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Alok Mittal
Co-Founder & CEO, Indifi Technologies
Alok Mittal
Co-Founder & CEO, Indifi Technologies
Alok is Co-founder and CEO of Indifi, India's leading full-stack platform for enabling debt financing for small businesses.
Alok is also an active angel investor, co-founder of Indian Angel Network, and on the board of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) Delhi.
Prior to starting Indifi, Alok setup and ran Canaan Partners' venture investment business. Earlier, Alok co-founded JobsAhead.com, a leading web-based recruitment business in India.Alok earned a BE in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and a MS in computer science from UC Berkeley.
Ravi Shankar
Co-founder and CEO, Active.ai
Ravi Shankar
Co-founder and CEO, Active.ai
Ravishankar has been a banker for 15+ years in leading positions and an Fintech entrepreneur for 10 years. Presently Ceo, Cofounder of Active.ai
Yogendra Kashyap
MD & CEO, RapiPay
Yogendra Kashyap
MD & CEO, RapiPay
A technocrat with around 30+ years of experience in technology and in nurturing new businesses. Yogendra Kashyap has brought BFSI (Banking Financial Services in India) services to over 1 million touch points throughout India. He pioneered a number of Govt. of India’s technology enabled initiatives before venturing into the Digital Wallet and Money Remittance businesses.
A crusader for bringing about e-governance in government organizations, he has worked relentlessly towards devising new solutions and technologies in the ITES sector across the length and breadth of the country, thus impacting the last mile. He has vast experience in VLSI (very large-scale integration) circuits designing and implementation thereof and has identified the product hardware for RapiPay. He has been involved in implementation and deployment of various power supplies and circuits projects, which are primarily effective to decide upon devices used for mATM and mPOS.
Mr. Kashyap possesses great understanding of India’s demographics and distribution systems. As part of designing, collection and issuance of electoral roll and electoral identity cards, he could reach out to 80 million people of the country across various districts primarily in North and West regions. He has spearheaded many successful projects like usage of smart cards in Govt. transport impacting people in 70 Districts, managing and improving the public distribution system in 5 States, implementation of Coastal ID cards in 13 states from West Bengal to Gujarat for the Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India. With such projects, he honed his skills and gained deeper understanding of Indian demographics and issues pertaining to the lowest strata of society. His experience has been the bedrock to make RapiPay a success and innovate new products to reach out to the last mile through RapiPay. He has been able to redefine the payment systems in India through “RapiPay Saathis”, a B2B assisted model to provide basic Banking services.
In addition, Mr. Kashyap has many feathers in his cap including the use of Artificial Intelligence in KYC based processes. In 1998 he established biometric authentication for the identity business in India under the UIDAI project. In 2003, he issued the first SCOSTA (Smart Card Operating System for Transport Application) based interoperable vehicle registration cards. In 2010, issued the first Aadhar authenticated Ration card and in 2006, introduced Mobile data terminals into transport buses. Also, he has designed the system integration of MDTs (mobile data terminals) for state transport, buses including web-based bus terminal and in-bus ticketing system for various state transports including Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, and Madhya Pradesh.
Mr. Kashyap has grown RapiPay from 500 agents to a 50,000+ agents’ network with transaction volumes which began from Rs 20 crores per month to Rs 1300 crores per month within a year’s time. Under his leadership and technical knowhow, RapiPay is set to build the best in class B2B payment services model and the largest network of “RapiPay Saathis”
Ashneer Grover
Co-founder & CEO, BharatPe
Ashneer Grover
Co-founder & CEO, BharatPe
Ashneer Grover is the Co-Founder and CEO of BharatPe. A seasoned professional with strong strategic vision and proven expertise across domains in both start-ups and top-tier organizations, Ashneer donned the entrepreneurial hat and co-founded BharatPe in the year 2018 with the vision to drive financial inclusion by building ground-breaking financial solutions for the Indian economy. He is currently building BharatPe as India’s leading fintech company.
BharatPe has not only made mobile payments acceptance free and ubiquitous with a first-of-its-kind zero MDR payment acceptance product, but also launched innovative products in lending and Swipe category.
Within 2.5 years of its operation, BharatPe has emerged as the driving force for the fintech industry in India, with a network of over 6 million merchants spread across 100 cities. BharatPe has become the #1 offline acquirer for UPI QR transactions in the country. The company has been processing 8 crore+ UPI transactions a month with an annualized TPV of over US$ 7 bn). It has disbursed loans of over Rs. 800 crores to small merchants and kirana store owners. Under his leadership, BharatPe has already surpassed its target of facilitating disbursals of Rs. 1000 crores of business loans in FY21, to its merchant partners. BharatPe emerged as the largest B2B fintech lender in India, during the times of the pandemic.
