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Manoj Jain, 54, is the Managing Director of Shriram Life Insurance Co. Ltd, Hyderabad. During his stint as CEO from (2012-2015) at Shriram Life, he transformed the company pan India with a consistent growth of 20% CAGR against an industry growth of 10%.

Manoj is now Managing Director of the company and responsible for setting up distribution & Business development.

Manoj has over 31 years of rich and varied experience in the financial services domain & has over 20 years in the life insurance industry. 

He has completed his MBA (Marketing) and Bachelor of Science in Mathematics.

In his earlier stint with Shriram Group as Managing Director of Shriram Fortune Solutions Ltd, Manoj has built a formidable financial service distribution company & has successfully brought a strategic foreign investor “Leapfrog investment” and placed 14% equity on a rich market valuation. 

Prior to joining the Shriram Group, Manoj has worked with HDFC Standard Life Insurance as Founder Member (2001-2007), Tata Motor Finance Ltd. (1994-2000), and 20th Century Finance Corporation (1990-1993) an NBFC, which later converted into Centurion Bank (later merged with HDFC Bank Ltd) among others.

Manoj was a partner in a Dubai Based LLC, M/s Shriram Marketing & Finance Co ltd, Dubai, in the business of offering loans & saving products to Non-resident Indians in Dubai & GCC Countries.

Manu Iyer runs Bluehill Capital, an early-stage VC fund, focusing on hardware, clean-tech, and deep-tech startups, through which capital has been deployed for 8 investments in the space to date.

He is also a Partner in Bluehill Retail, a retailing and distribution business that partners with several international and Indian electronics, lifestyle, and apparel brands.

He is a B.Tech Electrical Engr from IIT Madras and has completed his MBA from Duke University in the US. After working in Financial Services in the US, he had shifted base to India, to start off on his own.

Founded SCANET in 1994. SCANET focuses on exporting live lobster primarily to China and Hongkong , commands a market share of over 70%

Received number of awards from Ministry of Commerce, Govt Of India as the Largest Live exporter in India.

Founded SKCL in 2003 with prime focus on high quality Grade A+ office assets. SKCL has delivered over a million square feet in Chennai and has more than 72 tenants across all facilities.

SKCL also maintains these facilities through their sister concern – SKCLPMS with Zero down time for occupants. SKCL has partnered with Indospace and delivered over a million sft of warehousing space and successfully exited the same.

Involved in philanthropic activities in a small way, support dumb deaf children through Guild Of service – Chennai, Spastic children and children with learning disabilities through Vidyasagar and Balamandir respectively, education for 100 orphan children in Nellore through an organization called – Vatsalya.

Contributed 100 lacs to AP govt for construction of a degree college and refurbishment of existing schools in Nellore district.

Mithun Sacheti, is the Founder, and erstwhile CEO/ Managing Director of CaratLane, which he founded in 2008. Over the past 15 years, he built CaratLane into India’s No. 1 omni-channel jewellery business spawning an entirely new market for beautifully stylish designs at affordable price points. As a result, CaratLane has had a remarkable growth story, culminating in a net revenue of over 2200+ crores and a 5-year CAGR of 50% in FY23. It stands unparalleled in having achieved both high growth and high efficacy at the same time.

Under Mithun’s guidance, CaratLane secured a strategic investment from Titan Company Limited, custodians of India’s trusted Tanishq brand, positioning CaratLane as India’s quintessential 21st-century jewellery brand. Very recently, Mithun sold his remaining 27% stake to Titan for Rs 4,621 crore, valuing the brand at INR 17,000 crore, making it India’s biggest deal in the D2C e-commerce space, rewriting the narrative of the jewellery industry in India.

Post exit, Mithun Sacheti wants to be an enabler for other entrepreneurs. He understands the consumer business space deeply and is keen to explore related opportunities.

Currently, Mithun is mentoring the ORO Team. Oro, (which means “GOLD” in Spanish.) has a vision of making gold in Indian households more valuable and fungible. Being founded in April 2020, it connects financial institutions with users to provide higher access and the right information at lower cost thereby helping people realise their dreams through gold loans.

Also, very recently, Mithun joined Singularity AMC as a Co-Founder & General Partner. Singularity AMC undertakes Private Equity Investments across Growth to late Stage Indian Companies. It’s first fund of Rs. 560 Cr. was launched in 2021, with a final close in March 2023. The fund invested in 16 companies across consumer goods, enterprise SaaS and fintech infra platforms.

Mithun’s remarkable contributions have earned him recognition on both national and international levels. He has been featured on the cover of Forbes and has received awards such as the ‘Next-Gen Entrepreneur of the Year’ by TiE in 2012 and 2023, ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ by the Confederation of Indian Industry Connect in 2014, and many other such recognitions which reflect his commitment towards understanding and empowering customers, and building lasting businesses.

