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Investment & TechnologyPromotion Division

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SPEAKER GUIDE

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Adam Wolfensohn Co-Managing Partner Encourage Capital

Ajay Kumar Kapur Deputy Managing Director SIDBI

Anuja Master Bose Philanthropy strategy advisor Aspire Circle

Arun Maira Chancellor Central University of Himachal Pradesh

Brooks Preston Head of Investment funds OPIC

Claudia Schmerler Head of Division KFW

Debasish Mitter Country Director Michael & Susan Dell Foundation

Geeta Goel Director, Mission Investing Michael & Susan Dell Foundation

Graham Macmillan Senior Program Officer Ford Foundation

Jaap Reinking Director for Private Equity FMO

Jasjit Mangat Partner LGT Impact Ventures

Jayant Sinha Hon’ble Minister of State- Civil Aviation GOI

John L.S. Simpkins General Counsel USAID

Kiran Karnik Director in Central board of Directors Reserve Bank of India

Marilou van Golstein Brouwers Chair of the Management Board Triodos Investment Management

Matsumoto Katsuo Senior Advisor to Director General JICA

Meenakshi Nath Deputy Head DFID

Dr K Nagaraj Naidu Director & HoD, ITP & ES, MEA, GOI MEA

P N Vasudevan Managing Director Equitas

Paula Goldman Vice President, Global Lead for Impact Investing

Omidyar Network

Phillipe Serres Regional Manager – South Asia Proparco

Dr. Rajiv Lall Founder MD & CEO IDFC Bank

Rakesh Jhunjhunwala Founder & Manager Rare Enterprises

Robert Dunn Chairman & Chief Executive Officer Dia Vikas Capital Pvt. Ltd.

Rohini Nilekani Chairperson Arghyam

Roopa Kudva Partner & MD Omidyar Network

S.V Prasad Managing Director Caspian

Samit Ghosh Founder & CEO Ujjivan

Sandeep Farias Founder & MD Elevar

Shanu SP Hinduja Vice-Chairperson Hinduja Bank Ltd (Switzerland)

Susanne Dorasil Head- Economic Cooperation and Development Division

German Embassy

Swaminathan AIyar Editor Economic Times

Urmi Sengupta Program Officer, Impact Investing MacArthur Foundation

Vikram Gandhi Founder Asha Impact

Vineet Rai Managing Partner & CEO Aavishkaar Venture Management Services Pvt Ltd

Vishal Mehta Co-Founder Lok Advisory

Vivek Pandit Senior Partner Mckinsey & Company, Inc.

Key Note Speakers

K E Y N O T E S P E A K E R S

Profiles

Adam Wolfenson Co-Managing Partner, Encourage Capital

Adam Wolfensohn is Co-Managing Partner of Encourage Capital, an asset management company formed by the recent merger of Wolfensohn Fund Management and EKO Asset Management. A unique partnership of disciplined investors and creative problem-solvers, the new firm is already working with major asset owners to deploy investment capital to solve problems like global ecosystem decline, climate change, and bringing financial services to the world’s poor. Previously, Adam was Managing Director at Wolfensohn Fund Management and also managed the Wolfensohn family office cleantech and environmental markets strategies.

From 2003 to 2006, he produced the climate change documentary, “Everything’s Cool,” that debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2007. From 2002 to 2003, he worked with Conservation International to create a market for carbon credits from avoided deforestation projects.

Prior to 2002, Adam composed music for numerous films, television commercials and theatre productions as founder and CEO of “Red Ramona,” an award winning music and sound design studio in New York City. He is a Trustee of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Yad Hanadiv, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors and Bang on a Can. He is a member of the investment committee of Rockefeller Brothers Fund and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Adam earned a B.A. from Princeton University and an M.E.M. from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

Ajay Kumar Kapur Deputy Managing Director, SIDBI

Mr. Ajay Kumar Kapur has been Deputy Managing Director at Small Industries Development Bank of India since January 2016. Mr. Kapur served as Head of Strategic Planning, Budgeting & BPR Vertical at Small Industries Development Bank of India. Mr. Kapur served as the Chief General Manager at Small Industries Development Bank of India. Previously, he was the Chief Executive Officer at SIDBI Venture Capital Limited.

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Anuja Master Bose Philanthropy strategy advisor, Aspire Circle

Anuja Master Bose has led and held senior roles at large philanthropies and social enterprises in India and the US. She has spent the last nine years in India, working with the philanthropies of Dr. Desh Bandhu Gupta, Ramalingu Raju, SKS, and the Templeton Foundation. Prior, Anuja was Managing Director of the Fisher Fund, one of the largest education foundations in the US. Anuja began her career as an investment banker at Merrill Lynch and gained valuable start-up experience at MovieFone, a media and entertainment company that went public. Anuja has a BA from the University of Chicago and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Arun Maira Chancellor, Central University of Himachal Pradesh

Arun is one of those rare people who have held leadership positions in both, the private as well as the public sector, bringing a unique perspective on how the two can work together to foster growth for India. He has led three rounds of participative and comprehensive scenario building for the future of India: in 1999 (with the Confederation of Indian Industry), 2005 (with the World Economic Forum), and 2011 (with the Planning Commission). In his career spanning five decades, Arun has led several organisations, including the Boston Consulting Group in India. In the early part of his career, he spent 25 years in the Tata Group at various important positions. He was also a member of the Board of Tata Motors (then called TELCO). After leaving the Tatas, Arun joined Arthur D Little Inc (ADL), the international management consultancy, in the US, where he advised companies across sectors and geographies on their growth strategies and handling transformational change.

Presently, Arun Maira is Chancellor of the Central University of Himachal Pradesh, Chairman of HelpAge International, a Member of the Advisory Board of the Global Economic Symposium, Chairman of the Foundation of MSME Clusters, and President of the Consumer Unity and Trust Society of India. With his vast experience and expertise, Arun is indeed a thought leader. He is invited to speak at various forums and has written several books that capture his insights.


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Brooks Preston Head of Investment funds, OPIC

Brooks Preston is Head of Investment Funds of OPIC’s Investment Funds Department (IFD), sits on OPIC’s Investment Committee. Executive Committee and Chairs the Investment Funds Evaluation Committee. Previously, Brooks was Managing Partner of VGF Emerging Markets I, L.P. and a member of its Investment Committee. Prior to creating VGF EM, Brooks worked in emerging markets as a Principal at Wolfensohn & Company, an emerging market private equity fund, and as a senior manager at BP plc in the downstream oil businesses and in alternative energy. He has degrees from Dartmouth College and the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Claudia Schmerler Head of Division, KfW

Claudia heads the South Asia division for private and financial sector development at KfW Development Bank, a member of the German KfW Group. As a promotional bank, KfW supports change and encourages forward-looking ideas – in Germany, Europe and in more than 100 developing and transition countries throughout the world. Claudia has been working for KfW Development Bank in different roles for the past 10 years. Her focus is on financial systems development in Asia as well as global fund initiatives. She also advised the OECD Development Assistance Committee and its Secretariat on how to modernise the measurement of international development finance to better reflect financial instruments such as equity investments or guarantees which built on market principles to attract more funding for sustainable development. Claudia acts as a nominee director on boards of different KfW investee companies. Before joining KfW, she worked in rural and economic development projects in Cambodia and Indonesia. Claudia holds a MBA from the University of Leipzig.


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Debasish Mitter Country Director, Michael & Susan Dell Foundation

Debasish leads the foundation’s strategy and operations in India for education, employability skills, family economic stability, and health. In his role, Debasish helps to manage and develop the India-based portfolio to improve learning levels in schools serving underprivileged children; to catalyze sustainable and large-scale models that help youth gain meaningful employment; to support early-stage, market-based enterprises providing financial services to urban poor families; and to strengthen government’s school-based health programs that improve outcomes in the lives of urban poor children.

Prior to joining the foundation, he spent 13 years with American Express in various leadership positions in their Delhi, Miami and New York offices. During his career with American Express, he led a variety of operational, transaction-related, finance and strategic responsibilities. Prior to that, Debasish spent a number of years with Dowell Schlumberger, an oilfield services leader, in senior finance roles in the Middle East and the Far East. Debasish is a chartered accountant.

Geeta Goel Director, Mission Investing at Michael & Susan Dell Foundation

Geeta is responsible for the leading the foundation’s global Mission Investing function. A suite of funding tools have been adopted to further our mission in a measurable and sustainable manner, including equity investments, loans, recoverable grants, and debentures and convertible notes. In addition, the foundation has also supported four early-stage funds and incubators in India and the US to accelerate the funding of mission aligned companies in the areas of education and skill training. Prior to this role, Geeta led the foundation’s Family Economic Stability initiative. She has represented the foundation on several investee boards, including that of Janalakshmi, Ujjivan, Micro Housing Finance Corporation and Swadhaar. Before joining the foundation, Geeta spent more than 12 years with the corporate finance group of Pricewaterhouse Coopers in India, advising large Indian and multinational clients on joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, business plans, and valuations. She is an alumni of the Indian Institute of Management (Ahmedabad) and Lady Shri Ram College (Delhi).


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Graham Macmillan Senior Program Officer, Ford Foundation

Graham serves as Senior Program Officer for Impact Investing at the Ford Foundation. In this role, he is responsible for developing the team’s grant-making strategy and coordinating it closely with our program-related investment. Prior to joining Ford, Graham was Director of Corporate Citizenship Partnerships at Citigroup. As director, Graham worked with Citi’s myriad businesses to drive economic and social impact with clients and other key stakeholders while contributing to Citi’s broader citizenship reporting requirements. He has also served as Senior Program Officer for Financial Inclusion at the Citi Foundation, where he managed the foundation’s international grant making in nearly 90 countries, while also leading investments in innovation, thought leadership, and research. Initially at Citi, Graham managed the Microfinance and Enterprise Development portfolios. Prior to joining Citi, Graham was senior director of VisionSpring, a leading social enterprise selling consumer products to promote economic development. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Aspen Network for Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) and was a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Graham received his BA from Colby College, MSc from NYU Wagner, and MBA through a joint program at NYU Stern, London School of Economics, and HEC Paris School of Management.

Jaap Reinking Director Private Equity, FMO, The Netherlands Development Finance Company

Jaap Reinking is the Director of the Private Equity department within FMO, since June 2015.

Before taking this responsibility Jaap Reinking has been Director of the Financial Institutions department between January 1st, 2014 and May 2015. Prior to the Financial Institution department he headed the Agribusiness & Diverse Sectors department of FMO from January 2009 to December 2013.

Before Jaap was appointed as Director of Agribusiness & Diverse Sectors, he worked at FMO in a variety of positions including Senior Credit Analyst, (Senior) Investment Officer, Manager Business Development for Latin America and the Caribbean, Chairman of the FinPre commission and Manager for new clients in Asia. Within FMO he was member of the Asset and Liability Committee, the Investment Review Committee and Investment Committee as a voting member. He has gained broad experience in investing in emerging markets by executing deals himself, analyzing companies, financial institutions and projects in diverse sectors and maintaining relationships.