Under Ashneer’s leadership, the Government of India and Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeiTY) recognized BharatPe’s efforts to help digitise India at the grassroot level and awarded BharatPe for Innovation in Digital Payment at its annual awards in August 2019. Ashneer won the ET Now Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2020. He has also won the Business World’s Young Entrepreneur Award. Recently, Ashneer won a place in the Business World Disrupt 40Under40 list of young achievers announced in January 2021.
A startup veteran and an accomplished leader, Ashneer has 15+ years of experience in operations, M&A, investments and business development. He is known as a result-oriented and decisive leader with proven success in new market identification and strategic positioning to establish successful multi-million-dollar start-ups.
In December 2019, Ashneer was invited to Yokohama, Japan, to be a part of the eminent and esteemed panellists who attended the Asia Pacific Initiative Forum, where business leaders from Asia exchanged notes on a common vision for growth and innovation for the next few decades.
Ashneer started his career with Kotak Investment Bank in 2006 after his MBA. His astute analytical skills and attention for detail helped him work his way through the ranks and become the Vice President for Kotak Investment Banking. During his stint at Kotak, Ashneer was instrumental in closing 10 deals that were worth over US$ 3 billion in transaction value. Post that, Ashneer also worked with American Express as Head- Corporate Development, with Grofers as Chief Financial Officer. He also led digital transformation and strategy as Head of Business at PCJ.
Yogi Sadana
CEO, CASHe
Yogi Sadana
CEO, CASHe
Yogi Sadana is the Chief Executive Officer at CASHe, one of India’s leading FinTech enabled app-only lending platform to salaried millennials. As the company’s CEO, Yogi spearheads CASHe’s ambitious growth plans to become a market leader in digital lending business using transformative technologies in AI/ML to build its financial product offerings. Appointed as CEO in July 2020, he is responsible for leading a talented team of professionals to achieve the company’s vision to broad base credit to millions of young salaried professionals who are otherwise kept out of the credit system based on archaic credit scoring systems and traditional financial institutions.
Yogi is a CA and CPA with over 15 years of experience in finance, accounting, strategy and business. He has worked in leadership positions in large multinational organizations prior to joining CASHe.
Anil Talreja
Partner, Deloitte Haskins & Sells
Anil Talreja
Partner, Deloitte Haskins & Sells
Anil is a Partner with the Deloitte Tax group. He has over twenty years of experience in the taxation department and has been seconded to the London office of Deloitte where he has obtained international work experience.
Anil has worked with the Deloitte M&A Tax and Global Oil and Gas Tax team whilst on secondment in London. He specialises in matters under the direct tax laws which have been in force in India, including international taxation. He has also been involved in conducting tax due diligence and tax structuring assignments of various clients including listed companies in India and has been providing tax structuring advise to several upstream companies in India with regard to their outbound investments.
Karan Kalra
Founder, Bombay Law Chambers
Karan Kalra
Founder, Bombay Law Chambers
Karan is the founder of Bombay Law Chambers and has over 15 years of experience in the legal industry, having worked in house as well as with one of Indian most prestigious law firm Nishith Desai Associates, where along with being a leader of the M&A and PE practices, he also led the banking and financial services vertical.
His practice focuses largely on domestic and cross border venture capital and private equity transactions, M&As, JVs and structured finance along with providing regulatory and general corporate advice. Karan works across sectors and has domain expertise in financial services, technology, e-commerce, healthcare, renewables and core manufacturing. Further, Karan also has the experience working with one of the largest private banks in India, working across various verticals.
Karan completed his B.SL. LL.B. from Symbiosis Law School, Pune and has also pursued a masters from Northwestern University – Pritzer School of Law and Kellogg School of Management. He is eligible to practice law both in India and New York, USA.
Karan has regularly been recognised by various legal directories such as IFLR 1000, Legal 500 and the Financial Times - RSG Consulting Survey.
Vaibhav Kakkar
Partner, L&L Partners
Vaibhav Kakkar
Partner, L&L Partners
Vaibhav Kakkar is a Partner in the Corporate and Regulatory Practices Team of Luthra & Luthra Law Offices, New Delhi and has over eleven years of experience. He has a unique mix of extensive regulatory and transactional expertise, and specializes in structuring transactions (especially cross-border), and advising on foreign investment/exchange laws, company law, securities laws, TMT laws and gaming laws.
As part of his profile, he has advised several global corporations on appropriate strategies in relation to investments in India and domestic and multinational clients on significant and complex corporate matters including cross border mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity transactions.
