Indranil is an advanced analytics across industries and government. He is currently working on mentoring a couple of teams in body care and attic space.

Bhawna is a digital entrepreneur, board advisor, mentor, and angel investor. She is currently helping companies and founders accelerate their growth strategy. She would love to meet founders and investors in tech companies.

Gaurav is a management professional with deep experience in business development, sales operations and strategy. He is currently leading the mono-brand retail business at Apple India where he is responsible for both sales and channel expansion and development through the Apple premium reseller partners. He has also been an active angel investor since 2014. He would love to meet management professionals.

Srikanth is an early-stage startup tech investor. I am currently working on ideas related to the metaverses, AR/VR and Brain net.

Rishi is a senior corporate professional. He is skilled in public policy and management. He is currently working in the food and beverages industry.

Rajeev is promoting project-based learning in engineering studies through engineers without borders - India. He is currently working on project-based learning through social projects addressing selected sustainability goals.

Dr Sugato is a skilled HR professional. He has worked both in start-ups, as well as established corporations leading the HR functions at a Group/Global level. He has worked in several industries, including FMCG, beverage alcohol, FMCD, retail, QSR and real estate. Some of the companies where he has worked in senior HR assignments include Marico, SAB Miller, Pernod Ricard (Seagram), Perfetti van Melle, Yokohama Tyres (ATG) and Pepsi (Varun Beverages). He has had the opportunity to build up organizations from scratch, increase their valuation for the PE and transition them. Additionally he has worked with mid-sized and larger organizations to build scalable and sustainable processes. In a recent corporate initiative, he has successfully transitioned the PepsiCo company owned businesses in the South and the West, to its bottling partners, in one of the largest trains in the beverage industry. This involved transiting and stabilizing 11 plants, 6 sales states and 2500 PepsiCo employees being transitioned to Varun Beverages, at one go, without a single day’s loss of business, in a US$ 285 million deal. In the past, he has worked on such transitions/ integrations in organizations like Alliance Tire Group (ATG) which was transitioned from Warburg Pincus to KKR (currently acquired by Yokohama Tires). He has also been a critical facilitator in the acquisition of Seagram by Pernod Ricard and streamlining van Melle by Perfetti, in the Indian subcontinent, looking after HR, industrial relations and strategy. He is also a communications specialist and has handled sales as well. Currently, Sugato provides strategic business advisory to leadership teams, conceptualizes and executes transformational leadership, innovation (certified in the De Bono system), scale-ups, sales effectiveness (certified by Franklin Covey) both in corporates as well as educational institutions. He has often been quoted in the press, referred to for strategic roundtables and recognized with several National and International HR Awards. He is currently working on a startup in the organizational excellence, design thinking and innovation space.

A Chartered Accountant by qualification, Aditya is a finance professional in the consumer internet industry with expertise in Strategy and Business Finance. After stints in companies like Amazon & Swiggy, he is currently heading the Strategic Finance function for Uber India.

Kunal is a business development and P&L leader in consumer technology space. He is currently working on growing iOS App ecosystem in India.

Dhruv is a marketing professional with 8 years of proven experience in the FMCG sector. He is leading the f&b section of Grofers. He would love to meet interesting people.

Anshul is a tech enthusiast, willing to share and learn about all things tech and keen to invest in good ideas. I am currently working on building products for the growing membership program. I would love to meet founders, product professionals, investors.

Jatin is a finance and general management enthusiast who is keen to help businesses grow. I am currently exploring ideas for a 2nd innings post a hectic corporate life. I would love to meet entrepreneurs and investors who could use my experience.

Bhisham is a risk taker. He is passionate about entrepreneurship. He believes in the policy of “what ever it takes”. He is currently working on men’s grooming industry. He would love to meet people from D2C space.

You are wondering how to add colors (quite literally!) to your marketing, branding, positioning, and strategy piece? Minal is the best person to have a potentially colorful conversation on key aspects of branding and marketing related to your venture and decodify the complex world of brands for you.Minal is currently the VP-Strategy, Growth, and Marketing with Shalimar paints (we can vouch for her work, go to youtube and check it out right away). She is a Marketing and product lifecycle specialist with deep insights on brand positioning and connecting brands with people. Before Shalimar paints, she was with Lead of Retail expansion with Apple India. She also had a stint with Kohler handing marketing for South Asia and Sub Saharan Africa region.An award-winning (multiple ones at that) MICA graduate Minal loves to spend time with startups and high growth, high potential ventures sharing a tip or two on marketing and branding for retail and offline experiences segment. She would love to catch up with you over a cup of coffee to have a fruitful, engaging conversation.

Abhishek is a business leader in it with over 20 years of experience in cutting-edge consulting, strategy, large-scale delivery, and programmers for digital transformation with escalating levels of responsibility. Strong individual contributor with additional management experience in large teams that perform various activities. Graduated in 2008 with a full-time MBA from the prestigious XLRI Jamshedpur, India, and obtained an executive program management certification from RMIT university in Melbourne, Australia.

Anandh is a strategist with extensive exposure to the IT services industry. He has extensive expertise in devising strategies for a complete digital transformation. He is currently working on project governance.

Pankaj is a project management professional. I am currently working on a US-based travel e-commerce company.

Tanmay is an investment manager. I am currently working on investing in pre-seed companies.

Prashant is a chartered accountant with 28 years of experience. He is skilled in finance, accounting, financial analysis, financial reporting and strategic financial planning. He is currently working on a retail chain and setting up operations for startups.