Our speakers

Shishir Bhartia, Dy GM, Brand Capital

Shishir is a Chartered Accountant from Institute of Chartered Accountants England and Wales (ICAEW) and an alumnus of London School of Economics (LSE) with over 14 years of experience.

 

He started his career with a Big 4 firm, Deloitte in London in the Audit and Assurance practice. Post which he joined his family business in India and aggressively expanded the warehousing and real estate activities along with an entrepreneurial venture into distribution, franchise network and retail of consumer durables and mobile handsets.

 

He joined Brand Capital in 2008. He heads the portfolios for Healthcare, Wellness and Education sectors which are the fastest growing Brand Capital portfolios. He works closely with Entrepreneurs and CXO teams of high growth potential early stage organisations to help them achieve exponential growth through brand building, resource strengthening, business development strategies and applying best practices.

Shiv Kapoor, VP, Titan capital, Snapdeal

Shiv Khemka, Chairman, The Global Education and Leadership Foundation

Shiv is the Chairman of The Global Education & Leadership Foundation (www.tgelf.org), which identifies, nurtures and supports ethical altruistic leadership potential at schools and colleges. The program reaches about 2,500,000 schoolchildren in 14 countries, and has trained over 70,000 teachers and around the world. Shiv is also a Trustee of The Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation; a founding contributor to the Indian School of Business and the Public Health Foundation of India.

 Shiv was recently awarded the Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award by Tufts University, and the Outstanding Contribution to Education Prize at Wharton’s Reimagining Education Conference. He was elected a Global Leader for Tomorrow (GLT) at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 1997 and was invited to join the Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Education.

He serves on the President’s Leadership Council at Brown University and the Board of Overseers of the Wharton School, the Board of Governors of the Lauder Institute. As one of the founding investors, Shiv also sits on the Council of the Moscow School of Management Skolkovo, and on the Brookings India Initiative Council.

Shiv is Vice Chairman of the SUN Group, a private, family-owned investment group active in several transforming markets around the world, in several industries ranging from oil & gas to technology and infrastructure.

Shiv speaks seven languages including Russian, French, Spanish and Portuguese and is Chairman of the Aikido Aikikai Foundation of India. He is married to Urvashi Rana from Nepal and they have three teenage daughters.

Shiv Kumar Bhasin, Group Chief Technology and Operations Officer (CTO/COO), National Stock Exchange of India Ltd.

Shiv Kumar Bhasin, CTO, State Bank of India

Shiv Shivakumar, Former Group Executive President- Corporate Strategy & Business Development, Aditya Birla Group

Shivakumar Ganesan, Co-Founder & CEO, Exotel

Shivakumar Ganesan is the Co-Founder/CEO at Exotel, a business phone system on the cloud targeting SMEs in India.

Prior to Exotel, Shivku (as he is more commonly known) started, built, learnt and abandoned Roopit - a medium agnostic C2C marketplace. As an entrepreneur bootstrapping his start-up, he had only two people taking calls (one of them himself) and in the process he would miss a lot of calls. Each call was an important lead that could make or break his idea and affect customer satisfaction. He wanted a solution that would ensure he never missed a call and could track all phone conversations. Not finding anything in the market that fit his requirements, Shivku decided to build one instead. This led to a pivot and the rest will hopefully be history.

An alumnus of BITS - Pilani, Shivku started his career at Yahoo! as an Intern. He went on to write code for products like Yahoo Hotjobs, Yahoo Maps, Yahoo Communities etc. winning accolades and building long lasting friendships along the way. Shivku was awarded the Yahoo Ratna (Best Employee Yahoo - India) in 2005 and 2007 and the Yahoo Superstar (Best Employee Yahoo - Worldwide) in 2008. He has two patents in web crawling technologies. He then joined Flipkart.com as VP - Products and Technology, and started building their ERP system while helping hire the core engineering team.

At Exotel, Shivku along with his co-founders, Ishwar Sridharan (whom he met at Yahoo), Siddharth Ramesh (who studied computer science with him at BITS Pilani) and Vijay Sharma (whom he met at National Entrepreneurship Network) are looking to solve telephone and SMS related pain points of small & medium enterprises in a scalable & cost efficient manner.

