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Srikumar Misra, Founder, MD & CEO, Milk Mantra | @Milk_Mantra
Srikumar Misra is an entrepreneur and the founder of Milk Mantra; he was with the Tata Administrative Service in London and quit his job in 2009 and returned to India to set up Milk Mantra in Odisha to address the large problem of consumer trust deficit with the integrity of milk and milk products.
Milk Mantra, India’s 1st VC funded Agri Food & Beverage startup is a conscious capitalist entrepreneurial white revolution and it’s ‘Milky Moo’ brand is one the fastest growing dairy brands in the country and has nearly 50,000 network farmers as part of its Ethical Milk Sourcing program.
Srikumar has been written about as 'India's New Age Milkman’; Stanford Business School did a case study on his fund raise; he was nominated on the Management Board of Odisha University of Agriculture & Technology, he is a Fellow of the Aspen Institute, USA as a thought leader and was selected as Fortune India’s 40 under 40 in 2016.
With a number of product innovations to address the evolving dairy nutrition market, Srikumar has also created a revolutionary product – the World’s 1st milkshake with Curcumin (active ingredient of haldi) and has a patent pending in India and US.
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Srinath Srinivasan, Chief Executive Officer, Oman India Joint Investment Fund
Srinath Srinivasan is the Chief Executive Officer of Oman India Joint Investment Fund (OIJIF). OIJIF is a Joint Venture Fund between State Bank of India and State General Reserve Fund (SGRF) of Oman. SGRF is the sovereign wealth fund of Oman. At OIJIF, he has evaluated over 300 potential investment opportunities and has invested in 5 companies across sectors. These include ING Vysya Bank, Solar Industries, NCDEX, Beaver Industries (HBL Batteries) and IndusTeqsite. He currently serves on the Board of NCDEX, Beaver Industries and IndusTeqsite.
Srinath has 23 years of experience including 14 years in Private Equity. As a private equity professional, he has invested in 28 Companies till date and has served on many Boards across Asia. During his career, he has lived and worked across Asia.
Private Equity industry in India entered a growth phase starting 2004. During this phase, Srinath was instrumental in setting up and heading the Private Equity business of Reliance Capital. In this role, he managed a USD 100 million Joint Venture fund with Temasek of Singapore (to invest in companies making products for the power sector). He also invested in non-power sector companies through a Proprietary Fund. Some of the well-known companies in which he invested include Sukam Power Systems, Ravin Cables, EMI Transmission, DTDC Courier and Cargo etc.
Prior to returning to India in 2004, Srinath worked with AIG Asian Infrastructure Fund in Singapore, where he managed investments of the Fund in infrastructure space across Asia.
Srinath has a rich operation experience in the telecom industry, where-in he has done sale of products, business development for wireless networks, implemented customer care and billing systems for Telco's and arranged project finance for Telco's.
He is an Electronics and Communication Engineer from National Institute of Technology (NIT), Suratkhal, Karnataka. He was a State Scholar at NIT Suratkal. Srinath has done his MBA from Asian Institute of Management, Philippines.
Srinath has worked across Asia in diverse cultures and lived in Singapore for 12 years. He is fluent in Hindi, Kannada, Tamil and English languages.
Srini Nagarajan, Managing Director and Head of Asia, BII Group
Srini joined British International Investment in 2013 to lead the Asia team under the organisation’s new investment strategy. He has the distinction of having been our first overseas employee and recently moved to Singapore to lead BIIs expansion into the Indo-Pacific region. He has been instrumental in building a high-quality portfolio in the region, which focuses across products and sectors.
Under his leadership, BII has a strong presence on the ground and the team has made successful investments in the financial services, healthcare, logistics and renewable energy sectors – including the creation of BII subsidiary Ayana Renewable Power in India, a pioneer renewable energy developer. His role includes support in origination, execution, and management of the portfolio for delivering development goals and value. In addition, he is building BIIs presence in the Southeast Asian markets with a focus on Climate change.
Srini started his career with Standard Chartered Bank both in India and Southern Africa, before joining British International Investment in 1996. He has managed leasing companies in Africa; in India he managed legacy assets for value before moving into mainstream private equity investing for both British International Investment and Actis.
He has a Master’s degree in Economics and a post-graduate qualification in Business Administration from Warwick School of Business.
Srini Nagarajan, Head of South Asia, CDC Group
Srini re - joined CDC in June 2013 and is currently Head of South Asia and based out of Bangalore. In his current role he is CDC's representative on the ground and responsible for its investments in the region.
Previously Srini was Director with a global PE fund Actis and focussed on Private Equity deals in the Financial Services sector in South Asia. Prior to this He was focusing on deal origination for Actis in India and also managed a portfolio of CDC investments in South Asia for value. He spent close to eight years in Sub Saharan Africa with both CDC and Standard Chartered Bank.
Srini has a Masters degree in Economics and a post Graduate in Business Administration from Warwick School of Business.
Srini Raghavan, CEO, Educational Initiatives
Srini is a technology strategist with executive leadership experience in building teams, business development, operations, growth management, change management and process improvement. He currently serves as CEO of Educational initiatives (EI) where his mandate is to scale the company with the objective to permeate EI's scientifically developed assessment and learning solutions across all strata of society.
