Shailesh Haran
Director In Charge
Director In Charge
Chairman
Chief Secretary
Treasurer
Vice Chairman (JAN)
Vice Chairman (JSA)
Vice Chairman (JIC)
Vice Chairman (JMA)
National Lead (JIN)
Secretary JAN
Secretary JSA
Secretary JIC
Secretary JIN
Joint Secretary
Joint Secretary
National Convenor
National Convenor
National Convenor
National Convenor
International Convenor
National Convenor
National Convenor
National Convenor
National Convenor
National Convenor
MPCG Convenor
ROM Convenor
East Convenor
TNAPTS Convenor
Rajasthan Convenor
North Convenor
Gujarat Convenor
KKG Convenor
Mumbai Convenor
Rajat qualified as an MBA (PGDM) in Capital Markets from Prin. L.N. Welingkar Institute of
Management Development and Research (WeSchool)
At Mehta Equities, Rajat heads the initiatives with Sistema Asia Fund India Ventures
(a mid-stage focused USD 120Mn tech and venture sector agnostic fund) as part of its
Investment Committee.
With over 10 years of experience, Rajat leads the Wealth Management and Venture/Alternate Assets
division and contributes to the Business Development and Human Resources of the organization.
Exposure in Startup Ecosystem
An Engineer by education and a passionate entrepreneur.
As Chairman and Managing Director of a listed Company, EMCO Ltd., scaled the company from 25 crs to
over 1000 crs by adding multiple new ventures in the power sector and exporting its products &
services to over 50 countries. During this journey developed and exited multiple power generation
businesses with double digit MOIC.
Has been associated with IEEMA as its Youngest President & Chairman of Elecrama, Director of CII
(WR), Member of various Government Task Force, Founding Chairman of JITO Gowalia Tank Chapter,
Trustee of various Social Organizations.
Currently invested in a large mining & power project abroad and real estate investments in India.
Through the Family Office, invests in public markets in India & USA .An active Angel Investor having
more than 50 start up investments spanning across edtech, fintech, health tech, clean tech etc.
Director and Founder of Augmont Gold for All, an integrated refinery to retail gold company. He has
been in the gold industry for the last 20 years now. He is one of the most influential leader,
entrepreneur, innovator and game changer under the age of 40 and has been recognised as BW40under40
by Business World in 2021.
He has been instrumental in launching various innovative products including but not limited to the
world's largest spot bullion OTC platform - SPOT, India's first digital gold platform, India's first
gold borrowing & lending system, India's first structured products in gold, India's leading gold
refinery, etc. Augmont is India’s number one gold platform with millions of customers and thousands
of jewellers.
He is also the Joint Secretary of Indian Bullion Jewellers Association (IBJA). He has been a member
of various steering committees and significantly contributed with recommendations to the Government
of India for updating in the gold policies. He is also the promoter and director of Arvog, a listed
digital lending company which provides personal and gold loans.
A Partner at MGB, a 44-year-old professional services firm that provides comprehensive set of
assurance, taxation, risk management and business advisory services under one roof. With more than
22 years of experience, Jeenendra currently leads the Business consulting unit of the firm & leads
the business development of the firm’s practice. He has led his firm from a 20 people team into a
350 people full-service firm with 6 own offices in Mumbai, Delhi, Jaipur, GIFT City (Ahmedabad),
Bangalore and Dubai. In one of his recent growth acquisitions, he acquired a 30- member team of
cyber security, fraud and forensics professionals out of one of the largest company in India. He
continues to grow and diversify his firm in various service lines and locations in India.
Education: Jeenendra qualified as a Chartered Accountant at 21 years. He completed
his Bachelor’s degree from Narsee Monjee College and his Master’s degree from Sydenham College. He
is also a Certified Public Accountant from Delaware, United States. He is a certified Insolvency
Professional by the Insolvency & Bankruptcy Board of India. Prior to joining MGB as a partner,
Jeenendra was with Arthur Andersen at Mumbai, which was once the world’s largest professional
services firm. He is the founding member of Arthur Andersen Alumni in India.
