He has done India proud with his high quality Airports in Delhi and Hyderabad acclaimed to be among the finest airports in the world.

For a simple engineer involved in quite an insignificant business, he saw opportunities to build infrastructure in India when India opened its doors of liberalisation.

He built an enviable team as he grew from strength to strength. Despite several obstacles, he emerged victorious as a fighting entrepreneur. His skills in building relationships with people and relentless pursuit of realising dreams made him a man of stature.

Vani Kola is a Managing Director at Kalaari Capital,based in Bangalore, India. Her leadership at Kalaari centers around her commitment to the development of entrepreneurs and her conviction that Indian companies are poised to become global players. Vani brings 22 years of Silicon Valley experience as a founder of successful companies to her role as a mentor and enabler of startup companies in India. She serves on several company boards and speaks widely on entrepreneurs hip and leadership.

A builder, visionary, entrepreneur and philanthropist, Rameshwar Rao has a three word mantra for entrepreneurial success – quality, reliability and integrity.

He laid a strong foundation for his multi sector enterprise with high quality dwelling units for modest families as well as the affluent. My Home Hub is a prominent landmark in the hi-tech city area of Hyderabad.

Nothing succeeds like success and he wasted no time entering cement manufacturing in partnership with a leading company from Ireland.

Dr. Prathap Reddy 'A compassionate humanitarian, dedicated to bringing world-class healthcare within the economic and geographic reach of millions of patients' best describes Dr. Prathap C Reddy, Founder Chairman of the Apollo Hospitals Group.

Dr. Reddy received his medical degree from the Stanley Medical College in Chennai and later trained as a Cardiologist in the UK and USA. He did his Fellowship from the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston and went on to head several research programs at the Missouri State Chest Hospital, USA where he worked for several years before returning to India in 1978, at the behest of his father.

This act of leading by example in reversing the brain drain eventually became an agenda with Apollo Hospitals, India's first corporate hospital that heralded the country's burgeoning private healthcare industry.

Srini Raju is the co-founder of Peepul Capital. Prior to the launch of Fund I in 2000, Srini served as COO of Satyam Computer Services. He was also the founding CEO of Cognizant Technology Solutions Limited.

Having built large organizations, Srini brings with himself a deep understanding of Indian business environment as well as a keen eye to identify potential opportunities.

Srini received an MS from Utah State University and is a graduate Engineer from Regional Engineering College (REC), Kuruskshetra, India.

A more diversified personality would be hard to find!

A biologist, a medical Doctor, a Flight Surgeon, an Endocrinologist, a developer of in-flight medical devices for astronauts, a Mission Commander on Space shuttle Columbia and a certified Scuba diver – what kind of a mind and personality would he have?

When people think and plan careers, they normally look at a safe or beaten path. But entrepreneurs are people who risk and engage in an enterprise that challenges the routine. Dr. Bernard is in a way a super entrepreneur who is like several swiss army knive in one device!

A serial entrepreneur and an enthusiastic personality, Murali Bukkapatnam is the CEO & Co-Founder of Domestic Workforce Pvt. Ltd. (getdomestichelp.com), India's first online social enterprise for providing domestic help. Getdomestichelp.com specializes in livelihood enhancement and skill development enabling women & youth empowerment from grass-root levels by engaging them in providing comprehensive domestic help solutions to households, corporate and expatriates.

Besides his entrepreneurial ventures, Murali is also striving to promote entrepreneurship by creating an ecosystem to help future startups from India. He is an active member with TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs), a global association to foster entrepreneurship through mentoring, networking & education. Present in 17 countries, TiE emphasizes on generating & nurturing next generation of entrepreneurs. Currently as the President of TiE Hyderabad Chapter¬Murali takes up various initiatives like business plan competitions, angel connects, mentoring opportunities and exchange of ideas for innovation. Murali also engages actively with unique startups in sectors such as education, diagnostics, financial services, technology, real-estate, hospitality etc; by providing them mentoring and financial support as well.

