We are proud to announce the highly awaited Mint | TechCircle Business Transformation: Virtual Symposium.
Businesses have spent much of the past nine months scrambling to adapt to extraordinary circumstances. While, 2021 will be the year of regeneration, the next normal is going to be different. Going back to the conditions that prevailed in 2019 seems like a far fetch possibility. Early and seamless adaption to digital ecosystems has been the key to survival in the recent times. These ecosystems consist of interconnected sets of services through which users fulfil a variety of cross-sectoral needs in one integrated experience. Today’s dominant ecosystems comprise of hyper scale platforms to compete with, disintermediate, and often substitute for the offerings of traditional competitors by controlling customer interfaces and control points such as search, advertising, and messaging. Incumbents are shaking up the value chains to attract customers of the new ecosystem —and tap potentially huge pools of value. Companies are set to lead by redefining "who they are", "how they operate" and "how they grow".
Key Topics of Discussion
By Jaideep Mehta, CEO, Mosaic Digital & Head - Mint
Treading the transition - A commitment to change
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, the evidence is mounting that the next normal will bring key shifts. As organizations adjust, they’re looking at the corporate center to take the lead in driving the change. Half measures and incrementalism won’t work when we emerge from the crisis. What got us here….won’t get us there.
Speaker
Shalil Gupta, CBO, Mosaic Digital, an HT Media Group Company
The conversation will focus on the steps that the organisation has taken to inculcate the innovation culture, which in turn has enabled disruptive thinking and the development of new products and even the creation of new businesses.
Speaker
KRS Jamwal, Executive Director, Tata Industries
Jaideep Mehta, CEO, Mosaic Digital & Head - Mint
Take action to set the company’s purpose in motion – Adopt Cloud First Strategy
Future-ready companies recognize that purpose helps attract people to join an organization, remain there, and thrive. Investors understand why this is valuable, and factor purpose into their decision making. When centered at the heart of work, purpose helps people navigate uncertainty, inspires commitment, and even reveals untapped market potential.
In today’s date and time scalability, agility and connectedness is repurposing organizations. Organizations are now aiming to achieve scalability horizontally as well as vertically. They are considering scalability for more processes and functions. Further, they plan to scale up their reach and market penetration and are looking at agility to be able to scale down as well, if required. Enterprises have also fundamentally realized the essence of being connected. Hence, enterprises are looking to adopt to cloud first strategy. The complete architecture is now required to be cloud- driven. It’s a call to action, as early adopters to cloud are likely to capture a disproportionate share of the total business opportunities that cloud makes possible.
Speaker
Shailender Kumar, Senior Vice President and Managing Director, Oracle India
Jaideep Mehta, CEO, Mosaic Digital & Head - Mint
Digital Businesses - Optimising for velocity
While the COVID-19 crisis has made speed a priority for many organizations, it has also reinforced how difficult speed is to harness. Once organizations galvanize identity, being digital helps them to optimize for speed. However, speed needs to be associated with one single goal at all times; delivering user/customer/business value. They need to enable a network of empowered, dynamic teams to find pockets of value, including at the company’s “edges” where employees are closest to customers.
Speaker
Sameer Shetty, EVP and Head - Digital Banking, Axis bank
Murali Rao Manduva, Chief Technology Officer at DCB Bank
Dheemant Thacker, Digital Banking Head, Ujjivan Small Finance Bank
Moderator
Jaideep Mehta, CEO, Mosaic Digital & Head - Mint
Portfolio restructuring accelerated
The COVID-19 crisis shook historic norms, with some industries taking off and others suffering badly. As the economy settles into its next normal, such sectoral differences are expected to narrow, with industries returning to somewhere around their previous relative positions. To come out stronger organisations need resilience to not only absorb shocks but to use them to build competitive advantage. In the era of “fast products” and digital disruption, organisations are putting in place new innovations based on speed, agility, and scale and reallocating resources to more promising businesses leading to an acceleration of growth.
Speaker
Dinesh Chhabra, CEO, Usha International
Regenerating Operations
Organizations are always faced with limited opportunity to differentiate their product offerings and land up typically competing by offering a combination of low prices and a good customer experience to drive acquisition and retention. A key challenge for organizations is ensuring that they can deliver each of those elements without compromising the other. All this is driving companies to redouble their efforts to integrate new technologies into their operations. Companies need to see digital tools as a way to achieve significant productivity improvements, while also offering a better customer experience. Consumers are already demonstrating a preference for companies that deliver great service while reducing risks all along the customer journey.
