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Within a short span of 2 years since launch, The June Shop today boasts of an eclectic yet affordable 60+ sub-categories being retailed on their website and is on track to achieve a whopping 200% growth, witnessed with the boom of online spending. Currently, the brand has 100+ craftsmen working on products with more than 1.5L+ customers.

Rishav Nahata

Co-founder, The June Shop

Rishav Nahata is the Co-founder of The June Shop, a design-inspired lifestyle e-commerce brand. Rishav Nahata along with Pranav Jain who is the Co-founder of the company came together with an idea to disrupt the impulse buying category online after realizing the immense demand in the Indian market for design-oriented, lifestyle products. Born to address this need gap, The June Shop serves this niche with their curated array of everyday collectibles which are fun, premium and aesthetic. Before this Rishav was working within his ancestral textile business where he was looking after the procurement and manufacturing division.

Hailing from Kolkata, Rishav has a degree in Business Management from Centre for Management Studies, Bangalore. He is an e-commerce professional with a decade worth of experience in procurement and manufacturing.

Rishav is driven by a passion to bring products with great designs and functionality to the discerning Indian consumers. He is responsible for strategic expansion and procurement of products and also overlooks designing, product curation, and product research. Under his able leadership, the brand is on track to achieve a whopping 200% growth.

He enjoys listening to podcasts, boxing, working out, and loves coffee.

Vansikha Nahata

CEO, The June Shop

Vansikha Nahata, a young 25 years old entrepreneur from Kolkata is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at The June Shop – an E-commerce start-up. Vansikha leads the brand and is  steering the expansion, content, branding and marketing aspects of business. She is responsible for driving business’ critical mandates and her multi-dimensional qualities ranging from ideation, content curation to designing as a leader have ensured a fundamentally strong, customer centric business with enormous potential.

Her vision for The June Shop not only includes expansion of the manufacturing base predominantly to India, but global expansion is also on the roadmap with a focus on building innovative products across diversified product categories for Smart and Elegant Homes. She strives to focus on organic growth.

Vansikha is a graduate of St. Xavier’s College in Kolkata and a master’s degree in Financial Mathematics from King’s College, London. She is also passionate about Indie music and loves number crunching and reading.

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About RUBANS:

Established in 2014, Rubans Accessories is the fastest growing jewelry brand in the country, housing an enthralling combination of brilliant artistry and modernity.

About Chinu Kala:

Chinu Kala is an entrepreneur, socialite, model and one of the prominent women in the fashion jewelry business in India today. Her start-up Rubans Accessories, founded in 2014, is the fastest-growing fashion jewelry brand in India.

She has come a long way in life by genuine hard-work, persistence, eagerness to learn, and understanding of the gigantic power of the human spirit

Rubans is like her personality.  Its quirky, fashionable jewelry that supports her values of being persistence, hardworking and budget-conscious.

Her journey started at the age of 15, when she left home with a pair of slippers, a salwar suit and just Rs 300 in her pocket. In order to survive and to have her daily food she started working as a door-to-door sales person selling knives and coaster sets. During her struggle days she did all possible odd jobs right from working as a waitress to being a telemarketing executive. She started her 1st venture Fonte corporate solutions in 2008 which was into corporate merchandising. In 2007 she participated in Gladrags Mrs. India beauty pageant and it is here that she realized the power of Jewelry. How a piece of jewelry could transform the overall look of a person. For years this thought lingered on in her mind and in 2014 she started her Fashion jewelry brand Rubans

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A brainchild of Ritika Gupta, Konpal Batra & Rakshit Singh, the brand originated with the purpose of offering impeccable craftsmanship to its patrons.  With varied skillsets and a common passion, the three designers are united by their live for creating the perfect blend between the classic and the modern. This brand is known for its Mask Chains which gained popularity by being spotted on just about everyone. With the doors of its studio open in Noida, Tann-ed produces designs that are loved locally as well as internationally.”

