Sudhir is Founder & Chairman of Chiratae Ventures India Advisors. Chiratae Ventures (formerly IDG Ventures India) is a leading VC firm advising AUM of $ 950 M based out of Bangalore, India.

Since 1998 Sudhir and his team have advised on investments into 100+ firms across Deep Tech, Digital Consumer, Enterprise Software, Fintech and Healthcare Sectors. Key investments include Flipkart, FirstCry, Lenskart, Policy Bazaar, Curefit, Manthan, Newgen, Nestaway, 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 on its Global Advisory Board.

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.

Mr. TC Meenakshisundaram (TCM) is Founder & Vice Chairman of Chiratae Ventures India Advisors. He has over 35 years of industry experience, including 16 years of venture experience.  Serves on the Boards of Lenskart, Agrostar, Vayana and e-Shakti.

Earlier as part of Walden International’s team, TCM was involved with investments in Mindtree, Venture Infotek and Jobstreet.

Prior to Chiratae Ventures, TCM served as Chief Financial Officer and President – Corporate Services at Venture Infotek, a leading payments processing company in India. Prior to Walden International, TCM has worked for 14 years at Wipro where he last served as General Manager – eCommerce Division.

TCM is a Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), Chennai. He is a Chartered Accountant by qualification.

Karthik Prabhakar is Executive Director and Global Head of Fundraising at Chiratae Ventures India Advisors. Karthik has led investment advisory in Consumer media & tech and Fin-tech sectors apart from the additional responsibility of overseeing marketing for the firm.

He has been part of the Indian tech ecosystem since 2005 with experience spanning engineering, rapid prototyping, marketing, fundraising, investment advisory and portfolio management. Karthik was an active part of the team advising on the exit from investment in Manthan Systems.

In 2018, Karthik was recognized as one among the 40 Under 40 in the alternative investments space in India by AAAIF. For three consecutive years from 2016 to 2018, Karthik was recognized as one among the global top 100 Rising Stars in the venture industry by Global Corporate Venturing, held in California, US.

Prior to Chiratae Ventures, Karthik worked with Intel in their Ideas to Reality team, a technology incubator focused on building IoT products around the Intel Atom processor. As a tech marketing person, he played a key role in rapid prototyping, conceptualizing field trial plans and creating Go-To-Market strategies for new products ideas around retail, digital advertising and video surveillance. Karthik was also actively involved in recruiting and mentoring new members for the group. Prior to that, he worked in the embedded systems team building security software for network processors. Karthik, in spare part time, worked on developing innovative IoT/embedded solutions and has co-authored a patent in the area of Wireless Networks.

Karthik holds a Bachelors degree in Information Science from RV College of Engineering and an MBA (PGDM) from IIM Bangalore.

Mr. Karan Mohla is Executive Director and Head of Consumer Media & Technology sector at Chiratae Ventures India Advisors where he heads the sector focus and strategy on Consumer Media & Technology investments. He has been investing in Indian companies since 2009 and has over 15 years of experience in the technology industry across India and the US.

Prior to Chiratae Ventures, Karan worked with QVT Finance LP, a US based hedge fund and was a founding member of their Asia-Pacific practice. He earlier worked in the technology banking group at Jefferies & Company (formerly Broadview International) in Silicon Valley, where he advised several technology companies in Internet, Mobile and Enterprise Software on capital raising, M&A as well as strategic partnerships. Later, Karan helped start the India office for Jefferies where he advised and executed financing strategies for companies in the Technology, Media, Telecom, CleanTech and Education sectors. He has successfully completed over 20 transactions covering M&A and capital raising for corporates across India and the US.

Karan holds a Bachelors degree in Business Administration (BBA) from the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and an EMBA from INSEAD, where he was the youngest graduate in the program’s history.

Mr. Venkatesh Peddi is Executive Director at Chiratae Ventures India Advisors. He has over 17 years of industry experience, including 11 years of venture experience.

Prior to Chiratae Ventures, Venkatesh was Deputy Vice President at Reliance Venture Asset Management – the corporate venture capital arm of Reliance ADA Group. He was involved in executing multiple end-to-end investments and was a board member at Gradatim IT Ventures and a board observer at Suvidhaa Infoserve and Pelago Inc. Venkatesh was earlier an Account Manager in Investment Banking division of Adventity, a leading KPO player, where he advised deal teams of leading investment banks at various deal stages. He later moved to Adventity Inc., New York, to take up roles involving close client interaction, while being promoted on a fast track basis from an Analyst to Manager within 10 months. Prior to Adventity, as Assistant Manager at Blue Star Infotech, Venkatesh helped in structuring deals and M&A.

