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MD - Capital 18
Sarbvir Singh is the Managing Director of Capital 18. He has 12 years of global experience in investment management and business operations.
He started his career with Emerson Electric in Hong Kong, Responsible first for business development across Asia and then marketing in China. Subsequently, he spent five years with Citigroup in New York, where he was responsible for making investments in the global consumer sector. More recently, he was co-managing an investment management boutique that invested private client assets in India.
He holds a degree in business management from IIM Ahmadabad and is a graduate of IIT Delhi.
CEO – KITVEN
He joined KITVEN Fund as Vice president during 2006 and has now been elevated as Chief Executive Officer. Before Joining KITVEN Fund, he was working with Canara Bank, Circle Office Mumbai as a Senior Manager, Heading Project Finance Department and was responsible for appraisal, sanction, monitoring and review of all industrial projects in Mumbai circle office.
Prior to that he worked as Assistant Vice President with Canbank Venture Capital Fund Ltd. (On deputation) and has handled various proposals seeking venture capital assistance. He joined Canara Bank as Technical Field Officer and worked in Project Finance Department, Head Office, Bangalore and has undertaken appraisal for term loan, working capital and IPOs for companies across various sectors including infrastructure, power, cement, steel, textile, pharmaceuticals, Information Technology, FMCG etc.
Before joining the Bank, worked with M/s Amco Batteries Ltd. Bangalore as a project engineer and was involved in setting up a new project for manufacture of sealed lead acid batteries in collaboration with a Japanese battery manufacturing giant.
Co-founder and CEO - Aujas Networks
Prior to co- founding Aujas, Rao served as the Senior Vice President - Market Management at Cisco Systems and also served as the Chief Operating officer at IBM Netsol.
Previously, he worked at Network Solutions as their Executive Director, where he was instrumental in scaling it from an early stage entity to a medium sized company, before it was acquired by IBM Global Services. He has also worked as a senior executive with Microland, a leading Indian IT service provider. Rao holds a B.E. from Osmania University and an MBA from IIM, Bangalore.
Chief Marketing and Communications Officer - Zurich Financial Services
Arun is the Chief Marketing and Communications Officer of Zurich Financial Services, a leading global insurance provider. He oversees all aspects of integrated marketing, customer insights, brand management, web strategy, corporate communications, media
Prior to joining Zurich, Arun served as the Chief Marketing Officer and President of Services & Solutions of Pitney Bowes. He also held senior executive positions in marketing, business development and brand management at Philip Morris and Young & Rubicam. Arun has transformed companies by changing perceptions and growing brand equities of many world-renowned brands.
His achievements have been well recognized. Among other awards, in 2003 and 2004, BtoB Magazine named Arun a “Top Marketer of the Year,” while in 2004 his team received Business Week’s “Excellence in Corporate Advertising” award. Arun is an acclaimed author of a book, “Sweet Spot: How to Maximize Marketing for Business Growth.”
He serves on the Board of Directors of the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) and 24x7 Learning company.
Arun holds degrees from Michigan State University, the Indian Institute of Mass Communications in New Delhi and from St. Xavier’s College, University of Calcutta.
In his role, Karthik leads the company's efforts to capitalize on long-term growth opportunities and aligns its operations with key customer segments in the global market place. Karthik is strengthening the company's presence in key markets across vertical industries. He has been greatly successful in implementing company policies and business strategies positioning the company as a pioneer in Talent Lifecycle ManagementSM.
Prior to founding 24x7 Learning, Karthik has worked with companies like PCL, HCL, Hewlett Packard, Microland etc. With more than 23 years of experience in Sales and Operations, Karthik has handled IT Products, IT Services and has spent 14 years in the corporate training industry.
Karthik has been a leader in product development and corporate training. He has been at the helm of some of the best eLearning Corporate Implementations in India. As an active proponent of eLearning in India, Karthik has several articles and lectures on eLearning to his credit. He holds an Mechanical Engineering Degree from National Institute Technology, Kurukshetra and has done his Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management from Bharti Vidya Bhavan, New Delhi and is also an alumni of Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.
With his extensive experience in enterprise sales and implementation, demand creation and international partnerships, Anil has played a key role in positioning 24x7 Learning as an emerging leader in eLearning implementation in the global market place. An active member of various eLearning forums, Anil has been personally involved in driving some of the best eLearning implementations in various corporates like Airtel, Wipro, Aditya Birla Group, Xansa, Accenture, L&T Infotech, Murugappa Group, Patni, Convergys, 24/7 Customer and MindTree among others. A passionate believer of eLearning as the most powerful democratizing factor for education and empowerment, Anil is now active in evangelizing the use of eLearning in the formal education segment.
Before founding 24x7 Learning, Anil successfully set-up the representative office and sales network for Cimatron Ltd., Israel in India. From an unknown brand, he was responsible for establishing Cimatron as a major player in its target segment within a year of commencing operations. Anil was also instrumental in creating and ramping up Wipro's channel network and Parametric Technology's direct operations in India.
Anil has over 21 years of experience in the IT industry with companies like HCL-Hewlett Packard, Wipro, Parametric Technology Corporation, USA, Cimatron, Israel and Patni Computer Systems. He holds an engineering degree from National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra.
Chief Learning Strategist - Chapman Alliance, LLC
Bryan was formerly the Director of Research and Strategy for independent research and consulting firm Brandon Hall Research. He continues to provide technology-selection services in partnership with Brandon Hall Research as a registered Associate.
