Our speakers
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
Avnita Bir, Director-Principal, R N Podar School
Mrs. Avnita Bir, Director-Principal, Podar Schools, is a well-known educator. A postgraduate in Economics from Delhi School of Economics, Mrs. Bir has worked in the field of Education for over three decades across various institutes. She is a member of the Governing Body of CBSE, the leading education board of the country. She has been a member of Education Reforms Committee. Ms. Bir is also a member of the India Jurisdiction at the Global Education Leaders Program (GELP). Passionate about children, education, economics and technology, she has been able to combine all her interests into her professional life. Her dedication to the cause of good education propelled her to author two books on Economics in her early years in the profession. Mrs. Avnita Bir is the recipient of the prestigious National Award for Teachers, conferred by the Hon'ble President of India. She has also been honored by the President of Singapore for her contribution to the education sector. She was awarded the Microsoft Mentor School Award for Innovation in Education. She also received the FICCI Outstanding Woman Achiever Award for her work in the field of education. More recently she was invited to Google, to speak at the Google Global Education Symposium at the Google Headquarters in Mountain View. She has been appointed as a member of the Advisory Board of Google's GlobalEDU.org initiative. Mrs. Bir has been driving change at R N Podar School and it has just been selected as the Ashoka ChangeMaker School in the first cohort of Ashoka ChangeMaker Schools in India. Having been an active proponent of appropriate edtech in schools and the classroom along with innovative pedagogy, Mrs. Bir has been acknowledged for and rewarded several Leadership and Mentorship Awards. She writes a guest column on parenting for the Times of India group and has been covered widely in media like BBC, New York Times, Times of India, NDTV, Times Now etc for her thoughts on education.
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