Vani Kola
Vani is a renowned entrepreneur and a visionary known for identifying emerging markets. For the past decade, she has carved a niche in building successful software companies. Vani has partnered with Vinod Dham to co-found NEA-IndoUS Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm, focused on enabling world-class entrepreneurship in India
Vani was the founder and CEO of Certus Software, a leader in the Financial Compliance market. Prior to establishing Certus, Vani was the founder and CEO of RightWorks, a successful e-procurement company. Vani has also held management and engineering positions at Consilium and Control Data Corporation.
Vani's commitment to excellence and integrity directs her approach to building companies, developing products and empowering people. Vani is profiled in numerous books and has been identified as one of the top 10 entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley.
She is also actively involved in various organizations focused on fostering entrepreneurship and women leadership. Vani holds a Bachelor's and Master's Degree in electrical engineering.
Sudhir Sethi
Sudhir Sethi is Founder, Chairman & Managing Director of IDG Ventures India, a US$150 Million early-stage technology venture capital fund backed by IDG, the world's largest IT-focused media company. Sudhir founded IDG Ventures in 2006 after 26 years in the technology and venture industry. IDG Ventures India invests across the country in all areas of technology and technology enabled services.
Prior to joining IDG Ventures India, Sudhir served as a President and Executive Director of Infotech Enterprises, India's premier design engineering and GIS services leader. Previously, he was a General Partner for Walden International for four years where he was responsible for leading their venture capital operations in India. Sudhir served the IT industry for twelve years as a senior executive at Wipro and five years at HCL, both leading global IT service firms.
In 2001, Sudhir was recognized by Red Herring as one of the leading venture capitalists in the country. He has been named among the Top Ten IT Professional by Dataquest. Sudhir was the seed investor in Mindtree Consulting and served on the Board for 4 years. He has also served on the Board of Directors at Infotech Enterprises, Venture Infotek, Jobstreet, Webvision and Webdunia. Sudhir holds B.Tech in Engineering and an MBA Degree from FMS, Delhi.
Gagan Kumar
Most Recently Gagan has been involved in managing the offshore operations for Mu Sigma. Apart from managing the operations at the offshore Analytics center, Gagan has been instrumental in defining and setting up delivery processes and project management methodologies at Mu Sigma. Prior to Mu Sigma Gagan worked at Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd., as a Delivery Unit Lead. At Accenture Gagan was dedicated to managing offshore delivery, for a total team size ranging between 250-500.
Gagan spent 5 years in the US and was responsible for setting up Trigyn's operations in Singapore upon his return in 2002. Gagan had started his career with NIIT and moved on to work with Wipro, managing large scale implementations for GE Medical Systems Asia, across Asia-Pacific. He graduated from IIT Kanpur, majoring in Electrical Engg. in 1988 and completed his MBA from IIM Bangalore in 1992.