Professional Profile: Besides academic accomplishments & achievements, he has
several publications to his credit in reputed Journals and has been a speaker in several
Conferences, Seminars, Panel Discussions and Faculty Development Programmes on regular basis. He was
a Member of their International Taxation, International Affairs Committee and Auditing and Assurance
Standards Board of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI).
Leadership: Apart from professional work, Jeenendra also has led various forums
too. He wasthe Chairman of the Mumbai chapter of Young Indians, the youth arm of Confederation of
Indian Industries (CII). He was the Chairman of the ‘Young Leaders Forum’ the youth wing of Indian
Merchants Chamber (IMC). He was the Chairman of Board of Advisors of AIESEC, a students’ body,
present in over 2,400 universities in 125 member countries across the world.
Startups and Entrepreneurship: He was a visiting faculty at Sydenham College for
‘Entrepreneurship’ and also coached aspiring students to prepare for CPA in USA. He is also a
Charter member of TiE Mumbai which is the world’s largest network of successful entrepreneurs,
corporate executives and senior professionals established with an aim to foster entrepreneurship. He
was also the Chief Secretary at JITO Incubation and Innovation Foundation which has invested in more
than 150+ Crores in 50+ Startups in India. Jeenendra loves mentoring new business ideas and has
invested in a number of technology and healthcare startups and exited a few of them successfully. He
sits on the Board of companies as an Independent Director/Advisor advising promoters and founders on
their companies and strategy.
Social Work: With a family culture of giving back, Jeenendra promoted
‘ChandraMohan Foundation’, a family charity for public welfare activities that is named after his
parents. Specializing in Corporate CSR, ChandraMohan Foundation enables him to achieve that ‘small’
change in this world. Jeenendra leads various social projects of the Foundation especially in
education and entrepreneurship. He initiated setting up the ‘MGB Computer Lab’ for CA students at
the new ICAI building at BKC, Mumbai. He has been awarded “Best work in other Social Services“ for
Chartered Accountants by ICAI.
A Chartered Accountant, 2004 batch and a seasoned professional with 18+ years of experience in
marquee corporates, spending a decade with Wipro, among the early leaders in Flipkart in 2014 to
becoming CFO of Myntra in 2018 and currently CFO of CoinSwitch, which is leading company in Crypto
trading.
A seasoned investor in Startup space investing across domain in early stage and advisor to multiple
startups and helping founders with strategy, raising money or exiting businesses.
Keen to invest in AgriTech, Aritifical Intelligence, Web 3, Micro SAAS services & keen interest in
ConsumerTech. He comes with deep experience in eCommerce, house of brands, D2C and Web 3 space.
An Mba from Cardiff university and HBS alumni OPM 52 batch. Director in real estate firm in name of Vijaylaxmi Developers.
A Chartered Accountant by profession having a rich experience of 15 years in the finance and in
industry sector. I am a Managing Director at SKD Advisors Pvt. Ltd. and Director at Bizastra Pvt.
Ltd.
-Industrial Subsidy consultant
-Dealt with 150+ renowned Industries across Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and including Multinationals
Exposure in Startup Ecosystem
-Startup Investor and Advisor
-Angel Investor in JAN and ah! Venture
– Invested in over 11 startups
-Venture Partner at ah! Ventures
Business Network and Associations
-Member of ELCINA, CII, MACCIA, MASSIA
-Speaker on various industrial/Professional Platform/seminars on industrial Subsidies/ Startup
benefits/ Incubation etc.
D. Pharm by education and is in the business of investment in start-up as angel investors and
investment in different start-up funds and equity investment majorly in small cap and mid cap,
consultancy, and trading in export incentives for about 20 years through his family business. He has
been extensively travelling for the purpose of business and has been strongly associated with large
business houses for the purpose of his business of trading, consulting in the areas of Foreign Trade
Policy.
HARSH NIRMAN group of companies having interest in different businesses like investment in start- up
& start up related funds and equity market , stake holder in venture catalyst pvt ltd and partner in
beams fintech fund , also Exim consultation of foreign trade policy for incentives on exports and
have a company which deals in trading of export incentives licenses and also participates in bidding
of government tenders on government e-commerce platform GEMS for trading products from time to time
and import certain products.
