Speaker Bio:  

Vijay Shekhar Sharma
Founder & CEO, One97 Communications
Vijay is having more than 15 years of industry experience. His vision, strategy and direction have caused the company to grow multifold in just a few years, making it India’s pioneer in mobile internet services. He also invests in early stage mobile internet startups from his company’s One97 Mobility Fund.
Shailesh Vikram Singh
Executive Director, Seedfund
Shailesh has over 15 years of experience in investing in private equity / venture capital investing, and in business operations and entrepreneurship. Shailesh brings a strong entrepreneurial and operations perspective to investments having co-founded one startup in community space in early 2000 from where the team made a successful exit in 2003 and helped create another startup in agricultural commodities spaces which was acquired by a media conglomerate in 2005. He has worked with 2i Capital, Unit Trust of India and Gujarat Venture Finance and was involved with investments in logistics, technology, telecommunications, media, and internet companies. Prior to his MBA, Shailesh had worked for four years in manufacturing with Tata Motors and ATV.
Gaurav Kachru
Founder & Managing Partner, 5ideas
Gaurav has spent over 15 years building young businesses across sectors. Over the past three years, he has been focused on building businesses in the digital space and has helped build dealsandyou.com and fashionandyou.com. Over the past decade, he has been part of over 10 successful transactions and has helped raise over USD 70 Million dollars for his businesses in the internet sector. He has evaluated over 20 models for investment in India and has led investments in four. Prior to this, Gaurav was an Asia Pacific Director for the Global Accounts Business for Manpower Inc. across 14 countries in AP and set up their Enterprise Sales Model in Asia driving over USD 200 Million of revenue.
Abhinav Chaturvedi
Senior Associate, Accel Partners
Abhinav is a Senior Associate at Accel India. He focuses on consumer Internet, Mobile and Technology-enabled businesses. Before joining Accel, Abhinav held engineering, product and program management positions at Amazon.com where he worked on building online payment systems. Abhinav holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee.
Karan Mohla
Vice President, IDG Ventures India
Karan focuses on the Mobile, internet, and digital consumer sectors. He serves on the Board of Vserv, FirstCry.com, Ozone Media and iViZ Techno Solutions. Prior to joining IDG Ventures India, Karan worked with QVT Finance LP, a US based hedge fund and was a founding member of their Asia-Pacific practice. Karan earlier worked in the Technology & Media investment banking group at Jefferies & Company in Silicon Valley. He helped several emerging technology companies in capital raising, M&A and strategic partnerships. Later, he helped start the India office where he advised and executed financing strategies for companies in the Technology, Media, Telecom, CleanTech and Education sectors. He has successfully completed several transactions across M&A and capital raising for corporates across India and the US. Karan graduated with a BBA from the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan and an EMBA from INSEAD, where he was the youngest graduate in the program’s history.
Rashik Kathuria
CEO, Multiplex Systems
Rashik is a technocrat & entrepreneur with two deacdes of experience in conceptualising, design, architecture & development of complex business software solutions. Having started his career by development using Cobol & 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 & 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 & Real Estate. He has been managing outsourced projects & teams for customers globally. Having worked with customers from India, USA, UK, Belgium, Germany, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, Rome, Estonia & several other countries, he understands the execution process and multiple cultural challenges of working with globally distributed teams.
Shashank Joshi
Managing Director, My Mobile Payments
Shashank has over two decades of professional experience in the areas of IT & 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".
Siddhartha Jain
CEO, Spice Labs
Siddhartha is responsible for leading efforts on product development for Consumer Apps at Spice Labs. His 10 years of industry experience include working with firstRain on web crawling and data mining, and with GlobalLogic (formerly IndusLogic) on VOIP technologies,interleaved by a year off for traveling. Siddhartha holds an Integrated M.Tech. degree in Mathematics and Computing from IIT Delhi.
Jitin Narang
COO, TechAhead
Jitin has 15 years of experience in IT industry. He is the man behind several of TechAhead’s mobile application deployments for global companies such as RosyBlue, RapNet, FI ESPN, Orra, Fiat, ITC & Xerox. He has helped organizations of all sizes develop and execute their mobile strategy, enabling them to reach their customers over mobile devices. Besides understanding and catering to every client’s unique business and process requirements, he works towards enhancing value and cost effectiveness by helping to cross sell clients’ products and services.
Vaideeswaran Sethuraman
Founder & CEO, Divum
Vaidee, holds an MS from BITS Pilani and MBA from ICFAI. He wrote the first lines of code for an iphone app while he was at a mall in Bangalore. These days he’s usually out and about running Divum’s business affairs, quoting business proposals, evangelizing emerging mobile platforms and delivering keynote addresses across the globe in conferences on mobile ecosystem. He is also a EDA consultant for a chip designing Silicon Valley based Startup. Vaidee still contributes hands-on to the application development projects and UI at Divum. Before Divum, Vaidee held leadership and technical roles in Texas Instruments, Montalvo Systems and AMD. Vaidee spends his very little and hard-earned spare time venturing off-road trips in his SUV and shooting migratory birds with his DSLR.
