Our speakers

Avinash Saxena, Co-founder, Roposo.com & Giveter.com

Here is the actor turned director who loves some good techie talks and also has a penchant for business. He was the Chief Technical Officer at Zomato.com, and the Co-founder of HandsTalk Technologies. I am mighty glad we have an online guru helping me, it does take off quite a bit of worry.

Avinash Sharma, Co-Founder & CEO, ElectricPe

Avlesh Singh, Co-founder and CEO, WebEngage | @WebEngage

Avlesh is the co-founder and CEO at WebEngage - one of the fastest growing SaaS startups in India. Avlesh plays an engineer and marketer at WebEngage. He is known for maintaining technology as company's core DNA and a self-serve platform as its product focus - which, in turn, has helped them scale to acquire thousands of customers globally. Avlesh has been helping build startups in India since 2006. Prior to WebEngage, he was building the technology and engineering stack for Burrp - the company was later sold to Infomedia18.

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Avneet S. Kochar, Former Director - Alternative Investments, AT&T Investment Management Corp.

Avneet Kochar is the former director of AT&T Investment Management Corporation (ATTIMCo -a small team managing AT&T's pension fund) covering public equities, risk budgeting, private equity and real estate. As the director of alternative assets, he started separate accounts for co-investments and secondaries and was also responsible for the pension fund's foray into Emerging Asia.

Avnish Anand, Co-founder, CaratLane.com

Avnish is a Co-founder at CaratLane and head of the online business. He is responsible for digital marketing, product management, customer service and online sales.

He also worked at Times Internet Limited where he started Code Gladiators in 2014.  This coding contest has been recognized as the biggest coing event in the world by the Guiness Book of world records.

He studied at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata and IIM Lucknow.

Avnish Bajaj, Partner and Managing Director, Matrix Partners

Avnish Bajaj, Founder & Managing Director, Matrix Partners

Avnish Bajaj is the Founder and Managing Partner of Matrix Partners India which is an investment firm with close to USD 1 billion under management. Matrix India invests across early and early growth stages of businesses in Technology–related sectors.

Avnish’s select current investments for Matrix India include Limeroad (mobile social marketplace), Ola (mobility business),
Practo (healthcare app), Quikr (online local classifieds), Cloudnine (maternity hospitals) and Meditrina (cardiac care hospitals). His select past investments with exits include Ace2three (online rummy), Centre for Sight (eye care hospitals) and ItzCash (acquired by NASDAQ: EBIX). He is also a founder investor in Cleartrip (online travel aggregator) amongst other investments as an angel investor.

Previously Avnish was the co–founder, Chairman and CEO of India’s Largest Online Marketplace at the time – Baazee.com – which was acquired by eBay and he ran eBay India thereafter. Prior to Baazee, he was an Investment Banker in the Technology group at Goldman Sachs in New York and San Francisco. He was also a management consultant at McKinsey & Co. and started his career with Apple Computer in the Bay Area.

He is a Baker Scholar from Harvard Business School, WARF Fellow from University of Wisconsin–Madison and a Computer Science graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology,Kanpur.

He has received a number of awards and citations including the ‘Midas Touch’ best investor award by The Economic Times and a repeat presence on the ’40 who matter’ list.

Avnish Mehra, Managing Director, Everstone Capital Advisors

Avnish Mehra is a Managing Director in the private equity team of Everstone Group. Avnish joined Everstone in 2016, with more than 18 years’ experience in global investment firms based in Asia and Europe. Most recently, Avnish was a member of the team that established the India business for Advent International. Avnish has also worked with ABN Amro and Virgin Media.

He holds a Master of Arts in Economics from Cambridge University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi. He is also is a CFA Charter Holder from the CFA Institute (USA).

Avnish Mehra, MD, Everstone Capital

Avnish Mehra joined Everstone in 2016 and is responsible for leading deal teams in the health-care and media sectors as well as special situations. Avnish has over 18 years’ experience in global investment firms based in Asia and Europe, and has worked with ABN Amro and Virgin Media. Most recently, he was a member of the team that established the India business for Advent International. Avnish holds a Bachelor of Economics from St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, with a Master of Economics from Cambridge University. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder from the CFA Institute in the USA.

Avnish Sabharwal, Managing Director, Accenture Ventures & Open Innovation