AWE Funds

Harsh has 18+ years of rich experience in Investing, Investment Banking, Operations. Business Leadership and Consulting. He has invested over $60 million, raised USD 50+ Million in pre-Series/ Series A funding for Indian start-ups and closed mid-market M&A deals valuing USD 150+ million across Technology, Healthcare and Consumer sectors. Most recently, Harsh led business growth for DHI Medical, the largest and fastest growing hair restoration in the world. Harsh has worked with several organisations including KPMG, PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC), BMR Advisors (merged with KPMG), Motorola and DHI Medical. He has been a prolific angel Investor, with his best case realised IRR of 527% in a recent investment which exited through a strategic sale to Reliance Retail. Harsh holds a MBA in Finance and Strategy, Indian School of Business; Member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India; Bachelor of Mathematics (B.A Hons), St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi

Isabelle is a visionary leader with substantial experience overseeing business operations with keen emphasis on achieving performance, service excellence and sustainable relationships. She has a proven track record of developing and executing effective strategies to improve process efficiency, operations and attain expected outcomes. Known for building and leading team members for successful accomplishment of organisational objectives. She is skilled at spearheading challenging projects from conception to completion. Articulate communicator with well-developed aptitude to foster meaningful relationships with stakeholders, staff members, and C-suite executives. Her prior roles include, Founder of Sulpayki, Co-founder / Fractional COO, Forctis AG, Schwyz, Co-founder / Managing Partner, QUORUS GmbH, Zurich, Legal specialist, FINMA, Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority, Berne, Wenger & Vieli AG, Zurich. Isabelle has a degree in Master of Business Administration (Executive) from Kingston Ranepa, Moscow & UK, Master of Laws (MLaw & BLaw) | University of Berne, Switzerland, Trader's Examination of the SIX Swiss Exchange, Zurich, Team Coach, 17th Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court, Vienna

Divya has more than 25 years of leadership experience across technology, consulting and innovation. Her previous roles include leadership positions at ServiceNow, Microsoft and Cognizant.

Padma Chandrasekaran has 25+ years of very rich experience as an entrepreneur, technologist, prolific investor, and an operations expert in multiple industries including healthcare, life sciences, analytics, IT, alternative energy, education, in both the for-profit and not-for-profit world. As an investor she has invested across stages including Start Up, Early Growth, Expansion stage companies and has seen full cycle investments from inception through exits. As a founding member, Padma has also taken a company public on NASDAQ in the United States. She has also invested in five (seed to private equity stage) funds including funds of Fulcrum, Unitus Ventures, TVS Capital. She is on the Advisory Board of Unitus Ventures. Padma's investment strategy is very studied and has delivered impressive returns with her best investment returning 11.1X (unrealized gains) and 8.3X (realized gains) times invested capital. She is an Executive Committee member of The Chennai Angels, an angel investing group, and an charter member and member of the core leadership team (for 4 years) of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TIE) Chennai, a non-profit dedicated to promoting entrepreneurship. As an entrepreneur, Padma has experienced first-hand the challenges and opportunities of building companies in India. She co-founded Virgil Tech (P) Limited a platform-oriented software services company in early 2001 and successfully exited to a strategic acquirer in 2003. Additionally, Padma was one of the 4 founding members of Sify Ltd, India's first Internet company and part of the team that took it public on NASDAQ in 1999. As a proponent of investing in Positive Impact - Padma has operated in the not-for-profit world and understands intimately the critical elements of creating sustainable impact for large-scale programs. Between 2003 and 2011, she worked full-time for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She held responsibilities for strategy development, program implementation, impact evaluation and research in HIV prevention, maternal and child care and vaccine development and delivery. While there were many initiatives she led, one of her signature accomplishments was creating a multidimensional evaluation strategy of the $250 million program being executed by the Gates Foundation. The strategy was hugely successful in that for the first time the Foundation and the Government of India got a picture of what the $250 million investment achieved. More importantly the evaluation strategy became a global case study because of the associated publication strategy. Upon leaving Gates Foundation in 2011 as full-time employee, Padma consulted for the Gates foundation on various issues and continued to be on a few of their advisory boards till end of 2016. As a senior advisor and board member, Padma is very sought after change maker. She was on the board of CAMS (Computer Aided Management Systems) and Sterling Software between 2013 and 2018 and drove significant value addition through robust board participation. She continues to be a trustee of Algolabs, the AI / machine learning initiative of the Chennai Mathematical Institute. As a thought leader, Padma has spoken at many forums including Madras Management Association, Startup Grind, ICTACT (ICT Academy of Tamil Nadu) Annual Polestar Awards for Business and IT. She has authored several highly cited peer reviewed publications in academic journals such as The Lancet and the British Medical Journal. Padma began her career in IT / Internet sector at ICIM / ICL UK working in Mumbai, Pune, UK and the Bay Area. Padma holds a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics/Statistics from the University of Calcutta; an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad and an MBA with specialization in Telecommunications from the University of San Francisco, California.

Arun Seth served over 17 years as the founding Managing Director and Chairman of British Telecom in India and has served on boards of several major Indian and international companies.