Founder - Sify

Mr. Ramaraj is a Senior Advisor with Sequoia Capital. Prior to Sequoia Capital, Mr. Ramaraj Co-founded Sify (SIFY), the first Indian internet company to list on NASDAQ.

In his previous work profile, Mr. Ramaraj served as a director in Sterling Cellular. Ramaraj holds a B. Tech. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Madras and a M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.

Mr. Ramaraj represents sequoia on the board at ideacts and brings valuable insight and vision of the internet industry.

Managing Director, Sequoia Capital India

Mohit is a Managing Director with Sequoia Capital. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital, Mohit served as the Senior Vice President - Value Added Services ("VAS") & Alliances at India's leading telecom company, Bharti Cellular Ltd.

Earlier in his career he held senior leadership positions at Ericsson in Sales, Marketing and Strategy based in North America, Taiwan & Philippines.

Mohit represents sequoia on the board at ideacts. He comes from a massive telecom experience with Bharti and has been an entrepreneur himself in the Silicon Valley.

Founder & CEO - Games2win

Alok Kejriwal is someone we call the original first generation entrepreneur. Giving up the security of running an established family business, Alok chose a path which challenged his abilities to think and structure businesses.

Alok is a serial entrepreneur, having successfully started his first venture – Contests2win.com, he promoted ventures like Mobile2win, Media2win and the recently launched - Games2win.com. He brings with him vast experience of successfully building ventures and a 360 degree knowledge of the online industry.

Partner - Accretive SD Consultants

Vishnu is a Chartered Accountant with over eight years of experience in advising clients on various finance and tax matters. He specializes in advising clients on various international tax issues, inbound and outbound investments and transfer pricing studies.

Vishnu currently leads the Controllership and Direct Tax verticals at Accretive. He has a keen business acumen and works with entrepreneurs in building a robust ecosystem for financial decisions making.

He has contributed articles in leading newspapers and business magazines and has been a guest speaker in various seminars on finance and taxation matters.

At Ideacts, Accretive manages the finance, accounting and tax functions. Vishnu is the financial advisor at Ideacts. He is also a good friend, AFTER we walk out of the board room.

Managing Director - SVB India India Advisors Pvt. Ltd.

Suresh Shanmugham is Managing Director for Silicon Valley Bank's global financial services group, which is responsible for the company's international strategy and operations. Based in California, Shanmugham oversees and manages the SVB India Advisors Pvt. Ltd team, Silicon Valley Bank's operation in Bangalore, India.

Shanmugham has extensive expertise and venture capital investing experience in the information technology and communications industries. Prior to joining Silicon Valley Bank, Shanmugham was a partner at Boston Millennia Partners, an early stage venture capital firm, where he was one of the founding members of the firm. From 1994 to 1997, he served as an associate, and then a principal at Boston Capital Ventures.

He was previously with McKinsey & Company, an international management consulting firm, where he was in the corporate finance practice and garnered significant experience with mergers and acquisitions.