Rajiv Bajaj is the Chairman & Managing Director of Bajaj Capital Ltd. He is also the Founding Chairman of Financial Planning Standards Board, India and has been one of the key people involved with bringing the globally recognized Certified Financial Planner tm professional designation to India.

He has over 25 years of strategic management experience in the fields of Investment Banking, Investment Advisory, Insurance Brokerage and Financial Planning. He had spent his initial years in setting up of the investment banking business for Bajaj Capital. He also played an important role in expanding the distribution reach of Bajaj Capital from 20 offices in 1990 to around 230 now.

In the last few years, Rajiv has spent a lot of time in upgrading the operating system and processes of the company. Under his leadership, the company has won various category awards and recognition nationally like Great Places to Work (2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011) and ‘Best Financial Advisor – Retail’ Award for 2009, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016 & 2017 by CNBC TV18.

Rajiv has done his MBA (International Wealth Management) from University of Geneva, Switzerland and an Executive MBA (International Wealth Management) from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA. He holds an 'International Certificate for Financial Advisors' from the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII), London, UK. He is also amongst the first batch of 25 Certified Financial Planner (CFPtm) designation holders in India.

He is a member of Entrepreneurs’ Organization (Delhi Chapter). He is also a member of Young Presidents’ Organization (Delhi Chapter). An active speaker and writer on Investment Strategy and Financial Planning in leading print and electronic media, Rajiv is extremely passionate about spreading financial literacy among the masses. His interests include Golf, Yoga, fitness training and Meditation.

Amit Shah, a senior leader at YES BANK and founding member of YES Global Institute, YES BANK’s practicing think-tank, is a ‘design-thinker’ and TEDx speaker with extensive experience in transformational leadership in the financial services and consultancy sectors across the world, and has made valuable contributions to the public understanding of FINTECH and Digital Banking.

Recently recognized by LinkedIn as a key social media influencer with his profile featuring among the LinkedIn Power Profiles India 2016, Amit has been instrumental in creating and strengthening the ‘YES BANK’ brand over the last eight years. During his tenure, the bank’s profit has grown more than 10x, and the bank has emerged as one of the Top 500 Banking Brands globally.

His responsibilities include business strategy, planning & analytics, marketing, internal & external communication, branding, digitalization, public & social policy advocacy, CSR strategy and sustainability initiatives.

Prior to joining YES BANK, Amit has worked with organizations like TSMG and L&T. He has completed his MBA from NITIE - Mumbai and Engineering from NIT - Surathkal.

Dhaval works as Director – Investments with Tuscan Ventures since 2009. He specializes in the financial services, logistics and food sectors. Dhaval has led both early as well as growth stage deals on behalf of the firm. He particularly enjoys working with companies in their early stages and working closely with the founding team on growing the business.

Prior to his stint with Tuscan, Dhaval used to be an entrepreneur where he incubated his own project logistics company. In the company, he managed global multimodal supply chains for several large infrastructure projects across India spanning Power, Oil and Gas, Metals and Minerals, Cement, Infrastructure etc.

Dhaval holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, New York.

Mr. Arun Thukral is the MD & CEO of Axis Securities Limited, a subsidiary of Axis Bank engaged in the distribution of a wide range of financial solutions and broking services to retail customers. Mr. Thukral is also the Director of Financial Planning Standards Board of India (FPSB). He is a veteran banker and has more than 25 years of experience in the financial services industry. He started his career with UTI and thereafter has been associated with Axis Bank since inception. His major stint has been with the Department of Treasury. He has worked both in Corporate Banking and Retail Banking.  

Under the leadership of Mr. Thukral, Axis Securities Limited has grown rapidly and in a short span of 6 years, it is among the top 3 brokerage houses in India in terms of customer base, with 1.5 million+ customers. It has received the 'Best Growing Equity Broker' award multiple times. Axis Direct portal has been awarded in the 'Best Website/E-commerce' category. Axis Securities has also been awarded the 'Best Research' house and has bagged multiple awards, both domestic and international on 'Marketing Innovation'.

