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Vivek Ragavan

President, CEO, Co-founder, Siaras Vivek Ragavan has developed a solid track record launching technology startups and guiding them to positive outcomes. As president and CEO, Vivek was instrumental in the growth of telecommunications startup, Siara Systems, and its highly successful sale to Redback Networks, for $4.3 billion in 1999. Subsequent to the acquisition of Siara Systems, Vivek became CEO of Redback. Under Vivek’s leadership, Redback was named by Forbes magazine as one of the top 20 best managed, fastest-growing technology companies in the world. Vivek was also CEO at several other networking and software companies, including Atrica, which was purchased by Nokia Siemens Networks in 2008. Earlier in his career, Vivek held senior management positions at ADC, General Instrument, and Comsat. Vivek holds a BSEE from Northwestern University and an MSEE from Cornell University.

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Yamini Rangan

CEO, Hubspot Yamini Rangan is Chief Executive Officer at HubSpot. Prior to becoming CEO, Yamini served as HubSpot’s first-ever Chief Customer Officer, overseeing the marketing, sales, and services teams. A tech industry veteran, Yamini has more than 24 years of experience ranging from product marketing, sales, and strategy. Yamini previously served as Chief Customer Officer at Dropbox, where she was responsible for embedding customer focus across the organization. Before Dropbox, she was VP of Sales Strategy and Operations at Workday, where she helped quadruple revenue and scaled the sales organization. At SAP, Yamini held several customer-facing leadership roles in strategy, pre-sales and value-based selling and helped close landmark deals. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering, a Master’s in Computer Engineering, and an MBA from Berkeley. In 2019, Yamini was recognized as one of the Most Influential Women in Business by San Francisco Business Times.

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Vasu Jakkal

Corporate Vice President & CMO of Security, Compliance and Identity, Microsoft Vasu is the Corporate Vice President & CMO of Security, Compliance and Identity at Microsoft. She is a passionate, customer-centric and purpose-driven marketing & business leader, able to drive transformation, build inspiring brands, create disruptive thought leadership and bolster demand. Recognized by Forbes as “CMO Next” one of 50 Marketing Chiefs redefining the role and shaping the future of marketing. Recognized as Top 25 women in Cyber Security by the Software Review. Recognized as 10 Best CMOs of 2019 by Silicon Review. 2018 Woman of the Year finalist by Women in IT Awards. Marketers that Matter Innovation Council 2018, 2019. Silicon Valley Exec Network Board of Directors. 20+ years in tech across marketing (brand, comms, products, demand, operations), strategy and general management in Cloud, CyberSecurity, IoT & Mobility. Inspires change by leading with vision and strategy balanced with driving measurable results. Recognized for building modern, creative and human-centric marketing. Awarded for thought leadership, storytelling & creating content to inspire actions. Track record for driving growth, pipeline and scaling businesses in challenging markets. Values-based leadership philosophy with a passion for inspiring & developing teams to achieve big. M&A experience [9 M&As]; Advisor to Startups. Recipient of several industry awards & recognitions for being a high impact creative & strategic executive.

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Vasant Prabhu

Chief Financial Officer, Visa INC Vasant Prabhu has served as CFO of Visa since February 2015. He has more than 20 years of experience in corporate finance and management. Currently, he is responsible for Visa’s financial strategies, planning and reporting, in addition to all finance operations and investor relations. Prior to Visa, Vasant was at NBCUniversal Media, LLC, overseeing the company’s financial planning and operations. He also managed the company’s operations and technical services division, which includes its technical operations, physical plant, corporate services and information technology functions. Prior to that, Vasant served as the CFO for Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc., where he was responsible for all financial functions, information technology and a range of corporate functions. He also has served as Senior Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer for Pepsi Cola International and as President of E-Commerce at Safeway, Inc. Mr. Prabhu holds MBA in Marketing and Finance from the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL in 1983 and a BS in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India.

