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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.
Dr. Ravi Bapna
Curtis L. Carlson Chair Professor in Business Analytics and Information Systems, Associate Dean for Executive Education, Academic Director, Carlson Analytics Lab, Carlson School of Management, University of
Dr. Ravi Bapna
Curtis L. Carlson Chair Professor in Business Analytics and Information Systems, Associate Dean for Executive Education, Academic Director, Carlson Analytics Lab, Carlson School of Management, University of
Ravi Bapna currently serves as the Curtis L. Carlson Chair in Business Analytics and Information Systems, Associate Dean for Executive Education and the Academic Director of the Carlson Analytics Lab and the Analytics for Good Institute at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management. He has also served as Chief Data Scientist at Mississippi River Capital LLC, a Minneapolis based hedge fund. He is one of the foremost exponents of engaged scholarship that involves the full cycle of partnering with companies to conduct top-tier research, impacting practice, and taking the learning back into the classroom via executive teaching, writing teaching cases and running the Carlson Analytics Lab experiential program.
Bapna has been teaching executives at Carlson, NYU, ISB and other leading business schools since 2008. His core topics are digital strategy and transformation, digital and social media marketing, advanced analytics, ML and AI. He started the CIO Academy at the Indian School of Business and has done open and custom executive education in partnership with WU Executive Academy, Vienna, Tsinghua University, and the Indian School of Business. He regularly keynotes corporate leadership events.
Bapna’s career is built on very deep corporate partnerships that have been of mutual benefit to all parties involved. He has been a pioneer of online auctions research. He created and ran Cniper.com, a real-world sniping agent for eBay auctions, to accurately estimate consumer surplus. Bapna was invited to present this at the Federal Trade Commission in addition to a variety of leading universities. Bapna is one of the foremost proponents of the gold-standard method of randomized field experiments in social media, partnering with companies such as OkCupid, Last.fm, and others to develop new knowledge and impact practice. His research in this arena had significant impact in deconstructing how social media can be used to create economic and social value, and has been featured widely in the media (including, FT, NPR, Star Tribune, CBS, USA Today, ABC among other) and invited keynote talks at companies around the world (3M, Google, Facebook, Carlson Wagonlit Travel and Cargill among others). This work not only has had a huge theoretical impact in uncovering important causal mechanisms in important areas such as online dating and peer influence, but has had a huge impact on practice and teaching at the MBA and executive level.
Most recently he has been helping some pioneering ecommerce companies take their referral marketing to the next level. Referral programs are designed to accelerate organic word-of-mouth (WOM) exposure using financial incentives. He uses large scale RCTs to determine how firms can benefit from framing calls-to-action for referral programs in such a way as to move closer to the original intent of organic, intrinsically motivated, WOM marketing, and yet at the same time reap the benefits of using a financial incentive to increase referral rates. The research based approach is now the basis of the ongoing referral marketing program at Collage.com, a major online retailer in the printed products category in the US.
As the academic director of the Carlson Analytics Lab since fall of 2015, he has led close to $2.8 million of analytics consulting that spans descriptive, predictive, causal and prescriptive analytics across 54 companies in 14 industries and all possible functions.
Umakanta Panigrahi
Managing Director, Duff & Phelps
Umakanta Panigrahi
Managing Director, Duff & Phelps
Umakanta is a managing director in the Valuation Advisory Services group in Duff & Phelps based in Mumbai. In his current capacity, he is responsible for the overall financial valuation practice in Mumbai.
Umakanta joined Duff & Phelps in 2015 through the firm’s acquisition of American Appraisal. He has over 15 years of experience in financial advisory services including valuation, equity research, credit research and other advisory services. Umakanta has managed a range of valuation and consulting services including business valuation, portfolio valuation, intellectual property valuation, purchase price allocation and impairment assessment, financial instrument valuations and other IFRS and USGAAP related engagements.
He has also advised several clients on swap ratio determination, corporate finance, business plan development and review, exit strategies and dispute consulting.
Umakanta has managed and executed a range of financial advisory engagements for energy, utilities, infrastructure, private equity, insurance and financial services healthcare, telecom, media and entertainment, retail and IT and ITES industries for mergers & acquisitions, accounting and tax reporting, transfer pricing, litigation and strategic purposes.
His specialization includes valuation of complex financial instrument (such as complex convertible instruments, earn-out and contingent payments, cross-currency interest rate swaps, options and other hedging instruments). He has also advised several companies on distress debt transaction, earn-out structuring and ESOP structuring.
Prior to joining American Appraisal, Umakanta has worked with the Financial Advisory Services practice of Deloitte and Investment Research & Valuation team of Evalueserve.
Umakanta holds a Master of Business Administration degree and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration.
Aditi Manchanda
Partner from the Corporate / M&A and Private Equity practice, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas
Aditi Manchanda
Partner from the Corporate / M&A and Private Equity practice, Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas- Investment by Gaja Capital in Kinara Capital a non-banking finance company (NBFC) that provides loans to small to medium level enterprises engaged in the business of vehicle financing.
- Acquisition of majority stake by Creation Investments India in Vivriti Capital, an NBFC that is engaged in lending, private and public placement of debt securities/ loans/ preference shares/ asset sales and is a technology-based marketplace for connecting institutional issuers and investors.
- Acquisition of majority stake by True North in Shree Digvijay Cements, a listed company engaged in the business of cement manufacturing.
- Investment by Morgan Stanley in a subsidiary of Ashoka Buildcon which is engaged in the business of LNG distribution.
- Represented BanyanTree Growth for its co-investment with Morgan Stanley in NSPIRA Management Services, a company engaged in education support services to K-12 schools run by Narayana Education Society.
- Investment by True North in Fedbank Financial Services, a subsidiary of Federal Bank and an NBFC that provides loans against property, gold loan, construction loans and structured finance loans.
- Acquisition by the Adani Ports of the Kattupalli Port in Tamil Nadu from the L&T Group.
- Investment by Warburg Pincus in a group entity of Piramal Realty for the development of real estate projects, both residential and commercial, in Mumbai.
- Investment by TPG Growth and existing investors Norwest Venture Partners and Evolvence in Ess Kay Fincorp, an NBFC engaged in the business of vehicle financing.
- Sale of controlling stake by the shareholders of Home First Finance, a housing finance company to True North.
- Investment by the Carlyle Group in Dee Development, Infrastructure Company.
- Exit by Deutsche Bank, Singapore from the Lodha Group.
- Investment by BanyanTree in Kanakdurga Finance, an NBFC engaged in the business of gold loan and vehicle financing.
- Proposed acquisition by Warburg Pincus and General Atlantic of Sharekhan Group.
Aditi Manchanda is a Partner in the Mumbai Office of Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas and has cumulative professional experience of over 10 years. Prior to joining Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas in 2015, Aditi was part of PE and M&A practice at J. Sagar Associates, Mumbai. Aditi also seconded with India offices of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR), where she was the in-house legal for KKR India entities.
As a member of the general corporate practice group at Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas, her work involves general corporate advisory and transactional matters, which mostly include PE and M&A transactions. As part of some of her recent M&A and PE transaction experience, she has been actively involved in regulatory processes and compliance advisory work specifically with industry regulators such as SEBI, RBI, and FIPB/Department of Economic Affairs.
She has represented some large corporate houses, promoters, private equity funds, banks, and financial institutions in cross border M&A transactions and foreign private equity investments.
Illustratively, to name a few key transactions (announced in public domain) that she has worked on, they include:
She has worked on private equity investments and M&A transactions across sectors like financial services, ITES and e-commerce, consumer, retail, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, real estate and infrastructure.
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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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