Mithun is a certified gemologist from the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) and someone who identifies as a “jewellery nerd.” His passion for design and craftsmanship along with design innovation and customer-focused approaches, coupled with the “right rigour” and the “right team” always having his back is what makes Mithun Sacheti who he is!

Over twenty years of experience as an entrepreneur

Director of Mohamed Sathak Group of Education Institution comprising of 18 education institutions ranging from Engineering, Architecture, Arts, Science, Pharmacy, Nursing, Physiotherapy, and Schools
Founder of Openwave Computing a software services and product company having offices in 4 countries&
Founder of JustOut News App, a digital media company focusing on curated news
Co-Founder of GoWatr Pvt Ltd an aggregator of Water Tankers and Bore Wells.

Involved in family-owned Coffee Plantation in Coorg, India. Instrumental in opening up export markets establishing clients in Europe and the US
Volunteer member involved in several non-profit and charitable organization

Education Qualification:
Degree in MBA from Long Island University – New York,USA
B.Com from Loyola College,Chennai-India,
Diploma in Computer Software Programming from Informatics (Cambridge Singapore)

Founder of Cogent Innovations (P) Ltd, a product solutions company, based in Chennai with an emphasis on service and gate management software operating across continents.

Cogent has been successfully managing operations in India, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, and Africa. Cogent specialises in ATM monitoring software, with 80% of all ATM-related issues being routed through Cogent pan India, from ATMs being down and not limited to cashless ATMs, these are monitored real-time, and experienced engineers are sent with delays being monitored by the minute.

Cogent’s management software implementation for the Income Tax Department of India is our proudest, our services for the IT department include but is not limited to, refunds and related queries among others.

Cogent’s key clients include Siemens, SAP, Hitachi, ITC, CMS, City Union Bank among others. Physical security Cogent’s software, used to create visitor, material, contractor and other gate passes has been implemented by a number of large facilities across Chennai, these include DLF, Olympia Tech Park, Tata, Saint Gobain, BMW, Hyundai, and hotels like Leela and Trident make around 350 customers.

Mr. V. M. Muralidharan, fondly addressed as Mike, is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees at ALERT and is the Chairman of the renowned Ethiraj College for Women, Chennai.

At present, he is the Chief Operating Officer at Bahwan CyberTek Group, a USD 350 million global software products and solutions group. He also serves as a Non-Executive Director at Tekion India and as an Independent Director at Matrix Business Services.

Mike is a Charter Member at TiE Chennai, Member at The Chennai Angels and has served on the board of the Southern Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry (SICCI). He also serves on sub-committees at CII & FICCI.

Mike graduated with B. E. (Hons.) in ECE from the College of Engineering, Guindy in 1983 and was honoured with the Distinguished Alumnus Award by the Alumni Association College of Engineering, Guindy in 2018. He has received various other notable recognitions including the prestigious ‘Edupreneur of the Year’ award in 2015, presented by His Excellency the Governor of Tamil Nadu, in recognition of his commitment & contribution to the cause of Women’s Education in India, the ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ from the Lions International, to name a few.

Murugan Narayanaswamy S completed his BE (Hons) EEE from Bits Pilani
and his PGDM – XIM at Bhubaneswar.

He has worked since 1995 in various organizations like Philips India, Britannia Industries, Danone Waters, Nerolac Paints, Jubilant Foodworks (Domino’s Pizza) and Southern Health Foods Pvt Ltd (Manna).

His work experience has predominantly been in sales and marketing, working across geographies in India and across various sectors and brands.

Murugan is interested in building brands and companies and simultaneously improving the quality of life of the community and the country, and if possible, across the globe.

Apart from being an avid marketer, Murugan is interested in movies, sports and running.

Murugavel Janakiraman is the Founder and CEO, Matrimony.com – whose flagship brand is BharatMatrimony, the No. 1 and most trusted matrimony service. The company is powered by 3000+ employees across 130 branches in 20 major cities in India. Matrimony.com is India’s first pure play Consumer Internet Company to be publicly listed.

In 1997, he pioneered the concept of online matchmaking that changed the way Indians marry.

Twice he was nominated by The Economic Times for the “Entrepreneur of the Year” award. He has been featured among Top Technology Leaders 2020 by Exchange4Media’s Impact Magazine, recognised as a “Disruptor” in the Technology domain by Your Story besides awarded Digital Entrepreneur of the Year by WAT. He was also Chairman of the IAMAI (Internet and Mobile Association of India).

He’s a speaker at major summits including those hosted by Harvard School of Business, India Today, Business World, IAMAI, CII, TiE, Stanford India and FICCI.