Founded in 2022, The Fair Trust is an ecosystem building a borderless and democratic community of

investors funding the next generations of revolutionary blockchain projects. The platform is founded by

Anthony D. & Micky P. who bring with them decades of experience from working with consulting and

tech giants like Deloitte, IBM to founding multiple ecommerce and multi-chain service brands.

Micky P. is the Co-founder and CTO of The Fair Trust. As the CTO, Micky is responsible for the

technology development of The Fair Trust financial ecosystem and spearheads the team of

developers. He has been instrumental in streamlining the business for increased efficiency and

profitability by focusing on building state-of-the-art technology, engineering and strengthening the

engagement. With his relentless passion for technology, Micky is focussing on building long-term

strategies with the evolving digital infrastructure for The Fair Trust.

Prior to The Fair Trust, he worked with the tech giant, IBM. Micky was the National Head at Sheer

Event Management where he led the charge to effectively grow the organisation and form strategies

to expand the business portfolio. He is also the founder of the popular chain, Tea Villa Cafe since 2014.

Micky is extremely passionate about entrepreneurship and is a firm believer of an optimistic approach

for growth, teamwork, and positivity.

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About MDPH:

Anshul Agrawal, Director, MDPH believes in upgrading his knowledge continuously & puts his enormous efforts & time to do so.

He is a 2nd Generation Entrepreneur heading his family business. Born in 1987 Anshul completed his schooling from Indore. At the age of 13, he became the youngest Web Developer in MP by developing Indore city website.

In 2008, he attained a B Tech in Civil Engineering from IIT Delhi. During his college, he completed a 3 months internship in New Zealand and also received an award for Cumulative Outstanding Contribution to Photography Club of IIT Delhi.

After graduation his first work experience was in the field of Retail Consultancy with Dunnhumby for a year and then co-founded a startup in the Education sector with his fellow IITians. He has also completed a management development program in family business from IIM Ahmedabad. Later on he joined his family business in 2011 and since then he has been an integral part of the company.

With his super-eminent managing skills, Anshul is heading the Operations, Administration and HR at MDPH. He is managing more than 3,000 people at its 4 manufacturing units with cumulative production space of 6,50,000 sq fts. and 35 offices across India. Group MDPH is now India's 2nd largest Agarbatti manufacturer with its flagship brand, Zed Black, being endorsed by M S Dhoni, while Bollywood actor Hrithik Roshan endorses their brand Manthan Dhoop

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Mira Jhala has built her career on the basis of some stellar food startups that have grown into notable brands under her guidance and vision. Over the last decade, she has founded and funded multiple companies that have not only grown, but flourished under her experienced leadership.

She is currently building FroGo - India’s first and largest online frozen food delivery company. FroGo is set to take the country by storm with its freshness of perspective and of course, freshness of frozen food. 

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About VaccineOnWheels:

In collaboration with IIT Hyderabad and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Jivika Healthcare Private Limited (VaccineOnWheels.com) has introduced India’s 1st Doctor-based Mobile Vaccination Clinic in 2019.

VOW is a Future Ready concept! We are India’s only mobile vaccination service capable of handling Adverse Event Following Immunization. VaccineOnWheels aims to immunize India’s underserved population by “Ensuring access to quality vaccination for all”. We are one-stop mobile vaccination clinic with the vision to reduce inequality and increase immunization penetration. To ensure access for all economic strata, we create hospital-like sterile setups near their communities providing vaccination services. This agile setup reduces the overall costs and thereby makes quality vaccination service available and affordable for all age groups.

The vaccination services are available for all age groups – new born, infants, children, adults and the elderly. Our service innovation enables us to cover the entire array of economic strata with an increased focus on bottom-of-the-base.

Jignesh Patel has 14+ years of leadership experience in Business Development, Channel Sales, Sales & Marketing Strategy.  For a major part of it, he was associated with India’s largest automobile manufacturer; Maruti Suzuki India Limited, driving sales & operation for the western zone of one of the Maruti Suzuki’s division.

