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TiE Mumbai and NTT-Netmagic brings together a series of digital 'Tech-Talks among Founders'.
The first of such series is planned for Thursday 19th November from 5.30PM to 6:30PM where we are bringing to you an illustrious group of founders from different sectors to speak about their business models and technology that is helping them scale up rapidly.
Look forward to an interesting mix of founders discuss and exchange cross sectoral notes, debate and articulate the future.
Watch out for more updates on the other speakers.
*Limited Participants allowed per founders session. Hence register and confirm early.
Speaker:
Sanjay Mehta
Founder & Partner – 100X.VC
Sanjay Mehta is a 49-year-old technology evangelist and an entrepreneur turned VC. He is known as the 100X investor with the Midas touch. Sanjay achieved notoriety in the media for his first cheque investments in Oyo Rooms & Block.One - 2 Unicorns in his portfolio. He has been a TiE Board Member for over three years before founding 100X.VC, a 2019 SEBI registered fund sponsored by Mehta Ventures Family Office. 100X goal is to invest first cheques in 100 seed stage India domiciled startups every year. Through 100X.VC He is bringing the revolutionary iSAFE note (India Simple Agreement for Future Equity) to India which simplifies seed stage fundraising. In the past, as a private investor, he had invested in over 130+ global startups. He has an outstanding portfolio performance with 103% IRR on all funded startups to date vs the industry average of 30%. His most recent exit was LogiNext, where Sanjay created deal syndicate which generated multiples of 16X returns for all the angel investors included in his deal. Besides investing, Sanjay is also a partner at CORE Media which is India's largest IT-Media company. Sanjay was also a part of the reality show PitchRight Season 1 and Season 2 in which founders pitched him their ideas for 45 seconds in Bombay Stock Exchange elevator. These 26 episodes got over a million views. Currently, he is part of the first 20 episodes of the Winning Pitch Series on Leaders of Tomorrow by ET Now TV Channel. For any founder, Sanjay is first a friend, second an advisor, and finally an investor. Sanjay is now looking to make startup world 100x better, bigger and brighter. Sanjay is an engineer and has studied International Business from ISB and Venture Capital from Wharton. He has been honoured by being awarded Angel Investor of the year by LetsVenture, has made the Forbes List of Investors, and named as a Super Angel and one of the Top Twitter Voices by Entrepreneur magazine. Last but not the least, Sanjay is the loving husband of Shilpa Mehta and proud father of Smeet Mehta.
Karan Kirpalani
Vice President - Products & Services, Netmagic
Karan is the Vice President - Product Management at Netmagic, an NTT Communications Company. Joining Netmagic when the company was in its nascent stage, Karan has played two pivotal roles for nearly two decades, and has been part of the core team of the organization and has worn many hats – from business development to product management and product marketing. Prior to Netmagic, Karan was associated with ICICI Bank as part of the online content and web application team. Karan is a graduate in Economics from Mumbai University. He is a guest lecturer at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, enlightening engineering students on cloud and other IT infrastructure technologies.
Karan’s dedication to what he does and business insight makes him a visionary and thought leader in the field. He is an avid reader, and has written articles, whitepapers and blogs on various technologies.
Adhil Shetty
Co-Founder & CEO, Bankbazaar
Adhil is the Co-founder and CEO, BankBazaar: an online financial marketplace focused on helping consumers access the right financial products. Adhil’s vision is to democratize finance and increase financial inclusion in India >span class="">Under Adhil’s leadership, BankBazaar has grown to become India’s leading online financial marketplace with 50+ integrated financial institutions and 100 Mn visitors per quarter. A Fintech thought leader, Adhil is one of the most widely read expert and influencer on personal finance in India. He is the co-Chair of the FICCI Fintech Committee, and has been part of the LinkedIn Power Profiles List for two years in running now. Adhil has also been named as one of India's best professionals and entrepreneurs under the age of 40 by the Economic Times and Fortune India.
Sharad Sanghi
CEO, Global Data Centers and Cloud Infrastructure (India)
NTT Ltd
Sharad Sanghi is the CEO, Global Data Centers and Cloud Infrastructure (India), NTT Ltd. Sharad Sanghi exemplifies what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur, to generate returns for all stakeholders, and be deeply connected in everything one does. His passion and commitment to deliver value to clients is evident in the way he built a customer-focused service organization called Netmagic in July 1998, which now has the backing of NTT, a Fortune 500 company.
Sharad is responsible for growing company to be India’s leading Managed Hosting and Cloud Service Provider, with over 1200 employees, and 9 high-density and hyperscale data centers delivering services to over 2000 enterprise customers.
Sharad is considered a pioneer in the Indian cloud computing space, and his vision has helped company become a leader in the Public Cloud services market in India.
On the business side, Sharad led the company through 3 successful VC funding rounds with Nexus Venture Partners, Fidelity, Cisco Systems and Nokia Growth Partners. He led the 2012 acquisition the company’s majority stake by NTT Communication Japan - a first in the Indian data centre market.
Sharad is an industry veteran with over 20 years of extensive experience in developing Internet backbone infrastructure and providing Internet services. He is also Part time Non-official Director on the Board of Bharat Electronics Limited, appointed by the Government of India.
During a six-year stint in the US, Sharad worked for Unified Network Management Architecture Group at AT&T Bell Labs, the Backbone Engineering Group of NSFNET (ANS) and the Router Systems Development Group of Advantis (IBM Global Network). He has also helped Merrill Lynch and Bankers Trust design and deploy Wide Area Networks.
Sharad is an Electrical Engineer from IIT Bombay and holder of a Master’s degree from Columbia University, New York.
Mahesh Chalil
CTO, BookMyShow
A Senior Engg Leader with 20+yrs of experience (18years in USA), currently working as Head of Technology/CTO with BookMyShow. Experience heading development centers, defining enterprise applications architecture, leading technology governance, consultative/technical solution crafting and proposals and solution contracts negotiations. Passionate about motivating teams to bring innovation and build scalable products that delight our customers. Have consistent track record of delivering business results and successful products that involve multiple cross-functional teams.
Before joining BookMyShow, was working as head of Engineering with Near.co and head of SW Engineering with Nissan Digital, to drive Digital Transformation effort.
Prior to that, at Hotstar, as VP of Engineering, heading the Bangalore Dev Center, led engineering teams responsible for User Management, Subscriptions, Payment Platform, DevOps/Infrastructure and Quality Engineering. Responsible for defining and promoting strong cultural values and build a world class engineering organization.
Prior to Hotstar, worked as Sr Engineering Manager with Apple, USA to lead the digital transformation of legacy manufacturing data analysis platforms to strategic big data analysis platform to handle petabytes of manufacturing test data. Prior to this effort, also worked as a Senior Architect Manager on Apple HR Employee System Transformation effort for around 1.5Yrs to lay the core foundation for digital transformation. As part of these efforts built and led different offshore development centers in India as well.
Before joining Apple in 2013, worked as a VP - Senior Eng Manager and Strategist for Bank of America to transform legacy EAI based payment transfer platform to SOA based platform to support $3T transfer per year. Also led the innovation to implement solutions to streamline development effort across Consumer Banking Technology development teams. I also had to manage my offshore teams in Bank of America, Hyderabad as well.
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