Kiran Nandkarni, founder, East West Ethnic Foods.
Kiran Nadkarni is the founder and CEO of East West Ethnic Foods Pvt. Ltd. The company is building a chain of quick service restaurants under the brand Kaati Zone that offers Indian food. Kiran has spent about 20 years as a pioneering figure in the Indian venture capital industry. He started the venture capital business of ICICI and managed it during its first eight years. Later, he was a partner at Draper International, a venture firm based in San Francisco that invested in India and the US. Prior to Kaati Zone he was the co-founder of Jumpstartup, a venture firm that invested in technology businesses in India and the US. Kiran, throughout his career, has helped several entrepreneurial businesses by providing start-up and early-stage capital. He is also instrumental in bringing the initial successes of venture capital to public markets. Kiran is a chemical engineer from IIT Kanpur and holds a post-graduate diploma in management studies from the University of Bombay.
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Kabir Advanimd, Berco’s
Kabir Advani is Managing Director of Berco’s, a reputed chain of Chinese Restaurants in Delhi. What started out as an initial endeavor has grown into a citywide initiative of thirteen restaurants all over the capital. With 25 years’ experience under his belt, a post graduation in International Management from IMI, and schooling from Mayo College Ajmer, Kabir belongs to a new breed of hands-on restaurant owners. Also a managing committee member of N R A I.
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Kishore Biyani, CEO, Future Group
A postgraduate in Marketing, Kishore Biyani heads Future Group. He made his foray in modern retailing in 1997 with the opening of the first Pantaloon outlet in Kolkata. Today future group employs over 30,000 people and operates around 11 million square feet of retail space, has over 1000 stores across 63 cities and 65 rural locations in India. The group covers the entire Indian consumption space through its multiple business verticals including Future Retail, Future Capital, Future Brands and much more.
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