Prior to FMO, Jaap worked at Banque de Suez Nederland N.V. (credit risk management, account manager and treasury department), at Koninklijke Borsumij Wehry N.V., responsible for the implementation of the internal treasury department and as a Credit Risk Analyst at Deutsche Bank de Bary N.V, where he gained experience in analyzing companies and complex financial transactions.

Jaap has attended various financial, management and leadership development, ESG, and Corporate Governance courses/trainings. Jaap Reinking is married and has three children.


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Jasjit Mangat Partner, LGT Impact Ventures

Mr. Mangat is a global partner at LGT Impact Ventures, the impact investment arm of LGT Bank, the world’s largest private asset manager. Jasjit is based in New Delhi, and combines global experience in equity investing and business operations. He focuses on low-cost technology-led innovations that can scale globally. Prior to LGTIV, he helped set up Omidyar Network (ON) in India, and established Indian operations for OATSystems, an MIT-spinoff enterprise software company, that was acquired by Checkpoint. Prior to that, Jasjit worked as an investment consultant for both The Carlyle Group’s Indian venture capital arm as well as US-based Swander Pace, and was a management consultant for Marakon. He began his career as a sustainability R&D engineer for Osmonics, Inc. (acquired by GE Power). Jasjit holds an MBA from Kellogg, a Master of Engineering from Cornell and a Bachelor of Technology from IIT Bombay, where he was a National Talent Scholar.

Jayant Sinha Hon’ble Minister of State- Civil Aviation, GOI

Mr. Jayant Sinha is the Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation in the Government of India. He is a Lok Sabha Member of Parliament, representing the Bharatiya Janata Party from Hazaribagh in Jharkhand. He has over 25 years of experience as an investor and strategy consultant.

In his previous role as the Minister of State for Finance, Mr. Sinha had assisted the Hon’ble Prime Minister and Hon’ble Finance Minister in driving landmark initiatives such as PM Mudra Yojana, Social Security Platform, devising the Indradhanush package for public sector banks, launching the India Aspiration Fund to promote entrepreneurship, and strengthening India’s capital markets. He piloted key legislations, namely the Insurance Bill, Bankruptcy Bill, and Regional Rural Banks Bill in the Parliament. He also helped in preparing the Union Budgets of 2015-16 and 2016-17, which were widely hailed as two of the most significant and visionary budgets in recent years. Mr. Sinha is often credited for devising and driving innovative financing solutions, such as the National Infrastructure and Investment Fund, Long Term Irrigation Fund, and Higher Education Financing Agency. As an MP, he has been a member of important parliamentary committees such as the Standing Committee on Finance and Public Accounts Committee.

Mr. Jayant Sinha’s prior business experience includes twelve years with McKinsey & Company as a Partner in the Boston and Delhi offices. At McKinsey, Mr. Sinha co-led the global Software and IT Services Practice. Until 2013, he was a Partner at Omidyar Network, an investment firm with over $850 million in invested capital, where he led the overall investment strategy and operations in India. He also spent several years as a Managing Director at Courage Capital, a billion dollar global special situations hedge fund.

Mr. Sinha holds an M.B.A. with Distinction from the Harvard Business School, an M.S. in Energy Management & Policy from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Bachelor of Technology degree with Distinction from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.


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John L.S. Simpkins General Counsel, USAID

John L. S. Simpkins will join the faculty of Duke University School of Law in 2017. He most recently was the General Counsel of the United States Agency for International Development. Prior to joining USAID in July 2015, he served for two years as the Deputy General Counsel in the White House Office of Management and Budget. Mr. Simpkins has held a variety of positions in private practice and academia, including serving of counsel at Wyche, P.A., in Greenville, SC, as a visiting assistant professor of law at the University of Victoria, and as an assistant professor and Director of Diversity Initiatives at the Charleston School of Law. As a member of the African Network of the International Association of Constitutional Law, he has consulted and conducted research in comparative constitutional law and constitutional design in Nigeria, Liberia, Kenya, Uganda, and South Africa, among other countries. Mr. Simpkins received his A.B. in government from Harvard College and a J.D. and LL.M. in international and comparative law from Duke University School of Law. He is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network at the Aspen Institute.


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Kiran Karnik Director in Central board of Directors, Reserve Bank of India

Kiran Karnik has held the office of President of NASSCOM, the premier trade body and the “chamber of commerce” for the IT software and services industry in India till January 2008. Mr. Karnik has been recognized as the guiding force for the Indian IT industry, especially for his guidance to the industry during the outsourcing backlash. By providing perspective and background information, he has been instrumental in promoting India’s technology strength to the world. He has been a member of many key government committees, and is presently a member of the Scientific Advisory Council to Prime Minister.

He also has a deep involvement with a number of NGOs in the areas of development, education and environment, and currently is honorary Chairman of the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (Delhi), Chairman of Vigyan Prasar and President of India Habitat Centre. He is also an independent Director on various company Boards and was Chairman of the government appointed Board of Satyam Computer Services. Prior to joining NASSCOM in 2001, Mr. Karnik was the Managing Director at Discovery Networks in India where he spearheaded the launch of Discovery Channel in South Asia in August 1995 and Animal Planet (a Discovery – BBC joint venture) in 1999. From 1991 to 1995, Mr. Karnik was Founder-Director of the Consortium for Educational Communication, which was responsible for UGC’s Countrywide Classroom broadcasts and other ICT initiatives. Mr. Karnik is also a part of the Group Advisory Council of the Aavishkaar-Intellecap Group.

Earlier, Mr. Karnik worked for over 20 years at the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). His work in ISRO involved conceptualizing and managing applications of space technology, and he was a key player in the pioneering India-USA Satellite Instructional TV Experiment (SITE). In his career spanning over three decades, Mr. Karnik has been conferred many awards and accolades. He has been awarded the Padma Shri in 2007 and the ‘DATAQUEST IT Person of the Year – 2005’. BusinessWeek named Mr. Karnik as one of the ‘Stars of Asia’ in 2004 and he was selected as ‘Forbes magazine’s Face of the Year 2003’, for being a driving force behind India’s offshoring wave.


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Marilou van Golstein Brouwers Chair of the Management Board, Triodos Investment Management BV

Marilou van Golstein Brouwers is Chair of the Management Board of Triodos Investment Management BV, a subsidiary of Triodos Bank. Triodos Investment Management is a specialist in developing and managing impact investment funds investing in Emerging Markets, Energy & Climate, Sustainable Real Estate, Arts &Culture, Sustainable Food &Agriculture and SRI with EUR 3.1 billion total assets per 30 June 2016.

Marilou has served on the Board of Directors of banks in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Russia, Afghanistan and Pakistan. She was a member of the Group of Advisors for the United Nations Year of Microcredit in 2004/2005, a member of the Executive Committee of CCAP (2003-2008), treasurer of the International Association of Microfinance Investors (2008-2009), member of the Board of Trustees of Women’s World Banking (2003-2012), Chair of SBI Ltd (2011-2013), Chair of the Steering Committee of the PRI/Principles for Investors in Inclusive Finance (2011-2013) and Treasurer of the Max Havelaar Foundation.

Currently she is member of the Board of Directors of the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), member of the Advisory Committee of the Mastercard Foundation’ Fund for Rural Prosperity, member of the Advisory Council for International Development Cooperation (AIV/COS) in the Netherlands, Member of the Supervisory Board of B Corps Europe and Chair of the Advisory Board of Women in Financial Services in the Netherlands (WIFS).

Matsumoto Katsuo Senior Advisor to Director General, JICA

Mr. Matsumoto joined the Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund (OECF) in 1990. In 1996, he was appointed as Representative at Bangkok office and in 2008, as Deputy Chief Representative at Malaysia office. He has worked primarily on Japanese ODA loans to Mekong region countries and worked for South Asia since Apr. 2012. He was responsible for several of the largest Japanese ODA projects, such as the Greater Mekong Subregion: East-West Corridor Project and railway projects, such as the Bangkok Metro and the Bosphorus Rail Tube Crossing Project in Turkey. In India, Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor and Chennai Bengaluru Industrial Corridor as well as ODA projects are under his responsibility. He graduated in 1990 with B.A. in Law from Hitotsubashi University and in 1995 with an M.A. in International Affairs from Columbia University.


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Meenakshi Nath Deputy Head, DFID

Meenakshi Nath, Deputy Head, DFID India and Team Leader, Private Sector, has managed a range of development programmes in DFID-India, such as supporting governments with fiscal reform and investment climate, access to improving basic services and urbanisation. A graduate from the business school at IIM Ahmedabad, Meenakshi started her career with the private sector, moved onto being an entrepreneur, exporting leather goods to Europe and has undertaken research on diverse issues such as social exclusion, trade policy, labour standards and microfinance.

Dr K Nagaraj Naidu Director & HoD, ITP & ES, MEA, GOI, MEA

Dr K Nagaraj Naidu is a career diplomat. An Indian Foreign Service Officer of the 1998 Batch, Mr Naidu is a China specialist and has served in China for 13 yeras in various positions at the Indian Embassy in Beijing, and the Indian Consulates in Hong Kong and Guangzhou.

A fluent Chinese speaker, his last position in China was as the Consul General of the Indian Consulate in Guangzhou. Dr Naidu currently is the Joint Secretary of the Investment, TechnologyPromotion and Energy Security division in the Ministry of External Affairs. Mr Naidu has Master Degrees in Law and Diplomacy (MALD) and Public Policy (MPP)

P N Vasudevan Managing Director, Equitas

Promoter and MD of Equitas Micro Finance India P Ltd, based out of Chennai, Vasudevan was earlier the executive vice president and head – consumer banking group in Development Credit Bank Ltd, Mumbai, where he was responsible for the retail banking including retail liabilities, branch banking, retail assets and alternate channels and managing a branch network of 72 branches. “During this period CASA (current account savings account) balances grew by 35% compared to industry growth of 19%. In retail assets, many new products such as commercial vehicle financing, construction equipment financing, home equity, etc., were launched. The monthly disbursement in retail assets grew from Rs 20 crore per month to about Rs 150 crore per month,” informs the company site. “Earlier to this, Vasudevan worked in Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Co Ltd, part of the Murugappa Group, for 20 years, based out of Chennai. He joined as management trainee in 1986 and resigned as vice president and business head, heading all their business lines. He was also the chairman of the South India Hire Purchase Association for the year 2005-06.”


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Paula Goldman Vice President, Global Lead for Impact Investing, Omidyar Network

Paula Goldman is Vice President and Global Lead for Impact Investing at Omidyar Network. She leads the firm’s global efforts to accelerate the impact investing industry through investments, strategic partnerships, and thought leadership, frequently serving as an advisor to high net worth individuals and family offices seeking to engage in impact investing. In 2014, she acted as Executive for the National Advisory Board on Impact Investing, which helped produce significant policy changes that facilitate impact investing for pension funds and foundations.