Srini has a rich experience of partnering with leaders to scale up businesses multiple times by focusing on core technology aspects. In the immediate past decade, he served as Vice President & Managing Director in Bally Technologies (NYSE:BYI) where he helped the company grow revenue by over 300% and stock price by over 700%. In earlier stints, he was with Manhattan Associates, Cadence Design Systems and Pepsi. Srini started his career in the Indian Army where he served for six years and had the experience of operational as well as ceremonial duties.
Srini is a member of NCERT’s National Expert Group for Assessment in School Education (NEGASE). He has always been passionate about education and was instrumental in starting a school in a strife torn part of the country during his tenure in the Army. He has also been associated with EI since the company's inception. Srini holds a B.A. (Honors) degree in Economics from Delhi University and a Diploma in Management from IGNOU.
Srini Rajam, Chairman & CEO, Ittiam Systems Pvt. Ltd
Srini Rajam joined Texas Instruments India in 1985, as a Software Engineer. He has held many technical and leadership roles in TI, spanning the areas of Design Automation, ASIC and DSP product development. During 1993-94, Srini Rajam worked in the Asia Pacific Region as Technical Marketing Director for TI's Semiconductor Products in Asia. In that role, he set up the Customer Application Centers for TI products in Singapore, Hong Kong, Taipei and Seoul. During this time, he also functioned as the Chairman of TI's Technical Council in Asia.
Srini was the Managing director of Texas Instruments India during 1995-2000.
He was a member of the TI Corporate Steering Team for TI India and the TI Asia Leadership Team. He was also the Chairman of TI Asia advisory team for the regional technical council. Srini served as a member of the Governing Council of the Department of Electronics' Software Technology Parks during the period 1996-98. He is currently a member of the Karnataka State IT Task Force formed by the Chief Minister. He is the Chairman of Indo American Chamber of Commerce, Karnataka Branch for the year 2000-01.
Srini has a Master's Degree in Computer Science from the School of Automation, Indian Institute of Science, 1984 and a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Madurai University, 1982.
Srini Vudayagiri, Investment Director, Peepul Capital
Srinivas Chidambaram, MD & CEO, Jacob Ballas
Mr. Srinivas Chidambaram is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Jacob Ballas. He joined Jacob Ballas in 2005 and has 24 years of financial services and industry experience, including 16 years in private equity. He previously served with HSBC Private Equity (Asia) and its affiliates in Hong Kong and India, responsible for private equity investments in India and South East Asia. Mr. Chidambaram has also served in the IT industry with HCL Technologies, a leading Indian IT services company, responsible for financial institution relationships and strategic alliances in the USA.
He commenced his career with SRF Finance Ltd. (since acquired by GE Capital) where he was responsible for Corporate Finance and Investment Banking, based in Mumbai. Mr. Chidambaram is a qualified Chartered Accountant.
Srinivas Chilakalapudi, VP - Strategy, Associations & Digital Business, Green Gold Animation Pvt Ltd
Srinivas Chilakalapudi is Vice President of Strategy, Associations and Digital Business at Green Gold Animation. He has been an Advisor to Green Gold since its inception and has taken up a fulltime position two years ago.
Srinivas Chilakalapudi has been instrumental in being part of the creation of India’s favorite character "Chhota Bheem" and has been working with the company to turn it into one India's major children’s brand.
Before Green Gold, Srinivas has worked with technology companies such as Ericsson and Dell.
He holds a M.S degree in CS from University of Missouri at Kansas City and a B.Tech degree in EEE from JNTU Hyderabad.
Srinivas K, MD & CEO, BTI Payments Pvt Ltd
K Srinivas is a Mechanical Engineering graduate and a PGDM from IIM Bangalore (1987).
Srini joined BTI Payments, a Bangalore based start-up JV between Banktech Group of Australia and ICICI Ventures, one of India’s largest alternative asset management companies in Dec 2014 as its MD & CEO.
Prior to joining BTI Payments Srini was the President of Consumer Business at Bharti Airtel, where he worked for over 11 years. Srini joined Bharti Airtel in Nov’02 and as a circle CEO, led the operations of mobile services in Andhra Pradesh and Delhi. During this period, he led Airtel to a leadership position in Andhra Pradesh and laid out a strategic blue print for significantly scaled up operations. In Mar’06, he moved as the Executive Director for Mobile Services for the Eastern Hub comprising of the newly rolled out operations of West Bengal, Orissa, Bihar and North East. During this tenure, Srini helped Airtel achieve a huge scale and led the brand to a dominant leadership position, overtaking all key competitors. In Jun’08, his portfolio was expanded to include the operations of Gujarat and Maharashtra & Goa. Simultaneously, he led the launch of operations in Sri Lanka, Airtel’s first 100% venture overseas by successfully translating the unique business model of Airtel beyond the shores of the country. From early 2009, as President-Telemedia, he led the Telemedia Business (fixed line and broadband) for over 2 years. When all the business verticals - mobile, DTH, fixed line, Airtel Money were integrated in 2010, Srini was elevated as the President of Bharti Airtel’s Integrated Consumer Business (President - Consumer Business). He was a member of the Airtel Management Board since 2009.
Of his over 27 years of rich working experience, Srini spent his early years in Britannia Industries Limited, then a subsidiary of Nabisco, and Hindustan Lever Limited (HLL) a subsidiary of Unilever. During these years, he worked in various sales, marketing and business development roles across different profit centers and geographies. His last assignment in Hindustan Lever was that of a Business Manager-New Ventures, where he was responsible for conceiving and developing a new rural business model “Project Shakti”, using micro credit and micro financing thro’ banks.