Our speakers

Nupur Garg, Founder, WinPE

Nupur Garg is a leading investor in private equity and venture capital and an expert advisor to large institutional investors. She is the founder of Winpe (https://winpeforum.com), a not-for-profit initiative to enhance gender diversity in the investing ecosystem.

Nupur serves as Chairperson of the board of Kids Clinic India Limited and an independent director on the boards of companies including Indigo Paints Limited, Kerala Infrastructure Fund Management Limited and SIDBI, the Indian development finance institution. She is an independent member of the investment committee at the Fund of Funds managed by the National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF), the quasi sovereign wealth fund sponsored by the government of India, and an advisor toand a member of the investment committee for the Dutch Good Growth Fund (DGGF) investment funds mandate given by the Dutch government for investments in SMEs in frontier markets across 75
countries. She has served as an external expert on the investment committee for the INR 10,000 crore Fund of Fund for Start-ups for investing in the Indian start-up ecosystem. Nupur advises select fund managers on a confidential basis on matters related to institutionalization, best practices and governance. She also mentors female entrepreneurs across various platforms.

Nupur was listed in the BW VC World Most Influential Women 2022, Forbes W-Power list of Self Made Women 2020, among India’s top 100 Women Leaders in Finance (AIWMI 2019), awarded the Vedica Women’s Alliance’s Women Leader in D&I 2022, Women Empowerment Entrepreneur Award 2019-20 and the Business Excellence and Innovative Best Practices - Academia Award 2019.

In her last and most recent full time role, Nupur led the private equity and venture capital funds business in the region for IFC and is widely credited with establishing IFC’s brand and credibility as one of the most respected institutional investors in this space. Under her stewardship, the portfolio doubled in size and returns, moving from a negative IRR to delivering gains for the first time in its
history.

Nupur is a CA and an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management, with executive education from Harvard Business School.

Nupur loves to spend time with her mother, husband and 7 year-old son, travel to new places, read and do 1500-piece puzzles

Om Prakash Mishra, Deputy Managing Director (HR) and Corporate Development Officer, SBI

Padmaja Ruparel, Co-Founder & President of, Indian Angel Network (IAN)

Padmaja Ruparel is the Founding Partner of the IAN Fund, a uniquely differentiated Rs. 450 crores (~$70mn) Fund which along with IAN, is set to create the largest horizontal platform in India for investing in seed and early stage ventures. She is also the Co-Founder & President of IAN, India's first & one of the world’s largest group of business angels, comprising the who's who of successful entrepreneurs and dynamic CEOs from India and overseas.

Padmaja is a Co-Chair of Global Business Angel Network. She also operationalised TiE Delhi, which has been ranked as the number one chapter globally for the last 4 consecutive years. She played a key role as Executive Director in building the Indian Venture Capital Association, India's oldest and largest association of VC and PE firms. In addition, she helped the creation of Lankan Angel Network in Sri Lanka. She contributed actively in the Planning Commission’s Committee on “Angel & Early Stage Investing in India” which resulted in a seminal report: “Creating a Vibrant Entrepreneurial Eco system in India”. She is on the Committee of Telecom Centre of Excellence, Selection Committee of MSME and is actively engaged with the various committees of Ministry of Finance, SEBI, etc.

Padmaja is nationally recognised as a key player in the Indian entrepreneurial ecosystem and has helped co-found many of the relevant institutions, besides being an active Angel investor herself. Her operating experience spans large corporates, M&A, and start-ups/early stage companies. She has been awarded as one of the 'Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Business' by Fortune India and has been listed in Forbes India’s W-Power Trailblazers and ‘30 Most Powerful Women in India’ by Business Today.

Pallabi Ghosal, Partner, Trilegal

Pankaj Kapoor, MD & Founder, Liases Foras

Pankaj Rastogi, CEO, Dalmia Bharat Sugar & Industries Ltd

Pankaj Sharma, Co-Founder & Director, Log9 Materials

Pankaj is a tech entrepreneur and a former scientist from IIT-Delhi, with over 20 years of experience across building start-ups, fundraising, forging strategic alliances, and policy frameworking. He has an illustrious track record of founding and/or working on biotech start-ups in the areas of drug discovery, nano-medicine and computational biology.

In the past, he has worked closely with the Planning Commission of India, and has also been closely associated with various Government bodies on developing policy frameworks around biotechnology and nanotechnology.

At Log9, Pankaj is responsible for forming partnerships and alliances, Government policy frameworking advocacy, strategic planning and spearheading the people function at Log9.

Paolo Zegna, Chairman, Ermenegildo Zegna

Paramprit Singh Bakshi, VP-South Asia and Head-SBUs, CAPA India

Paras Kaushik, CHRO, HT Media