Speaker
Gaurav Kataria, Chief Digital and Information Officer, Sai Life Sciences Ltd
V S Parthasarathy, President, Mobility Services Sector & Member of the Group Executive Board, Mahindra Group
Moderator
Sumedha Bose, Senior Manager - Research & Solutions, Mosaic Digital, an HT Media Group Company
Supply chains rebalance and shift
The pandemic has revealed vulnerabilities in the long, complicated supply chains of many companies which led to the great rebalancing. While studying how their supply chains worked businesses realised three things: First that disruptions are predictable features of doing business that needs to be managed like any other. Second, cost differences among developed and many developing countries are narrowing with the adoption of Industry 4.0 principles. And third, companies have no clear visibility of what is going on in the sub-tiers of their supply chains which is critical. Companies are adopting AI and data analytics, to learn more about, audit and connect with their entire value chains.
Speaker
Swapn Malpani, Joint President & Global Head of Supply Chain & Procurement, Cipla
Security Enabling Business Transformation
There is an increasing reliance on internet platforms, SaaS and software across every dimension of our digital lives which also exposes us to digital vulnerabilities. In this complex information landscape, one of biggest underlying challenges of leaders is how to establish a trusted environment in ever expanding organisation and workforce perimeter commonly now known as “work and consume from anywhere”. Modern organizations need to recalibrate their cyber security approach around three main elements: Securing their corporate networks and datacenters, securing cloud environments and lastly, securing employees – wherever they are.
Speaker:
Prakash Bell, Head - Customer Success and Security Engineering, India & SAARC, Check Point Software Technologies
Sumedha Bose, Senior Manager - Research & Solutions, Mosaic Digital, an HT Media Group Company
Riding the tide of behavioural changes
As we are resetting our environments and beginning to unlock across the globe, we have witnessed a permanent shift in behavior of both the workforce and consumers. Starting from education to entertainment to shopping experiences, the choices of mode of consumption has shifted. Customer behaviors and preferred interactions have changed significantly, and while they will continue to shift, the uptick in the use of digital services is here to stay. Simultaneously, organizations have had to deal with change in workforce behaviors. A new kind of capability building that works in today’s virtual environments is the need of the hour. Organizations need to focus not only on learning but also inculcating new skills across broad segments of the workforce.
Speaker:
Pavan Singh, Deputy General Manager (Marketing), Amul
Gajendra Jangid, Co-Founder & CMO, CARS24
Ajoy Salve, Senior Vice president Enabling Functions, XpressBees
Moderator
Paras Kaushik, CHRO, HT Media Ltd
The Winning formula - Global Perspective
The pandemic pushed companies and their workforce to rapidly adopt new behaviors that are likely to stick, changing their trajectory. Consequently, the coming years will bring fundamental changes to our working world, and to adapt, employees in almost every role and industry will need to acquire new skills. In this session we shall gain global perspective on the same.
Speaker:
Dr. Thomas Ogilvie, Member of the Corporate Board of Management-Human Resources, Deutsche Post DHL Group
Jaideep Mehta, CEO- Mosaic Digital & Head – Mint
Shalil Gupta, CBO, Mosaic Digital, an HT Media Group Company
KRS Jamwal, as Executive Director of Tata Industries, is responsible for the incubation of new ventures (such as Tata Health and Tata UniStore) as well as investments made by Tata Industries in new businesses and start-ups.
Mr Jamwal is on the board of Tata companies such as Tata UniStore, which owns Tata CLiQ, a one-of-a-kind, leading multi-brand, e-retail platform; Tata SmartFoodz, a foodtech company offering delicious ready foods using proprietary technology (where he serves as Director and Chairman of the Board); Inzpera Healthsciences, a health sciences company that markets palatable and efficacious therapeutic products (where he serves as Director and Chairman of the Board); and Tata Medical & Diagnostics, a leading-edge healthcare solutions provider (where he serves as Additional Director). He is also a member on the board of the overseas subsidiary of Tata Industries — Qubit Investments Pte (Singapore). He represents Qubit on the boards of: Flisom AG, which manufactures flexible, lightweight solar modules at market-comparable efficiency and costs; i3 Equity Partners, a Tel Aviv based technology incubator in IoT (Internet of Things) and industrial IoT; and SDX Partners LLC, USA, which provides seed funding to student-initiated business ideas at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston.
