Advisory Board

Sumit Sirsikar

A consumer marketing professional, Sumit brings with him over 18 years of extensive multi-industry experience in brand/product management and business development roles, with leading MNC organizations in both India & APAC region.

His professional experience straddles senior marketing roles in the FMCG and Financial Services/ Credit Cards space. He started his career in the FMCG space with ITC Ltd , Godrej Soaps/P&G Godrej and Colgate Palmolive India . In the financial products space, he has worked in credit card marketing/ product management roles with Standard Chartered Bank, and subsequently with the Prudential Group in India and Singapore. He is currently based in Gurgaon with Ireo Pvt. Ltd as CMO.

At Innoviti, his focus is on providing guidance on refining our business development strategies in the marketing technology and payment systems space. Sumit did his Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Bombay in 1990, and subsequently his MBA from IIM Calcutta in 1992.

L. R. Narayanan

Over the last fifteen years LRN has been key to over 105 transactions in M&A,Venture and Private Equity and in strategic advisory. Has been in the forefront in helping new generation entrepreneurs and teams raising capital for and assisting such companies in their exit and inorganic plans.

LRN is a chartered accountant by profession and partner at Narayanan, Patil and Ramesh, Chartered Accountants, Bangalore.

Navin Kabra

A technology professional by choice, Navin brings with him over twelve years of experience in databases, search technology and enterprise infrastructure. His specialities are in the areas of distributed and fault-tolerant software systems;design and implementation of database systems.

He started his career with Teradata (formerly NCR) in the US before moving to Quiq. He then joined Symantec Research Labs, Pune as Senior Researcher before founding PuneTech a non-commercial portal for "interesting technology work" happening in Pune. Navin is currently the co-founder and CTO of BharatHealth.com offering software-as-a-service in the healthcare industry.

He has done his Ph.D. in Computer Science with Prof. David J. DeWitt, from University of Wisconsin, Madison and B.Tech in Computer Science from IIT Bombay, Mumbai.