3 person outfit in a shared office space in Philadelphia to its current size of 2,000 employees in the US, UK, and India.

A serial entrepreneur, Sashi has started two other companies prior to AppLabs. His first company was EZPower Systems, a developer of products for building and maintaining large-scale web applications. EZPower was acquired by DocuCorp and then eventually by Oracle. EZPower technology continues to be a part of Oracle’s document management offerings. Following EZPower, Sashi founded iCoop, a group purchasing dotcom company. He began his career consulting on technology and strategy to Fortune 500 companies in the travel, financial services, automotive and consumer packaged goods industries.

Sashi is also the founder and chairman of FXLabs, a leading developer of high quality game products for PC’s, consoles, and online. He is also the founder and chairman of Sricapital, a venture capital firm.

Sashi received his BTech degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi. He went on to gain an MS in Computer Science from New York University and later a PhD from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Satadru Goswami, Partner, Saraf and Partners

Satadru is a Partner in the Firm's Finance, Insolvency and Infrastructure practice and is widely recognised in the market as a leading finance and projects lawyer.  
 
With over 13 years of experience, Satadru focuses primarily on banking, project finance, structured finance, and restructuring. He routinely advises leading corporate and financial institutions on infrastructure projects, structured lending, banking and financial services, debt restructuring and resolution of stressed assets. Satadru highly regarded for his advice on large scale complicated project financing transactions, structured secured bond issuances both domestic and overseas, and intricate & complex restructurings and structured finance transactions. He is also particularly noted for his intrinsic and detailed guidance to debut issuers in undertaking market leading first time launch issues in the debt capital markets, and advice to leading corporates and NBFCs in setting up and structuring their debt raises with a keen focus on flexibility and building synergies necessary for their businesses.

Sateesh Andra, Managing Director, Endiya Partners

Sateesh Andra loves entrepreneurs with grit, clarity, and focus on execution. Technology start-ups with clear value proposition drive Sateesh. His investing, co-founding, leadership and engineering experience, for the past twenty-plus years in U.S/India, all veer around technology.

As the Managing Director at Endiya Partners, Sateesh serves on boards of AlphaICs, Darwinbox, and Kissht. Some of his past investments include Seclore, Little Eye Labs (Facebook) and mGinger (ValueFirst). Prior to Endiya, he was a Partner at Ventureast and DFJ.

Prior to DFJ, Sateesh was Founder/CEO of Euclid (Synnex), a Silicon Valley start-up, in the IT Management Software space and was instrumental in raising VC funding ($35 M+), besides acquiring and managing marquee customers and partners. He has also served in product marketing and engineering leadership roles at Tsqware (Synaptics), LSI Logic (Broadcom), and VLSI Technology (NXP).

Besides helping evolve ideas into real businesses, Sateesh is involved with the Pullela Gopichand Badminton Academy with the objective of popularizing sports and promoting awareness of chronic diseases in the corporate world. Sateesh was a top-ranked Table Tennis player representing A.P State in Nationals.

Sateesh holds a Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering.