Ambuj Jhunjhunwala

Mr. Ambuj is a dynamic young individual who has always taken the lead in innovating. He has headed the national grocery retail chain REI Six Ten Retail Ltd. and is also the founder of Mygrahak Shopping Online Ltd. Ambuj Jhunjhunwala is a management graduate from Singapore Management University where he created a record by completing a 4year program in just 2.5 years. He is passionate about internet, finance and consumerism.

Anavo Global LLC

Anavo Global LLC is an early-stage social enterprise investment fund and venture accelerator. Anavo supports field-based prototyping, piloting, and scaling so that the best lessons inform replication. It is at the system-level, not the service-level, where Anavo differentiates itself and puts its portfolio ventures at an advantage for aggressive growth. Anavo focuses on the delivery and distribution of life-improving services and products that the global poor validate with their spending power.

Devangshu Dutta

Devangshu Dutta has held senior and top management positions in marketing, retail and management consulting organisations, and co-founded a sourcing solutions business. Currently he runs Third Eyesight, a specialist management consulting practice in the consumer ecosystem, and is managing partner of PVC Partners, that works with businesses in the early and growth stages. Devangshu also writes frequently, and speaks at industry events internationally.

Gray Ghost Ventures

Gray Ghost Ventures (GGV) is the umbrella organization founded by Bob Pattillo. Built around social impact through investment and infrastructure development, GGV seeks catalytic, early-stage investments in the developing world. GGV has played a significant role in the promotion of social investment globally. Their areas of work include: Microfinance, Social Venture Investment, and Affordable Private Schools.

Kitendo Capital

Kitendo Capital is a private fund that invests in small and medium sized enterprises in emerging markets. Their goal is to generate competitive financial returns. Kitendo’s investment decisions however are based on more than mere financial aspects: they take into consideration both the company’s social and environmental impact. They focus on growth companies that can demonstrate a positive impact on low-income communities in their region and conduct their business in an eco-friendly manner.

Lok Capital

Lok Capital initiative was launched with the support of a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. Lok Capital manages two BoP funds with over $85mn under management. The two venture capital funds are dedicated to long term equity investing in enterprises serving bottom of pyramid and a not-for-profit foundation.

Michael Susan Dell Foundation

Private family foundation of Michael & Susan Dell dedicated to transforming the lives of children living in urban poverty. The India satellite office focuses on improving childhood education, health, and family economic stability.

Omnivore Capital

Omnivore Capital is an early-stage venture fund investing in agricultural technology (“ag-tech”), water, and cleantech startups in India. Omnivore seeks to catalyze India’s innovation ecosystem by supporting entrepreneurs who are developing solutions to improve rural productivity and environmental sustainability.

Pranav Nahar

Pranav Nahar has been involved with entrepreneurship, scaling businesses, and starting companies across international markets since 1998. For the last 2 years he has been involved in building a crowd funding incubation ecosystem for social and sustainable entrepreneurs in partnership with HT Media called Brightest Young Climate Leaders and Brightest Young Sustainable Leaders Program. Pranav has an MBA from London Business School & Columbia Business School with Deans List Honours. He co-founded and exited his first company at 19 in Oslo, Norway, helping Scandinavian companies expand internationally.

Rohit Luthra

Rohit Luthra brings over 20 years of experience across domains and industries. Starting with the Fashion Industry (sales, consulting, technology and systems) since 1990, he moved on to start up companies in the IT (1996) and Apparel SCM (1997) domains. The PVC principles were applied to 2 young start-ups in 2003; one merged into his earlier venture and the second scaled manifold to become a leading ERP implementation company.

Rohtash Mal

Rohtash Mal is the Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of Escorts Ltd. Prior to this he was with Bharti Group for over seven years as CEO of AirTel. He joined Bharti from Maruti Udyog Ltd. where, over three years he was Chief General Manager. His career started with Ballarpur Industries Ltd. where over 17 years, he traversed all the businesses of the company. Mr. Mal has a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from IIT, Delhi & MBA from IIM, Calcutta.

Sadeesh Raghavan

Sadeesh Raghavan was the Managing Director at Accenture. He has spent his career advising MNCs and the top Asian players on their market entry, growth programs & strategies. He is very active in venture philanthrophy and angel investing; he sits on numerous boards including the Global Advisory Board and Investment Committee of Acumen Fund and India Advisory Board of the Asia Venture Philanthropy Network. He is also a member of the Ashoka Support Network. He obtained his undergraduate degree at IIT Madras and his MBA at UCLA, USA.

Sanjay Gupta

Sanjay is an early-stage Investor in the areas of Mobile and Wireless, Internet, Media and Green technologies. He has been actively engaging with entrepreneurs through mentoring and angel investing. His areas of specialization include fund raising, turnaround, early monetization and profits. He has been the founder of mobiSolv, a profitable mobile advertising organization since 2006. In his corporate career, he was associated with the best of organizations like SAS Institute, IBM and Fidelity at senior levels.

Sanjeev Kakar

Sanjeev is the Founder of Intarvo Technologies, the first and largest Reverse Logistics company in India. His company created innovative solutions for all large OEM and ODM companies in IT, Telecom and Electronics. Sanjeev chairs the India Focus committee of the Reverse Logistics Association, USA. He is a member of 'Hardware Committee' of ESC and member of Indian Angel network. He mentors and invests in early stages of startups. He is an Engineering graduate from BITS, Pilani and M. Tech. from IIT, Delhi.

Sasha Mirchandani

Sasha is the founder at Kae Capital, Co-founder of Mumbai Angels and worked with Blue Run Ventures as Managing Director for the India operations. Earlier, he was CEO and Founder of Imercius Technologies and Head of Corporate Affairs and new business at Mirc Electronics (Onida). Sasha sits on the Board of Hathway Cable and Datacom Limited, Fractal Analytics, Algorhythm Tech, Mumbai Angels Venture Mentors and several others. He holds a BBA from Strayer University and MMDP from IIM-A.

Shailesh Vickram Singh

Shailesh Vickram Singh has over 16 years of experience in Venture Capital / Private Equity investing and in Business Strategy & Entrepreneurship. Shailesh is at present heading Seed Fund Delhi office. Prior to this, Shailesh was MD with 2i Capital and has earlier worked with Unit Trust of India and Gujarat Venture Finance Limited. Prior to his MBA, Shailesh had worked for four years in manufacturing (Heavy Engineering and Machining) with Tata Motors and ATV.

Subinder Khurana

Subinder has the experience of two ventures – EZPower Systems, a software products company he co-founded (acquired by DocuCorp International, now a part of Oracle), and marketRx, a product-enabled marketing analytics company (acquired by Cognizant). He continues to mentor and invest in startups as an independent angel investor. He is a NASSCOM Emerge Mentor and Chair, NASSCOM Gurgaon Council. He has a B.Tech from IIT, Delhi.

The Eleos Foundation

The Eleos Foundation and Eleos Investment Management LLC, invests in and partners with social entrepreneurs that effectively implement high impact, early stage, pioneering market based solutions in the fight to eradicate extreme poverty.