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Team Leadership

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Our leadership team has a broad range of industry experience working with global organizations across retail, CPG, banking, travel, education, healthcare, and media.

Our Leadership

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Lalit Ahuja

Founder and CEO

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Lalit Ahuja

Founder and CEO

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Lalit is the founder and CEO of ANSR. Prior to founding ANSR, Lalit served as the CEO of several companies including Datamatics, LG Electronics and News Corporation (Star TV). Lalit was also Chairman and President of Target India.

Lalit started his career in the Indian Navy before retiring as a lieutenant commander. While in the Navy, he was head of the prestigious Naval Computer Applications Centre in Lonavla and Senior Engineer Officer of several warships.

Lalit earned his engineering degree from Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, and MS in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.

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Vikram Ahuja

Managing Director, ANSR and Co-founder & CEO, Talent500

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Vikram Ahuja

Managing Director, ANSR and Co-founder & CEO, Talent500

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Vikram is the co-founder and CEO of Talent500, which helps fast-growth businesses build and manage global teams via an AI-enabled platform.

A serial entrepreneur with over 16 years' experience, Vikram has experience in building and scaling technology ventures across travel and e-commerce. He also co-founded one of India’s earliest startup accelerators, Kyron (acquired by Techstars).

Vikram has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Engineering from RVCE Bangalore and an MBA from IESE Business School.

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Charlene Keeney

Partner

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Charlene Keeney

Partner

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Charlene heads ANSR’s global consulting practice. From her base in the US, she leads a team responsible for helping ANSR clients design and set up GCCs to achieve their strategic objectives. Prior to ANSR, Charlene held leadership roles in corporations such as Lowe’s, SunTrust Bank and Wells Fargo Bank, among others.

A trusted business advisor and hands-on leader, she has accumulated over 20 years' experience through her work at Fortune 100 companies across financial services and retail.

Charlene holds a bachelor’s in English from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and an advanced leadership certificate from Emory University.

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Abhilash Raghavan

Chief Financial Officer

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Abhilash Raghavan

Chief Financial Officer

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Abhilash serves as ANSR’s Chief Financial Officer and is responsible for accelerating the company’s growth by building best-in-class financial systems and processes that drive operational excellence, profitability, and business efficiency. He oversees the accounting, business support, financial planning, treasury, tax, legal and investor relations functions at ANSR. Since joining ANSR in 2016, Abhilash has played a critical role in establishing and operating several ANSR GCCs and serves on the Boards of various ANSR subsidiaries and GCC entities.

Prior to ANSR, Abhilash was with Target Corporation, India, America Online (AOL), and Wipro. He has over 20 years' experience in corporate finance, including financial reporting, vendor management, sourcing and procurement, compliance, and taxation.

Abhilash received his Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) from Sri Satya Sai Institute of Higher Learning.

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Nandini Sabanayagam

Managing Director

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Nandini Sabanayagam

Managing Director

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Nandini is a Managing Director at ANSR, responsible for providing leadership to our key clients. She has over three decades' experience in global roles spanning across IT and manufacturing.

Prior to joining ANSR, Nandini held leadership roles at Fujitsu, UST Global, GE and HP. She has also served on the board of Hexagon Capability Centre as an independent director for 5 years, guiding them through a period of significant growth and transformation.

Nandini has a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and a diploma in Electronics and Communication.

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Neil D’Silva

Managing Director

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Neil D’Silva

Managing Director

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Neil is a Managing Director at ANSR, leading corporate strategy, planning, and customer engagement for ANSR’s clients. He has over 20 years’ experience across banking & financial services, ITES, and management consulting.

Prior to ANSR, Neil held leadership roles in large enterprises such as Barclays Shared Services, KPMG Global Services, GE Capital among others. He has extensive experience setting up and scaling GCCs.

Neil has an MBA from Bombay University.

