Our speakers

Sonal Minhas, Co-founder, Twigly | @twiglyfoods

Sonal is a co-founder of Twigly foods, a company he co-founded in September 2015. Twigly delivers freshly made global cuisine at doorsteps of hungry souls. Before starting Twigly, Sonal was a VP at SAIF Partners and headed the F&B investments.

Sonal Shah, Executive Director , SMC Capitals Ltd

Sonal heads M&A and Private Equity Advisory at SMC Group. She has experience of over 20 years across M&A, corporate advisory and strategic consulting. She has advised leading Indian and international companies across areas including M&A, Joint Ventures, Equity/Debt Fund raising and Growth strategy. She has also advised Government of India- Ministry of Food Processing and Ministry of Agriculture and several State Governments on agri/food strategy and its implementation. She has been an active member of Industry Panels for the consumer, food, agribusiness and financial services sectors, for leading Indian Industry Associations. Sonal holds a PGDM from IIM Kolkata and a Bachelor's Degree in Economics (Honours) from Hindu College,  University of Delhi.

Sonali Jindal, Co-founder and COO, Ring/Kishtt

Sonali Jindal, Founder & COO, RING | Kissht

A post-graduate from IBS Hyderabad, Sonali has a demonstrated history of working across various business functions in the Fintech industry. She possesses technical expertise in SAS and CHAID and specializes in credit risk assessment at various stages of the customer lifecycle, in the domain of retail assets. By rising to the highest ranks of India’s conventionally male-dominated business world at a very young age, Sonali is a role model for women empowerment.

Prior to co-founding RING in 2021 and Kissht Finance in 2015, she has worked as an analyst with HDFC Bank and Deutsche Bank in areas like Retail banking, Scorecard Development, Business Development and improvement of cross-holding ratio with risk factorization, Fraud Analytics, Credit Risk assessment. At Ring, Sonali has played a pivotal role in revamping the corporate identity of the company and has brought in new innovations across business divisions.

Her business mantra is “Passion, research and action is the key to success”

Sonam Shah, Head, Garodia Academy

Ms. Sonam Shah – Preschool Head of Garodia’s Academy, for over a decade, has done her Masters in Human Development (from the College of Home Science, Nirmala Niketan). She has been instrumental in developing curriculum for Beehive – Franchise Preschool by Garodia Education and has been managing Garodia Academy’s Department of Early Childhood Education – a preschool teacher-training program.

A child at heart she is passionate about being with kids and envisions children to become independent thinkers and self – motivated learners.

Sonia Weymuller, Co-Founder and General Partner, VentureSouq (VSQ)

Sonia Weymuller is a Co-Founder and General Partner at VentureSouq (VSQ), a MENA-based venture capital fund with a global portfolio where she leads the firm’s ClimateTech investment practice. Previously, she was an Investment Consultant for Acumen’s KawiSafi Fund, worked in Commercial Development at Turner Broadcasting in Dubai, with Viacom’s Emerging Markets Strategy Group and with Microsoft’s Strategy and M&A team in London. Sonia is on the Board of Advisors of the Sharjah Entrepreneurship Center (Sheraa) and is a Jury member for the Cartier Women’s Initiative. She also serves as the UAE Director for the Yale Alumni Schools Committee and on the Yale President’s Council on International Activities. Sonia holds a B.A. from Yale University, an MSc from the London School of Economics, and is a Kauffman Fellow.

Sony Joy, Co-founder, MobME Wireless Solutions (P) Ltd

Sony Joy is Co-founder & Director at MOBME Wireless, a Mobile Technology Company he co-founded with his college friends back in 2006. MOBME was Kerala’s 1st Student’s Incubated Company & was then based out of Technopark, Trivandrum. Today, MOBME has grown into a leading player in the Indian Mobile-Internet Industry with more than 120 employees & presence in over 15 cities.

Apart from mentoring a dozen startups in the Mobile, Internet & Design space, Sony also serves as a Director in G-shoppe, an Electronics Retail Subsidiary as well as FWD Life, Kerala’s 1st English Lifestyle Magazine. His primary focus is a Mobile Payments spin-off of MOBME called Chillr, which aims to make cash, plastic money & wallets, a thing of the past.

MOBME’s jewel in the crown is Startup Village, a not-for-profit Public-Private-Partnership project with Government of India, which is home to thousands of technology startups today.

Sony has tremendous understanding of the Telecom Ecosystem, Product Development Lifecycle, User behavior & Scalability. He is passionate about technology, entrepreneurship & cars.

A Gold Medalist in School, Sony was in the top 0.1% in the Kerala Engineering Entrance & graduated from College of Engineering, Trivandrum with a B.Tech in Electronics & Communication.

Under the able leadership of Sony, MobME has won numerous awards & recognitions like NASSCOM Innovation Award, ISBA Entrepreneurship Award, NASSCOM Emerge50 Award, Bloomberg UTV CXO Award, Wallstreet Journal - Mint Award, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Young Entrepreneur Award etc.

Soumitra Majumdar, Partner, JSA Advocates & Solicitors

Soumitra Majumdar, Partner, J. Sagar Associates

Soumya Rajan, Co-founder, MD & CEO, Waterfield Advisors Pvt Ltd

Soumya Rajan is presently the Co-Founder, MD & CEO of Waterfield Advisors, an India centric advisory firm that works closely with Family-Owned Businesses and Trusts in three related areas of a Multi-Family Office, Corporate Advisory Services and Alternative Asset Management.  The firm's founding principles are based on trust and transparency and the firm offers a unique proposition of a no conflict of interest approach in dealing with clients. In a short period of 2 years, the firm has successfully been able to count several of India’s leading corporate houses and families as their clients.

Soumya Rajan started her career with ANZ Grindlays Bank (later Standard Chartered Bank) and spent over 16 years with the Bank. Her last assignment was as Managing Director and Head Private Bank, India at Standard Chartered. Awarded Outstanding Young Private Banker 2010 in October 2010 by Private Banker International for excellence in performance, leadership and innovation; her banking experience ranges from Consumer Banking, Risk Management and SME Banking to Private Banking.

Soumya won the Radhakrishnan Scholarship to study at Oxford University where she completed a degree in Mathematics from Balliol College. Prior to Oxford, Soumya completed her Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from St. Stephens College, Delhi.