A movement builder and entrepreneur, Paula has extensive experience leading frontier market businesses and was the founder and director of Imagining Ourselves, a project of the International Museum of Women that attracted more than one million participants and received numerous accolades. She earned a PhD from Harvard University, a Master in Public Affairs from Princeton, and a B.A. with highest honors from UC Berkeley. She has co-authored several seminal pieces on impact investing, including Priming the Pump and Frontier Capital, and is a contributing author to publications including the Harvard Business Review and the Financial Times.

Phillipe Serres Regional Manager – South Asia, Proparco

Philippe Serres is Regional Manager of Proparco for South Asia based in Delhi since August 2016. He is in charge of coordinating the origination efforts of Proparco in the region, both in terms of debt and equity financing. Prior to that he was a Private Equity Senior Investment Officer in Proparco head office in Paris. From this position, he participated in the structuring of both direct and fund deals, mainly in Africa and Asia. Before joining Proparco, Philippe was the Financial Inclusion focal point at the French Development Agency (Agence Française de Développement – AFD), and Operations Director in Planet Rating, a microfinance rating agency based in France. With French and Colombian nationalities, Philippe graduated from Sciences Po Paris (economics and finance) and holds a Master degree from the London School of Economics (Politics of Development).


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Rajiv Lall Founder MD & CEO, IDFC Bank

Dr. Rajiv Lall was the Executive Chairman of IDFC Limited until September 2015. He has about three decades of experience with leading global investment banks, multilateral agencies and in academia. His areas of expertise include project finance, private equity/venture capital, international capital markets, trade, infrastructure and macroeconomic policy issues with a focus on emerging markets including India and China in particular. Dr. Lall straddles the policy making and finance worlds. He currently chairs the National Committee on Infrastructure Financing of CII (Confederation of Indian Industry) a leading business chamber in the country. He is a member of the Managing Committee of ASSOCHAM; the CII National Council on Financial Sector Development and the CII National Committee on Banking. Internationally, he is a member of the Advisory Board of Columbia Global Centers, South Asia, set up by the Columbia University, New York.

Prior to joining IDFC, Dr. Lall was variously, a Partner with Warburg Pincus in New York; Head of Asian Economic Research with Morgan Stanley in Hong Kong; a senior staff member of the World Bank in Washington, D.C. and of the Asian Development Bank in Manila and faculty member of the Florida Atlantic University Department of Economics. Dr. Lall has a number of publications and articles to his credit. He has been a regular columnist with the Business Standard, a leading financial daily in India. He has a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University and a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University.

RAKESH JHUNJHUNWALA Founder & Manager, Rare Enterprises

Rakesh Jhunjhunwala is one of the better known equity investors in India. Mr. Jhunjhunwala belongs to a class of investors who has created wealth through careful stock selection, patience and conviction. Among India’s successful investors, Mr. Jhunjhunwala is perhaps one of the few who has shared his insight into successful investing with the people at large through his articles, interviews and presentations.

Mr. Jhunjhunwala founded his principles of investing – addressable opportunity, competitive ability, operating leverage and scalability, and integrity of the management. He is also known for his trading skills and believes that trend is his friend and learnt never to preempt trends. He also realized that investing also has a four letter word attached to it – RISK.

As an investor he respects markets and believes that markets are never wrong. Markets are the basis and temples of capitalism. As an investor he never ends any of his opinion without saying that he can always be wrong, always reminding him that market is always right.

As a long term investor, Mr. Jhunjhunwala is credited with identifying stocks early on, believing in his investment, being patient and having conviction to hold the stocks for long periods of time. For him the price at which you buy is as or more important than what you buy.


Robert Dunn Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Dia Vikas Capital Pvt. Ltd.

Robert Dunn has been the Chief Executive Officer and Director of Opportunity International Australia since August 2008, having joined the organisation in November 2006 as Chief Financial Officer.

Robert is also the Chair of Opportunity’s Indian subsidiary, Dia Vikas Capital, which manages the provision of microfinance services in India. Since 2008 Dia Vikas has invested or lent to local microfinance institutions who serve over 3 million clients in India. Part of a global network, Opportunity has programs in more than 20 of the world’s poorest countries. Using innovative financial solutions and training, it empowers people living in poverty to transform their lives. Robert serves on the Boards of the Port Authority of New South Wales and Logosdor Limited. Prior to joining Opportunity, Robert was the Finance Director with Patrick Corporation for 14 years. He is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand.

Rohini Nilekani Chairperson, Arghyam

Rohini Nilekani is Founder-Chairperson, Arghyam, a foundation she has personally endowed to fund initiatives in ‘Safe, Sustainable water for All’. Since 2005, Arghyam has supported work in water and sanitation all around India. Arghyam also facilitates the India Water Portal, which has become a singular resource for the sector. In 2014, together with her husband Nandan Nilekani, she co-founded and is a Director of EkStep, an education non-profit that has created a technology platform for early learning. In 2004, she co-founded and funded Pratham Books, a non-profit children’s publisher, which aims to democratize the joy of reading with ‘A book in every child’s hands’. By the time she retired as Chairperson on December 31st, 2013, Pratham Books had reached millions of children with indigenous, attractive books in multiple languages.

Rohini sits on the Board of ATREE- Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, an environmental think tank. She is on the Eminent Persons Advisory Group of the Competition Commission of India. Between 2010 and 2012, she was a member of the Audit Advisory Board of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India.

Earlier, she spent several years as a journalist, and has worked or written for many leading publications such as Bombay Magazine, India Today, MINT and the Times of India. Her first novel, Stillborn, a medical thriller, was published by Penguin Books. In 2008, she anchored a television show called Uncommon Ground for NDTV, which created a rare dialogue between top leaders of the corporate and social sectors. A book based on the show was published by Penguin Books India in 2011. Under the pseudo name ‘Noni’,she has also authored several books for young children, including the popular Sringeri Srinivas series, published by Pratham Books.

As a committed philanthropist, she continues to fund work in areas such as governance and accountability, independent media, education and research and environmental sustainability. Rohini Nilekani is an active advocate for Indian philanthropy.


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Roopa Kudva Partner & MD, Omidyar Network

RoopaKudva is a partner of Omidyar Network and managing director of Omidyar Network India Advisors, where she leads overall investment strategy and operations. In her role, Roopa helps Omidyar Network manage and develop the India-based portfolio across core initiatives. Prior to joining Omidyar Network, Roopa spent 23 years with CRISIL, and was its managing director and chief executive officer from 2007. She led CRISIL transformation from being India’s premier ratings agency into a diversified global analytical company. Under her leadership the company’s market capitalization grew four-fold and revenues tripled. She led the company’s expansion plans and CRISIL now has a presence in 150 cities across India and research centers in Argentina, Poland and China. Its client base includes some of the largest global investment banks and as well as tens of thousands of small firms and enterprises in India. Roopa also worked for Standard & Poor’s, Paris, as director, financial institutions ratings. Roopa is regularly featured in the media as a prominent woman leader in corporate India. She has served as a member of several policy-level committees relating to the Indian financial system, and is an independent director on the boards of Infosys and Tata AIA Life Insurance Company. Roopa holds a postgraduate diploma in management from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) and is a Distinguished Alumnus of the institute.

S Viswanatha Prasad Managing Director, Caspian

Prasad founded Caspian Advisors in 2004 and has led the institution since then, including setting up three impact funds with increasing diversity across sectors, an AUM of USD 150 mn and a demonstrated exit track record in the impact space in India. In addition to providing strategic direction to Caspian’s various initiatives, Prasad is active in the ongoing management of Caspian’s funds and serves on the boards of multiple portfolio companies. He also serves as a member of the Investment Committee of other funds including Prospero Microfinance (a Latin American Microfinance Equity fund co-managed by Grassroots) and the MSDF-sponsored Indian Education Investment Fund.

Prior to Caspian, Prasad was the CEO of Bhartiya Samruddhi Finance limited, the flagship company in the BASIX group one of first regulated MFIs in India. His experience in the impact space is preceded by a decade spent in the mainstream financial sector.

Prasad holds a M.S. in Management Studies from Birla Institute of Technology and Science in Pilani, India.


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Samit Ghosh Founder & CEO, Ujjivan

Founder & Managing Director of Ujjivan Financial Service Limited (www.ujjivan.com ), a micro finance institution established in 2005 headquartered in Bangalore. Ujjivan started its operation supported by Grameen Trust Replication Program. Today it provides financial services through a network of 469 branches to over 3.4 million urban, semi-urban & rural customers spread across 22 states & 2 union territories, the widest footprint of a MFI in India. Ujjivan was awarded the Best Large Microfinance Institution in India in 2011. Ujjivan was among the first MFIs internationally to be certified for Customer Protection by Smart Campaign. It ranked third among the Best Companies to work for in India by the Great Place to Work Institute & Economic Times in 2016 and currently has around 9000 employees. Ujjivan is the third largest NBFC-MFI in India and received an in-principle license from the Reserve Bank of India to convert to a Small Finance Bank (SFB) by April, 2017. In order to meet the regulatory requirement of majority domestic ownership for SFB, Ujjivan undertook to raise domestic capital through a Pre-IPO & IPO of Rs.1174 Crores during the period February-May 2016. The IPO was oversubscribed 41 times and post the IPO the listed stock price has more than doubled. Ujjivan expects the final license from RBI for the SFB shortly and hopes to start operations of the bank in the first quarter of 2017.

Samit was the former President of Microfinance Institutions Network (MFIN) an association of microfinance institutions in India. He is a Trustee of Women’s World Banking, New York and also former Founder & Chairman of Association of Karnataka Microfinance Institution (AKMI).

Samit was a career international banker for 30 years prior to establishing Ujjivan. He started his career with Citibank in 1975, where he spent the bulk of his career. The other banks he has worked with are: Arab Bank, Bank Muscat, Standard Chartered Bank, and HDFC Bank. He was initiated into the world of microfinance when he attended Grameen Trust’s Dialogue Program in 2004. He graduated from Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania in 1974 with Master of Business Administration. Samit lives with his family at their home in Whitefield, Bangalore since 1996.

Sandeep Farias Founder & MD, Elevar

Sandeep Farias is Founder and Managing Director of Elevar Equity, a long term equity investor at the cutting edge of investing in market based solutions for low income communities. Elevar has successfully backed entrepreneurs who have delivered essential services to over 18 million customers in India and Latin America. With 20 years of experience in the fields of emerging markets investing, financial services and corporate law, Sandeep is passionate about working with companies in the early stages of their development – and helping them build scale. Sandeep has led Series ‘A’ investments in some of India’s best companies focused on low income communities – companies like Ujjivan (urban microfinance), Vistaar (MSME lender), Shubham (community focused housing finance) and Glocal (healthcare for rural populations).


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Susanne Dorasil Head- Economic Cooperation and Development Division, German Embassy

Before coming to India Susanne Dorasil was Head of the Economic Policy & Financial Sector Division at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), in charge of sustainable economic development (economic policy, financial and private sector development), corporate social responsibility and innovative business models for development as well as ICT for development. She served as German co-facilitator of the G20 development pillar on Private Investment and Job Creation and as German co-chair of the Sub–group on SME Finance of the G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion. She was also member of the Social Impact Investment Taskforce established under the UK’s presidency of the G8.

