Manav Garg
Manav Garg is the CEO and Founder of Eka. Besides overall responsibility for managing the company, Manav provides leadership and overall direction in such strategic areas as product direction, growth strategy, and talent acquisition. As a former commodities trader with a large global commodity trading house, Manav witnessed first-hand the deficiencies in traditional trading and risk management software. Realizing the market opportunity, and combining this with his passion for technology, Manav founded Eka in 2004 with venture capital funding.
Since then, he keeps Eka focused on meeting the needs of the company’s global customers. He constantly strives to achieve ever higher levels of organizational excellence and customer satisfaction by encouraging responsibility and accountability at all levels.
Peter Armstrong
Peter Armstrong co-founded Triple Point Technology, a leading commodities management software business, in 1993 and was its chief executive officer until the sale of the company to the ION Group in 2013. Under Peter’s leadership, Triple Point launched a full suite of industry-leading and award-winning products and evolved into a global organization supporting the demanding needs of energy and commodity market participants in a wide range of industries. Independent validation of Peter’s leadership success included Triple Point being named a “Leader” in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Energy Trading and Risk Management in every year the study was published.
Bryce Lee
Bryce Lee joined Silver Lake in 2011 and is a Managing Director of Silver Lake Kraftwerk.
Previously, he was a Managing Director of Credit Suisse in the Investment Banking division, serving as head of the Technology Group for the Americas and as co-head of the Alternative Energy Group. Bryce was instrumental in building Credit Suisse’s investment banking franchises in Asia and in cleantech, and was named to Forbes magazine’s “Midas List” of the top 100 technology dealmakers in the world. He was a member of Credit Suisse’s Investment Banking Committee and served on the Managing Director Evaluation Committee.
Shiraz Erach Poonevala
Shirazh is Director of Investments at GP Group.
Prior to GP Group, he was Senior Vice President at Seamico Securities Plc. With 19 years of investment and corporate banking experience in leading financial service organizations, he started his stint in Bangkok with HSBC where he looked after their corporate and investment banking business. He also served as Director of Paragon Partners Co. Ltd., a boutique investment bank. Since 2004, Shiraz has served as Director & Audit Committee member of Polyplex (Thailand) Plc.
Kirit Shah
Kirit is the Chairman of GP Group, a conglomerate with diverse business interests spanning several geographies. The Group is over 150 years old and has been headquartered in Thailand since 1918.
A serial entrepreneur, Kirit has seeded nearly 300 companies across various sectors in a career spanning more than 30 years. His leadership and vision have transformed the GP Group into a multi-billion dollar entity. The Group’s business ventures span diverse sectors including manufacturing, infrastructure, shipping, pharmaceuticals, hospitality, and software. The flagship company of the Group, Precious Shipping Public Company Limited, is listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand.
Sandeep Singhal
Sandeep is Managing Director at Nexus Capital.
Prior to Nexus, Sandeep was Co-Founder and CEO of Medusind Solutions, one of the leading healthcare outsourcing companies in India. Sandeep is also the Co-founder and Managing Director of eVentures, a leading Venture Capital firm focused on early stage investments in India since 1999. While at eVentures, Sandeep has invested in CustomerAsset (acquired by ICICI Onesource), Mentorix Solutions (acquired by Lionbridge), Intigma (acquired by Emptoris), and MakeMyTrip (sold to SAIF Partners). Sandeep has held senior roles at McKinsey & Company, Digital Equipment and EDA Systems.
Sebastian Joseph Neelamkavil
Sebastian Neelamkavil joined Silver Lake in 2009 and is a Director at Silver Lake Kraftwerk. He serves on the board of Con-Pearl and FATHOM. Prior to the inception of Silver Lake Kraftwerk, Mr. Neelamkavil was with Silver Lake Partners. He began his career as an investment banker in the Technology Mergers & Acquisitions Group at Credit Suisse. Mr. Neelamkavil graduated with distinction from the University of Western Ontario, where he holds a B.ESc. in Electrical Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering and a B.A. in Honors Business Administration from the Richard Ivey School of Business.