MENTOR NETWORK

We’re honored to be supported by a thriving network of mentors across different backgrounds. Corporate executives, serial entrepreneurs, medical professionals, VCs, & strategic angels– each with their unique perspectives, expertise, & personalities. Meet some of them below:

Mayur Sirdesai

Mayur is a seasoned healthcare operator & founder of Somerset Indus Capital Partners- a $100 million India healthcare-focused PE fund with a strong track record of exits across digital health, pharma, life-sciences, Medtech, & wellness.

With over 25 years of experience in healthcare & FMCG, Mayur has mentored several founders and is on the evaluation committees of Govt. of India’s Medtech Incubator program & SINE (IITB’s Incubator).

He is an alumnus of IIT-Bombay (Chemical Engineering), Penn State (Chemical Engineering), & UT-Austin (MBA).

MAYUR SIRDESAI

FOUNDER, SOMERSET INDUS

Ashish Mohapatra

Asish Mohapatra is Co-Founder & CEO at OfBusiness (raised $193 million by Norwest Venture Partners, Falcon Edge, Alpha Wave Incubation, & Matrix Partners) since 2015.

Previously, he was Director of Healthcare Investments at Matrix Partners India & Engagement Manager at Mckinsey India.

Asish earned his MBA from ISB Hyderabad and a Mechanical Engineering degree from IIT-Kharagpur.

ASHISH MOHAPATRA

CEO, OFBUSINESS

Vamesh Chovatia

Vamesh brings over 2 decades of investing & banking experience across sectors like retail, pharma, & life sciences. He’s a Partner at Tata Capital Healthcare Fund (Tata’s India-focused healthcare & life sciences private equity fund.

Previously, he served as Managing Director- India at New Enterprise Associates (global venture capital firm with $20+ billion under management), Director- Private Equity at Kotak Investment Advisors, & Sr. VP at ICICI Securities.

Vamesh is an alumnus of Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (MBA).

VAMESH CHOVATIA

PARTNER, TATA HEALTHCARE FUND

Aakash Kumar

Aakash is the Founder & CEO at Shiftsmart (raised $22.5 million from Softbank, Mark Cuban, & Perot Jain), a Dallas-based labor-management startup.

Previously, he was Cloud Business Operations & Strategy Lead at Google SF & Consultant at Booz & Co, NYC.

Aakash is an alumnus of UT-Austin (Business Administration).

AAKASH KUMAR

CEO, SHIFTSMART

ANIL DUA

Anil is the Group CEO of Dish TV, India’s largest DTH provider. He has over 3 decades of vast experience in senior management positions & building renowned brands in India & overseas. Previously, he served as Managing Director of OTE Group-Middle East, SVP of Hero MotoCorp, & Director of Strategy at Gillette. Anil is a distinguished alumnus of IIM-Ahmedabad (MBA) & the prestigious IIT-Delhi (Bsc. Mechanical Engineering).

ANIL DUA

GROUP CEO, DISH TV

Aditi Shrivastava

Aditi is the co-founder of Pocket Aces (raised $20 million from Sequoia India, DSP Group, & 3one4 Capital), a new-age entertainment company for the 400+ million Indians online. She currently serves on the advisory boards of Jibu (affordable clean drinking water enterprise in Africa) & Impact Business Leaders.

Previously, she set up Intellecap Impact Investment Network (leading angel network investing across India & Africa) & did Quant Research at Goldman Sachs, New York.

Aditi is an alumnus of Princeton University (Electrical Engineering & Computer Science), CFA holder, curator of the World Economic Forum GS Mumbai Hub, & TiE Mumbai Charter member.

ADITI SHRIVASTAVA

FOUNDER, POCKET ACES

Raj Airey

Raj brings an extensive track record of over 30 years of investing & building healthcare companies across Europe & India. He’s a Partner at Convergence Partners- a Swiss health & deep tech-focused venture capital firm. He serves as an advisor & director to startups, incubators, angel networks in Europe, India, & China.

Previously, he was Investor & Chief Strategy Officer at SOM Biotech (Spain), Founding Partner of Wizzcare Home Health Solutions, & CEO of Baxter- Indian subcontinent (NYSE: BAX), & Country President- Central & Eastern Europe of Pfizer.

Raj is an alumnus of the University of London (BSc) & Harvard Business School (Executive Education).