Formerly Susanne Dorasil was Private Secretary to the Permanent State Secretary of the BMZ; Senior Advisor to the German Executive Director at the World Bank Group, Deputy Head of the Central Africa, West Africa II, Madagascar Division, and Deputy Head of the Legal Division. She studied law at the Free University of Berlin and holds a Master of Laws degree from King’s College London. She passed her bar examination in Berlin.

Shanu SP Hinduja Vice-Chairperson, Hinduja Bank Ltd (Switzerland)

Ms Shanu Srichand Parmanand Hinduja under the guidance and leadership of her father, the Group Chairman, currently co-chairs Hinduja Global Solutions and holds the position of Vice-Chairperson of Hinduja Bank (Switzerland)Ltd.

Ms Shanu S.P. Hinduja started her career in the finance sector, working with international banks like Merrill Lynch,Morgan Stanley and Nomura and has subsequently been holding several positions in the Hinduja Group of Companies.Her main fields of expertise include banking, global influential management and human rights. As a leading global businesswoman and one of the leading members of the Hinduja Family, Ms Shanu S.P. Hindujacontinues the legacy of the Founder of the Hinduja Group, Parmanand D. Hinduja and the vision of the Group’sChairman, MrSrichand P. Hinduja in enhancing the wealth for the Group and increase its contribution to society. She also holds the role of Senior Advisor to the Chairman of the Hinduja Group, who among the many other functionsoutside of the Group, is also a founding member of the Foundation Prince Albert II of Monaco. She has been holding a number of key positions including: Co-chair of the United Foundation’s Global Accelerator; Only Speaker representing the private sector at the United Nations General Assembly at the high level meetingon Disability and Development; Part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, as member of the advisory committee on theBusiness Manifesto; Keynote speaker at the United Nations Infopoverty Conference; Participant at the World Economic Forum in Davos, and prolific speaker in Lima, Panama, Monaco, Miami andNew Delhi; Sponsor of the world’s leading clean technology conference, Clean Equity Monaco; One of the keynote speakers in the Asian Society event “Rise of Asia”, held at St Jame’s Palace.


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Swaminathan Aiyar Editor, Economic Times

Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar is a graduate of St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, and Magdalen College, Oxford. He is currently Consulting Editor of The Economics Times and a research scholar at The Cato Institute.

He has been editor of two of India’s biggest economic dailies, Financial Express in 1988-90 and The Economic Times in 1992-94. For two decades, he was also the India Correspondent of The Economist, the British weekly. He has been a frequent consultant to the World Bank and Asian Development Bank. He is best known for his popular weekly column in The Times of India, “Swaminomics”.

Swami, as he is universally called, is also a social investor. He runs the Mukundan Charitable Trust. He has co-promoted three micro-finance institutions – Arohan in Calcutta, Sonata in Allahabad and Mimo Finance in Dehra Dun. He is on the Board of Directors of Artisans Micro Finance Ltd, and hopes to convert artisans into share-owning millionaires. And he is building a fleet of medical ships on the Brahmaputra to serve islands that have never seen a doctor.

He is married to Shahnaz Anklesaria Aiyar, herself a journalist. He has three children, Shekhar, Pallavi and Rustam.

Urmi Sengupta Program Officer, Impact Investing, MacArthur Foundation

Urmi is responsible for managing grant-making on field-building and collaborative activities to inform and build the impact investing marketplace. She also coordinates the team’s evaluation activities and represents the team on all impact investing efforts undertaken in conjunction with the Foundation’s international programs.

With close to two decades of experience in international economic development, banking and impact investing, Urmi has worked with stakeholders along the financial services delivery chain, focusing specially on the small and micro segments. She started her career in corporate banking at Bank of America in India after a business degree from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, later earning a master’s degree (summa cum laude) at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. For eight years, she worked with Capital Plus Exchange, leading and managing relationships with small business finance and microfinance institutions and developing a range of capacity building initiatives. Her work included conceptualizing, launching and running the first global community network for emerging market small business banks, an initiative that is now part of the G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion (GPFI) SME Finance Forum managed by the International Finance Corporation


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Vikram Gandhi Founder, Asha Impact

After a successful career in investment banking spanning more than two decades in New York and Hong Kong, Vikram Gandhi, Founder of Asha Impact, decided to return to India with the desire to actively participate in the development and growth of his country. Vikram setup Asha Impact with a mission to support and invest in entrepreneurs whose vision and goal is to use business as a means of providing Life and Hope to the underserved. Vikram has been involved with various developmental activities in India and globally. He is a Board Member and Chairman of the Asian Regional Committee of Grameen Foundation. He is a member of Janalakshmi Financial Services, and a member of the Investment Committee at Gawa Capital. Vikram is a Founding Member of Harvard University’s South Asia Initiative and also a Founder of Ashoka University, the first liberal arts college established in India. He is a member of The Global Leaders Circle and associated with the Social Entrepreneurship initiative at Harvard Business School. Additionally, he has worked with the National Innovation Council over the last few years to set up The India Inclusive Innovation Fund. He is also a Member of the Standing Council of Experts under the Ministry of Finance, Government of India. Vikram is also a member of the Bretton Woods Committee, Washington DC, which plays an important role in promoting economic growth, reducing poverty and maintaining global financial stability.

Prior to Founding Asha Impact and VSG Capital Advisors, Vikram was Vice Chairman of Investment Banking and Global Head of Financial Institutions Business for Credit Suisse, in New York and Hong Kong. An MBA from the Harvard Business School where he was designated a Baker Scholar; a qualified Chartered Accountant and a B.Com with high distinction from the University of Mumbai, Vikram, in his capacity as the Founder, CEO of VSG Capital Advisors, continues to work closely with Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Greenhill & Co. as a Senior Advisor.

Vineet Rai Managing Partner & CEO, Aavishkaar Venture Management Services Pvt Ltd

Vineet Rai is the Founder of Aavishkaar –Intellecap group. (www.aavishkaar. in and www.intellecap.com). Vineet serves as Commissioner at the Global Commission of Business and Sustainable Development and on the United Nations ESCAP Science Technology and Innovation Advisory Board. Aavishkaar is a pioneer Impact Investment fund with more than US$ 200 million under management. Intellecap is a thought leader in Business based Development approach. Intellecap subsidiaries include Arohan, a Microfinance company, Intellegrow, a Venture Debt Company, Intellecash, a Microfinance incubation company and pioneering initiative such as I ‘Cube” N – India’s first Impact Angel Network and SANKALP Forum. Intellecap operate across Asia and Africa with offices in India, East Africa and Indonesia.


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Vishal Mehta Co-Founder, Lok Advisory

Vishal is co-founder of Lok Advisory Services that started its impact investment operations in India in late 2004. Since then he has played the lead role in building Lok Capital as a premier venture capital fund focused on impact investing. Lok Capital is one of the first India focused impact investor, backed by institutional investors. Lok has more than $85m of assets under management and is currently raising its 3rd fund. Prior to Lok, Vishal worked for about a decade in marketing and business development in the financial services and telecom sector, both in developed as well as developing economies. Vishal holds an Engineering degree from Delhi University and an MBA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Vivek Pandit Senior Partner, Mckinsey & Company, Inc.

Vivek leads the Firms Private Equity and Principal Investor Practice across Asia. He serves leading investors and shareholders on investment strategy, operations, origination, diligence, transformations, and exits. Among shareholders, Vivek serves family-owned businesses, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and private equity funds.

Some of his recent publications include: “Private equity and India’s economic development,” McKinsey & Company, August 2015, “Indian private equity: Route to resurgence”, McKinsey & Company, June 2015, “Private equity in India: Once overestimated, now underserved,” McKinsey & Company, February 2015, “The family-business factor in emerging markets,” McKinsey Quarterly, December 2014, “Private equity: Is the boom back?”, McKinsey & Company, May 2012, “Transforming learning through mEducation,” McKinsey on Society, January 2012, “Private equity in Asia-Pacific,” McKinsey & Company, March 2011, The granularity of growth–Asia: How to drive growth in the world’s most dynamic economies, 2008.

Vivek serves as a trustee of the Aspen Institute India, a director of St. Jude’s Cancer Care Centers, and sits on the Board of Governors of The Doon School and the Leadership Council of the Center for Advanced Studies of India at the University of Pennsylvania. He has been named among “India’s Hottest Executives”, FICCI Young Leaders and an Aspen Fellow.


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Lead Discussants

Name Designation Organisation

Abhijit Ray Co-Founder and Managing Director Unitus Capital Private Limited

Ajit Mahadevan India Country Director Acumen

Anand Chandani Regional Director-Asia Pacific responsibility

Andreas Nilsson Founder Sonanz Social Investments

Anil Sinha Advisor-South Asia GIIN

Anuradha Ramachandran Director , Investments Omidyar Network

Anurag Aggarwal Director Intellecap

Aparajita Agarwal India Director British Asian Trust

Arun Gore CEO GrayGhost

Arun Natrajan CEO Venture Intelligence

Arvind Malhan Partner New Silk Route

Avishek Gupta Head of Debt Business Caspian Impact Investment Advisors

Bjoern Struewer Founder & CEO Roots of Impact

Carolin Leesha Social Impact Strategist The Fred Hollows Foundation

Clara Barby Partner Bridges Ventures

Diana Hollmann Advisor GIZ GmbH

Harjiv Singh Founder & CEO Gutenberg Communications (USA/ UK/ India)

Hugues Thierry Head of Business Development BNP Paribas

Jinesh Shah Founding Partner Omnivore Partners

Jyotsna Krishnan Managing Director Elevar Equity

Karen Wilson Statistics and Development Finance, Development Co-operation Directorate

OECD

Kate Kochran CEO Upaya Social Ventures

Krishnan Neelakantan Sr Director Ankur Capital

LM Singh CEO IPE Global

Mark Kahn Founding Partner Omnivore Partners

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Delegate Name Designation Organisation Name

Mona Kachhwaha Investment Director Caspian

Moutishi Sengupta Director, India McArthur Foundation

Naina Subberwal Batra CEO AVPN

Nehal Sanghavi Senior Advisor for Innovation and Partnership

USAID / India

Nishith Desai Founder Nishith Desai Associates

Peter Nicholas Director Social Finance

Preeti Sinha Senior President and Global Convenor Yes Bank

Pramod Bhasin Founder and Former CEO Genpact

Ragini Choudhary Private Sector Advisor DFID

Rahil Rangwala Director, Family Economic Services at Michael & Susan Dell Foundation

Michael & Susan Dell Foundation

Ritu Verma Co-Founder, Managing Partner Ankur Capital

Royston Braganza CEO Grameen Capital

Saneesh Singh Chief Executive Officer Dia Vikas Capital Pvt. Ltd.

