Our speakers

Sucharita Mukherjee, CEO, IFMR Holdings

Sucharita is currently the CEO of IFMR Holdings, is a Trustee and Vice Chair of IFMR Trust, and has been a part of the IFMR Trust Executive Group since 2008. She is a director on the board of all IFMR Trust group companies and was the founding CEO of IFMR Capital, from its inception till 2012. She has recently been appointed as a member of the India Advisory Committee to the UNEP Inquiry into a Sustainable Financial System. Previously, Sucharita led the origination and structuring effort in credit derivatives and structured finance for corporates at Morgan Stanley in London where her work included developing innovative asset-backed financing structures in areas such as intellectual property and health-care receivables. She was also part of the credit derivatives team at Deutsche Bank in London, structuring credit-derivatives-linked repackaged investments for financial institutions. She graduated with an MBA from IIM, Ahmedabad, and has a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Delhi University.

Sucharita Mukherjee, Vice-Chair, IFMR Trust & Chief Executive Officer, IFMR Holdings

Sucharita is currently the CEO of IFMR Holdings, is a Trustee and Vice Chair of IFMR Trust, and has been a part of the IFMR Trust Executive Group since 2008. She is a director on the board of all IFMR Trust group companies and was the founding CEO of IFMR Capital, from its inception till 2012. She has recently been appointed as a member of the India Advisory Committee to the UNEP Inquiry into a Sustainable Financial System.

Sucharita was honored with the title of 40 under forty by Economic Times and Spencer Stuart in -2016 and she was also featured in ET’s list of Corporate India's fastest rising women leaders.

Previously, Sucharita led the origination and structuring effort in credit derivatives and structured finance for corporates at Morgan Stanley in London where her work included developing innovative asset-backed financing structures in areas such as intellectual property and health-care receivables. She was also part of the credit derivatives team at Deutsche Bank in London, structuring credit-derivatives-linked repackaged investments for financial institutions. She graduated with an MBA from IIM, Ahmedabad, and has a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Delhi University

Suchi Mukherjee, Founder & CEO, Limeroad.com

he only Indian to receive the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Scholarship for studying Economics at Cambridge University in 1994, Suchi graduated from St. Stephens College, Delhi University and procured her master’s degree in Finance & Economics from the London School of Economics where she won the British Chevening Scholarship.

Creating and scaling businesses which impact people's lives deeply using technology has been her sole passion. Starting from the early years in finance, where she was part of teams that designed India’s first special purpose financing vehicle, and then the world’s largest aviation insurance company via a transatlantic merger, Suchi has had an illustrious career. Her successful stint at eBay encapsulated Suchi as a part of the relatively early team building out the UK business, creating earning opportunities for millions of sellers.  UK ultimately went on to become the second largest eBay market in the world. Subsequently, as an executive management team member at Skype, she led teams that designed and launched the biggest upgrade in Skype’s history since launch, thus enabling free peer-to-peer multiparty video and screen share. Finally there was Gumtree - UK's largest online classifieds business, where Suchi was Managing Director & CEO, helping millions of women and men find incredibly useful daily life savers.

Suchi calls herself a Delhi girl who has come home after over 15 years to build LimeRoad.com, a venture conceived after the birth of her second child, while snatching a few minutes of me-time flipping through a magazine.  Nothing, she felt, gave unhindered access to a rich breadth of product across South-East Asia, in an interface that was as easy as flipping a magazine.  Thus grew the idea of the platform, the proposition and the interface. Driving for lasting impact has been a core theme for her. She has also been selected as one of 15 women worldwide - high potential leaders under 40  for driving change and impact, showcased & celebrated at the World Women’s Forum in Deauville, Paris, 2010. She has great admiration for people who have questioned status quo and made lasting change happen in their own contexts, and all her core partners reflect the same grain.

Suchita Salwan, Founder & CEO, Little Black Book

Suchita Salwan is the founder & ceo of Little Black Book (www.lbb.in)- a web and app based local discoveries & recommendations platform. Little Black Book reaches out to over a million users every month, and is available in Delhi, Delhi, Bangalore and Bombay (launching soon). The platform sees some of the biggest brands in the world- including Airbnb, Samsung, Taj, Pepsi, Coca-Cola, Nestle- and a plethora of local brands connect and engage with a local audience.

She has graduated from Delhi University with a degree in Economics, after which she worked with Wizcraft and the BBC. Her forte and domain interest lies in Marketing, Social Media, Brand Building and Sales. She started Little Black Book as a platform for young, urban audiences to access the best things that were happening in their city- across interests and locations. Today, she runs LBB with her co-founder Dhruv Mathur and 50 colleagues.

Sudarshan Jain, Secretary General, Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance

Sudarshan has a strong passion for healthcare and the education sector. Currently, he is the Secretary-General of the Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance (www.ipa-india.org), Senior Advisor - Apax Partners and Board member of multiple organizations. He has served in several leadership positions for over 40 years in Healthcare industry (Lupin, Johnson & Johnson, Piramal, Abbott) and was formerly the Managing Director at Abbott Healthcare Solutions.

