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Vishal Gupta, Managing Director, Bessemer Venture Partners

Vishal Gupta, is the Managing Director at Bessemer Venture Partners in Bangalore. Vishal joined BVP India in 2006 and focuses on investments in consumer internet, fin tech and health tech. Vishal is currently on the board of Bigbasket, Swiggy, LivSpace, Pharmeasy, Urbanclap, Hungama, MediAssist, NephroPlus, Perfios, Innoviti, Home First Finance, Applied Solar Technologies and Anunta Technologies. In the past he has served on the boards of Indian Energy Exchange (now public), Matrimony.com(now public), TaxiForSure (acq. Ola), Orient Green Power (now public). He has also served as a board observer of Shriram City Union Finance, Motilal Oswal and SnapDeal.com. He is involved with IIM Calcutta Innovation Park which promotes entrepreneurship.

Prior to joining BVP India, Vishal was a senior manager in the treasurer’s office at Reliance Group, Vishal helped the firm establish a private-equity fund that invested in such companies as Celebrity Fashions, Adlabs, and other firms in the healthcare and financial-services sectors. Previously, served as an executive assistant to the CEO a joint venture of HCL Tech and Deutsche Bank in India.

Vishal holds an M.B.A from the Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta, is a chartered accountant and has a B.A. in commerce from GS College, where he was ranked one of the top 750 students in the country. He is also a member of Mensa and has been a nationally-ranked table tennis player.

Vishal Hanmattekar, Director - Loyalty, Taj Hotels Resorts & Palaces

Vishal is currently Director of Loyalty at Taj Hotels, Resorts & Palaces. He has over a decade and half of experience in creating and managing Loyalty programs and CRM initiatives with a special focus on data driven marketing and CRM in Social Media. He has designed and implemented loyalty programs across varied customer segments for major brands across Retail and Hospitality.

Vishal Kapoor, Chief Design Officer, Future Group

Vishal Kapoor is a design thinker who seeks oneness in the world while accentuating the interconnectedness & merging polarities of societies & communities at large. It is this understanding & vision that reflects in his body of work driven mostly through multi-disciplinary & integrative systems approach. Deep empathy & creative problem solving are the weapons he employs to solve most life problems. He is also exhibit servant leadership where in leads from front & hand holds the teams at every juncture while ensuring the best possible team output in varied situations.

In his current role, Vishal Kapoor is Chief Design Officer at Future Group where he is instrumental in reimagining retail ecosystems in sync with changing consumer & socio economic milieus. His work impacts 23-million sqft. of space in 409 cities across the food, fashion & home formats of the company governed by human centered design approach. In his two & a half decades of retail experience, he has been lauded for bring design to the forefront, which has added strategic value at the intersections of trade, governance, & building new markets. Vishal is postgraduate in design strategies from school of design, HKPU –Hong Kong.

He has spoken at multiple national & international forums on how can design build differentiations & environments that are most relevant in difficult to keep up with changing world. This includes TTF (Trends of Transformation Forum) 2019 in Guangzhou, China , Global Retail Show ,Brazil and HYSEA (a registered apex body for software industry) 2015 in Hyderabad, India. He has also written publications & white papers for industry communication forums like In-store Asia & Medium.

Vishal Kapur, Director – Investments, Avigo Capital

Vishal Kapur is a Vice President and part of the managing team at Avigo Capital, an independent private equity fund based out of New Delhi with a focus on private equity investments in the SME sector in India. He was earlier a consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton in the USA and Boston Consulting Group in India, specializing in operations and corporate strategy. His skills are in corporate strategy, corporate restructuring and business performance improvement. Mr. Kapur has a MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and a B.E in Chemical Engineering.

Vishal Krishnam, Partner, PWC India

Vishal Kumar, Managing Director , Xander

Vishal is Managing Director at Xander and serves on the investment committee of the firm. Xander is one of India’s largest real estate private equity firms with over $2bn under management.

