Our speakers
Vishal Maheshwari, Country Manager, Vuclip India
Vishal brings with him over fifteen years of leadership experience in the telecom and mobile internet space with organizations such as Yahoo! India and BPL Mobile, and ten years of product and brand management experience at Parle, Warner Lambert and SBI Cards. Appointed in January 2016 as Vuclip’s Country Manager for India, Vishal’s core responsibilities include driving consumer adoption, engagement and monetisation for its OTT video on demand (VOD) services in India through strategic partnerships, service innovation and consumer insights.
Vishal is a founder partner at Serendipity Investments since the year 2013. His advisory experience to start ups in the consumer internet space will help Vuclip enhance their portfolio in India.
Vishal Mehta, Co-founder & Managing Director, Lok Capital
Vishal is co-founder of Lok Capital that started its impact investment operations in India in late 2004. Since then he has played the lead role in building Lok Capital as a premier venture capital fund focused on impact investing. Lok Capital is one of the first India focused impact investor, backed by institutional investors. Lok is raising its 3rd fund and has so far invested over $85M in India and has fully liquidated its first fund.
Prior to Lok, Vishal worked for about a decade in marketing and business development in the financial services and telecom sector, both in developed as well as developing economies. Vishal holds an Engineering degree from Delhi University and an MBA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Vishal Mehta, Founder & CEO, Infibeam.com
Vishal Mehta is the founder, CEO of Infibeam.com. With a stellar academic record, he entered Cornell University where he studied Operations Research & Management. After graduating with honours, he joined Dell to gain some real world industry experience and then pursued management studies at MIT. In the post Internet-bubble burst era where raising capital became difficult and the future of ecommerce was doubtful, he joined Amazon. He worked at Amazon for several years in technology, finance and corporate development roles.
In persue to build his dream technology company, he moved back to India in 2007, and incorporated Infibeam. After more than ten years of his life in the US, he winded up his assets to venture out in India. Today, InfiBeam has more than one crore retail products and 50 lakh visits per month by Indians online who buy everything from books to music to mobiles.
Infibeam has also opened up its technology platform under the URL www.buildabazaar.com where any store owner without any technology know-how and software training can open an online store of their own in easy 5 steps within ten minutes. More than 15 thousand retailers in India today use buildabazaar to create and run their online stores including TheMobileStore, Crossword, VIP bags, Airtel and many more.
Vishal Mirchandani, CEO- Retail & Commercial, Brigade Enterprises Limited
Vishal Mirchandani is the CEO of Retail and Commercial Space, spear-heading the Brigade Group’s ambitious plans of substantial growth in the development and management of premium Commercial and Retail space.
Under his leadership, Orion Mall has become one of the leading malls in the country and has won several awards and accolades. It is one of the best managed malls of the country and city and continues to grow in terms of popularity with the consumers for its iconic status and international experience. He has played a pivotal role in scaling up the Commercial business of Brigade Group and has also led it into new geographies like Kochi in south and Ahmedabad in west. During his earlier stints at various lifestyle and retail organizations, he has successfully taken companies to new heights of growth and awards!
Vishal was a student of commerce, economics and marketing and alumni of H.R. College of Commerce & Economics and Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies. He has been a leader from early stages of his career. Over the years, he has held prolific management positions in leading organizations of the country including Shoppers Stop, Aditya Birla Group, Prozone Capital Shopping Centres and now with the Brigade Group. He is a winner of many industry awards.
He has multifaceted interests outside work including travel, reading, films - especially world cinema, music and sports.
Vishal Nevatia, Managing Partner, True North
Vishal Sagar, Partner, Trilegal
Vishal Sharma, Founder & Managing Director, Tuscan Ventures
Vishal is currently Founder & Managing Director of Tuscan Ventures, an investment company specialising in the logistics, transportation infrastructure and shipping space. Tuscan has closed 3 deals since its inception, with the latest being an investment in one of India's largest third party logistics' firms, LCL Logistix Pvt. Ltd.
Vishal started his career in India in 1994 with A. P. Moller - Maersk, the owner and operator of the world's largest shipping line. Before being appointed Vice-President and Head of Maersk Line business in India in 2006, Vishal worked in various C-level positions across the globe with the Group.
