Chief Partnership Officer and Founding Team Member,
Enmasse (Moderator)
Aneesh Patnaik is a founding member and leads partnerships at Enmasse World. He combines extensive experience in legal and consulting, alongside a track record of driving leadership and organisational excellence. Aneesh brings an intensely human touch to his work, with strong interpersonal relationships at the heart of his ethos as a leader and manager. Aneesh is passionate about sharing Enmasse’s mission of accelerating Entrepreneurial Households on their journey to enduring prosperity. At Enmasse, Aneesh focuses on building international partnerships across business functions and competencies that support the EPIC journey.
Before Enmasse, Aneesh was a Partner at Vahura, a full-service, legal search and consulting firm, where he still sits on the Advisory Board. Aneesh’s focus was on major talent acquisition and he led the Disputes Consulting and Practice Acquisition team.
Born in Odisha into a military family, he has studied in schools from Assam to Delhi and Kashmir to Hyderabad. Aneesh graduated with a law degree from Symbiosis Law School in Pune, and started his law career in the chambers of Dr. Abhishek Singhvi, one of India’s most renowned and influential legal practitioners, where he appeared in some of the biggest corporate commercial disputes in the country.
Aneesh thrives on meeting people, building relationships and crafting bonds that last.