Our speakers

Anil Raibagi, Senior Vice President and Global Head- M & A, Wipro Ltd

Mr. Anil Raibagi is Vice President and Global Head of Mergers and Acquisitions at Wipro Technologies. In this role, he is responsible for crafting as well as implementing Wipro’s inorganic growth Strategy. He is based out of Wipro’s corporate office in Bangalore.

In a diverse career spanning over 20 years, Anil has made a significant contribution to multiple roles across sales, operations, finance, P&L management, strategy and M&A. In his prior role, Anil had an opportunity to run a Wipro’s newly acquired company in financial services space. He was based in US as a CEO of this company and grew the business over 200% of its original size, in a short span of 3 years. He joined Wipro 10 years back, in year 2002 and has been a poster boy of blending business understanding with finance acumen. He was instrumental in building Wipro’s total outsourcing business from scratch and led a sales team which secured over US 1.2 Billion in contact value for Wipro.

Anil also worked with IBM and Ceat financial services Ltd. prior to joining Wipro. At IBM, he was part of Global financing as well as Strategic Outsourcing business and worked on financial structuring & asset solutions as part of large IT Outsourcing contracts. Ceat financial was his first job where he began as management trainee in 1992. When he left Ceat, he was heading the most profitable southern region and oversaw various corporate and mid - market financing projects.
 
Anil has done Master of Business Administration in Finance and graduation in Advanced Statistics.

Anil Sarin, Managing Director, Bessemer venture Partners

Anil Sarin is a Managing Director with BVP India. Based in Mumbai, he joined the team in 2006.

Named a Platinum Fund Manager in July by The Economic Times, Anil has more than a decade of public equity fund management experience. Most recently, he was the co-head of equities at Prudential ICICI Asset Management, India’s largest mutual fund company. Anil’s four funds—the Power Fund, the Dynamic Fund, the Emerging Star Fund, and the Fusion Fund—routinely produced market-beating returns under his management, winning a number of industry awards. Among Anil’s successful investments were the Deccan Chronicle newspaper company, Subex Systems software, and Zenith Infotech, an IT services company. During Anil’s tenure, the money that he managed at Prudential ICICI grew from less than $30 million in 2004 to more than $800 million in 2006.

Prior to joining Prudential ICICI, Anil was a fund manager for Birla Sun Life specializing in technology. Under his management, the Birla IT Fund won Best Technology Fund in 2001 and 2002, and the Birla Equity Fund was named Best ELSS Tax Saving Fund in 2003. Anil began his career as an equity research analyst and fund manager at SBI Funds Management.

Anil holds an MBA degree from the Institute of Management and Technology in Ghaziabad, and a Bachelor’s in commerce from Delhi University. Before going to graduate school, he served in the Indian Army as an infantry officer, seeing active duty in Sri Lanka and training junior officers at the Infantry School in Mhow.

Anil Sethi, Vice President and General Manager, Channels, Dell Technologies, India

Anil is the Vice President, and General Manager for Channels for Dell Technologies India. Anil is responsible for driving the Dell Technologies’ India channel strategy with a higher share of the wallet, customer preference and profitability.

Anil has over three decades of expertize and is known for his strong business acumen, far-sighted vision and ability to bring mega-scale to businesses. He has proven success in P&L management, business strategy, operations excellence, channel management & sales leadership in both direct and indirect sales. He has had an extensive career and has worked with reputed organizations such as TCS, Microsoft and IBM amongst others. Anil has developed his expertise across infrastructure, software and services domains, in various geographies and in different capacities including customer as well as partner facing roles. His previous assignment was as Vice President & Global Sales Head, Cloud Computing for TCS.

Anil brings to Dell his significant and long term relationships developed over the years with the channel community starting from distributors, system integrators, solution providers and tier-2 partners. He has to his credit set up the IBM India channel business model and re-engineered the channel business model for Microsoft OEM business. Anil also created and launched the new business model for Cloud offerings for TCS.

