Vasu Jakkal
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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.

Sudhir Sethi
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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.

Srinivasan Viswanathan
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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.

Shiv Khemka
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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.

Shekar Narasimran
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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.