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SUNIL NIKHAR

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An entrepreneur and accomplished business executive with over 30+ years of experience. Has built highly skilled interdisciplinary teams,lead strategy and execution, launched niche products, raised capital via strategic/angel/VC investments and led successful M&A.Currently, an active angel investor and working with multiple startups in various roles. -Co-founder at Manah Wellness which is focused on men's health especially mental health and sexual wellbeing.Manah is currently running a platform called LetsTalk ( during Covid-19 pandemic) to provide free mental health counseling for IT employees, Govt employees, police, GIG workers and healthcare professionals.- An active Investor, Director and part of the core team at ‘GrowthPal Technologies Singapore registered company developing digital investment banking platform for startups,corporates and VCs for acquisitions, acquihires, strategic partnerships and investments.- Running Digilant Solutions Private Limited, a boutique business strategy and financial consulting company for several industries.In the past, have founded and sold businesses in technology and fintech space - - Founded Ascent Computing Group Inc, a software development company in NY, USA in 1994 which won several awards such as Inc 500, Fast 500, Fast 50 and Si 100. He served as its CEO until it was acquired by chinadotcom (NASDAQ:CHINA) in 2003. - Co-founded Pyxis Systems Private Limited, Fintech company in Pune, India in 2005.Pyxis developed solution for the Global Capital Markets.Pyxis raised capital from angels and PE Funds and was featured in Cool Vendor report by Gartner Research in 2011.Professional services business of Pyxis was sold to Polaris Financial Technology Limited ( BSE : POLARIS) in 2013. Sunil continue to serve as the President of Pyxis for the products and solutions business.Was selected as a finalist for ‘Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award' in the year 2000 and 2002 in New York, USA.As a Charter Member of TiE Pune, has been mentoring a number of businesses and start up. An angel investor has invested in fintech, healthcare, Digital / Mobile Technology, Logistics, Analytics startups. Area of interest : Business Strategy / Planning, Fund raising, Strategic/Angel investments, Merger and Acquisition, Financial modeling and Valuation, Leading and growing multi-disciplinary teams, product conceptualization, go-to-market planning and execution.