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. The advisory board consists of the following members
Nadathur S. Raghavan (NSR):
NSR was a 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 Center 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 a 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 startups and advises VC funds. He’s also on the board of Maya Organic India Private Ltd, a social entrepreneurship startup.
As a passionate advocate of entrepreneurship, he writes and speaks frequently nationally and internationally on entrepreneurship, startups and VC. His column Indipreneur is published in the Financial Express and on startup blogs. He’s involved with TiE Bangalore (as Charter Member and co-chair of the TiE Entrepreneur Acceleration Pro-gramme), Nasscom (as part of the Product and Innovation group), with IIM-B (as member of the NS Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning), with INSEAD (as Adjunct Faculty teaching the Business Plan Workshop elective).
Sanjay has close to 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 startup 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). At Wipro, he was responsible for creating and driving several pioneering initiatives that resulted in the creation of extremely successful busi-nesses. He also established a “product design lab for hire” in Silicon Valley in 1994 that undertook leading edge turnkey product development and engineering for startups 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. Earlier, Sanjay was responsible for channel and OEM sales in Africa, Middle-East and the Far East. He started his IT industry career in sales for Wipro in India.
Sanjay holds a Bachelors (with Honours) degree in Electrical Engineering from Jadavpur University, Calcutta and a MBA 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 as 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:
presently mentors entrepreneurs in India, promoting early stage companies with potential and global ambition especially in the technology space with globally relevant service or product propositions.
He acts mostly as a “Non-executive Chairman”, helping to strategize to deliver unique customer advantages and competitive internal competen-cies. He helps monitor organization building and internal delivery processes.
He is presently working with companies in different domains including EMS, IT product and services, lifestyle products and services etc. 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 etc 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 couple of turn-arounds.
He is an Engineer and MBA from the premier academic institutions in India.