Venkatesh is an active CFA charterholder from the CFA institute, USA and holds a Bachelors degree in engineering from VJTI, Mumbai and a Masters degree in Management Studies from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS).

Mr. Ranjith Menon is Executive Director at Chiratae Ventures India Advisors. He has been in the industry since 2000 and in the venture investment advisory since 2007.

Prior to Chiratae Ventures, Ranjith worked with Cyient (earlier Infotech Enterprises), India’s premier Design Engineering and GIS Company. As Manager-Marketing he played a key role in conceptualizing and launching new service offerings for the Aerospace vertical, which is one of the largest offshore Aerospace practices out of India. Earlier in his career, Ranjith has served as a stress test engineer at Infotech Enterprises and also gained shop floor experience at Bharat Earth Movers Limited, India’s largest earth moving equipment manufacturers.

Ranjith is a Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE). He holds a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from Bangalore University and an MBA from the Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai.

Prior to Chiratae, Anoop worked at Accenture Ventures – partnering, investing and acquiring startups with Deep-tech capabilities for its Open Innovation platform in India. He led the organisation’s lone acquisition of a Data-AI startup in India in May 2020. Anoop was responsible for driving Innovation Strategy and Corporate Venturing as a Service for Accenture’s clients and was part of Accenture India’s Investment Committee for its CSR Investments into Social startups. He also conceptualised and launched Accenture’s 2 Centers of Excellence with IISc, Bangalore and IIT-Madras in Advanced Computing and Industry 4.0 respectively. In a career spanning over 15+ years across Management Consulting, Family Office VC – leading and managing an early-stage portfolio to leading a portfolio company in Mediatech space as CEO. Anoop has donned multiple hats. As an operator, he has served on the Board of the largest News Media House in South India and successfully launched and scaled the Mediatech startup.

Taking his interest in early-stage investments forward, he founded the IIM Indore Alumni Angel fund and served on its Fund-1 as an investment committee member. He has advised and mentored a few startups in Consumertech, Media & Fintech spaces, as well as a Social Entrepreneurship Incubator run by Telangana State.

Anoop holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Engineering from University of Madras and MBA (PGDM) from Indian Institute of Management – Indore.

Kailash is a part of the investment team at Chiratae Ventures where he focuses on seed stage investment opportunities in early stage tech companies. He supports the team in identifying promising tech ventures, conducting due-diligence and documentation, and post-investment portfolio management and tracking the performance of investee companies.
 
Prior to joining Chiratae, Kailash was a part of the investment teams at Bharat Innovation Fund, an early stage deeptech focused venture capital fund and Unitus Ventures, an seed stage investor in companies building technology solutions for the masses. He comes with a healthcare management background having started his career and served as the Vice President at the Corporate office of Narayana Health, one of the leading hospital chains in the country.
 
In 2021, Kailash was recognised as one among the Top Under 40 in the alternative investments space in India by AAAIF and AIWMI.
 
Kailash has completed his MBA (PGDM) from IIM-Bangalore, holds a bachelors in Electronics and Communication Engineering from NITK Surathkal and is a CFA Charterholder. Over the years, he has been an active member of Society for Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture Among Youth (SPICMACAY). Apart from early stage investments, Carnatic music and Tamarind rice (Puliyogare) with South Indian filter coffee hold special place in his heart.

Avni is a member of the investment team at Chiratae Ventures, where she focuses across all stages of the investment cycle – from building investment thesis, sourcing, business diligence, deal management, value creation and portfolio management. She also supports fund raising and special office initiatives. Her key focus sectors are Fin-Tech and Consumer Tech.

Prior to Chiratae, Avni was an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company, where she focused on the BFSI space and served multiple clients across banking, wealth management and insurance. She has led multiple engagements with both Indian and MNC clients across a wide range of topics including due diligence, business strategy, new product launches and operations. She also served multiple clients in the consumer and tech space, helping them think through their digital transformation journey. Prior to McKinsey & Company, Avni worked at Goldman Sachs in their markets and program trading division.

Avni has done her MBA (PGP) from IIM Ahmedabad and graduated top of her batch in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Netaji Subhas University of Technology, Delhi. She has a keen interest in dance, having been part of multiple dance clubs/societies across her education. She also enjoys cooking, traveling and is a fitness enthusiast.

