Our speakers
Vamesh Chovatia, Partner, Tata Capital Healthcare Fund
Vamesh joined Tata Capital in March 2015 as Partner of the Tata Capital Healthcare Fund. He has over 25+ years of experience in investment banking and private equity advisory. His experience spans managing investments and advising businesses across multiple industries. Vamesh co-lead’s the healthcare fund team and will be actively involved in managing the full lifecycle of new fundraising, investing, portfolio management and divestments.
Vamesh Chovatia, Managing Director, NEA
Vamesh Chovatia joined the NEA team in June 2011 as Managing Director of New Enterprise Associates (India) Pvt. Ltd. (NEA India) based in Mumbai. Vamesh brings with him a total of over 22 years of experience in Private Equity Investing, Private Equity Advisory and Investment Banking.
Prior to joining NEA, he was Director- Private Equity at Kotak Investment Advisors Limited since 2005. He was responsible for originating transactions and investing in several companies like Home Solutions Retail, BVG India, NSE, MCX, Diamond Power Infrastructure etc. While at Kotak he also managed investments in life sciences and pharmaceuticals services sector investing in businesses as diverse as drug discovery, contract research, clinical research, biopharmaceuticals etc. and helped build a portfolio of companies like VLife Sciences, Siro Clinpharm, Indus Biotech, Rubicon Research, Bharat Serums & Vaccines. During his stint with Kotak, Vamesh has experienced a full life cycle of successful fund raising, investing and exiting businesses.
Vamshi Reddy, Co-Founder & CEO, Apalya Technologies
Vamshi leads Apalya's efforts in Corporate Strategy and Business Development. Over the years, Vamshi has garnered a lot of respect in the Mobile TV space in India helping make Apalya synonymous to Mobile TV in India.
Prior to starting Apalya, Vamshi worked at Cisco Systems in Information Technology management in the San Francisco Bay Area. Prior stints include AT&T, USA and Ernst and Young, USA.
Vamsi Krishna, Co-founder & CEO, Vedantu
Vamsi Krishna is Co-founder of Vedantu, an Ed-Tech startup that offers personalized Live Online Tutoring. Vamsi co-founded Vedantu along with his friends. These are childhood friends who started their first venture in education in 2006 called Lakshya, a Test Prep company in rural Punjab which got acquired by MTEducare, a listed company, in 2012. Vedantu is their second venture together in education. Vedantu was established with the vision of creating a world of learning that is personalized and democratized.
Vamsi completed his B. Tech. from IIT-Bombay in the year 2005 and has been a teacher for more than 6 years. At Vedantu, Vamsi primarily looks after strategy & product roadmap and oversees critical functions like Branding & Marketing. Under his leadership, Vedantu raised USD 5 million in Series A round of funding within just six months of its launch from marquee investors such as Accel Partners and Tiger Global. He has been invited to speak at prestigious conferences such as TEDx Walled City and KINSES 2016 where he presented as one of the winners of EduAwards 2016.
An amateur photographer you can find him clicking in his free time.
Vamsicharan Mudiam, Country Manager, Cloud Solutions, IBM India/South Asia
Vamsicharan Mudiam (Vamsi), is the Cloud Computing Strategy Leader for IBM India/South Asia. Vamsi is responsible for presenting an integrated ‘one IBM’ view on Cloud Computing to clients and partners. He also looks after strategic initiatives related to Cloud, with special focus on solution creation specific to local market needs. In addition, he also works closely with IBM’s ISV & Developer Relations (IDR) and Channel teams in developing a stronger ecosystem of partners.
As part of one of his cloud engagements for IBM, Vamsi began his cloud journey by being a key member of the Cloud labs organization working out of the Silicon Valley labs.
In his previous role, as the head of Cloud lab in India (Bangalore), Vamsi led a team of architects and developers who had made significant contributions to IBM’s Cloudburst development and also various other engagements locally and globally. He was also responsible for spearheading the implementation of a lab wide Dev/Test Cloud in the India Software Lab which is an integrated platform that includes integration with other IBM IT support systems.
