Speaker Bio:  

Bharath Lingam
CEO, PurpleTalk
Bharath is the CEO of PurpleTalkInc., one of the leading mobile solutions companies globally. He’s focused on creating products and solutions with a mission to humanize technology experiences, therebyreimagining enterprise possibilities. He is a quintessential start up person, and executed CTO roles at companies like Panterra Networks & Prime Technologies early on in his career. More recently, he was handling strategy, marketing and key account management for emerging verticals at Mahindra Satyam. He was also part of the shadow board there and a practice leader for BPM technologies. He graduated with a B.Tech from IIT Madras in 1998 and is passionate about scaling innovation and enabling the start-up ecosystem both within and outside enterprises.
Rajiv Kumar
CEO & Founder, RockeTalk
Rajiv founded RockeTalk in 2005. Rajiv leads the development team and oversees the development of RockeTalk&rsquot;s core technology and infrastructure, while guiding the strategic vision of the company. Prior to RockeTalk, Rajiv was the founder and CTO of Widcomm, a technology and market leader in Bluetooth solutions. Widcomm was acquired by Broadcom in 2004. The technology developed at Widcomm is now in cell phones, laptops, hands-free car kids and wireless headsets. Prior to Widcomm, Rajiv was a VP and CTO at Uniden’s San Diego research and development center, which he co-founded. At Uniden, Rajiv was responsible for the development of the advanced wireless data product line that included GPRS modems, CDPD and 2-way pagers. Rajiv was also an engineering leader at Hughes Network Systems. During his stay at Hughes Network Systems, Rajiv was one of the primary inventors of CDPD technology that was the first ever cellular wireless data deployed. Rajiv holds several patents and has published textbooks in the wireless data area. Rajiv holds a BS and MS from Indian Institute of Technology.
Dr. Viswanath Ramachandran
Founding Executive, CTO & Operations Officer, Webaroo Technology
Vishy is a founding executive at GupShup, associated with the company since its inception. He is responsible for the definition, development, deployment and support of GupShup&rsquot;s products. These products helped the community scale to over 60 million users, and the messaging platform scale to over 3 billion messages a month. He also oversees the overall operations of GupShup&rsquot;s business. Prior to GupShup, Vishy worked for the world&rsquot;s first social network Friendster in engineering management, responsible for their instant messaging product. He also worked at enterprise software companies NextLabs (on document security and policy compliance solutions) and Siebel (engineering management of the web server tier). Prior to that, Vishy helped build video on demand software as well as a web browser for TV at Moxi Digital (acquired by Digeo Inc.). He started his career at Netscape Communications Corp. as a software developer on the web server, Java and JavaScript engines, and progressed into engineering management roles in Netscape&rsquot;s browser and instant messaging products. Vishy has a Master&rsquot;s and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Brown University and a B.Tech. in Computer Science from IIT Bombay. His research has been published in international journals and conferences and his prior work in the industry has been granted patents.
Rakesh Deshmukh
CEO, MoFirst Solutions
Rakesh Deshmukh, Co-founder, Director and CEO of MoFirst, is the driving force behind the company’s growth and rapid global expansion, making MoFirst one of the fastest growing companies in mobile BFSI domain. Under his leadership, the company has launched country’s first mobile trading platform that enabled company to get significant brand name in the market. He got patent pending solution in mobile payments and developed first mobile QR code based payment solution. Prior to MoFirst, Rakesh worked for more than a year in mobile space to gain the industry experience. His entrepreneurial aspirations took shape in the early days at IIT so he joined two startups in technology space. He has an ideal blend of technical understanding and business acumen, combined with great people skills. He is a pragmatic, strategic thinker, with a lot of insights for structuring a sound strategy. He is member of Asia Society. He holds a BTech from IIT Bombay.
Shashank Joshi
MD, My Mobile Payments
Shashank has over 20 years of professional experience in the areas of IT and ITES, Outsourcing, Transition and Management consulting. He has been a pioneer in the successful execution of merchant Cash Advance and Merchant Processing businesses through the offshore route. He started his career in 1992 with a computer software and hardware business and set up India’s first computer retail outlet in 1994. Since 2000, he has been involved with IT enabled services viz, medical transcription, international & domestic call centre and outsourced accounting. Shashank has cross-border global experience of more than six years in "Simplifying Payments". His vision is that of "Simplifying Payments" while his Goal is to bring the convenience of Simplified Mobile Payments to every mobile subscriber in India. Shashank holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT. He has been a motivational trainer and has addressed public seminars with over 700 people in attendance. He has been the Managing Director at Prospectbase IT Services Pvt Ltd, Prospectbase Inc and Pbpayments Inc with offices in Los Angeles, California.
