Our speakers

Ankit Prasad, CEO & Co-Founder, Bobble App / Touchtalent

Ankit Prasad studied Mathematics and Computing at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He dropped out in the final year to pursue his interest at Touchtalent. He swiped almost all major student awards during his stay at IIT Delhi including Best Fresher Award, Best Hostel Representative Award, Best Chief Editor Award, Cumulative contribution to Board for Student Publication award etc. Apart from these awards, he has many more awards to his credit; He was finalist at TiE International Business Plan Competition representing Touchtalent, Kairos Fellow for the year 2012-2013 and Global Student Entrepreneurship Award, South Asia 2013. He is also an official TEDx youth speaker.

Ankit was always interested in Technology; He wrote his first program at the age of 6 and got appreciation from the district collector. Incorporated and made his first technology company profitable at the age of 16. During his stay at IIT Delhi, he was associated with number of technology start-ups.

At Touchtalent, Ankit is responsible for product and engineering. He along with his team is working on the most modern technology to create unique user experience. Some of the technology initiatives taken by Ankit at Touchtalent are one of its kind in India, never tried and experimented before.

Through technology Ankit wants to democratize high quality content creation and address the most complex problems of content creators. Bobble App is yet another step taken by Ankit in this direction.

In his free time Ankit loves to create short videos. He has to his credits many viral videos that have been appreciated by global media.

Ankit Pruthi, Founder & CEO, Unicommerce

Ankit Pruthi, CEO of Unicommerce, is a graduate from IIT Delhi and IIM Ahmedabad. He has over 10 years of work experience in Finance, Product and Technology. Prior to Unicommerce, he was associated with Estee advisors and Goldman Sachs in field of Finance and Technology. Before his MBA, Ankit worked with Qwest Communications (a US telecom giant) in product and technology team developing order management system for ecommerce arm. His entrepreneurial tilt and technology interests motivated him to start Unicommerce with his IIT batch-mates in 2012.

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.