Samarth Shekhar

Samarth heads the EMEA presence of SixThirty Ventures, a St. Louis, US-based fund investing in the most promising early stage Enterprise FinTech & InsurTech startups, and helping them scale in partnership with top US financial institutions.

He is the co-founder of FinTech Forum (Frankfurt, 2013), Europe’s leading network for FinTech startups and investors, and was recognized by the WSJ / FN FinTech40 “Innovators Shaping Finance”.

Prior to this, he held Sales & Business Development roles at DSL/ HCL (Deutsche Bank JV), Capgemini, OrbiTech (Citigroup spin-off) and PwC. He is an engineer (BIT Mesra, 1997) and an MBA (IIM Calcutta, 2000).