Our Team

Radhakrishnan K.
Co-Founder
Radha pioneered modern grocery retail in India, from Foodworld, the country’s first supermarket chain, to opening 1,000+ Reliance Fresh and Hypermarket stores as CEO. He later led Future FreshFoods, founded Grocermax (acquired by Tata in 2017) and ran StarQuik.
Ashim Jolly
Co-Founder
Ashim has built and scaled three startups, including Haptik, where he was COO through its US$100M acquisition by Reliance Jio. A Cornell engineer and OnDeck Founder Fellow, he has backed 40+ startups as an angel investor.
Raj Narula
Venture Partner (Cross Border Trade & M&A)
Raj has spent 25+ years opening India to North American companies, co-founding TaraSpan and running Ottawa-based InCa Synergies since 2015. He has led trade missions for Canadian ministers and Export Development Canada, and co-founded TiE Ottawa.
Ravikant Sabnavis
Venture Partner (Venture Build)
Ravi has built brands and businesses over 34 years across foods, healthcare, alcobev, aviation, motorsport and media. As CEO of Arha Media he led a three-year financial turnaround, and he launched Kingfisher Ultra and Act II in India.
Meenakshii Dange
Venture Partner (Go-to-Market)
Meenakshii brings 23+ years of FMCG and retail growth leadership across Cadbury, PepsiCo, Future Group, Carlsberg and VIP Industries. She takes brands from listing to sell-through across Modern Trade, marketplaces and quick commerce.

Naren Rajagopal
Client Partner
Naren brings cross-functional experience across legal, accounting and operations from Tata Trent and Lumina Datamatics. He leads legal and operational infrastructure at IBEC.
Lance Fernandes
Client Partner
Lance brings a strong foundation in sports business from JioStar, Procam, MCA and GS Worldwide. He now channels that into building retail, sports and FMCG ventures at IBEC.
Ankit Chandhok
Client Partner
An ex co-organiser of TEDxGateway, Ankit brings a decade of operator experience across large-scale events, community building and startup strategy, working with some of India’s most influential founders.
Yash Tyagi
Strategic Partnerships & Alliances
Yash works at the seam of government, industry and capital: Independent External Consultant to the India AI Mission at MeitY, where he led coordination for the India AI Impact Summit 2026, with earlier roles at India Global Forum, ORF’s Raisina Dialogue and AICTE.

Backed By

Frank Piasecki
Managing Director,
The Catenary Fund
Frank is Managing Director of The Catenary Fund, investing in financial services and fintech, and a Director of Piasecki Aircraft Corporation. He spent 21 years as President of ACTIV Financial Systems, the real-time market data company, after leading business development at Primark.
Kumar Rajagopalan
CEO,
Retailers Association of India
Kumar is CEO of the Retailers Association of India and sits on ONDC’s steering committee and advisory council. A chartered accountant, he was earlier Executive Director and COO of Crossword Bookstores, held leadership roles at Shoppers Stop and headed IBM’s retail solutions business in India.
Nicolas Dumoulin
Senior Managing Director,
South East Asia, Michael Page
Nicolas leads Michael Page’s Southeast Asia business from Bangkok, covering Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines. In 20+ years with PageGroup he spent 12 building its India business, including five as Managing Director India.
Dhruv Abrol
Managing Partner,
Dentsu Amp
Dhruv is Managing Partner of Dentsu Amp, the creative agency and film studio he set up in 2025, after founding and running the content studio TVA for five years. Earlier he built Tata CLiQ’s luxury category and led international brand buying at Myntra.
Zarik Nabi
Chief Commercial Officer,
Tabby
Zarik is Chief Commercial Officer at Tabby in Dubai, where he has led cards, wallets, payments and lending since 2021. Before that he ran marketing for LazyPay at PayU, having co-founded and operated consumer and fintech startups in Mumbai.

Sachin Bajaj
Founder and Managing Director,
Global Cricket School
Sachin founded the Global Cricket School in Mumbai in 2011 and has run it as Managing Director since. He is also a Partner at Triarchh.
Monil Shah
Managing Partner,
BIG FIVE INC
Monil is Managing Partner of BIG FIVE INC, a paper stationery business he has taken into new geographies since 2015. Earlier he owned Plecto Plast and worked as a derivatives analyst at ENAM Securities, after a PGDBM in Finance from SIES.
Steven Enamakel
Founder,
TinyHumans
Steven is building AI memory infrastructure at TinyHumans, after founding ZeroLend, a decentralised money market that grew past US$300M in liquidity, and MahaDAO. A University of Toronto computer scientist and economist, he also runs the software studio Vezures.
Anand Madhavan
AI Product Executive,
Everpure
Anand leads AI products at Everpure (formerly Pure Storage), where he built the GenAI CoPilot platform, and founded yFounders.ai. In 15+ years in product he has been VP of Product at Bird and led AI products at 24/7.ai, Chegg and Yahoo.
Jitendra Agrawal
Executive Vice President Engineering,
JioHotstar
Jitendra runs engineering at JioHotstar as Executive Vice President, having earlier been VP of Engineering at Hotstar and Global CTO of CARS24. An IIT Bombay graduate, he was SVP Technology at Lendingkart and CTO of Springboard.