Our speakers
Sateesh Andra, Managing Director, Endiya Partners
Sateesh Andra loves entrepreneurs with grit, clarity, and focus on execution. Technology start-ups with clear value proposition drive Sateesh. His investing, co-founding, leadership and engineering experience, for the past twenty-plus years in U.S/India, all veer around technology.
As the Managing Director at Endiya Partners, Sateesh serves on boards of AlphaICs, Darwinbox, and Kissht. Some of his past investments include Seclore, Little Eye Labs (Facebook) and mGinger (ValueFirst). Prior to Endiya, he was a Partner at Ventureast and DFJ.
Prior to DFJ, Sateesh was Founder/CEO of Euclid (Synnex), a Silicon Valley start-up, in the IT Management Software space and was instrumental in raising VC funding ($35 M+), besides acquiring and managing marquee customers and partners. He has also served in product marketing and engineering leadership roles at Tsqware (Synaptics), LSI Logic (Broadcom), and VLSI Technology (NXP).
Besides helping evolve ideas into real businesses, Sateesh is involved with the Pullela Gopichand Badminton Academy with the objective of popularizing sports and promoting awareness of chronic diseases in the corporate world. Sateesh was a top-ranked Table Tennis player representing A.P State in Nationals.
Sateesh holds a Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering.
Sathyan S, Head of Data Science/ AI, Thoughtworks India
Satish Chander, Partner, True North
Satish Shukla, Co-Founder, Addverb
Satish, co-founder of Addverb, is a proud alum of TISS-Mumbai, a non-practicing engineer and has 20+ years of experience in the Technology industry. He is a Technology “evangelist,” and continues to hone his skill set by conceptualizing the finer aspects of Human-Robot collaboration. His strong background in sustainability initiatives and reducing Cycle Time helps Addverb deliver unique automation solutions.
Satish V. N. Gidugu, Whole Time Director & CEO, Medi Assist Group
Saugata Gupta, MD & CEO, Marico
Saurabh Dwivedi, Partner, Human Capital Consulting, Deloitte India
Saurabh brings more than 18+ years of experience in successful implementation of complex HR Strategy, Employee Experience, and Transformation projects in an international context across multiple industries in Asia and the US. He has in-depth experience spanning Digital HR, HR Technology, HR strategy, HR process, and operating model design, shared services design and implementation as well as change and stakeholder management. Saurabh has spent a considerable amount of his professional life working with clients in the United States, Middle East, and in South East Asia. Saurabh has worked across a variety of industries including Technology, Manufacturing, Retail, Engineering Construction, and Healthcare.
Saurabh has also authored numerous papers on the trends in Human Capital and the future of work and is a regular speaker at multiple forums on the HC trends and the future of work.
Saurabh Kumar, Vice-President, India, GEAPP
Saurabh Kumar is the Vice-President-India, Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP).
Saurabh is an Indian Revenue Service officer of 1992 batch. He joined Indian Revenue Service as Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax and worked as Deputy Commissioner in various sensitive intelligence assignments. After IRS he joined the Union Ministry of Power, Government of India as Deputy Secretary in charge of the Budget and Finance wing with the task of appraising large power projects for government investments. He was part of the
government structure that was responsible for taking investment decisions in large power projects.
He successfully led EESL in implementing energy efficiency projects such as UJALA, SNLP, MEEP, and AgDSM.
Saurabh has also worked in various capacities in the Income Tax Department, Ministry of Power, and Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE). On the completion of the GRIPS Young Leaders Program in 2006, Saurabh was appointed as Secretary of the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) during 2007-2010, the nodal central body for promoting energy efficiency in India & also the core agency for the implementation of the National Mission on Enhanced Energy Efficiency under the Ministry of Power. One of the key projects implemented under his leadership is one of the world’s largest CDM (Clean Development Mechanism) based efficient lighting projects.
An environmentalist, he has served the UN on deputation handling environmental issues in the Asia-pacific region.
Saurabh has a degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, and has a Master’s degree in Public Policy from National Graduate Institute of Policy Studies, Tokyo, Japan
Saurabh Mukherjea, Founder & CIO, Marcellus Investment Managers
Saurabh Mukherjea is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Marcellus Investment Managers. Saurabh was educated at the London School of Economics where he earned a BSc in Economics (with First Class Honours) and an MSc in Economics (with distinction in Macro & Microeconomics).
In London, Saurabh was the co-founder of Clear Capital and in 2007 he was rated by the Extel Survey as one of the top small cap analysts in the UK. In India, Saurabh was rated as the leading equity strategist in 2015, 2016 and 2017 by the Asiamoney polls. Prior to setting up Marcellus, Saurabh was the CEO of Ambit Capital.
Saurabh is a CFA charter holder and a SEBI registered investment advisor. In 2017, upon SEBI’s invitation, he joined SEBI’s Mutual Fund Advisory Committee. In 2019, Saurabh was part of the Expert Committee constituted by SEBI to update and upgrade the PMS regulations. Saurabh has written six bestselling books – Gurus of Chaos (2014), The Unusual Billionaires (2016), Coffee Can Investing: The Low Risk Route to Stupendous Wealth (2018), The Victory Project: Six Steps to Peak Potential (2020), Unfiltered: The CEO and The Coach (2023), and Behold the Leviathan - the Unusual Rise of Modern India – and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Saurabh Singh, Director, Credit, Trifecta Capital