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Partha Banerjee

Managing Director

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Partha Banerjee

Managing Director

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Partha is the Managing Director of ANSR’s Business Shared Services Team, overseeing the Finance, Procurement, IT Infrastructure Services Support, Workspace and HR Operations. He has over three decades' experience in global roles spanning digital transformation, customer service, service delivery, and capability build-out.

Prior to joining ANSR, Partha held leadership positions at TVS Supply Chain Solutions, Tata Consultancy Services and Genpact. Over the last 15 years, he has worked with large, shared services, providing value-added services including Enterprise Services encompassing Finance, HR, Procurement and Sourcing capabilities. During his last role, he was key in setting up a Centre of Excellence for TVS Supply Chain Solution and its multiple entities spread over 30 countries.

Partha holds a master’s degree in Business Administration from Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, and a bachelor’s degree in engineering from National Institute of Technology, Durgapur. He is also a Certified Green Belt and has driven several process improvements projects for multinational organizations.

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Monica Jamwal

Managing Director

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Monica Jamwal

Managing Director

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Monica Jamwal is the Managing Director of Talent Solutions at ANSR. She has over 19 years' experience across talent consulting, talent acquisition, process design, talent branding and recruitment operations. In addition, she has strong experience at strategizing, designing, implementing and delivering large scale green field recruitment projects in the areas of financial services and technology.

Prior to joining ANSR, Monica held leadership roles at Quess Corp and Kelly Services India.

She has an MBA in Human Resources and Marketing from Osmania University.

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Smitha Hemmigae

Head, Marketing

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Smitha Hemmigae

Head, Marketing

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Smitha leads marketing at ANSR. Prior to joining ANSR, she held leadership roles at Thoughtworks, CSS Corp, Unisys, Infosys and Logica.

With over 19 years' experience, Smitha is a seasoned marketer who has helped corporations achieve sales growth while maintaining brand integrity.

Smitha co-founded Your Philanthropy Story (YPS), a platform that covers inspirational stories on philanthropy, and is the co-trustee of a nonprofit, Belakoo Trust. She is also part of Bangalore Chapter of Singularity University’s leadership team.

Smitha holds a degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Bangalore University.

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Eric Pagdiwalla

Managing Director

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Eric Pagdiwalla

Managing Director

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Eric is a Managing Director at ANSR, responsible for managing client relationships and advising them. Eric has over 22 years’ experience as a business leader and is passionate about building corporate cultures focused on customer centricity and innovation.

Prior to ANSR, Eric held leadership roles at the ascena Global Innovation Centre, Hewlett Packard and KPMG.

He has a post graduate diploma in Management from IIM, Lucknow, and an Electronics Engineering degree from Mumbai University.

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Sharona Dougherty

Chief of Staff

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Sharona Dougherty

Chief of Staff

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Sharona is the Chief of Staff at ANSR. She has over 20 years' experience in working with company’s leadership and building strong relationship with team members across the organization to influence outcomes and maintain organizational momentum.

She has been a key member of the ANSR founding team since its inception in 2004. In her current role, Sharona organizes and prioritizes critical organizational issues and required information for the company to facilitate efficient decision making.

Prior to ANSR, Sharona worked at Target and Suntech Data Systems in similar roles.

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Aashish Agarwal

Managing Director

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Aashish Agarwal

Managing Director

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Aashish is the Managing Director of ANSR’s Workspace business, overseeing strategy, leasing, project design and operations to provide customized Workspace-as-a-Service solution. At ANSR, he and his team focus on providing an immersive and experiential built environment to clients as a competitive advantage in achieving their business objectives.

Prior to joining ANSR, Aashish held several leadership positions at Colliers, Control Risks, and Cushman & Wakefield, among others. Over the last 17 years, he has developed real estate strategies and solutions for corporate occupiers across India and Asia Pacific.

Aashish holds a master’s degree in Business Administration from Sikkim Manipal University and graduate degrees in Law and Commerce from the University of Mumbai. He is also a member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.

