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Board Members

Mohit Bhatnagar

Managing Director,
Sequoia Capital

Mohit is a Managing Director with Sequoia Capital and serves on the board of Comviva, Ujjivan Microfinance, IMI Mobile, Ideacts, Knowlarity, Micromax Mobile, One Assist and Citrus Pay. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital...

Avneet Kochar

Regional Advisor,
JPM Private Equity Group

Avneet currently serves as private markets advisor for JPM PEG in New Delhi, India. He moved back to New Delhi from the US in 2012. Previously, he served as Director at the AT&T Investment Management Corporation...

Mark Sherman

Managing Director,
Telstra Ventures

Mark joined Telstra Ventures as a Managing Director in 2012. Previously, he was a General Partner at Hidden Lion Partners, an emerging growth equity firm focused on technology-enabled services...

Akshaya Prasad

Partner,
Greater Pacific Capital

Akshaya is a Partner and heads the India office of GPC. Previously, Akshaya led Goldman Sachs’ infrastructure investment business in India and was part of the senior team managing Goldman Sachs’ US$6.5bn global infrastructure fund...

Joe Sealy

Founding Partner,
Greater Pacific Capital

Joe is a Founding Partner at GPC, previously he was a managing director in the Investment Banking division at Goldman Sachs, and before that a Partner at KPMG Consulting. Joe is an experienced strategic advisor to corporations, investors and government institutions across multiple regions and industries...

Anil Mathews

Founder and CEO,
Near

Anil Mathews is the Founder and CEO of Near. With a technology-centric approach, Anil built Near into the world’s largest source of intelligence on people and places. Anil is a visionary, who continues to steer the fast-growing global business to its next phase.

Shobhit Shukla

Co-Founder & President,
Near

Shobhit is the Co-founder and President at Near. Prior to Near, Shobhit worked with InMobi, Qualcomm Ventures and Morgan Stanley. Shobhit holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and a Bachelor's degree from IIT BHU.
He is an early stage investor in multiple startups.

Board Advisors

Arun Sarin

Former CEO,
Vodafone Group plc

Arun Sarin is the former CEO of the Vodafone Group, currently serving on the board of directors of Cisco Systems, Accenture, Blackhawk Network Holdings and Charles Schwab...

Rajiv Menon

Managing Director,
APAC & Japan,
Cisco Investments & M&A

As Head of Cisco Investments and M&A for Asia Pacific and Japan, Rajiv leads an experienced team of Investment professionals that manage an active portfolio of start-ups in IOT, Customer Experience Management, Location Analytics...