Shivam Bajaj, Founder and CEO, Avener Capital

Shivani Bhasin, MD & CEO, India Alternatives

Shivani Bhasin Sachdeva is the Founder, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer at India Alternatives. Shivani has over 15 years of private equity experience in the USA and in India at top private equity funds including IDFC Private Equity, Lightyear Capital and GE Equity where she has been responsible for deal sourcing, execution and monitoring companies across various sectors. Shivani has helped shape strategy at various companies through board level involvement and been instrumental in generating superior returns for her investors. Shivani is an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and a BA from Mount Holyoke College (Massachusetts).

Shivani Bhasin Sachdeva, Founder & CEO, India Alternatives

themes in India such as women becoming more empowered as consumers. Shivani has over 19 years of global private equity experience in the US and in India at top funds including GE Equity, Lightyear Capital and IDFC Private Equity. Shivani has helped shape strategy at market leading companies through board-level involvement and has been instrumental in generating stellar returns for her investors. Shivani has previously served on the boards of HealthCare Global and Gokaldas Intimatewear, and currently serves on the boards of Brinton Pharmaceuticals and Seclore Technology. She is also an Independent Director at Emaar India, one of the largest real estate developers in India with assets in the country of over $3 billion, 5,000 acres of land, and 30 active projects; and at HIKAL Limited, a highly innovative company working across the life science value chain with over 2300 employees and market cap of over $943 million. Shivani has received accolades and recognition for being one of the top women leaders in Finance in India. Shivani received an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in Economics from Mount Holyoke College (Phi-Beta-Kappa, Magna Cum Laude, Sarah Williston Scholar).

Shivani Bhasin Sachdeva is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of India Alternatives Investment Advisors (“India Alternatives”). India Alternatives is a top performing mid-market private equity firm that backs unlisted companies that are the beneficiaries of transformational themes such as: women becoming more empowered as consumers; millennials driving a paradigm shift in consumption; technology reinventing financial services; and an increased focus on health and wellness.  

The Fund has made marquee investments including: TransUnion CIBIL – India’s dominant credit information bureau; NSDL – India’s largest depository; Brinton Pharmaceuticals – India’s fastest growing dermatology focused pharmaceutical company; Gokaldas Intimatewear (‘Enamor’) - a market leader in the women’s premium lingerie space and Seclore Technology - a rapidly growing cyber security company.

Prior to founding India Alternatives, Shivani was a key member of senior management at IDFC Private Equity where she was responsible for deal sourcing, execution and monitoring companies across various sectors including domestic consumption, healthcare and hospitality. Some of her notable investments at IDFC Private Equity include HealthCare Global Enterprises, a company focused on providing best in class oncology care on a pan India basis and Vodafone Essar, a leading telecommunications company.

Shivani previously worked with Lightyear Capital, a private equity fund based in New York, where she made lifecycle investments across sectors including education and financial services. Prior to that, Shivani had successful stints in the US at the private equity arm of General Electric and the investment banking division of Credit Suisse First Boston.

Shivani has been an active member on the boards of all her portfolio companies where she has been instrumental in guiding management teams and shaping strategy. Shivani has served on the boards of HealthCare Global and Gokaldas Intimatewear, and currently serves on the boards of Brinton Pharmaceuticals and Seclore Technology.  

Shivani is also an Independent Director at Emaar India, one of the largest real estate developers in India with assets in the country of over $3 billion, 5,000 acres of land, and 30 active projects; and at HIKAL Limited, a highly innovative company working across the life science value chain with over 2300 employees and market cap of over $943 million.

Shivani is a frequent speaker at domestic and international conferences on private equity including the SuperReturn, Europe and Singapore; Indian Venture Capital Association and AVCJ, Hong Kong and India.

Shivani has won an award for the top 25 women leaders in Finance by AIWMI (Association of International Wealth Management of India) as part of India’s Top 100 Women in Finance campaign. This campaign was designed to identify the most successful and respected women professionals in finance who are talented, resilient, ethical, strong and have grit.

Shivani received an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and a BA in Economics from Mount Holyoke College (Phi-Beta-Kappa, Magna Cum Laude, Sarah Williston Scholar).