Triyansha is a member of the investment team at Chiratae Ventures India where she focuses on evaluating early stage investments in Fin-Tech, Health-Tech, Enterprise SaaS and Consumer Media and Technology. Apart from evaluating new investments through concentrated efforts on thesis building, business diligence and sourcing, she also focuses on actively working with portfolio companies as they build and grow their businesses.

Earlier, as part of the Investment Banking Team at Deutsche Bank, she was engaged in M&A and equity/debt capital raise transactions and pitches across the Metals & Mining and Oil & Gas sectors in the EMEA region. Prior to this, she interned with the investment banking team at Deutsche Bank focusing on the REITs landscape in ANZ region and Lead Advisory team at EY focusing on the industrial manufacturing sector in the country. Apart from this, she has also interned with numerous startups like Embibe, Bizongo and ventured into co-founding her own robotics endeavor while still in college. She is a CFA Level II Candidate. She is also enthusiastic about Public Policy landscape in the country and has been active in bootcamps and conferences with Vision India Foundation, Delhi.

Triyansha graduated from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 2017 where she was Head of the Literary Club of the institute, an active member of the dance club while also leading numerous general championship events in the college for debate, dance and case studies. She graduated with Institute Honor, given by the Director for outstanding contribution to extracurricular activities. She currently also writes for numerous publications on Medium and was voted among the top 5 favorite columns by a leading magazine last year. She is a trained classical dancer and also a State Level basketball player and occasionally frequents the court as well as the stage even now.

Anubhav is a part of the investment team at Chiratae Ventures, where he focuses on evaluating investments in early stage tech companies. He also supports in helping portfolio companies, building investment thesis and tracking the Indian macro and private markets.

Anubhav started his career as a Management consultant working with a boutique consulting firm in their South-East Asia office in the Philippines. He worked on CEO – agenda issues across industries including logistics, infrastructure, telecommunications and IT. While in college, he co-founded a social startup on the lines of a mechanical Turk to supplement the income of gig economy workers. His team finished in the top 6 at the Boston Regional Finals of HULT Prize where they represented India after winning the national pitch event at IIM Ahmedabad.

Anubhav is a silver medalist from IIT Kharagpur from where he graduated with a Dual Degree (B. Tech & M. Tech) in Industrial Engineering and Management. He participated in various inter-collegiate case study competitions and was an active member of  the institute’s automotive racing team and Branding & Public Relations Cell for which he was awarded the G.S Sanyal trophy for being the best outgoing all-rounder with distinction in technology.

Tarang is a part of the investment team at Chiratae Ventures India where he focuses on evaluating early stage investments in Health-Tech, Enterprise SaaS and Consumer Media and Technology. Apart from identifying opportunities across sectors, he also supports in helping the portfolio companies grow and building investment thesis around sectors.

Earlier, as a part of the expansion team at Curefit, he was responsible for the expansion of Cult in Ahmedabad, Mumbai and Delhi. Prior to that, he had a short stint with the team launching Amazon Business in India with pilots for the FMCG division in Karnataka. Tarang has also spent time with several early stage startups and advised founding team members across Ed-Tech, Consumer and Consumer-Tech on PMF and growth strategy.

Tarang graduated from BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore with a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering, where he played a vital role to enhance the entrepreneurial ecosystem within the college. He also enjoys playing tennis and often picks up the brush due to his interest in art.

Saketh works for the investment team at Chiratae Ventures where he focuses on investing in early stage startups across Consumer media & technology, Fin-Tech, Health-tech, Enterprise SaaS and Deep-tech. Through focused efforts of sourcing, evaluation, thesis building, and diligence, he focuses on closing investments at the early stage. Apart from activities surrounding investing, Saketh is actively involved in portfolio management as a board observer in multiple startups in the Chiratae portfolio.

Saketh started his career as a Product Manager at IMI Mobile (LON: IMO) where he helped build IMIconnect, an enterprise grade omni-channel communications platform. The role involved building aspects of the core infrastructure and leading social channel integrations in the product. Post this, he had his first stint with a venture capital fund at Guild Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm, founded in Chicago and investing in India since mid-2018. At Guild’s Mumbai office, he worked across pre-seed/ seed stage investing and was instrumental in setting up the thesis and leading deals specifically in the Enterprise SaaS segment.

Saketh graduated with a B.E (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering and M.Sc (Hons) in Chemistry from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (BITS, Pilani) in 2016 where he also was the President of the Mime Club, a hugely popular performing arts club on campus. He’s a passionate cricketer, was part of the cricket team and played in the Goa Cricket Association’s A Division league while in college. He interned with the National Entrepreneurship Network and had a summer internship at the London School of Economics during his penultimate year at undergrad. Given a chance he pursues the outdoors, is a sports buff, a BCCI certified cricket umpire, can surf & sail, and is now training to be a Whitewater kayak rescue operator.