Also running a sports academy which is into tennis and recently have added 2 more sports cricket and
football. Also, into commercial construction projects and warehousing project.
Investment in more than 50 companies and 3 funds.
Interested to invest or know more in startups : in fintech and service based start
ups. Also interested in start up which create disruption in traditional businesses by way of tech or
any other way.
Director at Vijay Chemicals - led with a focus on supplying Quality Control Instruments, Laboratory
Instruments, Acids, Catalysts, and Chemicals of similar nature mostly used in the Research and
Development Labs of the Scientific Community, Pharmaceutical Companies, Defence Companies,
Institutes, Agricultural Verticals.
Partner at - Be-One Infra - Realty company which is an insignia developing Pune’s residential,
commercial & infrastructural landmarks in and around the city.
Invested in various Startups through JAN in Blusmart, Instoried, Aten Pou, Ajna Lens
at Gokaldas Images
His strength
Energetic and change management catalyst with an eye on cashflows improvement and cost optimization.
I am a Chartered Accountant and a Company Secretary. I am an Advisor to Government of Rajasthan on
Startup Programs & Policies. I also run a Startup Investments & Advisory firm
Founder at Venture muse Advisors
Advisor & Mentor, iStart Rajasthan, Angel Investor, Startup Advisor, Ex- Boston Consulting Group,
KPMG, RBS. , Ex- Co-founder, Marwari Catalysts
Co-founded Marwari Catalysts and built the Accelerator Program there. Built the portfolio from 3 to
18 companies. Mentor for 3000+ startups at iStart Rajasthan. Angel Investor in 3 companies. Founders
connect with many celebrity founders. Work closely with many VCs.
Strong connect in the startup ecosystem. Access to some of the hottest deals due to founders
connect. Strong VC connect helps me to take good deals and mandates for startups to the VCs, Micro
VCs, Family Offices, Government backed funds and other Angel Networks. Millions of impressions on my
startup content on platforms such as LinkedIn and Twitter.
Chief Happiness Officer @ Botree, CII Young Indians Pune - YUVA Chair
Talks about #adagency, #tedxpune, #studentsfirst, #brandingagency, and #ciiyoungindians
Co-Founder of AART Ventures which is the investment arm of Tarun Jain Family Office. In 2013,
Anurag co-founded Nextgen Fibres Private Limited, which is a leading manufacturer of Recycled
Polyester Staple Fibre in India. At Nextgen, he provides strategic support and drives business
development activity. Prior to that, he was with KPMG as part of the audit team for financial
services companies. He was also a part of the Institutional Equity Research team at Axis Capital
where he worked across sectors and teams. Anurag is a Chartered Accountant and holds a Bachelor of
Commerce degree from Mumbai University (Narsee Monjee College)
Invested in Altigreen Propulsion Labs, Wonderchef, Silveredge Tech
Sectors interested in - Electric vehicles ancillary, alternate materials/material sciences, fintech,
ad tech
Masters in Business Administration with a major in Marketing and a minor in Finance. Founder at
Trikaal Theatres & Realty India Pvt Ltd
A CFA(US) Level 3 candidate. MFD (Mutual Fund Distributor), advisor and a digital marketer.
Company profile *Founder at Shradhanomics , Udemy Instructor, CFA level 1 instructor ,Blogger
Partner at Raj Media Solutions- One stop solution to all your marketing needs
An Artist, Intrapreneur and Business Development Executive. Alumni of Amani Institute, Royal
College of Art and SP Jain School of Global Management.
Business Development Executive at RDB Group
Established in 1981, RDB Group has investments in Real Estate, Infrastructure, Tobacco, Bulk
Packaging Solutions, Transport & Logistics, Automobiles Marketing, FMCG Products, Defence,
Education, Hospitality and Entertainment.
Suppliers of Dry Chillies and Chilly Powder to India's Top Superbrands.
Director at Vijaya Sri Cold Storage Pvt Ltd - One of the biggest Cold Storage Units in Guntur.
