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Vishesh Narang, Co-Founder of VNAM, Head Of Family Office at UKPI(Promoter of Berger Paints India)

Vishesh Narang, Head Of Family Office, UKPI (Promoter of Berger Paints India Group)

Vishesh currently heads the Family Office at the Berger Paints India Group. In his current role, he is responsible for managing the overall investment portfolios (including real estate), developing investment policies and other governance policies based on the core values of the family, as well as being an independent advisor to the family members who are on the board of the operating entity and laying down the IT infrastructure for the Family Office etc. 

Prior to this, Vishesh has spent more than 7 years at EY where his work included advising clients in the area of insolvency & bankruptcy, corporate restructuring, brand structuring, mergers, demergers, amongst others. During his tenure, his clients included various large Indian listed companies and other conglomerates. Another important part of his role at EY was advising clients in the area of succession planning and assisting them in laying down governance mechanisms in the family and business (through family charters and trust structures). He had also assisted families in resolving conflicts arising due to businesses. He was instrumental in making various cross border initiatives (Private Client Services) successful at EY. He was also the India Champion for EY Nextgen Academy.

Apart from the above, he is a professional triathlete and regularly participates in various international long distance triathlons, including what is considered to be the world’s toughest single day sporting event: the Ironman.

Vishesh Rajaram, Principal, Ventureast

Vishesh has been with Ventureast since early 2007, managing investments of the Proactive Fund. He has seen over a hundred proposals, and has collaborated in six investments in consumer internet, infrastructure, mobile value added services, industrial enzymes, semiconductors, direct marketing and consumer loyalty management spaces. His prior experiences, in corporate banking with ICICI Bank, and in the Assurance and Business Advisory practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers has given him a solid base to build his deal flow network. His debt portfolio at ICICI Bank was in the range of $50 million.

Vishesh has spearheaded a strategic acquisition for a portfolio company, helps in business development and business networking, and advises in routine as well as strategic financial matters. He was instrumental in Vysr, a web services portfolio company, gaining access to Indian internet firms, and in leveraging the India advantage.

As an entrepreneur prior to joining Ventureast, Vishesh took over the management and turned around a distressed specialty chemicals business, which he later exited by selling to a leading Italian chemicals company.

Vishnu Amble, Director, GreenBear Group LLC

Vishnu Amble serves as a Director of GreenBear Group LLC, a single-family office founded in 2006 based in Miami, Florida and Singapore. The GreenBear Group LLC investment program has been active across private markets in developed and emerging regions of the globe, with a specific focus on spinning out and seeding emerging GPs, as well as being active investors in funds and companies, and are members of the Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA).

Vishnu also serves as a Director of the family office’s foundation focused on funding access to energy, education, healthcare, and climate change solutions in South and SE Asia. Vishnu has built his 20+ year career in investments and capital markets with such companies as Saudi Aramco, E.ON, The Carlyle Group and Lehman Brothers.  Vishnu earned his Bachelor’s Degrees in Economics and Computer and Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor.

Vishnu P. Sudarsan, Partner, JSA

Vishnukant C Bhutada, MD, Shilpa Medicare Ltd

Mr. Vishnukant has vast and diverse Business experience of API and Intermediates and presently leads the core Business and functional teams which accelerate growth and performance by Innovating for Affordable solutions at Shilpa Medicare Group of Companies. He is the key decision maker with the teams for Shilpa Group for successful API and Generics formulation strategies. His untiring efforts have led the company to a leadership position in the Indian pharmaceutical domain and helped create a prominent presence for Oncology APIs globally. For his efforts on APIs Business, Mr. Vishnukant was awarded “Best Entrepreneur Award” by Late Dr Shankar Dayal Sharma - President of India in 1995. Subsequently, various state honours were conferred upon him - like -“Best Entrepreneur” from Karnataka State Govt. in 1996; “Excellence in Exports” from Vishweshwarayya Industrial Trade Centre, Bangalore 1996; and Export Excellence Award - 2006” by FKCCI, Bangalore. Success has never stopped coming his way - as he was awarded “First runner up” at the Emerging India Awards London 2008 by CNBC TV18. Recently, his efforts in the Shilpa Group for environment sustainability, has led to “Best National Energy Conservation Award in Drugs & Pharmaceutical Sector for the year 2012” by Hon’ble President of India, Dr. Pranab Mukherjee.