His current Board engagements include Abbott India, Healthium Limited (Apax portfolio company), Zandu Chemicals Limited, Indian Education Society (IES), Advisory Board of Narsee Monjee University, Mumbai (NMIMS). He is the Visiting Faculty at Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad. He has contributed in shaping the healthcare policy and improving access to healthcare in India.

Sudarshan is an Alumnus of St. Stephens College, Delhi University and Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad.

Sudesh Menon, CEO, Waterlife India Pvt. Ltd

Sudesh Menon, has led both start ups and large multinationals in India and globally. An experienced and distinguished professional with International experience, Sudesh is widely credited with pioneering the concept of sustainable community water systems in India.  

Sudesh co-founded Waterlife which has grown rapidly and occupies a unique and leadership position in the Water Space.

Before coming back to India, Sudesh was country head for General Electric based in Kuala Lumpur. He is credited with some of the major strategic initiatives across Asia and bringing a solutions approach to some of the largest businesses. He was also instrumental in the start up team that brought GE Fanuc Automation into India and successfully grew the business.

Sudesh is a B.Tech from IIT, Kharagpur and holds a degree in Management.

Sudhanshu Mishra, VP-Enterprise Business, Ozonetel

Sudhanshu Mishra, VP- Business Development, Ozonetel Communications

Sudhanshu Mishra has over 30 years of experience of Business Management handling leadership positions in BD, Sales, Marketing, Product management, Partners and Alliances, in areas of IT software and hardware products, services and e-learning, across India and middle east.

Sudhanshu leads the Business Development team at Ozonetel that is responsible for reaching out to enterprise customers and other businesses, to help them with providing a superlative customer experience to their target markets, while ensuring that the team interacting with the customers also has an enjoyable and efficient workspace.

Sudhanshu spent 14 years in Wipro, across two stints, handling channels, large accounts, marketing and IT services across various verticals. Other than Wipro, he worked for several companies including CA Technologies, Oracle, HP and Xerox.

Sudhir Bahl, Director (India) & Executive-in-Residence (Dubai), TVM Capital Healthcare Partners

A seasoned executive with over twenty one years of senior management and entrepreneurial experience in healthcare, he is passionate about creating successful and sustainable businesses. He is an entrepreneur, has worked in joint ventures, been part of successful start-ups and comes with understanding of complete Healthcare eco-system in India and international markets.

He has been part of senior management team in global organizations in medical devices and equipment industry (GE Healthcare), Healthcare IT Solutions (Wipro Technologies), Healthcare Delivery Organizations with focus on P& L management and business Strategy (Apollo Hospitals, Nova Surgical Specialty and Irene Healthcare), Investment  and Portfolio management ( ICICI Venture). He has been instrumental in helping many senior doctors for developing successful partnerships in secondary care, day care surgery, radiology diagnostic centers and IVF Clinics

In last five years Sudhir has served on the Board of Six healthcare companies in their growth stage and worked closely with executive management teams to achieve growth objectives while creating sustainable organizations. Currently he is on the Board of Directors at BournHall International and on advisory board of two startup companies in Singapore and Australia.

He is an Electronics Engineer and an Executive MBA with specialization in International Business Management. He is also a GE Certified SIX SIGMA (Green Belt) for Process and Performance Improvement).He is known for his vision, strategic thinking, positive attitude and high energy levels and displays tremendous leadership qualities by focusing on mentoring and people development.

As Director-India for “TVM Capital Healthcare Partners”, Sudhir leads the firm’s presence in India and will be the first port of call for Indian entrepreneurs and management teams seeking growth capital. As Executive-in-residence in Dubai he focuses on the development of the Portfolio companies in India and MENA region. He is also an “Executive Director of the Board” at BournHall International - an IVF chain owned and operated by TVM Capital in India and Dubai.

TVM Capital Healthcare Partners is first private equity and growth capital firm dedicated exclusively to the healthcare sector in MENA region. The firm focuses on making growth capital and buyout investments in companies that aspire or are already leaders in the healthcare. TVM Capital has decided on expansion of its investment geography beyond the MENA region and plans to invest 100M US$ in India in next three years. Presently the firm has a good portfolio in healthcare sector in MENA region and has invested in Home Healthcare, Long Term Care Facilities, Rehabilitation Center, Medical Devices and Technology Companies.

Sudhir Dravid, Asst VP, Brand Capital

Sudhir is an Engineer from IIT Mumbai and MBA from IIM Lucknow with over 19 years of experience in private equity, banking and KPO. He is based in New Delhi and is responsible for Business Development and closing of deals for several verticals in Northern Region, Brand Capital.

He has worked with SIDBI and ICICI in Project Finance and Credit Risk Management functions. Thereafter he worked with a European investment fund, being responsible for the Fund’s investments in India and other emerging markets.

Sudhir has also worked with Genpact, Gurgaon, a leading provider of outsourcing services, where he was leading delivery of Analytics services to global clients in the Private Equity, Banking, and Equipment Finance space.

Sudhir loves travelling, reading and watching movies in his spare time.