Ajay Kumar P P
Founder & MD, Biztran Solutions
Ajay Kumar has started his software development company in 2002. He is known for his ability in simplifying complex business process into simple software solution and brings transformational growth to their customers. He and his team started mobile application development since last two years. Till now the team have completed more than 20 mobile applications using various platforms (Android, iOS, Black Berry, Windows Phone, HTML 5).
Virat Khutal
Founder & CEO, Twists Mobile India
Virat is Co-Founder and CEO of Twist Mobile. He has worked as game developer and game designer in Gameloft before starting Twist Mobile. He has been active participating in Twistfuture for Short Mobile Movie production in India. Entrepreneurship and Mass reach has been always focus for him. Virat graduated as an Architect from IPS Academy, India and did MCM from Pune University.
Krishna Jha
Partner - Telnet Ventures, IAN Member
In the year 1999, Krishna Jha, then 25, quit his programmer job with Citicorp to co-found ITFinity, one of the first wireless data companies globally. In early 2007 the company was acquired by OnMobile, the telecom spin-off from Infosys, providing a 10x returns to ITFinity’s angel investors. Krishna now runs TelNet Ventures which is an investor & co-founder to very early stage Mobile & Internet startups in India.
Anirudh Singh
Senior Analyst, NVP India
Anirudh serves as an advisor on early stage and growth equity investments in Indian companies across a wide range of sectors at NVP and was part of the investment team for the investment in Cholamandalam Finance. Before joining NVP India, Anirudh worked at Canaan Partners India, where he specialized in deal sourcing and due diligence of opportunities in the telecom, education, healthcare and IT sectors. He was also part of the investment team for the Series A investment in Naaptol.com. Prior to Canaan Partners, Anirudh worked with the corporate finance practice at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, India. In this role, he participated in all aspects of M&A and equity financing engagements in infrastructure sectors such as oil, gas and power.
Rashik Kathuria
CEO, Multiplex Systems
Rashik is a technocrat and entrepreneur with 20 years of experience in conceptualising, design, architecture and development of complex business software solutions. Having started his career by development using Cobol and dBase, he upgraded himself on various technologies on DOS, Windows, Web and Mobile. He has kept himself abreast with the cutting edge technology. Since 1998, Rashik has been associated with multiple companies with the vision to create and deliver innovative and reliable software solutions and services that provide value to its customers. Under his supervision, several projects have been successfully executed for SME’s and MNC’s globally in diverse verticals, including Travel, Retail, Health Care, Education, Government, Manufacturing and Real Estate. Rashik has been managing outsourced projects and teams for customers globally since. Having worked with customers from India, USA, UK, Belgium, Germany, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, Rome, Estonia, and several other countries, he understands the execution process and multiple cultural challenges of working with globally distributed teams. His key skills include product development, solution conceptualisation, functional & technical definition and user experience design of business applications. Over the years Rashik has worked with several start-ups to develop their concepts into reality. Rashik is always looking for, and welcomes new challenges.
Navin Honagudi
Venture Capital, Kae Capital
Navin is having more than a decade of industry experience. Prior to joining Kae Capital Navin has worked with Reliance Ventures. His primary role at Kae is to identify investment opportunities, conduct due diligence, valuation analysis and evaluate their business and financial prospects. Navin served on the Boards of Tessolve Services & Dhama Innovations and as an Observer on Reverse Logistics, Suvidhaa Infoserve, Healthspring and Gradatim besides leading RVAM&rsquot;s investment in One97 Comm.
Madhukar Sinha
Partner, IndiaQuotient
Madhukar is having more than a decade of experience in investing into the very early stage startups - companies that are still discovering a revenue model, pricing, product or strategy. Prior to IndiaQuotient, he was associated with the other investing ventures like mHealth, Butterfly Edufields, Reliance Retail and many more.
Gourav Bhattacharya
Associate, Matrix Partners
Gourav graduated with an engineering degree from IIT Bombay. In order to get a deeper understanding of technology, he spent some time as a research associate at McGill University Canada working on nuclear technology. He went on to get a degree in business administration from IIM Ahmedabad, where he ranked in the top 5% of his class. At IIMA, Gourav also led the marketing and market research initiative, helping quickly and inexpensively &rsquot;field-test&rsquot; ideas for small entrepreneurs just starting out. Gourav had a short stint at UBS, where he learnt the mechanics of valuing businesses. At McKinsey, Gourav has worked primarily in the banking, insurance and pharmaceutical sectors. Gourav worked on digitizing brick-and-mortar businesses, creating stand-alone online distribution channels and driving consumer adoption for digital products. At McKinsey, Gourav learned the dynamics of working in high-performance teams, as well as what it takes to implement business plans down to the last mile.
