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 Shah
Harshal Shah heads Reliance Technology Ventures Ltd. at Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group. He is also on the Board of Reliance Venture Asset Management Ltd., the Group's asset management company for its venture funds and investments.
Harshal has advised and invested in deals worth more than $600 million. Along with Yatra, he is also on the Boards of Setco Automotive Ltd. (listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange), and Telsima Corporation (a US-based wireless telecom equipment manufacturer started by Vin Dham, Father of the Intel Pentium Processor).
Through Reliance Technology Ventures, his team invests into media, communications and technology companies that augment the Reliance ADA Group's ecosystem. The Group currently has a presence in the communications, information technology, media and entertainment, financial services, energy, infrastructure and healthcare industries.
Prior to joining Reliance, Harshal had more than more than 14 years of experience in various roles at IBM (USA), Northstar Global Partners (USA), Infostakes, Inc. (USA and India), and Accenture (USA, Singapore, Hong Kong). At IBM, he led a team reporting to the CEO, to realign the operations so as to become solutions driven across various verticals, instead of being product-focused. Infostakes, Inc., a company of which he was CEO, grew its net worth by 9000% in 3 years, and in partnership with Fidelity, applied to become a licensed member of the NASDAQ.
Harshal has an MBA from The Wharton School of Business. He is also a Truman Gray Scholar from MIT from which he earned two Bachelors' degrees: in Management, and Electrical Engineering & Computer Science. He has completed two New York City Marathons.

Dhruv Shringi, Co Founder - Yatra
Dhruv returns to India after 8 years in Europe. His most recent role prior to co-founding Yatra was as Director Group Operations and Technology of the Ebookers Group where he was responsible for sales of over $850 million achieved thru multi channels including online, call centres and retail shops, 600 people and a cost budget of $70 million.
With regard to technology, he was accountable for developing the IT strategy and for leading the technology development and infrastructure teams, some 150 employees over 13 locations. He was also instrumental in leading the operational integration of a key acqusition by Ebookers. The integration achieved annualised cost savings of $20 million and 33% reduction of the UK workforce.
Prior to his stint at Ebookers, he worked with Ford Motor Company in their Business Strategy team based in London where he was part of the European Business Turnaround team and also has significant work experience in India having spent over 6 years with Arthur Andersen based in their office in Delhi. Dhruv holds an MBA from INSEAD and is also a qualified Chartered Accountant.