Team & Board

Sandeep Sinha is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Lumis.

Sandeep is an operator-investor, with a clear focus on Build-Buy-Invest approach to deliver market leading returns along with building purposeful businesses.

Sandeep is committed to the world of education and work, backing innovative business models disrupting the world of education and learning; work and livelihood; inner wellness and overall development of human potential to live a fulfilled life.

At Lumis, Sandeep has set an audacious goal to build Work10M platform, an initiative focused on co-creating 10M work opportunities across India by 2030.

Sandeep is equally passionate about the world of entrepreneurship and has been working on alternate funding models to support entrepreneurs. At Lumis, Sandeep has been leading charge in building debt based solutions to support entrepreneurs allowing them to scale their business with alternate source of capital.

Over the last decade, Sandeep has worked hands-on with some of the most promising Lumis portfolio companies, including – PeopleStrong, Wheebox, Sheroes, Talentedge, Awign and Unilodgers. Sandeep is also on the investment committee of Stride Ventures, a venture debt fund backed by Lumis.

Sandeep has been an integral part of the ‘National Skills Committee’ and Co-Chair of ‘TiE Education SIG’ which is a platform that brings to the forefront discussions on the opportunities in the Education sector, the bottlenecks that entrepreneurs face and solutions and methods to overcome the same.

Prior to Lumis, Sandeep worked as the Senior Director for 3Com Technologies and was a part of the global technology leadership program at General Electric. Sandeep completed his undergraduate studies in Computer Science from the Delhi Institute of Technology followed by Master’s from the London School of Economics.

Rohit Bhayana is the Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Lumis. He deeply epitomizes Lumis’ philosophy – solving complex problems which are globally relevant, at scale, by leveraging India’s deep foundations in talent, technology, data, demographics, and frugal innovation.

Passionate about the intersection of fragmented value chains, communities and technology, Rohit has been in the thick of Lumis’ focus areas – Supply-chain Labs, Aging, Future of Work, and Food Security. He and the team at Lumis have been taking a ‘Build-Buy-Invest’ approach to create value with purpose in collaboration with exceptional entrepreneurs and management teams.

Rohit believes we haven’t even seen the tip of consumption of services on technology. The largest demographics are marginalized on technology, be it SMEs, Elders or Rural – and the headroom is so large that few decacorns will be built on the back of serving these segments.

Before co-founding Lumis, Rohit held the position of CEO at GE Software Solutions. His career at GE traversed multiple businesses. Prior to GE, Rohit worked with HCL Corporation, and Cadence Design Systems.

Rohit is a postgraduate from the London School of Economics and an Engineer in Computer Science from Delhi University.

An avid reader, Rohit enjoys collecting original manuscripts, travelling and running.

Ajay’s experience in the financial services industry spans across 3 decades, with 22 years of being a CEO of CEO’s. He has a track record of setting up and scaling multiple businesses at Aditya Birla Capital to $45B, including a asset management company, a wealth management business, a private equity business, etc.

Neelam currently is a Supervisory Board member at Royal Philips, Netherlands, Non-Executive Director at ICICI Bank Limited India, Skylo Technologies Inc, Capita PLC and Yatra Online Inc. She is also on the Governing Board of IIIT, Delhi.

Neelam has over thirty-eight years of experience in the information technology industry. Starting from 1982, she has held various positions including that of Managing Director, across HCL, IBM, Microsoft and Hewlett Packard. Her last executive assignment was that of Vice President for Global Industries, Strategic Alliances, and. Inside Sales for Asia Pacific and Japan, for Hewlett Packard Enterprise till March 2018.

Over several years, leading business journals such as Fortune, Forbes and Business Today have recognized her as one of the Most Powerful Women in Business.

Neelam is an Economics Graduate from St Stephen’s College, Delhi University. She also has a MBA degree from Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi, India.

Mukesh Aghi, PhD is the president and CEO of US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF). Dr. Aghi has extensive experience working with business and government leaders in the U.S. and India to promote trade and strengthen ties between the two countries. He also currently serves as a trustee at Claremont Graduate University.

Previously, Dr. Aghi served as chief executive and member of the Board at Larsen & Toubro Infotech Limited where he expanded the business on a global level. During his time at Steria, Inc. (India), Dr. Aghi served as chairman and CEO of the Asia Pacific region. Additionally, Dr. Aghi was the founding CEO of Universitas 21 Global, the world’s largest consortium of research-led universities and global leader in providing post-graduate online education. He was also the president of IBM India for IBM Corporation, and spent time working with Ariba, Inc. and JD Edwards & Co.

Dr. Aghi holds several degrees, including an advanced management diploma from Harvard Business School, a PhD in international relations from Claremont Graduate University, an MBA in international marketing from Andrews University, and a BA in business administration from the Middle East College, Beirut, Lebanon. As a fluent speaker in many international languages, Dr. Aghi was recognized by Esquire Magazine as a global leader and has won many awards over the course of his professional career, including the JRD Tata Leadership Award. In his free time, Dr. Aghi is a major marathon and mountaineering enthusiast. He has competed in over 27 international marathons and climbed some of the highest peaks in North America and Europe.