Ashpi Gupta
Venture Capital Executive, Mumbai Angels
Ashpi has more than 6 years of experience across Consulting, valuations & Corporate finance. She did her Computer Engineering from Mumbai University & MBA from National University of Singapore. Ashpi has been associated with firms such as Ernst and Young, PwC & Merrill Lynch in the past. Ashpi was last employed with Transaction Advisory business in Ernst and Young.Her work includes Valuations, Debt Syndication and raising structured Capital. Some key assignments include valuation of portfolio companies of private equity funds, valuation of infrastructure, media and power sector companies for merger & restructuring. She was also involved in raising debt for the real estate, steel sector and some restructuring assignments. In PwC, performance improvement and restructuring of complex business processes was her primary responsibility. Ashpi was an integral part of a new team, and instrumental in achieving 100% yearly growth. She was part of several projects spanning Finance strategy & transformation, E-procurement, Finance function effectiveness, Management reporting & balanced scorecards & System analysis and ERP recommendation.
Sunil Jalihal
Founder & Director, Mobimedia Technologies
Sunil Jalihal, is Founder, Director of Mobimedia Technologies, a technology startup in the Mobile Data space. He is a serial entrepreneur and green products and trekking enthusiast. IT professional by training, he worked for CMC, Wipro, Siemens, Hewlett-Packard before co-founding a few technology start-ups in the telecom, mobile data services space. His earlier start-ups were venture funded by JP Morgan Chase, Reuters Greenhouse Fund, Intel Capital among others. He has a keen interest in art, HR and community concepts, green architecture and gourmet food. He has co-authored a award winning heritage and coffee table book and believes in “bringing together people with passion and energy to create sustainable products and concepts”.
Ashish Ajmani
Founder & Director, Bitmantra
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Mitul Thakkar
CEO & Co-founder, Anveshan Technologies
Mitul leads the overall strategy operations and products division for Anveshan Technologies from the headquarters in Mumbai, India. He is also one of the founding members at www.triprental.com in Chicago, USA. Triprental has its presence in more than 15 countries. Before founding triprental he worked with Yahoo! Inc in Bay Area, California. Currently Anveshan Technologies develops mobile solutions for clients across the globe. They have a enterprise mobile solution Customer360 (www.customer360.in) which helps businesses in collecting and analyzing their customer experience.
Amol Vedak
Co-Founder & Director, MobileWare Technologies
Amol has overs 12 years of experience in in Telecom and Mobile domain. His experitise lies in UMAP and VoIP Platform. He also the the Founder of FWEEW. Prior to MobileWare, Amol was associated with GlobalLogic, Persistent Systems, Roamware and many more.
Jinen Dedhia
Founder & MD, Deltecs Infotech
At the age of 23, he took his first steps in the startup arena with Deltecs back in 2007. Since then Deltecs has grown to a 20+ people team and has been serving more than 60,000+ executives across the globe on its popular enterprise mobility product Drona Mobile. Deltecs has been amongst the top 8 finalist at Qulacomm & has won itself prestigious awards like Handheld Learning Award, UK, WSA at Abu Dhabi amongst many others. Drona Mobile is rated as one of top Enterprise Mobile product by IAMAI in Jan 2013. Jinen has also been named as one of the Young Creative Enterpreneur by British Council in 2009.. As the Founder & MD of Deltecs, he has been majorly responsible for product development & Finance amongst various other hats. He has been instrumental in raising 1st round of investments in the company. Prior to Deltecs, post completing his bachelors of engineering in computer science, he has worked briefly with Wipro Technologies with the Product Engineering Services BU.
Ajit Gokhale
Founder & CEO, Mobien Technologies
Ajit is a founder/CEO of Mobien and brings more than 22 years of rich expreience in technology start-ups on the table. With innovation and product strategy as his forte, he has throttled start-ups to the next orbit. With hands-on technology experience and in-depth knowledge of enterprise markets, he powers Mobien in its path of growing up into an enterprise mobility powerhouse. He has been a regular speaker at various tech conferences and has been contributing to some of the leading B-Schools. Bachelor of Engineering from MIT, he attained his MBA from University of Pune.