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Deepak I. Shahdadpuri, Founder & Managing Director, DSG Consumer Partners

Deepak I. Shahdadpuri is the Founder and Managing Director of DSG Consumer Partners (“DSGCP”) and has over 15 years of private equity experience. Before DSGCP, he co-founded and managed the Beacon India Private Equity Fund and GEM India. Prior to that, Deepak worked with Reuters Venture Capital, Bain & Company and Ernst & Young.

Deepak currently serves on multiple boards including that of Baker's Circle, Eazydiner, Impresario Hospitality, IndoStar Capital, India Lends, Mswipe Technologies, Saffronart, and Sula Wines. His investment experience also includes RBL Bank, India’s National Stock Exchange, OYO Rooms, Cleartrip, GOQii, Redmart, Chope, F&B Asia and Hostmaker.

Deepak has an MBA with Distinction from INSEAD where he graduated on the Dean’s list, an LLB (Hons) from King's College London and a FCA from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England & Wales.

Deepak serves on the Advisory Board of INSEAD’s Global Private Equity Initiative (GPEI). GPEI aims to work hand in hand with private equity firms to create relevant, timely and thought provoking output. Deepak is the co-founder of InseadAlum Ventures, a venture fund leveraging capital from INSEAD alumni focused on investing in early stage businesses founded by INSEAD alumni.

Deepak also serves on board of Magic Bus Singapore, a non-profit organization helping develop underprivileged children through sports in India.

 

Deepak I. Shahdadpuri, Founder and Managing Director, BCP Advisors

Deepak I. Shahdadpuri is the Founder and Managing Director of BCP Advisors, advisors to the Beacon India Private Equity Fund ($320M under management including co-investment pool). Prior to that he was Managing Director at private equity fund GEM India Advisors, and worked with Reuters Venture Capital, Bain & Company and Ernst & Young.

Deepak currently serves on the board of Baker's Circle, Bhayana Builders, Impresario, New Horizon Media, Sula Wines, Saffronart, Vatika and Trak. Deepak has an MBA with distinction from INSEAD (Dean's List) and an LLB (Hons) from King's College London. Deepak has 14 years of principal investing experience.
Deepak's angel investments include Active Health, Atyourprice, Bangalore Management Academy, Exclusively.in, Fetal Genetix, Saffronart, Speakwell and Subway Southeast.

Deepak Natraj, Managing Director, Aarin Inspired Capital

Deepak manages Aarin Capital (www.aarincapital.com), which has made 15 large & mid-size, and a similar number of seed investments. Aarin’s investments include focused molecular research, implantable & external medical devices, mobile-medicine, gene testing, test-prep, software products, eCommerce and tablet based platform learning in India & overseas.

Deepak works closely with, supports and leverages networks to help founders grow and create value from ideation through to exit planning. He has also structured, set-up & raised capital for funds anchored by Aarin and for co-investments.

From early 2008 to early 2010, Deepak was CFO at a Sequoia funded tech start-up, later sold to a leading mid-tier Indian outsourcer. Since mid-2000 Deepak headed strategic initiatives at Infosys and was its first CRO.  He deployed +$100m in various initiatives, including cross-border acquisitions, led pricing on outsourcing deals and implemented SoX404. He started his career in 1990 with the Big Four.

Aarin is a proprietary fund co-founded by Dr Ranjan Pai (Manipal Education & Medical Group), and Mohandas Pai (Chief Advisor to the Manipal Group, Board Member, also formerly of Infosys).  Deepak set up the fund and has been with it since. Additionally, Aarin has anchored funds in IT, both early stage and venture capital, Digital Media and Financial Services, the confluence of mobile and consumer, in derivatives and also late stage and listed equities.  

Deepak is an honours Commerce graduate from Delhi University and is a Chartered Accountant (1989). He is keen on science fiction, plays golf and does yoga. He also invests in his own capacity and works closely with founders helping them build their businesses.