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Sharad Deshpande

Vice President

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Sharad Deshpande

Vice President

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Sharad is the Vice President of Products at ANSR. He leads the development and management of various internal and client facing digital platforms for ANSR.

Prior to ANSR, Sharad has held product leadership and engineering roles at IBM, Siemens, ArisGlobal and Tally. In his previous entrepreneurial stint, Sharad built hrEntries - a comprehensive employee lifecycle management platform, with adoption across India, US and Africa.

Sharad holds a BTech in Aerospace Engineering from IIT Madras and an MBA from University of California, Irvine.

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Manoj Bedekar

Vice President

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Manoj Bedekar

Vice President

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Manoj leads the Business Operations at ANSR. He is responsible for Delivery & Sales Operations, Contract Management and Governance.

Manoj brings over 3 decades’ experience in managing large business units, driving growth, managing business operations, strategic initiatives, operations transformation, and strategy consulting. Prior to joining ANSR, he has served in the advisory role at Boston Consulting Group.

Manoj has spent over decade of his career living and working across Australia and New Zealand.

Manoj holds a degree in Electronics Engineering from Mumbai University.

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Narayana Babu

Vice President

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Narayana Babu

Vice President

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Narayana Babu is a Vice President at ANSR, responsible for Real Estate & Workspace delivery. He has over 25 years’ experience as workspace delivery leader and is passionate about delivering world-class, sustainable workspace solutions for corporates.

Prior to ANSR, Narayana held leadership roles at Turner Project Management and Infosys Limited.

He has bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Kuvempu University, Karnataka, India.

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Srividya (Vidya) Gokhle

AVP

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Srividya (Vidya) Gokhle

AVP

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Srividya Gokhle (Vidya) is an AVP at ANSR, ensuring excellent delivery across all service offerings. She has nearly 2 decades’ experience in architecting and delivering technology solutions and scaling IT organisations to meet business demands across various technology domains and industry verticals. She also has Industry-leading expertise with Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and implementations focused on cognitive automation and complex strategic automation using BOTS.

Prior to ANSR, Srividya has held leadership roles at several organizations, managing large data and analytics portfolios driving innovation and strategy for clients. She takes pride in creating and designing the roadmap for organisations looking at embarking on a digital transformation journey, while identifying digital insurgency tools and appropriate technology with a keen eye on business process understanding across all functions.

She has a bachelor's degree in pure science from Stella Maris College, Chennai.

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Shonalie Gupta

AVP

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Shonalie Gupta

AVP

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Shonalie is an AVP at ANSR, providing HR leadership to Fortune 500 companies looking to establish GCCs in India. She has over 20 years’ experience as an HR business enabler and external consultant.

Prior to joining ANSR, Shonalie was the Head of HR for a Global Technology Centre (GTC) where she was accountable for growing the headcount from 500 to 3,500. She has also held international roles in managing talent & learning for Asia Pacific.

She holds an MBA in HR from XLRI Jamshedpur.

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Ronald Botham

AVP

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Ronald Botham

AVP

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Ronald leads Workspace operations at ANSR and is responsible for the overall service delivery, experience management, strategy, and governance.

He has over 21 years' experience in the real estate, facilities, projects, and fire safety domains leading various RE&F infra projects, transitions and contracts. He has executed various industry-first facilities digitization initiatives around energy management, transport operations and food services resulting in improved efficiencies, sustainability and safety.

Prior to ANSR, Ronald worked with Genpact, Wormald (Australia), Cognizant, CBRE at Microsoft and Novartis. He has a bachelor's degree in statistics.

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Vasuprada Murthy

Director

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Vasuprada Murthy

Director

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Vasuprada Murthy is the program director at ANSR, responsible for service delivery. Vasu has over 18 years’ experience as a technology leader and is passionate about customer success, digital transformation and data science.

Prior to ANSR, Vasu held leadership roles at the IBM Software Labs, Avaya and HSBC.

