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Mr. Mathew Cyriac holds a Bachelor Degree in Engineering and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. He was awarded the IIMB Gold Medal for graduating at the top of his MBA class.

Mr. Mathew Cyriac is currently working with Florintree Advisors. He served as the Managing Director in the Corporate Private Equity Group of Blackstone India based in Mumbai for nearly a decade. He has rich experience in the Investment Banking Division of Bank of America in India and in the Engineering Division of Tata Motors. He also served as Head Corporate Development Strategy of iGate Global Solutions Limited.

Siva has led several high growth businesses in diverse industries across several countries in Asia, North America and Europe. At Gokaldas Exports, he has been instrumental in setting the company on a profitable growth path. Siva has earlier worked with the Aditya Birla Group for 21 years. He was the Chief Operating Officer of Idea Cellular and was responsible for driving strong growth, market share gain and profit in a highly competitive market. He was also involved in building a $400 M BPO business with global operations. He has spearheaded several mergers and acquisitions. He has also worked with DSP Merrill Lynch, ICICI, and Uhde India.

Siva earned a Postgraduate Diploma in Management from IIM, Bangalore and a Bachelor of Technology degree in Mechanical Engineering from NIT.

Ms. Rama Bijapurkar is a recognised thought leader on business-market strategy and India’s consumer economy. She, an independent management consultant, is amongst India’s most experienced Independent Board Directors with extensive experience on the Boards of several of India’s Blue-chip Companies and Public Institutions and also is a Professor of Management Practice at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

She has been a dominant voice in the Indian media on business and policy issues, and is the author of hallmark books on Consumer India “We are like that only: Understanding the Logic of Consumer India”, “A Never-Before World: Tracking the Evolution of Consumer India” and “Customer in the Boardroom – crafting customer-based business strategy”.

Her over four decades of work experience in strategy consulting and market research includes her own consulting practice, and employment with McKinsey Company; MARG (now Nielsen India), Mode Services (now TNS India).

Ms. Rama Bijapurkar holds B.Sc (Hons) degree in Physics from Delhi University and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

Mr. George Varughese is the CEO and Managing Director of Alvarez and Marsal Securities, which is the broker-dealer and investment banking unit of Alvarez and Marsal in the USA. He is based in New York.

Mr. Varughese has completed Mergers and Acquisitions, Financing and Restructuring transactions in various industries over the last 35 years. He is also the Chairman of the Opinion committee of the firm.

Before joining Alvarez and Marsal, he was partner in Merchant Banking at Credit Suisse. Previously, he was the Managing Director of DLJ Merchant Banking and established the India office for DLJ, and supervised the Asia business.

He also has served as the Professor of Finance at the Indian Institute on Management Bangalore. Currently, in addition to his duties at Alvarez and Marsal, he teaches course on Mergers and Acquisitions and Restructuring at New York University. He serves on the Board of H2 Health, a Healthcare company in the USA and is also on the Board of Vellore Foundation and Birch Family Services. He is chairman of the audit committee at H2 Health and Vellore Foundation. He also is a Member of the Investment Committee of the Fund and the co-investment program of Quilvest.

Mr. Varughese is a Bachelor in Arts from Harvard University and MBA from Stanford University.

Mr. Shivanandan Ashok Dalvie is the founder of Cotton Tree Management Limited. Cotton Tree advises on private equity investments in technology enabled companies in the consumer, industrial and business services sectors across Asia and with focus on India.

Prior to founding Cotton Tree, he was a partner with AEA Investors, a U.S. private equity firm with $16 billion under management. Over his two decades at AEA Investors, he led investments across multiple industry sectors including consumer, industrial, technology, media and business services. He joined the firm in New York in 1997 and moved to Hong Kong in 2007 to lead its Asian business. In this capacity, he was responsible for managing all aspects of the Asian business from leading the investment team to overseeing operating partners and managing relationships with limited partners.

Prior to AEA, he was in the mergers and acquisitions group of Credit Suisse First Boston in New York where he advised a diverse set of international clients. He also previously worked with Microsoft Corporation in Redmond as a Product Manager and was an executive with ChrysCapital in Mumbai.

Mr. Dalvie is an M.B.A. from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and a B.S. in computer science and economics with Honors from Yale University.

Mr Prabhat Kumar Singh is a graduate in Business Management and a Post Graduate in Business Management from Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI), Jamshedpur

He has more than 35 years of experience in the field of Textiles and manufacturing and held different positions as Development Manager at Synthetic & Rayon Textiles Export Promotion Council, Mumbai, Director at the Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC), New Delhi, Executive Director at Union Garments Ltd, Sharjah, UAE and President (Marketing) at Modern Group of Companies at Mumbai.

During his tenure at Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC), he had extensively engaged in

1. Export promotion, including organizing fairs, exhibitions and buyer-seller meets both in India & abroad.
2. Arranging joint ventures and tie-ups for Indian manufacturers with leading international brands for re-export and domestic markets (Pierre Cardin, Levi Strauss)
3. Visited several countries for market surveys to identify markets and products for readymade garments, especially for then slow-moving items like shirts and developed this business.
4. Administrative work of quota, bilateral trade negotiations, formulating recommendations for Governments. Import-export policy for garments, etc. and maintaining extensive contacts with manufacturers/exporters as well as overseas buyers.

He comes with the rich experience in garment manufacturing industry, handled different roles as Head of Projects, Manufacturing Head, Marketing Head & Strategic advisor at different points of time.

Poorna leads organization’s operations and marketing management with execution strategies and sustainable business practices. He holds responsibility for business operations, including sales and marketing, customer experience and operational excellence. He also leads development and implementation of new business projects.

Poorna brings in 28+ years of extensive and rich experience in Marketing, Operations and Projects domain and comes with a strong network of business relationships.

He was earlier associated with Sanghi Spinners, GTN Textiles, Shahi Exports and Scott Garments in various capacities.

Poorna is a Textile Technology professional and earned his MBA in Marketing from Madurai Kamaraj University. He is the recipient of ‘Outstanding Alumnus Award’ in recognition of his exemplary contribution to the profession.

He brings his passion for balancing the team’s energy and driving growth.