Ananth Rao is the Chairman of Focus SkillPro, a sustainable social venture with a mission to train and provide jobs to 1 million underprivileged youth. SkillPro is focused on placement linked skilling and vocational training. The organization has over 50+ skill-training centers across India and has trained more than 30,000 youth in rural and urban areas. SkillPro helps government, development agencies, corporates & NGOs in implementation of large scale skill training projects, research & evaluation studies and small to large scale capacity building

Subrata focuses on technology and Internet investing. Subrata served on the boards of Small-device (now a part of Digital Chocolate) and Mu Sigma, and is currently on the boards of Perfint, Flipkart, Myntra, and enStage. Before joining Accel India in 2008, Subrata was a Partner at Erasmic Venture Fund. Prior to Erasmic, Subrata was MD, India, for Tavant Technologies, Inc., a U.S.-based mortgage solutions company, which was acquired by privately held Ameriquest Mortgage Capital in 2004 (Ameriquest has since merged into CitiCapital). Previously, Subrata was the Founder of Firewhite, Inc., which was acquired by Ubiquio, Inc., and later merged into Mobile Planet. Subrata started his career at IBM's prestigious T.J. Watson and Santa Teresa Labs, working in the Software R&D groups. Subrata holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, an MS in Computer Science from the University of Delaware, and a B.Tech in Computer Science from IIT, Kanpur, India.

Dr. Ashish Gupta is a co-founder of Helion and serves on the boards of Babyoye.com, Dhingana, InfoEdge, Jivox, Kirusa, Komli, MySmartPrice.com, Pubmatic, and SMSGupshup. He has co-founded two successful companies - Tavant Technologies and Junglee (AMZN). He has also worked at Woodside Fund, Oracle Corporation and IBM research. Some of his other investments are redBus (MIH), Mu Sigma, Daksh (IBM), Odesk, MakeMyTrip, and Merittrac (Manipal Group).

Gopal Srinivasan is the Founder Chairman & MD of TVS Capital Funds Limited, that has launched an India focused Growth Private Equity Fund. The Vision is to develop and nurture India’s mid-cap businesses into world-class companies. The Fund will make investments in companies that are at the intersection of high growth consumer consumption driven opportunities and a developmental theme, such as organizing the unorganized/inefficient sectors. The Fund targets proprietary investment opportunities, and be a strategic partner to the entrepreneur and the enterprise to help expand businesses beyond their existing roots, professionalize their operations and enhance their management team.

Gopal, a third generation TVS family member, is the founder and Chairman of TVS Electronics Limited and is a Director in TVS & Sons Ltd, the holding company. He is also a member of the Board of several Group Companies. The TVS Group is a $4 Billion (revenue) automotive family controlled conglomerate, now in its 100th year of service to its customers, societal stakeholders and shareholders.

Amber Dubey is Partner and Head – Aerospace and Defense at KPMG India. He has a professional experience of 21 years.

Amber and his team have carried out engagements with various ministries, regulatory authorities, government agencies and private sector companies in India and abroad. These are in areas of India entry strategy, regulatory advice, business portfolio analysis, diversification strategy,defense offset planning, efficiency improvement and supply chain advisory etc.

Amber is a member of the aviation and defense committees of all major industry bodies like CII, FICCI, ASSOCHAM, AMCHAM etc. Amber is a regular speaker on aviation and defense policy matters in the media and industry conferences. He was recently honored by the Hon’ble Minister of Civil Aviation Mr Ajit Singh for his ‘valuable contribution to Indian aviation’.

Amber is an alumnus of IIT Bombay and IIM Ahmedabad.

Bejul brings over sixteen years of operating, entrepreneurial and investment experience in India and the U.S. to his role as Managing Director of Lightspeed Advisory Services India. His background and interests encompass technology and non-technology businesses, and he currently serves on the boards of Indian Energy Exchange, Itz Cash Card, OneAssist, Fashionara and Four Interactive.

Prior to Lightspeed, Bejul was Co-managing Director of Twiga Fiberglass, a leading manufacturer of thermal and acoustic insulation solutions in India and a partner of Saint Gobain, one of the largest building materials companies worldwide. Before moving to India, Bejul started and bootstrapped Open List, a U.S.-based vertical Web-search company that was acquired by Marchex (MCHX), a leading provider of local search and advertising products. Prior to Open List, Bejul was an investment professional at General Catalyst Partners, where he focused on early and growth-stage investments in Internet, media, travel distribution, loyalty, and other consumer-facing applied technology businesses.

Earlier in his career, Bejul was a strategy consultant with Bain & Company and an equity capital markets banker at Salomon Brothers. Bejul holds a BSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Chairman Microsoft India, a man with a sound track record with leading global IT monoliths for over 30 years, has surely earned his stripes in the trenches.

An IITian from Kanpur and a Marketing graduate from Stanford, Bhaskar Pramanik was highly decorated at Sun Microsystems for his gallant leadership.

