Advisors

The Board of Advisors to Ojas Venture Partners consists of individuals who bring a wealth of expertise and experience in angel investing, venture capital, entrepreneurship and management experience to enhance the direction and efforts of Ojas. They form an integral component of our present and future vision.

Nadathur S. Raghavan (NSR):

NSR was co-founder and Former Joint Managing Director of Infosys. He retired from Infosys in 2000 to promote his vision of entrepreneurship. Along with a few associates, he started Nadathur Holdings & Investments (NHIL) with the aim of nurturing knowledge-based and innovation driven ventures that either target the Indian market or leverage Indian resources to target the global market. He also seeded the NSR Centre for Entrepreneurship Learning at the Indian Institute of Management, which seeks to mentor early stage companies. Today, in addition to supporting a portfolio of over seventeen companies across industries such as Life Sciences, Information Technology, and Engineering Services, NHIL also acts as a Limited Partner to select Venture Capital firms such as Ojas.

Sanjay Anandaram:

Sanjay is founding Partner of JumpStartUp Venture Fund, one of the earliest early-stage US-India cross border VC funds set up in 2000. Outside of JumpStartUp, he mentors and occasionally invests in start-ups and advises VC funds.

Sanjay has over two decades of industry experience including significant international experience involving new business creation and business development in India, US, Asia, Middle-East and Africa. Prior to founding JumpStartUp, Sanjay co-founded Neta Inc., a venture capital backed Silicon Valley software start-up that was acquired by Infoseek (Disney). Subsequently, Sanjay returned to India and founded VentureKatalyst, India’s first online publication aimed at entrepreneurs.

Before Neta, Sanjay spent many years with Wipro (NYSE:WIT), where he began his corporate career. At Wipro, he was responsible for creating and driving several pioneering initiatives that resulted in the creation of extremely successful businesses. He also established a “product design lab for hire” in Silicon Valley in 1994 that undertook leading edge turnkey product development and engineering for start-ups and large companies. In 1996, as part of Wipro’s corporate development efforts, he wrote the business plan that led to the creation of a healthcare domain focused IT solutions practice.

Sanjay holds a Bachelors degree (with Honours) in Electrical Engineering from Jadavpur University, Calcutta and an MBA degree from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.

Anand Nadathur:

Anand has over 12 years of experience working in start-ups and in the VC industry. He has played the roles of a co-founder in two start-ups, a Venture Capitalist in managing a portfolio of investments and a Fund-of-Fund manager investing into VC and PE funds.

At his current position as Director at Nadathur Holdings, Anand is responsible for deploying Nadathur’s funds in the Venture Capital area and for the company’s current technology portfolio. He has also been instrumental in envisioning and giving form to Ojas Venture Partners. Prior to Nadathur, Anand worked at MediAssist, Cades Digitech, Agency.com, iXL, Apex technologies and Rank Information across India, US and Singapore.

Anand holds an MBA from INSEAD, France & Singapore and a Master’s in MIS from Boston University.

Krishnamurthy T V G:

Krishnamurthy presently mentors entrepreneurs in India, promoting early stage companies in the technology space, with globally relevant service or product propositions.

He plays the role of a “Non-executive Chairman”, helping with strategy to deliver unique customer advantages and competitive positioning. He also helps monitor organization building and internal delivery processes.

He is presently working with companies in different domains including EMS, IT products and services, lifestyle products and services, to name a few. He is also an advisor to Lifespring, a Nadathur fund focused on health and life sciences.

He has over 38 years of experience in India and South East Asia, 25 of them at the Board level both with MNCs and local large groups. He has worked in multiple industry segments- Engineering, Pharmaceuticals, Consumer products, Foods and Confectionaries, Packaging materials, Ophthalmic products and has extensive functional experience in production, marketing, sales, profit-center management and acquisitions and mergers. He has been directly responsible for over 10 start-ups and a few turn-arounds.

He holds  Engineering and MBA degrees from premier academic institutions in India.

Sivaramakrishnan:

Siva is a Telecom and IT industry veteran with 34 years of experience, with deep insight into service providers. Currently he is acting as common glue, among various eco- system participants in the ICT domain. He is presently advising start up and mid-sized companies in Internet and Wireless space, helping them with product development, positioning, and Business Development both for Indian and Global markets.

Siva has been part of a large integrated Telecom operator in India and has been behind the launch of many popular Value Added Services.  He worked closely with large Service Integration companies, and had been part of developing innovative outsourcing models.

Siva also effectively fills the gap between customer expectations, product features and service management. He is well exposed to both consumer and enterprise business segments. He has managed very large scales and aggressive growth.

Siva’s passion includes mentoring entrepreneurs transform their dreams into reality, while he also advises very large companies in strategic thrusts.