He has also taken the lead in drafting and negotiating the entire spectrum of definitive agreements and commercial contracts in relation to the same. He has in-depth experience with industry-specific legal and regulatory issues in sectors including (retail, real estate, telecommunications, gaming, hospitals, pharma, education mutual funds, education and the financial sector (banking and non-banking). He regularly advises and works with the Government on policy issues relating to company law, exchange control, and is key member of the Firm’s advocacy and policy development team.
On the transactional side, he has advised on many notable joint ventures including Tata Boeing, Tata-Starbucks, DLF-Pramerica Mutual Fund and Khazanah-IDFC road venture. He has advised clients including DLF, Moser Baer Group and Devyani International in raising capital totalling nearly USD 600 million from top-flight PE and financial investors.
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Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas
Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas, founded on a century of legal achievement, is one of India’s leading full service law firms. Our mission is to enable business by providing solutions as trusted advisors through excellence, responsiveness, innovation, and collaboration.
We are one of India’s most well recognised firms, and are known globally for our integrated approach. We are one of India’s most well recognised firms, and are known globally for our integrated approach. Our 520 lawyers including 111 partners provide exceptional services across practice areas which include General
Corporate, Merger & Acquisition, Private Equity, Banking & Finance, Insolvency & Bankruptcy, Competition Law, Dispute Resolution, Projects & Project Finance, Capital Markets, Tax, Intellectual Property and Venture Capital.
We are at the forefront of global and Indian M&A and private equity transactions, cutting edge high risk litigation and advice on strategically important matters across a spectrum of practices and industries for our multi-jurisdictional clients.
We have a pan India presence, with offices in seven cities across India – New Delhi, Mumbai, Gurugram, Bengaluru, Chennai, Ahmedabad and Kolkata.
Our practice areas:
• General Corporate
• Banking and Finance
• Insolvency & Bankruptcy
• Competition Law
• Dispute Resolution
• Projects and Project Finance
• Capital Markets
• Tax
• Intellectual Property
• Venture Capital
Brescon & Allied Partners LLP
MISSION
Help businesses tap their inherent potential to overcome adversities by the application of intellect, creativity, rigour and empathy.
OVERVIEW
Brescon, founded by Nirmal Gangwal, is India’s first and largest independent special situation advisor, with an established track record of over 20 years. Our reputation as an advisor of choice stems from our acumen in offering innovative solutions together with our strong relationship with the leading banks, international investors, private equity funds, special situations funds, and regulatory authorities.
We provide strategic and tactical orientation with solutions across entire business life cycle viz special situation advisory, turnaround advisory, strategic advisory (M&A and recapitalization) and distress advisory.
We are independent and not encumbered by any potential conflicts of interest.
Brescon, with the help of its large pool of experienced professionals with diverse skill sets, has executed transactions over USD 15Bn for more than 100 corporate clients with deal size varying from USD 20Mn to USD 2.5Bn, across a broad range of industry sectors. Brescon’s association with the prominent corporates including but not limited to infrastructure, steel, power transmission and distribution, textiles, real estate and education, as advisors, stems from its extensive experience, commendable track record of creating value for its stakeholders and close to 100% success rate in transactions handled.
Some of the firsts to its credit include:
First case referred in restructuring space – viz., under Corporate Debt Restructuring Forum formed by RBI
First case advised for exit from the CDR forum
First to structure a debt settlement based on rights on future built-up of the project properties
First to structure “Risk Return Matrix” (multiple options to lenders with differential terms) to meet varying perspective of the lenders on risks & returns of the borrower
First to provide advice in the context of early separation plan for over 500 workers on a self-liquidation basis
OUR OFFERING
We offer full service Investment Banking Services, with our core areas being Debt Resolution, Recapitalisation, Divestment Advisory, M & A Advisory, Structured Finance and Corporate Restructuring.
AD FACTOR
Market leader: Adfactors PR is India’s largest PR firm by revenue. The Holmes Report, in its global rankings 2018, ranked us amongst the top ten Asian PR firms and among the top 75 in the world.
Multi-specialist firm: We are a multi-specialist firm. Our principal practice areas are Corporate Reputation, Financial Communications, Issues and Crisis Communications, Public Affairs and Marketing Communications. In most practices and sector verticals, the firm enjoys a market leading position. The key sectors that we serve include Banking & Financial Services, Energy & Natural Resources, Auto & Engineering, Infrastructure & Construction, IT & ITeS, Pharma & Healthcare as well as Travel, Hospitality & Leisure.
Diverse clientele: We work for over 300 retained clients including some of the most reputed Corporations and Financial Institutions, both Indian and multi-national. We also work for number of Government bodies and Public Sector undertakings. Some of our strategic clients include State Bank of India, ICICI Bank, Axis Bank, Citibank, Standard Chartered, Tata Group, Godrej Group, Mahindra Group, Larsen & Toubro, CISCO and many more.