Mr. Thukral believes that investor psychology plays a key role to be successful at investing. He is a keen observer of Yoga philosophy and uses various Yogic concepts to explain investor psychology and how one can use them effectively to create wealth. Mr. Thukral believes that the next decade belongs to India. He advocates customers to participate in the India growth story by targeting equity as an investment focus. He actively contributes to leading business channels & newspapers on varied subjects including investments and is also a regular visiting faculty in leading B-Schools.

Deepak Sharma heads Kotak Mahindra Bank’s digital initiatives where he drives digital transformation, business model innovation & future ready initiatives of the bank. He is responsible for efficiency, productivity, customer experience & growth of business through digital intervention across digital channels, lending, payments, investments, insurance, trade & forex, across Consumer, SME & Institutional banking segments. Deepak also leads the Innovation Lab, Design Studio, Fintech
partnerships and Start-up ecosystem participation for the bank.

Under his leadership, Kotak launched several innovative and global first products like 811, Jifi, Hashtag banking, Bharat Banking, M-Store & Kaypay, apart from new initiatives like API Banking, BYOD Biometric Banking & Robotic Process Automation. Deepak believes in constant innovation and focuses on building business models which are customer centric, value accretive and disruptive. Deepak has worked across various international markets and brings global perspective to his business. Prior to this, he was responsible for setting up the Bank’s highly successful Non Resident Indian (NRI) & International Remittance business. Deepak also played a key role in launching the Bank’s affluent banking programme - Privy League.

With over 24 years of experience, Deepak’s professional tenure spans across the banking, telecom and service verticals. Prior to joining Kotak, he was part of the leadership team of Consumer Banking at Standard Chartered bank from 2003 to 2008. As National Head for Corporate Business, he was responsible for building the corporate payroll and Wealth Management business. Deepak has completed an advanced programme in Strategy from IIM Calcutta & Lead Certified in Corporate Innovation from Stanford GSB. He is a member of the FICCI National Committee on Fintech 2017-18, Internet & Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) apart from participating at various trade & Government initiatives on Digital India Roadmap. He is also associated with the NASSCOM Startup 10K program and mentors fintech & start-up ecosystems on an ongoing basis.

Tamal Bandyopadhay is a journalist and author. His weekly column `Banker's Trust' in Mint, India's second largest business daily, is widely read for its analysis and opinion on banking policies.

His three books on finance, namely `A Bank for The Buck', `Sahara: The Untold Story' and `Bandhan: The Making of a Bank' have been non-fiction best sellers.
His latest book, a Penguin publication, `From Lehman to Deomenitisation: A Decade of Disruptions, Reforms and False Promises' will be released in the first week of December.

Incidentally, he had to fight a Rs200 crore defamation suit that the Sahara group had slapped against him to stop the publication of the book on shadow banking in India.

He is also one of the contributors to the `Oxford Handbook on Indian Economy'. Linkedin, the global professional network, has nominated him as one of the top ten finance voices in the world for two successive years -- 2015 and 2016.

Thinkers magazine has listed him one of the top 50 influential minds that have made indeliable contributions in the field of economics and governance in India in 2017.
Bandyopadhyay is currently a consulting editor with Mint and an adviser, strategy, with Bandhan Bank Ltd

Piush Kothari, from Aditya Birla Group, currently Heads Strategy, Digital business and Customer Analytics for Aditya Birla Idea Payments Bank. A member of the launch team, he has been contributing in creating the overall Bank proposition. As the Digital Business Head for ABPB, he is responsible to create the propositions across UPI, Mobile Banking and Internet Banking while customer experience at the heart of these digital products. Before this, he was a part of the Chairman’s office at the Group. The office works closely with the Group Chairman and advises him on strategic and operational issues across businesses. As a part of the office, his portfolio included working with the 11 Financial Services businesses within the Group (across Insurance, Asset Management, Lending, Securities Broking and Wealth Management) and the Chemicals businesses of the Group across India, Thailand and Germany.

Before joining Aditya Birla Group, Piush has held roles in the Lubricants business of Shell and in Accenture Strategy Consulting. In his eight plus years at Accenture, he has advised clients in Oil and Gas, Metals and Mining, Infrastructure and Private Equity on a variety of areas important for their businesses.

A commerce Graduate from St. Xavier’s, Calcutta, Piush completed his post-graduation from IIM Calcutta in 2002. He is a keen observer and strong believer in the Financial Services and Fintech future of India.