Prior to joining Tata Industries, he served as Vice President, strategy, Group Corporate Centre, Tata Sons, supporting the then Group Chairman, Ratan Tata on special assignments such as the Investment Commission (2005-2009) and the US-India and UK-India CEO Forums.
Mr Jamwal started his career with TAS (formerly known as Tata Administrative Services) in 1989. His initial assignments, such as with the Indian Hotels Company Ltd. (Taj Group of hotels), included project management for setting up new hotels and flight catering units, with subsequent responsibilities relating to strategic planning and mergers and acquisitions. He holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad, where he was awarded the scholastic gold medal and the KV Srinivas Award for the best all-rounder. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in technology in petroleum engineering from the Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, and was awarded the scholastic gold medal and the best student shield.
Jaideep joined the company in October 2017 to set the company on a new, accelerated growth path. He is an advisor to CEOs and business leaders of investment and tech ecosystem. From macro-economic trends to technology disruptions, and market and industry analysis, he has blogged, written and presented on a wide range of topics.
Prior to his current role, he was Managing Director - IDC India and South Asia. Under his leadership, IDC India was conferred the CIO Choice Award for “IT Advisor of the Year” three years consecutively in 2014, 2015 & 2016. Jaideep has been awarded the “Patrick J McGovern IDC Entrepreneur of the Year 2015” for consistent excellence in leading the South Asia team to success and “Leadership Award for Contribution to Market Research” by the World Marketing Congress in 2014.
Before IDC, he was based in London, UK and worked at Gartner for over 5 years where he was Regional VP, Sales & Business Development – EMEA and prior to that, he spent more than 2 and a half years in the Indian outsourcing sector, most notably at Zensar Technologies where he spearheaded the set up to their Financial Services practice in Europe. During the late nineties, he was in the software sector.
Jaideep is a graduate from the Shriram College of Commerce, Delhi University and holds an MBA degree from the Manchester Business School, UK. He enjoys reading, the occasional game of tennis and driving to remote parts of India
Shalil is responsible for research, events and training business that assists clients in improving their capabilities in key process areas. Before this, Shalil was ‘AVP, Research and Consulting’ at IDC India. He has an extensive senior level experience in the ICT industry that enriches his strategic engagements with companies. A much-sought-after speaker at international forums, Shalil also invests his time in leading innumerable focused group discussions in India. With his specialization in the BFSI sector, he covers an array of topics including emerging technologies, digital enterprises, industries and IT sourcing and servicing in his speaking engagements.
Shalil's role extends beyond delivering qualitative research content, and includes preparing forward-looking assessment and analysis and sharing market insights and predictions with senior management teams. He has worked in India, London, Edinburgh, Ireland, Western Europe, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, and Taiwan. During his time in these organizations, he has driven the development of enterprise level technology strategies, managed large transformation and IT programs, and played a leading role in a post-merger IT integration of two banks in the United Kingdom.
A graduate of Computer Science, Shalil holds a postgraduate (MBA) degree from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), a leading business school in India.
Shailender Kumar is Regional Vice President and Managing Director for Oracle India and a committed leader with more than 30 years of executive experience building successful teams and running successful businesses.
As Regional Managing Director, Shailender serves as leader, mentor and partner to Oracle’s vast community of more than 50000 employees, customers and partners in India. Shailender’s responsibilities encompass driving Oracle’s leadership in its core businesses like cloud, delivering on the company’s commitment toward customer and partner success and building and leading a team of dedicated professionals to serve the India ecosystem. Under Shailender’s leadership, Oracle has consistently witnessed year-on-year growth and has been adjudged the best performing region for consecutive years.
Previously, Shailender was Group Vice President – Key Accounts and led the business to become one of Oracle India’s most successful programs that continues to date. Before this, he served as Country Leader for Oracle’s middleware business joining Oracle after its acquisition of BEA Systems. Prior to Oracle, Shailender has held leadership positions at Quest Software, Microsoft India and IBM India.
