Minister Piyush Goyal speaks at ‘Finance Festival’ for women entrepreneurs

NSRCEL concluded this year’s edition of the ‘Finance for Growth’ initiative, held as a part of Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women, with the much awaited ‘Finance Festival’, a two-day event that brought together founders from across cohorts of the Initiative. Held at the Goldman Sachs Headquarters in Bangalore, and NSRCEL, IIM Bangalore.

The Finance for Growth initiative supports women entrepreneurs with unique initiative designed to give them the tools and opportunities needed to master financial management, explore potential funding avenues, and drive their business growth with renewed financial confidence.

Speakers included Piyush Goyal, Minister, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Govt. of India; Geethanjali Kirloskar, MD, and Chairperson Toyota Kirloskar; Faye Dsouza, Journalist; Guneet Monga, two-time Oscar Award Winner ; Russel Horowitz, Chief of Staff, Goldman Sachs; Asahi Pompey, Global Head of Corporate Engagement and President of the Goldman Sachs Foundation and Goldman Sachs Gives; Charlotte Keenan, Managing Director and Head – 10,000 Women, Goldman Sachs; Prof. Rishikesha T. Krishnan, Director, IIM Bangalore; Sanjana Govindan, Vice President, Office of Corporate Engagement, Goldman Sachs; Radhika Gupta, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Edelweiss Asset Management Ltd; Nithya Balasubramanium, CFO, IKS Health and Ex Managing Director at AB Bernstein; Prof. Srivardhini K Jha, Chairperson, NSRCEL and Professor of Entrepreneurship, IIM Bangalore; Vinay Bansal, Co-Founder and CEO, Inflection Point Ventures & Partner, Physis Capital; Vikram Ramasubramanian, Partner and Chief Investment Officer, Inflection Point Ventures; Balaji Sivasubramanian, Head of Engineering – India and Global Co-head of Enterprise Partnerships Engineering within Platform Solutions, Goldman Sachs and many others.