Sapna Shah Director Global Impact Investing Network

Sara Taylor Head DFID Impact Fund CDC Group

Saurabh Narain President and CEO National Community Investment Fund

Shashaank Awasthi Advisor GrayGhost

Siddharth Nautiyal Investment Partner Omidyar Network

Srikrishna Ramamoorthy Partner Unitus Seed Fund

Vijayalakshmi Das Managing Director Ananya Finance

Vineet Sukumar Senior Partner IFMR Capital

Vinita Katara Associate Russell Reynolds Associate

Will Poole Managing Partner Unitus Seed Fund / Capria Ventures

Yoshiki Hashimoto Investment Committee Member Aavishkaar

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Abhijit Ray Co-Founder and Managing Director, Unitus Capital Private Limited

Abhijit has nearly 20 years of diverse experience in development finance, commercial banking and microfinance. At UC, Abhijit has played a key role in developing and building the firm’s business, particularly in the microfinance sector. Previously, Abhijit was an AGM with the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI), where he oversaw SIDBI’s microfinance portfolio in the state of Andhra Pradesh, and also acted as the business development manager for SME projects. Abhijit started his career with the State Bank of India (SBI), where he worked in a variety of business areas in six different locations within India. Abhijit has co-authored articles on microfinance in international journals and is regularly quoted in leading national dailies in India. Abhijit has a Bachelor’s degree in economics from Kolkata University and is a Certified Associate of IIBF, Mumbai. He has also attended the School of Applied Microfinance Program in Kenya and the Program on Strategic Leadership for Microfinance at the Harvard Business School.

Ajit Mahadevan India Country Director, Acumen Fund

Ajit joined Acumen as the Country Director, India a year ago after over 20 years of experience in advisory, strategic consulting and business building. Acumen has made significant investments over the past years across both skill development as well as school education and education services and has five investees in this space (including three investments in education over the past 12 months). Ajit joined Acumen from Ernst & Young, where he was Advisory Partner & Leader (Life Sciences) for over six years. Ajit holds an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University, USA and an undergraduate degree in Computer Technology from PSG College of Technology.


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Andreas Nilsson Founder, Sonanz Social Investments

Andreas Nilsson is the founder of Sonanz, a fund manager focused on private equity in underserved markets. Sonanz’ strategy is to invest globally in private equity funds that support SMEs providing essential products and services to low-income people. The goal is to generate market rate financial returns as well as significant and measurable social impact.

Mr. Nilsson has many years of experience from the private equity industry, having led several successful investments for EQT Partners and UBS. He has also acted as advisor to the first private equity firm in Bangladesh and the first social investment fund in Sweden. He recently earned a PhD in Finance from the Stockholm School of Economics and spent two years as a Visiting Fellow at Harvard Business School. He holds a MSc from the Stockholm School of Economics.

Anand Chandani Regional Director Asia Pacific, responsibility

responsAbility Investments is one of the leading asset managers in the field of development investments. The company’s investment vehicles provide debt and equity financing to unlisted firms in emerging economies, with a focus on the sectors of financial inclusion, agriculture and renewable energy. responsAbility currently has over USD 3.1 billion of assets under management that is invested in over 90 countries.

As the Regional Director of Asia Pacific, Anand has set up and scaled the operations in India, Thailand and Hong Kong and is responsible for the activities in region, where over USD 650m in investments have been from 12+ funds in both debt and equity.

Anand brings over 20 years of operational and financial experience, including the last six years at responsAbility where he has been leading activities in Asia Pacific. He started his career in management consulting and project finance, and subsequently held leadership positions in corporate development, product management and finance in the sectors of financial institutions, energy, real estate and mobile technology. He served as CEO of Otto Hofstetter India, a leader in injection mould manufacturing. Anand has also served on the board of Head Start Educational Trust and on the investment committee at AlphaMundi Group, an impact fund. Anand holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management and a B.S. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.


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Anuradha Ramachandran Director , Investments, Omidyar Network

Anuradha brings extensive experience in early-stage venture capital to her role at Omidyar Network. Anuradha leads investments in financial inclusion that bring critical services to millions of financially underserved Indians.

Prior to joining Omidyar Network in early 2012, Anuradha spent seven years at VentureEast, an early-stage venture capital fund. While there, she made many successful investments across sectors spanning clean tech, enterprise software, IT services, financial inclusion, supply chain, and group buying. Previously she was an investment banker at Lazard India where she focused on the life sciences and consumer products sector. Anuradha also served in various M&A, business development, and corporate strategy roles at UTV Interactive and Cadila Pharmaceuticals. She began her career as a principal correspondent on the corporate reporting and equity analysis team for one of India’s leading business dailies, The Financial Express. Anuradha received an MBA in finance and a BS in physics from Madurai Kamaraj University.

Anil Sinha Advisor-South Asia, GIIN

Anil is a dedicated international finance and impact investing professional with decades of experience. He served on the international team of the World Bank Group for 23 years, and started his career as an Investment Officer in the International Finance Corporation (IFC) in 1992. Most recently, Mr. Sinha was the Regional Head of Inclusive Business at the World Bank Group, where he focused on enhancing development impact at the Base of the Pyramid through innovative delivery mechanisms in the private and public sectors. Mr. Sinha has also served as the Regional Head of IFC Advisory Prior to joining the IFC, his projects included finance and consulting in the private sector. He has also supported the development of various networks and industry initiatives, such as the India Impact Investors Network, Enterprise Solutions for Poverty Platform, and the Sustainable Finance group.


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Anurag Aggarwal Director, Intellecap

Anurag is a partner at Aavishkaar, one of the leading Impact focussed Investment funds in India. He has been part of founding team of the group company Intellecap and last served as its CEO. In the 10 years of his association with Intellecap, Anurag set up and built the Company’s Investment Banking Practice with a specific focus on assisting early and growth-stage multiple bottom-line enterprises to raise capital. Anurag has played a key role in incubating I3N (Intellecap Impact Investment Network), India’s first impact focused angel network within Intellecap. He was also one of the key architects of creating the current group structure of Intellecap and led the efforts of the group in the incubation and acquisition of the 3 NBFCs (IntelleCash, IntelleGrow and Arohan) within the Intellecap group.

Aparajita Aggarwal India Director, British Asian Trust

Aparajita joined the British Asian Trust in September 2016 as its first India Director. BAT was founded in 2007 by HRH The Prince of Wales and a group of visionary British Asian business leaders. It backs sustainable solutions to the challenges of poverty and injustice, and enable people to truly unlock their potential. We also help unlock philanthropic potential. In future, BAT plans to go beyond traditional grant-giving towards innovations such as impact investments.

Aparajita has extensive experience of about a decade and a half in planning, implementing and managing strategic initiatives, convening platforms and in building and scaling up business lines. She has successfully led several global engagements through rapid network building, fundraising, new geography expansion and multi-stakeholder management.

From 2004 until 2016, she worked with Intellecap, a leading global development advisory firm, as the Director of Sankalp Forum. In this role, Aparajita built the Forum as the leading convener of dialogue and outcomes for inclusive development globally. Prior to Intellecap, she worked at CARE India on initiatives around microfinance and livelihoods in the underserved states in India. Aparajita’s experience has been primarily in the development sector on initiatives that further financial inclusion, social entrepreneurship and impact investing. She holds a management degree from the Indian Institute of Forest Management (IIFM), India.


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Arun Natarajan CEO, Venture Intelligence

Arun Natarajan is the Founder & Managing Director of TSJ Media Pvt. Ltd. whose Venture Intelligence service is the leading source of information on private company financials, transactions and valuations in India. Venture Intelligence has been tracking Private Equity, Venture Capital and Mergers & Acquisitions in India since 2002.

Arun has over 20 years of research and media experience and founded Venture Intelligence based on his experience in observing and working with multiple companies, including in their business planning and financing.

Arun is a Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE). He is frequently invited to speak on Indian private equity and venture capital trends at events organized by premier organizations like Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), TiE, SuperInvestor, etc. as well as private briefings organized by PE/VC funds for their Limited Partners & portfolio companies. He also analyses Venture Capital trends on the weekly ET-NOW Venture Intelligence Funding Meter segment on ET-NOW’s StartupCentral show.

Arun had earlier worked as a senior research analyst with The Hindu-Business Line, a leading Indian business daily and consulted with pioneering Internet Services venture Sify. Arun has a PGD (Financial Management) and a B.Tech (Chemical Engineering).

Arun’s early entrepreneurial journey was profiled in the Economic Times, the online version of which is available at http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/3023071.cms

Arun Gore CEO, GrayGhost

Arun comes to social venture capital after executive leadership roles in finance and operations in the telecommunications industry. Arun brings his general management experience to lead the management of the organization, investment team and Fund investment activities. Over the last seven years, he has been involved in developing the Impact Ventures portfolios under management and promoting financial and social value creation.

Prior to his current role, Arun founded a management and operations consulting practice focused on international operations and support to the wireless industry. Previously, he was a member of the executive team with T-Mobile USA, serving as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Cook Inlet T-Mobile. As CFO, he spearheaded mergers and acquisitions and the development of business strategies that included managing joint ventures for T- Mobile, establishing Indian operations for US-based firms and promoting start-ups. During his career, he has been responsible for managing market operations, budgeting, vendor financing and special projects, as well as streamlining operations and restructuring departments and business centers to improve financial and operational efficiency.

Arun is a native of Chennai, India. He holds a BSc in the Sciences and a BS in Accounting. Arun also holds an MBA in Finance and is proficient in Tamil, Hindi, Marathi and Telugu.


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Avishek Gupta Head of Debt Business, Caspian Impact Investment Advisors

Avishek heads the debt business at Caspian and manages debt investments across Caspian’s focus sectors. He has spearheaded Caspian’s entry in new sectors including healthcare and clean energy. Before Caspian, Avishek was at a structured debt finance firm, where he worked on both deal origination and market placement roles for debt securities originated by small business lending and affordable housing finance firms. He enabled debt finance for several financial institutions through plain vanilla debt, securitisation and other structured products. Prior to this, Avishek managed the incubation of a portfolio of start-ups operating across dairy, agriculture, rural tourism, drinking water and rural energy supply chains. Avishek holds a B.Tech (Dairy Technology) and M.Sc. (Dairy Chemistry). He also holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Rural Management from Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA).

Arvind Malhan Partner, New Silk Route

Arvind Malhan is a Partner at New Silk Route, a leading growth capital investing firm which has invested over $1 billion across 17 companies in India and South Asia. His investments with high social and environmental impact include Varsity Education (low cost education and test preparation serving over 0.5 million children) and VRL Logistics (environmentally sustainable parcel delivery logistics).

Prior to joining New Silk Route, Arvind worked at Private Capital Asia, the Asia principal investing arm of JPMorgan, where he was part of the founding team. Prior to moving to India, Arvind worked at New Enterprise Associates (NEA) in the US, where he focused on venture capital investing in technology. Arvind began his career at McKinsey and Company and has also worked at Morgan Stanley Venture Partners, both in New York. Arvind holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Arvind is a member of YPO (Young Presidents’ Organisation) and a Fellow of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. He is a Trustee of the One Billion Literates Foundation, which has adopted government run schools, and provides free English and Computing skills to over 1,000 children per year in Bangalore.