He looks at the matrimony service as a way to build a strong Bharat. “The future of a country depends on its Citizens. Good Citizens emerge from Good Parenting. Good Parenting happens in a Happy Marriage. And, we are the Gateway to Happy Marriages” underlines the purpose of Matrimony.com

Muthiah Murugappan completed his schooling at Sishya School and went on to finish his B.Sc. in Management Sciences from the University of Warwick (Warwick Business School). He then completed his MBA at London Business School.

Muthiah Murugappan has been with EID Parry (India) Ltd. Since Sep 2015, as the Head of Strategy & Nutraceuticals. He heads EID Parry’s Nutraceutical portfolio which comprises – Parry Nutraceuticals, Algavista Greentech (Chennai,India), Valensa International (Eustis, Florida,USA), AlimtecSA (La Serena ,Chile).

Muthiah is also Strategy Head for the company, covering all of its verticals – Sugar, Biofuels & Nutraceuticals.

He has been an Angel Investor since Jan 2010 and has worked with startups and Micro VC funds in the areas of SaaS, Ecommerce, Deep Tech & Consumer goods.

He started his career in August 2004 with Indian FMCG major – CavinKare Pvt Ltd. He initially served as an Area Sales Manager in the Western and Southern regions and has worked in the states of Maharashtra, MP, Chattisgarh and AP. Muthiah subsequently moved into a Brand Management role and served as a Product Manager for the International Business Unit, covering the GCC and ASEAN regions.

In July 2007, he joined Carborundum Universal (CUMI) as an Exports Manager. CUMI is an integral part of his family’s business conglomerate – The Murugappa Group, of which he is a fifth-generation member. He subsequently moved to the US to handle CUMI’s trading operations in North America and in 2010 returned to India to head its Wear Ceramics business where he served till July 2013.

He then decided to take a sabbatical to pursue a Full Time MBA at the London Business School starting fall 2013. In 2015, he returned to The Murugappa Group to head the Nutraceuticals Business of Group flagship – EID Parry India Ltd. In addition to The Nutraceuticals Vertical he also heads Strategy for the Company.

He enjoys keeping fit with Tennis and Yoga, and enjoys travelling and listening to music.

His wife is an Architect and has her own firm in Chennai. They’ve been blessed with a son.

Manav  is a third-generation entrepreneur born and brought up in Chennai. He has done his schooling from DAV, Gopalapuram and immediately after his B.Com graduation from Loyola College in 1994 he got involved with his apparel export business as a trainee and in the span of 10 years graduated to the role of the managing partner . He also holds the distinction of being the youngest Committee Member of the Apparel Promotion Council of India. He has been a part of EO Chennai Chapter since 2007 and is currently serving as an Executive Committee Member ( Co-opted) in South India Hotels& Restaurants Association (SIHRA) since 2019 and also EC Member  (Co-opted) with Federations of Hotels & Restaurants India (FHRAI) – 2023.

Presently he is an Executive Director in Adyar Gate Hotels Ltd and besides holding a board position, he’s actively involved with the group’s business development and future hospitality projects. Amidst the entrepreneurial journey he pursued his MBA in a Management Executive Program for family Businesses from IIM Bangalore and followed on with a Professional Development Program from Cornell School of Hotel Administration, Ithaca- Area of focus being Strategic Hotel Management. In 2020 he was inducted in the Board of Mumtaz Hotels ( Amar Vilas Agra) and is keenly looking at further growing the hotels portfolio with this entity.

His friends find him to be a honest, good but a moody friend to while he considers himself as an extrovertly yet introvert person. Around his wife Shikha and son Aahan he feels 25 years young with almost 25 years of experience. He enjoys having dinner and watching TV with his son and every so often talking about sports, business, politics while trying to imbibe the values of Trust, Loyalty, and Respect that he firmly believes in.

The quest for learning and the passion for growth are the primary motivators for expanding and nurturing the journey of self-fulfilment. He hopes, through FHRAI he interacts and learns from his peers and also engages himself with the new age ideas.

Mehul is currently Managing Director at Raj Petro Specialities Pvt Ltd., India, also Director at Raj Petro Specialties DMCC, Dubai. Over the 27 years, he has worked across several business areas from Projects, Operations, International business development to IT/ERP projects.
Mehul has been instrumental in running a Multi-National organization, now as part of a German MNC. Prior roles included setting up a new manufacturing unit, managing unit operations and setting up the international business arm at Raj Petro Specialities.
Mehul holds an undergraduate degree in Chemistry from the University of Madras, an MBA from the University of Manchester, UK, has completed the General Management Program (GMP) from Harvard Business School and holds other technical qualifications in EXIM, ISO:9000, GMP and other areas.