Team

Probir Roy

Probir is a serial entrepreneur with three previous Cos in digital/internet space under his belt. And winner of Two Red Herring Asia Top 100 cos.
Now an active serial investor and C suite mentor.
He is associated with two unicorns, and one soonicorn. He Co founded PayMate , a leading B2B Fintech Co (LODR;DHRP filed) and its Founding- Board Director for 13 years. As also Certified Independent Director at Nazara Technologies
(2018); India's leading digital gaming company, Nodwin (2021) - India's leading e. Sports Co; SportsKeeda (2023) - a leading global sports & e.Sports content platform with over100 million fans worldwide. And amongst the Top 6 sports properties in the USA with 17.2 m unique visitors. Where he Chairs Audit & NRC committees.
While he started his career as an Systems Analyst at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), United Nations. Probir has held leadership positions as Group Head, VP, CTO and CEO/COO in Dept of Atomic Energy (DAE), Star TV (NewsCorp) and the Havas Group respectively.
Probir is senior advisor at the World Association of Small- Medium Enterprises (WASME).
Recently awarded the FINTECH LEADER Award by the Indo-European Business Forum (IBEF) at the House of Lords UK in 2022, amongst other accolades such as FiAKS (Fintech) Maven/Intellectual Explorer award four years in a row 2020 to 2024 and 'Entrepreneur of the Month' June 2020 by the World Small Business Association

Probir has been educated in India, UK and USA.

Rajendra Bagade

Rajendra Shankar Bagade (FCA, DISA, ACCA, Diploma in International Financial Reporting) is a Chartered Accountant with Post-Qualification Diploma in information Systems Audit and diploma in IFRS from ACCA, London. He is a partner and Governing Council Member of SARC & Associates. Rajendra has over 22 years of experience in statutory audit, tax audit, income tax and company law advisory services. He has expertise in the field of IFRS convergence and information system assurance.

Karan Malhotra

Karan is the founder of Founder of StartupFino. He has worked with over 300 startups over a decade and has expertise in entity incorporation, fundraising, cap table management, ESOPs, due diligence, term sheets, accounting, payroll, various types of compliances including labour compliances, and Intellectual Property.

Karan Malhotra is a Graduate from the Delhi University and a Fellow Chartered Accountant.

Satyajeet Chakraborti

Satyajit has close to 17 years of experience in Investment Banking and Management Consulting. He has advised clients in IT, Technology, E-commerce, Digital Media and Education sectors on fund raising and M&A transactions. He started his career in London with Volensys, a corporate finance boutique focused on small and medium sized businesses.

Satyajit has a Bachelors degree in Telecommunication Engineering from PES Institute of Technology, India and a Masters in Digital Signal Processing from Lancaster University, UK.

Preeti Reddy

Preeti held global leadership positions at Kantar, a global consumer insights and consulting company. She has four decades of experience in advising clients across a spectrum of industries on consumer-led market strategy including on branding and communication, corporate image, and sustainability transformation.

Preeti is a non-executive director on the board of Kantar India Foundation; and currently independent director on the boards of ICICI Prudential AMC, Popular Vehicles & Services Limited and Ziqitsa Healthcare Limited.

Preeti has a BA (Hons) degree in Economics and is an MBA from XLRI, Jamshedpur. Prior to joining Kantar, she was CEO of LMRB (Sri Lanka).

Sumit Chowdhury

Dr Sumit Chowdhury is a global thought leader in the field of Artificial Intelligence An investor, and founder of Gaia, Sesovera and Senserba He is currently CTO of Brookfield, INDIA and also of the prestigious Wadhwani Foundation He is a Visiting prof at Carnegie Mellon University (USA).

He is a graduate of IIT Kanpur and MS and PhD from Carnegie Mellon University.

Payal Gupta

Payal is a Organization Development and an Diversity-Equity-Inclusion Practitioner.

She is an intervention specialist and works in the intersection of areas related to Change Management, Organizational Culture, Happy Workplaces, L:eadership, Diversity, Inclusion, Mentorship, Family Business, Women Leadership, Succession Planning. She is an expert in facilitating difficult conversations within the family to enable the unspoken to have a legitimate space.

She currently holds the post of Director at the Indian Society for Applied Behavioural Science (ISABS).

Laveesh Bhandari

Laveesh Bhandari is President and a Senior Fellow at the prestigious think tank – CSEP.

He received his PhD from Boston University for which he was awarded Best Thesis in International Economics. He has taught at Boston University and IIT Delhi. Dr Bhandari is not only economic researcher par excellence but also entreprenuer who has seeded, and exited 3 cos in the research, analytics & digital domains

Pravesh Palad

Pravesh Palod is a member of ICSI and Commerce Graduate in Taxation. He has an overall experience of more than 7 years. Before starting practice, he served the industry in various roles including as Head Secretarial & Compliance. His area of expertise includes Listing of Securities on the Stock Exchanges, Corporate Restructuring by way of Mergers and Amalgamations, Listing Compliances, Corporate Governance, Takeover Regulations, FEMA, RBI Regulations and Companies Act. He has vast experience in the areas of Corporate Laws, Secretarial Audits, Due Diligence and Consultancy.

Pravesh was till recently Co Secy and Chief Compliance Officer at Nazara Technologies

Pawan Kumar

Pawan is a management consultant at large, angel investor with over two decades of experience spanning across strategy formulation, strategy implementation, supply chain, and investment banking. Pawan works with several early and late-stage startups and SMEs on their fund raise and M&A programmes.

Formerly at Deloitte, Pawan has consulted a wide range of clients across industries and functions.

Pawan holds a BTech (Hons) degree in Chemical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur and a PGDM from IIM Lucknow.

Dr Heather Melville OBE

Heather's career spans over 40 years across financial, professional & technology services, with a specific focus on international trade, entrepreneurship and corporate banking. Heather is a business thought-leader and an innovator with a notable track record of building high performing diverse teams.

Heather has acted in an advisory capacity to FTSE CEOs across a multitude of industries and sectors. She is a highly respected and sought after public speaker, having addressed C-Suite leaders, senates, royalty, and global business audiences worldwide.

Heather has won many accolades, including being listed on the Black Powerlist, as one of the 100 most influential black people in the UK. She is a member of the Executive Leadership Council (ELC), whose purpose is to open channels of opportunity for black executives to positively impact business and communities, and the CFO's Diversity Forum for Business in the Community (FTSE100).

Heather has worked in partnership with HRH the Duchess of Edinburgh as part of her role as the Chair CMI Women. Heather also provided special advisory assistance to Queen Maximus of the Netherlands for her women in entrepreneurship programme.

Heather received her OBE for services to business in 2017 and has recently been appointed as the Chancellor of the University of York. Heather is also the Patron of Women in Banking and Finance.

Heather is a Senior Advisor to Teneo, a Global Consultancy, as well as a Trustee on the Board of Enfield Enterprise and until recently (following a 7-year tenure) was a Trustee on the Board for the Chartered Management Institute (CMI). She now sits on the committee for Companions and has recently been elected to join the Everyone Economy Committee.