Kshama Fernandes is the Managing Director and CEO of IFMR Capital, a leading non-banking finance corporation in India that has successfully used the structured finance approach for promoting financial inclusion. Kshama has extensive prior experience across financial advisory, consulting, and academia. She has been a member of various High Powered Committees setup by the Government of India and has worked on consulting assignments for the World Bank, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Ministry of Finance, Government of India, and NSEIT. She was a core committee member of the Percy Mistry Committee on making Mumbai an International Financial Centre and also developed the SEBI mandated certification programme for derivatives for the National Stock Exchange (NSE) and NCDEX.

Kshama has been featured by FMO as a role model in banking. She is also a recipient of Accion’s Edward W. Claugus award for leadership in financial inclusion.

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Harjeet is an entrepreneurial business leader with over 23 years of work experience, 21 of which have been in Consumer Banking across NBFC’s and Banks spanning Fullerton India Credit Company Ltd. (FICCL), RBS, ABN AMRO Bank and Bank of America. He has worked in leadership roles across varied functions in Marketing, Product Management, Sales & Distribution, Branch Banking and Finance. An Engineer and a management graduate from Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi, Harjeet has built diverse market and client segment expertise across the country with an experience mix of both strategic thinking and frontline execution delivering market share and profit growth for the organization.

As Business Head for Retail Assets and Small Business Lending, his core responsibility is to establish a robust client acquisition engine for the bank while building a stable and profitable asset portfolio with predictable and attractive returns. He would be responsible for building a franchise that addresses the financial needs of both the business and individual customer segments across different product categories covering Business Loans, Mortgages backed Loans, Personal Loans, Home Loans, Loans against Gold and Credit Cards.

In his previous assignments, Harjeet has been involved in running businesses with large distribution covering 200+ markets, 3000 employees across retail and commercial client segments. He has launched innovative products in Mortgages, Credit Cards and Personal Loans many of which have been market first. He has successfully run Branch Banking and Wealth Management businesses in both Retail and HNI segments in addition to Consumer Finance business.

A strong leader, Harjeet has been involved in setting up as well as turning around businesses and has been extremely successful in Managing Growth in complex market situations. He is a foodie and likes to travel places and is seen driving long distances in his car whenever he gets time.

Rohit has played a pivotal role in establishing the mobile money business, leading the way for digitization of payments and financial inclusion for Vodafone M-Pesa. His professional experience of 20 years spans across industries and geographies, building a strong track record of transformational leadership, successful turnarounds and leading for impact.

Having joined Vodafone in 2007, Rohit has held several senior management positions across India including being the National Head for Postpaid Business and S&M Head for M&G circle. He has been associated with Vodafone M-Pesa for 3 years now. He is passionate about financial inclusion and digitization, and technology lead disruption.
Prior to joining telecom, Rohit gained valuable sales experience in the Banking Industry with renowned names like Kotak Mahindra and Standard Charted Bank.
Rohit is an alumnus of Symbiosis from where he completed his MBA in Marketing & Finance.

He likes to spend time with his family which includes an adorable set of twins, travelling and socializing.

Sri. K Paul Thomas, the Founder of ESAF Group including ESAF Microfinance and ESAF Small Finance Bank has played an instrumental role in facilitating visionary leadership and has thus successfully established various social businesses with the primary motive of ‘creating opportunities’ in a way that these entities are able to provide valuable services to poor people on a sustainable basis. From a small credit of INR 3000 each to 10 women in 1992 ESAF is reaching out to more than 1.6 million women with an outstanding of INR 2500 Crores as on September 2016. He dreams of a society where everyone has equal opportunities to work and participate in the very fabric of our economy without the discrimination of gender, ethnicity or geographical barriers. He has thus set up ESAF group of companies which includes Evangelical Social Action Forum, ESAF Microfinance and Investments (P) Ltd., ESAF Small Finance Bank Ltd., ESAF Swasraya Multi State Agro Co-operative Society Ltd., ESAF Retail (P) Ltd., ESAF Healthcare Services (P) Ltd., ESAF Swasraya Producers Company Ltd., ESAF Staff Welfare Trust, ESAF Homes & Infrastructure (P) Ltd., ESAF Publications Trust, Lahanti Business  Services (P) Ltd., Lahanti Lastmile Services (P) Ltd., Rhema Milk Producer Company Ltd., Rhema Dairy Products India (P) Ltd., Prachodhan Development Services, Cedar Agri Solutions (P) Ltd., Sanma Garments (P) Ltd. etc.