Shailender holds a post graduate degree in Business Management from the Institute of Management Technology and has received his engineering degree from the Institute of Engineers.
Gaurav Kataria is Chief Digital and Information Officer (CDIO) at Sai Life Sciences, a leading CRO-CDMO providing drug discovery, development and manufacturing services to innovator pharma companies and biotechs worldwide. In his role as CDIO, Gaurav is responsible for driving the organization’s digital and IT strategy in line with its vision and global growth aspirations. He is also responsible for IT and cyber security for the company.
In a career spanning over 21 years, Gaurav has rich experience across digital transformation, technology, consulting, marketing & strategy.
Prior to Sai Life Sciences, Gaurav was a P&L leader at Cyient responsible for formulating the digital strategy, building digtal products and delivering digital solutions for its Aerospace and Defense (A&D) customers globally. He was also the Global Chief Information Officer overseeing the IT strategy with a focus on adopting technology to drive business process change. He also chaired the IT Security Council (acting as the CISO).
Previously, Gaurav was at Feedback Consulting, where he headed the consulting practice for the Customer Division with client acquisition and P&L responsibilities. He also led select strategy consulting assignments across industry sectors. At HCL Technologies, he was the head of Marketing & Strategy for Key Accounts and lead the innovation program across the firm. He worked closely with the CEO's office on multiple strategic initiatives.
Gaurav is an Advisory Board member for the Global Intrapreneur Institute (GII). He has been a mentor to start-ups and was an invited member of the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) National Innovation Committee from 2011 to 2013.
Gaurav holds an engineering degree with a Masters of Sciences (MS) from BITS, Pilani and executive business education from Harvard Business School Publishing, Boston, MA.
Thomas Ogilvie has held a number of management positions over more than fifteen years with Deutsche Post DHL Group. He joined the company in December 2001 with the Market Research Service Center (MRSC) at Deutsche Post Consult GmbH. He then went on to hold a number of product and business development roles within the Post & Parcel division, taking over the newly created role of Senior Vice President for Private Customers and Online Strategy, DHL Parcel Germany, in 2011. In January 2016, he was appointed Executive Vice President, Corporate Development, Deutsche Post DHL Group.
Since September 2017 Thomas Ogilvie has been appointed Member of the Corporate Board – Human Resources.
Thomas holds a Diploma in Psychology from University of Bonn in Germany, and a PhD. Economics from University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.
Dheemant is a digital banking and product innovation professional with over 15 years of experience in Banking & Financial Services. He has successfully built teams and setup business verticals to operate as independent P&L units in Mobile Innovation, Social Media & Artificial Intelligence and UI / UX. He has successfully led the development, launch and management of digital products, channels & innovations in Mobile, Artificial Intelligence, Social Media and new-age technologies like IoT, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality etc. space with a focus on generating better ROI for the organization. He has worked with HDFC Bank, Aditya Birla Capital and Bandhan Bank. At Ujjivan Small Finance Bank, he has setup the Digital Banking function and is driving the digital initiatives of the bank.
Mr. V S Parthasarathy (fondly known as Partha) is the President of the Mobility Services Sector of Mahindra Group. Mobility Services Sector houses a range of businesses that provide innovative, technology-driven solutions for efficient movement of people and goods. It includes Mahindra Logistics, Mahindra First Choice Wheels, Meru, Porter and Zoomcar.
