Our speakers

Ankit Samdariya, CEO, The Hive Collaborative Workspaces

Ankit Samdariya is CEO at The Hive, a collaborative work-space platform backed by the Xander Group. He is passionate about design thinking, the future of work-spaces, technology and community building. 

Previously as Vice President – Investments & Asset Management at Virtuous Retail South Asia, Ankit was instrumental in building a 5.5 Million sq.ft community-centric lifestyle shopping centres portfolio spanning across 5 cities in India. He has been with the Xander Group since 2013, and has advised the group on strategic initiatives and investments across real estate asset classes.

Prior to his MBA, Ankit worked with Royal Dutch Shell across the US, Netherlands, Malaysia and Singapore in its internal strategy consulting division. Later, he worked with International Finance Corporation in Delhi, and with Denham Capital in Houston advising on global energy and infrastructure investments.
Ankit is an MBA from Harvard Business School and holds a B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) - Delhi.

Ankit Sarwahi, Partner, MEVP

Ankit Sarwahi is Partner at MEVP and has over 18 years of experience in Venture Capital and Financial Services. During the past 12 years, Ankit has invested in early stage technology companies in India and in MENA. At MEVP his portfolio cuts across consumer internet startups such as Nana, breakthrough Fintech platforms such as Xare, and wholistic B2B2C platforms such as MamoPay.

Prior to MEVP, Ankit was part of Founding team of Boson Ventures which was his debut stint in the Middle East. Prior to that Ankit was Vice President of Capital18, a specialist VC-fund HQed in New Delhi and focused on mobile, media and entertainment.

Ankit Sinha, VP - Cloud Practices & Consulting, Searce

Ankit Sood, Chief Financial Officer, Kraftly

The Chief Financial Officer of Kraftly, Mr. Ankit Sood, had over 8 years of experience before he joined Kraftly. After completing his graduation from Purdue University and Post graduation from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, he joined CITI as Senior Summer Associate - Investment Banking. He had been the Associate Vice President for Anand Rathi Private Wealth Ltd.  from May 2008 – July 2011 and for Avendus Advisors from June 2011 – August 2014. He has a thorough expertise in the field of Financial Modeling, Business Strategy, Valuation, Strategy, Business Analysis, Investment Banking, Management Consulting, Capital Markets, Team Management, Corporate Finance, E-commerce and Mergers & Acquisitions.

Ankita Sheth, Co- founder and Head of Partnerships, Vista Rooms | @vista_rooms

A passionate 32 year old entrepreneur with 8 years of experience with both startups and established companies. She did her Post graduation from Mumbai Educational Trust (MET) and has worked with organizations such as Stanton Chase ( Global Executive Search firm) and Boston Analytics (Analytics firm). She also had started her own venture, Providence World, which was an executive search firm with clientele such as KAV & Co Mondelez, Boston Analytics, Jardin Lylod Thompson etc. She also did a short stint with United Nations.

Ankita had successfully executed the Mumbai operations of Oyo Rooms as the head of acquisitions and she was part of the core team and had played a pivotal role in its success. A culturally strong woman with hardbound ideals, she was an innate part of India Against Corruption campaign and has also played an active role in Anna Hazare’s Movement. She is an active member of a NGO- Young Volunteer Organization (YVO).

Ankita Vashistha, CEO, Saha Fund

The SAHA Fund is run by CEO & Founder, Ankita Vashistha,  who has over 8 years of experience in private equity and venture capital across UK, US and Asia. Ankita is an electronics and communication engineering graduate from VTU and Masters in Finance and Management from UK's top business school, Cranfield school of Management, UK. Ankita works very actively in the start-up ecosystem in India, Philippines, Singapore, UK, USA to source, evaluate, mentor and invest in start-up companies. Ankita works closely with portfolio companies to help them create value, scale and expand leveraging technology. Previously she worked at Tholons capital, Aureos Capital and Abraaj Group. At Aureos Capital, Ankita was part of the global investor relations and portfolio management team based in London and was part of the team to raise 700M USD from cornerstone investors like CDC, Norfund, FMO, ADB for the group's regional funds. Ankita has experience working with a diverse investor set across Institutional investors, Development Finance Instituions, Banks, Fund of Funds, Family Offices and HNI's. She is an active member of the ecosystem and is part of the Indian Angel Network, NASSCOM and Google Campus.

Ankur Goel, Senior Director for Hybrid Work Solutions, HP India

Ankur Goel, Managing Director, India & SAARC, Poly

In his current role at Poly, Ankur is responsible for leading the company’s growth and revenue share in India.
With 23+ years of experience in general management, sales, and channel development in the UC industry, Ankur has a proven track record in transforming business and leading teams to new levels of growth and profitability.

In the past, Ankur has held Executive and Sales positions with several prominent organizations, including Qlik and Cisco. In addition, he has been instrumental in building Poly India team and business over the past six years.

Ankur Goel, Managing Director, Poly India & SAARC

In his current role at Poly, Ankur is responsible for leading the company’s growth and revenue share in India & SAARC.

With 21+ years of experience in general management, sales and channel development in the UC industry, Ankur has a proven track record in transforming business and leading teams to new levels of growth and profitability.

In the past, Ankur has held Executive and Sales positions with several major organizations including Qlik and Cisco. He has been instrumental in building Poly India team and business over the past six years.

Ankur Goyal, Founder & CEO, &Me

Ankur is a recent MBA graduate from Stanford. He is passionate about Indian Consumer market and recently moved to India to start his food & beverage company. He is an Industrial engineer from IIT Delhi.

He has extensive experience in food & beverage world in India. He worked for 3 years with Nestle - setting up a Noodle R&D Center, transferring technology from Nestle Singapore and working on Product Development (Noodles). He also played instrumental role as Innovation Officer at PaperBoatDrinks - setting up a factory in Mysore, handling new product innovation and introducing new production technologies.

He is the founder of Merhaki Foods, that owns the brand &Me - Women's Health Drinks.