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Founder and CEO of Innov8 Co-working, Ritesh Malik has been listed on the Forbes 30 under 30 in the Finance and Venture list (Asia) 2016. Graduated from the Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R Medical University in 2013, Ritesh while in medical school, developed a keen interest in entrepreneurship.  In 2012, a major breakthrough came his way when Adstuck (a company Ritesh co-founded in his final year of med...

A graduate from Warwick University, Sonali completed her Master’s in Business Management from Imperial College, London. She worked in the U.K for 2 years in finance before returning to India. Sonali joined her family business of manufacturing and selling outdoor cooling systems primarily focussing at building sales and the brand, however her passion for food and hospitality led her to join DIVA re...

An entrepreneur based out of Bangalore, Mitali Tandon founded a company that manufactures and markets India's first hangover detox solution. A young start-up that's actively working on creating healthy solutions for millenials, Morning Fresh focuses on creating functional beverages that are accessible and inclusive of all dietary needs, preferences and lifestyle challenges.    Mitali sta...

Bharat Sethi is the Founder & CEO of Rage Coffee - a digitally native FMCG company building breakthrough products in the coffee space for consumers worldwide. He is a serial entrepreneur having built 2 successful businesses in the past including PosterGully, which was acquired in 2016 by one of the world's largest exhibition companies.    Bharat started his first online business at t...

Bhaavya believes in colossal dreams, challenging the norms, empowering the people, sharing her knowledge and promoting self-confidence through her art.   A self-taught makeup artist who founded Bhaavya Kapur’s Makeup Studio out of sheer passion for makeup, Bhaavya is an extremely passionate leader for whom believing in yourself is the key to success. The BK family grew from one room and 5 wom...

Pushpanjali Banerji has over 13 years of experience in building international brands. In her role as Brand Director for Kyndal, she handles key marketing initiatives for some of the world’s most exclusive luxury brands including the likes of The Macallan, Cutty Sark and Famous Grouse amongst others. Pushpanjali founded Taali in 2012 as an in-house agency for Kyndal Group. Taali was soon recog...

The A.I.M Series  focuses is an exclusive 10 episodes series focusing on the journeys of Indian entrepreneurs who may have a very different business but have 3 things in common; a strong ​ AMBITION  to be the best in their field, they are leaders who act as an ​ INSPIRATION  to the people around them and are constantly  MOTIVATED ​ to strive for perfection. Cover...

Ana is an International renowned Creative/Art Director. After years in the creative industry, working for Google Singapore, Sid Lee Toronto, Grey Madrid she is now with TBWA/Media Arts Lab. Ana is a graduate from the University of Madrid and Central Saint Martin’s, London.  Ana believes she is a lifelong student of creative arts and spends her time creating and developing new concepts and ide...

From start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, Kyle helps organizations grow globally and empowers leaders and teams to find new ways to communicate and lead across our shrinking planet. His sales and marketing training programs help clients increase business across regions and his global communications programs help strengthen teams, build trust, and prepare next-gen leaders for tomorrow's threats and...

Saloni Khanna is an actor and musician by profession, with a number of web shows, short films and television commercials to her credit along with a Kannada feature film. Saloni graduated as an Engineer from Delhi and then worked with TCS for more than 2 years before venturing into the entertainment industry. After her corporate stint, Saloni modelled for various brands such as Sunsilk, Aurelia, Re...

From building businesses to being an entrepreneur himself, Brad Vanstone is the founder of Willicroft, an Amsterdam based venture which combines age-old techniques of making cheese with a more planet-friendly ingredient.  Concerned about mother nature, Brad adopted a plant based lifestyle and his love for cheese made him start Willicroft which is very different to his past experience with med...

Meet the very talented Sarah Mcdonald, the director of Makewaves, an award winning film company. With incredible experience as a creative individual and her passion for human rights, hear Sarah's intriguing journey as a journalist who was born and raised in New Zealand.    From her journey with BBC in the UK from the age of 20 to moving to a more documented style of journalism, Sarah tal...

An acclaimed Israeli singer-songwriter and a martial arts expert, Idan Amedi has been very recently recognized for his performance in the Netflix series, Fauda. In conversation with Melting Pot, Idan talks about his simple early childhood years, his Kurdish-Jewish family background, his love for music and his family and most importantly an advice for young artists who are currently in a state of c...