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Vaibhav Parikh

Head of US Operations, Nishith Desai Associates Vaibhav is an engineer and a lawyer with around 25 years of experience. He leads the practice areas of Technology, Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity and Blockchain. Over the years, Vaibhav has been advising many leading Indian e-commerce companies in their operations from a legal and regulatory standpoint. Tying in his expertise in advising several private equity players and venture capitalists navigate their way to successful investments, Vaibhav has facilitated some of India’s largest e-commerce transactions.

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Umesh Sachdev

Co-founder and CEO of Uniphore Umesh Sachdev, Co-founder, and CEO of Uniphore, is a modern-day entrepreneur with a passion for technologies that have massive societal impact. Umesh co-founded Uniphore with Ravi Saraogi to bridge the communication gap between man and machine using voice and speech. Umesh was globally recognized in 2016 as one of the ten ‘Next Generation Leaders’ by Time Magazine. The MIT Tech Review recognized him as one of the ‘Innovators Under 35’. He has been conferred with the title of ‘Innovative Entrepreneur’ by the Ministry of Science and Technology’s Technopreneur Promotion Program (TePP). Umesh holds patents in Speech Recognition Technologies and Voice Biometrics and is the author of many technical papers. Umesh is an alumnus of Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, and also an accomplished ‘TED Talk’ speaker.

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Uday Keshavdas

COO & Board Member, Xapa Uday is the COO and board member at Xapa, the world’s first enrichment platform. Uday was an early employee at Snowflake where he established and led the channel and SI alliances team. His efforts grew the business to hundreds of millions of dollars and was crucial in Snowflake’s growth. Prior to Snowflake, Uday ran strategic alliances at Box managing large partners and helped Box enter international markets like Europe, Australia and Japan. Uday helped both Snowflake and Box prepare for the IPO by establishing the alliances operational processes and rigor. Before Box, Uday was at Intel. He was the global launch manager for the Intel® Atom ™ Processor Technology and held multiple positions at Intel including Head of Americas Business Development and Ecosystem Development Lead. Earlier in his career, Uday also worked at KPMG and Sun Microsystems. He holds an MBA from University of Washington Seattle, a Masters in Information Systems from Northeastern University and a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from University of Pune. Uday lives in Silicon Valley with his wife and kids. He is an avid tennis and Formula 1 fan. Current Advisory & Board positions: ● Advisor to exec teams at mParticle and ArgusAnalytics.io ● Board of Trustees Bowman School (strategic planning committee) ● Bay Area Employment advisory board member for Univ. Of Washington, Foster School of Biz.

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Sunny Pokala

Chairman at Amtex, Founder & CEO at Securra Health, Co-Founder at Huut Sunny Pokala is the Chairman of Amtex System Inc. with its Global headquarters in Wall Street, New York and branch offices in Europe, Middle East, Singapore, and India. With over two decades of experience in working with the world’s leading clients, he is an expert in driving business to stem and create value for customers, employees, society, and investors. Started in 1997 today Sunny has a big family – a team of 500 professionals in America and 1000+ in India. Sunny is passionate and committed to introducing products that can create a profound social impact and change the lives of people. Receiving the CII Connect award for exemplary application of Technology shows how Amtex products are touching the lives of people and changing them for a better tomorrow. He encourages such ideology to continue creating more such products and solutions that are fueled by compassion, and awareness.

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Sujit Banerjee

Managing Director, K1 Operations Sujit Banerjee is a Managing Director at K1 Operations. He is responsible for leading K1 Operations and its proprietary IOps initiative throughout the portfolio. Previously Mr. Banerjee was a Managing Director at Element Partners, a Partner at Bluerun Ventures and a Management Consultant at Pricewaterhouse coopers. Mr. Banerjee began his career at Synoptics Communications where he designed networking equipment. Mr. Banerjee is a graduate of the Wharton School of Business, where he received an MBA, and of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he received a BS in Electrical Engineering with Eta Kappa Nu academic honors. Mr. Banerjee has served as a director and founder of numerous technology companies and currently serves on the Wharton Graduate Executive Board as well as the Rensselaer Silicon Valley Executive Council.