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Carolin Leesha Social Impact Strategist, The Fred Hollows Foundation

Carolin Leeshaa is the Social Impact Strategist at The Fred Hollows Foundation where she drives social innovation and strategic projects to enable the Foundation access to new markets, private sector partnerships and diversified revenue sources through engaging private investments into global eye health care and low-cost health care technology. Carolin is a Director of The Social Investment Collective, a principal-led consultancy with the vision to grow social prosperity by promoting understanding of, and building capacity for, innovative social investment solutions. This was preceded by founding and leading National Australia Bank’s (NAB) Social Finance Product & Investor Markets initiative, driving financial inclusion and Shared Value as the Group’s Impact Investment subject matter expert.

Carolin combines her expertise in social impact, social outcomes evaluation, strategy and design-thinking with her structured finance, transaction advisory, project & risk management experience gained over a decade across a broad range of asset classes, customer segments and jurisdictions through a range of stakeholder management, advisory and execution roles at NAB, DZ Bank, EY and ANZ Bank in Frankfurt, London, Luxembourg and Sydney. She holds a Masters of Banking & Finance (equiv) and post-graduate qualifications of Social Impact from the Centre of Social Impact, UNSW and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Bjoern Strewer Founder & CEO, Roots of Impact

Bjoern Struewer is founder and CEO at Roots of Impact, a specialized advisory firm and market builder for more effective impact investing. After leaving the traditional finance sector he dedicated his work to financing and scaling social innovation globally. With Roots of Impact he is shaping the market for impact investment in a way that capital for social impact is deployed effectively and makes a real difference. Roots of Impact is the creator of Social Impact Incentives (SIINC) - a straightforward pay-for-success model which rewards social enterprises for positive impact and enables them to attract growth capital.

Bjoern also serves as senior advisor to Ashoka on social finance. He is co-founder of the Financing Agency for Social Entrepreneurship (FASE) and initiator of the Ashoka Angels Network. He has more than 20 years of experience in the finance sector - lastly as Managing Director of Credit Suisse - and is actively engaged in developing solutions for responsible investments, social finance and impact investing for many years.


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Clara Barby Partner, Bridges Ventures

At Bridges Ventures, Clara takes the lead on the fund’s Impact strategy throughout the investment cycle – from defining the strategy and process for selecting impact investments, to engaging with portfolio companies to create additional value through environmental and social factors, to tracking and reporting results to our investors and other stakeholders. In addition to growing impact through our own funds, Clara leads Impact+, Bridges’ advisory efforts to promote the growth of the wider sustainable and impact investment sector.

Prior to Bridges, Clara focused her career on investing in innovative high-impact businesses – most recently on the management team of AyurVAID Hospitals, an India-based healthcare chain and Acumen Fund portfolio company. Clara previously worked for Acumen Fund’s Capital Markets team in New York where she played a lead role in designing an innovative investment vehicle and later co-led the Acumen energy portfolio in India. Before Acumen, Clara worked in Bogota, promoting socially responsible investment.

Clara holds a BA (Hons) in Greats from Oxford University and an MBA from INSEAD.

Diana Hollmann Advisor, GIZ (Germany)

Diana Hollmann joined GIZ in 2012 and is an advisor to the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) on Financing for Development and Impact Investing. Supporting the Social Impact Investment Taskforce established under the UK G8-presidency, she has been a member of the German National Advisory Board and the Taskforce’s international Impact Measurement Working Group. Currently, she contributes to the OECD Social Impact Investing Initiative with an emphasis on impact investing data quality and comparability. Diana started her career in international marketing with Philips Medical Systems prior to working on the advancement of inclusive and sustainable entrepreneurship. She has worked and lived in Latin America, the MENA-region and South Africa supporting entrepreneurs and small businesses e.g. working with WRI New Ventures, Ashoka and UNDP. Diana holds a graduate degree in business administration from FH Nordakademie with studies in Germany and Chile. Attending the Maxwell School of Syracuse University as a Fulbright scholar, she earned a master’s degree in International Relations with studies in the United States and South Africa.


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Harjiv Singh Founder & CEO, Gutenberg Communications (USA/ UK/ India)

A serial entrepreneur, Harjiv is the Founder and CEO of Gutenberg Communications, a global strategic communications firm with offices in the U.S., U.K. and India, where he works extensively with clients across a diverse range of industries and organizations like technology, real estate, government, investment management, academic and the non-profit sectors. He has advised clients like U.S.-India Business Council (USIBC), UK Trade & Investment, GE, HSBC, New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) and Quest Diagnostics.

Harjiv believes in harnessing the confluence of media, technology and education to empower individuals. At Salwan Media Ventures, he has launched a portfolio of education-focused businesses that include the annual “One Globe: Uniting Knowledge Communities” conference which focuses on what it takes to build a 21st-century knowledge economy in India and South Asia, and BrainGain Magazine, the largest online magazine for study abroad in India and South Asia. He also co-founded MDOffices.com, a New York City wireless software company in the healthcare industry. He has also worked at Priceline.com in strategic planning, as a financial analyst at Adam Smith & Company, a New York City Hedge Fund, and as Director of a real estate development company in India. Harjiv began his career as a financial analyst in GE Capital’s Financial Management Program (FMP). Harjiv has a keen interest in international relations, economics, history, and the impact of globalization. An avid political junkie, he worked as a campaign advisor to an Indian parliamentarian and also volunteered on Michael Bloomberg’s first mayoral campaign in New York City. He serves as an Independent Non-Executive Director on the Boards of Healthfore Technologies Ltd. and Indag Rubber Limited (IRL). He advises the Global Futures Group (GFG), an international consulting and investment services firm focusing on smart cities. Harjiv serves on the advisory board of Knowledge@Wharton, has been a guest faculty member at DukeCE and is a Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE). Harjiv is a Trustee of The Loomba Foundation, a UK charity supporting the cause of poor widows in South Asia and Africa. He is also a member of the U.S. Advisory Council of The American India Foundation (AIF) and has served on the board of the United Nations Association of New York.

Harjiv received a Master’s in International Affairs in Economic Policy Management from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. He also has an MBA in Marketing and Bachelor in Finance from the New York Institute of Technology. He is fluent in English, Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu, and has basic fluency in German. He divides his time between New York, London and New Delhi.


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Jinesh Shah Founding Partner, Omnivore Partners

Jinesh co-founded Omnivore Partners in 2010. Previously he was Vice President and CFO at Nexus Venture Partners, one of India’s leading early stage venture capital funds. At Nexus, he led investments in Sohan Lal Commodity Management (grain warehousing), Mobile2Win (mobile VAS), and Mistral Solutions (defense technologies). He earlier served in Finance roles with Datamatics (leading Treasury/M&A), Patni Computers (initiating the IPO process), and HCL Technologies (founding the BPO business). He is a Chartered Accountant with a B.Com from R A Poddar College and an MMS (Finance) from the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS).

Hugues Thierry Head of Business Development, BNP Paribas

Hugues Thierry is the head of Business Development for BNP Paribas Branch in India.

In his current role, Hugues coordinates and leads business management, business development and transversal projects under the leadership of the CEO & Country Head of BNP Paribas India.

Hugues started his career in 2006 as an Intern in Corporate Finance at BNP Paribas in Taiwan. He subsequently joined the Wealth Management team in Taipei where he stayed until December 2007.

In 2008, Hugues moved to Singapore where he was appointed as Business Manager for Wealth Management. During the eight years he spent in Singapore, he occupied several roles within the Wealth Management business line, including Head of Business Management and Head of the Client Development Team.

Hugues is a French national and holds a Master’s Degree in Banking and Finance from the Graduate School of Management d’Angers, France (ESSCA).


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Jyotsna Krishnan Managing Director, Elevar Equity

Jyotsna joined Elevar in 2011 and currently leads Elevar’s India team and its investing in India. Her experience over the years includes retail financial services, business operations and analytics, and investing in early stage ventures. In particular, she has spent considerable time with low income communities and has translated her admiration for these communities into concrete observations that formed the basis for Elevar’s investments in companies such as Varthana (serving affordable private schools), Samunnati (catalysing agriculture supply chains) and Credit Mantri (enabling lending to customers with poor or no credit history), all of whom are providing specialised services to distinct customers who do not have access (she sits on the boards of these companies). Prior to Elevar, she was at HSBC and worked across multiple roles in retail banking – including sales, operations, HR, strategy, finance and business intelligence. Jyotsna is a Commerce graduate from Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University and completed her MBA from SP Jain Institute of Management & Research. She is also a CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) charter holder.

Karen E. Wilson Statistics and Development Finance, Development Co-operation Directorate, OECD

Karen has been working at the OECD since 2009 where her work has focused on innovation, entrepreneurship and finance including angel investment, venture capital, impact investment and, more recently, the role of the private sector in development finance. Karen is also a Senior Fellow at Bruegel, an international economics think tank based in Brussels, an Associate Fellow at Said Business School at Oxford University and a Visiting Lecturer at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga. She is a Board Member and Advisor of the European Foundation for Entrepreneurship Research (EFER), and serves on the European Commission DG CONNECT Advisory Forum and on the European Venture Philanthropy Association (EVPA) Policy Committee.

Karen was a Senior Fellow at the Kauffman Foundation from 2008-2012. In 2004 she founded GV Partners, a research and consulting firm focused on entrepreneurship. Earlier, Karen worked with international venture capital firm, Index Ventures, and before that was part of the senior management team at the World Economic Forum in Geneva, Switzerland. Previously, she served as the Executive Director of the Global Initiative at Harvard Business School. Her earlier experience includes investment banking and consulting. She received, with honors, a Bachelors of Science in Mathematics and Management from Carnegie Mellon University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.


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Kate Cochran CEO, Upaya Social Ventures

Kate is a fierce believer that global poverty is not inevitable and that market forces and individual resolve are some of the sharpest tools available to us in that fight. Recently named CEO, she is also founding Board member of Upaya Social Ventures, an organization that exemplifies many of her strongly held beliefs about eradicating poverty with dignity. Previously, she held leadership positions in international development organizations providing financial services and access to higher education to millions of the world’s poorest citizens. She served as Chief Operating Officer for Vittana, directing strategy for stimulating student loan markets in developing countries and later served as a consultant and board member disseminating the learnings from that organization. Prior to Vittana, she held a range of executive roles at Unitus, a microfinance accelerator. In addition, Kate has consulted independently with a range on nonprofit organizations and social businesses. She is a frequent speaker on social entrepreneurship and the intersection of markets and mission at business schools and conferences. Kate holds a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from UCLA Anderson.

Krishnan Neelakantan Senior Director, Ankur Capital

Krishnan Neelakantan is Senior Director – Investments & Growth strategy at Ankur Capital. Krishnan has extensive experience in financial markets and investment research, as well as social development consulting. He spent 17 years as an equity research analyst, market strategist and Head of India Research at ICICI Securities and then CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets; as one of the leading advisors to foreign institutional investors (FIIs) investing in Indian equities, he and his team were regularly rated at the top in the annual Investor Polls. He then changed tracks to join Samhita Social Ventures as Managing Director to build-up the organization’s profile as a specialised social consulting firm.