Prior to taking up the assignment in India, he was Director of Group Strategy for AP Moller Maersk's shipping, logistics, ports, oil & gas and banking business in Denmark, prior to which he was Managing Director for Maersk Line and Maersk Logistics in Vietnam.
Vishal has an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. He holds a Bachelors degree in Commerce and a Masters Degree in Marketing from University of Bombay.
Vishal Tulsiyan, CEO and MD, Motilal Oswal Private Equity
Mr. Vishal Tulsyan founded MOPE in 2006 with MOFSL being the sponsor. At MOPE, Vishal looks to build a platform to channelize long-term capital to create valuable enterprises and successful entrepreneurs.
He plays a crucial role in building the team and defining the strategies that have taken MOPE to its present levels and has been directly involved both in identifying businesses, as well as in supporting portfolio companies.
Vishal has spent two decades in the Indian financial sector across private equity, investment banking and structured finance. He brings on board his deep experience of raising, investing and returning third party capital across several economic cycles.
Prior to founding MOPE, Vishal was with Rabobank during its formative years in India, helping build its corporate finance and investment banking franchise. He was responsible for the origination and execution of structured finance, project finance, acquisition finance, private equity and M&A transactions. During his Rabobank tenure, he executed ~50 transactions aggregating more than Rs 900 bn & helped build the life sciences practice in India into a key business driver.
Vishal holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce from the prestigious St. Xaviers' College, Kolkata and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (all-India # 21 rank).
Vishal Tulsyan, CEO and Managing Director , Motilal Oswal Private Equity
Vishal has spent two decades in the Indian financial sector across private equity, investment banking and structured finance. He brings on board his deep experience of raising, investing and returning third party capital across several economic cycles. Prior to founding MOPE, Vishal was with Rabobank during its formative years in India, helping build its corporate finance and investment banking franchise. He was responsible for the origination and execution of structured finance, project finance, acquisition finance, private equity and M&A transactions. During his Rabobank tenure, he executed ~50 transactions aggregating more than INR 900 bn and helped build the life sciences practice in India into a key business driver.
Vishal holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce from the prestigious St. Xaviers’ College, Kolkata and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (all-India # 21 rank).
Vishal Vasishth, Founder & Managing Director, SONG Investment Advisors
Vishal Vasishth is the founder and Managing Director of SONG Investment Advisors, a company focused on investing in the SME space with a larger vision to catalyze socio-economic development of India. SONG Investment Advisors is a sole advisor to SONG Investment Management Company, an investment firm founded by Soros Economic Development Fund, Omidyar Network and Google.
Most recently, Vishal served as a senior executive for Revolution, LLC, a private investment holding company started by Steve Case (AOL) with $500 million of initial capitalization and a charter to invest in consumer-facing businesses in disruptive markets. In this role, he evaluated new investments and helped with post-investment management of the portfolio companies, which include: Zipcar (alternative transportation), Miraval (real estate/spa resort) and Gaiam (public company in the wellness space). Vishal also led the senior management team of Flexcar (now Zipcar) for an interim basis.
Vishal also served as Chief Strategy Officer for Patagonia, Inc., assisting the CEO in developing the company’s strategic direction, including restructuring and overseeing operations. He directed Patagonia’s Capilene P&L, orchestrating a turnaround and increasing division sales by over 40%, and prior to that helped launch a number of successful product brands increasing the company’s top line by over 30% while receiving numerous innovation awards and recognition for the company. During his tenure at Patagonia, sales doubled while the company was consistently ranked as one of the best places to work in the U.S.
Vishal has worked as an advisor to Investor’s Circle, an angel investor forum targeted toward the health and wellness/clean-tech space. He currently serves as an advisor to many emerging, innovative companies such as Good Magazine. He serves as the founding board of advisors for B Corporation, an innovative nonprofit venture. He is a Henry Crown fellow of The Aspen Institute and a Next Generation Fellow of The American Assembly. Vishal most recently helped launch a new energy and environment innovation award in conjunction with The Aspen Institute and National Geographic magazine.
Vishal earned a B. Tech degree in India, a Master’s degree in Sciences from North Carolina State University and an MBA from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management.