Anil Aggarwal
Founder of Personatech
Anil Aggarwal
Founder of Personatech
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Founder, Chairman & CEO
2017 - Current
Personatech is a leading provider of event tech for all types of events, from conferences and trade shows to internal, user and community events. We provide an end-to-end platform that radically improves how your event participants connect, network, collaborate and unlock opportunities across every use case, from finding key partners and securing new leads to productively working together and learning from each other. We also offer services to successfully implement and execute our technology as part of your existing events or as new launches. Commercial events gain unprecedented competitive advantages and monetization opportunities, including new revenue streams and event growth. Team and other community events gain valuable social capital, and improve collaboration, productivity and employee satisfaction.
Founding Investor & Advisor
2021
Launched in 2021, Future Proof has quickly become the world's largest event brand dedicated to the modernization and advancement of the wealth and investment management industry. Future Proof organizes a variety of events throughout the calendar year, all of which leverage cutting edge event technology to connect investors, financial advisors, fund managers, tech companies and financial services firms, helping them efficiently raise and allocate assets as well as make informed technology buying decisions. An award-winning events company with event Net Promoter Scores consistently exceeding 70 and meetings satisfaction rates greater than 95%, Future Proof has pioneered many groundbreaking formats for the wealth and investment management industry, ranging from facilitated one-to-one meetings, peer group networking and hosted buyer programs to outdoor-centric festivals, city-wide events and curated retreats.
Founder, Chairman & CEO
2021 - 2024
Created to help meet the fintech industry's increased need for social capital with events that: (a) enable attendees to unlock new opportunities through connections and collaboration across every use case, (2) activate industry segments and sub-communities across the broad fintech sector, and (3) provide a far-reaching hub-and-spoke network of co-located events and experiences with industry partnerships. Utilizing state-of-the-art event technology from Personatech, fresh approaches to content and unprecedented partner engagement, Fintech Meetup is building the biggest and best fintech events. Launched as a breakout virtual event in 2021 and 2022, Fintech Meetup will expand into an omnichannel format in 2023 with the introduction of an in-person event in addition to its well established virtual format, positioning Fintech Meetup as the key annual U.S. kickoff event for the fintech industry in Q1. Fintech Meetup was acquired by Hyve Group (LSE: HYVE.LN) in 2022 for $55m.
Founder, Chairman & CEO
2020 - 2021
Founded in response to long-term changes in the virtual events industry resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, Retail Meetup organizes the largest online events for the retail industry, facilitating tens of thousands of high value meetings and other interactions throughout the year for large, curated retail communities. Retail Meetups include Shoptalk Meetup for Women and Groceryshop Spring Meetup. Retail Meetup was acquired by Hyve Group (LSE: HYVE.LN) in 2020 for $35 million.
Founder, Chairman & CEO
2018 - 2021
Founded as the industry embraced disruptive technology, including ecommerce, Groceryshop produces the largest US events for innovation in grocery and consumer packaged goods (CPG). Groceryshop events address the rapid changes in the production and distribution of CPG as well as the disruptive shifts in how consumers discover, shop and buy these products in an increasingly wide range of stores and online destinations. Groceryshop and Shoptalk were acquired by Hyve Group (LSE: HYVE.LN) in 2019 for a combined $150 million.
Founder, Chairman & CEO
2015 - 2021
Created in 2015 at the tipping point of the rise of ecommerce and other tech-enabled commerce models, Shoptalk produces the largest US retail conferences, including the largest retail event meetings program worldwide. Shoptalk brings together thousands of innovators from established retailers and brands, direct-to-consumer and tech startups, large tech and Internet companies, venture capital investors, real estate developers, equity analysts and media, to collaborate across broad range of use cases and innovative new formats. Shoptalk and Groceryshop were acquired by Hyve Group (LSE: HYVE.LN) in 2019 for a combined $150 million.
Founder
2017 - 2019
HLTH is the leading events company for innovation in healthcare. HLTH events bring together thousands of key stakeholders, including from payers, providers, employers and pharma services as well as disruptive startups, government, media and the investment community, with a mission to help drive substantial reductions in healthcare costs and dramatic increases in healthcare quality.
Board Director and Member, Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
2016 - 2018
Blackhawk Network (NASDAQ: HAWK, taken private for $3.5 billion in 2018) develops and distributes payment products, including prepaid and gift cards, through online and offline consumer and corporate channels.
Founder, Chairman & CEO
2011 - 2017
Created in early 2011 as the financial services industry emerged from The Great Recession, and newly enacted laws/regulations, emergence of mobile commerce and mainstreaming of financial technology converged to create a new era of innovation in payments and banking at the head of the demand curve, Money20/20 organizes large payments and financial services events in the US and Europe. Money20/20 was acquired by Ascential (LSE: ASCL.L) in 2014 for $125 million.
Global Head of Business Development, Google Wallet & Payments
2012 - 2013
Joined the Google Wallet team following the $200 million acquisition of TxVia, a VC-backed fintech company.