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Sudhir Sethi

Founder and Chairman of Chiratae Ventures India Advisors Sudhir is Founder & Chairman of Chiratae Ventures India Advisors. Chiratae Ventures is a leading VC firm advising AUM of $ 1B, invested in 120 plus companies, exited 40 plus, has taken 3 companies public, funded 8 Unicorns and backed 25+ market leaders. The firm is based out of Bangalore with an office in Mumbai. Since 1998 Sudhir and his team have advised on investments across Deep Tech, Agri Tech, Digital Consumer, SAAS, Fintech and Healthcare Sectors. Key investments include Myntra, Flipkart, FirstCry, Lenskart, Policy Bazaar, Curefit, Agrostar, Emotix, Uniphore and PlaySimple amongst others. Today Chiratae Ventures is a leading tech VC in India with Mr Ratan Tata, Mr Kris Gopalakrishnan, Mr Bruno Raschle and Mr Manish Choksi as well as Dr Ferzaan Engineer on its Global Advisory Board and India Advisory Board. Sudhir, serves on the EC of NASSCOM and is part of the Advisory Group on Tech and Internet Economy, Minister of State (Meity). In 2001, Sudhir was recognized by Red Herring as one of the leading venture capitalists in the country. He has been named among the Top Ten IT Professionals by Dataquest and by Bloomberg UTV as ‘’Visionary Venture Capitalist” in 2011. Sudhir has been featured in Subroto Bagchi’s book ‘’Zen Garden – Conversations with Pathmakers’’, in 2014. In addition to leading Chiratae Ventures India Advisors, Sudhir has served on EMPEA Venture Capital Council (Emerging Markets Private Equity Association). He has served as Advisor on the Technology Innovation and Productivity Council of the GMR Group. He also served on the Executive Committee of Indian Venture Capital Association (IVCA), Investment Committee of UTI Ventures, on the Board of Ascent Capital and on the Board of Advisors at N.S. Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurship, IIM Bangalore. With over 30 years of experience Sudhir has served at various leadership positions at HCL, Wipro and Cyient, as well as Country Head of Walden International India. Sudhir holds a B.Tech in Engineering and an MBA Degree from FMS, Delhi. His interests include wild life photography.

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Sriram Viswanathan

Founding Managing Partner, Celesta Sriram Viswanathan has more than 30 years of technology business operations and venture capital experience. Prior to Celesta, Sriram was the founder of IndusAge Partners, a cross border venture firm investing in innovative companies in the US-India Technology corridor. Sriram spent nearly 20 years at Intel Corporation in various senior management roles, including vice president of the Intel Architecture Group (IAG), vice president of Intel Capital and general manager of Intel’s Incubation and Innovation Group.

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Srinivasan Viswanathan

CEO, Vibrant Energy Srini Viswanathan leads Vibrant Energy, a renewable energy platform that provides clean energy solutions to C&I customers. Vibrant is owned by Macquarie Asset Management’s Green Investment Group (GIG) and ATN International. Vibrant is on a mission to mitigate climate change by empowering businesses with clean energy solutions. Vibrant also enables corporate customers with round-the-clock renewables on demand and build decarbonization solutions and energy transition solutions including green hydrogen / green ammonia. He completed his MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and he has worked in technology services and investment banking for over 10 years. He found his calling in the world of sustainability and spent more than 14 years working in renewables markets worldwide, including the United States, Europe, and Asia, notably India. After an energizing stint at SunEdison, he took up the challenge to restructure the Vibrant Energy platform in late 2016. He helped develop a vision for Vibrant to play a pivotal role in providing clean energy solutions to corporate customers in India. Vibrant today is a majority-owned platform of Macquarie Asset Management’s Green Investment Group (GIG). Over the last 20 months, he has led the Vibrant team in delivering 29x growth from 65MW to 2GW. Vibrant is currently operating and delivering c. 2GW of renewable energy solutions for corporates with a goal to reach c. 6GW in the next four years. Under his leadership, Vibrant will continue to foster the transition of the leading corporates to become 100% renewable energy dependent. Vibrant and its staff are committed to delivering this target with key values of Integrity, Peak Performance, Empathy, Teamwork, and Mutual Respect.

