People Making Impact

Sugandh Lok, an exclusive line of premium agarbattis brand from the house of Sarathi International. This is to explore an interaction with Mr. Sapthagiri S Boggaram, third-generation entrepreneur; Founder and CEO of Sarathi International Inc. to know about the story and its architecture/craftsmanship, design, history and other relevant details. 

Karann has over 14 years of Venture Capital, Private Equity, Structured Finance and M&A experience across India, South East Asia and United States. Experienced professional with a demonstrated history of working in the venture capital and private equity industry, with firms such as Systematix Capital, Sage Capital, SREI Venture Capital, Pragati Equity Advisors and Signature Group. Skilled in working across all segments of private equity/venture capital — fundraising, investing, portfolio management and exiting of investments— including serving on the board of portfolio companies. Well educated professional with a Masters in Business Administration in Finance from the University of Mumbai.

Raj is an experienced business leader and a healthcare entrepreneur who chartered a career in this sector out of his passion to be a part of this growing eco-system and contribute to it meaningfully.
He is the Founder & CEO of KITES Senior Care, a single specialty brand in geriatric care founded in Bangalore, South India in 2016. KITES Senior Care operates assisted care centers and provides geriatric care at home & at senior living facilities.
Raj commenced his healthcare journey as the CEO of Motherhood, a specialty in maternity care. He orchestrated a successful PE fund raise & a strategic acquisition which helped scale the brand from a single unit operations to multi-city multi-unit operations and its foray into treatment of infertility.
Prior to his entrepreneurial journey, he served as the Chief Executive of HCG Milann, leader in the space of reproductive medicine offering infertility treatment solutions & related research initiatives where he worked closely with the Board in formulating the growth strategies of the company and was responsible for its successful execution.
In the past, he has had the privilege of having worked with an eclectic mix of successful organisations Eastern Spices, AOL Time Warner, Cairn Energy India & HPCL where he had the opportunity to learn and contribute meaningfully at various levels.
His success stories include building/scaling brands, taking companies through Strategic M&A deals/PE fund raising, setting up of businesses (start-up/bootstrap) including scaling them. He strongly believes in effective teams to deliver organizational goals and hence strives to invest, build and grow high performing teams. Raj's strengths as a leader are in (a) Customer centric approach (b) People/Process/Value based Governance and (c) Sound Strategy with Execution
Raj is a Fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, New Delhi, an alumnus of ISB, Hyderabad (AMP) and holds a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Madras University. He also serves on the boards' of a super specialty hospital and a healthcare focused strategic advisory firm. He is extremely passionate about mentoring start-ups & sharing knowledge with budding entrepreneurs.

Santosh Kher is an entrepreneur and producer. He is the founder of Creative Viibe productions, a name behind stellar content including the magnum opus ‘Chandramukhi’, Pondicherry , a movie shot on iPhone, the upcoming ‘Bamboo’ and the hit Marathi web series ‘Athang’ a first-of-its-kind period horror in the Marathi web space.

Kher has been passionate about drama and has participated in several theatre workshops, inter-college drama and professional drama. He realised his dream of working in the field of entertainment by establishing a production house that would help him reconnect with his passion. Kher is a producer with a difference, with deep roots in the human resource industry. He applies his years of experience and understanding of human behaviour to the world of content.

An award-winning, accomplished leader, he has led teams across various countries. He currently also is a Partner at People Square HR Consulting. At Creative Viibe he overlooks all the aspects of production house and takes keen interest in the commercial aspects. Kher is an alumnus of the IE Business School, Spain, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA Extension) and Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai- India.

In 2016, Million Cases formed a foundation to provide mobile users with high-quality phone cases and accessories through an easy-to-use e-commerce portal. The company's head office is in Chandigarh, India, serving customers nationwide.

The warehouses of the company are in Chandigarh and Delhi. Over the last years, the company has expanded its operations to Bangalore and is looking to add new cities. The company is committed to providing fast and reliable delivery and plans to add more cities in the near future to optimize delivery time.

With its prompt and attentive service, Million Cases caters to the needs of a broad spectrum of clients, supplying a selection of phone accessories and cases. Most importantly, the business maintains a varied stock of new items, so it never misses out on a hot or upcoming trend.

The company’s main goal is to help people find the best phone case or accessory to meet their needs. The company offers a user-friendly website and an extensive selection of merchandise, making it easy for customers to find the products that best suit their needs.

Dev has over 15+ years of experience across different areas within the media content business - from producing & financing original content for all leading OTT & Pay TV platforms to marketing of films & branded entertainment to celebrity management across organizations like Star, Viacom18, Balaji, Reliance, Cosmos-Maya among others; he has had the good fortune to dabble across the different aspect of the media business.
In his last role as the Chief Growth Officer at Cosmos-Maya & he was instrumental in getting content commissioning deals worth $100+ Million, across 25 TV series globally, with 5000+ episodes. The studio grew from a 30 member team to a 1000+ during my tenure there. He has also been able to build a strong international network across the digital monetization value-chain and have sold content in 120+ countries & also launched YouTube network with 35 channels and 90 Million+ cumulative subscribers & 50 Billion+ views.
With all those learnings, he is now focussing all my energies on the Creator Economy and am working towards building an AI powered scalable, structured and long-tail driven value proposition driven Creator Tech Product to bring about a meaningful & significant change in this business. His belief in & regard for the 'Creator Economy' stems from my love for content creation, and have also dabbled into creating my his own poetry vlog, which is yet another attempt at exploring the beauty & newer dimensions of languages, while he also enjoys writing prose, a lot.

Hariom is a Serial Entrepreneur and is the CEO and Founder of Find.inc which is reinventing the way people search for jobs.