Our speakers

Anupam Mittal, Founder & CEO, People Group

Anupam started his entrepreneurial journey by founding People Group, which includes businesses such as Shaadi.com, Makaan.com and Mauj Mobile. Over 40 million people visit People Group properties every month and each brand has become a leading player in its category. Today, the group is recognized as one of the most innovative enterprises in the country.

Besides his operational role, Anupam is also an active angel investor with over 75 investments such as Interactive Avenues, Ola Cabs, Druva, Fab Hotels, PipeMonk, Pretty Secrets, Ziffi, PropTiger, Limo, The Porter, Ketto, InstaLively, Intelligence Node, Just Ride, TrueBil, Lets Venture and others. He is an advisor and LP in some of the leading VC firms in India. He is passionate about entrepreneurship & innovation and is well regarded for his understanding and views of the same.

Anupam Mittal has been voted by Business Week as one of India’s 50 Most Influential People and is consistently ranked amongst top Icons of India’s Digital Ecosystem.

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Anupam Rastogi, Principal, Nokia Growth Partners

Anupam is a Principal at Nokia Growth Partners (NGP), a global growth stage VC firm focused on mobility, Internet and the connected world. He has over 15 years of operating, product and investing experience in mobile, Internet, technology and media industries. Having lived and worked in the US, India and Europe, he brings global experience to NGP and NGP’s portfolio companies.

At NGP, Anupam spearheads thematic investing in the Local Commerce space, and has been associated with investments such as Vizury, YPlan, Techprocess, Quikr, FashionAndYou, Netmagic, Gigwalk and others. Prior to NGP, Anupam spent several years at Winphoria/Motorola and Verizon in product leadership roles, where he helped bring multiple innovative Internet and telecom convergence products to market. Anupam has co-authored 6 international patents and publications in wireless and embedded systems domains. Anupam holds an MBA from The Wharton School, a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from IIT Delhi, and studied Innovation at MIT as an Advanced Study Fellow.

Anupam Thareja, Managing Director, Phi Capital

Mr. Anupam Thareja is a Founder of PHI Advisors, an operational turnaround private equity fund. He has over 15 years of experience in both financial and corporate world. He has been a top ranked analyst at Asian and global levels in Automobiles, telecom and technology in firms like ABN, HSBC and CSFB. He concluded his financial world stint as Director and Head of Research and then by being on the board and taking responsibility of overall operations and heading institutional and retail sales, trading, equity and equity derivatives for HSBC.

He then ventured in the corporate world as a quasi-entrepreneur / private equity by taking management responsibility of Royal Enfield.  Taking on operational roles, he built a new management team with top professionals and turned around operations.

Currently apart from running PHI Advisors, he is also a director of TVS Finance, Mahindra First Choice Wheels, Services and also Mahindra United Football Club.   He is on the Advisory board of TVS Motors and Sundaram Clayton Ltd. He has investments and works in various capacities with TVS group, Mahindra, Reliance ADAG and R K Forgings.

Anupam Verma, President, Wockhardt Hospitals | @WockhardtHosp

Anupam Verma is one of the veterans in the field of healthcare delivery business in India with over 25 years of experience in the domain. Consequently, he has developed an expertise for a broad spectrum of areas, from micro elements of functional process management, to macro issues of creating and managing businesses including Mergers, acquisitions and exits. A Management Graduate by education, and a firm believer in out-of-the-box thinking, he has to his credit several radical and innovative concepts, which have shaped the way the healthcare delivered in the country. He is one of the pioneers in  Healthcare professionals  to have explored the space of Venture Capital and Private Equity for Hospitals. Currently he manages  the countrywide business of Wockhardt Hospitals Ltd., as its President  since 2013. Prior to this he was the founder CEO of DM Healthcare (Aster) in India for 6 years, and Director of Operations at Hinduja Hospital, and CEO at Hinduja Healthcare in Mumbai for 11 years.

Anupama Arya, Co-founder, The Hatch

Anupama is a serial entrepreneur, investor, business executive, technologist, and mentor.    