RAJ AIREY

PARTNER, CONVERGENCE PARTNERS

Sharda Balaji

Sharda is the founder of NovoJuris Legal (a new-age corporate, tech, & IP-focused legal advisory firm- listed consistently amongst India’s top 5 in private equity & venture capital).

Previously, she served as Director on the board of Faiveley Transport (NYSE Euronext Paris), advisor to Indo-Israel Chamber of Commerce, Governing Council member at TIE Bangalore, & Corporate Counsel and Company Secretary at Intel & Puravankara Ltd.

An alumnus of Bangalore University (LLB), Sharda is an active angel investor & advisor in over a dozen companies.

SHARDA BALAJI

FOUNDER, NOVOJURIS LEGAL

Vishal Bansal

Vishal is a doctor-turned digital health professional supporting innovation on the frontline through investing, mentoring, & providing access to healthcare startups since 2012.

Previously, he was CEO at HealthStart, advisor at EY,
founding member at GSF Accelerator, & founder at VR Med Informatics. He has also consulted in public healthcare for Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and several Indian state governments.

He is an alumnus of Vanderbilt University in the US (MBA-Healthcare).

VISHAL BANSAL

FOUNDING MEMBER, GSF ACCELERATOR

Dheeraj Batra

Dheeraj is a Principal Partner of EY Innovation, EIR at SAP, & serial entrepreneur having launched multiple organizations including Arogya Finance (disruptive healthcare venture making medical loans easy), The Propel Labs (exited to EY), & DLabs at Indian School of Business (design-led incubator promoting entrepreneurship within ISB community).

Previously, he also built ideas from the ground up at IDEO & Innosight Ventures (VC firm founded by legendary HBS professor Clayton Christensen).

Dheeraj is an alumnus of Wharton Business School (MBA) & University of Maryland (Finance & Computer Science).

DHEERAJ BATRA

PRINCIPAL PARTNER, EY INNOVATION

K.Chandrasekhar (KC)

KC is the Founder & CEO of Forus Health (raised $18 million Accel, IDG Ventures, Asian Health Fund, & Team Fund)- a preventive healthcare startup working to eradicate avoidable blindness.

Previously, he was Director of Strategy & Software Partnerships- Asia at NXP Semiconductors (Philips) & General Manager at Mistral Software.

He is an alumnus of BITS Pilani (Msc. Tech) & IIM Calcutta (MBA).

K.CHANDRASEKHAR (KC)

FOUNDER, FORUS HEALTH

Venu Nair

Venu has over 25 years of leadership experience in setting up & scaling B2B tech businesses. He is Chief Operation Officer at RMSI (global leader in geospatial & engineering solutions) & an advisor to start-ups on growth, organization design, & clear business vision.

Previously, he was at Safe Security (Chief Strategy Officer), Tata Advanced Systems (CEO), CPA Global (VP of Operations), Sapient (VP), Motorola, & Andersen Consulting.

He is an alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad (MBA) & VJTI, University of Bombay (Electrical Engineering).

VENU NAIR

COO, RMSI

Chandan Chatterjee

Chandan is Nokia’s SVP for the Global Services Business having held multiple senior positions there in the past 25 years across: sales, marketing, business planning, & strategy. Chandan is an active mentor to early-stage startups. He is also a British Chevening Scholar & holds a Master’s degree in International Business. @Aaerm India pls add this too

CHANDAN CHATTERJEE

GLOBAL SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, NOKIA

Salman Bokhari

Salman has more than 3 decades of seasoned international management experience across pharma & life sciences corporations (Lundbeck, UCB, Perrigo, & Novartis) in Asia. As Founder of Sidrapex (leading advisory firm in Singapore & Switzerland), he supports life sciences companies with building, reshaping, growing & managing profitable sustainable businesses.

He serves as a Senior Advisor to WhiteWaterTx & was previously on the boards of Luqa Pharma in Hong Kong (raised $30 million; now acquired) & Asia Transformation & Turnaround Association (ATTA) in Singapore.

He is an alumnus of the University of East Anglia (Economics), University of Bradford (MBA), & Columbia University, New York.

SALMAN BOKHARI

FOUNDER, SIDRAPEX

Rajib Ghosh

Rajib is the Experience Leader for OneDrive & SharePoint at Microsoft India.

