Speakers:
Rajeev Karwal, Founder & CEO of Milagrow Business & Knowledge Solutions.
He is one of India's top names in retail business. Rajeev also served as the CEO of Electrolux, Kelvinator and also of Reliance Retail. In a career spanning over 25 years, Rajeev has worked on startups, turnarounds and more. Rajeev is known for his strategic abilities and excellent execution. His passion for excellence and impeccable track record made him directly debut at the 43rd position in the Economic Times India’s Most Powerful CEOs list in 2004. He was the founding member of Young Indian in 2001 and served on the governing council for 7 years. He also served CII’s National Core Committee on Retail in 2006-07. In 2005 he was the National Chair, Consumer Durables, and a Member of the National Council of CII. He is an MBA from IMT Ghaziabad.
Mahesh Murthy, Founder & CEO Pinstorm
Mahesh Murthy has 26 years of marketing and advertising experience, of which 15 are in online marketing.
After dropping out of college, Mahesh sold vacuum cleaners from door to door, worked with Grey in India and Ogilvy in Hong Kong, where he won notoriety and awards as a creative director on HP, The Economist, Pepsi and MTV - for whom he wrote and directed a spot voted “Asia’s best commercial of the decade”. While running search marketing campaigns for his favourite charity in 2003, Mahesh believed there was a need for a pay-for-performance digital brand management firm - and set up Pinstorm in Bombay. With over 120 people across 6 offices in India, Singapore, Malaysia, Europe and the US, Pinstorm is today among the world's leading digital marketing firms. Mahesh has a passion for early-stage investing and teamed up with Pravin Gandhi and Bharati Jacob (ex-Infinity) in 2006 to set up Seedfund, today a leading early-stage venture capital fund in India. Seedfund already has 12 investments, including Carwale, RedBus, AFAQs and Vaatsalya.
Professor Nandini Vaidyanathan
She’s a traveling teacher who teaches entrepreneurship in several ivy -league business schools around the world. From being just a word in the dictionary five years ago, it has now consumed her whole being. Her moment of epiphany happened four years ago when she realized that in India not too many people became entrepreneurs simply because they didn’t know how. So she founded her company Startups to mentor entrepreneurs (forstartups.blogspot.com) .Up until July this year, she has mentored over 500 startup entrepreneurs across domains, across geographies, pro bono. Twenty years in the corporate sector, in MNC’s on all inhabited continents, have given her enough reason to say, been there, done that. Startups has also been involved in mentoring women build micro enterprises in economies as plural as Afghanistan, countries in South and East Africa and India. Six months ago, she co-founded CARMa (Creating Access to Resources & Markets), (www.carmagroup.in) with a lofty ambition : to change the karma of entrepreneurs in India. CARMa mentors startups, mature enterprises and family businesses. The mentoring encompasses getting organizations investment ready, helping them raise capital on a unique, online, platform, and deploying capital efficiently. She writes a regular monthly column for the magazine, Entrepreneur. She is a TED speaker.
Nitin Gupta, CEO of Entertainment Engineers.
He is a Chemical Engineer from IIT Bombay famous for creating a Cult Play 'Love In December'.
Fresh out of IIT Bombay, he got an offer to perform on Laughter Challenge, the opportunity which he later turned down! The reason is why he founded Entertainment Engineers with a simple mission, to make Stand Up Comedy respectable in India and to create a humor Renaissance in this country. Humor he says, ought to have an emotionality to it. We not only want people to laugh and think, we want them to LAUGH, THINK and FEEL at the same time. T.V. was not the medium to do that. So Nitin took to the Stage, College Festivals, Corporate Shows. And in a short span he has already enthralled the Audiences in some of the Biggest College Festivals in India, IITs, NITs, IIMs including their Alumini Meets.
Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Journalist.
He is an independent journalist and an educator. His work experience, spanning over 33 years, cuts across different media: print, radio, television and documentary cinema. He has been associated with a number of projects of the United Nations Development Programme and the International Labour Organization. He is a director/producer of documentary films. One entitled “Idiot Box or Window of Hope” examines the impact of television on Indian society – was produced by the Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT) in 2003 and was broadcast on Doordarshan. In 2006-07, he produced and directed a five-part documentary series in partnership with the PSBT entitled: “Hot As Hell: A Profile of Dhanbad”, different versions of which have been broadcast on various television channels including Doordarshan and NDTV 24x7. In 2007, he directed a documentary film “Grabbing Eyeballs: What’s Unethical About Television News in India” for PSBT that was followed up by another entitled “Advertorial: Selling News or Products?” in 2009.
He is a partner of Media Network of India, a firm engaged in designing and creation of content for all media (print, radio, television, websites and mobile phones), contract publishing, media training, and establishment of radio stations, marketing and business development for media organizations.
Shivang Mehta, Founder of Nature Wanderers & Wild life photographer.
He is a Naturalist, Wildlife Photographer, Film-maker. Shivang Mehta started his career as a journalist and later became a PR professional where he handled PR for leading edge companies like Evalueserve, Google and Bharti. He joined a media house in Delhi and met Kahini who took him for his first encounter with wilderness which transformed him into a strong custodian of the environment and its denizens. He has made films on environment and wildlife and have conducted over 25 photography workshops in Corbett and other national parks around the country.
Ankit Maheshwari, Co-Founder & CEO Instablogs
He has been Listed in Asia’s most inspiring young entrepreneurs and social Changemakers by Paragaon 100 Asia; co-founder and CEO of Instablogs Network. Instablogs which was founded three years ago today stand as one of the top citizen newspapers in the world and an active community of 30,000 members, and 80 lakh pageviews per month. At a time when every mainstream media house is cutting down on its international coverage, Instablogs is fast expanding it. Instablogs was conceived from the idea of news for a global citizen's newspaper. Building a platform where through collaborative news approach the world's critical issues would be highlighted from the people who are actually affected from them. Instablogs, today is the only platform available which not only gives a comprehensive understanding of the event but also brought out the impact it had on the lives in all parts of the world. He loves to interact with fellow (or budding) entrepreneurs, share ideas and exchange expertise in all possible areas.