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Somdutta Singh

Founder & CEO, Assiduus Global Inc Dr. Somdutta Singh is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, best-selling author and philanthropist. She is a 1st Generation entreprenuer. Assiduus Global is her 3rd venture. In 2021 she was bestowed with the coveted Times 40 Under 40. In 2022, She was named the Women Entrepreneur of the Year award by Indian Achievers Forum and featured among Fortune India’s 50 most powerful business women. She has served as the youngest and only elected woman Vice-Chairperson of NASSCOM Product Council and has been the first woman of Indian origin on the Board of Philip Kotler’s Kotler Impact. She authored two best-sellers – Decoding Digital: Unlocking Digital Barriers and Stories from New India: Policies, Hope and Change. Dr Som has been bestowed with several prestigious awards that include the Impact Entrepreneur Award for Social Innovation by IEEE & UN Women, London, the 2019 Mentor of the Year by the Government of India, the 2017 Digital Leadership Award for Social Innovation by Times of India and the 2017 Women Leadership Award by Economic Times.

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Shub Bhowmick

Chief Executive Officer & Co-founder, Tredence Shub Bhowmick is the CEO and co-founder of Tredence. For more than 25 years, he has been a problem solver, entrepreneur, and technology leader. In 2013, Shub and his partners launched Tredence, a data science and AI engineering company focused on solving the last mile problem in analytics. The ‘last mile’ is defined as the gap between insight creation and value realization. Tredence is 1,000-plus employees strong with offices in Foster City, Chicago, London, Toronto, and Bangalore, serving 30+ Fortune 500 companies in retail, CPG, hi-tech, telecom, travel, and industrials as clients. Prior to the founding of Tredence, Shub held senior executive positions at Diamond Consultants (now PwC), Mu Sigma, Liberty Advisor Group, and Infosys. Shub holds an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and a Bachelor of Technology with Honors in Chemical Engineering from IIT-BHU, India.

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Shiv Khemka

Vice Chairman, SUN Group Shiv is Vice-Chairman of SUN Group, a 120-year-old family enterprise comprised of both operating and investment companies. SUN Group is active in Asset Management (Private Equity, Venture Capital, Real Estate), Natural Resources (Mining, Gold, Battery Metals), Green Infrastructure (Renewable Energy, Electric Mobility, EV Batteries), and High Technology (Aerospace, Communications, Electronics, Quantum and Artificial Intelligence). The group has been active in various regions around the world, including India, Latin America, West Africa, Ukraine, Russia, the Middle East, Central and South-East Asia, Japan, and China. In the technology space, SUN has been an early and growth stage investor since the mid-1990s and has helped create venture capital investment businesses such as Westbridge Capital, which later partnered with Sequoia to become Sequoia India. SUN Group is also an active investor in the energy technology, energy transition, quantum, and artificial intelligence space. SUN has partnered with Maini Group to establish SUN Mobility, an energy technology company focused on becoming a leader in EV energy infrastructure by utilizing a battery-as-a-service business model. More recently, SUN has made significant investments into ProLogium and Sandbox AQ. ProLogium is the leading energy innovation company focused on solid-state battery research, development, and manufacturing, providing next-generation battery solutions for electric vehicles in consumer markets and industrial applications. SandboxAQ led by Eric Schmidt and Jack Hidary, develops SaaS-based solutions for large enterprises, leveraging its platform at the nexus of quantum physics and AI. Sandbox AQ was created at Alphabet in 2017 and was spun off in 2021 as an independent company. Shiv is the Chairman of the Entrepreneurship Sports Generation, a global entrepreneurship ecosystem that has reached over 600,000 entrepreneurs and curated USD 500+ million in rewards. Shiv is also the Executive Chairman of the Global Education and Leadership Foundation (tGELF), a foundation that has reached over three million students worldwide and aims to create the next generation of ethical and altruistic leaders that tackles the world’s most pressing challenges. tGELF has partnered with Global Citizen to create Global Citizen India, which raised over USD 6 billion in commitments in support of the UN SDGs. Shiv was elected a “Global Leader for Tomorrow” (now Young Global Leader) by the World Economic Forum and was a member of the organization’s Global Agenda Council on Education. He has served on the Board of Overseers of the Wharton School for over two decades and is currently on the board of the Lauder Institute and the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI) at the University of Pennsylvania. Shiv has served on both Brown and Yale University’s President’s Councils on International Activities and the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Global Council. Shiv has also served as a board member for the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS) and was an advisory board member of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. Shiv is currently the Vice-Chairman of the Board of Governors at Junior Achievement Worldwide and is a member of the Leadership Council at the Brookings Center for Universal Education. He is the Chairman of the Indian representation to the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Business Council and a member of the BRICS Business Council. Shiv is currently a founding member of V20, a global community of values experts and practitioners that engage with G20, and is the chairman of Aikido Aikikai Foundation of India. He also serves as a Trustee of the Foundation Leadership Council at United World College (South East Asia), and is a member of the Young Presidents Organisation’s Inter-Continental (YPO-IC) chapter. Shiv was awarded the Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award from Tufts University, the Outstanding Contribution to Education Prize and the India Alumni Award from the Wharton School of Business. Shiv studied at Eton College, earned a BA in Economics from Brown (‘85), an MBA/MA with distinction from the Wharton School of Business and the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania (‘90). He speaks seven languages including Russian and Portuguese. Shiv is married to Urvashi Rajya Laxmi Rana from Nepal and they have three daughters, Bhavani, Jayashree, and Gayatri.