Swami is Chiratae’s Chief Financial Officer, Compliance officer and E&S Manager. A professionally qualified Chartered accountant and a Company Secretary with over 12+ years of industry experiences, he has management responsibility over the firm’s finance, treasury, investor relations and compliance functions. Also oversees target company diligence, regulatory relationships and corporate development activities. Prior to this, he was with Sequoia Capital, as Vice President Finance, was involved in Strategic, IPO, secondary exits of several investee companies. Specialises in tax structuring, financial reporting, automation and project management of strategic activities of portfolio companies.

Subhrajit is a member of the investments team at Chiratae Ventures, where he focuses on early-stage investments in tech startups – by building investment theses, conducting diligences and sourcing new companies. He works actively with portfolio companies, in the capacity of a board observer, to support them as they grow.

Previously, Subhrajit worked as a Business Analyst in Flipkart where he drove business design and growth through strategic decision making. He worked across categories, leveraging technology and big data to optimize portfolio, supply chain and user experience across business initiatives. Apart from this he has interned across sectors in organizations like Dasra, Reliance Industries Limited and has also led advocacy campaigns addressing issues of urban habitation with Young Leaders for Active Citizenship.

Subhrajit graduated from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 2019 majoring in Chemical Engineering (B. Tech). He was actively involved in shaping the culture of public speaking on campus, leading the institute Debating Society to several laurels in international debate tournaments including the Gold Medal at the Inter-IIT Debate. He also enjoys music and occasionally performs at cafes around the city.

Chandraneel is a part of the investment team at Chiratae Ventures, where he focuses on evaluating investments in early stage companies. In addition to evaluating new investments, he actively engages in building investment thesis around the sectors and supports the portfolio companies as they grow

Prior to joining Chiratae, Chandraneel worked as an Investment Banking Associate at JP Morgan in the North American Healthcare group, where he was involved on various M&A and equity capital raises

Chandraneel holds a B.E (hons) Electrical and Electronics Engineering degree from BITS Pilani, where he was an elected member of the student council. He has also cleared 2 levels of the CFA program and is currently a Level 3 candidate. Outside of work, he enjoys outdoor sport namely badminton and cricket and is a fitness enthusiast

Abhishek Raj is the Sr. Finance Controller at Chiratae Ventures, he joined the firm in 2018 and is responsible for managing the fund accounting, investor reporting, taxation and compliance activities for Chiratae advised funds. He also works with portfolio companies to address specific financial reporting and tax-related matters.
Prior to joining Chiratae, he has worked in the finance team of Sequoia Capital and at the finance division of Goldman Sachs in Bengaluru.
Abhishek is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and holds a B.Com (Hons) degree from Banaras Hindu University. He has also cleared 2 Levels of CFA program and is a candidate of Level III.

Vidya is Vice President, Impact, at Chiratae Ventures India Advisors. She has 17 years of experience in fintech and 4 years in the impact sector.

Prior to Chiratae Ventures, Vidya was the first team member and Director (research and gender) at GAME, a collective impact organisation involved with developing mass entrepreneurship in India to address the job crisis. Previously, Vidya spent a few years working pro-bono at the grassroots level at a village where she initiated and led the rural development agenda in several domain areas.

Vidya has significant global B2B and B2C product and software engineering experience in fintech. She was part of a pioneering mobile payments team in India since 2007, innovating in the space. As VP, Product Management, she governed a large portfolio of mobile payment products marketed worldwide, touching millions of consumers in 40+ countries.

Her past companies include GAME, Mahindra Comviva, Nokia, Intuit, Obopay and Sungard/FIS (US). She has an MS, Computer Science from Pace University, New York and a US patent in data mining.

Gayatri is Associate Vice President – Legal at Chiratae Ventures India Advisors.

Before joining Chiratae, she worked at leading corporate law firms in India. She started her career at Krishnamurthy & Co., and subsequently worked at Luthra & Luthra Law Offices and IndusLaw in Bangalore. During such time, she advised a variety of domestic and international clients on venture capital investments, mergers and acquisitions, structuring and exits.

Gayatri is a B.A., LL.B (Hons.) graduate from the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS).

