Natarajan “Chandra” Chandrasekaran

CEO and Managing Director, TATA Consultancy Services

Mr. Chandrasekaran is CEO and Managing Director of TATA Consultancy Services ('TCS'), which he joined in 1987 after completing his Masters in Computer Applications from Regional Engineering College, Trichy, Tamil Nadu in 1986. Under his leadership, TCS pioneered the creation of its unique Global Network Delivery Model (GNDM) across five continents and ventured into new markets including Europe, China and Latin America. It added new business lines like BPO, Infrastructure and Assurance services. Chandra has also driven the domain diversification drive that has seen the company enter new verticals like Media and Information Services as well as Hi-tech. All of these have matured into sizeable businesses under his mentorship and guidance. He was recently honored with the AIMA award for Business Leader of the Year 2011.

Raghav Bahl

Founder & Managing Director, Network 18 Group

Mr. Bahl, 50 years, is the Founder & Managing Director of Network 18 Group. Mr. Bahl began his career as a management consultant with A.F. Ferguson & Co. followed by a stint with American Express Bank before he launched TV18, his production house. Winner of the Sanskriti Award for Journalism in 1994, Mr. Bahl has over 24 years of experience in television and journalism. He founded TV18 (now Network18 Group) in the year 1993.
Mr. Bahl has been instrumental in crafting successful Joint Ventures with media giants like CNBC, with whom he has launched two business news channels, viz CNBC-TV18 (English) and CNBC Awaaz (Hindi). His latest achievement is the successful launch of the Indian edition of Forbes magazine called Sun18 (in partnership with Sun Network of Tamil Nadu). He was recently honored with the AIMA award for Media Person of the Year 2011.
A consummate deal-maker, Mr. Bahl has helped in the growth of the Network18 Group with another major joint venture with Viacom, called Viacom18, which houses the MTV, VH1 and Nickelodeon operations in India. An Economics graduate from St. Stephens College, Mr. Bahl has done his MBA from the University of Delhi. Under his guidance the nation has witnessed the successful launch of the country's leading English news channel, CNN-IBN, and the leading Hindi news channel, IBN7.

Shailesh Rao

Managing Director, Google Media and Platforms - Asia Pacific and Japan

Mr. Rao is the Managing Director of Google Media and Platforms for Asia Pacific and Japan. Prior to this, he was the Managing Director for Google India. Given his work in the technology sector, he was honored by BusinessWeek as one of India's 50 Most Powerful People in 2009.

Mr. Rao has a BA from the University of Pennsylvania with Honors, a BS from the Wharton School with a concentration in finance, and an MBA from The Kellogg School of Management.

Dean Sunil Kumar

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Dean Kumar joined Chicago Booth as the new dean on January 1, 2011, after spending 14 years on the faculty of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business where he was the Fred H. Merrill Professor of Operations, Information and Technology. At Stanford, he also served as senior associate dean for academic affairs, overseeing the school's M.B.A. program and leading faculty groups in marketing and organizational behavior. While at Stanford, Kumar was awarded the Finmeccanica Faculty Scholarship, named a Spence Faculty Scholar and received multiple teaching commendations. He also was named Professor of the Year at the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad.