Vishwajit Dahanukar, MD, Managing Emissions

Vishwajit Dahanukar is the founder and Managing director of Managing Emissions and has over 15 years of experience in the technology, specialty chemicals and environmental space. He has been involved in developing renewable energy projects within rural India, and developing energy efficiency interventions for industrial and residential applications. Vishwajit has worked closely with CDM consultants & brokers to ensure that carbon credits from the companies projects were successfully issued and monetized. Vishwajit has a strong network with several state governments and various institutes in India for promoting green technologies at the state, city and home level.

Vishwajit has a Masters in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, and a Bachelors in Chemical Engineering from UDCT, Bombay.

Vishwanath Alluri, Founder Chairman, IMImobile

Vishwanath Alluri (Vish) founded IMImobile in 1999 to capitalise on the emergence of mobile data services and with a vision to harness the intellectual resources of India to develop an IPR centric technology company. Vish's vision is to create an Indian global technology powerhouse that alters the perception of India as a source of lower value added “services” to one in which India moves up the value chain to own its intellectual property.

Today Vish has envisioned and evolved IMImobile into a leading international player, with a global client portfolio of 96 telecom operators. IMImobile’s services are available to over 1 billion subscribers in over 72 countries.

IMImobile OPENHOUSE, Vish’s new initiative aims to democratize innovation, convert telecom networks into ‘smart pipes’ and unleash the creative prowess of the developer community to bring a wide range of applications and services to market.

Credentials and Accolades
· A Chartered Accountant and a Company Secretary by academic qualification.
· CEO of the Year - voted by industry peers at the World Vendor Awards, London in May 2011
· Global Telecom Business Power 100 most influential people in world telecoms in 2010 and 2011
· Named among the 50 most important people in mobile content by Mobile Entertainment (a leading Publication from UK)

Vishwaprasad Alva, Managing Director, Skanray Technologies Pvt. Ltd

Vishwaprasad Alva is the Managing Director of Skanray Technologies Pvt. Ltd. and  Skanray Healthcare Pvt. Ltd. With a Masters Degree in Industrial Electronics from NITK, he has over two decades of rich industry experience in Power Electronics Product Design, R&D Management, Production, SBU set up with Management being his key forte. He is a Six Sigma Green Belt holder and was earlier Leading the Global image chain integration team at the GE headquarters in Milwaukee, WI, USA.

Vishwas Patel, CEO, Avenues India Pvt. Ltd

As the Founder-CEO of Avenues India Private Limited, Vishwas has guided the company to become South Asia's No. 1 eCommerce service provider. He oversees the strategic planning, execution and financial management at Avenues.

The company's first initiative, CCAvenue® was launched in September 2001 and it today provides payment gateway services to thousands of eMerchants across the world. More than 85% of India's Web Merchants are using the CCAvenue payment gateway solution. The solution is India's largest direct debit engine, which connects to more than 50+ Indian banks in real time and processes all types of Credit Cards, Debit Cards and Cash Cards. ResAvenue®, the second initiative is the fastest growing Hospitality solution in the Indian Sub-continent. Launched in 2004, more than 1500 hotel properties in Asia are using ResAvenue's state-of-the-art booking engine, distribution services and payment gateway services on their hotel websites. EventAvenue®, the third Initiative was launched in 2006 and was India's first and the industry's leading online registration and payment gateway software that is used by event organizers, corporations, schools, universities, associations, temples, non-profit and government organizations, and more, for conferences, trade shows, sporting events, class admission registrations, donation collection, webinars and other event managements. More than 600 conferences, exhibitions, webinars, class admission registrations, concerts and sporting events were powered by EventAvenue during the last calendar year making it one of the fastest growing online registration and payment gateway solution in South Asia.

He has been featured extensively in many publications and has been bestowed with many awards including the Asia-Pacific Information Security Leadership Award by (ISC)2 the non-profit global leader in educating and certifying information security professionals, in Bangkok in 2007. Vishwas is also the Co-Chairman of the Payments Council of India as well as the Chairman of the Merchant Aggregator Committee of the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and is an active speaker at many Internet related forums.

Prior to founding Avenues, he was a practicing counsel on the Original Side of the Bombay High Court. He also co-founded the SEASONS Group of Companies, which owns the fashion brand 'SEASONS' (www.seasonsIndia.com), which today is the top name in the branded Indian ethnic garments industry and is retailed at over 1500 top outlets in over a 100 cities around the globe. Vishwas is also involved in his family's construction business, which has constructed several landmark structures in India's financial capital, Mumbai. Vishwas is a Commerce graduate and holds a Degree of Law from the Mumbai University.