Krishnan remains on the Board of Directors at Samhita, is on the Board of Mentors for IvyCapital Ventures, is a founding member at Social Venture Partners, Mumbai and is a Patron of Adarsh, a Kochi-based NGO focussed on children with disabilities.

He has a B.Tech degree from IIT, Bombay and a Post-graduation in Business Management from the XLRI, Jamshedpur. He has also completed executive development programmes of London Business School and University of Chicago, Booth School of Business.


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L.M. Singh CEO, IPE Global

L.M. Singh’s is working with IPE Global leading the Urban Health Project funded by USAID and its Impact Investment initiative.

L. M. Singh has over 25 years of extensive experience serving Fortune 500 companies. He has held senior management and board positions on public and private companies and has worked with Price Waterhouse, Ernst & Young and ANZ Grindlays Bank. He served as President & Country Head of TAIB Bank, an international investment and merchant bank, in New York and London. He was Managing Partner at Lotus Capital LLC New York and most recently Managing Director at Langham Capital Ltd, India, a cross border investment bank.

He is a Chartered Accountant and also a Certified Information Systems Auditor, CISA (USA). He is a Graduate in Business Studies B.Com (Hons), Sri Ram College of Commerce, (SRCC) Delhi University and a Member Institute of Chartered Accountants of India FCA.

Mark Kahn Founding Partner, Omnivore Partners

Mark Kahn is a Founding Partner of Omnivore, an impact fund investing in startups from India developing breakthrough technologies for food, agriculture, and the rural economy. Mark is a Director for multiple Omnivore-backed startups, including Skymet and MITRA. Previously, Mark was the Executive Vice President (Strategy & Business Development) at Godrej Agrovet, one of India’s foremost diversified agribusiness companies. At Godrej Agrovet, Mark was responsible for corporate strategy, M&A, R&D, and new business incubation. Earlier in his career, Mark worked for Syngenta and PFM. He earned a BA (Honors) from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he graduated as a Baker Scholar.

Mona Kachhwaha Investment Director, Caspian

Mona is an Investment Director at Caspian Impact Investment Advisors. As the fund manager for the India Financial Inclusion Fund, she has spearheaded the fund’s investments in financial inclusion and affordable housing. She works closely with Caspian’s portfolio companies and serves on the boards of various portfolio companies.

Mona has over 22 years of financial services industry experience – prior to her current role at Caspian (since 2007) she was with Citibank (1994-2007) where she worked in a variety of roles in consumer banking, including as the risk head for mortgage business and business head of microfinance business in India. She was instrumental in striking large asset relationships, which led to significant growth in Citibank’s microfinance asset base in subsequent years.

Mona graduated in Mathematics from Delhi University (1992) and holds a Post Graduation Diploma in Business Management from XLRI, Jamshedpur (1994).


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Moutushi Sengupta Director, India, McArthur Foundation

Moutushi Sengupta is Country Director for the MacArthur Foundation’s India Office, which provides grantmaking to civil society organizations on Climate Change, Population and Reproductive Health and Girls’ Secondary Education.

Prior to joining MacArthur in April 2013, she worked with Oxfam India, a rights-based organization that fights poverty and injustice. As Director – Programmes and Advocacy for Oxfam India, Moutushi led the process of developing and making operational the vision and strategy for programme management. Before Oxfam, Moutushi worked with the Department for International Development (DFID) in India for over 15 years. During her stint with DFID, she worked on a diverse portfolio of programs and projects across the country, including livelihoods promotion, health, rural development, financial and governance reforms and enterprise development.

Moutushi holds an MBA (University Gold Medalist) degree from the Punjab University and an M.Sc. degree in Applied Environmental Economics from the Imperial College of the United Kingdom. She has been a visiting faculty with the Symbiosis Institute of International Business, teaching post-graduate course on financial services for the rural poor.

Naina Subberwal Batra CEO, AVPN

Naina Subberwal Batra is the CEO of the Asian Venture Philanthropy Network (AVPN). The AVPN is a non-profit membership association of organizations interested in or currently practicing venture philanthropy in Asia. Naina guides the strategy for their 255+ multi-sector partners, spanning 30 countries of operations.

Naina’s past experience of over 20 years includes being part of the senior leadership team at Monitor Inclusive Markets, a mission driven consulting unit of the Monitor Group that aimed at catalyzing market based solutions for social change. In addition she has worked in organisations such as KPMG and Citibank

Naina has a master’s degree in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University where she graduated at the top of her class. She also holds a bachelor degree in Economics and International Relations from Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, USA and a General Course Diploma in economics from The London School of Economics.


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Nehal Sanghavi Senior Advisor for Innovation and Partnership, USAID / India

Nehal Sanghavi has served as an American diplomat with USAID/India as the Senior Advisor for Innovation and Partnership in the Director’s Office since August 2012. He has more than 15 years professional experience in international law, business and development. Prior to joining USAID, Mr. Sanghavi was the Chief Operating Officer of Gateway House: Indian Council on Global Relations, India’s first independent foreign policy think tank. Prior to that, he was with Dasra, a Mumbai- based strategic philanthropy advisory firm for twelve years as Director and General Counsel. Mr. Sanghavi also spent eight years practicing international law at various large international law firms in New York and Texas.

Nehal earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics with a concentration in Law from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas and a Doctorate of Jurisprudence with a concentration in International Law from the University of Texas, School of Law in Austin, Texas. He is certified by the Supreme Courts of Texas and New York to practice law and served on the boards of a variety of non-profit organizations, including as President of the India Cultural Center in Austin, Texas.

Nehal is fluent in English, Spanish, Gujarati and Hindi. In his leisure time, he enjoys spending time traveling, scuba diving, and engaging in other adventure sports. He is an American citizen with an Overseas Citizen of India status and lives in New Delhi with his wife and daughter.

Nishith Desai Founder, Nishith Desai Associates

Nishith Desai is the founder of the research-based strategy driven international law firm, Nishith Desai Associates (www.nishithdesai.com) with offices in Mumbai, Silicon Valley, Bangalore, Singapore, Mumbai – BKC, New Delhi and Munich. Nishith himself is a renowned international tax, corporate, IP lawyer researcher, published author and lecturer in leading academic institutions around the world. Soon after India opened up its economy to the outside world in 1991, he established the first five India Focused funds and pioneered the roots of asset management industry and the firm has now worked for over 900 funds across all classes of asset. The Firm recently won an award for being the Most Innovative Law firm in Asia Pacific by the Financial Times (London). NDA was able to demonstrate innovations in all the 3 major categories: Finance, Corporate & Commercial and the Business of Law. This year’s win marks a hat-trick (2014-2016) for the firm as the Most Innovative Indian Law Firm. Financial Times quoted “Nishith Desai...a constructively contrarian, created his law firm in 1990 using a model and approach radically different from that of the most international premium law firms”.


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Peter Nicholas Director, Social Finance

Peter Nicholas is a Director at Social Finance, and is a core member of the Senior Management Team leading the development of Impact Bonds in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. He also has over 25 years of management and project experience at the World Bank, including leading operational teams in Africa, South Asia and the Caucasus. His work has ranged from fiscal management to environmental assessments, and from community-based social development to the fiscal impact of mining investments. He has published on the social costs of economic restructuring and on the special needs of small economies. Peter is also a Trustee of BRAC UK. He holds an M.Phil. in Economics and a D.Phil. in Philosophy from Oxford University.”

Preeti Sinha Senior President and Global Convenor, Yes Bank

Preeti was engaged in increasing the delivery of the business pipeline at the ADB and achievement of its institutional commitments and initiatives. She has worked extensively on financing for development under Resource Mobilization and Strategy Development in over 4 continents –Asia, North America, Europe and Africa. With over 25 years of global experience, she will lead the YES Institute in New Delhi. She has prior experience of over 15 years in investment banking for HSBC, Rabobank, Lehman Brothers and JP Morgan in London, Hong Kong, Mumbai and New York. Preeti has an Executive Education degree from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She achieved a Master’s degree in Global Leadership from the World Economic Forum. She holds a MBA from the Yale University School of Management (SOM). She has a BA Honours degree from the Dartmouth College in Economics and Computer Science.


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Pramod Bhasin Founder and Former CEO, Genpact

Pramod Bhasin is the founder of Genpact and was its President & CEO till June 2011. He is also the former Head of GE Capital in Asia and India. Recently, he completed the buy-out of GE Capital’s commercial andleasing businesses in India in partnership with AION Capital. Pramod is considered the founder and pioneer of Business Process Management in India, an industry that currently employs over a million people in India directly and indirectly. Under his leadership, Genpact has also been the pioneer of this industry in China, Eastern Europe and Latin America. Genpact is acknowledged today as the leader in its industry and known for its leadership development, operating excellence and global scale, with over 55,000 employees across 17 countries and nearly US$ 2 billion in annual revenues. Pramod currently sits on the Board of IIM Lucknow, SRF Ltd, NDTV Ltd, DLF Ltd, the Shri Ram School as well as NGOs such as Help Age, Vandana Foundation and Vishwas. He is also the Chairman and co-founder of the Skills Academy, an organization focused on skills development in the rural and semi urban areas of India to enhance employability for the people. Pramod is a Chartered Accountant (CA) from McLintock& Co, London and holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Shri Ram College of Commerce.

Ragini Choudahry Private Sector Advisor, DFID

Ragini is development finance professional with more than 15 years of experience in microfinance and development. She is currently leading the financial inclusionagenda of Poorest State Inclusive Growth (PSIG) Programme as well as its impact investment and incubation portfolio as a Private Sector Development Advisor, UK Government’s Department ForInternational Development (DFID) India. Prior to DFID, she has worked in Mi India (DiaVikas Capital), EDA Rural Systems, Care India, Institute of Rural Management Anand, in various capacities specialising in,impact investment,training, rating, consultingand social performance management of microfinance institutions. Ragini is a management graduate from Instituteof Rural Management Anand (IRMA) and has qualified as a Management Accountant from Chartered Institute of Management Accounting (CIMA),UK.


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Rahil Rangwala Director, Family Economic Services at Michael & Susan Dell Foundation

Rahil is the director of the Family Economic Stability team in India and oversees the foundation’s investments in the financial inclusion and livelihoods sectors. He spent over seven years at Bridgewater Associates, a global macro hedge fund, before making the transition to the development sector. Rahil has a bachelor’s in computer science from the University of Texas in Austin and a master’s in public administration with a focus on international development from New York University.

Ritu Verma Co-Founder, Managing Partner, Ankur Capital

Ritu has over two decades of experience of bringing innovation to markets. She is a co-founder and managing partner at Ankur Capital. She has both investment and operational experience across IP led technology companies in renewable energy, agriculture and materials and consumer goods. In the past she has worked at Philips and Unilever and spearheaded technology investments for multiple venture funds globally. She holds an MBA from INSEAD with a focus on entrepreneurship and venture capital and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Pennsylvania. She also is the author of 4 patents.