Partha is a member of the Mahindra Group’s supervisory board called ‘Group Executive Board’. He is the Chairman of the board of Mahindra Logistics Ltd., Smartshift Logistics Pvt. Ltd. and Meru Travel Solutions Pvt. Ltd., and a Director on the board of listed companies of the Mahindra Group
Partha’s journey at M&M began with an HR stint in organizational transformation and the tractors journey to be world No. 1. In this process, he was also a significant part of the journey towards Deming Prize and Japan Quality Medal. His next stint was in International Business where he was tasked with taking M&M tractors global. He acquired two companies in China, consolidated operations, scaled it up in USA, set up operations in Australia, South East Asia, Korea and seven plants and operations in Africa and helped positioned Mahindra on the global map. He was a key player in Mahindra USA’s journey from 1,000 to 10,000 tractors per annum as Head FES - International Operations, M&M. In his next assignment as Head M&A, he focused on enabling inorganic growth strategy of business through innovative solutions and set up systems and processes. Under his leadership, the M&A team executed more than 125 transactions across geographies. As Group CIO, he spearheaded digital and IT initiatives at M&M, took charge of ambitious Project Harmony, a Group-wide initiative, and led a team of 400+ professionals to achieve common processes on a single ERP platform (SAP). He also led initiatives on Information Security, Business Process Management (IT-BPR) and Knowledge Management. He took over as CFO in November 2013. In his Finance role, he ideated and implemented India’s first ever 50 years unsecured, rated, listed bullet bonds for Rs. 500 cr. which is still in the record of Indian history. In this tenure, he secured many firsts for M&M including AAA rating, establishing new financial models, etc. He later took over as Group CFO in April 2015 until 31st March 2020. He started his career with Modi Xerox (later know as Xerox India) as Management Trainee and rose to a position of Associate Director rumbling through multiple positions and locations.
He is a much awarded professional, thought leader, and votary of transformational changes with over 3 decades of experience. He is a well-recognized speaker in the fields of finance and IT. He was awarded with the Lifetime Achievement Awards for both his CFO and CIO roles. He is also the recipient of the Business World - Yes Bank Hall of Fame Award, Best CFO of India Award by IMA, Corporate Excellence Awards and Digital Icon of India Award by HPE and CIO 100 – Hall of Fame by CIO after winning the awards for 4 consecutive years.
Partha is the Chairman of the FICCI Council on Sustainable Mobility. He runs for Nanhi Kali (the Girl Child Education NGO) at the Mumbai Marathon and awarded as Change Legend for 2019 creating history in terms of the largest collection that year. This year Partha is supporting SEWA (Self Employed Women’s Association) at the Mumbai Marathon.
Partha is a CA from ICAI and ICAEW and an alumnus of Harvard Business School’s AMP (2011).
Before joining HT Media, Paras was Head, Group HR at Motherson Group. He was responsible for managing the Human Resources function for the Group’s 1,35,000 employees across 41 countries.
Prior to this he worked for 17 years at Aditya Birla Group. His repertoire of experiences range from working for global to local, start-up to mature, manufacturing to retail, listed to not-for-profit organizations of the Group. He worked in various HR leadership roles at Hindalco, Group HR, Minacs Philippines, Madura Fashion & Lifestyle, Pantaloons, BITS Pilani, Columbian Chemicals and the Fashion & Retail Business of Aditya Birla Group.
Postgraduate from Symbiosis International University, Paras is passionate about telling stories and sharing his experiences in variety of conferences, webinars, B-School events and social media.
A chartered accountant by profession, Dinesh Chhabra is the current CEO of Usha International. A leader who walks the talk, he is adept at customizing his leadership style to suit the need of the hour. He believes paying attention to the micro aspects of the business results in macro rewards and ensures that everyone across the organization is aligned to the larger picture while understanding the role they need to play for the company to be successful. He joined Usha International to lead the Finance function, where his indepth understanding of various aspects of the business saw him being elevated to the CEO’s role about 10 years ago.
Besides his training as a finance professional, Dinesh has also helmed other functions including Marketing and Business Development, Manufacturing, Strategic Planning, Global Sourcing, and Information Technology. All of these have seen him evolve as a 360* leader, capable to nurturing talent and growth within the organization, and achieving success for the business.
His specialization lies in leading and managing change and organizational transformation across all layers of organizational deployment – operational, tactical, and strategic – and this has played a huge role in further enhancing the corporate culture based on the tenets laid by the founders of Usha. He has been part of various successful profitability turnarounds in a systematic and organic manner helping increase market capitalization through structural and strategic initiatives. Dinesh has also played a significant role in effective transition across stakeholders including promoters, leadership, and teams thus enabling the organization to shift the growth trajectories without a break in business continuity.
As part of various social initiatives including mentoring start-up units, as well as providing support and professional direction to orphaned children who need guidance, Dinesh does not shy away from putting his experience to benefit others.
His wife Neelam, a lawyer by profession, actively supports all his social initiatives. Dinesh and Neelam are extremely house proud. They also enjoy travelling and exploring new places whenever they get a chance. Dinesh is also extremely passionate about following an active and healthy lifestyle. They have two sons who are both pursuing their passions for a living.