Arjun Malhotra is an Indian entrepreneur, industrialist and philanthropist. In 1975, Malhotra co-founded HCL Group, where he served as vice chairman. He also founded TechSpan and served as chief executive officer of US-based firm Headstrong after the two companies merged. He also co-founded SPIC MACAY.

Arjun is on the Board of Governors for prestigious institutions including: the Indian Institute of Technology Foundation (Kharagpur); Indian School of Business, Hyderabad; Rajiv Gandhi Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Shillong; IIM, Udaipur; and The Doon School, Dehradun. In addition, he founded the Prof. G.S. Sanyal School of Telecommunications at IIT, Kharagpur.

Arjun holds a Bachelor of Technology with honors in electronics and electrical communication engineering from IIT, Kharagpur and earned the Dr. B.C. Roy Gold Medal. He was honored with a Doctor’s of Science degree (honoris causa) and named Life Fellow of IIT, Kharagpur. Malhotra also attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School

Lalit has 25 years of experience across key functions like Investment Banking, Transaction Advisory, Financial Planning & Analysis. His prior experiences include senior positions with leading organizations like SRF Finance, PWC, HCL Comnet, and Genpact. He is a Chartered Accountant from the ICAI and Cost Accountant from the Institute of Cost & Works accountants of India.

Sandeep Sinha is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Lumis.

Sandeep is an operator-investor, with a clear focus on Build-Buy-Invest approach to deliver market leading returns along with building purposeful businesses.

Sandeep is committed to the world of education and work, backing innovative business models disrupting the world of education and learning; work and livelihood; inner wellness and overall development of human potential to live a fulfilled life.

At Lumis, Sandeep has set an audacious goal to build Work10M platform, an initiative focused on co-creating 10M work opportunities across India by 2030.

Sandeep is equally passionate about the world of entrepreneurship and has been working on alternate funding models to support entrepreneurs. At Lumis, Sandeep has been leading charge in building debt based solutions to support entrepreneurs allowing them to scale their business with alternate source of capital.

Over the last decade, Sandeep has worked hands-on with some of the most promising Lumis portfolio companies, including – PeopleStrong, Wheebox, Sheroes, Talentedge, Awign and Unilodgers. Sandeep is also on the investment committee of Stride Ventures, a venture debt fund backed by Lumis.

Sandeep has been an integral part of the ‘National Skills Committee’ and Co-Chair of ‘TiE Education SIG’ which is a platform that brings to the forefront discussions on the opportunities in the Education sector, the bottlenecks that entrepreneurs face and solutions and methods to overcome the same.

Prior to Lumis, Sandeep worked as the Senior Director for 3Com Technologies and was a part of the global technology leadership program at General Electric. Sandeep completed his undergraduate studies in Computer Science from the Delhi Institute of Technology followed by Master’s from the London School of Economics.

Rohit Bhayana is the Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Lumis. He deeply epitomizes Lumis’ philosophy – solving complex problems which are globally relevant, at scale, by leveraging India’s deep foundations in talent, technology, data, demographics, and frugal innovation.

Passionate about the intersection of fragmented value chains, communities and technology, Rohit has been in the thick of Lumis’ focus areas – Supply-chain Labs, Aging, Future of Work, and Food Security. He and the team at Lumis have been taking a ‘Build-Buy-Invest’ approach to create value with purpose in collaboration with exceptional entrepreneurs and management teams.

Rohit believes we haven’t even seen the tip of consumption of services on technology. The largest demographics are marginalized on technology, be it SMEs, Elders or Rural – and the headroom is so large that few decacorns will be built on the back of serving these segments.

Before co-founding Lumis, Rohit held the position of CEO at GE Software Solutions. His career at GE traversed multiple businesses. Prior to GE, Rohit worked with HCL Corporation, and Cadence Design Systems.

Rohit is a postgraduate from the London School of Economics and an Engineer in Computer Science from Delhi University.

An avid reader, Rohit enjoys collecting original manuscripts, travelling and running.

Sneha takes up the responsibility of Investor Relations at Lumis.

At Lumis, Sneha also handles corporate communications and marketing. She has been passionately running marketing strategies and ensuring that lumis’ synergies are well with various partners in the industry.

She also contributes by diligently working closely with Lumis’ portfolio companies. Her assistance and hard work helps these companies execute their marketing and PR strategies.

Prior to her association with Lumis, Sneha was part of Zomato’s International Operations Team for 5 years, where she actively led global cross functioning teams. She has a strong experience in content management, localisation, social media marketing that she undertook across markets of US, Canada, Australia, Turkey, UAE & The Philippines. Sneha has also worked at SHEROES, as a Product Marketer, where she was an active team player and catered to the world’s largest community for women.

Sneha has a BTECH in Computer Science, and has been a motivated volunteer with AIESEC in Russia & Taiwan.