Our speakers

Anand Prakash, MD, FE Clean Energy Group

Anand is the Managing Director for FE Clean Energy Group and is responsible for managing its Asian investments. FE Clean Energy has approximately US$300 million under management from investors that include Mitsubishi Corporation, Chubu Electric Company, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Asian Development Bank, European pensions funds, among other institutional investors. The Fund has already invested in India, China, Thailand, Singapore and the Philippines in a wide array of clean energy investments including hydro power generation, biomass based power generation, waste-to-energy, energy efficiency and bio-fuels.

Anand has a Bachelor’s in Mathematics from St. Stephen’s College in New Delhi, India, a Master’s in Economics from St. John’s College, Cambridge University, England, and a Master’s in Public Administration from Cornell University.

Anand Prasanna, Managing Partner, Iron Pillar Fund

Anand Prasanna is a Managing Partner at Iron Pillar, a fund manager focused on mid-stage technology investments in India. He spends his time working with new generation of Indian technology entrepreneurs, building global technology businesses out of India or domestic consumer tech companies.Previously, he was with Morgan Creek, a global investment management firm, where he helped manage their Asia portfolio out of Shanghai. Anand have extensive work experience in India and rest of Asia, including firms like Sequoia Capital, McKinsey & Co and Squadron Capital.

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Anand Prasanna, Director, Private Assets, Morgan Creek Capital Management LLC

Anand Prasanna joined Morgan Creek in December 2012 and is currently a Director based in the firm's Shanghai office. As part of Morgan Creek's Asia team, Mr. Prasanna will be covering the firm's activities in private investments in Asia with a particular focus on India. Prior to joining Morgan Creek, he was a senior investment professional at Squadron Capital, a Hong Kong-based private equity group focused on the Asia Pacific region. He has had extensive work experience, including high profile firms McKinsey and Sequoia Capital in India, where he was able to build a strong local network amongst companies, entrepreneurs and investors.

Mr. Prasanna earned a Master of Business Administration from the Fore School of Management in New Delhi, and earned his BBA in Business Administration from the University of Kerala.

Anand Ramachandran Prasanna, Investment Director, Squadron Capital

Anand Ramachandran Prasanna is an Investment Director.

Prior to joining Squadron Capital in March 2008, Anand was with Sequoia Capital’s Indian investment team, based in Bangalore. Prior to his work with Sequoia, he was employed by the global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, based in New Delhi with assignments across the Asia Pacific region.

Anand holds an MBA from the FORE School of Management, New Delhi and a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Kerala.

In addition to Hindi, Anand speaks Malayalam and Tamil.

Anand S. Jha, Partner, ASJ Law Associates

Anand is the Managing Partner at ASJ Law Associates, a full-service law firm based in Delhi/Gurgaon. He has varied experience in his field having been associated with reputed law firms and having served as in-house counsel, before quitting to set up his own practice. His main practice areas include M&A, angel fundings & private equity, foreign investments, commercial and mercantile transactions in which domains he advises clients ranging from global powerhouses to start-ups across India, US, Europe and the Middle East. With a deep understanding of the interface between law and business, his writings have appeared in leading publications.

Anand Shrivastav, CMD, Beam Money

Anand brings almost three decades of rich and diverse experience to the fore, having successfully marketed and distributed both novel as well as reputed brands across consumer, nutrition & health care products, hybrid seeds, telecom, retail, and banking services. In addition, he has spearheaded several projects, devised and implemented marketing strategies and managed large distribution channels viz. Coke/Double Seven in soft drinks, Telecom Australia in telecom to development of sales & distribution software for consumer companies viz. Unilever and Nestle, and electronic transaction management systems for leading banks like BNP Paribas and Standard Chartered etc. One of the highlights in his career was his setting up India's first pay phone privatization franchisee network, of successfully deploying over 1,100 payphones across Delhi and Mumbai within 6 months. Anand’s invaluable contribution towards the prepaid industry won him the 2012 Global Prepaid Award.

Prior to setting up Beam Money, Anand has held board level positions in several other prestigious organizations including The Homes Stores, Intercorp Biotech, and IEPC Limited to name a few. He has served as marketing consultant to several PSUs viz. Kerala State Drugs & Pharmaceuticals and Kerala Sops & Detergents. He is also a coholder of patents on the mobile commerce, biotechnology and life sciences.

Anand has authored “Redialling Financial Inclusion” published by Financial Express; and had co-authored alongwith Prof Suresh Sunderesan of Columbia University the book “Microfinance - Emerging Trends & Challenges” published by Edward Elgar. He is a regular speaker at esteemed institutions viz. Columbia University and IIM to name a few.

Anand attended Harvard University Graduate School Design for AMDP.