Vikram is a part of the finance team at Chiratae Ventures India Advisors, where he manages the fund accounting, investor reporting, financial activities and focuses on all the statutory compliances, MIS and financial reporting of entities and manages audits and tax related activities at Chiratae Ventures India.

Prior to Chiratae, he was part of the KPMG India, where he was responsible for performing statutory audits of various clients in different sectors like PE funds, Real estate and Service companies and in other industry sectors as well like manufacturing and trading companies. He was also involved in engagements with reporting under Ind AS, IGAAP, US GAAP and IFC environment.

Vikram is a qualified chartered accountant and holds a bachelor degree in commerce from Kuvempu University.

Aarti is a Chartered Accountant and holds a B.Com (Hons.) degree from Lady Shri Ram College for women, Delhi University. She has a work experience of over 7 years in the startup space and has worked across diverse areas like fund raising, Regulatory and Policy advocacy and M&A. She has previously worked with the Department for Promotion of Industries and Internal Trade, Ministry of Commerce and Industries under the Startup India Scheme launched by the Government of India towards improving the Regulatory environment surrounding the Startup ecosystem with considerable focus on Ease of Doing Business in India. She was instrumental in bringing about necessary reforms in the AIF regulations concerning the income tax law. Prior to this, she worked with Clix Capital (formerly GE Capital) in building the Supply Chain Finance product and its launch. She has also worked with a boutique investment bank based in Delhi towards deal advisory, fund raise and valuations. 
 
Aarti is an art enthusiast and has her work displayed at an art Gallery in Delhi. She is also an animal lover and is involved in various animal welfare activities.

Raghu leads whole gamut of administrative areas ranging from travel, accommodation, vendor management, contract administration, inventory management, security and safety of assets and overall infrastructure management. He plans, organizes, and controls the work activities of the admin team members in order to provide prompt and efficient services and ensures 24/7 smooth operations and healthy functioning of the overall facilities. He also manages the complete arrangements for the annual events, conferences, seminars and other functions of the firm organized from time to time.

Prior to joining Chiratae Ventures, Raghu has worked for CYIENT (Infotech Enterprises), Nagarjuna Fertilizers and Chemicals Ltd., SOL Pharmaceuticals Ltd., Hyderabad. With over 31 years of work experience, he comes with rich experience in Office Administration, Corporate Communications, Secretarial, Sales and Trading works.

Raghu holds a Masters Degree in Commerce, Bachelors Degree in Law and MBA (HR) from IGNOU, New Delhi.

Ratan N Tata was the Chairman of Tata Sons, the holding company of the Tata group, from 1991 till his retirement on December 28, 2012. He was also chairman of the major Tata companies, including Tata Motors, Tata Steel, Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Power, Tata Global Beverages, Tata Chemicals, Indian Hotels and Tata Teleservices. During his tenure, the group’s revenues grew manifold, totalling over $100 billion in 2011-12.

Mr Tata is also associated with various organisations in India and overseas. He is the chairman of two of the largest private-sector-promoted philanthropic trusts in India. He is a member of the Indian Prime Minister’s Council on Trade and Industry. He is the president of the Court of the Indian Institute of Science and chairman of the Council of Management of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. He also serves on the board of trustees of Cornell University and the University of Southern California. Mr Tata serves on the board of directors of Alcoa, and is also on the international advisory boards of Mitsubishi Corporation, JP Morgan Chase, Rolls-Royce, Temasek Holdings and the Monetary Authority of Singapore.

Mr Tata received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell in 1962. He worked briefly with Jones and Emmons in Los Angeles before returning to India in late 1962. He completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School in 1975.

The Government of India honoured Mr Tata with its second-highest civilian award, the Padma Vibhushan, in 2008. He has also received honorary doctorates from several universities in India and overseas.

Senapathy ‘Kris’ Gopalakrishnan served as the Vice Chairman of Infosys from 2011 to 2014, and as its Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director from 2007 to 2011. Kris is one of the co-founders of Infosys.

Recognized as a global business and technology thought leader, he was voted the top CEO (IT services category) in Institutional Investor’s inaugural ranking of Asia’s Top Executives. He was selected as one of the winners of the 2nd Asian Corporate Director Recognition Awards by Corporate Governance Asia in 2011. Kris was also selected to Thinkers 50, an elite list of global business thinkers, in 2009. He was elected President of India’s apex industry chamber, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for 2013 – 14, and served as one of the co-chairs of the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2014.

In January 2011, the Government of India awarded Kris the Padma Bhushan, the country’s third highest civilian honor.

