The following are the panelists:
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Alok Kejriwal CEO and Co-Founder of Games2Win
Alok Kejriwal is a new media serial entrepreneur who specializes in launching digital start up’s and making them profitable. He has been successful in building ventures in India, China and the US.
His mobile venture in China – mobile2win was the one of the first in China in 2001 to offer mobile competitions and promotions by pioneering a television to mobile interactive platform. The company was written up as a case study in Stanford Business School and was acquired by the Walt Disney Company in 2006. In India, Alok created contests2win – an advergaming pioneer that is one of the best-known Internet brands in the country.
Alok co-founded Games2win in 2007, as a new age online games company that specializes in creating entertaining flash games. Games2win has created over 350 original flash games that are played on games2win.com, on social media sites as well as thousands of long-tail sites. In just about two years of launch, games2win is amongst the top twenty gaming businesses in the US (and world) as ranked by comScore (may 09 data).
Alok has successfully raised venture capital from some of the world’s leading VC’s such as Softbank China, Siemens Acceleration, Clearstone Venture Partners and Silicon Valley Bank. His exits include the sale of Mobile2win China to Walt Disney and Mobile2win India to Norwest Venture Capital.
Alok’s favorite quote is ‘To go where no man has gone before’ from Star Trek. He is a passionate yoga practitioner and blogs at www.rodinhood.com. He is a commerce graduate from the Sydenham College of Commerce and Economics – Mumbai – India.Top
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Nirmal Jain Founder of India Infoline
Nirmal Jain is the founder and the Chairman & Managing Director of India Infoline Ltd. He is an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad, also a Chartered Accountant and a Cost Accountant. He had consistently excelled in academics, was always amongst toppers and stood All India Second in Chartered Accountancy. He acquired all three top professional qualifications in finance, even before he was 23.
His professional track record is equally outstanding. He started his career in 1989 with Hindustan Lever Limited. During his stint with Hindustan Lever, he handled a variety of responsibilities, including exports and trading in agro- commodities. He contributed immensely towards rapid and profitable growth of Hindustan Lever’s commodity export business, which was then nation’s as well as the company’s top priority. In 1994, he joined hands with two local brokers to set up their equity research unit, Inquire- Indian Equity Research. His work set new standards for equity research in India.
In 1995, he founded his own independent financial research company, now known as India Infoline Ltd. India Infoline has established credentials in research which have been internationally acclaimed. Under his leadership, India Infoline has emerged as one of the leading independent financial services company in India, with a significant presence in retail equities broking, life insurance and mutual funds distribution. The company has also forayed into institutional broking, investment banking, wealth management and loans and financing. Its proprietary technology platform branded as Trader Terminal is widely considered as the best in its class. The company has been growing at a fast clip, with income and profits multiplying 6 times over the last 3 years. The company had a successful IPO in 2005 and is listed on BSE and NSE and a network of over 838 business locations across 350 towns and cities in India.Top
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Dhruv Shringi CEO and Co-Founder of Yatra Online Pvt. Ltd
Dhruv returned to India after 8 years in Europe and his most recent role prior to co-founding Yatra was as Director Group Operations and Technology of the Ebookers Group where he was responsible for sales of over $850 million achieved thru multi channels including online, call centers and retail shops.
With regard to technology, he was accountable for developing the IT strategy and for leading the technology development and infrastructure teams, some 150 employees over 13 locations.
Prior to his stint at Ebookers, he has worked with Ford Motor Company in their Business Strategy team based in London where he was part of the European Business Turnaround team and also has significant work experience in India having spent over 6 years with Arthur Andersen based in their office in Delhi. Dhruv holds an MBA from INSEAD and is also a qualified Chartered Accountant.
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Jishnu Bhattacharjee - Moderator Nexus Venture Partners
Jishnu is a Vice President at Nexus Venture Partners, a leading venture capital firm in India and US, focused on investing in innovative early to growth stage companies. Jishnu brings to Nexus several years of investing and operating experience in hi-technology start-ups. His interests include software and services, internet, digital media, mobile, systems and clean-tech. He currently serves on the board of Gluster and Vdopia, and observes the board of VMOps.
Prior to joining Nexus, Jishnu worked as an associate at Foundation Capital, a silicon-valley based venture capital firm. Before joining the VC industry, he held engineering management and product management roles at a leading communication systems start-up, Scintera Networks, where he was a member of the founding team and a leading circuits and systems company, Maxim Integrated Products.
Jishnu is an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he ran the Venture Capital Club and South Asian Students Association and co-led GSB Principal Investing Conference. Jishnu is also an MS, EE from Georgia Institute of Technology and a BTech from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He has more than twelve US patents issued and has authored six IEEE papers. Jishnu is a member of IEEE and is actively involved with TIE.Top
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