Sri. Paul’s consultancy is sought by various social investors, debt investors, networks, technical providers in the Microfinance sector. He has strongly given his opinion through leading national dailies about the positive impact MFIs have been making and that state Governments should refrain from bringing MFIs under the purview of State laws.. Sri. Paul has been invited by National and International Academic and Research Institutions and Business Schools such as IIM, Kozhikkode, ILO-Geneva, European Microfinance Platform, Harvard Business School, Asian Development Bank etc. to share the lessons learnt on innovative inclusive finance model. He is bestowed with several awards including the Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2014 by The Indus Enterpreneurs, CEO Excellence of the Year Award 2015 by DC Media, Dhanam Marketing Man of the Year Award 2015, SKOCH Order of Merit Award 2016, Indywood CSR Excellence Award 2016, Inclusive Finance India Award 2016 by ACCESS ASSIST, Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2016 by TIE Kerala and Banking Excellence Award 2017 by Chamber of Indian Micro Small and Medium Enterprises apart from various other awards being received by ESAF. He is also selected for Isow Mar Themotheous Award 2017 for the year 2017.

Sri. Paul strongly believes that ESAF’s integrated approach beyond just business motives might be a reason for getting the in-principle license from RBI to set up Small Finance Bank and shall continue to work with the same values and ethos with which he had set up ESAF in the beginning. ESAF Microfinance is the only NBFC in Kerala to start the Small Finance Bank.

Prasanna Lohar is currently working as Innovation Head & Technical Architect at DCB Bank. He is practicing Innovation Implementation & Architecture Orchestration at DCB.

Prasanna has been responsible for launching the  Global Innovation Accelerator Program – “DCB Bank Innovation Carnival” which will bring on Unique Experience of Innovation generation thru Hackathons & Accelerator programs in India. He is also an active leader of various  Blockchain Forums & Fintech Forums.

As part of DCB’s Digital Transformation,he is closely associated with New & latest technology Assimilation, Experimentation, Innovative Customer Servicing & Engagement, Robust Architecture Implementation, Fintech & Startup Alignment, Open Innovation practices, Collaboration with other Banks on Blockchain initiatives.

At DCB he has worked as Digital Banking Head & is a  part of various deliveries  like India’s first Aadhaar & Biometric enabled ATM, Paperless A/c Opening - Zippi, India’s first Omni-Channel Framework for Bank, Mobile & Internet Banking Initiative, Unified Payment Interface (UPI), Bharat Bill Payment, API Management, Switch & Cards relevant initiatives.

He has over 16 Years  of Industry Experience in Engineering and Development, Product Development, Organization Strategy & Governance, Risk Audit Compliance Management, Business Process Management,  Enterprise Architecture, Mobile Apps, Digital Transformation, Fintech, E-Commerce, Payments, Platform and Product Innovation, Data Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Open Stack, Cloud Computing, Analytics, Big Data, IOT, BlockChain,   UI-UX,  Product Roadmap Strategy, Business Development.

In 2016-2017 he has bagged many Leadership awards TOP 50 CIO, Top 100 Innovative CIOs, Digital Leader of the Year , Top 20 BFSI leadership and has appeared in many BFSI Conferences as a Key-Note Speaker.

Sachin has over 18 years of investing, operating and consulting experience in India and the United States. Prior to starting EzCred he was Managing Director at Zephyr Peacock, a private equity firm based out of Bangalore, India. He has previously been at Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Opus Capital (venture capital firms in the Silicon Valley). He started his career in Silicon Valley with companies like EFI and Unimobile (wireless startup). He has a B.Tech in Computer Science from IIT Kanpur and an MBA from Wharton.

Asutosh leads Programs at Axilor.