Anand Sinha, Co - Founder, Pressplay Tv

Anand is the Co-Founder & CEO of PressPlay - a young startup trying to solve the problem of entertainment on the go and is funded by Sequoia Capital. Having started his career at D.E. Shaw & Co., he was an early stage employee at Zomato where he started out as a sales manager and went on to become the National Sales Head within 3 years. In his current role Anand oversees growth and product and is working on disrupting media content consumption on the smartphone.

Anand Sudarshan, Venture Advisor, TVS Capital

Anand Sudarshan is an education sector advisor. In addition to his role as Advisor, TVS Capital Funds, he is the Founder & Director of Sylvant Advisors Private Limited. Sylvant focuses on providing a range of advisory services to institutions, enterprises & investors, with a strong focus on the education sector.  Anand is also an independent director at Manipal Global Education Services Private Limited (MaGE). Till June 2012, he was Vice-Chairman & Managing Director of MaGE, with whom he has had a distinguished career since May 2006.

Anand also actively supports Government of India in policy formulation, and is a member of select Committees & Task Forces of the Planning Commission of India as well as the Ministry of Human Resource Development (India's Education ministry). He is a founding member of EDGE (an education sector forum and think-tank) and the Vice-Chairman of EDGE's Vision Group. He is also a member of CII's (Confederation of Indian Industry) and FICCI's (Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry) national committees on Education.

Prior to his stint at MaGE, Anand was President, Adea International (a wholly owned subsidiary of Adea Solutions, Inc, Dallas TX), responsible for all global businesses of the IT Services & Solutions company. Anand was also the one of the co-founders of the Microland Group and also served in several senior capacities in The Computer Point.
Anand has a Bachelor of Engineering degree (B.S Degree) in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India, and a PGDM (M.B.A Degree) from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India. 

Anand Sudarshan, Founder and Director, Sylvant Advisors Private Limited

Anand Sudarshan is Founder & Director, Sylvant Advisors Private Limited, which provides strategic advisory services in the education sector to Indian & global institutions, large enterprises, and investors. In addition, Sylvant also incubates, invests in, and advises start-up & early stage companies. He is currently an independent non-executive director of NIIT Limited, the pioneer in education & training. He also serves on a number of other private company boards, as well as government committees on policy advisory in education.

Till June 2012, he was Vice-Chairman & Managing Director of Manipal Global Education (MaGE), with whom he had a distinguished career from May 2006. A pioneering global education entity headquartered out of Bangalore, MaGE is the largest higher education & related services entity out of India. Anand was instrumental in leading the team that built MaGE through expanding its global footprint to 6 campuses, in addition to propelling it as the definitive leader in technology-driven higher education out of India. Notable among the several milestones & achievements MaGE had during Anand’s tenure, are new campuses in Malaysia, Dubai, Antigua and India; an award-winning technology learning platform, EduNxt; a pioneering banking academy, probably the largest of its kind in the world; and expansion of MaGE’s multi-country footprint through organic & inorganic strategies. Post moving out of a full-time position, Anand served as an independent non-executive director of MaGE from July 2012 till September 2013.

Anand Sudarshan has been a recognised leader in the education sector since the last 9+ years. He is an active member of FICCI’s (Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry) national committees on Higher Education & School Education, is the Chair of its national committee on innovation & start-up’s, and is the Co-Chair of FICCI’s Karnataka State Council. He has in the past been a member of CII’s (Confederation of Indian Industry) national committee on Education. He is a founding member of EDGE (an education sector forum and think-tank) and the Vice-Chairman of EDGE’s Vision Group. He is also a trustee of Head Held High Foundation, which is doing seminal work in transforming rural poverty through empowering youth with low or no education through a dynamic combination of focus on training such youth, and creation of jobs through accelerating the rural economy.

Prior to his stint at MaGE, Anand was an entrepreneur & a senior executive at companies in the Information Technology industry, co-founding the Microland Group, and later driving Adea Solutions International. Anand holds a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India, and a PGDM (MBA) from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India. Anand, his wife Padmashri & their son Dhruva live in Bangalore, India.

Anand Sunderji, Regional Representative, Paul Capital

Anand Sunderji began working with Paul Capital in early 2011 as a Regional Representative for sourcing secondary transactions in India. Mr Sunderji is also a Partner at Perpetual Value Partners, an emerging market focused private equity advisory firm. He has over seven years of private equity experience in Asia and was formerly the co-head of the India fund of funds at Guggenheim in Mumbai. Prior to this he was the co-lead of the Asian private equity fund of funds at Adveq in Zurich and also held the role of the Head of Investors at the World Economic Forum in Geneva and New York. He started his career at INVESCO in London as an European equity portfolio manager. Mr Sunderji holds a bachelors degree in Chemistry and Chemical Technology from the University of Bradford.