Anupama is National Chairman of CII – Yi (CII – Young Indians); Member of the CII National Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Council; Member of the CII International Policy Council and CII WTO and Trade Agreements Committee; Managing Director of The Hatch Fund; Co-founder of The Hatch Incubators; Co-founder of Angel Investors Consortium; and, Board Member of Athena Foundation – an international organization focused on women leadership

Anupama is Aspen Fellow under the India Leadership Initiative;  the recipient of the Athena India Leadership Award; Rotary International Young Achievers Award; “Award for Excellence - Women Entrepreneur” by Software Technology Parks of India, Ministry of Information Technology, Government of India; and “All India Outstanding Woman Entrepreneur for the year Award” by the Electronics and Computer Software Export Promotion Council, Ministry of Information and Technology, Government of India.

As an entrepreneur she founded and led 3 companies in India and Silicon Valley.  Before starting on the entrepreneurial career, Anupama led many Software Development and Architecture initiatives at Lucent Technologies and Synoptics / Bay Networks.

Widely traveled, Anupama has spoken at a number of industry events, symposium and standard body meetings worldwide.  Anupama has been profiled in a number of media articles and has been featured on CNBC “Young Turks” program.

Anupama has taught topics on advanced communication technologies at UC Berkeley and San Jose State Universities.  Anupama has a Bachelor in Electronics and Communication Engineering and a M.S. in Computer Science.

Anuradha Madhusudhanan, Owner & Executive Chef, Tattva - Fresh Organic Kitchen

Anuradha Madhusudhanan has been working and researching on the harmful effects of the use of chemicals in food, both at the farming stage and the food production stage. These efforts have culminated in tattva, a real food initiative through which she has been striving to build a food culture that helps in bridging the gap between real, functional foods and the urban orientation towards gastronomy.

With a vast experience in music, art and food & nutrition, and management, Anuradha has been working towards a new lifestyle that actively advocates, through workshops and writings, and exemplifies, through tattva, the real possibility of living without the chemicals and poisons in our food culture.

Her research and experimentation have led her to invent the term Functional GastronomyTM, to exemplify a food culture that balances the form and the function of food.

She has published extensively on music, food and nutrition for leading newspapers and publications such as The Economic Times, The Hindu, BBC Good Food Guide, The Times of India, The Asian Age, Deccan Herald, among others.

Anurag Agarwal, CEO, Intellecap

As Intellecap's Chief Executive Officer, Anurag is responsible for ensuring execution of the Company's strategic business plan. He also manages some of the key Client and investor relationships and represents the management team on the Board of Directors.

In a career spanning more than a decade, Anurag set up and built the Company's Investment Banking Practice Area with a specific focus on assisting early and growth-stage multiple bottom-line enterprises to raise capital. He has worked with several socially oriented investors assisting them in identifying suitable impact investment opportunities and facilitating investment transactions. Anurag has the unique distinction of working with most of the leading microfinance institutions in India and has helped many of these institutions in their fund raising efforts.
 
Before joining Intellecap, Anurag worked at ICICI Bank in the Cash Management and Operations Department. He has a Bachelor of Business Administration and a Master of Commerce Degree from Madras University, Chennai (India), and a Master of Business Administration in Finance from TA Pai Management Institute, Manipal (India).

Anurag Agarwal, Partner, Aavishkaar

Anurag is a Partner at Aavishkaar, one of the pioneering and leading Impact focussed Investment fund in India.  He has been part of founding team of the group company Intellecap and last served as its CEO. In over a decade of his association with Intellecap, Anurag set up and built the Company's Investment Banking Practice with a specific focus on assisting early and growth-stage multiple bottom-line enterprises to raise capital. Anurag has played a key role in incubating I3N (Intellecap Impact Investment Network), India’s first impact focused angel network which has now been hived off as a separate company called TRIBE. He was also one of the key architects of creating the current structure of the Aavishkaar Intellecap Group and led the efforts of the Group in the incubation and acquisition of the 3 NBFCs (IntelleCash, IntelleGrow and Arohan) within the Group.

In addition to serving on the Board of Intellecap, Anurag has in the past served as an independent Director on the Board of A Little World and Zero Mass Foundation. He represents the Promoter interest on the board of Group Companies Arohan, IntelleGrow and IntelleCash and Aavishkaar Portfolio Company Butterfly Fields. Before joining the Aavishkaar Intellecap Group, Anurag worked with the Cash Management Services Division of ICICI Bank.

Anurag Banerjee, Chief Growth Officer, Ozonetel Systems

Anurag Banerjee has 20 years of experience in running revenue teams of large companies and start-ups across North America, Europe and Asia. He has invested/ advised more than a dozen start-ups to reach multi-million dollar revenue targets. He has raised more than $40MM in venture funding

Anurag Das, MD & CEO, IARC