A thought leader and entrepreneur at heart, he built the IT capabilities in India in an exemplary spirit of forward thinking.

Bikram Singh Bedi is the Head of India for Amazon Seller Services Pvt. Ltd.Bikram leads the team that helps businesses of all sizes across the region learn about the Amazon Web Services cloud computing platform, allowing them to save money, accelerate their time to market, and focus on their core business. Bikram has over 19 years of experience including managing various business’s in senior leadership roles across ASEAN, Asia Pacific and India geographies for various IT and Telecom-based products and services organisations like IBM and Oracle. Prior to joining Amazon Web Services, Bikram’s last assignment was as the VP of the middleware business at Oracle India.

Dayakar is an active supporter of entrepreneurs and startups. He has been involved with the Dallas chapter of The Indus Entrepreneur (TiE) since 1999 and is currently a Governing Board Member. Among other activities, he chaired the wireless/mobility SIG of TiE, and organized a wireless seminar in partnership with Nokia, TI and others.

Dayakar’s distinguished career is showcased by an impressive record of achievement in building high value mobile, wireless and telecommunications businesses. He was recognized by the US White House as a mobile technology visionary and has been a keynote speaker for numerous industry events.

Mr. Dilip Chenoy is currently Managing Director & CEO of the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC). Prior to NSDC, Mr. Chenoy was Director General of the advocacy group for the automobile industry in India, Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), where he was responsible for setting the technical, economic and social responsibility agenda. He represented SIAM on various Government Committees as well as on the board of NSDC and the Steering Committee of the International Motorcycle Manufacturers Association.

Pullela Gopichand is a great badminton player. He won the prestigious All England Badminton Championship in 2001. He was born on November 16, 1973 at Prakasam, Andhra Pradesh. He was educated at Saint Paul High School at Hyderabad. Later he was admitted to Osmania University.

He became a national champion in the 14 years age group in 1987. In 1991, he won the Junior Singles tide of badminton in Goa. He represented India in the Asian Badminton Championship in 1996. He was a Gold Medallist in the S.A.A.R.C. Games. In the same year, he represented India in the Thomas Cup in China.

He was awarded 'Best Sportsperson of the Year' in 2001. He reached the pinnacle of his career when he won the All England Badminton Championship at Birmingham. The tide came to India after a gap of 21 years, which made Pullela Gopichand a true celebrity in the sporting history of India. He was honoured with the Arjuna Award in 2000.

Chairman of Talent Sprint Private Limited. Earlier served as Managing Director of NVIDIA Graphics Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad, President and Managing Director of Portalplayer India Pvt Ltd. Brought product development in technologies like embedded software and Digital Signal Processing to Indian shores by setting up the Indian operations of PortalPlayer, Inc. which was subsequently acquired by NVIDIA Graphics.

Was the first Director of STPI Bangalore. Singularly responsible for fathering the Software Technology Park and it was due to his endeavors that giants like IBM, Digital, Oracle, PSI Data, Citicorp, Motorola, Texas Instruments, and Hewlett Packard among others set up shop in India

Meena and K. Ganesh are India’s best-known entrepreneur couple. Over the past two decades, between them they have built and exited four successful ventures at a total valuation of US$300 million — IT&T (hardware maintenance), Customer Asset (customer support), Marketics (analytics) and TutorVista (online education). In January 2011, they sold 80% in TutorVista to U.K-based Pearson, the world’s largest education company. Last month, the sale was completed, and TutorVista was sold to Pearson at a total valuation of US$213 million.

Prajakt is an entrepreneur and entrepreneurship evangelist. Prajakt's personal goal in life is to encourage and assist a 100,000 people to become entrepreneurs.

Prajakt helps startups understand the dynamics of business, and assists them in developing meaningful business plans. He mentors startups on strategy, business model & monetization, fundraising and on preparing the company for growth.

Prajakt was previously a part of the founding team of The Hatch for Startups, where he established the brand as a leading player in the early-stage entrepreneurial eco-system in India. Prajakt was the face of The Hatch, and as its executive director, created the out reach programs, deal flow management processes, productized the offering for portfolio companies and built meaningful partnerships with relevant stakeholders.

