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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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Ashneer Grover, Co-founder & CEO, BharatPe

Ashneer Grover is the Co-Founder and CEO of BharatPe. A seasoned professional with strong strategic vision and proven expertise across domains in both start-ups and top-tier organizations, Ashneer donned the entrepreneurial hat and co-founded BharatPe in the year 2018 with the vision to drive financial inclusion by building ground-breaking financial solutions for the Indian economy. He is currently building BharatPe as India’s leading fintech company.

BharatPe has not only made mobile payments acceptance free and ubiquitous with a first-of-its-kind zero MDR payment acceptance product, but also launched innovative products in lending and Swipe category.

Within 2.5 years of its operation, BharatPe has emerged as the driving force for the fintech industry in India, with a network of over 6 million merchants spread across 100 cities. BharatPe has become the #1 offline acquirer for UPI QR transactions in the country. The company has been processing 8 crore+ UPI transactions a month with an annualized TPV of over US$ 7 bn). It has disbursed loans of over Rs. 800 crores to small merchants and kirana store owners. Under his leadership, BharatPe has already surpassed its target of facilitating disbursals of Rs. 1000 crores of business loans in FY21, to its merchant partners. BharatPe emerged as the largest B2B fintech lender in India, during the times of the pandemic.

Under Ashneer’s leadership, the Government of India and Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeiTY) recognized BharatPe’s efforts to help digitise India at the grassroot level and awarded BharatPe for Innovation in Digital Payment at its annual awards in August 2019. Ashneer won the ET Now Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2020. He has also won the Business World’s Young Entrepreneur Award. Recently, Ashneer won a place in the Business World Disrupt 40Under40 list of young achievers announced in January 2021.

A startup veteran and an accomplished leader, Ashneer has 15+ years of experience in operations, M&A, investments and business development. He is known as a result-oriented and decisive leader with proven success in new market identification and strategic positioning to establish successful multi-million-dollar start-ups.
In December 2019, Ashneer was invited to Yokohama, Japan, to be a part of the eminent and esteemed panellists who attended the Asia Pacific Initiative Forum, where business leaders from Asia exchanged notes on a common vision for growth and innovation for the next few decades.

Ashneer started his career with Kotak Investment Bank in 2006 after his MBA. His astute analytical skills and attention for detail helped him work his way through the ranks and become the Vice President for Kotak Investment Banking. During his stint at Kotak, Ashneer was instrumental in closing 10 deals that were worth over US$ 3 billion in transaction value. Post that, Ashneer also worked with American Express as Head- Corporate Development, with Grofers as Chief Financial Officer. He also led digital transformation and strategy as Head of Business at PCJ.

Ashneer Grover, Founder BharatPe | Third Unicorn, Shark at Shark Tank India, Author of Best Seller Book Doglapan

Ashok Jain, MD & CEO, Lifespan

Ashok’s own tribulations with diabetes and those of his various family members caused him to grapple with the question of how control over diabetes could be achieved. His work in the Healthcare field brought him in close contact with doctors, pharma companies, and patients.
And the crystallization happened.

An action plan started to take shape. Something that would reach out and check the alarming spread of diabetes, as well as improve the quality of life for diabetics. It had before it, four issues: the increased incidence of prediabetes, the poor doctor-to-diabetics ratio in India, the use of information to bring about change, and the creation of an extensive support system for those affected.

Ashok had noted the fact that India is among the severely affected countries, and there are now many more people with Prediabetes. This condition, where the blood sugar level is above normal, can't be ignored as long-term damage of the heart and circulatory system could have already begun. Therefore, the country should equip itself better to tackle prediabetes too.

Secondly, Ashok realised that any solution had to include and mobilise a large number of doctors in order to respond to the magnitude of the situation. Lifespan Clinic has started doing this.

And to get our society to give more attention to diabetes, Ashok strategically sought the support of a media giant. Lifespan clinic has the support of the Spring Board initiative of the Times of India group to propagate its message of timely action with regard to diabetes.

An eminent advisory panel of diabetes specialists at Lifespan Clinic ensures it has a strong and constantly updated knowledge base. Ashok has assembled a select management team to strengthen the brand in other functions. They bring a lot of experience in the Healthcare field and have contributed with their knowledge of logistics management, designing for service quality, IT systems and user interfaces, marketing and market research, and have abundant empathy with those affected by diabetes.

Lifespan Clinic has a clear set of standards to be maintained across locations. Its agenda includes training, educational materials, and the latest patient care procedures including electronic medical records. Ashok has put a special emphasis on support systems. In addition to personal consultation, clients can get help through e-mail, web chat, phone and video-conferencing.

The mission is to help those with prediabetes to prevent or delay the onset of diabetes, and to help diabetics to keep away its complications, and maintain their productivity and quality of life.

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