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Ashish Rajpal, CEO, iDiscoveri Education

Ashish Rajpal is the founder of iDiscoveri. Ashish left an international corporate career to pursue his passion for education. His interest include the human learning process, teacher development, innovation, and organizational leadership. Over the past decade, Ashish has led the creation and scale-up of XSEED - a path-breaking innovation that has improved learning for close to half a million children in almost 1000 schools across the country.

Ashish holds an MBA from XLRI and a Master's degree in Mind, Brain & Education from Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he was a student of Prof. Howard Gardner. Ashish is also a practicing teacher who teaches Grade 4 Science. In 2008 he was recognized by Education World as one of 50 top leaders changing education in India.

Ashish Sharma, CEO, InnoVen Capital India

Ashish Sharma is the MD & CEO at InnoVen Capital India. Prior to joining InnoVen, Ashish served as the President & CEO of GE Capital, India, where his responsibilities included oversight of GE Capital’s activities in India, through its 100% owned Finance Companies (NBFC’s) as well as Credit Card JV’s (“SBI Cards”), a leading Credit Card player in the Indian market.

Ashish was associated with GE/GE Capital for ~20 years and held progressive leadership roles across General management, P&L Leader, Strategy, M&A and Corporate Finance. He has extensive global experience and had the opportunity to work across India, US, Japan, Australia & Europe.

Ashish has extensive governance experience and has served on boards of several Finance Companies and Joint Ventures. Ashish has also served on various industry bodies such as CII National Banking Committee, CII National Committee on NBFC’s and CII National Committee on Financial Inclusion & Digitization.

Ashish holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Allahabad and an MBA from S.P Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai.

Ashish Sharma, Chief Strategy Officer, TRU Group & Sangopan

Ashish Shekhar, Group Chief Information Officer, Makson Group Of Companies

Ashish Singru, Senior Director, Finance & Analytics, eBay

Ashish has over 18 years of experience in driving analytics and customer insights into strategic planning and decision-making in a wide range of organizations. The key business domains for which he has driven strategic planning include Customer Engagement (CRM), Sales & Marketing Effectiveness, Media Planning & Buying as well as Product Design & Development. Ashish has partnered closely with senior corporate leaders in major retailers, telecom, automotive, consumer good & technology companies to create solutions to address short-term and long-term challenges and opportunities for the business using a data-driven approach to analyze customers, products and markets.

He currently heads eBay’s global center of excellence for analytics in Bangalore, with the aim of building cutting-edge capability to solve eBay’s hardest business problems as commerce and retail worlds converge between online and offline. Prior to eBay, his experience include key roles at major corporations like Microsoft and SABMiller, as well as consultancies like Young & Rubicam Group and Gallup Organization. He has a B.Tech. degree in Materials Engineering from IIT-Kanpur, MS from Rutgers University, and MBA from University of Iowa.

Ashish Venkataramani, Partner, Eight Roads Ventures

Ashish Venkataramani is a Partner at Eight Roads Ventures India and part of the healthcare team at the Venture Capital firm. He joined Eight Roads in 2019 as a Principal after spending time at Pfizer most recently as Senior Director & Business Unit Head. Ashish has prior experience in management consulting, having worked at Accenture and the Boston Consulting Group.

About Eight Roads
Eight Roads Ventures is a global investment firm backed by Fidelity. Eight Roads Ventures manages $8 billion of assets across Asia, Europe, Israel and the US, with a focus on healthcare and technology. With more than 15 years of investing experience in India, Eight Roads has more than 50 portfolio companies, some of which include PharmEasy, Laurus Labs, Icertis, Shadowfax, Cipla Health, Whatfix, OZiva, Immuneel Therapeutics to name a few.

Ashishkumar Chauhan, MD & CEO, BSE

Ashishkumar Chauhan is the MD & CEO of BSE, Asia’s oldest exchange, World’s fastest exchange with 6 Micro seconds response time, World’s largest exchange with 5,000 plus listed companies and India’s first universal exchange to offer trading across all asset classes. He is credited with reviving BSE and completing its IPO - which was oversubscribed more than 51 times. He was instrumental in setting up India’s first International Exchange, India International exchange, inaugurated by India’s Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi in January 2017.

Prior to joining BSE, from 2000 to 2009, Ashish worked at Reliance Industries, India’s largest conglomerate as President and Group CIO, Head of Corporate communications and CEO of Cricket team Mumbai Indians in its formative years. From 1993 to 2000, he setup India’s National Stock Exchange (NSE), primarily on technology, Screen based trading system, satellite communications network, equities and derivatives businesses, and Nifty index amongst his many responsibilities. He is considered the father of modern financial derivatives in India due to his work at NSE.

He received several Indian and International awards including Distinguished Alumnus Awards from both his Alma Mater IIT Bombay and IIM Kolkata, a rare achievement. He has also been awarded “Digital Icon of Year” by Indian Express Group and ranked amongst the top CEOs in financial markets by Asian Banker, amongst top 50 CIOs in the world by Information Week US. He is a member of several committees of Government, Regulators and international associations. He is a member on the Board of Directors at IIM Raipur and NIFM Faridabad and served as the chairman of NIT Manipur. He is a distinguished visiting faculty at Ryerson University in Toronto and Honorary Professor at Nottingham University Business School. He co-authored a book on the history of the BSE titled “The Temple of Wealth Creation”.

Ashley Menezes, MD, ChrysCapital Advisors Pvt Ltd

Mr. Menezes joined the Advisors in March 2000 and oversees the target company diligence, regulatory/industry relationships and the middle office for finance, administrative and client relations. He was previously with KPMG, in its information technology and U.S. GAAP practices. Mr. Menezes was involved in the ADR issues and NYSE/NASDAQ listings of several leading Indian companies. He is a rank-holding Chartered Accountant and received a Bachelor’s degree in commerce from Mumbai University.

Ashmeet Kapoor, Founder & CEO, I Say Organic

Ashmeet is the founder of I Say Organic, a company working towards making organic products in India conveniently available and accessible, with the belief that consumer demand will lead the shift towards ecological agriculture. He started the company after moving back to India from the US and traveling widely across the country, which inspired him to tap into the enormous potential agriculture presents to create prosperity, while addressing the various environmental and economic threats the country faces. He has been focused on developing market driven approaches to fight poverty and previously he was a founding member at an early stage company designing a water purification device for rural communities. He holds a Masters in Innovation Management & Entrepreneurship from Brown University, and Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from University of British Columbia.

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