Vishal has spent over a decade investing in Indian real estate and thus knows all the markets, players, issues and opportunities well. He has invested across asset classes in equity and debt deals and has a deep understanding of the real estate business in India. He is also a member of the FICCI committee for real estate.

Vishal Laheri, Advisor -M&A & Strategy, Reliance Capital Ltd | @RelianceCapital

Vishal Laheri has over 14 years of experience in Strategy, M&A and transactions advisory across Financial Services, Technology Media & Telecom and Infrastructure & Power sectors. He has worked on some of the largest and most complex transactions in India and has developed vital relationships with several renowned promoters, foreign and India institutions, funds and C-Level executives.

Between 2005-2015, Vishal worked with the promoter team (reporting directly to the Group Managing Directors) of Reliance Group (India’s leading business conglomerate), across all the businesses of the Group, specifically working on M&A, taxation and accounting matters. He also assisted the promoter team in their representations with several industry forums including FICCI, CII, IMC, India US CEO forum, etc.

Over the past 4 years, Vishal was responsible for the M&A & Strategy function, reporting to the Group CEO at Reliance Capital Limited (RCAP), the holding company of Reliance Group’s financial businesses. In this role, amongst several other transactions, he was instrumental in the Group’s key partnerships with Nippon Life Insurance (Japan) for the life insurance and asset management businesses, and with Sumitomo Mitsui Trust and Bank (Japan) for the proposed banking license and strategic partnership. During this period, Vishal has closed transactions aggregating to ~USD 1.5 bn. He continues to advise RCAP on its ongoing transactions.

Prior to joining Reliance Group, Vishal was part of the Transaction Advisory Services at Ambit RSM (now part of PwC India) for about 4 years, and worked on a wide range of sector-agnostic M&A and restructuring transactions, for leading Indian as well as MNC clients.

Vishal is a Fellow of the Institute of the Chartered Accountants of India and a Company Secretary by qualification, and has graduated from Narsee Monjee College of Commerce and Economics, Mumbai, with state government open merit scholarship.

Vishal Lal, Co-Founder, Ultracash Technologies | @UltraCash

Vishal is an entrepreneur and a Product innovator – who believes in solving large and complex real world problems using technology and deep consumer insights .

Alumnus of IT-BHU with over 17 years of experience, Vishal has been at the heart of startup ecosystem spearheading Technology, Product, Business Development, and managed Customer engagements across US, UK, Asia and Latin America.

He has Co-founded two Product Companies in domain of Mobile Payments, Security and Pattern Recognition around Innovative technologies driving adoption of large scale consumer services. In the past he has also been a Principle architect at  multiple startups and has led through the entire life cycle of companies and products including go- to-market strategies and managing customer engagements. He holds multiple patents in the area of system architecture and security.

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Vishal Mahadevia, Managing Director, Head of India, Warburg Pincus

Vishal Mahadevia is a Managing Director, Head of India and member of the Executive Management Group at Warburg Pincus. Prior to joining Warburg Pincus in 2006, he worked with Private Equity funds, Greenbriar Equity Group and Three Cities Research. He also worked as a Consultant with McKinsey & Company. Mr. Mahadevia is also a Director of IDFC First Bank Limited and Apollo Tyres Limited. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Indian Venture and Alternate Capital Association, The International Advisory Board of Center for the Advanced Study of India and the India Regional Board of Room to Read. He received a B.S. in Economics with a concentration in Finance and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.

Vishal Mahajan, President - Investment Banking, YES Securities

Vishal has over 18 years of experience in origination and execution of investment banking transactions. He has successfully closed several ‘first of its kind’ transactions in India across domestic/cross-border M&A and fund raising mandates.

Vishal leads the Investment Banking practice for Technology, Media & Telecom (TMT), Banking & Financial Services (BFSI) and FMCG sectors.

Vishal joined YES Bank in May 2006. Prior to joining YES BANK, Vishal was with Marsh & McLennan, a Fortune 100 financial institution and with Ernst & Young Transaction Advisory Services. Vishal is a BE (Electronics) from Delhi College of Engineering and an MBA from NMIMS, Mumbai.