Leveraging our ecosystem of Investors, Mentors, Corporates & Academic Partners

Ankur Bansal is the Co-founder and Director of debt fund, BlackSoil Capital.

Prior to co-founding BlackSoil, Ankur was with JP Morgan, where he led and successfully managed deals such as JSW Energy IPO, Persistent Systems IPO, and Axis Bank, among others. He has also been associated with the CitiGroup, where he had completed over two dozen capital market transactions.

Rohit is Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Lumis Partners. 

He has been working across a global footprint, in creating strategies & building a synergistic portfolio of businesses for the Firm, whose philosophy is – investing, building and scaling Managed Services Companies in domains with fragmented value chains. 

Rohit’s background has been in running technology & services businesses; managing M&As; and leading large Initiatives.

Vineet Joined TCI in 1996 as the Executive Director after completing his Bachelor of Science in Economics and Industrial Management from Carnegie Mellon University, USA & has held various finance and management roles within the company.

Under his leadership, TCI has adapted to new technologies and work systems to grow from strength to strength. He has played a key role in orienting the organization to move from being a mere trucking company to evolve as one of Asia’s foremost integrated supply chain solutions provider.

Ashutosh founded Guardian Pharmacy in India in 2003 and built it into India’s second largest Pharmacy Chain. He exited from the business in 2016.

Ashutosh currently hosts the very successful video and podcast series titled “The Brand Called You – Converse with the Future” (www.tbcy.in) bringing the stories of successful entrepreneurs, professionals and senior corporate leaders to thousands of listeners.

He is a certified Business Coach and coaches / mentors several CEO’s in India on business matters, governance, strategic planning, succession planning, personal accountability, people and culture issues.

Digbijoy leads the startup BD function at Amazon Internet Services to drive adoption of cloud infrastructure for VC/Angel/Fellowship backed companies in India.

Girish is an Angel Investor and Business Intelligence Evangelist with over 23 yrs of diverse experience in IT consulting, Telecom, Media and Financial Services..

Ishpreet Singh Gandhi is a seasoned banker on a path to underwrite Start-ups on Business Model & Innovative financing through Venture Debt Platform.

After spending 15 plus years in advertising and digital communication, Manish Sinha founded a travel & experiences company – The Unhotel Company – unhotel.in. At Unhotel, he curated experiences in the wellness, culture, adventure, heritage and cause space.

In the past, he has also worked with agencies big and small – Ogilvy, JWT, Mudra, Leo Burnett, TBWA etc. and in life 2.0 my mission is to use story-telling to bring out the best in travel and experiences.

Murali comes with leadership experience in both structured and entrepreneurial environments in managing operations and building businesses in Energy, Power, Renewables and Infrastructure space.

Prior to Azure Power, Murali, co-founded and served as Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Ostro Energy and oversaw the deployment of $280 mn equity capital raised from global PE Actis for the development and execution of 1100 MW renewable energy capacity. Prior to Ostro, Murali also co-founded Orange Renewable where he steered the enterprise from start-up stage into a profitable company, together with developing and executing projects of 180 MW capacity on Build-Own-Operate basis. Earlier, Murali worked with Indiabulls Power as COO where he executed the Group’s vision and strategy to become a serious IPP in the Power sector. Prior to this, Murali worked in Schlumberger in various field and management positions.

Murali holds a Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France.

Narayan brings on board more than 24 years of experience across diverse portfolios like general management as well as sales & marketing.

A seasoned entrepreneur, Narayan was also the Founder and CEO of Denave, India’s largest technology powered sales enabling services company, prior to forming Power2SME. He continues as a Board Member at Denave.

A consummate global executive, Neeraj’s career spans 24 years with a demonstrated history of transitioning businesses from pre-revenue to positive ROI.

Nupur Garg is a leading investor in private equity and venture capital and an expert advisor to large institutional investors. She is the Founder of WinPE, a not-for-profit initiative to enhance gender diversity in the investing ecosystem.