Vamsi has been with IBM for the last 13 years, and most recently headed the IBM Cloud lab out of Bangalore. He has been part of the IBM Cloud journey for the past 3 years, leading a team of architects who have added value to IBM's Cloud offerings and customer engagements.
Vandan Kamdar, Founder, Learning delight
Hailing from a business family, Vandan always had a keen business sense, and he further refined this acumen, while pursuing his business degree at Nirma University, after completing his bachelors in Electronics and Communications. It was also the time that he met his now business partner and co-founder Harshal. They spent many evenings talking about wanting to set up an independent business, and one that served a larger purpose, besides profitability. With a keen interest in wanting to gain experience independent of his family business, Vandan saw Learning Delight as the right opportunity to not only fulfill his dream of building a business from scratch with Harshal, but also one that had a vision for the greater good of the society.
Vandana Bhatnagar, Chief Program Officer, NSDC
Ms. Vandana is the Chief Program Officer of National Skill Development Corporation. She is responsible for managing NSDC's funding strategy and portfolio. She also leads NSDC's technical engagements related to research, analytics, occupational standards and learning content. Vandana has over 25 years of professional experience in banking, development finance institutions and applied research. Prior to joining NSDC, Vandana was associated with World Bank as Senior Institutional Development Specialist, Water Department Global Practice. She has done her MBA from IIM Calcutta and is an alumnus of St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University.
Vandana Suri, Founder, Taxshe
Vandana Suri, Founder of TAXSHE - an organisation which aims at bringing in safety for women and kids through creation of professional women drivers, whether as chauffeurs, cabbies or trainers.
An ex-investment banker by profession, she has taken the plunge into a totally new and male dominated territory and decided that change had to begin with her. She started her Company becoming a driver herself, and through her deeds, inspired more women to join in. She realized that the key to more women cabs was to develop the women driver model.
She has now trained women from lower economic segments to become professional drivers, thereby giving them a new source of income and keep a whole lot of families safe in the bargain. By catering to the needs of society - safety of women and children on one hand and the financial needs of working women on the other, she has achieved a simple yet unique balance through women empowerment.
She envisions that this symbiotic respectful co-existence structured between the Demand & Supply will soon assume National & international proportions - thereby making the world a harmonious place. She knows that this is no easy task to achieve, yet she is guided by the smiles she is able to generate each and every day.
Each day she discovers a new avenue of demand for safety while commuting for women and kids & She is driven & determined to "Start up - And do something about it".
@VandanaSuri
Vani Garg Dixit, Vice President- Head Loyalty, Axis Bank
Passionate direct marketer and CRM professional. Specialist for building CRM / loyalty framework, analytics framework and customer driven marketing. Experience in launching and managing program for fuel, coalition loyalty programs, grocery, lifestyle retail and Banking. Direct to customer marketing frameworks for banking products and services. Building campaign strategy and implementing IT solutions for marketing – campaign management tool.
Specialties: Brand Management, Data analytics, Loyalty program strategy development, loyalty program implementation, Promotions, Direct marketing, Campaign Management, Multi channel Marketing , CRM strategy and implementation Customer experience.
Vani Kola, MD - India, Kalaari Capital Advisors P Ltd
Vani Kola is a pioneer in India's venture capital industry. Her passion for supporting entrepreneurs drew her from Silicon Valley to Bangalore in 2006. Since then, she has been involved in enabling funding in more than 35 companies and also serves on the boards of HushBabies, Mettl, Urban Ladder and Zivame among others. Vani has the risk capacity to identify visionary ideas at an early stage, and is deeply committed to the success of entrepreneurs in Kalaari Capital's portfolio as well.
After completing her engineering degree, she went to the United States for a master's degree and worked in the technology sector, founding two successful companies in Silicon Valley. She spent 22 years in the U.S., but it took her only two months to decide to come back to India in 2006.