Abhijeet Kumar,
Armed with a B.Tech from IIT Mumbai, Abhijeet worked with Deloitte Consulting as an Associate Consultant before moving on to found his own company, Pronto Infotech, in the ITES space. Here, he faced and overcame the challenges that come with setting up an enterprise, and in the last 4 years, has created a successful venture with a multi-crore revenue stream. He has worked with numerous clients across industries and in various functional domains including Tax, Retail, HR, E-Commerce, Web, Supply Chain, Technology, Banking and others.
Having consulted in both business and technical capacities, and with the extensive experience working directly and indirectly for various functional domains, Abhijeet has the ability to evaluate ventures across the board and help entrepreneurs with intelligent cost planning through optimisation of systems, processes and networks, as well as creating and achieving targets. With his wide network of professionals from various verticals like operations, finance, accounting, and marketing, Abhijeet is not only able to help stem temporary gaps, but also generate business.
Shashank Khanna, Senior Interaction Designer – Yahoo
Armed with a degree in Mdes from IIT Bombay he worked in Microsoft as User Experience Research Intern (Worked on research project "Supplementary Income Generation through Micro-Tasks for Low Income Novice Computer Users) under Aishwarya Ratan, Bill Thies and Ed Cutrell at technology for Emerging Markets Group at Microsoft Research, India. At Yahoo he designs all the new concepts and products. He has designed and developed Mobile Banking for the Low Literates at Yahoo.
Satya Kalyan Yerramsetti - Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer – SMS Country
He is the founder and CEO of SMSCountry Networks, which is a SMS aggregator and bulk SMS tools provider and he also runs the indian mobile advertising company 160by2, which tags contextual ads in the free SMS generated by users. A visionary to the core, Satya provides the driving force for SMSCountry's young, high spirited and motivated team in achieving great heights. Satya is a serial entrepreneur. During the Dotcom days, he started an online examination portal, A2Zexams, the first of its kind at that time. He then managed the Indian Operations of a UK based calling card company, Ekspertek. This experience and knowledge in the Internet as well as the Telecom domain was instrumental in carving out the current business of SMSCountry. He spends considerable time researching on the internet and is a true believer in the FREE spirit of the Internet (everything on the internet should be free). Satya holds a Masters in Management degree from University of Western Sydney, NSW, Australia and a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Osmania University, Hyderabad.
Aloke Bajpai, Founder & CEO – iXiGO.com
Aloke is the dynamo who drives iXiGO with his passion and has a love for speed in usability and execution. His core focus is people, people and people. He believes in lean and mean teams and building the best products. If that does not tell you enough and you want to know more about him, then the best way to get his attention (besides bribing his team ;-)) is to give him his favourite Goverdhan special noodles. Aloke evangelises Travel 2.0. He has 8 years of managerial, operational, and product experience in the industry (he knows it really well by now!). There are few places in the world he has not visited or lived in, but he retains his Indian heart and spirit. When he is not thinking about iXiGO, Aloke can be found diving into a good book or a pool, depending on the weather.
Aloke holds an Electrical Engineering Degree from IIT Kanpur and an MBA from INSEAD where he also did a summer exchange at Wharton.
Ritesh Agarwal, Scientist
Child Scientist recognized by the Indian National Science Congress
Founder and CEO of RA Group(www.ragroup.in)
NCSE (National Children Science Congress) Scholar
Participated in ASC 2010(Participated by 24 Countries)( http://asc2010.hbcse.tifr.res.in/)
Best student of e-siksha, a Technology awareness initiative by MITS(Eng. College)
Seminar Speaker in National Bio-Diversity Conference
Participated at Asia’s Largest Entrepreneurship Conference-TiE Summit(www.tiesummit.org)
Awarded among the top 50 Entrepreneurial Startups by NEN(National Entrepreneurship Network)-First Dot supported by IBM.
Currently he is pursuing 12th from DPS Delhi.
Prasun Bhowmik, Fellow at Teach for India
As a Teach For India fellow, his job is to bridge the achievement gap that exists between a 2nd grader from a low income school and his counterpart in a high end private school. His kids come in with a lag of one year in physical growth and mental development; and two years of academic lag and the rote learning they have been through, they are a good two and a half years(min) behind their wealthier counterparts. His aim is to make the next two years experiential and motivational for his class, his school and the community from where they come. These children have never been to a movie theatre, never dined at a restaurant, never met firemen, or police women. He wants his children to experience different things, broaden their horizons, expose them to new emotions, all this alone can make the children of our country more tolerant and open minded. He is an engineer from BIT Mesra.
Shradha Sharma, Founder- Yourstory.in
She felt an itching need for startup entrepreneurs to find their voices. She simply put up a website YourStory.in and captured entrepreneur stories. “If you have a story to tell, we give you space for it” was the idea behind YourStory.in. The momentum began to build and with nearly 2000 entrepreneur stories and counting, YourStory has become a powerful platform for entrepreneurs in India in the second year of its founding. A year into the venture, CNBC-TV18 Young Turks, the longest running entrepreneur TV show, signed up YourStory as its online partner. This is a recognition of how far YourStory has impacted the entrepreneurial, if not, startup community. She is an Alumnus of St Stephens Delhi and MICA Ahmdabad. She is the Winner of the NASSCOM Ecosystem Evangelist Award in 2010.
Source : Mr. Subrat Kar
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