Swapn Malpani is the Joint President & Global Head of Supply Chain & Procurement of Cipla. He joined Cipla in 2016, prior to which he worked with leading Indian and multi-national companies across diverse sectors like pharmaceutical, medical devices, consumer and food industries; like Glenmark, Johnson & Johnson, ThermoFisher, Dr Reddys and Mars Inc.
An engineering gold medallist and postgraduate in Supply Chain Management, Swapn brings with him 25 years of global experience and domain expertise in end-to-end Supply Chain Management & Procurement encompassing areas of strategic sourcing & procurement, external manufacturing, demand & supply planning, logistics & distribution, and customer service.
A strong leader with a strategic and creative mind set, Swapn has a proven track record of supporting the growth of organizations by championing transformation, building talent and creating tangible values.
As National Marketing Head of the core dairy business of Amul India (GCMMF), Pavan's portfolio includes its flagship dairy categories along with wide range of emerging and upcoming product categories. His responsibility include continuous growth acceleration in volumes and value, enhancement in market share as well as portfolio profitability, category expansion, synergistic businesses diversification, macro supply chain management, customer base expansion, penetration into new geographies, investment planning and general health management of the business. For Pavan's portfolio, he is also responsible for long term strategic planning, creating business roadmaps including macro-forecasts for both demand and supply side of the business. In addition, Pavan heads Amul’s business for all verticals, through offline Modern Trade and online E-grocery channels. He is also responsible for new business diversification synergistic with his portfolio, including identification, development, evaluation, commercialization and eventual launch of new products. Pavan also part of the core team of brand custodians for Brand Amul responsible for planning and executing all activities aimed at managing & strengthening equity of the umbrella brand. He has received the Best CMO Award in March 2016, at Pitch CMO Summit and is also Director on Board on three organizations as nominee of Amul (GCMMF).
Gajendra Jangid is the Co-founder and CMO of CARS24 and is in-charge of developing the strategy for advertising and branding, as well as customer outreach. He spearheads the initiatives to accelerate business growth by building the brand, taking new innovations to the market and enhancing customer experience. An effective communicator with strong analytical skills, his ‘Hands-on’ understanding about markets and consumers blended with scientific approach and commercial acumen sets him apart as an industry expert.
Prior to CARS24, Gajendra worked as an Operations Manager with Schlumberger, world's leading provider of technology for reservoir characterization, drilling, production, and processing to the oil and gas industry.
Gajendra holds a Bachelor of Technology degree from Indian Institute of Technology – Bombay in Metallurgical Engineering & Material Science.
Sumedha is the Product Lead of Sales Edge, India’s only Growth Acceleration Platform. She is also responsible for c-suite research programs such as CFO research, CEO Research, and other CXO research conducted to understand the technology landscape of India. She is well established as a sought-out advisor to many industry technology provider leaders across multiple functions such as marketing, sales and product solution development helping them understand the nuances and deal with the dynamism of the market at large.
Ajoy Salve is Senior Vice president Enabling Functions with XpressBees and brings close to 25 plus years of HR, Strategic, and Operations expertise ranging from Manufacturing to Software services industries, start-ups to multinationals. Ajoy has been recognized as 50 Most Influential HR Tech Leaders 2016 by the World HRD Congress & “Most talented Global HR Leaders in Asia” by the World HRD Congress for two consecutive years 2013 & 2014. He was also awarded Lokmat HR Leadership Award 2014 and the “HR Leadership Award 2012” in appreciation for his contribution to the HR Fraternity at the India Human Capital Summit. He is a keynote speaker at various forums like the World HRD Congress, National HRD Network, apart from being a Guest Speaker at various Management Institutes. Ajoy has done his Masters from Nagpur University where he specialized in Industrial Relations & Personnel Management. His professional enhancements include Change acceleration processes, HRIS, collaborative problem solving, and creation of value in mergers & acquisitions.
Sameer Shetty joined Axis Bank in July 2019. He has over 15 years of experience in Digital and Analytics domains across geographies such as South East Asia, the Middle East & companies across India. Sameer previously worked with McKinsey as a Partner in the financial services practice in Mumbai and Leader of the Digital and Analytics practice for financial services.