Nupur serves as an independent director on the Board of SIDBI, the Indian development finance institution where she chairs the Board Committee for venture capital funds operations. She is an external expert on the investment committee for the INR 10,000 crore Fund of Fund for Start-ups, for investing in the Indian start-up ecosystem; and an independent member of the investment committee at the $1 bn Fund of Funds managed by the National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF), the quasi sovereign wealth fund sponsored by the government of India. She is an advisor to and a member of the investment committee for the Dutch Good Growth Fund (DGGF) investment funds mandate given by the Dutch government for investments in SMEs in frontier markets across 75 countries. Formerly the Regional Lead for IFC’s private equity funds business, Nupur advises select fund managers on a confidential basis on matters related to institutionalization, best practices and governance. She also mentors female entrepreneurs across various platforms.

Nupur was listed in the Forbes W-Power list in 2020, as among India’s top 100 Women in Finance (AIWMI 2019) and awarded the Business Excellence and Innovative Best Practices – Academia Award 2019. She is an active member of the Limited Partner Council at the IVCA. Nupur is a CA and an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management, with executive education from Harvard Business School.

Piyush comes with 14 years of Global Supply Chain experience in Industry and Consulting. He has worked for industry leaders across Technology, Consumer Goods, Retail and Automotive.

He has also worked across diverse functions like Fulfillment, Warehousing, Inventory Management, Transportation, and Network Optimization. He has massive experience of leading global teams, running the business, and large scale transformation projects across various functions.

Ms. Ritu Mehrotra is currently the Country Manager, India, Sri Lanka and Maldives at Booking.com. Having lived in four countries & three continents Ritu is a global citizen. She has worked in large organizations like Booking, Mahindra Bristlecone & Zomato managing geographies & leading growth.

At the same time incubated startups from scratch, she founded Green Plate – an intelligent platform dedicated to providing corporate America with organically healthy meals. Ms. Mehrotra is very versatile and can adapt her skills to HR, marketing, sales and has been commended by her colleagues for being not only an astute entrepreneur, but also a mentor who has helped build other leaders along the way.

Salil is an accomplished executive with broad based experience of over two decades. Proactive, adaptive, entrepreneurial and energetic team leader known for his ability to innovate, envision and create successful outcomes in complex and highly competitive business situations. He also has lead the following roles: Ex-COO of Dish TV, ex-CEO of HOOQ India and ex COO of UPBG, a Voltas company

Sameer is a Seasoned Banking, Financial Services & Insurance (BFSI) Industry professional with 20 years of progressive experience in successfully starting new businesses & managing established businesses. He has worked across diverse business functions & multiple geographies while successfully enhancing firms capabilities.

Sandeep is a VP at Capgemini Invent India, he focuses on BU’s strategy and implementation using the near shore and offshore capabilities. His helps Invent India by strengthening their go to market as well as readiness to serve using scaled delivery options.

Sanjeev Shriya is the Founder of Smart Chip – biometrics, smart card and digital securities company that is among the top 10 companies in the space. Sanjeev has spearheaded the smart cards & biometric movement in India and has helped create policies, processes, and solutions that have impacted millions across the globe.

He is the Managing Director of Smart Chip and Idemia Syscom – India’s leading manufacturer and market leader in the business of Smart Cards and SIM cards.

Sreevathsa is scaling Servify as it’s Founder & CEO. Servify raised its Series B round funding in 2019. Sreevathsa is also a minority shareholder of B2X India. He also actively is mentoring and promoting tech startup ecosystem in India

Thomas Abraham has built his leadership & business skills over 30 years across industries traversing FMCG, Advertising, Financial Services, Travel, Telecom, Enterprise Software, Publishing & Digital Information Services.

He has experience in working with global leadership teams, influencing decision making and managing the P&L of a fast growing business. Abraham’s ability to transform businesses has allowed companies to drive distinctive competitive advantage.

Furthermore, along with his ability to build a high performing organization and nurture talent in line with business strategy he also posseses M&A skills in identifying, acquiring and integrating businesses.

Vishesh is a dedicated entrepreneur accomplished in concept development, feasibility analysis and securing the funding necessary for over the last 5 years founded 3 Venture funded startups with successful exits. He has raised about 10 Million over 3 rounds of Funding. And is actively Involved with Top Venture Capitalists.

Apart from that, Vishesh has also guided the development, production, promotion and financial aspects. Worked with stakeholders to drive product and service definition and design.