Previously, he was Managing Director at The Propel Labs, Head of Design at DLabs Incubator, Director of Design at reQall, & Founder at Studio Aum (user experience design firm). He’s passionate about helping startups leverage design thinking to solve tough problems & improve quality of life.

Rajib is an alumnus of the prestigious National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad.

RAJIB GHOSH

EXPERIENCE LEADER, MICROSOFT INDIA

Sanjiv Bhatia

Sanjiv Bhatia is the founder of SUSTENT (a group that advises more than 700 organizations to become more resource-efficient) & has two decades of general management, marketing, & sales experience across Asian markets.

Previously, he founded Uneqly (curated online marketplace) & served as General Manager- Asia at Coats (world’s leading industrial thread company). He’s also a Chevening Scholar, an active angel investor (HBS Angels India), & a mentor to early-stage startups.

Sanjiv is an alumnus of Bangalore University (Mechanical Engineering), XLRI (MBA), & Harvard Business School.

SANJIV BHATIA

FOUNDER, SUSTENT GROUP

Gurrit Kaur Sethi

Gurrit is a transformational leader in operations & an innovative thinker with over 2 decades of experience in healthcare & telecom. She is Chief Operating Officer at CARE Hospitals (multi-specialty healthcare provider with 14 hospitals across India) & serves as an Advisory Board member to several healthcare startups, foundations, & publications in India & Switzerland.

Previously, she was Director of Healthcare at Eli Global, Business Head at Alere Medical (now Abbott Rapid Diagnostics), & Business Head at Fortis Healthcare (leading Asian chain of private hospitals).

She is an alumnus of GNDU Jalandhar & IIM-Lucknow.

GURRIT SETHI

COO, CARE HOSPITALS

Jameson Evan

Matt is founder of Preview (a London-based platform for serious art collectors, curators, & dealers to share, educate, & buy great art).

Previously, he was Co-founder & Chief Medical Officer at HealthUnlocked (world’s largest social network for health that serves over 4 million monthly patients), an orthopedic surgeon with NHS, & founder at RemedyUK (high-profile political pressure group of 15,000 UK doctors).

He is an alumnus of the University of Oxford (B.A.) & King’s College, London (MBBS).

MATT JAMESON EVANS

FOUNDER, PREVIEW

Dr. Sahil Gupta

Dr. Sahil is a serial entrepreneur with deep industry knowledge on reproductive medicine, both as an operator & consultant to multiple successful ventures. He is the founder of Thread Robotics (Silicon Valley-based medtech startup focusing on fertility care).

Previously, he founded Aveya Fertility (disruptive network of affordable IVF centers in India) helping thousands of women get high quality affordable access to infertility treatments.

Sahil pursued his medical training at Safdarjung Hospital & is a Harvard Business School alumni.

DR. SAHIL GUPTA

FOUNDER, THREAD ROBOTICS

Amit Sharma

Amit Sharma is currently General Manager of Data & AI at Medtronic- a global medical device company. Previously, he was GM & Head of BD at HOSMAC India- one of the Middle East’s largest healthcare consulting firms, Senior Investment Associate at Impact Investment Partners, a pharma logistics entrepreneur, & an Analyst at global PE firm- Warburg Pincus.

Amit completed his BA in Economics from the University of Chicago and MSc from Carnegie Mellon University.

AMIT SHARMA

GM, MEDTRONIC

Naagaraj Subramanya

Naagaraj Subramanya is the founder & MD of NSOFT since 1996- a leading provider of automation & smart metering solutions for distribution utilities that handles more than 12 million consumers & Rs 10,000 crores of annual billing.

He holds an M.Tech in Aircraft Production Engineering from IIT-Madras & a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering, Mysuru.

NAAGARAJ SUBRAMANYA

FOUNDER, NSOFT

Dr Pallav Gupta

Dr. Pallav is a pediatric surgeon with more than 2 decades of experience as a clinician & administrator in India. He is a mentor & consultant to healthcare startups focused on analytics, digital (telemedicine, IoT, remote monitoring), & homecare, etc.

Previously, he served as Chief of Medical Services & Vice President- Operations at CallHealth, headed business units for Apollo Hospitals, & VP of Medical Operations at Max Healthcare.

He’s a visiting faculty to a major B-school, on the advisory board of a major hospital in Western India, & an alumnus of XLRI Jamshedpur (MBA).

DR PALLAV GUPTA

CHIEF- MED. SERVICES & VP, CALLHEALTH

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