Storage Capacity of 6000 Metric Tonnes (Approx 1,25,000 Bags)
Partner at VM Finserve and Asset Management Part of Lets Venture Member,
VCats Member
A board member and executive director of a listed entity and AD II licensed by the Reserve Bank of
India, to serve in the foreign exchange and international remittances industry.
Have a wealth of experience in the currency exchange & cross border domain along with a focus on
risk management, operations, quality control, and customer service.
Prithvi Exchange is a Reserve Bank of India (RBI) licensed, Authorized Dealer Category II. Over the
last 27 years Prithvi Exchange has emerged as a vibrant and trusted brand and that is widely
recognized in the field of Foreign Exchange. Network spans across the country dealing with some
marquee corporates, UHNI’s, Celebrities & students.
Have completed 25 Years of dedicated business of sales and services in Hyderabad. Design, implement
and Finance complete IT infra to SMB, Large Corporates and Educational Institutes. It includes
supply and installation services of Laptops, Desktops, Servers, Storage, Surveillance and
Software’s. Company also specializes in consultation to Education sector for the design and
implementation of information Technology and related infrastructure.
Authorized distributors for brands like
Commscope, CPPlus, DLink, TPLink, Tally Software, Western Digital, APC UPS,Lacie, MSI, Zebronics,
Microtek, HP, Dell, Lenovo, Logitech,Samsung, Nvidia, Blackmagic Design, Hikvision
Actively Incolved from last 5 years, Partner @ Smayakt Capital (Part of Venture Catalyst) Invested
in 40+ companies
A Strategic Advisor, Business Intelligence Guru & Cofounder of Electric Car Startup with over 25
years of entrepreneurial, professional & International experience, built over 8 companies and 4
startups, worked with top fortune companies in USA, Advisor to Corporates, business houses, MSME’s &
Startups in India.
Built and exited Twice Group a Multi business conglomerate HQ in South India dealing in Coffee to
Cars with operations in Automobiles, Infrastructure, Data Centre’s & Data Management, IT Hardware &
Software, Digital & Future Tech, Firefighting & Surveillance System, Automobile, Online FM, Racing
team, Media & Entertainment company.
Since 2014 took a path to nurture Entrepreneurs and played Key roles in growing few startups from
idea to successful ventures currently have special interest in Data& Deep Tech, EV, Drone &
Robotics. OzoneMotors.in - Building India’s First Smart 4 passenger 4 Door Electric Car cSUV Style
that is Practical, Intelligent & Affordable.
Invested, Shareholder and mentor of few startups.
Known as the Solutions & Strategy Guy - Business Growth, Market evaluation & expansion, GTM,
Branding & Investment Mapping for Corporate, Small Business and Startups.
estate investments in India. Through the Family Office, invests in public markets in India & USA .An active Angel Investor having more than 50 start up investments spanning across edtech, fintech, health tech, clean tech etc.
Pursued his MBA in Strategic Management from Australia and started his journey into business and
ventured a stock broking firm. Diversifying his business and taking forward legacy family business
of land dealings, he co-founded Unispace Ventures, a real estate development company developing
weekend homes and residential plots with beautiful landscapes under the brand Inverness across
Gujarat.
Being passionate for new business initiatives and thrift for engaging with innovative founders,
Siddharth started his startup investments journey nearly ten years back and did angel investing in
many start-ups some of which are recognized as unicorn today. Siddharth unique is his amazing
networking skills, rapport with people he maintains and vision he brings to the business for
collective growth
Investments: Active investor in Startups
Siddharth Bagadia is sector agnostic and is always keen on exploring and welcoming startups in a
wide range of business activities. What interests him as investor is the problem solving, barrier
breaking and tech-enabled innovative start-ups which are run by hustling founders and have potential
for scaling.
Mass media graduate with specialisation in advertisement.
Completed my MBA from ISME, Mumbai. Also, gained certification in Personal branding and marketing
from University of Virginia.