Asutosh is a Mechanical Engineering Graduate from National Institute of Technology, Karnataka. With nearly 13 years of experience, Asutosh has worked across several industries and industry verticals with deep exposure to Digital Payments, Telecom and Digital Media. He started his career at TVS Motor Company and then started his entrepreneurial journey, and did two startups, which were in the HR services and Gaming space. Subsequently he worked with OnMobile Global in product and marketing roles. In his last assignment, he was heading product and marketing for a digital payments company called TranServ (Udio) . He was responsible for product roadmap and business growth for TranServ’s fintech business. He was instrumental in setting up Udio's consumer business during his stint. Having handled multiple roles across varied domains and functions, he brings in an eclectic mix of skills and experiences which would be ideal for early stage companies.

Vaibhav is the Co-founder of ftcash. ftcash is one of India's fastest growing financial technology company, recognized by Forbes, backed by PayPal. ftcash empowers the 60+ million under`served micro-merchants in India through financial inclusion using digital payments and loans.

Previously, he was a Director, Global Development at XPRIZE, leading World’s first global prize that targets the problem of access to water. Vaibhav has spent the last decade working in the areas of policy and development across over 5 countries and 20 states in India. He had previously been associated with The World Bank advising Government of India for a $1 billion project on Water Supply and Sanitation.

In 2010, LGT Impact Ventures selected Vaibhav as an iCATs Fellow. In 2012, Vaibhav was selected as a Swaniti Fellow and awarded ‘Power 30 under 30’, USA for his work with the Honorable Member of Parliament. In 2014, World Economic Forum selected him as a Global Shaper to represent the voice of the millennials at World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, Davos. In 2016, he was selected as an Acumen Fellow and German Chancellor Fellow under the patronage of the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany. He was recognized as Gifted Citizen by La Ciudad de las Ideas in Mexico. In 2017, he was selected as an Asia Foundation Development Fellow. Vaibhav is an alumnus of Harvard University – Kennedy School of Government and NIT Trichy.

Mr. TC Meenakshisundaram (TCM) is Founder & Managing Director of IDG Ventures India Advisors. He has over 32 years of industry experience, including 13 years of venture experience.

TCM serves on the Board of Lenskart, Zivame, Agrostar, Fintellix, e-Shakti, Creditmantri, Cloudcherry among others.

Earlier as part of Walden International’s team, TCM was involved with investments in Mindtree, Venture Infotek and Jobstreet.

Prior to IDG Ventures, TCM served as Chief Financial Officer and President - Corporate Services at Venture Infotek, a leading payments processing company in India. Prior to Walden International, TCM has worked for 14 years at Wipro where he last served as General Manager - eCommerce Division.

TCM is a Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), Chennai. He is a Chartered Accountant by qualification.

Amrit Singh is the Head of Strategy for Max Life Insurance and works on various mandates around growth and profitability. His responsibilities include driving the growth agenda through new business model innovations and new business incubation. He plays a critical role in augmenting the inorganic efforts for the organization. Overall he is responsible for strategy development, governance and execution at Max Life.

He has 14+ years of experience across financial services (Banks, NBFCs, Wealth Management, HFCs etc) sector in India. He has worked in core areas of execution such as new business scale-up, sales transformation, operational improvement, spend rationalization, merger integration etc. to strategic areas such as business development, capital raising, M&A evaluation efforts, portfolio decisions and strategy development

Krishnan is the founder and CEO of Kissht and in his role leads the overall strategic way forward for the company while directly overseeing critical go-to-market functions. A consummate entrepreneur and startup professional, Krishnan started his career as a technologist at startups in the bay area where he developed some of the latest innovations in networking and wireless, including 4 patents to his name. Subsequent to his MBA, he joined McKinsey & Company in the financial services practice before finally going back to his entrepreneurial roots with Kissht.

At McKinsey & Company, Krishnan has served over 15 banks and NBFCs on a variety of topics. These topics include product design, risk strategy and risk model development, operations transformation and lean processes, digital and mobile delivery of services and technology architecture. Krishnan has vast policy and regulatory experience and was a core part of the policy group within McKinsey & Company financial services practice. Krishnan has assisted various committees of RBI, IRDA and Ministry of Finance on topics ranging financial inclusion, payments etc. Krishnan’s cross-functional expertise across technology and retail financial services has helped him create the disruptive innovation that Kissht.

Krishnan has a B.Tech from IIT Delhi, and an MBA in strategy and finance from the Yale School of Management. He has a keen interest in photography and is an avid squash player and hiker.

