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	Girish Gupta is the Founder Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Rajasthan Venture Capital Fund since October, 2002. He has been involved in the fund right since its conception stage to the formulation, launch and the present stage. For RVCF, Gupta has successfully raised a fresh SME Tech fund to the tune of Rs.150 Cr with a pan India focus. He has been instrumental in organising the first ever Venture Capital conference, an annual conference that is in its successful sixth year at Jaipur.

	Sameer Mehta is the Founding Director of Atlas Advisory (a boutique advisory firm) and Atlas Venturez (a seed fund). He is also an advisor to various Private Equity Funds and Family Offices in a personal capacity. Mehta brings more than 15 years of top-tier strategic consulting, multi-national operating and entrepreneurial business development experience to the healthcare industry. Mehta has also held leadership positions within various family business enterprises and startups (healthcare, food processing, real estate investments, technology and imports / exports) in Europe and Asia.

	Anjani Kumar has been associated with Capital18 Media Advisors since 2007 as the Principal to Capital 18. Kumar worked with Star TV as Associate Vice President, Corporate Development from 2004 to 2007. He was earlier a Senior Consultant with Accenture (Strategy Consulting Group) from 2000 to 2004. Kumar’s focus has been on driving inorganic growth by way of Mergers & Acquisitions and Investments. He advises clients across industries on a range of strategic issues including market entry, business expansion and IT strategy. His specialty lies in financial analysis, capital structuring and team building.

	Sateesh Andra is a Venture Partner with Draper Fisher Jurvetson India. He is currently on the Board of Directors at MetroMela, mGinger and Pressmart, and is a board observer for Cleartrip. With hands-on, start-up experience and in-depth knowledge of the dynamics of VC funding, he has effectively leveraged India to create technology products for global markets. Andra started his Silicon Valley career in the early nineties and has extensive background in general management, marketing, product strategy, and technology development.

	Mahesh Vaidya is the Director of Intel Capital. Prior to Intel Capital, he was the Vice President at GF Private Equity Group. His responsibilities included basic technology investment research, venture capital fund analysis, and direct private equity investments in a variety of high-tech portfolio companies. Vaiday was also a member of GF Private Equity Group's Investment Committee. He served on the boards of Redline Communications, Venda, Ltd, NOVX Systems, Veralight, Inc. and PRISMedical Corporation, and was a Board Observer at Packethop, Inc. He was actively involved in deal sourcing and performing equity due diligence for numerous other investment transactions as well.

	Rahul Patwardhan is the Managing Director of IndiaCo Ventures. He has over 14 years of experience in venture capital and general management. Patwardhanhas personally invested, mentored and advised several mid-sized and large corporations. At IVL, Patwardhan is responsible for managing all investment and operational aspects, venture capital funds and providing strategic business guidance to companies in IndiaCo’s portfolio. Patwardhan has extensive international experience and expertise in investing into and advising small, mid-sized and large corporations in manufacturing, engineering, and information technology.

	Samir Kumar is the Managing Director of Inventus Capital. Kumar has been an early stage venture investor in India for the past six years. Prior to co-founding Inventus, Kumar built and led the India venture team for Acer Technology Ventures, a $260 million cross-border venture fund investing in early-stage technology and services companies across India, the U.S. and the Asia Pacific.

	Vani Kola is the Managing Director of Indo US Venture Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm, focused on enabling world-class entrepreneurship in India. For last 10 years she has focussed on founding and building various companies. Kola's personal commitment to excellence and integrity influences her approach to building companies, developing products and empowering people. She is a board member of VIA, Seventy MM, mGinger, Myntra and Med plus. Kola is founder and CEO of Certus Software. Prior to establishing Certus, she was the founder and CEO of Right Works.

	Vishal Vasishth is the Founder and Managing Director of SONG Investment Advisors. Vasishth was also the founder and CEO of Clean Partners, a business advisory and investment firm serving innovative businesses in the U.S. consumer space. Vasishth has worked as an advisor to Investor’s Circle, an angel investor forum targeted toward the health and wellness/clean-tech space. He currently serves as an advisor to many emerging, innovative companies such as Good Magazine. He serves as the founding board of advisors for B Corporation, an innovative nonprofit venture. Kartik Srivatsa is the Investment Manager for SONG Investment Advisors. Kartik joins SONG from Lightspeed Venture Partners, a global venture capital firm where he was a founding member of the India practice. At Lightspeed, Srivatsa was responsible for sourcing and evaluation of deals across a number of sectors such as technology, education, financial services and clean technology, and was involved in Lightspeed’s investment in ItzCash, a prepaid cash card company. Prior to Lightspeed, Srivatsa was a consultant with McKinsey and Company, advising corporations in the oil and gas, clean-tech, and Information Technology sectors across strategy, operations and organisation functions.



	Shekhar Kundur is a General Partner with Ventureast APIDC, Hyderabad, India, a pioneering venture capital fund manager that makes investments in early-stage, technology-driven companies. It currently manages the “Biotechnology Venture Fund”, India’s first and the only biotechnology- focused venture fund. Kundur has an extensive cross-continent education, business and entrepreneurial experience. He has been actively involved in the venture capital arena as a member of the Board of Directors of the APIDC Venture Capital from 1995 till 2004.