TEDxHRCollege

Speakers

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• Arjun Vaidya

  Venture capitalist & Founder of Dr. Vaidya's

  Arjun Vaidya is the Founder of Dr. Vaidya’s: New Age Ayurveda. An alumnus of Brown University who quit his corporate job at L Capital Asia to take on his 150-year-old family legacy of Ayurvedic formulations, Arjun’s the first Ayurvedic Entrepreneur to be featured in the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia List and for Business World 40 Under 40 List. Currently, Arjun leads venture investing for Verl invest in India through a new fund called V3 Ventures & hosts a podcast called ‘Direct to A Billion Consumers’ and one of India’s largest cohort-based courses on D2C.

• Pratham Mittal

  Founder at Masters' Union

  Mr. Pratham Mittal is currently building Masters' Union - a unique practitioner-led higher education institution, where courses are taught by CXOs from Morgan Stanley, Tata, StanChart, Google, Twitter, Reliance, Razor pay, etc., and recruiters including Mckinsey, BCG, Bain, Softbank, etc. He previously co-founded Outgrow.co, an interactive content platform used by top agencies and Fortune 500 companies. He is an alumnus of UPenn.

• Rij Eappen

  Luxury brand influencer and COO at WYLD

  Rij Eappen, COO and founding team member of revolutionary startup, WYLD - India’s first Social Currency Payments Card. A luxury maven and bon vivant, his passion for all things luxe, and proficiency in front of and behind the camera has made him one of the most prolific luxury influencers in India, creating digital content for some of the largest luxury brands around the globe.

• Shalini Datta

  NGO founder at Aftertaste

  A Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering, former TeachForIndia Fellow and former Project Manager at Cognizant, Shalini brings 21 years of diverse work experience as an engineer, teacher and social entrepreneur. Shalini's passion for creating change prompted her to give up a software career and join the Teach for India Fellowship in 2010. She gained a deeper understanding of issues faced by women and children in the community and established Aftertaste. Using her corporate knowledge, she combines art and science to create magic. A developed India is what she aims for at Aftertaste

• Yamini Joshi

  Actress & Co founder at Alfaaz

  Yamini Joshi, an actor and now the co-founder of a digital theatre platform called Alfaaz is a lover of the performing arts. She has actively worked in TV commercials and short films including the movie Gehraiyaan and Masaba Masaba Season 2. At Alfaaz, Yamini is working to digitalise Indian stagecraft with a hope to bridge the gap between access to quality content and opportunities presented to artists across the country.