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30 investors, 200 startups, 700 meetings with 10,000 participants! The Startup Expo, organized at Gurgaon on 23 April 2016, was the largest ever initiative in India to bring together an ecosystem for startup success. Co-created by Lufthansa and The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), the unique one-day event was an unprecedented platform for startups to showcase their business, explore partnership opportunities, as well as interact with investors, venture capitalists, business experts, mentors, corporates, support agencies, industry associations, government organizations and more!
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Startup Expo: 20% of all applications received from smaller towns - The Economic Times
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Alexander Schlaubitz is the Vice President, marketing for Lufthansa. He is Responsible for the Global marketing activities of Lufthansa. He has been responsible for digitalization and innovation initiative for Lufthansa Group. He was the Editor-in chief of the award-winning family of Lufthansa magazines.
Prior to joining Lufthansa, Alex was Director, Marketing - EMEA Facebook, London. He was also held key positions like Director, Marketing – EMEA, Intel Corporation, Managing Director, Change Communications (LOWE Germany), Managing Director, Leo Burnett and many more.
Mr. Wolfgang Will is the Director of Lufthansa Passenger Airlines for South Asia. Based in New Delhi, he oversees Lufthansa’s commercial activities in the Indian market.
Mr. Will started his professional career with Lufthansa in 1981 and has since held numerous positions in administration, human resources, marketing and sales within the company. In 1989 he assumed the position of General Manager for Lufthansa Central Africa, based in Kinshasa, Zaire. Later on in July 1992, Mr. Will returned to Germany as Head of Sales for Lufthansa South Germany, based in Munich.
In September 1997, Wolfgang Will moved to Kassel, Germany, as Head of the Lufthansa Call Center, and subsequently relocated to Frankfurt to take over large-scale projects in human resources, information technology and sales. In September 2008, Mr. Will moved to Mexico City and took over as Director Mexico and Central America, overseeing the airline’s commercial activities in the region.
Kalpana is a Senior Director with the Financial Advisory practice of Deloitte India. She has over 25 years of experience providing advice and counsel on M&A/ JV, valuation and fund raising. She leads the Consumer Business vertical for the Financial Advisory practice and has worked across various industries including Life Sciences and Healthcare, Manufacturing and Telecom.
Kalpana has successfully led acquisitions in the field of telecom, consumer business, energy, oil & gas across India and other continents. Kalpana has worked extensively both with the industry and government bodies for mega joint venture projects.
She is the chairperson of Private Equity & Venture Capital Association of India (PEVCAI), a Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE). She was Co-Chair, TiEcon 2014 and also actively works with a number of start-ups and SMEs.
Masters in Consultancy Management (M.S, BITS Pilani) and Bachelor of Engineering from BIT, Mesra Ashish Mittal has over 20 years of IT industry experience in multiple roles of Sales, Business Development, PreSales Enterprise Architect and Member Technical Staff working with Organizations like Google, Microsoft, Oracle, IBM India, IBM Research Labs, and Ericsson HP.
He started his career with IBM Research. He led the lab services team and spent considerable time in over 17 countries globally. Ashish worked for Oracle and Microsoft supporting their telecom and media business to grow to multifold. He now mentors multiple start-ups in mobile, social and cloud domain through his star-tup Incubator called TurningIdeas. He is an Active angel investor and have multiple start-ups as in both tech and non-tech domain in his portfolio of investments ranging from Education to Retail.
Shagun Nayyar is a business graduate and a CS dropout, Shagun began her entrepreneurial journey early 2015 and since then has always sided with the unconventional. While pursuing her entrepreneurial dream, Shagun also wants to contribute her life to the social cause and hence has been actively involved with multiple NGOs.
Shagun believes in finding simple solutions to simple problems and that was the objective with which AskMyGift, her first venture, was born. Retail being her area of interest, she felt there is nothing in the online world synonym to gifting.
While her efforts on AskMyGift continue, Shagun complimented her second venture SwagBag that aims to disrupt the Offline Retail Space.
Umair Mohammed is the founder and CEO of Wigzo Technologies. A tech and marketing enthusiast, Umair aims at solving basic problem in the analytics and communications sphere with Wigzo - a Global Contextual Marketing Omnichannel Marketing Platform.
Today, Wigzo’s solutions help eCommerce firms create personalized experiences across all customer touch points from a single, integrated digital marketing platform. With the help of a robust predictive engine working at the back, they help unify the customer profiles, to provide a unified experience across all channels.
Umair also hold almost a decade long experience in the digital industry with on-ground speciality in product development and scaling-up fresh businesses.