Sameer holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM Bangalore and a Bachelor of Technology in Aerospace Engineering from IIT-Bombay.
Mr. Murali Rao is associated with DCB Bank as CTO driving various transformational initiatives for the Bank. He is an MCA graduate (batch of 1999) from NIT, Trichy. A IT professional with over two decades of experience in middle and senior management roles in IT services & Product Organizations such as COSL, Polaris, Iflex and Infosys primarily working on banking projects/ products and implementing the same across various banks both in India and overseas.
Chris Thorson is the Sr. Director of Solutions Marketing for Poly’s $2B enterprise group and personal systems portfolio. Chris has over 25 years of experience in the communications industry with extensive knowledge in the Voice, Video, Data, Cloud and Wireless segments. While at Poly, he has held various positions responsible for product marketing, product management, alliances, competitive, operations, strategy and channel marketing.
Prior to joining Poly, he served as the Director of Marketing at Expanets, a national integrator of communications equipment and Netigy, a network infrastructure consulting practice. He began his career at Nortel where he held various product marketing and ecommerce roles.
Thorson has an MBA from Santa Clara University in Finance and International Business as well as a bachelor’s degree from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo in Marketing Management.
Eric Vas is an alumni of the College of Engineering Pune, and the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.
Mr. Vas started his career as an officer of the Tata Administrative Service (TAS) and spent 18 years with the Tata Group. From 1999 Mr. Vas has been associated with the automobile industry when he joined Tata Motors Ltd. Mr. Vas currently works at Bajaj Auto Ltd. where he has, over the past 11 years, held various leadership roles. Presently, Mr. Vas leads the Urbanite Business (electric Chetak) of Bajaj Auto Ltd.
Annie John Mathew is the CIO of Mother Dairy Fruit & Vegetable Pvt. Ltd. Over a career spanning more than 25 years, she has experience in diverse domains through having worked in organizations like NOCIL – a Shell-Mafatlal company (India), Bharat Shell(India), Datacom Systems(NZ), Fonterra(NZ) and Xenacom(NZ). While she has primarily worked on technology enablement from within the business environment, she has also been part of technology companies. She is working on leveraging the digital mindset currently prevalent to digitalize the supply chain and internal processes. She is passionate about utilizing technology to create market differentiation and enhance consumer engagement.
Education profile: B.Tech (Chemical engg) from LIT, Nagpur, PGDST from CDAC, (erstwhile NCST), Juhu, Mumbai.
Innovative thinker, bringing in rare level business acumen developed in 24 years of career across financial services & Information Technology. Track record of increasing bottom line with spearheading product development & management, driving operational excellence through automation & system improvement. Achievements in dynamic & demanding business environment through pragmatic and positive approach.
Heading Customer Delivery for Mastercard, South Asia` revolutionizing business operations with key focus on New Customers, Technical integrations & customer engagement for seamless implementation and service delivery of Mastercard products and services.
Worked with well-known companies namely Reliance India Limited, NOKIA, ABN AMRO Bank, Convergys India Services and GE Capital International Services.
Currently- Director New Ventures at Cairn Oil & Gas (part of Vedanta Group) since August 2018 and is responsible for unlocking value through the 51 Blocks that Vedanta have acquired in the OALP regime. Prior to Cairn was spend around 19 years with Schlumberger working in different across geographies including Houston, Brazil, France, UAE and India. At Schlumberger did various roles in Operations, Line Management, HR, Marketing and Transformation.
Last role in Schlumberger was Managing Director for India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
Mr. Sah has completed M.Sc. in Oil & Gas Management from Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh and B.Tech in Electrical and Electronics from IIT- Bombay.
Hari is a senior seasoned HR Leader whose career could be broadly divided into two chunks:
The first 14 years were spent with Tata Steel. Of this the first 11 years were spent as a mechanical engineer on the shop floor, in procurement, and in corporate planning. The next three years were in HR helping restructure the company to cope with post-liberalization challenges where CIS countries were dumping steel at below our cost prices.
The next 18 odd years were with a string (5 of them) of agile and high-growth start-ups. The first four saw successful exits (Daksh was acquired by IBM, listed Virtusa on NASDAQ, Amba Research was acquired by Moody’s and TaxiForSure was acquired by Ola). In each of these startups, he played a key role in shaping their growth and exit.