He has a master’s degree in Computer Science from Osmania University and is pursuing the management program in data science from Indian School of Business.

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Kanya Saseendran

AVP

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Kanya Saseendran

AVP

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Kanya is an AVP at ANSR, ensuring excellent delivery across all service offerings. She comes with expertise across digital transformation, digital strategy and product leadership.

Prior to ANSR, Kanya was part of leadership team at Wells Fargo and H&R Block. At these organizations, she played a pivotal role in establishing digital teams and delivering at high pace and scale.

Kanya has a bachelor's degree in Technology from College of Engineering, Trivandrum and a post-graduate degree from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.

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Nikhil Agarwal

AVP

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Nikhil Agarwal

AVP

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Nikhil Agarwal is AVP – Finance Controller, responsible for the finance tax and regulatory set up, advisory and operations delivery through Business Shared Services practice at ANSR. He has over 17 years' experience in accounting, reporting, cash flow management, handling audits and compliances.

Prior to ANSR, Nikhil worked with PwC, Aircel and AXA Group managing finance & tax operations and strategic initiatives.

He is a certified Chartered Accountant (CA).

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Anuradha S

AVP

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Anuradha S

AVP

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Anuradha leads Business Finance & Finance operations at ANSR.

She is a seasoned finance professional with 17 years' experience in all facets of finance, evolving from transactional proficiency to executive leadership. Anuradha is a proven leader who has set up diverse teams in organizations and built finance infrastructure from scratch.

Prior to ANSR, Anuradha has worked for companies including Genpact, Unisys, Yahoo and Chai Point.

She is a certified Chartered Accountant (CA).

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Ravi Reddy

Director

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Ravi Reddy

Director

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Ravi is part of the corporate development and strategy team at ANSR. Across his 7 plus years’ experience, Ravi has extensive experience in working with CXOs in establishing product-driven operating models, developing pricing structures and creating strategic roadmaps with the execution plans.

At ANSR, he leads multiple strategic growth initiatives, manages investor relations, supports business development activities and has delivered on key customer engagements for developing the GCC business case and establishing the centres in India.

Prior to ANSR, Ravi has worked in management consulting with Accenture Strategy and in investment banking with Synergy Advisory across India, Middle East & Europe.

He has a bachelor's degree in technology from IIT Bombay and an MBA from IIM Calcutta. He is also a certified Financial Risk Manager.

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Director

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Director

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Lakshmi leads the global controllership and taxation function at ANSR. She has over 13 years' experience across financial reporting, compliances, tax, treasury, audit and assurance.

Prior to ANSR, she was part of the corporate finance function at Target Corporation India and Assurance wing of PwC.

She received her Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) from Delhi University and is a certified Chartered Accountant (CA).

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Shamic Paul

Director

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Shamic Paul

Director

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Shamic leads Business Shared Services (HR) for ANSR’s clients. He has over 20 years' experience in managing business shared services across IT, ITES, and staffing organizations.

Prior to ANSR, Shamic has worked with Hewlett Packard Enterprise & Wipro. In his previous role, he was head of shared service for Adecco India. He has extensive experience setting up delivery centers.

He has a bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Bangalore University and a master's degree in Operations from Symbiosis Pune.

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Prem Kumar

Director

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Prem Kumar

Director

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Prem leads demand marketing for ANSR across Americas, Europe and APAC regions. He has over 17 years' experience in marketing strategy, brand, performance marketing, budget management, P&L management, high value networking and alliance & partnerships.

Prior to ANSR, Prem has led performance marketing teams at Dell, Oracle, IBM, Wipro, Aricent and Eka Software Solutions.

He has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and graduated from an executive program in management from IIM Bangalore.

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Dhanya Bhaskaran

Director

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Dhanya Bhaskaran

Director

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Dhanya is part of the customer engagement team, ensuring seamless delivery of all the service offerings to the clients. She has over 19 years' experience in operations, project management, operational excellence, M&A, and site set up.

