Yamini Bhat
Co-Founder & CEO, Vymo
Yamini co-founded Vymo in 2013 to enhance sales efficiency and productivity, and has since led the company in signing up several large clients, including HDFC Bank, expanding in Asia, and raising series-A funding from Sequoia Capital.Yamini co-founded Vymo in 2013 to enhance sales efficiency and productivity, and has since led the company in signing up several large clients, including HDFC Bank, expanding in Asia, and raising series-A funding from Sequoia Capital.
She was, previously, Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company, where she specialised in Marketing strategy and Sales & Distribution across B2B (Banking, Credit, Insurance), B2C (Retail, Telecom) and B2B2C (fragmented distribution – Agri-inputs, Food and packaged goods).
Yamini holds a Bachelors in Computer Science & Engineering from BITS Pilani and graduated with ‘Director’s Merit List’ honours from IIM Bangalore.
Ravish Naresh
Co-Founder & CEO, KhataBook
Ravish Naresh is the Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of KhataBook. Earlier Ravish Co-Founded Housing.com, an Indian online real estate listing portal to find, rent, and sell homes in India.
Ravish Naresh is the Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of KhataBook. Earlier Ravish Co-Founded Housing.com, an Indian online real estate listing portal to find, rent, and sell homes in India.
He graduated from IIT-Bombay, India in 2012.
Anand Jain
Co-Founder & CSO, CleverTap
Anand Jain is co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of CleverTap, and is responsible for defining the medium and long-term growth roadmap for the business. With more than two decades of experience architecting and building software, Anand’s skills as a management professional leading engineering, design and IT teams places him in a strong position to help drive CleverTap’s growth in the region.
Anand Jain is co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of CleverTap, and is responsible for defining the medium and long-term growth roadmap for the business. With more than two decades of experience architecting and building software, Anand’s skills as a management professional leading engineering, design and IT teams places him in a strong position to help drive CleverTap’s growth in the region.
Prior to CleverTap, Anand was the founding CTO of burrp.com, India’s largest local reviews and recommendations platform out of Mumbai, which was acquired in 2009 by the publicly traded yellow pages company, Infomedia 18 Ltd (now merged with Network 18). Anand has also held positions at Motorola, AT&T and Brience, and was previously based out of the US in both Seattle and San Francisco.
Priya Rajan
Managing Director, Silicon Valley Bank
Priya is the Managing Director at Silicon Valley Bank. As the Market Lead for India, MENA and SEA, she provides international market entry advice and introductions with a focus on technology and innovation cross-border companies, entrepreneurs and venture capital funds in emerging markets.
Priya is the Managing Director at Silicon Valley Bank. As the Market Lead for India, MENA and SEA, she provides international market entry advice and introductions with a focus on technology and innovation cross-border companies, entrepreneurs and venture capital funds in emerging markets. Prior to this role she was Director of Early Stage practice. Priya calls on her experience, expertise and connections to champion a more inclusive innovation economy. She works closely with community and diversity ecosystem partners, including Change Catalyst, Kapor Capital, Big Brothers Big Sisters Organization, Women Who Code, and more. Other university partners Priya has partnered with include Dorm Room Fund, The House Fund, Stanford Venture Studio and Rough Draft Ventures.
Previously, Priya spent several years as the group controller for SVB Financial Group, where she managed financial and accounting functions for all global entities. As the global group financial officer, she served as a core member of the company’s Finance team. Earlier in her career, she held financial management positions at Charles Schwab and Enterprise Rent-A-Car. In addition to a bachelor’s degree from the University of Madras and a master’s degree in international business from Queen’s University, Priya holds an MBA in business administration from Cornell University and a California CPA in accounting and business administration.
Through her work at SVB, Priya supports entrepreneurs who strive to make the world a better place, and she echoes that commitment in her free time as well. She’s on the board of Big Brothers Big Sisters and of Women Who Code, an organization dedicated to helping women to excel in technology careers. In addition, Priya is a charter member of TiE, a nonprofit focused on nurturing the next generation of entrepreneurs, as well as a venture partner at Xfund, which connects venture capital firms with superior research universities and advisor at Entrepreneurship at Cornell University.
Taking bold steps with confidence is Priya’s forte, both on the job and off — in her free time, she loves to skydive. She also enjoys world travel (ask her about Kenya, her favorite spot so far). Aside from hopping on and off planes, Priya also enjoys classical music; she studied the genre for more than a decade — and has passed down her passion to her children.