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Shekar Narasimran

Managing Partner, Beekman Advisors, Inc Shekar Narasimhan is Chairman and Founder of the AAPI Victory Fund, one of the first of its kind SuperPac’s focused exclusively on building the political power of the Asian American Pacific Islander community. In his business life, Shekar is the Managing Partner at Beekman Advisors which provides strategic advisory services to companies and investors involved in real estate, mortgage finance, affordable housing and related sectors. Shekar is a Co-Founder for the Remergent Communities Fund, an Opportunity Zone Fund, focusing on small towns and cities in the Southeast U.S. He also serves as Chairman of Papillon Capital, focused on sustainable infrastructure investing. Prior to Beekman Advisors, Shekar Narasimhan was a Managing Director of Prudential Mortgage Capital Company, one of the nation’s leading providers of commercial mortgage financing. Immediately prior to Shekar’s time at Prudential, he was Chairman & CEO of the WMF Group, a publicly traded, commercial mortgage financial services company. WMF was one of the largest such firms in the country before being acquired by Prudential in 2000. Shekar is currently serving on the boards of Broadstone Net Lease, Inc., Enterprise Community Partners, Inc. and the Democracy Alliance. He is on the Economic Advisory Council for the Center for American Progress and is a member of the Urban Institute’s Policy Leadership Council. He has served on many boards, including the Low Income Investment Fund, the Community Preservation and Development Corporation, the National Housing Conference and the National Multi Housing Council. He is a sought-after speaker on housing finance and affordable housing and is considered a leading expert on rental housing issues in the United States. Shekar was appointed by Governors McAuliffe and Northam of Virginia as a Commissioner for the Virginia Housing Development Authority and served as its Chairman from 2019-2021. Previously, he also served as a Member of the Board for Housing and Community Development in Virginia, and as a Commissioner on President Obama’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. He was on the founding board of Indiaspora, a nonprofit organization founded by community leaders to unite Indian Americans and to transform their success into meaningful impact in India and on the global stage. He was also Co-Founder of Upakar Foundation, a higher education scholarship fund. Shekar also co-founded and is President of the Dharma Into Action (DhIA) Foundation. Shekar has served several terms on the Mortgage Bankers Association of America (MBA) Board of Directors, was the first Chair of the MBA’s Commercial/Multifamily Board of Governors, and founded its Multifamily Steering Committee. He was elected as the first Chair of the Fannie Mae DUS Advisory Committee.

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