Expertise and Experience in Financial Services: Adfactors PR has an unmatched bandwidth of senior consultants with expertise in financial services sector and capital markets. A team of over 15 senior consultants who have previously served as Editors, Bankers, Asset Managers, Financial Analysts and as marketing professionals in the BFSI sector. We work with over 75 Banks and Financial Institutions on a retained basis.
Most awarded firm in India: Adfactors PR is India’s most awarded PR firm for each of the last three years. In 2016 we won every single ‘Agency of the Year’ award for PR firms in India. The firm was recognized as the Holmes Report Asia-Pac Financial Consultancy of the Year in 2013 and 2015. In 2015, we were also recognized as the Global Financial Communications Consultancy of the Year.
Key strengths: Our principal differentiators are domain knowledge, a sound understanding of Indian complexities, acknowledged capability in engaging media and other influencers, and a large bench of senior consultants. The firm is acknowledged for managing issues, crisis and complex media situations.
National program delivery: A truly national platform for delivering integrated communication programs right upto the farthest districts of India. We have a network of offices in 14 key states and resident representatives in all the other State capitals of India.
International capability: We have our offices in Dubai, Singapore and Sri Lanka. We work with partner firms for global campaigns in about 60 markets in the world.
New age competencies: Adfactors PR has sound capability in new age competencies like data analytics, video and rich media solutions, experiential PR & events, digital media monitoring and influencer engagement.
TransUnion CIBIL Limited
We are India’s leading credit information company with one of the largest collections of consumer information.
We aim to be more than just a credit reporting agency. We are a sophisticated, global risk information provider striving to use information for good. For consumers, we provide information and tools for gaining a clear understanding of their credit history and financial reputation, and guarding against the theft of personal information and potential fraud.
For businesses, we provide powerful information solutions, backed by professional service and current, comprehensive data, for making better, more informed decisions.
Our solutions help build credit economies worldwide
TransUnion has been operating internationally for over 30 years in over 30 countries. We connect businesses and consumers through data, technology and analytics, to help build credit economies worldwide. We’re a leader in risk and information solutions within the markets we serve.
Our technology and analytics platform expansion enables rapid and effective transfer of our most advanced global solutions (CreditVision®, IDVisionSM, DecisionEdge® and our newest groundbreaking PramaSM suite) across regions, while offering local solutions to meet the unique needs of our clients. We offer specialized solutions to serve a broad variety of industries, such as financial services, insurance, retail, telco, and government, to help businesses operate, compete and grow within each vertical. Our consumer empowerment solutions continue to expand outside the U.S., currently offering consumer products in India, Hong Kong, South Africa and Canada through direct and indirect channels.
As a global risk information provider, we strive to use Information for GoodSM to help communities everywhere achieve great things. It's our mission to help people around the world access the opportunities that lead to a higher quality of life, by helping organizations optimize their risk-based decisions, and enabling consumers to understand and manage their personal information. Our mindset is global, but every day we act on a local level to ensure we continuously provide the means to improve and strengthen societies all over the world.
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Indium Capital
Indium Capital is an Investment Bank focusing on Fund-Raising, Mergers & Acquisitions and Growth Strategy Advisory. We provide end-to-end services across our focus sectors: Healthcare, Consumer Brands & Technology. Indium has had significant depth of experience in these sectors, with expertise across all segments of Healthcare Delivery (hospitals, medical devices, diagnostics chains and single speciality centers), Consumer Brands (apparel, accessories, foods and other retail brands) & Technology (edu-tech, fin-tech, health-tech, etc.).
The Indium team comes from a diverse background with experience across Corporate Finance, Business Consulting & Strategy; and in the past have advised on multiple M&A and Fundraising transactions with total transaction value of over US$ 3 billion.
AZB & Partners
AZB & Partners is one of the prominent Indian law firms in India. It was founded in 2004 with a clear purpose to provide reliable, practical and full-service advice to clients based on an in-depth knowledge of the legal, regulatory and commercial environment within which our clients operate and a full understanding of their overall business objectives. The firm now has 6 offices across Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, and Pune, with a driven team of 450+ lawyers.
The firm has been involved in advising in the field of mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and general corporate, regulatory practice and securities laws, private equity, capital markets, funds practice, banking and finance, infrastructure and project finance, real estate, media and entertainment, employment, insurance, intellectual property, taxation, aviation, competition law, and litigation and arbitration.
The Firm has received wide national and international acclaim within the legal sphere, some of which include ‘Ranked No.1’ by RSG Top 40 India law firm ranking, 2017; ‘Best Law Firm of the Year – India’ by Corporate USA Today – Law Awards 2018; ‘Law Firm for the Year 2017-18’, and ‘Best Overall Law Firm – 2017-18’ by India Business Law Journal.
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