Hitesh Sachdev is a veteran banker with ICICI Group, with a highly rich and diverse 19 years of experience across innovation, fintech, private equity, investment banking & asset financing. Hitesh presently heads the Start-up Engagement and Investments at ICICI Bank. He has played an instrumental role in setting up the Innovation team and executing cutting edge technology led projects for ICICI Bank in collaboration with FinTech start-ups. Hitesh also leads the FinTech Investment Fund for investing into emerging FinTech start-ups. Hitesh is an active mentor to many growing start-ups like ePaylater, Fingpay, KrazyBee, RemitGuru, True Balance, Bank Open, Karza, Allincall, Signzy, etc. which operate in domains across AI, Open Banking, Blockchain, Alterntate lending etc. He also advises many entrepreneurs/companies through various platforms like Grow Your Business Program, The Sounding Board, ASCENT, TiE etc.