Deepak Padaki, President, Catamaran

Deepak Padaki President As President of Catamaran, Deepak is responsible for driving the overall performance of the firm’s portfolio by formulating and executing its investment strategy, asset allocation and risk management policies. Deepak has over 30 years of experience in the Global IT Services and Software Product industry. He was Executive Vice President, Group Head of Strategy & Chief Risk Officer at Infosys Limited (NYSE: INFY) until June 2022. He played various roles at Infosys – including Strategy, M&A, Venture Funding, Risk Management, Business Development, Software Engineering and Project Management. He was a member of the Board of Infosys’ Software subsidiaries in Israel, the Netherlands, USA, Japan, and India. He was the Vice President of the Indo-Australian Chamber of Commerce, a lead member of the start-up and Knowledge Management Councils of the Confederation of Indian Industry and a member of the Strategy and Risk Officers’ Councils of the World Economic Forum. In his spare time, he is active in community theatre and serves on the managing committee of Bangalore Little Theatre. Deepak holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science from the University of Mysore, India.

Deepak Renganathan, CMO & SVP, DLF Ltd.

Deepak Renganathan Chief Marketing Officer with Creative, Lean, Agile, Performance mindset across Industries. Hands-on approach to Marketing and Delivered Business Turnaround in Americas, China, EMEA and APAC Owns a Solid 360-degree Marketing track record of 20 years across the globe, by leading all sections of Marketing (Strategy, Product, Brand, Communications and Launch) across Automotive, Real-estate, Hospitability and Non-Profit. Starting from deeper understanding of Context, Customer and Journey, creating breakthrough products and services and executing them flawlessly through Transmedia storytelling, Cross channel attribution, Behavioral Marketing in Industry agnostic global environments. As a New-world Marketer, I tackle Market with ideas and executions that disrupt organically by embracing and delivering through the help of Big Data (both Internal and External), Automation, BOT programs, IoT and Artificial Intelligence tools. Always loved and looked up by the team for the Casual and Charismatic leadership style that cares, empowers and stands with them all the time. I enhance relationships by breaking barriers across culture, ethnicity and language to promote diverse yet cohesive work culture.

Deepak Roy, Executive VC & CEO, Allied Blenders & Distillers Pvt. Ltd

Deepak Roy, Executive Vice Chairman & CEO of Allied Blenders and Distillers Pvt. Ltd., is a renowned veteran of the wine and spirits industry, holding 5% of the company's stakes.

Mr. Roy has had an impressive career spanning over 30 years in sales, marketing and general management. Throughout his glorious career, he has spent 23 years in the alcoholic beverages industry, and over 13 years as the CEO of various successful brands in the spirits sector. He also has held various assignments in marketing and general management in leading multinational companies like Glaxo, Ranbaxy, CPC, Warner Hindustan, The UB Group & Diageo.

In 1993, Mr. Roy was appointed as the founding CEO of Diageo's India business (formerly 'International Distillers India'). Today he finds his name in Diageo's history as the man who helped the company's profit grow considerably since its inception. Before joining Diageo, he has had a decade of experience with The UB Group from 1983 to 1993.

During his tenure in The UB Group, he handled various marketing and general management positions in McDowells and Herbertsons. He spearheaded Triumph Distillers & Vintners, a UB umbrella company and the manufacturers of Gilbey's Green Label. In just 10 years, he was not only instrumental in growing 2 'millionaire' brands, but also helped revive the other brands. In December 2002, he led a management buy-out in India by acquiring Diageo's India whisky business and successfully selling it for approximately 4 times more value in just over two years time.

Deepak Sahni, Founder & CEO, Healthians.com

Deepak Sahni is the Founder and CEO of Healthians.com, India’s largest health test/diagnosis @ home service, creating an entirely new benchmark for premier service quality and honest prices, backed by innovative state-of-the-art technology.

Being a start-up founder, Mr. Sahni’s chief responsibilities include everything that the business needs to scale and sustain in this highly competitive market landscape. He is fully responsible for the company’s complete Marketing, Supply Chain management, operations, HR and Finance.

Armed with a rich and diverse experience in domestic and international healthcare marketing, Mr. Sahni realized quite early that Healthcare in India is primarily focused on illness and treatments of lifestyle disease.