Prayank is a Senior Associate at Accel India. At Accel, Prayank focuses on Internet and digital media investments. Before joining Accel, Prayank was a Product Manager at Standard Chartered Bank where he worked on mobile banking and trading products. Previously, Prayank had spent several years in key engineering, evangelism, and sales positions at Adobe Systems. Prayank holds an MBA from the Indian School of Business, and an Integrated Masters in Mathematics and Computing from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

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Before joining Kalaari Capital as Managing Director, Rajesh spent nearly five years as an Investment Director at Peepul Capital. He helped lead the firm’s foray into the consumer services sector, which led to some marquee investments in the retail segment. He led the entire lifecycle of sourcing to exit in MedPlus Health Services, one of the notable transactions in the Indian retail sector. He is often sought out to share his experiences and expertise in the retail sector and has participated in various forums, conferences and panels. He also led Peepul Capital’s investments in the technology sector. He enjoys partnering with budding entrepreneurs to build companies and has also had experience working with troubled companies in their turnaround efforts. In addition to his India investing experience, Rajesh has six years of experience in investment banking, equity research and private equity in the U.S. at Merrill Lynch, Robert W. Baird & Co., and SilverYoung Partners respectively. He has eight additional years of operating experience in the technology sector, including roles that span strategic alliances, sales and marketing strategies, engineering, and M&A through his service at Sybase Inc. Rajesh earned a Mechanical Engineering degree from BITS-Pilani, India, a Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Marquette University, USA and an MBA with Honors from the University of Chicago (Booth School of Business

Leading the world’s no.1 entertainment company in India.

Television, Broadcasting, Movies, Consumer products, Games and Digital – Ronnie Screwvala has a large bouquet of creative experience in his bag. Founding UTV Group to heading Walt Disney, the journey of a man who had to constantly innovate, improvise and stay ahead of the market to meet growing consumer expectations.

He was named among Esquire’s List of 75 most influential persons of the 21st Century; Fortune magazine’s List of 25 Asia’s most powerful. Time magazine’s List of 100 most influential people ranked him 78. Ernst & Young gave him the title of Jack Warner of India and named him Entrepreneur of the year at one time.

Sanjeev is the founder of Naukri.com, India's leading job site. The company also runs Jeevansathi.com, 99acres.com, Brijj.com, Allcheckdeals.com, Naukrigulf.com, Shiksha.com, Quadrangle, and Firstnaukri.com.

In addition it has made strategic investments in promising web start-ups such as Policybazaar.com, Meritnation.com, Zomato.com, Mydala.com and 99labels.com. Sanjeev completed his MBA from IIM Ahmedabad in 1989 and quit his job quit his job for entrepreneurship eighteen months later.

For the first seven years he drifted and did a number of small businesses – from salary surveys to databases, to feasibility studies, to training. Finally in 1997 the company launched Naukri.com and transformed itself into an Internet company.

Sanjoy Sanyal is the country director of New Ventures India, a partnership between CII’s Green Business Center and World Resources Institute. New Ventures India helps support green entrepreneurship. Before his current assignment, Mr Sanyal was the COO of Vubites, a media technology company which was a part of Rediff.com. and Vice President – Professional Services with SumTotal systems, a global leader in the Talent Management software product space. His entrepreneurial experiences include co-founding and running Aesthetic Technologies, an interactive content creation company, He has also worked for large public companies: ICICI and ITC Classic. Mr Sanyal graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and has post graduate qualifications in business from the India Institute of Management

Mr.Santanu Paul is CEO and MD at TalentSprint, a high growth venture he co-founded in the area of professional skills development and employability. He drives strategy and execution and is building a high performance organization where world-class professionals can deliver exceptional value to customers and stakeholders. The vision is to transform TalentSprint into a global leader by 2017.

He began his career in New York at the famed IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. His work on technology spans 20 international papers and 2 United States patents. From 2003-2008, Santanu served at Virtusa Corporation as Senior Vice President, Global Delivery Operations and Head, India Operations. From 1999-2003, Santanu worked in Boston as Chief Technology Officer of Openpages and Viveca, a B2B technology startup.

Dr Vijay Kumar Saraswat, India’s most gifted scientist and an accomplished researcher with more than four decades of experience spanning over several fields and areas in both basic and applied sciences of defence research. Apart from being a scientist, he is a rare combination of an innovator, technologist and visionary.

During his illustrious career, from Scientist to Scientific Adviser to Defence Minister, Director to Director General DRDO and Secretary to Dept of Defence R&D, Dr Saraswat has been credited with development of Liquid Propulsion Rocket Engines and missiles namely PRITHVI, DHANUSH, PRAHAAR indigenously. He is the principal architect of the Ballistic Missile development programme which spearheaded major technology breakthroughs.