Namrata Bostrom is the Co-Founder and CEO of POPxo, India’s largest content platform for young women. Combining her background in management consulting with a flair for marketing and branding, she started the platform with co-founder Priyanka Gill in 2014. Producing over 500 pieces of original content every month, POPxo’s articles and videos attract millions of women to its website and app. In 2015 alone, POPxo reached over 1.2 billion people via its hugely popular Facebook page.
Namrata spent the first few years of her career with the Boston Consulting Group in London where she advised global financial institutions and luxury retailers. She is passionate about startups and enjoys talking to and advising young entrepreneurs, sharing her experience of scaling up from concept to company.
Upasana’s mission is to simplify payment acceptance for retailers in India. Her current focus is to bring a million retailers into the MobiKwik payments network. She is also in charge of bank partnerships, business operations, and talent acquisition at MobiKwik. Upasana comes with a strong background in payments as a senior product manager with PayPal in the Silicon Valley and prior to that with HSBC in San Diego, US.
She has 13 years of extensive experience in Payments & Financial Services and has been an entrepreneur in India for over 6 years now.
Smita Mishra is the Founder of PoolWallet - PoolWallet is a mobile peer-to-peer and group payments social network, which helps people plan and pool money together for movies, social causes, events, parties, group-gifting and trips. PoolWallet is aggregating multiple mobile wallets and payment systems in order to provide interoperability for seamless group payments and social experiences. She is also the CEO and Chief Test Consultant at QAzone Infosystems, which is a software testing organization.
She also engages with different forums to assist growth for women in her field and otherwise too.
Nishant Radia is the co-founder and CMO of Vidooly. With over 4 years of experience across product and marketing, he takes care of the strategy and business development at Vidooly, a video analytics & marketing company. A strong believer in the power of content backed by data, Nishant is also a digital activist who helps content creators figure out their audience and eventually create better content.
Vishal is co-founder of Lok Capital 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 is raising its 3rd fund and has so far invested over $85M in India and has fully liquidated its first 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.
Sujata Sahu has over 25 years of time spent in various leadership roles in corporate IT and as an educator and facilitator working with young children. Having worked in various Indian and American firms to lead their large technology systems, Sujata Sahu moved back to India to pursue her passion to work with children. A particularly difficult solo trek into Ladakh brought home the challenges faced by the people of remote Ladakh, leading her to hang up her For Profit boots to focus her time and energy to work with children in these remote mountainous hamlets.
She started 17000 ft Foundation, with the help of her husband in 2012. 17000 ft has a simple aim, to transform the lives of indigenous mountain tribes and enable them to live better lives without being forced into migration. In just its fourth year alone, the work of 17000 ft Foundation has spread to cover the entire geographical region of Ladakh, covering over 900 schools and supporting the local Government to improve the quality of education for its children.
Pranay Gupta is Co-founder at 91Springboard. He has been involved with over 80 startups, led over 40 investments in startups across many domains, and helped 15 startups raise follow-on rounds.
He is a Board Observer to more than ten startups, where he helps them with setting up internal processes, deciding their business strategy, networking, and reaching out to the right kind of people.
Vijay Vashee is the General Manager for Microsoft's IT Group. He stands among TiE's charter members, a group of "successful veteran entrepreneurs, corporate executives and senior professionals who have reached a stage in their professional life when they are ready, willing and able to contribute to fellow members."
Some of the startups which he has funded include "www.versata.com; www.askeme.com; www.ememories.com; www.spinfrenzy.com; www.elance.com; www.yodlee.com."
Arian Lewis is the head of Open Innovation at Barclays. He is a leader in the creation of innovation networks where connection, collaboration, and growth are optimized on both physical (real estate) and digital platforms.
Arian has a unique background with global markets and shaping of nascent innovation ecosystems. He has an extensive experience developing partnerships in developed and emerging markets.
Himanshu Warudkar has a strong track record of setting up & leading highly energetic, technology savvy and innovation driven application delivery teams for various technology / business teams in Barclays. His delivery portfolio includes offshore Digital Channels for 13 African countries, is part of Barclays Africa Group Limited and has been mentoring the UX/UI design teams which are part of the global Design Office organisation.
He is currently working on building Rise Mumbai and working towards contributing to the future of financial services.
Mandeep, bitten by entrepreneurial bug early in life, took the plunge right after B-school in 2009 by starting ReGlobe building innovative solutions around end of life product disposal & recycling.
Constantly on the lookout for finding innovative solutions to recover value from junk, Mandeep set up one of India’s first recycling facility to convert scrap tyres and rubber into fuel oil. The company made a successful exit from the business in late 2012.
In 2013, ReGlobe forayed into online re-ecommerce building an online platform which makes selling old electronic devices a simple affair by helping customers with price discovery and cash in hand with least amount of effort.