Even when his corporate career was going from strength to strength, his passion lay in becoming a social entrepreneur.  He wanted to be a change maker in the field of healthcare, a dream that lay hold of his heart for nearly 8 years.  In 2018, he could take the brave step of leaving his cushy job at Maruti Suzuki that earned him a remuneration of more than INR 2 mn to join The Foundation for Center for Healthcare Entrepreneurship (CfHE) at IIT Hyderabad. The 1 Year Research based Residential program (based at IIT Hyderabad campus) helped him to understand healthcare sector from close quarters and identify various issues faced by diverse stakeholders primarily from patient/society perspective.

The research of 1 year at IIT Hyderabad helped him in understanding the on-ground bottlenecks of the Vaccination Delivery model in India (and also in various developing nations around the world). He envisages an organized and customized Vaccination Service for India as an answer to the issue by introducing India’s 1st Doctor based Mobile Vaccination Clinic in 2019 – VaccineOnWheels as part of 1st division of Jivika Healthcare. The model involves a customized vaccination service to take Mobile Vaccination Clinic facility on the wheel’s community level focusing on reaching the unreached within urban and rural parts of India. The ultimate aim of VaccineOnWheels is to ensure access of vaccination for India’s rural and urban poor. Under B2G segment, to ensure access for bottom-of-the-pyramid (BOP) - in partnership with Government, VaccineOnWheels creates hospital-like sterile setups near the community providing free vaccination services with the CSR support.

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About R.V Ramanathan

Victorinox is a global company with five product categories: Swiss Army Knives, Household and Professional Knives, Watches, Travel Gear and Fragrances. The Swiss Army Knife is the core product and has a pioneering role in the development of all product categories.

Debraj Sengupta is the Chief Marketing Officer for the brand and has a P&L responsibility for the watch product line at Victorinox India Pvt. Ltd. He has been associated with Victorinox India since 2010. He is also responsible for the pan India marketing strategy for the brand. Own and manage AOP and drive brand campaigns, product planning and media channel management for improving conversions sales and influencing P&L.

He brings in the most practical and rare knowledge in the luxury and niche watch business, with over 21 years of rich hands-on experience. Before joining Victorinox India, Mr. Sengupta has served several watch brands like Titan, Citizen, Rado, Tag Heuer and Dior.

After successfully launching Victorinox Swiss Army (watch) and spreading it across 170 doors in India, Mr. Sengupta says his current challenge is to be more digital-friendly and adopt a strategic, integrated approach that concentrates on consumers and makes Victorinox relevant yet different in consumers' eyes. He would be focusing on e-commerce and own retail for the next growth phase for Victorinox India. Victorinox is expanding its global retail footprints by including India from 2022, and this shall be the next exciting assignment, he says.

On weekends he passionately mentors and shares his knowledge online with aspiring students willing to make a career in the Business of Luxury.

Sleepyhead is a D2C lifestyle home décor brand made for the digital native Indian millennial & Gen Z headquartered in Bengaluru. Launched in 2017 with the unique  Bed-In-A-Box concept, Sleepyhead broke all category norms and became India’s fastest-growing D2C mattress brand. Today, Sleepyhead is a home lifestyle brand focusing on making everyday living fun and fabulous with its thoughtfully designed products. The brand caters to the underserved needs of the new age Indian customer by making great designs accessible without compromising on quality and service.

Mathew Joseph: Co-Founder, Sleepyhead Home Decor Private Limited

As a multifaceted business leader with a demonstrated history of working in the consumer goods industry, Mathew is an expert in Marketing Management, Product Design, Advertising, Sales, and Trade Marketing. At Sleepyhead, as the Co-Founder & Mathew is responsible for Product Alignment, Brand Strategy, Operations, Sales and Marketing. He dedicates most of his time on strategy and planning and has been instrumental in establishing Sleepyhead as one of the fastest growing mattress brands in the e-commerce space.

Before starting Sleepyhead in 2016, Mathew was the primary shareholder and the Marketing Director of Duroflex, an industry leader in the mattress category. With over a decade of proven experience in the business, Mathew has been instrumental in the success of Duroflex and continues to be a Board Member.