Soumya is the founder of Waterfield Advisors, where she advises several of India’s leading business families on their global investments, issues related to succession and the continuity of their family enterprise, corporate and family governance, business strategy and philanthropy.
She is recognized as one of India’s top 100 women professionals in Finance, and serves on the Board of several non-profit organizations in the education and healthcare space including Peepul, and is on the Advisory Council of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Gandhinagar’s Research Park and Entrepreneurship Centre. She is a Board Member of the Centre for Study of Science, Technology andPolicy, and a Trustee of The Banyan Acadamy of Leadership in Mental Health (BALM), a non-profit that works in the area of mental health and homelessness. Soumya also serves as an Independent Non-Executive Director of Aavas Financiers. Soumya was recently featured in the Forbes India Women Power List 2021 and was awarded Outstanding Private Banker Asia Pacific by Private Banker International in 2021.

Vishvesh serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Grant Thornton Bharat, where he leads the execution of the Firm’s strategy and vision and is responsible for its operations and growth. He has been involved with UK and US IPOs of several Indian businesses and cross-border acquisitions by Indian companies and has helped global multinationals succeed in India. Vishesh is one of the most vocal promoters of the need for Indian family businesses to adopt formal governance structures and succession planning frameworks, thereby preserving business legacy.
Vishesh has been the primary advisor to the World Bank’s report, Observance of Standards and Codes (ROSC), on accounting and auditing. He has been associated with several global committees, including the Senior Leadership Program at SAID Business School, the University of Oxford, and in incubating Global Research and Global Delivery from India for benefit of the network. As a member of the Global Board of Governors of Grant Thornton International Limited, he is a part of the ultimate decision-making authority within the Firm.

Sonu Bhasin, founder of FAB – Families and Business is an independent director on the boards of many well-known and reputed domestic and multinational companies. As part of her work now, she focuses on family businesses.
She is a family business historian, a business author and the editor-in-chief of Families and Business magazine, a columnist with The Economic Times. Sonu has led various businesses in senior leadership positions during her career, and has worked extensively with both, the patriarchs and the inheritors of family businesses and enabled them to focus on building multi-generational businesses.
Sonu Bhasin is also a Business Author with two books to her credit - The Inheritors – Stories of Entrepreneurship and Success, and the second - Unstoppable Kuldip Singh Dhingra and the Rise of Berger Paints, a biography. She has been named one of the Global 100 Most Influential Individuals for family enterprises in 2020.

Gopal Srinivasan is the Founder, Chairman and Managing Director of TCF A successful entrepreneur, an avid angel investor, who takes a keen interest in public policy matters.
He is actively involved with the regulators for the financial markets by dint of his engagements with SEBI, the Indian Venture Capital Association (IVCA) and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII); and a Governing Council member of Reserve Bank Innovation Hub (RBIH). Additionally, he is a non-official member on the National Start-up Advisory Council (NSAC), and is actively involved in knowledge initiatives through his involvement as a member of University of Michigan’s India Advisory Board. He is passionate about building businesses for his client partners, and a strong eco-system for nurturing innovation and start-ups in the country to drive sustainable economic growth and generate large scale employment opportunities. An ardent reader and enthusiastic chef, Gopal also has an innate interest in spheres of Art, Culture and Science. A man of many facets.

Gaurav Dalmia is the Chairman of Dalmia Group Holdings, a holding company for business and financial assets.
Gaurav has been in the realm of investments and believes that investments must grow and benefit all the stakeholders. Gaurav is an early investor in, and a Board member of True North, a leading Indian private equity fund. He is also the founder and Chairman of Landmark Holdings, a real estate investment firm. He co-founded GTI, a long term investment vehicle for India focused investments. He is a Board member of Brookings India and a member of the Governing Board of The Institute for New Economic Thinking in New York. He is Chairman of the Indian Advisory Board of Room to Read,a global education charity. He is an op-ed contributor to The Economic Times, The Times of India and Financial Times.
Gaurav was selected as a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum in 2000.

Sanjeev Bikhchandani is the Founder of Info Edge India Ltd., India’s leading job site, 99acres.com,Jeevansathi.com and Shiksha.com. In addition, it has invested in promising internet start-ups.
Sanjeev is active in various industry forums and is a contributor to the entrepreneurship Ecosystem like Delhi chapter of TiE [The Indus Entrepreneurs], Global Board of Trustees of TiE, Council of Management of All India Management Association, Chair of the Internet Council of NASSCOM, the Venture Capital Investment Committee for the SIDBI Fund of Funds for startups, and is a member of the Board of the CIIE Initiatives at IIM Ahmedabad. Apart from this, Sanjeev is also engaged in philanthropy.
Sanjeev has been conferred with numerous awards, the highest being the Padma Shri Award by the government of India.

Roshni Nadar Malhotra is the Chairperson of HCLTech, a leading global technology organization with a market capitalization of $55 billion, and the Chairperson of its CSR Board Committee.
Roshni is a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council at the MIT School of Engineering, USA and also a member of the Kellogg School of Management Executive Board for Asia. She serves on the board of directors of US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) and is on the global board of directors of The Nature Conservancy (TNC). She is also an independent director on the board of the HDFC Asset Management Company.
In recognition of her outstanding work both in business and in philanthropy, Roshni has received several honors and accolades. France’s highest civilian award Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honour) has been conferred on her in 2024.
In 2023, she was featured for the seventh consecutive year in ‘The World's 100 Most Powerful Women’ list, compiled and released by Forbes.