Vani is a board member of CXXO and the managing director of Kalaari Capital. She enjoys mentoring entrepreneurs and guiding them into becoming seasoned business leaders. She has successfully led more than 30 investments in industries like e-commerce, gaming, healthcare and digital content. She is currently exploring and investing in startups some of which are Myntra, Cure.fit and Snapdeal.

Abhinay is an industry veteran with a proven and exemplary track record of leading businesses to success. He is an alumnus of IIM-Ahmedabad who also has credit to his name of founding BigBasket, a popular online grocery platform. He is currently building Laundrymate, a laundry and household services providing platform.

Anuj is an investment banker.

Sohini is a business and technology journalist. I am currently working on discovering and writing about disruptive new-age businesses, startups and platforms like CoffeeMug and others. I would love to meet more founders, VCs and other business leaders.

Rich is a leadership expert, strategy consultant, startup founder and performance coach, who loves playing with anything with an engine in his spare time. I am currently working on various startups and projects, most notably a business called Mployble, which solves the problem of graduates not being fully work-ready on day one. I would love to meet investors, founders or anyone with a passion for seeing organisations reach their full potential.

Ram is a banker and the CEO of Barclays, a British universal bank. He would love to meet founders and investors who are looking to use entrepreneurship to solve some of the big issues of our times.

Meeta pioneered the concept of flowers, plants and gifting in the online space with Ferns n Petals. The company has become India’s largest floral chain and one of the best wedding solution providers in the country. Being the creative brain of Ferns N Petals, she has bagged many awards and accolades. She is associated with some notable causes like menstrual hygiene, sponsoring education and health aid for women & children. She would love to meet interesting people.Her creative energies are extensively tested in rolling out new businesses, projects and for everything that requires new thinking. She rolled out the e-commerce, the luxury floral business and women centric programme. As an advisory board member, she provides valuable assistance to the company.Her new project, Sipping Thoughts is a digital media brand which focuses on women centric programming. Since its inception, it has been working across platforms to create awareness about women centric issues. An ardent believer of women empowerment, she is also an active social worker with experience in different social aspects and issues.

Cyrus is building multiple business initiatives. A former top executive at US private equity firm KKR & Co, Cyrus has also been the co-owner and CEO at Theobroma and was the man behind streamlining their operations, building efficiencies, growth and opening its doors to PE investors. Currently, he is building a Parsi (catering, cloud kitchens and condiments) food brand for domestic and export markets, an Indian food cloud kitchen brand and artisanal high end fashion accessories brand. He would love to meet founders of sales and marketing solutions companies.

Peyush is a consumer enthusiast. I am currently working on Lenskart.com. I would love to meet founders, People working on interesting problems and startups.

Praveen is an angel investor, member of an investment committee. I am currently working in the fintech and healthtech sectors. I would love to meet people from these respective sectors.

Gurmit is an industry stalwart. Prior to his role as GM APAC Quora, he has been Vice President and MD - India for Yahoo, CEO Forbes India.He has successfully managed P&Ls and 3 turnarounds and achieved the highest ever revenue in all roles. He has built and managed Yahoo Cricket end to end. Gurmit drove audience growth at Yahoo Cricket, Forbes India, Hindustan Times. Collaboration is a key strength and he has worked in highly matrixed organisations.He has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate for his contribution to the Industry.Gurmit would love to meet marketing specialists and brainstorm ideas with leaders on international expansion.

“No ads! No games! No gimmicks!”– A simple mantra that helped a small messaging application win over giants like iMessage, WeChat, Facebook Messenger, Snapchat, etc. Yes, we are talking about WhatsApp here. Today, More than 2 billion people in over 180 countries use WhatsApp to stay in touch with friends and family anytime and anywhere.Before its $19 billion jaw-dropping sales to Facebook, WhatsApp had just one business-development employee, one marketing executive, one human-resources head, and one publicist. They were all the same person, Neeraj Arora. For a long time, Neeraj was the “All things business at WhatsApp.” In his own words, in the early days of WhatsApp (he was the 4th employee at WhatsApp), he had done things that a typical founder does for their venture, right from getting furniture, ordering food for employees all the way to raise money for WhatsApp, and everything in between.Before joining WhatsApp in 2011, he spent four years handling corporate development for Google Inc. Before Google, he was part of the Investments and Corporate Strategy teams at Times Internet Limited, a subsidiary of the Times of India Group.Post his stint at WhatsApp, even though Neeraj is on a break right now, he Co-Founded Venture Highway. This early-stage VC firm teams up with the next generation of entrepreneurs by providing guidance and capital to nascent ideas in technology. Some of the portfolio companies of Venture Highway are Meesho, Airmeet, Moglix, OKCredit, Sharechat, MPL, etc.Neeraj loves to connect with entrepreneurs solving big problems and are out there trying to make a dent in the universe, as they say.We are proud to have Neeraj on CoffeeMug :-)

Prashan is a serial entrepreneur with extensive experience in all relevant aspects of consumer internet businesses and tangible business models in consumer internet startups. He is working on helping scale Gaana.com. He would love to meet founders and investors.

I'm on a mission to create a global freelance marketplace and community with Kaam.com I would love to meet potential partners and co-founders who share my passion. I have had 2 exits with my last venture Scootsy being acquired by Swiggy and my first venture UrbanEye being acquired by Network18. I was the CEO of Times Internet Ltd from 2009 - 2012.

Karan has always been around media and tech. Love watching stuff and hiking. I am currently working on reinventing mass media through tech. I would love to meet anyone interested in helping with that goal or just having interesting conversations.

Amit is an investor and mentor, working closely with quality entrepreneurs on meaningful disruption. He has demonstrated expertise in due diligence, business planning, management consulting and financial services. He is currently piecing together a VC fund.

Manu is an HR leader. He is currently working on culture building and people development. He has had defined and led talent strategies in green field start-up modes for new business models as well as new lines of business in global and regional contexts

Anima is an experienced professional and entrepreneur. She is the founder member of Jabong, where she established, developed and scaled the business of multi-categories. Her areas of expertise include business strategy, retail and e-commerce.

Richa is a talent consultant professional with a working experience of over 15+years. She is working closely with a company that invests in early-stage startups in India and Southeast Asia, which focuses on technology-enabled businesses, small businesses, and enterprises.

Siddharth is a talent professional with over 17 years of experience in helping founders, CEOs, and CXOs with a point of view on talent. What differentiates the "best" from "good" and why is it important to have a point of view decides the trajectory of their companies. Networking is core to his DNA and knowing the journies of people is his interest. He is currently working on helping founders understand what world-class talent looks like.