{"id":9642,"date":"2024-06-24T10:45:48","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T10:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/boi\/?post_type=team&#038;p=9642"},"modified":"2024-06-25T15:30:51","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T15:30:51","slug":"hitesh-sachdev","status":"publish","type":"team","link":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/boi\/team\/hitesh-sachdev\/","title":{"rendered":"Hitesh Sachdev"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hitesh Sachdev is a veteran banker with ICICI Bank. He has spent more than 22<br \/>\nyears at ICICI Bank building and leading diverse verticals including Innovation,<br \/>\nFintech, Private Equity and Investment Banking.<br \/>\nHitesh currently heads the Startup Engagement and Investments team at ICICI<br \/>\nBank. He has played an instrumental role in setting up the team and executing<br \/>\ncutting-edge technology projects for ICICI Bank in collaboration with startups.<br \/>\nAs part of his current role, Hitesh manages the Startup Investment for ICICI Bank.<br \/>\nThe Bank invests its\u2019s own capital into promising startups. Currently, the Bank has<br \/>\nmade more than 20 investments into startups including CarDekho, Open, Refyne,<br \/>\nKredit Bee, Fingpay, EQL Fintech and Credgenics.<br \/>\nHitesh is a mentor and guides founders actively on domains including Payments,<br \/>\nDigital Lending, SaaS, API Banking, Banking applications of emerging technologies<br \/>\nsuch as Artificial Intelligence, Metaverse and Blockchain.<br \/>\nHitesh is Director on the Board of Indian Banks\u2019 Blockchain Infrastructure Company<br \/>\n(IBBIC): India\u2019s first blockchain based banking consortium. Hitesh conceptualized<br \/>\nIBBIC in early 2018 and since then he has been the primary evangelist of the IBBIC<br \/>\nconsortium in India and overseas. Hitesh has been instrumental in bringing<br \/>\ntogether 18 private, PSU &amp; foreign banks to participate in IBBIC as founding<br \/>\nmembers as well as shareholders.<br \/>\nPrior to this, Hitesh has played a pivotal role in setting up a private equity fund<br \/>\ncalled Emerging India Fund (EIF) and has successfully led the investments in<br \/>\nsectors including Agri-business, Logistics, Education and Healthcare. Prior to<br \/>\nsetting up EIF, Hitesh led the investment banking practice at the Bank where he<br \/>\nspecialized in M&amp;A and PE fundraising for mid-market enterprises and executed<br \/>\nmultiple M&amp;A and private equity transactions. Hitesh has also managed the SME<br \/>\nbusiness for the Bank.<br \/>\nHitesh is an active mentor to startups from elite accelerator programs from<br \/>\ninstitutions such as IIM Lucknow, IIT Bombay, BITS Pilani (RBI Innovation Hub),<br \/>\nSPJIMR, FICCI Flo, I3 Launchpad (in partnership with Infosys &amp; India Accererator),<br \/>\nICAI and 100X VC<br \/>\nHitesh has received several Awards and has been an active Keynote Speaker and<br \/>\nparticipated alongside reputed Panelists at many marquee events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9655,"menu_order":0,"template":"","team_designation":[],"team_department":[67],"class_list":["post-9642","team","type-team","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","team_department-speakers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/boi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/9642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/boi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/boi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/team"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/boi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/boi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/boi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"team_designation","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/boi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team_designation?post=9642"},{"taxonomy":"team_department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/boi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team_department?post=9642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}