Promod Haque
Promod has more than 15 years of experience in the venture capital industry and currently serves as managing partner at Norwest Venture Partners. He joined Norwest Venture Partners in 1990. He has been ranked as a top dealmaker on the annual Forbes Midas List for the past five years, and in 2004, Forbes named him as the #1 venture capitalist based on performance over the last decade. In 2006, Promod was presented with a Global Leadership award from NASSCOM.
Promod focuses on investments in semiconductor and components, systems, software and services. He was an early investor and a board member of Cerent (acquired by Cisco), Siara Systems (acquired by Redback Networks), OnDisplay (acquired by Vignette), Winphoria Networks (acquired by Motorola) and Extreme Networks.
Prior to Norwest Venture Partners, Promod spent 18 years in various operational roles ranging from product development, marketing, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Executive Officer at various public and private companies - Siemens International, Thorn EMI, Emergent Technologies and Dimensional Medicine, Inc.
He received a bachelor of science in electrical engineering from the University ofDelhi, India. He holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Northwestern University and an MBA from Northwestern's Kellogg Graduate School of Management, where he serves on the advisory board.

Haresh Chawla
Haresh Chawla, age 39 years, is Group CEO of the TV18 Group. He has been in this position since December 1999, when he joined the TV18 Group. Under his leadership and guidance, the TV18 Group has been transformed from a production house to India's No.1 News Network , has grown from a 180 strong team to a 2000+ team and has attained leadership positions in all its ventures in the news broadcasting space - CNBC TV18, Awaaz, CNN IBN and Channel 7. Haresh’s previous assignments have all been with start-ups including the HCL Group - where he headed- business development for HCL Comnet, ABCL - where he set up the Film Distribution Business and at the Times of India Group where he launched their music label - Times Music.

Haresh's varied experience of 16 years in media and technology has also enabled the Group to identify Internet spaces that have now achieved leadership positions - moneycontrol.com (Asia's leading financial portal), commoditiescontrol.com (India's leading source for commodity information and research), ibnlive.com (No. 1 site for general news), poweryourtrade.com (Subscription based equity site). Recently the Group also acquired the Indian arm of jobstreet.com (Malaysia-based job portal) and set up Yatra.in (a travel portal) along with Reliance Capital & Norwest Venture Partners.
Under his leadership, TV18 continues to identify new ventures - greenfield and acquired and hopes to maintain the exponential growth trajectory that it has seen in the last 6 years.
Haresh holds a degree in Business Management from IIM - Calcutta and is also an alumnus of IIT-Mumbai.

Harshal J. Shah
Mr. Harshal Shah has been with Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group since June 2005 and spearheads the Group’s corporate venture capital arm as Chief Executive Officer, Reliance Venture Asset Management Ltd.

With over 15 years of experience across technology, finance and marketing, Mr. Shah has been responsible for building Reliance Venture Asset Mangement into one of the Top 100 Venture Capital Firms of the World (Winner, Red Herring Top 100 Global Venture Capital Firms). It has been ranked as #30 among 1800 competitors from 32 countries, and across 12 benchmarks. Reliance Venture Asset Management is the only corporate venture capital firm from India in the List, and the first one in Red Herring's history. By incubating start-ups through Reliance Venture Asset Management, Mr. Shah has built household names such as Yatra Online, which itself is today a Rs. 1000 crore plus company, Suvidhaa Infoserve, Scalable Display etc., and has forged alliances and investments in India, the US, Europe and the Far East.

Prior to joining Reliance, Mr. Shah has held various positions at IBM Global Strategy (USA), Northstar Global Partners (USA), Infostakes, Inc. (USA and India), and Accenture (USA, Singapore, Hong Kong). At IBM, he went through leadership training and led a team reporting to the CEO, to restructure IBM to become solutions driven, with increased focus on India. At Infostakes, a private company he founded, he grew its net worth by 9000% in 3 years.

Mr. Shah has advised and invested in deals worth several billion dollars. He is on the Boards of UK-based, eWaveWorld Ltd. (now, Reliance WiMAX World), where Reliance is investing $500 million to bring broadband internet to 50 countries by 2012; Stoke, Inc., a US based developer of fixed-mobile convergence solutions, Yatra Online, Inc., India’s largest online travel consolidator, several other US private companies; and Setco Automotive Ltd., which is a fast growing, leading, listed company on the Bombay Stock Exchange with global aspirations.

Mr. Shah was a Truman Gray Scholar at MIT and MIT Sloan School of Management from which he has two Bachelors' degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Management. He has an MBA in Finance and Strategy from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and is an alumnus of the prestigious, Phillips Academy in Andover, USA.

Mr. Shah lives in Mumbai, India with his wife Urja, and one-year old son, Hrehan. Mrs. Shah is a fashion designer from the Parsons School of Design, New York, and a graduate from Duke University, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Kodaikanal International School. She was also accepted into the PhD program at Stanford.