Our speakers

Tarun Mehta, Co-founder, Ather Energy

Tarun is a graduate of the Department of Engineering Design, IIT Madras (batch of 2012). He is a co-founder and CEO of Ather Energy.

A native of Ahmedabad, Tarun was actively involved with the entrepreneurship eco-system in IIT Madras (C-TIDES) and always wanted to start-up. He loves product start-ups and has worked on over a dozen prototypes over a wide range of topics and has six co-patents (pending).

A strong believer in the superiority of the electric drive, Tarun started working on EV battery packs to solve one of the biggest pain points with EVs in India. However, realization soon dawned that the problem wasn’t limited to batteries alone and that the entire vehicle needed to be designed from ground-up to produce an intuitive and smart EV. Thus, Ather Energy was born.

Tarun Pandey, Chief Technology Officer, Aditya Birla Health Insurance

Tarun Sharma, MD, MegaDelta Capital

TCM Sundaram, Founder & Managing Director, IDG Ventures

Mr. TC Meenakshisundaram (TCM) is Founder & Managing Director of IDG Ventures India Advisors. He has over 32 years of industry experience, including 13 years of venture experience.

TCM serves on the Board of Lenskart, Zivame, Agrostar, Fintellix, e-Shakti, Creditmantri, Cloudcherry among others.

Earlier as part of Walden International’s team, TCM was involved with investments in Mindtree, Venture Infotek and Jobstreet.

Prior to IDG Ventures, TCM served as Chief Financial Officer and President - Corporate Services at Venture Infotek, a leading payments processing company in India. Prior to Walden International, TCM has worked for 14 years at Wipro where he last served as General Manager - eCommerce Division.

TCM is a Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), Chennai. He is a Chartered Accountant by qualification.

Tej Kapoor, Managing Partner, IvyCap Ventures

Tej Kapoor, Country Head, dmg :: Information India

Tej is Country Head for dmg India. He is responsible for Daily Mail’s organic and non-organic growth in India. He has over ten years of experience in e-commerce, media, internet and B2B information industries. Work experience in both US & Asia Pacific region.

dmg India current portfolio includes, Skymet, iProf, India Today Group (Mail Today), Mailonline.in and ad : tech India.

Before joining dmg, Tej worked with Naspers as strategy head. During his tenure at Naspers, Tej launched and managed e-commerce b2c businesses and made several investments / acquisitions for Naspers. Previously, Tej held several key positions at AOL in the United States helped AOL’s expand its presence in Asia Pacific region, including India and China.

Tej holds bachelor’s degree in Economics from Bangalore University, an MBA from Alan Shawn Feinstein Graduate School, USA and executive education from The Wharton School. Tej holds bachelor’s degree in Economics from Bangalore University, an MBA from Alan Shawn Feinstein Graduate School, USA and executive education from The Wharton School.

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Tejas Shah, Chief Information Officer, L'Oreal

Tejeshwi Sharma, Principal, Sequoia Capital India LLP

As a Principal, Tejeshwi Sharma advises on growth stage consumer internet and SaaS investments for Sequoia in India.

He currently serves on the boards of companies such as Moglix, Rebel Foods and Whatfix amongst others.

He previously managed Tencent’s India investments, where he led the investment in BYJUs.

Tejeshwi graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi with a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering and holds an MBA from Stanford GSB.

Tejpavan Singh Gandhok, CEO, Om Pizza & Eats

Mr. Tejpavan Singh Gandhok(Pavan)  has an MBA from UCLA (Dean’s list) and a BE Chem. Eng(Honours) from Univ. of Melbourne, as well as a qualification in journalism.

An Indian born, US educated, Australian citizen, permanent resident of Singapore and an Overseas Citizen of India. He has a very impressive entrepreneurial and professional track-record. He is co-founder of Litebite Foods chain of restaurants. He has over 18 yrs of international Senior Partner level experience in Country & Regional Head roles across Australia, US, South East & Middle East Asia with Strategy consulting & Private Equity firms such as Halycon, AT Kearney, Stern Stewart & co. and the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). He has advised most of the leading blue chip Indian , SE Asian as well as global MNC clients on issues such as: corporate portfolio and business unit strategy ; organization design; business performance improvement; corporate finance and valuation; governance and senior executive remuneration. Mr.Tejpavan also worked with Monsanto as Director - business development and growth strategy for Asia-Pacific, ICI Australia and the University of Melbourne. He is also a co-founder and Lead Director of Natures Bounty an alcoholic beverages marketing company; co-founder and managing trustee of Madadghar a charitable trust.

Currently Mr. Tejpavan is the CEO of OM Pizzas & Eats India Pvt Ltd & Tex Mex Cusinie India Pvt Ltd. OM Pizzas has the following brands under it ie Papa Johns & The Great Kabab Factory. Tex Mex has the following brand under it ie Chilis Grill & Bar.

Thakur Pherwani, Chief Sustainability Officer, TVS Motors