Royston Braganza CEO, Grameen Capital

Royston joined Grameen Capital in 2007 to launch the organization as CEO. He currently oversees all aspects of operations in India. Grameen Capital is a collaboration between Grameen Foundation USA, IFMR Trust and Citigroup, is a first of its kind social business enabling Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) develop wider access to the capital markets. Grameen Capital is part of the global Grameen family of companies, the flagship of which is the Nobel Prize-winning Grameen Bank founded by Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus. Before joining HSBC, Royston worked in Citibank India for over 8 years in various assignments both across the Consumer Bank as well as the Corporate Bank. He serves on many boards and advisory bodies, including Sa-Dhan, Grameen Foundation India, FICCI Financial Inclusion Committee, the CII National Committee on NBFC’s, the United Nations Microfinance Resource Group and the Indian Impact Investors Executive Council. The London-based Finance Monthly publication named Royston in their 2013 Global CEO Award Winners list as one of the Top 4 CEOs in Asia, and Top 2 in India, the other one being Kumar Mangalam Birla. Royston has done his Masters in Management Studies from the prestigious Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai.


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Saneesh Singh Chief Executive Officer, Dia Vikas Capital Pvt. Ltd.

Mr. Singh has over 20 years of experience in promotion development and financing of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) and microfinance. He has worked in various managerial capacities in the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI). Mr. Singh was part of the core team that initiated SIDBI’s micro finance project christened as SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC). He holds a Masters Degree in Social Work as well as in Systems Administration and is an Associate of the Indian Institute of Bankers. Mr. Singh is also a British Chevening (Banking and Finance) Scholar from London School of Economics.

Sapna Shah Director, Global Impact Investing Network

Sapna Shah serves as a Director at the GIIN. In this role she focuses primarily on supporting the GIIN’s strategic relationships and oversees the training program and outreach activities in East Africa and South Asia. She previously led the GIIN’s global membership efforts and Project Terragua, a former Investors’ Council working group on sustainable agriculture investing in sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to joining the GIIN, Sapna was the program officer for Africa and regional coordinator for East Africa for CNFA, a non-profit organization focused on strengthening the agricultural sectors of developing economies. Earlier in her career she worked as a researcher on corporate social responsibility issues and as a consultant.

Sara Taylor Head DFID Impact Fund, CDC Group

Prior to joining CDC, Sara was a Principal at Accion Frontier Investments, an equity fund investing in financial inclusion companies globally.

Sara has also worked for the Grassroots Business Fund in Zambia, the Royal Bank of Scotland (Global Banking & Markets) and practised law at Clifford Chance.

Sara holds a BA in PPE from Oxford University, a Graduate Diploma in Law from the College of Law, and an MA in International Development from Johns Hopkins SAIS.


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Shashaank Awasthi Advisor, Gray Ghost Ventures

Shashaank was formerly a Commercial Banker at ABN AMRO, IDBI Bank Limited and Tata Group. He also has an interest in double bottom-line enterprises, microfinance, financial inclusion and businesses that generate social returns. Shashaank received his Master of Business Administration in Finance from NarseeMonjee Institute of Management Studies as well as a Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting from the University of Rajasthan.

Saurabh Narain President and CEO, National Community Investment Fund

Saurabh Narain is President and CEO of National Community Investment Fund (www.ncif.org) a nonprofit private equity fund and CDFI focused on mission-oriented financial institutions including minority and CDFI banks. He is an Impact Investor and Banking Executive with almost 30 years of global experience building highly profitable businesses both in the for-profit and non-profit environments.

Under his leadership, NCIF has quadrupled its AUM to a peak of $228 million, including $206 million of New Markets Tax Credits. He pioneered social performance metrics for banks (www.bankimpact.org). NCIF has three lines of businesses that include equity investing, lending using tax credits and impact measurement.

Saurabh is a member of the Investors Council of the Global Impact Investing Network and on several industry advisory boards. He was past member of the Federal Reserve Board’s Consumer Advisory Council (2008-10), the Minority Depository Institutions Advisory Council of the Officer of Thrift Supervision (2009-11) and of CDFI Coalition (www.cdfi.org). He is also on the US boards of two Indian nonprofits – Basix (livelihoodbasix.org) and Pradan (pradan-usa.org). Prior to NCIF, Saurabh has had extensive experience in capital markets and risk management having worked at Bank of America for almost 17 years based in Asia and the US. Towards the end of his tenure in Hong Kong, he was Head of Marketing, Non-Japan Asia for Global Derivative Products. Saurabh is a graduate of the ABA Graduate Stonier School of Banking (2007), an MBA from Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad (1985), and a Bachelors of Arts (Honors) in Economics from St. Stephens College, University of Delhi (1983), India.


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Srikrishna Ramamoorthy Partner, Unitus Seed Fund

Srikrishna heads the India operations for Unitus Seed Fund, having joined the fund as Partner to setup the India office in 2012.

At Unitus Seed Fund, Srikrishna manages investment sourcing, portfolio support and India fundraising efforts, leveraging his extensive network and relationships in the entrepreneur and investment ecosystem. He has helped to build and make Unitus Seed Fund the most active impact seed investor in India.

Previously, Srikrishna was a Program Officer with the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, managing a portfolio of investments in urban microfinance and low-income housing. Early in his career, Srikrishna was a member of the founding team at Ujjivan, now the leading urban microfinance bank in India, where he setup and managed branches and worked on strategic partnerships.

Srikrishna serves on the Board of Mentor Together - a transformational non-profit that matches urban disadvantaged youth, enrolled in formal education programs, to professionals, who serve as mentors. He is also one of the founders of the Bangalore Literature Festival – India’s largest community funded literary event.

Srikrishna graduated with an engineering degree from the RVCE, Bangalore.

Siddharth Nautiyal Investment Partner, Omidyar Network

Siddharth is an investment partner at Omidyar Network where he leads the firm’s Emerging Tech investments in India. Before joining Omidyar Network, Siddharth was an entrepreneur, angel investor, and mentor to startup companies across Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai, and Pune. He incubated and advised companies in edtech and home relocation, invested in fintech, B2B SAAS, and consumer internet companies, and served on the board of India’s largest distributed clean energy company.

Siddharth was formerly with Bessemer Venture Partners, where he was most recently a partner in the firm’s Mumbai office. While at Bessemer, Siddharth had the opportunity to invest in and work with companies across various sectors including e-commerce, clean energy, healthcare, and hospitality.Siddharth joined Bessemer from McKinsey & Company, where he spent five years in the India office, working with companies across financial services, healthcare, retail, and manufacturing industries. Siddharth holds a Post Graduate Diploma in management from the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad and a B. Tech. in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur.


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Vineet Sukumar Senior Partner, IFMR Capital

Vineet is presently the CFO of IFMR Capital and CEO of IFMR Investment Managers. Vineet joined IFMR Capital in early 2010 and was instrumental in formulating the origination and business development process, creating new capital market structures, as well as in driving client and investor engagement. Vineet presently heads fund management services at IFMR Investment Managers, is responsible for managing the treasury, accounts and markets teams at IFMR Capital. He also supports the CEO on developing and driving the strategy of the company.

Vineet has several years of experience in strategy, corporate finance and investment banking roles in large corporates and in the financial services industry. Prior to IFMR Capital, he worked with Standard Chartered Bank, managing the bank’s largest corporate relationship. Vineet has also worked with the Tata Group in leadership roles across diverse industries. Vineet graduated from IIT Kharagpur and completed his MBA from IIM Bangalore.

Vijaylakshmi Das Managing Director, Ananya Finance

Ms. Vijayalakshmi Das is the Managing Director and Promoter Director of Ananya Finance for Inclusive Growth (P) Limited. Ananya, and NBFC, provides loans to institutions which provide financial services to low income households in 17 states. Currently, she is also holding the position of CEO of Friends of Women’s World Banking, India. She had served as the CEO of FWWB from 1989 to 2010. She has served as member of various policy advisory groups (CGAP) and currently serves in the Board of Indian School of Microfinance for Women, Invest India Micro Pension Services, Access Development Services and some of the leading MFIs of India.


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Vinita Katara Associate, Russell Reynolds Associate

Vinita Katara is a member of the firm’s CEO/Board Services, Non-Profit, and Corporate Officers practices. Based in Mumbai, she advises local and international clients on search and succession issues. She has placed a number of senior level executives across industries, including more recently in the Impact Investing space in India.

Vinita brings more than eight years of executive search experience, including CEO, CFO and Board searches across the Life Sciences, Industrial, and Consumer Sectors. She joined Russell Reynolds Associates from another leading executive search firm, where she held roles of increasing responsibility, including her work in her prior firm’s Business & Professional Services Practice, where she was part of the team responsible for driving the firm’s internal hiring. Additional professional experience includes being a member of India’s start-up team for Bristol-Myers Squibb. Vinita held sales and marketing roles there, including marketing responsibility for Taxol, the company’s blockbuster anti-cancer chemotherapy drug, on a pan-India basis.

Vinita received her Bachelor’s Degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences and her M.B.A. from the SP Jain School of Global Management.

Will Poole Managing Partner, Unitus Seed Fund / Capria Ventures

Will Poole is a serial entrepreneur and venture investor. He recently co-founded Unitus Seed Fund, the leading impact fund in India investing in businesses innovating for the masses, and Capria Accelerator, partnering with and investing in emerging fund managers in developing markets of Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Will co-founded and serves on the board of Bangalore-based Vidyanext, with a mission to change the way India learns. He serves on two nonprofit boards, Village Reach and Global Washington, and serves on the investment committee of Seattle-based W Fund.

In his technology career, Will was previously Chairman of NComputing, and was a Corporate Vice President at Microsoft where, during his 13-year tenure, he led several business lines, including the $13 billion Windows client business, and founded the company’s efforts to tailor products to the needs of low-income customers. His career started by founding two startups at the dawn of the PC era, working in the early days at Sun Microsystems, and pioneering e-commerce at eShop, which was acquired by Microsoft in 1996. Will advises Brown University and Western Governors University on technology. He received a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Brown in 1983.


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Yoshiki Hashimoto Investment Committee Member, Aavishkaar

After graduated from the Osaka University for Foreign Studies in 1978, he started his career as a diplomat at Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan to be an expert of Central European Countries. He joined Nomura Securities in 1981. He has primarily worked at the wholesale business including Corporate and Public International Finance, Foreign Companies’ IPO to Tokyo Stock Exchange, Cross border M&A, FDI Advisory, Project Finance, Country Risk Research, New Business Development, Private Equity and Venture Investments. His last responsibility was the Head of Asia Merchant Banking based in Hong Kong in charge of Nomura’s principal investment in Asia. He retired the company in 2013 and now is a self employed consultant in the field of Cross-Border Corporate Alliance. As an advisor, he supports some start-ups, social entrepreneurs and NPOs in Japan. Hashimoto is also a partner of Social Venture Partners Tokyo and ARUN LLC.


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