Originally from Bulgaria, Lubomila Jordanova is the founder and CEO of PlanA.Earth, a Berlin-based startup developing an algorithm which predicts where and how climate change will hit the hardest. Lubomila also recently founded the Greentech Alliance a community of 300+ startups  and holds years of experience in the finance industry as an investment banker and venture capitalist in Asia and E...

We welcome 2021 with our conversation with Zafer Elcik, the founder of Otsimo. Zafer identifies himself as a multi disciplinary computer scientist and is a young role model  for the autistic community. As a social entrepreneur based in Turkey, Zafer is working to make a change in the education sector with special focus on children with autism.   Zafer talks about Otsimo's work as a power...

Weiting Tan has worked in leadership roles in an array of industries, such as Human Resources and Technology. Now he has unleashed his entrepreneurial spirit to launch a new startup called El Masnou. El Masnou is a collective of passionate, yet quirky, individuals who constantly seek to create experiences that bring joy, excitement, and delight, through its work. The new company was named after a...

It’s hard to believe how the year has just flown by. Lives of millions of people have been impacted by the covid-19. Precious lives have been lost and many are grieving for their loved ones who were suddenly  taken away from them because of the pandemic. But for millions of others who have been fortunate, 2020 has been a year of reflection and self exploration.  Host Payal Nayar reflects...

Originally from Nagoya, Japan, Tsuyumi was involved with the arts from a young age. After a career in TV and Radio, she moved to Singapore in 2012. Now in a new chapter of life, she has dusted off my easel and rediscovered her love of painting. She is currently establishing herself in the local arts scene.  Colour and light are very important to her as her artworks are an expression of feelin...

Jaishree Misra is an Indian author whose debut novel Ancient Promises was published and sold worldwide by Penguin UK and became a major bestseller in India. It is now a prescribed text on several University BA Eng Literature courses. Her most recent book ('A House for Mr Misra') is an amusing non-fiction account of building a studio by the sea in her home state of Kerala. It is also her first work...

At the age of 19, Tri Phan was named the first-ever Vietnamese MasterChef Runner-up. But his food journey started way earlier, from turning his hobby into a passion and now it is an ongoing life mission. Since then, Tri has been continuously honing his skills through various apprenticeships and jobs. He is currently based at Spiced, a coworking and hangout space and is keeping himself busy with Sp...

By the time she was in her late teens, author and journalist Ashwini Devare had lived in six countries. As the daughter of an IFS officer, Ashwini was witness to life in the Soviet Union, Burma, Sikkim and Seoul. Her latest book, Lost at 15, Found at 50: Travel, trials and tribulations in foreign lands is a memoir where the Singapore based author reflects on her life and growing up in countries ac...

By profession Jerome is a corporate lawyer in Vietnam. But during weekends, he swapped his briefcase for the apron and rolling pin to pursue his  passion for baking. Now he is a born owner of Café Tartine Saïgon, a café-bakery focusing on sourdough. At the age of 11 he was working on weekends and on school holidays at a small mountain village in the south of France at the border with Italy. S...

Hanming works in the tech sector and calls Singapore her home. She is also an artist and illustrator. What started as a casual brunch conversation with her friend Aditi turned into this charity fundraising campaign for this season of gifting. Together they are running an Art Sale-cum-Charity-Fundraiser from 20 November to 15 December 2020 where everyone can gift an artwork of Hanming to your loved...

After 3 decades of corporate life, Subba Vaidyanathan swapped his high-pressure world of Finance and Banking to focus on preparing leaders and organisations for a fast-changing world. The experienced mindfulness practitioner and corporate leader, has a deep personal practice of yoga and meditation spanning 20 years.  His fifteen years of annual practice of silence & solitude has been the...

Bold, simple, immaculate - are a few adjectives that would describe Sunil Padwal and his work. They catch your eye even if you are just passing by and this glimpse takes you into a journey of thought and reflection. Every time you view Sunil's paintings they reveal a new facet, pushing you into a new realm of thought. We speak to renowned Mumbai visual artist Sunil Padwal about his artistic journe...