In addition, during the last 5 years, he has been an advisor and sounding board to numerous young entrepreneurs and startups. He has straddled the entire start-up ecosystem (mentor at accelerators like Techstars, Silicon Road and NUMA; he is an advisor to an early stage VC fund as well as a late stage VC fund set up by Nandan Nilekani and Sanjeev Aggarwal).
He has studied at IIT & IIM and worked at an executive level with multiple start-ups/scale-ups. His strength and passion are in scaling organizations through clear thinking and relentless execution. Because of his education and aptitude, he has good understanding of a wide range of topics that matter for any business.
LinkedIn had identified him as the one of the Top Voices in India for three years in a row (2016, 2017, and 2018). He has written and shared learnings extensively on various platforms and has authored 3 books in the last three years. The fourth one is slated to be published by Penguin in August. His recently Co-authored books are
a) Cut the Crap and Jargon – Lessons from the Startup Trenches
b) Cutting the Gordian Knot – India’s Quest for Prosperity
c) Saying No to Jugaad – The Making of Bigbasket.
d) The fourth one slated for publication in August is, “From Pony to a Sustainable Unicorn”
Girish Menon is the HR head at Swiggy, India’s largest food ordering and delivery platform. With over 15 years of HR experience across the BFSI sector(Citigroup,Temasek&HSBC), retail and e-commerce startups(Flipkart), he is responsible for aligning people practices to drive profitability and growth at Swiggy.
Prior to Swiggy, Girish was with Flipkart where he led HR for the First Mile vertical of Supply Chain, designing and executing business goals through people practices. His expertise lies in setting up HR processes for scale in start-ups, managing stakeholders in matrix organizations, driving key people practices, and Organizational Development interventions across multiple locations and cross section of employees with a hands-on understanding of employment laws.
Girish holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and Law, and PGDBM in Human Resources from Xavier’s Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship and is an Executive coach from Neuroleadership Institute.
Jaideep joined the company in October 2017 to set the company on a new, accelerated growth path. He is an advisor to CEOs and business leaders of investment and tech ecosystem. From macro-economic trends to technology disruptions, and market and industry analysis, he has blogged, written and presented on a wide range of topics.
Prior to his current role, he was Managing Director - IDC India and South Asia. Under his leadership, IDC India was conferred the CIO Choice Award for “IT Advisor of the Year” three years consecutively in 2014, 2015 & 2016. Jaideep has been awarded the “Patrick J McGovern IDC Entrepreneur of the Year 2015” for consistent excellence in leading the South Asia team to success and “Leadership Award for Contribution to Market Research” by the World Marketing Congress in 2014.
Before IDC, he was based in London, UK and worked at Gartner for over 5 years where he was Regional VP, Sales & Business Development – EMEA and prior to that, he spent more than 2 and a half years in the Indian outsourcing sector, most notably at Zensar Technologies where he spearheaded the set up to their Financial Services practice in Europe. During the late nineties, he was in the software sector.
Jaideep is a graduate from the Shriram College of Commerce, Delhi University and holds an MBA degree from the Manchester Business School, UK. He enjoys reading, the occasional game of tennis and driving to remote parts of India
Shalil is responsible for research, events and training business that assists clients in improving their capabilities in key process areas. Before this, Shalil was ‘AVP, Research and Consulting’ at IDC India. He has an extensive senior level experience in the ICT industry that enriches his strategic engagements with companies. A much-sought-after speaker at international forums, Shalil also invests his time in leading innumerable focused group discussions in India. With his specialization in the BFSI sector, he covers an array of topics including emerging technologies, digital enterprises, industries and IT sourcing and servicing in his speaking engagements.
Shalil's role extends beyond delivering qualitative research content, and includes preparing forward-looking assessment and analysis and sharing market insights and predictions with senior management teams. He has worked in India, London, Edinburgh, Ireland, Western Europe, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, and Taiwan. During his time in these organizations, he has driven the development of enterprise level technology strategies, managed large transformation and IT programs, and played a leading role in a post-merger IT integration of two banks in the United Kingdom.
A graduate of Computer Science, Shalil holds a postgraduate (MBA) degree from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), a leading business school in India.
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