Ajit Suryanarayan
Ajit Suryanarayan, a veteran in the FMCG business has 40 + Years of experience working both in multinationals as well as family businesses. He has rich experience in creating, building and nurturing successful brands and businesses in the FMCG space and driving growth and profitability consistently .
Apart from FMCG businesses his experience includes heading the Strategy function for the family office, advising and mentoring in diverse business streams like education, retail, cosmetics, speciality chemicals, agri inputs and MLM. He is deeply interested in improving the lot of Rural India and currently works with NGOS in the areas of renewable energy, and productivity enhancement in Agricultural ecosystems.
He has studied at IIT Delhi and is an alumnus of IIM Calcutta and Michigan Business School.
Industry expertise and Investment Area
FMCG, education, retail, cosmetics, speciality chemicals, agri inputs
Jaynand Potdar
Jay is a seasoned business leader having operational excellence with more than 35 years of experience in Indian Real Estate and Construction Industry. Known for driving end-to-end operations and optimising construction timelines of projects for leading brands like Relinace, Godrej, Shobha Developers.
Delivered projects pan India, upto 5.5 Mn SqFt in a single year. Won 6 Golden Peacock awards in a year. An excellent team leader having strong fraternity following and mentored many successful leaders. Believes in working silently in rural Maharashtra for the cause of Education and Social Issues. Strong believer in continuous learning and innovations.
Jay is an alumnus of Harvard Business School and IIT Madras.
Industry expertise and Investment Area
Real Estate & Construction, Time & Cost Optimization, PnL, Procurements, Innovations
Shiv Kumar
Shiv is a management consulting and Digital business strategy leader with 20 years of industry experience. He is passionate about mentoring and investing in early stage startups. He has led consulting and business advisory
Driven management consulting for a wide range of industries includes Engineering & manufacturing businesses Automotive, Farm and Agriculture sectors, Oil & Gas, BFSI , ecommerce and supermarkets, Telecom, Pharmaceuticals and insurance businesses.
Shiv graduated in mathematical statistics from Institute of Science - BHU. He is alumnus of IIM - Kozhikode and Harvard Business School.
Industry expertise and Investment Area
Platform startups using AI/ML Capabilities disrupting industries like BFSI, Farm Equipment and Agritech Startups, Fintech platform, Energy and EV
Sourabh Abde
Sourabh is a General Management Senior Executive with 23 years of exemplary work experience in P&L management within Automotive & Aerospace Sectors. He is Adept in orchestrating: Digitization, Business Turnarounds, Implementing Effective Business Strategies and Operations management.
Sourabh was instrumental in Turnaround of Mahindra Truck & Bus Division, Construction Equipment Division & Powertrain Division. He has successfully managed a diverse array of OEM products including: Airplanes, SUV’s & Cars, Tractors, Two Wheelers, Truck & Buses, and Construction Equipment. He contributed to the growth and success of European fortune 100 companies BOSCH and AIRBUS at both the National & International levels.
Industry expertise and Investment Area
Automotive, Aerospace, AI-ML, Renewables & Technology driven companies, Digital Platform Businesses
Suman Saurav
Suman is a technology professional and experienced product leader. He has managed technology development in banking and financial services. Suman is a great hand to start-ups on technology matters and an early stage investor.He is based out of Michigan USA.
Suman graduated in Computer science and attended his executive management program at Wharton, University of Pennsylvania.
Industry expertise and Investment Area
Tech-based credit lending business and analytics start-ups, block chain based digital currency
Start-up Evaluation Team
Boudh P Samrat - Lead Consultant
Boudh is responsible for business partnership, growth and operations at
XLATO11. He collaborates with start-ups in evaluating their technology roadmap and early stage need of investors on-boarding. He has 10+ years of experience in digital technologies, business development, engineering consulting and Ed-tech. He has worked
with clients across geographies including India, Europe, Southeast Asia
and Middle East.
Boudh Graduated Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology - Kanpur. In his free time he enjoys playing bridge, painting and clay modelling.
Ashutosh Gupta
Ashutosh believes in the innovative and disruptive mind of young entrepreneurs who look forward to focus on real problems that have the vision of uplifting the world. He is delighted to meet such businesses whose vision and mission are aligned with People, Planet and Profit. At Xlator11, Ashutosh contributes with his financial and consulting acumen to understand businesses and help them grow. Outside of work, he loves to play football and is a sportsman at heart. Ashutosh is experienced in operations Management with major in IT & Analytics and minor in FInance & Strategy from IIM Kashipur.
Nupur
Nupur is a Product Management professional having experience working in diverse industries viz. BFSI, automotive and hospitality. She puts customers first and believes in rapid and sustainable user growth. She has hands-on experience in product growth, managing customer life-cycle, user experience, ML/AI and have launched products used by millions of users. She has contributed multiple times in building road-map for vital projects for the organization. At Xlator11, she will contribute with her consulting, project, product, business knowledge & a data driven approach to help start-ups grow exponentially.
She has completed her MBA from IIM Kozhikode and enjoys music in her leisure time