Raj Mishra is Founder and CEO of I-Deals Network. He has total experience of 14 years as an entrepreneur .Prior to I-Deals Network he was also involved in launching HR Startup. He has also worked in companies like Star Tv, Newscorp and FPSB India..He has mentored Startups and helped them in fundraising.He is also invited on panels of different Startup Events. He enjoys reading books and travelling is his passion. ‌

Vikas is a Chartered Accountant with over 20 years of post qualification experience specializing in Corporate Advisory (valuations, joint ventures, M&A deals, business advisory) across diverse industries He was leading the South India valuations team at KPMG (for around 10 years) and branched out in October 2018 to set up his own company (Unithos Business Advisors Private Limited). He was instrumental in setting up the valuations practice in South for KPMG and built it to a leadership position in the region Prior to joining KPMG in 2008, he has worked in the industry with Murugappa Group as part of the Corporate & Strategic planning team of the Group and went on to head the EMA region for the engineering business (Precision steel tubes); and with Ernst & Young in their Corporate Advisory practice (specializing in valuations and deals)

Neeraj Dubey is a corporate lawyer with around 15 years of legal experience encompassing vast gamut of business laws, contract management, labour & employment, regulatory compliances and technology law. Neeraj routinely counsels manufacturing and service industry companies on a vast range of day-to-day corporate & regulatory compliances in all elements of commerce and business including contracts, corporate governance, competition, labour & employment, health & safety and regulatory compliances. Neeraj assists in legal due diligences, audits, structuring of business, entry into India, setting up of compliance systems, drawing paperwork/contracts and trainings.

Santosh is a Director in the Transaction Tax Services division of Ernst & Young and is based in Bangalore, India. He is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and Licentiate Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India. He has over 12 years of experience and more than 8 years in the area of Corporate re-organization, inbound and outbound structuring advisory, conducting tax due diligences, advisory on various M&A activity including buy back, capital reduction etc. He has been part of more than hundred tax due diligence exercise in various sectors including IT, hospitality, hotels, catering, auto components and other sectors.

I have over 20 years of leadership experience with global clients in Manufacturing, Construction & Outsourced Shared Services in Financial Services & Healthcare, working for MNCs like GE, IBM & Novozymes & family owned businesses & start-ups spread across US, Europe & India. Started my career managing the family construction business. This was a trial by fire in learning how to manage stakeholders with conflicting views, lead a business to manage the short & long term business objectives, churn a business portfolio to manage cash flows without losing sight of the financial returns for the company & manage local & federal regulatory authorities.

Deepak has experience of more than 2 decade. He heading finance and fund operations for a group of SEBI registered Venture Capital Funds, primarily investing in start-ups companies in Technology, Healthcare and Education. He was head of Finance for CGI's Indian operations, having 10,000+ employees and Pan India Operations.

CFO with two decades of experience in M&A, Strategic Finance, Cost take-outs, Fund raise, SEC Reporting, Startups & MNCs. He hasexperience heading Strategic Finance functions as CFO, Controller and Business finance leader. Experience in handling over 10 M&A deals covering the entire spectrum of pre-deal diligence, deal structuring, negotiations, contracting and post deal integration. Have worked both in buy-side as well as sell-side transactions including a divestment that included complex carve-out of services and product business.Worked in companies that have grown multi-fold and hence strong consistent experience in putting together scalable financial systems and processes.Experience across the entire business cycle continuum - Stable, well funded Public listed companies to Fledgling PE funded startups. Hands on experience in Cost optimization, boot strapping and Cash generation.

Value driven, versatile & multi-faceted leader with diverse experience in strategy, mergers & acquisitions, business incubation, innovation, business development, marketing, sales, project management & HR. Enjoy working on real world problems involving uncertainty, challenges, leadership, technology, innovation etc. Exposure to sectors like solar energy, energy efficiency, IT & ITeS, consumer durables, packaging etc. Deputed ~1 year at corporate strategy of Bosch worldwide in Germany.

Huzefa Tavawalla Heads the Bangalore Office along with the Disruptive Technologies Practice Group at Nishith Desai Associates. He is also an integral member of the TMT & Corporate Practice Groups and focuses on matters pertaining to IT, M&A and International Tax. Mr. Tavawalla has done extensive research and undertaken various matters in relation to cutting areas of technology such Artificial Intelligence, Driverless Cars, Robotics, Drones etc. Amongst others, he has also lead the team for the research papers on The Future is Here: Artificial Intelligence & Robotics, Drones – Unmasking the Future, Internet of Things: The Era of Convergence - Legal & Tax Issues. More recently, he was also appointed as the special task force committee member on the drone committee set up by the Indian Government. He also continues to be closely associated with academics and is a regular guest lecturer at law school(s), industry associations and other education institutions. He is actively involved in addressing legal issues and has published various articles on the same.

Proactive leader and seasoned deal maker with 14+ years of experience in Investment Banking encompassing deal origination, execution and successful closures. Strong understanding of Mergers & Acquisitions (buy-side & sell-side), Private Equity transactions and Acquisition Financing deals. Led several transactions including cross-border acquisitions/ divestment and leveraged buy-outs with aggregate deal value over US$ 1 billion. Managed global clients / investors/ targets across various regions including Europe, USA and Japan through which I have gained significant global perspective, cultural & transaction experience. Area of specialization includes skilled negotiations, deal origination, deal evaluation & structuring, networking / relationship management with CXOs/ business owners, business strategy, valuation, due diligence, financial analysis and problem solving approach. Key note speaker / panelist on discussions organised by reputed industry organisations such as Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE). High focus on client value creation & team engagement !