Geeta Goel is the Director of Mission Investing at the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, and is responsible for leading the foundation’s global Impact Investing function. The foundation has made over 30 catalytic investments across its India-based microfinance, health and education initiatives, and its U.S.-based education initiatives, in addition to supporting four early-stage funds and incubators in India and the U.S. 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 Price Waterhouse Coopers in India.
Mr. Abhishek is Secretary, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, the key wing spearheading essential government initiatives such as Make in India, Startup India, Ease of Doing Business and Industrial Corridors in the country. Prior to this, he was Secretary, Performance Management in the Cabinet Secretariat. He was placed in Bihar as Divisional Commissioner, Patna and District Magistrate, Patna and East Champaran. As a bureaucrat in the Government of India, he has operated as the Chairman, Commodity Derivative Markets Regulator, Forward Markets Commission. He held positions in the Ministry of Food Processing Industries, Ministry of Home Affairs and Ministry of Law and Justice. Mr. Abhishek was a part of E-Committee, Supreme Court of India, the body entrusted with the task of bringing e-Governance to Judiciary. He was designated by the United Nations in Kosovo as Civil Affairs Officer.
Sahil Jain is a Co-Founder at dineout with special focus on building innovative & scalable tech products. Sahil is responsible for the complete product development and growth/retention strategies at dineout. He co-founded dineout in early 2012 and positioned it as the premier table reservation service in India. Currently, dineout is the largest table reservation platform in the country has grown to 8 cities and is seating more than 100,000 diners on a monthly basis. Sahil has explored diverse avenues like web analytics, call centre analytics and business forecasting for Fortune 500 technology and telecom clients in the US, before exploring his entrepreneurial side.
Luv Jain is the Co-Founder & CEO, Geotrackers Mobile Resource Management (MRM©) solutions. The company leverages GPS location technology, wireless networks, broadand internet and fleet management software to help you track & monitor your fleet wherever it may be and wherever you may be. Now businesses can track driver routes, vehicle speeds and stops, monitor door to door delivery of sensitive or endangered cargo, and protect high-valued assets. This type of real-time data can help to verify mileage reports and be used to even conduct employee performance reviews.
Alok is Co-founder and CEO of Indifi, a platform for enabling debt financing for small businesses. Alok is also an active angel investor, co-founder of Indian Angel Network, and on the board of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) Delhi.
Prior to starting Indifi, Alok setup and ran Canaan Partners' operations in India, investing in high growth technology and internet startups. Earlier, Alok co-founded JobsAhead.com, which was acquired by Monster.com.
Mr Amitabh Kant is presently CEO, NITI Aayog, a Government of India institution for catalysing the development process, nurturing an overall enabling environment by working in partnership with States, by being a knowledge hub and a Think Tank by facilitating implementation.
Amitabh Kant is a member of the Indian Administrative Service, IAS (Kerala Cadre: 1980 Batch). He has been a key driver of “Make in India”, "Startup India", “Incredible India” and “God’s Own Country” initiatives which positioned and branded India and the state of Kerala as leading manufacturing tourism destinations.
Till March, 2016 Amitabh Kant was posted as Secretary, DIPP – Government of India. He was also the Chairman of Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation (DMICDC) and National Productivity Council.
Amitabh Kant has worked as CMD – ITDC, Joint Secretary – Ministry of Tourism, Government of India, Secretary – Tourism, Government of Kerala, Managing Director, Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation, District Collector, Kozikhode and Managing Director, Matsyafed.
Deep is the Founder and Group CEO, MakeMyTrip.com. Launched in India in 2005, MakeMyTrip is today the largest travel company in the country. Having steered the MakeMyTrip business as CEO since its inception in 2000, Deep took on the role of Group CEO in August 2013, to focus on Strategy, M&A and international businesses.
Deep was the President of The Indus Entrepreneurs, Delhi from 2013 - 15 and currently serves on their Board. He is also closely associated with NASSCOM having served on their Executive Council from 2011-13. Deep is on the Governing Council and Board of Ashoka University. He is a founding member of “I am Gurgaon”, an NGO focussed on improving the quality of life in Gurgaon.
In December 2012, Deep was recognized as the most powerful digital influencer in India in a survey conducted by Impact magazine in association with KPMG India.
Shivani Kapoor is the Co-Founder and Director of Intellitots Learning. Shivani combines a passion for education with a desire to create an organization that has a far reaching impact. An entrepreneur and a thought leader, she has spent the last 8 years creating high quality educational institutions that nurture students to be original thinkers and innovators of tomorrow. Intellitots has seen rapid growth over the last few years. Services offered include setting up corporate day care centres, operating preschools, running enrichment programs and conducting teacher training sessions and parenting workshops.
Runway to Success is a multi-staged initiative that celebrates the spirit of Indian entrepreneurship. Conceived and developed by Lufthansa in partnership with the business experts at TiE and India’s premier business TV channel ET NOW, the initiative includes:
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