Over the years, Anil has worked across multiple geographies such as India, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam.

Anil Sharma, Senior Director, Chief Technology Officer - AMESA, PepsiCo

Anil V. Pillai, Director, Terragni Consulting Pvt Ltd

Mr. Anil V. Pillai is the Director of Terragni Consulting (P) Ltd, a niche company that offers solutions and services in the much needed space of Customer Experience, Customer Centricity, Behavioural Insights and Competitive Differentiation.

Anil comes with nearly two decades worth of experience in the marketing space globally and in India. Prior to Terragni, he was the Founder CEO of rapidEffect Ltd, a technology organization in Analytics and Real time Performance Monitoring. It was India's first analytics product organization and was named in the Nasscom Top 50 Innovative companies’ list.

Anil’s other responsibilities come from his various engagements in industry bodies and associations. He is the Visiting Professor of Strategy and Marketing at the Symbiosis Institute of International Business (SIIB) since 1996; an Executive Council member at the PMA-All India Management Association (AIMA) and Member - Global Editorial Board & India Chair at the Neuromarketing Science & Business Association among others.

Anil is also currently a Doctoral scholar at the SMCU, Zurich, where his area of research is in the area of Customer Experience and Cognitive Dissonance. He is a Brain Fitness Coach and his certifications include the METT Advanced - Expert Level (Micro Expressions and Facial Profiling) from Dr Paul Ekman.

Under his able leadership the team won "Customer Game Changer -Asia's Best Customer Experience" award at recently concluded "Asia Customer Festival" in Singapore for the work that Terragni Consulting had co created with Reliance Securities.

Anila Andrade , Producer, 99 Games

A relentless and passionate game designer with over 9 years of experience in the Software Industry with particular emphasis in the mobile gaming spectrum, Anila now leads the production team at 99Games. Her scope of work on the production side extends right from conceptualizing a game, brainstorming with the team and reviewing final deliverables all the way up to planning go-to market strategies, publishing and measuring the game performance.

She is a regular Speaker at premier industry wide gaming conferences like Casual Connect, NASSCOM Product and Gaming Conclave among several others.

Anindya Das, Senior General Manager - IT Engineering, Netmagic | @netmagic

Anindya Das, popularly known as Andy, is Senior General Manager - IT Engineering at Netmagic. In his present role, Andy is responsible for rolling out new products and expanding Netmagic’s portfolio of services and solutions. As a part of the Cloud team at Netmagic, he has closely worked on building Netmagic’s cloud platform and its associated services. Andy has also contributed to setting up data center networking for Netmagic's DC5, a state-of-the-art data center facility inaugurated in October last year (2015).

Andy has worked closely with customers in his present and previous roles. This ability of his helps him in understanding customer requirements and designing products based on these. He has earlier worked with VMware in similar roles and was a technical pre-sales consultant (Cloud and Data center services) with Netmagic.

Andy has a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology from Sikkim Manipal University. He stays in Mumbai and likes to travel, read and listen to music

Anirudh A Damani, Founder, Artha Group & Director, Artha India Ventures

Equipped with over 15 years of entrepreneurial experience, Anirudh is a fourth-generation entrepreneur and a second-generation investor from the Damani family. He is the Director of Artha India Ventures (AIV), the well-established family office of the Ashok Kumar Damani family. While AIV has a sector-agnostic investment approach, under Anirudh’s leadership, AIV has thematically invested in travel-tech, fintech edtech, robotics, 3D printing, content platforms, e-commerce, Autotech, and health tech.

After a successful sales and entrepreneurial stint in Texas, he moved back to India in 2012. He started investing in and mentoring early-stage founders through AIV. His initial investments included multi-bagger investments in OYO Rooms, Tala, Exotel, Purplle, Interstellar, Coutloot, Mobilewalla, Beardo, ConfirmTkt, and Karza. His stellar cumulative portfolio now has over 85 investments spread across India, the USA, and Israel. In addition to Artha India Ventures, he also co-founded Artha Energy Resources and Artha Venture Fund under the business umbrella of Artha Group.