Prior to ANSR, Dhanya worked with Honeywell and Amazon as part of HR shared services.

She has a master's degree from Symbiosis Pune.

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Lalit Ahuja

Founder and CEO

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Lalit Ahuja

Founder and CEO

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Lalit is the founder and CEO of ANSR. Prior to founding ANSR, Lalit served as the CEO of several companies including Datamatics, LG Electronics and News Corporation (Star TV). Lalit was also Chairman and President of Target India.

Lalit started his career in the Indian Navy before retiring as a lieutenant commander. While in the Navy, he was head of the prestigious Naval Computer Applications Centre in Lonavla and Senior Engineer Officer of several warships.

Lalit earned his engineering degree from Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, and MS in Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.

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Shekhar Kirani

Accel Partners

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Shekhar Kirani

Accel Partners

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Shekhar focuses on investing in early-stage SaaS and enterprise software companies. During his decade-long career at Accel, he has led first institutional investments into several companies such as Freshworks, Chargebee, Zenoti, Browserstack, FalconX, ANSR, and Cogoport among others.

Shekhar has over 25 years of experience in business and tech leadership roles across several start-ups and major corporations in the US. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota and a Master’s degree from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

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Rohit Batra

Evolvence India

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Rohit Batra

Evolvence India

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Rohit is the Managing Partner at Evolvence India (EIF). Since joining EIF in 2006, he has represented the firm on the boards of Infra.Market, Rebel Foods, Dr. Mohan’s Diabetes Specialties Centre, Ujala Cygnus, ANSR, and Homelane.

Prior to joining EIF, Rohit was an analyst at Bond & Pecaro, a boutique US consulting firm with a niche focus on appraisals of media assets as a part of M&A in the broadcasting, print ans cable industries.

He graduated with a B.A. in Economics and International Affairs from George Washington University, Washington D.C., USA.

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Sumit Jain

Sistema Asia Capital

Sumit Jain

Sumit Jain

Sistema Asia Capital

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Sumit is a Senior Partner at Sistema Asia Capital (SA Cap) Advisory based out of Bangalore, where he advises SA Cap investments in SaaS, B2B platforms, AI/data analytics, and consumer tech.

Prior to SA Cap Advisory, Sumit was at Kalaari Capital and served on the boards of 15+ portfolio companies as primary board member or observer. Earlier, he was an investment banker at HSBC India and an economist with BG Group (now part of Shell Plc).

Sumit is an alumnus of IIM Calcutta and IIT Kharagpur.

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Our Investors

Accel

Accel is a global venture capital firm that aims to be the first partner to exceptional teams everywhere, from inception through all phases of private company growth. Accel has been operating in India since 2008, and its investments include companies like BookMyShow, Browserstack, Flipkart, Freshworks, FalconX, Infra.Market, Chargebee, Clevertap, Cure Fit, Musigma, Moneyview, Mensa Brands, Myntra, Moglix, Ninjacart, Swiggy, Stanza Living, Urban Company, Zetwerk, and Zenoti, among many others. We help ambitious entrepreneurs build iconic global businesses.

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Sistema Asia Fund

Sistema Asia Fund is an India-focused venture fund investing in mid-stage technology ventures across sectors and themes. The fund’s portfolio includes Infra.Market (a B2B construction marketplace), Licious (a direct-to-consumer meat and seafood brand), Rebel Foods (a multi-brand online food-on-demand app), and Uniphore (a conversational AI technology company), among other investments.

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Evolvence India

Evolvence India (EIF) is a boutique investment management firm focused on private investments in India, participating in buyouts, and providing growth and venture capital. As part of the Dubai-based alternative investment firm Evolvence Capital, EIF has a track record that spans 15 years across multiple investments, and has invested $650 million since inception in India across financial services, healthcare, consumer products and services and technology.

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