Professor Scott Meadow

Clinical Professor of Entrepreneurship, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Since 1982, Scott Meadow has been a principal investor in the private equity industry. Professor Meadow is the Faculty Director of Global Initiatives and since 2000 has held the position of Clinical Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.Since 1982, Scott Meadow has been a principal investor in the private equity industry. Professor Meadow is the Faculty Director of Global Initiatives and since 2000 has held the position of Clinical Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He was awarded the 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005 Phoenix Prize and The Faculty Excellence Award in 2010. He was designated by Business Week's "Guide to the Best Business Schools" (2003, 8th edition) and (2005, 9th edition) as one of the outstanding entrepreneurial professors in the country. Professor Meadow has taught 5000 students at Chicago Booth, in Entrepreneurial Finance and Private Equity, Commercializing Innovation (which he created) and the New Venture Challenge.
Scott has over 25 years experience as a general partner with four venture capital and private equity firms including William Blair Venture Partners, The Frontenac Company, The Sprout Group, and most recently with the Edgewater Funds, where he remains a Senior Advisor.
Over the course of his career, Scott has approved hundreds of equity financings, been active in fundraising and has personally led, originated or created more than sixty investments including two dozen healthcare services companies, over a dozen consumer services and retail companies, as well as companies enhanced by the Internet. Scott has been recognized four times by Venture One as one of the outstanding healthcare investors in the industry.
Representative investments include Coventry Corporation, HEALTHSOUTH, Sunrise Assisted Living, Sunrise International, Managed Health Network, Aspen Education Services, Pathology Partners, Heritage Healthcare, MedPartners, The Sports Authority, CompUSA and Staples. Scott recently served on the board of directors of National Equipment Services (NASDAQ: NLEQ) during its emergence from Chapter 11. He currently serves on the Board of Advanced Life Sciences (NASDAQ: ADLS), Barrier Safe, and GenerationOne. Professor Meadow earned his A.B. Magna Cum Laude from Harvard College and his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Ram Shivakumar

Clinical Associate Professor of Economics and Strategy, University of Chicago

Professor Shivakumar is a Clinical Associate Professor of Economics and Strategy at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago where he teaches Competitive Strategy and Microeconomics in the MBA and Executive MBA programs. His research has appeared in the Journal of International Economics, the Canadian Journal of Economics, and the Journal of Industrial Economics.

Thangavel Palanivel

Chief Economist for Asia and the Pacific, United Nations Development Programme

Thangavel Palanivel is the Chief Economist for Asia and the Pacific, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), New York. Before joining this position in March 2010, he was a Senior Advisor and Team Leader at the UNDP Asia-Pacific Regional Centre in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and Regional Programme Coordinator in Kathmandu, Nepal and providing technical and policy advisory services to countries in Asia and the Pacific region on a range of development issues. Prior to joining UNDP Regional Programme in 2002, he has worked at the United Nations University (Tokyo, Japan), University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, USA), and Institute of Economic Growth (Delhi, India) for several years. He holds a doctorate in Economics and has more than 20 years of research, programme management and policy advisory support experience. He has published two books and several research articles on development issues in journals and other publications.

Gurcharan Das

Author and Management Guru

Mr Das is an author, management guru and public intellectual. He was CEO, Procter & Gamble India and later Managing Director, Procter & Gamble Worldwide (Strategic Planning).Gurcharan Das graduated with honors from Harvard University and later attended Harvard Business School (AMP), where he is featured in three case studies. He is on a number of boards, and is a regular speaker to the managements of the world's largest corporations. He has been on the juries of the McKinsey Award for the best Harvard Business Review article and the $500,000 Milton Friedman award. In 1995, after a 30-year career in 6 countries, he took early retirement to become an author. His international bestseller, India Unbound, is a narrative account of India from Independence to the global information age, and has been published in 17 languages and filmed by BBC. He writes a regular column in five Indian newspapers and periodic guest columns for the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, and Newsweek. His other literary works include a novel, A Fine Family, a book of essays, The Elephant Paradigm, and an anthology, Three English Plays (Oxford).

Jason Gonzales

CEO, AquaVida International (@jasongonzo)

Mr Gonzales, 37, is Founder and CEO of AquaVida International, a social enterprise organization with non-profit and for-profit elements that implements sustainable, scalable solutions to solve global water challenges.

Geeta Mehta

Adjunct Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, Columbia University

Dr. Geeta Mehta is an adjunct professor of architecture and urban design at Columbia University in New York, and the founder of Asia Initiatives , a non-profit organization active in India, Japan, Australia and USA. Asia Initiatives (www.asiainiitiatives.org) works with local NGO partners in South Asia on projects that are pro-women, pro-poor, and pro-environment, to empower rural women and families to climb out of poverty. The tools of empowerment include micro credit loans for self-help groups of women; establishing village knowledge centers to bring digital connectively and training to remote villages; and support for elementary education.
Realizing the need for similar programs in urban slums, Geeta also co-founded "URBZ: User Generated Cities" (www.urbz.net) in Dharavi, Mumbai. This organization has developed methods of participatory planning, and has worked alongside communities in Mumbai, Tokyo, and Istanbul towards improving streets, neighborhoods, and cities. Geeta is also the co-author and co-editor of several books on architecture and urban issues.