Senior finance professional with over 35 years experience post qualification of which over 20 years of CFOship. Working experience cuts across industries from telecoms (BPL Mobile & Aircel - Maxis), media (Star TV, Times Group & Hathway Cable), infrastructure (Mumbai International Airport) & financial services (Ceat Financial Services) sectors. In these industries I have variously played several roles including controllership, finance & treasury, strategic finance, M&A & Corporate Governance. In some of my roles I have had the opportunity to build the organization from ground up including building, training and motivating large groups of skilled professionals. In the above several roles I have successfully dealt with international & domestic financial markets (having raised capital in these markets) and articulated the vision & strategy of the Company to the public markets through interactions with the media and the financial community.

Senior Finance Executive with global track record in front line finance and corporate roles in multinational environment: Global Risk management & Risk Financing (incl New Energies) Business Development/M&A Upstream Major Transition management CFO -positions in Turkey & India Focus areas: Value management, Joint Ventures strategy, M&A-Portfolio restructuring, Finance Change management, Risk/Reward Performance management

Arun is a corporate development specialist, skilled in strategy formulation and execution. He advises ultra high networth families and business groups as their Strategy Partner since 2006. Till now, Arun has led over 185 transactions and 52 companies to their success. Arun has proven track record of building and operating business in mining of natural resources, development of build-to-suit infrastructure, polymers, Hi-Tech Agriculture, Food & Beverage and ITeS. He has successfully raised capital commitment of well over US$500 million. He is currently promoting and co-promoting ventures in health and med-tech. Arun also trains entrepreneurs and business leaders in intelligent thinking, to cut to the core and achieve exceptional and sustainable profit. He is known to demonstrate a strong grasp and deft integration of economics, finance, history, and technology and the brilliance and foibles of the human character. Prior to establishing his strategy consulting practice in 2006, Arun was employed in key engagements with multi national corporations such as: PwC, ACS, IBM, Oracle and ZTE. He holds a masters degree in commerce and is certified by The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

He is a seasoned business and finance professional with expertise in unlocking value in companies. He has managed businesses with complete P&L responsibility; have handled large teams in excess of 2000+ people spread across 100+ locations. He has demonstrated expertise in turning around companies, raising funds, building for the next level of growth, creating resilient organizations. As an operating partner of a Private Equity fund, I has had hands on roles in investee companies . He has also been an investment banker focused on software and technology M&A and who has structured full lifecycle of deals worth more than $300 Million. He has demonstrated expertise in raising capital funds both venture and debt and have delivered multiple successful exits to investors and entrepreneurs.

Leading finance function for $4B business, across Gas and Steam Power, T&D, Renewable Energy, Healthcare, Aviation and Oil & Gas sectors. Partnering CEO to drive order & revenue growth, go to market strategy, developing new ideas & white spaces and cross business opportunities. A key member of South Asia Leadership Team, responsible for corporate strategy, financial planning & analysis and operating Rhythms and leadership meetings. Mentoring and developing finance leadership talent. As Commercial Finance Head, helping win ~$1.5B in annual business.

A principle centric Senior Finance Professional with strong and updated Financial, managerial and Commercial background in both Indian and MNCs in the businesses of Research, Advertising( ATL & BTL), Publishing/Manufacturing cum Distribution and Services; Adept in General management, People development and leading Change management. Very commercially oriented, able to manage diverse functions like Legal, IT, Administration, Procurement, Facility Management etc. Love to take on challenges and bring about lasting solutions by implementing systems and process changes to result in greater efficiencies and controls to cover risks and takes pride in facilitating business. Possess effective management and leadership skills with a ready-to-dirty-the-hands approach, strong work ethics and a very high energy level, Who works passionately with a disciplined schedule and a sincere approach to my set targets. I carry with myself a flexible mindset and a positive attitude to deal with any uncertain situation which might come along my way in achieving my goals. My objectives are to be technically skillful to deal with any problem at my work along with developing an understanding of the overall impact of my work on the business side of it. This will make me have better understanding of the whole business process and and thus help me take sound and effective business decisions in the future. Specialties: Statutory compliance ,Cost Control, Treasury, Debt collections, Timely MIS to help in strategic decision making and general accounting,taxation and assessments etc.

Merger & Acquisition, Strategy and Business Development expert with over 20 years of professional experience in large global companies at leadership levels. Led over 15 acquisitions across industries. Handled a variety of other Inorganic deals including strategic minority investment, divestiture, LP investments, etc., across markets like UK, Germany, Japan, South East Asia, NA and India. Currently I head M&A for LTI, a $1.35 BN technology consulting and digital transformation company. Prior to this I was lead for Ventures and M&A for Accenture Technology & Operations in India and DevTech & Automation Segment globally. That involved collaborating with growth stage B2B startups across the globe for joint go to market, Strategic Investments and acquisitions. In personal capacity I do angel investment in start-ups and mentor them. Regular speaker at industry events and Business Schools

An astute finance and investment advisory professional who believes in strong ethical and professional conduct of business. Before founding Springforth he had over 14 years of wealth and investment banking experience with Kotak Mahindra Bank, CITI Bank and HDFC Bank. He was responsible for teams and profit centres through his career and has sharp business instincts and wide network that helps put clients and the organisation on strategic optima. He is a CFA Charter Holder from CFA institute USA and did his Masters in Business Management. He was pre-placement mentor for IIT-Chennai and guest lecturer for Business Schools in Osmania University. Apart from being an academician and executor, he is an accomplished orator and enjoys theatre & traveling. He has a voracious appetite for learning and is fascinated by the domains of Behavioural Economics and Financial Quant.