Sarvajna Dwivedi has extensive experience in drug development at Glaxo, Dura, Alkermes, and Nektar. He was involved in the development of over 40 molecules in various therapeutic classes and dosage forms from discovery to commercialization. At Nektar, he was the Director of Product Development, responsible for new product identification, design, planning, and development efforts. At Alkermes, he was the Director of Delivery Systems, responsible for the engineering and development of inhalers for multiple products. At Dura, Dr. Dwivedi led and managed formulation design and development efforts for various Spiros programs. Earlier, at Glaxo, Dr. Dwivedi was involved in the development, manufacturing, and approval of Flovent® Diskhaler, Serevent® Diskus, Advair® Diskus, Relenza® Diskhaler, and Ventolin® Evohaler. In addition to his product development experience, Dr. Dwivedi has led and conducted technical due diligence efforts for in-licensing, out-licensing and acquisition opportunities. Dr. Dwivedi holds MSc and PhD degrees in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of British Columbia, and M.Pharm. & B.Pharm.(Hons) from Banaras Hindu University in India.

Sashi Reddi is a successful technology entrepreneur, business leader, and an active angel investor. Until October 2013, Sashi was VP & GM, Big Data and Analytics at CSC, responsible for building the Big Data business for CSC, reporting directly to the CEO. CSC (NYSE: CSC) is a $15 Billion IT services and consulting company.

Previously, Sashi was the founder and CEO of AppLabs, the world’s largest independent software testing company with over 2,500 QA professionals in India, the US, and the UK. AppLabs was funded by Sequoia Capital India. CSC acquired AppLabs in September 2011. Series A investors in AppLabs received a 10X return on their investment in 6 years.

A serial entrepreneur, Sashi has started three other companies prior to AppLabs. These were EZPower Systems (web content management pioneer acquired by DocuCorp, and eventually a part of Oracle), iCoop (group purchasing dotcom), and FXLabs (leading Indian game developer acquired by Foundation 9 Entertainment).

Sateesh Andra is a Managing Partner at Ventureast, primarily overseeing theVentureast Tenet Fund, a premier seed-stage VC Fund consisting of investments across technology (Mobility, Cloud, Internet) and technology-enabled (Education, Healthcare, Financial services, Cleantech and high-impact, invention-based social businesses) sectors. He has worked in or with venture-backed technology start-ups in U.S/India for the past fourteen years. With hands-on start-up experience and in-depth knowledge of the dynamics of VC funding, he looks for highly motivated and energetic entrepreneurs as partners.

Prior to joining Ventureast, Sateesh was Venture Partner and was one of the founding members of Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), India. He helped launch Hyderabad Angels, a platform to provide seed capital to start ups. As a private investor earlier, Sateesh has also invested in early stage American and Indian venture capital funds.

Shailesh Albuquerque is a Solutions Architect with Amazon Seller Services Pvt. Ltd where he is responsible for educating companies with the service offerings of the AWS platform, as well as helping them with architecture best practices to build highly scalable and resilient applications on the AWS Cloud. He has been a regular Speaker at premier industry wide conferences like CII, Silicon India, DroidCon among others evangelizing on technologies like Cloud Computing and Big Data.

Prior to joining Amazon, he has worked with Indian and global system integrators and has experience in designing large scale Infrastructure Platforms, Network Systems , Information Security and Enterprise Applications.

Subroto Bagchi started as the Chief Operating Officer at Mindtree, after its inception in 1999. Mindtree was soon hit by the global economic slowdown and the unfortunate events of 9/11. Many early-stage companies collapsed during this time. Bagchi moved to the US and helped the leadership team stay together through the difficult years. During this time, he articulated a new positioning for Mindtree as the best mid-sized company from India. Through dedication and perseverance, this soon became a reality.

Serving as the COO from 1999 to 2007, Bagchi was instrumental in articulating Mindtree’s mission, vision and values. He led leadership development, marketing, and knowledge management initiatives that differentiated the company from the very beginning. Mindtree’s distinctive physical locations reflect his visionary leader-ship qualities. He is also the face of the company’s outreach beyond business. In 2007, he was part of the apex team that led Mindtree from an idea to IPO.

Suresh Reddy is responsible for strategic direction and expansion efforts at Ybrant Digital. Prior to co-founding two successful companies USAGreetings and Ybrant Technologies, he worked in various roles across different industries in Fortune 500 companies, such as Caterpillar, Chrysler, SBC(PacBell) and Charles Schwab.

Suresh holds an M. S. in Engineering from the Iowa State University and a B. Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.