Shayak Banerjee

Head of Program Review & Management, Pratham

Shayak Banerjee is the Head of the Program Review & Management (PRM) unit at Pratham, India's largest NGO, which reached 2.2 million children in 25,000 villages of India. The PRM unit is responsible for oversight of Pratham's programs and for donor management. Shayak has traveled widely across rural India to understand the strengths and weaknesses of Pratham's volunteer led education delivery, with a focus on the eastern states of Bihar, West Bengal, Jharkhand and Assam. Shayak's academic background is in Electrical Engineering; he completed his Bachelors from Stanford University in June, 2007. Before joining Pratham in February, 2010, Shayak was responsible for testing a key component of Chelsio Communications' 10Gb Ethernet card as a Member of its Technical Staff. Chelsio Communications is a semiconductor startup in the Silicon Valley.

Praveen Chennareddy

Vice-President, Strategy, Marathon Data Systems

Praveen is the VP of Strategy at Marathon Data Systems, a private-equity backed firm that provides SaaS-based office management software, mobile field service software and marketing services to over 6,000 field service providers. At Marathon he works on strategic initiatives related to business development, acquisitions and long-term financial planning. Prior to joining Marathon Data Systems, Praveen was a Principal at Gaja Capital Partners, a Mumbai based private equity firm focusing on growth capital investments in the Indian market. Praveen was previously a Vice President in alternative investments for Merrill Lynch in New York, where he focused on fund raising and analysis of private equity opportunities. Praveen has an M.B.A from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a BA in economics from Northwestern University.

Prabhakar Reddy, Managing Director, ANSR Group and Managing Partner, Naya Ventures

Prabhakar is a managing Director at ANSR Group, a global sourcing advisory firm with operations in the US and India. Prabhakar has extensive experience in establishing operations for Fortune 500 firms in India and ANSR Group has been instrumental in the creation of over 10,000 jobs in India for their clients. He is also the co-founder and a Managing Partner at Naya Ventures, an early stage Venture Capital firm focused on Wireless and SaaS opportunities in emerging markets with a specific focus on India. Prabhakar is a recognized business development executive, with over 20 years of diverse experience in global operations, business development, and Strategy for various organizations, including advisory roles to Fortune 500 Executives on Global Sourcing and Growth/Innovation strategies.

Prabhakar was one of the founding investors and CIO of Risesmart.com, an innovative Online HR company that is based in the Bay area. Previously, Prabhakar was also involved as a partner at SunGard, where he was responsible for managing the delivery of technology and strategic business initiatives for Fortune 100 firms. Prabhakar holds a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Bachelor of Engineering from Andhra University, India

Gunjan Bagla

Founder and Managing Director, Amritt Ventures

Gunjan Bagla has 25 years of global sourcing, engineering, and marketing experience. He has held senior positions in technology sales and marketing. Bagla has managed teams sourcing products and services from China, India, Japan, and the rest of Asia. He began his career as an engineer for Larsen & Toubro, Bangalore, a prominent Indian industrial firm. Mr. Bagla came to the U.S. and later worked as Director of Program Management for Tandon Computer. He is the founder and Managing Director of Amritt, Inc. Based in California, he is the author of the acclaimed title "Doing Business in 21st Century India: How to Profit Today from tomorrow's most exciting Market" published in 2008 by Warner/Hachette Books and was the technical editor on John Wiley's Doing Business in India for Dummies (2007). He created the executive seminar "Business with India" for Caltech, the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California and has also taught executives at the Thunderbird School of Global Management, Phoenix, Arizona. These books and seminars are a direct result of his work as an India Business Consultant for major Western clients. Mr. Bagla has been interviewed on Fox Business Television, BBC World News, BBC Television's The Hub with Nik Gowing and National Public Radio's To The Point with Warren Olney. He's been quoted in in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Business Week, Industry Week, the Hollywood Reporter, and other global media for his expertise on India. His articles have appeared in Business Week, CIO Magazine, Purchasing Magazine, Quality Magazine, Business World, Daily Variety, and many other publications. Mr. Bagla is a Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneur (TiE), a business association including Western and Indian organizations. He also serves on the board of the South Asia Studies Association. He is a mechanical engineering graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology and currently President of the IIT Alumni Group. Mr. Bagla completed his MBA from Southern Illinois University, where he was inducted into the Beta Gamma Sigma honor society. Mr. Bagla frequently travels to India as business consultant to large Western corporations and industry trade associations.