He serves on the Board of Governors of Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. He is the Chairman of the Board of Governors of IIIT, Bangalore, and is also on the Board of Trustees of the Chennai Mathematical Institute.

Kris holds master’s degrees in physics and computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

Mr. Bruno E. Raschle is the Founder, Managing Director, and Non-Executive Vice Chairman of Schroder Adveq. He served as an Executive Chairman. He previously served as the Chief Executive Officer and founded the firm in 1997.

Mr. Raschle served as the Founder and Managing Director at the MC Partners fund of funds investment programs at Motor Columbus. His operational experience includes the management of start-up, turn-around, and expansion opportunities in various industries on different continents. From 1994 to 1997, he was the General Manager of the Fastening Division of the privately-held SFS Stadler Group, Heerbrugg, Switzerland, for three years.

Mr. Raschle has also financed over a dozen start-up companies and served on several of their Board of Directors, including Ballard Power Systems. Mr. Raschle has over 15 years of experience in venture capital investing. He has completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard University.

Mr. Raschle holds an M.S. in Construction Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) and an M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University.

Dr. Andreas is the Chair of Hettich Group Advisory Board. The Hettich Group is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of furniture fittings with annual revenue of €1.1 billion. Dr. Hettich is non-executive director of Hettich India private limited and he is also the Managing Partner of his own holding group, Dr. Hettich Beteiligungen GmbH, which has investments in other companies like EWIKON, Halemeier, the educational company “das Forscherhaus” amongst other entrepreneurial holdings.

Dr. Hettich also serves as a member of advisory councils, supervisory boards of companies Jowat, Peter Lacke, FSB and Georg Nordmann Holding.

Manish Choksi is currently Vice Chairman and member of the Board of Directors of Asian Paints Limited, he joined Asian Paints Limited in the year 1992 as an Executive and has grown in ranks by holding various positions across Sales, Information Technology, Supply Chain, Chemicals, HR and General Management in the Company.

Before being inducted as the Vice Chairman / Non – Executive Director on the Board of Directors of the Company, he held the position of President – International Business, IT, HR and Chemicals. He was a member of the Executive Council of Asian Paints group and reported to the Managing Director & CEO of the Company.  He spearheaded the Information Technology function of the Company and has been instrumental in leveraging IT solutions across the extended enterprise and achieving improved business performance. He led the International Business of the Company and has led the Company’s efforts in expansion of its emerging markets portfolio. He has been a catalyst for the company’s foray into home improvement. Manish has significantly contributed in achieving the Company’s growth plans and more particularly in the critical areas of implementation of Supply Chain management solutions. He has also played an active role in restructuring the Joint Venture companies of the Company with PPG Industries Inc., USA.

He is an active angel investor with particular interest in investing in companies that champion cross leverage of physical and ecommerce models with a focus on consumers and data / analytics.

A leader in the IT community and the former Chairman of INDUS, a 1100+ company network of SAP users.  He has been on the advisory boards of IBMs Collaboration business, the Asia Pacific Executive Advisory Board of SAP APAC, member of the Global Chemical Executive Advisory Board of SAP SE and a member of SUGEN, a global executive network of the all SAP user groups worldwide.

Dr. Ferzaan comes with over 30 years of experience in the healthcare industry, currently serving as the Co-founder and Chairman of Cytecare Hospitals. He is also the Co-founder and Joint Chairman of Medwell Ventures, which offers home healthcare services under the Nightingales brand.

Dr. Ferzaan serves on the Board of Directors of Sun Pharma Advanced Research Company Ltd (SPARC) and Cytespace Research Pvt Ltd. He is an Observer on the Board of AUM Biosciences, Singapore. Prior to that, Dr. Ferzaan helped launch the international CRO industry in India and served as Chairman and CEO of Quintiles India from 1997 to 2010. Also, he served on the Asia Pacific board of Quintiles Transnational for over 5 years (2005-2010).

He has been a member of professional bodies such as AAPS and AACP. He received the AACP New Investigator’s Award in 1990 and received research grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA. He has published papers in leading international journals and lectured at several conferences and at management schools such as IIMA and the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge. He has served on the Advisory Board of the Indian Society for Clinical Research (ISCR) and has been a member of the CII National Committee on Drugs and Pharmaceuticals and the FICCI Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology Committee.

A graduate of the LM College of Pharmacy in Ahmedabad, Dr. Ferzaan completed his PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of South Carolina, USA. He attended executive management programs at INSEAD (France), IIMA (India) and the Kenan-Flagler Business School (USA). He enjoys travel, jazz and art.