This prompted him to build a unique brand which pivots around prevention, monitoring and management of diseases and help people live healthy and happy by regularly monitoring and testing their routine health parameters. The core insight behind the brand lied in the fact that nobody takes care of their own health and all need a reliable support system which guarantees convenience, standardization, quality service, transparency and trust.

Belonging to a family of entrepreneurs, Mr. Sahni is a serial entrepreneur with over 14 years of experience, having founded a Digital Healthcare Agency - SWT and was also the founding partner of HBG - a Healthcare Market Research & Medical Tourism company. He has also represented the country in the Medical Tourism Congress in US for three years consecutively.

Prior to establishing Healthians.com, Mr. Sahni had a series of successful entrepreneurial ventures to his credit. He started his very first business venture at the age of 19 – a computer assembling business, followed by a Digital Healthcare agency. He has also worked with 120 renowned hospitals across the world gaining a vast pool of knowledge and business acumen.

Under Deepak’s able leadership, Healthians.com is looking to expand within and beyond Delhi NCR, equipped with best-of-breed technology, highest quality diagnostics & wellness and a highly skilled team of lab experts, doctors, nutritionists and medical specialists.

Fully understanding his social responsibilities, Mr. Sahni is committed to set up an establishment that can help underprivileged and needy individuals with free-of-cost medical tests and other allied services. Mr. Deepak Sahni is married to a technology entrepreneur and is a father to a 7 year old daughter. In his leisure time, he lives his passion for cooking up delectable authentic cuisines from across the world and go for fun-filled vacations every year. He has been awarded has Futuristic Face of Healthcare in 2009, Leaders Award for Social Impact Enterprise of Year 2015 and Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2016.

Deepak Sahni, Founder & CEO, Healthians

Deepak Shahdadpuri, Founder & MD, DSG Consumer Partner | @DSGCPvc

 Deepak I. Shahdadpuri is the Founder and Managing Director of DSG Consumer Partner and Beacon India Private Equity Fund. Deepak has over 15 years of private equity and venture capital experience and is an active angel investor focusing on consumer businesses with a strong emphasis on food and beverage value chain. Before this, Deepak held senior roles at Gem India, Reuters VC, Bain & Company and Ernst & Young. Deepak is on the board of Baker's Circle, Impresario, Eazy Diner, Exito Gourmet, India Lends, Indostar Capital, Indian Home Gourmet, Mswipe, Saffronart, Saraf Foods, Sula Wines and Veeba Food. Deepak’s investment experience also includes RBL Bank, OYO Rooms, Cleartrip, Redmart, F&B Asia and Furtado’s School of Music.

Deepak serves on the board of Magic Bus, a non-profit organization helping develop underprivileged children through sports, and on the advisory board of Dawn Capital, a UK focused Venture Capital Fund. He has an MBA (Distinction) from INSEAD where he graduated on the Dean’s list, a LLB (Hons) from King's College London and a FCA from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England & Wales.

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Deepak Sharma, MD & Head - M&A, Axis Capital

Mr. Deepak Sharma is a seasoned investment banker with over two decades of experience across assignments involving mergers & acquisitions, strategic advisory, fund raising and restructuring, with extensive exposure to both cross border and domestic situations. In his current role, he heads the M&A and Financial Sponsors practice at Axis Capital. He is responsible for both the strategic and operational aspects of the business, including senior level relationship management and overall client deliver oversight.

During his long career, Mr. Sharma has been involved in transactions involving a diverse mix of leading Indian corporates, multinationals, financial sponsors and Government organizations. Having started his career with Arthur Andersen, he has subsequently been a part of global Financial Institutions like Lazard and Rabobank. Prior to joining Axis Capital, Mr. Sharma was a senior banker at Lazard’s Mumbai office, where he led the firm’s activities for a range of sectors including industrials, infrastructure, building materials, energy and natural resources.

Mr. Sharma is a recipient of the Roll of Honour from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta and is an Electrical Engineer from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He is an avid reader and enjoys unwinding with light music.