Ganesh Pai

Head, Insurance Market Unit, MphasiS

Ganesh Pai is the Head of Insurance Market Unit at MphasiS. In this role, he is responsible for all aspects of the business including go-to market strategies, client relationships across all service lines, revenue and profitability.

Ganesh has been with MphasiS for 13 years and has played several key roles across the globe. More recently, he was the regional head for applications and infrastructure services for EMEA based out of London. Prior to moving to London, he was the North American client services head for Insurance, Healthcare and Government sectors. He joined the company as the Regional Manager for Asia Pacific.

With over 20 years of experience in the information technology industry, Ganesh has been responsible for establishing strategic outsourcing relationships with fortune 500 corporations across the globe. He has launched new and innovative service offerings in the US markets. He spearheaded the effort for setting up and growing the insurance business at MphasiS. More recently, he is credited with successfully leading a competitive M&A transaction involving the acquisition of a captive IT organization of a global insurance company.

Ganesh started his career at Wipro in 1989. During his 8 year stint with the company he played several roles in sales and marketing. At the time of leaving the organization in 1997, he was the global product marketing manager for remote access solutions.

Ganesh holds a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from Bangalore University, India, and an MBA from Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago.

James A. Quella

Senior Managing Director, The Blackstone Group

Mr Quella is a Senior Managing Director and Senior Operating Partner in the Private Equity Group.  Mr. Quella is responsible for monitoring the strategy and operational performance of Blackstone portfolio companies and providing direct assistance in the oversight of large investments. He is also a member of the firm's Private Equity Investment Committee. Prior to joining Blackstone in 2004, Mr. Quella was a Managing Director and Senior Operating Partner with DLJ Merchant Banking Partners-CSFB Private Equity. Prior to that, Mr. Quella worked at Mercer Management Consulting and Strategic Planning Associates, its predecessor firm, where he served as a senior consultant to CEOs and senior management teams, and was Co-Vice Chairman with shared responsibility for overall management of the firm. Mr. Quella received a BA in International Studies from the University of Chicago/University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MBA with dean's honors from the University of Chicago. He is also the co-author of Profit Patterns: 30 Ways to Anticipate and Profit from the Strategic Forces Reshaping Your Business. Mr. Quella has been a member of various Private Equity company boards and currently serves as a Director of Catalent, Freescale Semiconductor, Graham Packaging, Michaels Stores, Inc., and Vanguard Health Systems.

Steve Beinhacker

Sr. Vice President and Chief Investment Officer - Emerging Markets Growth, Alliance Bernstein

Mr. Beinhacker is a senior portfolio manager on the International/Global Large Cap Growth teams. He joined Alliance Capital in 1992 as the firm's director of international quantitative stock research and joined the Global/International Large Cap Growth teams in 1994. In April of 2007, Mr. Beinhacker became the Chief Investment Officer for Emerging Markets Growth. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Beinhacker was a vice president in the Worldwide Equities Division of Lehman Brothers. While at business school, he also worked as a quantitative analyst at Salomon Brothers. He received a BS from the University Center at Binghamton and an MBA from New York University. CFA Charterholder.

Christopher J. Garrett, CFA, Institutional Portfolio Manager, Brandes Investment Partners

Chris is an institutional portfolio manager and a member of the firm's Emerging Markets Investment Committee. He serves as a product coordinator for the Emerging Markets portfolio. Prior to joining Brandes, Chris worked as a portfolio manager/analyst for DuPont Capital Management and as a corporate loan officer for both First Interstate Bank of California and City National Bank. He earned his MBA from Columbia University Graduate School of Business and his BS in finance from Arizona State University. Chris has 18 years of finance and investment experience.

