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Roundtable

Raja Gayam is the Founder and CEO at Gayam Motor Works (GMW). GMW is accelerating smart and electric mobility by producing advanced SmartAutos and Electric Bikes. GMW is a pioneer in electric vehicles with swappable batteries. Their customers include Uber, IKEA, Amazon, Flipkart, Bigbasket and Delhivery . Raja did his Bachelors in Computer Science at IIIT Hyderabad and his Masters at University College London. He has 10 years of experience in auto mobile Business and is instrumental in expanding GMW to various places across the globe.

Raja is also among Entrepreneur India magazine's elite list of 25 Biggest Techpreneurs in 2018.

Akash Gupta is the Founder of Mobycy, India’s first dock-less electric scooter sharing app. As the chief evangelist, Akash is responsible for building the leading electric scooter sharing venture from ground-up. His vision for Mobycy is to solve micro-mobility in cities in a convenient, affordable and eco-friendly way, thereby building more liveable cities and a sustainable India. To Mobycy, Akash brings years of executive-level leadership experience in marketing and rapidly scaling up tech and tech-assisted businesses at MobiKwik, Snapdeal, Dell and Airtel.

Before founding Mobycy at the intersection of green-tech and fitness-tech, Akash was with MobiKwik as Vice President & Head of Marketingand was instrumental in placing MobiKwik amongst the leading payment tools in India and beyond.Under his leadership, MobiKwik’s user-base increased 160% to 65 million in just two years. This marketing-led growth going in parallel with growth in revenue and high rate of return and efficiency of marketing spend. While at MobiKwik, Akash was also the face of the organization in news and media around digital payments advocacy and dialog. At Snapdeal, Akash was heading Acquisitions & Alliances for Mobile Marketing, where he led a 5X growth of daily app acquisitions and drove mobile revenue growth while maintaining a Top 10 rank on AppStores. Prior to Snapdeal, Akash lead the 4G network launch and nation-wide acquisition for 4G at Airtel.

After a Bachelorsof Engineering in Computer Science, Akash went on to pursue his MBA from IMT Ghaziabad in 2008. Akash has been an avid speaker & has been featured by various media houses as an expert on startup marketing skills.Akash loves watching movies & finishing IMDB Top 250 is on his hit list. He loves traveling with his wife & friends and thinks travelling gives a lot of worldly perspective & helps growing an individual from within. Akash has a penchant for fitness &music too.

Akash Gupta is the Founder of Mobycy, India’s first dock-less electric scooter sharing app. As the chief evangelist, Akash is responsible for building the leading electric scooter sharing venture from ground-up. His vision for Mobycy is to solve micro-mobility in cities in a convenient, affordable and eco-friendly way, thereby building more liveable cities and a sustainable India. To Mobycy, Akash brings years of executive-level leadership experience in marketing and rapidly scaling up tech and tech-assisted businesses at MobiKwik, Snapdeal, Dell and Airtel.

Before founding Mobycy at the intersection of green-tech and fitness-tech, Akash was with MobiKwik as Vice President & Head of Marketingand was instrumental in placing MobiKwik amongst the leading payment tools in India and beyond.Under his leadership, MobiKwik’s user-base increased 160% to 65 million in just two years. This marketing-led growth going in parallel with growth in revenue and high rate of return and efficiency of marketing spend. While at MobiKwik, Akash was also the face of the organization in news and media around digital payments advocacy and dialog. At Snapdeal, Akash was heading Acquisitions & Alliances for Mobile Marketing, where he led a 5X growth of daily app acquisitions and drove mobile revenue growth while maintaining a Top 10 rank on AppStores. Prior to Snapdeal, Akash lead the 4G network launch and nation-wide acquisition for 4G at Airtel.

After a Bachelorsof Engineering in Computer Science, Akash went on to pursue his MBA from IMT Ghaziabad in 2008. Akash has been an avid speaker & has been featured by various media houses as an expert on startup marketing skills.Akash loves watching movies & finishing IMDB Top 250 is on his hit list. He loves traveling with his wife & friends and thinks travelling gives a lot of worldly perspective & helps growing an individual from within. Akash has a penchant for fitness &music too.

Goldie Srivastava is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of SmartE, India’s first and largest shared electric mobility service. Having co-founded the company in 2014, Goldie moved to lead SmartE as its CEO in June 2016. In his current role, Goldie aims to build not just India’s but the world’s largest shared electric mobility service. However, his immediate vision is to roll-out 100,000 SmartEs across the country in the next 4-5 years. This will also result in delivering 4 billion+ rides a year and help reduce vehicular carbon emissions equivalent to about 1 million tonnes per year.

Over his professional journey over last 19 years, Goldie has held key leadership roles across several domains such as marketing, public relations, communications, corporate social responsibility as well as journalism. He has worked for some of the marque Fortune 500 organizations, including two Dow 30 companies.

With a B.Sc in Physics from Mumbai University, Goldie has worked for some of the most iconic brands over his career spanning more than 19 years, including names such as IBM and Adobe.Prior to SmartE, he served as the Director of Communications (Asia-Pacific) at United Technologies Corporation. During his stint here, Goldie developed a wide range of strategic communications and marketing programs to bolster the growth of the organization across the Asia-Pacific region. Goldie is passionate about making a difference to the society – both at a personal as well as professional level. Having led award-winning CSR projects during his corporate stint, Goldie continues to work with non-profits, especially in the areas of environment, education and skill-development.

An MBA from Essec Paris, Paddy brings a wealth of experience in operations, growth and finance from his stints at Flipkart, Zoomcar, Lazada among others. At Flipkart, Paddy ran the working capital function driving nearly $50 million in savings in working capital (moving working capital days from 25 to -5 days)