As a veteran in the industry, Bryan has over 20 years experience and has worked with many global leaders; to help them optimize learning efficiency through the use of innovative learning techniques and technologies.
Bryan holds a Masters degree in Instructional Technology from Utah State University, where he was voted outstanding instructional design scholar by the faculty. He also holds a degree in Multimedia Communications from Brigham Young University.
In his role, Karthik leads the company's efforts to capitalize on long-term growth opportunities and aligns its operations with key customer segments in the global market place. Karthik is strengthening the company's presence in key markets across vertical industries. He has been greatly successful in implementing company policies and business strategies positioning the company as a pioneer in Talent Lifecycle ManagementSM.
Prior to founding 24x7 Learning, Karthik has worked with companies like PCL, HCL, Hewlett Packard, Microland etc. With more than 23 years of experience in Sales and Operations, Karthik has handled IT Products, IT Services and has spent 14 years in the corporate training industry.
Karthik has been a leader in product development and corporate training. He has been at the helm of some of the best eLearning Corporate Implementations in India. As an active proponent of eLearning in India, Karthik has several articles and lectures on eLearning to his credit. He holds an Mechanical Engineering Degree from National Institute Technology, Kurukshetra and has done his Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management from Bharti Vidya Bhavan, New Delhi and is also an alumni of Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.
With his extensive experience in enterprise sales and implementation, demand creation and international partnerships, Anil has played a key role in positioning 24x7 Learning as an emerging leader in eLearning implementation in the global market place. An active member of various eLearning forums, Anil has been personally involved in driving some of the best eLearning implementations in various corporates like Airtel, Wipro, Aditya Birla Group, Xansa, Accenture, L&T Infotech, Murugappa Group, Patni, Convergys, 24/7 Customer and MindTree among others. A passionate believer of eLearning as the most powerful democratizing factor for education and empowerment, Anil is now active in evangelizing the use of eLearning in the formal education segment.
Before founding 24x7 Learning, Anil successfully set-up the representative office and sales network for Cimatron Ltd., Israel in India. From an unknown brand, he was responsible for establishing Cimatron as a major player in its target segment within a year of commencing operations. Anil was also instrumental in creating and ramping up Wipro's channel network and Parametric Technology's direct operations in India.
Anil has over 21 years of experience in the IT industry with companies like HCL-Hewlett Packard, Wipro, Parametric Technology Corporation, USA, Cimatron, Israel and Patni Computer Systems. He holds an engineering degree from National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra.
Prior to 24x7 Learning, he worked in Tavant Technologies as Engineering Manager. At Tavant, he has handled complex projects for clients in the healthcare and manufacturing domains. For his accountability and execution, he was awarded the MTeam Award.
Prior to that, he worked with i-flex solutions ltd. There, he led the development of the next generation of i-flex's hugely popular Flexcube corporate banking product.
He began his career at Wipro Ltd. As a consultant from Wipro, he worked on the development of the powerful account product, Platinum for Windows, now owned by Sage Software. Ravi is an engineering graduate from R.V College of Engineering, Bangalore, India.
She is an Associate Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. In 2005 she passed CISA (Certified Information Systems Auditor Examination) conducted by the Information Systems Audit and Control Association, Illinois, USA.
Roshini has more than 9 years of experience in the field of Corporate Finance. During her stint at Precot Mills Limited she handled Financial Planning and Management, Forex Risk Management and was instrumental in designing and implementing policies and procedures in the Finance Function to facilitate Internal Financial Control. She also handled Working Capital and Consortium Lender Management that involved Liaising and negotiating with banks and financial institutions for short term and long term funding requirements. Roshini played a key role in liaising and concluding the recent round of investments at 24x7 Learning. She has internally been recognized with the 'Shooting Star of the Quarter', an award recognizing exemplary work measured for a quarter.
Roshini is an amateur artist. She is also trained in classical music and plays the Veena.
Having done his graduation and International Diploma in Computer Programming & Applications from the National Computing centre of UK, he has rich experience in large account management and people management skills.
He has been in the senior management positions with various prestigious IT training and telecom organizations like Aptech Limited, SQL Star, Pentasoft Technologies, Shyam Telecommunication etc., where he has successfully handled responsibilities from a National perspective.
He is passionate about team building, business strategizing & consulting, key account management and channel management and his hobbies includes extensive reading and driving.
Gaurav also is responsible for academic partner relationship with IMT, Ghaziabad and Thapar University, Patiala. A BTech and MBA graduate, Gaurav has over 17 years experience in the distance education, IT education and eLearning areas. In his previous stints he has been with IGNOU, M P Bhoj University, Bhopal and College of Engineering, Nasik, and garnered rich experience and understands the educational institution framework extremely well. His stint as an entrepreneur has helped him establish computer centers and partner with educational institutions for various educational programs.
A natural leader, Gaurav loves interacting with people and actively involves himself in mentoring youngsters in the team. He is extremely interested in horticulture and follows developments in this field closely.
His career milestone has been creating an Intelligent Data Reservoir for Competency and Assessment cell with META-i, an incubate of IIM Bangalore. Also built an inception called Smart Hire, (A search/ Recruitment house) under the flagship of Times of India.
His profound areas are new business and program development. He is one of the early bird in deriving Enterprise solutions and consolidated product commerce solutions in UK, Africa, Middle East and India. Has worked with the likes of Howard Finely, Sungrace Software, META-i and Times of India.
His keen interests are HAM Radio, Trekking and Amateur Theatre. Been part of theatre activity in Bangalore and also an active coordinator for BOSCO (A rehabilitation centre for kids at risk)