Rajesh Sawhney, President, Reliance Entertainment

Rajesh Sawhney is a key member of the Reliance ADAG leadership team. He has driven Group's foray into media & entertainment spanning movie eco-system, broadcasting, and New Media. In a short span of 5 years, Reliance Entertainment has built leading businesses in many entertainment/media verticals. BIG 92.7FM is the No. 1 FM Radio Network in India, BIG Pictures is the leading Film producer and BIG Cinemas is the No. 1 film exhibitor in India. Rajesh also forayed into Hollywood with a JV with DreamWorks and launched development silos with production studios. Rajesh also launched 3 leading online ventures: Zapak (No.1 games portal in India), Bigflix, and Bigadda.

During his stint with the Times Group previously, Rajesh launched a number of successful ventures across diverse domains: Publishing, Radio & TV, Retailing, online classifieds, MVAS, e-commerce and e-travel. He founded Indiatimes.com, a leading Indian portal and pioneered MVAS services in India with first cross-operator service 8888.

Rajesh is co-host and curator of Founders Forum India. Rajesh is the founder of "SuperAngels of India" network. Rajesh is an alumnus of HBS AMP, and has a fellowship from LSE.

Raj Pai

Managing Director, Global Environment Fund Advisors India

Raj Pai joined GEF in 2008 and is a Managing Director of GEF Advisors India. Mr. Pai leads the team that provides research and advice to South Asia Clean Energy Management for the analysis of investment clean energy opportunities in South Asia. He has over 18 years of professional experience spanning entrepreneurial, operational and venture investing activities.

Prior to GEF, Mr. Pai was a Managing Director at CID Capital, a 27-year old growth equity investment firm that has over $500 million of growth and expansion stage capital under its management. Mr. Pai was responsible for successfully raising and deploying two venture stage funds, investing in over 25 companies - leading efforts in technology, life sciences and clean technology areas. He was instrumental in business development initiatives with several of his portfolio companies, particularly in the green software and clean lighting (LED) space, assisting them in navigating market opportunities along the U.S. - India corridor. Prior to CID, Mr. Pai worked in consulting and in operational capacities for various Fortune 1000 technology companies globally. He is very active in the investment community in the U.S. and India, and serves as a founding member/advisor to CleanTech India and New Ventures India (NVI). He is a dual U.S. - India citizen and speaks three native Indian languages as well as English.

Mr. Pai holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago, a Master of Computer Science from Arizona State University, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Bombay.

Harjiv Singh

Co-founder and Co-CEO, Gutenberg Communications

Harjiv, a Gutenberg co-founder, leads the International expansion for Gutenberg Communications. He has led the establishment of offices in London, New Delhi and Bangalore and managed the company's rapid international growth over the last seven years. Harjiv works extensively with clients across a diverse range of industries like technology, real estate, investment management, academic and the non-profit sectors. Before Gutenberg Communications, Harjiv was a consultant at Edelman where he led a new business development initiative to create a cross-functional India-focused practice. A serial entrepreneur, he co-founded MDoffices.com, a wireless software company in the healthcare industry. He has also worked at Priceline.Com in Strategic Planning and as a Financial Analyst at Adam Smith & Company, a New York City Hedge Fund, and as Director of a real estate development company in India. Harjiv began his career as a Financial Analyst in GE Capital's Financial Management Program.

Since 2008, Harjiv has been a guest host for the Asian America show which is syndicated on PBS. Harjiv has a keen interest in international relations, economics, history, and the impact of globalization. He is also a guest faculty at Duke Corporate Education (CE) and is on the executive committee of The Indus Entrepreneurs' (TiE) New York chapter. Harjiv is on the board of the United Nations Association of New York and on the advisory board for start-up media company Red Cell Media. He is fluent in English, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu and has basic fluency in German.

Harjiv received a Masters in International Affairs in Economic Policy Management from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. He also has an MBA in Marketing and Bachelor in Finance from the New York Institute of Technology.

Akash Bhatia

Co-founder, KyaZoonga

Akash is a first year MBA student at MIT Sloan School of Management. Prior to Sloan, Akash Co-founded India's first and largest entertainment and sports ticketing company, KyaZoonga (http://www.kyazoonga.com). Launched in 2007, KyaZoonga has quickly become the go-to destination for tickets to cricket, movies, concerts and live events in India.

