V. Raman Kumar

Raman is a successful tech entrepreneur and private equity investor. He is the founder & former Vice Chairman/CEO of NASDAQ listed M*Modal Inc, a leading voice recognition, healthcare document technology company that he nurtured from a start-up until it was sold to One Equity Partners in 2012. Since then, he has actively invested in several ventures across India, the Middle East, and the USA. He is also a limited partner in three large international private equity funds. He is a part of the board of THub- one of India’s most successful tech incubators and accelerators. Raman was the winner of the Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year 2007 award for Maryland, USA, and was also honored with Maryland International Leadership Award by World Trade Centre Institute, Baltimore in the same year. Raman is currently the chairman and managing director of Aeries and CASHe, his latest venture in a fin-tech platform lending to millennials in India using AI, big data analytics, and Blockchain technology. He was appointed as Chairman of Global Entrepreneur Network India at GES 2017.