Founder at Label Sarangel , Sarkhush Menswear, House of Sarangel
Working at Family business Gemini Instratech Pvt Ltd , Instrument Transformers (OIP and Resin cast
Transformers)
Was part of the organising committee for Shark Angels and conceptualised and executed EPIC
B.TECH in Textile Technology from the DKTE`s Textile and Engineering Institute, a Globally recognised institute for Textile Engineering.
Social Profile –
1) Past President of Rotary Club of Ichalkaranji Textile City
2)Chief Secretary – Jito Ichalkaranji Chapter 2023*2022
3)Associated as Board Member in various Trade Associations.
Company Profile
Jatin Cotton Mills Pvt Ltd – Manufacture of Grey Fabrics of Cotton and Blends Neminath Texfab Pvt
Ltd – Manufacture of Dhoties and Puja Vastra
Swastik Denim Pvt Ltd – State of the Art Sizing Unit
Microtex Processors Pvt Ltd – Upcoming processing unit at Kagal Five Star MIDC for Fabric
Processing, selected company under PLI -1 scheme for Textiles of the Govt of India Ativeer
Innovations Pvt Ltd – Food Processing Start Up
Mishu Granites – Manufacture of Artificial Granite Slabs, Deal in Natural Granite & Marble.
Angel Investor || Mentor || Philanthropist
Anand Saklecha is a fellow member of ICAI and CMA. In his profession he is the Partner Anand
Saklecha and Co (Chartered Accountants), Director ASCO Capital Pvt. Ltd & Partner Ivy League
Ventures.
In his carrier of more than 2 decades into consulting, had handled various assignments into
different industries ranging from Pharmaceuticals, Biotech, Engineering, hospitality, Ed tech,
shipping, defense, aviation etc. Started investing in startups in 2015 and invested in various
startups in the fields of logistics, engineering, deep tech, agri-tech and med- tech etc.
Identifying the need and vaccum started a super early sector agnostic angel platform (IVY LEAGUE) to
invest at the ideation stage and cutting the not just the first cheque but to offer beyond capital.
A little different than professional ground, Mr. Saklecha contributes a bit for social causes. He is
one of the founding members of Nanhe Farishte (An NGO working towards Cancer sufferers and Cancer
Awareness Programs).
Been a member of a few angel networks for last 8-10 years and invested in a few startup’s in
deeptech,
Robotics, medtechs, logistics Solutions, engineering and other domains. Will be keen to know more
on Cyber Security, AI and robotics. Also interested on select basis on handholding some B2C space
companies.
Strengths: Just that in this ecosys for more than 10 years and seen more than a few 100 startup’s
closely and investor and mentor in a few of them. Lately started a super early stage sector agnostic
angel network with the name Ivyleague ventures
A Chartered Accountant with Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management
ADVISOR/ EXPERT COMMITTEES:
CONFERENCES/ EDUCATIONAL:
PROFESSIONAL BODIES:
Committee and Economic Affairs & Finance Committee(ER)
AWARDS/ ACCOLADES:
*Company profile *
Chief Executive of Trusted Cure Pvt. Ltd. - Healthcare Consultants
Was Chief Executive of CMRI & B. M. Birla Heart Research Centre
Jury Member for start-ups at a few Institutions including NASSCOM Expert committee member of ICICI, IDBI etc. for few projects Mentor/ Advisor to a few start-ups
Have 25+ years of corporate experience across management consulting (Booz, BCG) and Private Equity
(Faering Capital). An Engineer and an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad.
Operating Partner with The Convergence Foundation.
TCF is a social sector venture fund and incubator working on the mission of creating 10 strong not
for profit organisations to support development of India with focus on Economic Growth.
Have invested in a few startups as a ln angel investor. Have mentored some startups
Industry interested to invest or know Manufacturing
Food processing
A Chartered Accountant and MBA. An Investment Banker professional with over 12 years of experience
focusing Debt fund raising for large and mid-corporate. Partner at Rank Group.
Rank Finworld LLP. It's a boutique Investment Banking firm with focus on debt fund raising in Real
Estate, Infra, Warehousing, education, Manufacturing and Hospitals
Have invested in 15 startups and understand the space well. Interested in Emerging Technologies and
real estate space