Shivani Prabhakar

Former Head of Marketing at Dharma Productions

With over a decade of experience in media and entertainment, Shivani has been involved and witnessed this industry from close quarters. Her last stint was as the Head of Marketing at Dharma Productions, India's biggest film production house headed by Karan Johar. Prior to working with Dharma Productions, Shivani was with Tips Industries, one of the oldest and most respected film production house and music labels in India. Her experience also includes model management with the prestigious Elite Models franchise in India and working with some of the most well known public relations firms in India.

Shivani is also a part-time writer on the Indian film industry, having contributed articles in several online film trade portals.

Currently, she is pursuing a course in Strategic Management from Harvard University.

Indira S. Somani, Ph.D

Asst. Professor of Journalism and Mass Communications, Washington and Lee University

Indira began her tenure-track position in the fall of 2008 bringing 10 years of broadcast journalism experience as a television producer to the classroom. Somani teaches online and broadcast producing and broadcast reporting and has introduced two new courses called "Media, Race and Gender" and "Cross-Cultural Documentary Filmmaking." Somani studies effects of satellite television on the Indian diaspora, specifically the generation of the Asian Indians who migrated to the U.S. between 1960 and 1972, and their media habits. She has been published in the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, and the Asian Journal of Communication (in press). For the fall of 2011, Somani has been awarded a Fulbright research award to study the Western influence of Indian programming in India. Somani is also an award winning independent producer and director of documentaries about how Asian Indians maintain and preserve their cultural identity. Her most recent production is "Crossing Lines" (www.crossinglinesthefilm.com), a personal essay documentary about her struggle to stay connected to India after the loss of her father. The film has won numerous awards, screened in film festivals nationally and internationally, screened on PBS affiliates, and has also been distributed to more than 50 university libraries in the U.S. through New Day films. Prior to W & L, Somani taught for five years at American University and the University of Maryland. Prior to transitioning to academia, Somani was a television producer most notably with CNBC and WJLA-TV, the ABC affiliate in Washington, D.C. She has been a leader of the South Asian Journalists Association (SAJA), where she has also won several "Outstanding" awards on her coverage of South Asians in North America. Somani earned her Master's in Journalism from the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University in 1993, and her Ph.D. from the Phillip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland, College Park in May, 2008.

Afsar Zaidi

Founder and CEO, Carving Dreams

Afsar Zaidi, is the founder and CEO of Carving Dreams, an entertainment company, based out of Mumbai, India. Afsar set up Carving Dreams five years back as a talent agency managing artistes from the Indian entertainment industry (also referred to as “Bollywood”). A first generation entrepreneur, Afsar has grown Carving Dreams into India's leading talent agency and diversified the Group into Live Events and Content Production (including feature films).

Carving Dreams manages some of Bollywood's leading artistes and has successfully expanded its range of representation services from traditional areas such as brand endorsements, movies and live appearances to brand licensing, new media and celebrity business partnerships.

Over the last three years, Afsar has led Carving Dreams to also establish a firm presence in the live events industry in India focusing on film, music, fashion and sport, in addition to pioneering sports hospitality services, which started with the Indian Premier League.

As Carving Dreams enters its next phase of growth, Afsar's key role is to further enhance artiste and brand relations and consolidate the Carving Dreams Group's different businesses and teams.

Afsar has prior extensive experience in Sales and Marketing and Business Development. He has also been involved in setting up divisions of an IT Sales Company in Bangalore and Dubai. Afsar's interests span across politics, sports, literary work, films, people development, entrepreneurship. One of Afsar's early inspirations and references for Carving Dreams has been the title role essayed by Tom Cruise in the movie 'Jerry Maguire'.

Sarbvir Singh

Managing Director, Capital18

Sarbvir Singh is the Managing Director of Capital18 and is responsible for making investments in media, entertainment, education and technology ventures. Sarbvir brings over a decade of experience in investment management and business operations. He started his career with Emerson Electric in Hong Kong, followed by a stint in Citigroup where he drove investments in the global consumer sector. Sarbvir is an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.