Board of Directors

Micaela is the co-founder of Insitor Fund. Prior to co-founding Insitor Fund, Micaela worked at strategy consulting firm Bain and Company in Milan, where she led start up, turnaround and merger and acquisition engagements for leading European financial groups. Before joining Bain in 1998, Micaela was part of the Finance and Risk Management group of Arthur Andersen Business Advisory. Most recently she worked in Cambodia, where she is currently resident, supporting an international social enterprise group in the turnaround of its existing businesses, and in setting up its international expansion in five countries across Asia..

Samir Sood

Samir Sood is a Director at India Forge. Prior to this Samir Sood was the Head of South Asia, Australia - M&A and Investments for Google Inc and has led investments in India such as Seedfund, Erasmic Venture Fund and Ventureast TeNet Fund II and acquisitions in mobile sector such as $750 million acquisition of AdMob. Samir is also responsible for Google.org’s investment activities in the region. Samir was a member of the Corporate Business Development team at Cisco Systems, Inc. where he lead wireless acquisitions and investments, which included the $450 million acquisition of Airspace. Samir executed the first venture investment in India (India Games) for Cisco Systems, Inc. among many other acquisitions and investments. Samir has also had roles at Microsoft and Lehman Brothers.

Mukesh Sharma

Mukesh is a co-founder of the SME Investment Bank. He is a mentor at CIIE as part of a MentorEdge network. He is also an advisor to Villgro, a Chennai based impact focused incubator. He is a Chartered Accountant and a CFA charter holder. He has earlier managed a private equity portfolio (AUM US$250m ) and led investment banking mandates (US$200m) in India, Middle-East, North Africa, Eastern Europe and South-East Asia.

Management team

Dr. Abhishek Sen

Abhishek is co-founder of Biosense Technologies. He has a background in biomedical engineering from IIT Bombay and a MBBS in internal medicine from T.N.Hospital. He is a fellow at the University of Washinton and focuses on research and entrepreneurship on med tech targeted at the developing world. He is an Echoing Green Fellow, 2010. 

Dr Yogesh Patil

Yogesh is co-founder of Biosense Technologies. He holds a MBBS in internal medicine from T.N.Hospital Mumbai. He  has a management background from the Shailesh J Mehta School of Management, IIT Bombay. Yogesh's other responsibilities at Biosense include co-ordination of clinical research and patent strategy. 

Aman Midha

Aman is co-founder of Biosense Technologies. Having worked with the automotive industry at Tata Motors as an interior designer, Aman now looks forward to improving health outcomes in the developing world with appropriately designed medical devices. He holds a M.Des from IIT Delhi and a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from NIT Bhopal. Aman is an Echoing Green Fellow 2010

Myshkin Ingawale

Myshkin is co-founder of Biosense Technologies. In the past, he has worked at Mckinsey & Company as a business consultant. He has also been a researcher at MIT as part of the team that conceptualized and built the Copenhagen Wheel, demoed at the United Nations Climate Summit '09. Myshkin holds a PhD in Management Information Systems from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta and a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Bhopal.He is an Unreasonable Fellow 2011 and a TED Fellow 2012.