AIV got famous as it was part of the 1st large angel exit in India VC, making an astounding 150x+ return on its seed investment in OYO Rooms. AIV repeated that success in multiple category-defining startups like Exotel (154x), Purplle (120x), Tala (65x), and Coutloot (40x) are some of the many names that have been part of AIV’s portfolio.

A double major from Austin College in Sherman, TX, Anirudh has an exceptional work-life balance. He is passionate about adventure travel, focusing on deep-sea diving, sky diving, blogging, and is a die-hard cricket fan. He has recently started writing playbooks for founders to guide them through the crucial first 999 days of starting up.

About Artha India Ventures (AIV)

Artha India Ventures (AIV) is the family office of the Ashok Kumar Damani family.

Founded in 2012, AIV has an impressive portfolio of over 85 companies spread across India, the US, and Israel. Helmed by Ashok Kumar Damani, a serial entrepreneur, a well-respected stock investor, real estate developer, and hospitality assets owner - AIV’s day-to-day affairs are managed by his sons Anirudh & Animesh.

AIV operates a unique funding structure generating operating cashflows through investments in high-yielding renewable energy projects. The consistent cash flows from these investments are deployed in startup opportunities across the globe. While AIV has a sector-agnostic investment approach, it invests thematically in travel-tech, fintech edtech, robotics, 3D printing, content platforms, e-commerce, Autotech, and health tech.

AIV got famous as it was part of the 1st large angel exit in India VC, making an astounding 150x+ return on its seed investment in OYO Rooms. AIV repeated that success in multiple category-defining startups like Exotel (154x), Purplle (120x), Tala (65x), and Coutloot (40x) are some of the many names that have been part of AIV’s portfolio.

The overall portfolio multiple (MoIC) of 5.9x and a 51% IRR in a decade-long startup investment journey has made AIV a significant early-stage investor for startups in India or those who want to enter India. AIV is on the path to directly investing in over 100 startups by the end of 2022, including an indirect portfolio of 300+ startups through its GP & LP investments.

AIV has set its sight on a 1000+ startups portfolio by the end of the 2030-decade.

Anirudh A Damani, Managing Director, Artha India Ventures

Mr Anirudh A. Damani is one of the distinctly renowned personalities in the nation and abroad. With his dexterity and proficiencies he created Artha Energy Resources, with the motive of accumulating formidable data about energy infrastructure of India. He also sponsored the dreams of many start-ups which includes OYO rooms, Exotel, Tala, NowFloats, Purplle, LenDenClub, BabyChakra and many others from various sectors like FinTech, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Services, Media firms, Travel and hospitality etc.

This modest human before entering the family business, served a number of multinational companies in the world including Suez Energy, Direct Energy, First choice power and TXU. He also gave his services as National Sales Director for commercial energy broking and helped them with the training and management of the offices in Texas, Illinois and New York.

His 8 years of triumphant entrepreneurial globetrotting began in year 2009, when Mr Anirudh with his two friends took over the debt ridden company Pioneer Energy Resources and affirmed to restructure and restore the company. His achievement with the company in the year 2011 marked his first milestone to the success. The company recorded full year profit and witnessed the inauguration of the offices in Dallas, Houston, Corpus, Christi and Mc Allen in Texas.

In the year 2013 Mr Anirudh said adieu to PER and shifted his base to India for setting up Artha Group focusing on Energy Consulting and Early stage Investments. With the help of Artha India Venture he introduced a unique idea for sustaining investments into start-ups. His determination and hard work paid with the success of OYO group in the nation. Mr Anirudh believes, “It is just holding the hands to support the steps that counts, but guiding the way to the destination is what makes the difference.”  He not only invested the start ups to support their journey but stood by them like a shadow, to guide them towards the light of fame.

Anirudh Kamani, Senior General Manager, ICICI Bank Ltd