Yinon Horwitz
Account Manager, StartApp
Yinon is an account manager at StartApp, the leading global monetization & advertising mobile network. As part of his role, Yinon is in charge of StartApp’s online marketing unit. Yinon advises leading global Android developers, helping them tackle monetization and distribution challenges. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars around the world focusing on monetization & maximizing value in the Android arena. Prior to his position at StartApp, Yinon was an account manager at Kontera, advertising network which provides in-text contextual advertising and information services. At Kontera, Yinon led & managed major advertisers’ accounts advising on strategy planning, optimization & execution of campaigns. Yinon holds a double major B.A degree in Economics & Business administration, majoring in Finance & Marketing from the College of Management - Academic Studies (COMAS) – Israel’s largest academic college.
Ravi Vyas
Developer Advocate, Vserv.mobi
Ravi brings in varied experience in domains like Android application development, Web Services, UI/UX development, Web Development and Databases. Currently he works as a developer advocate in Verv.mobi. Prior to Vserv, he was associated with TechJini as an Android developer at where he on apps that have been downloaded from 750,00 to almost a million times. Ravi is also the co-organizer of the Bangalore Android User Group. With my Masters in Computer Science in Florida State University, He also had the opportunity to work as a Teaching Assistant.
Rajiv Kumar
CEO & Founder, RockeTalk
Rajiv founded RockeTalk in 2005. He leads the development team and oversees the development of RockeTalk’s core technology & infrastructure, while guiding the strategic vision of the company. Prior to RockeTalk, Rajiv was the founder & CTO of Widcomm, a technology & market leader in Bluetooth solutions. Prior to Widcomm, Rajiv was a VP & 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 & 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 & MS from Indian Institute of Technology.
Sanjai Saxena
Vice President - Business Development, CanvasM
Sanjai heads the business development function across India, Middle East and Africa at CanvasM. He also leads the Marketing and Sales operations for CanvasM across all geographies. His extensive experience is spread across VAS & Telecom, Business Development, Account management, Sales, Business Operations & Sales Operations. Prior to joining CanvasM, Sanjai was heading the Sales for Telecom at Wipro Infotech. Before that, he was with Comviva for 5 years. The other companies he has worked with during his 25-year career have been Bharti, Telstra and Wipro.
Shivesh Vishwanathan
Senior Consultant - Mobility , Persistent Systems
Shivesh has 15 years of experience in mobility technologies and social collaboration products. Shivesh has worked as head of product management, product marketing and technology incubator in startups and established companies. He has published numerous articles, blogs and white papers, and has been quoted and published in journals including Reuters, Dataquest, Ecommerce Times and the Times of India with his views on the intersection of mobile technology and business environment.
Maninder Gulati
Senior Associate, Lightspeed Venture Partners
Maninder brings over eight years of operating, business building, entrepreneurship and consulting experience to the firm. Maninder has also co-founded a voice based life-streaming platform – lifeinlines.com, which allowed users to create a digital diary of their life. Prior to Lightspeed, He was associated with McKinsey & Company, ITC.
Anuraj Gambhir
Strategic Advisor and Innovation Evangelist, Steadworks
Anuraj has worked in the mobile telecommunications industry for over 2 decades across several parts of the mobile value web and devices ecosystem including leading Mobile Network Operators, Device Manufacturers, R&D Centres, International Trade Bodies, Consultancy Firms, VAS Developers/Providers, Wireless Technology Retail and Network Solution Vendors on 4 continents - Australasia, North America, Europe & Asia. He has worked from hands-on technical roles to senior executive management positions and is regarded by many as an industry visionary. Companies he has worked for include: NASA/JPL, SingTel Optus, Logica/Aethos, T-Mobile, Orange, GSM Association, Sharp, Siemens/BenQ mobile, Spice & Ericsson. He has spearheaded several innovations in the advanced as well as grass-root level mobile domain in mature and emerging markets. He focuses his efforts on strategic business development and nurturing breakthrough concepts leading to game changing and disruptive/radical innovation.
Pallav Nawani
CEO, IronCode Gaming
Pallav is the CEO of IronCode Gaming, a Mobile/PC game development company based in Noida, India. He is a professional with an all round experience of over 10+ years in all aspects of game development, from programming to game production and marketing. Pallav is passionate about gaming and believes that games development industry in India is set to grow rapidly in the near future.