A marketer, strategist, and brand builder with over 20 years of experience, Rajat Gandhi is the Founder & CEO of Faircent, India’s largest peer-to-peer lending platform.  As one of the earliest Internet professionals in India, Rajat has leveraged his extensive expertise in online and digital realms to pioneer the concept of online peer-to-peer lending in India and establish Faircent as the largest P2P lending platform in the country.

Through Faircent, Rajat has been playing a critical role in extending the benefits of financial inclusion to India’s traditionally underserved populace and democratising debt by enabling access to cheap and fast credit for borrowers including the SME/MSME segment. It also provides a new asset class to investors looking to maximise returns on their idle funds. This focus on offering greater value for all stakeholders in the lending value chain has been the key driver behind Faircent’s exponential growth.

Rajat holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration, and has been involved in launching and building online portals and communities as well as e-commerce, classifieds, and digital advertising businesses for some of the leading organisations in the country. He led multiple initiatives during his time at The Times Group and was deeply involved in the launch of new portals like Timesjobs.com, Magicbricks.com, and Simplymarry.com as a founding member. Before founding Faircent in 2013, he was associated with Performics, a digital marketing agency of Chicago-based Publicis Group, as its Senior Vice President.

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Sunish Sharma is the Managing Partner of Kedaara Capital Advisors LLP, a private equity investment advisory firm focused on India that he co-founded. Kedaara partners with strong entrepreneurs and management teams to build enduring value in growth-oriented businesses, and supports them to achieve higher levels of performance. Kedaara also actively engages with family owned business to identify and create carve-out plays, with a focused approach to create a win-win situation for promoters and Kedaara. Kedaara offers solution oriented capital combined with deep strategic and operational expertise in focused sectors, leveraging consultative approach and global connectivity to deliver superior returns. The firm has a strategic tie-up with Clayton Dubilier and Rice.

Prior to co-founding Kedaara, Sunish served as a Managing Director at the global private equity firm, General Atlantic, where he was a senior member of the India investment team since the start of 2004 and the second employee hired in the Mumbai office. Over the course of almost eight years at GA, Sunish played a critical lead advisory role in the majority of GA’s investments, and in the latter part of his career with GA played a key role in building GA’s local Indian investment program into a $1 billion portfolio by late 2011. He has extensive private equity investment experience in business services and technology, healthcare, financial services and the energy and resources sectors.  

Prior to GA, he worked as a management consultant at McKinsey in India for over six years. He spent the majority of his time on strategic issues serving several Indian and MNC clients on multiple engagements and M&A transactions. He co-authored the first two NASSCOM-McKinsey reports on the information technology and business process outsourcing sectors. These reports are generally regarded as the authoritative research reports on each respective industry sector.

Sunish is a gold medalist from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta where he did his MBA after graduating with honors from Delhi University. Sunish also holds a cost accounting degree.

Sunish currently serves on the boards of Mahindra Logistics Limited, Manjushree Technopack Limited, Spandana Sphoorty Financial Limited and Vedant Fashion Private Limited (Manyavar). In the past, he has served on several other boards including that of Bill Forge Private Limited, Hexaware Limited, Cyient Limited, and IBS Software Services Limited amongst others. Sunish strongly believes education is the best way to give back to the society, and accordingly is one of the Founders of Ashoka University, a philanthropic initiative to provide a liberal education on par with the best universities around the world. He is also one of the founders of Young India Fellowship, launched in 2011 in collaboration with University of Pennsylvania's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences to develop change agents for India through a multi-disciplinary programme.

In 2011, he was profiled as one of the “25 hottest young executives below 40 in India” by Business Today, the leading business magazine in India.  In December 2011-January 2012, in the 20th anniversary issue of Business Today, he was also profiled as one of the Top 20 professional which represent the future of Indian Business “The Next Big Guns”. He has spoken at various conferences on PE in India and the region.

Sandeep is Managing Partner and Head of Advisory at IIFL Investment Managers. His team advises and manages key clients at the firm on overall portfolio structuring. He has more than 12 years of experience in direct client and team management with regional responsibilities including setting up of new branches. As a part of the founding team at IIFL Investment Managers, Sandeep led the setup of offices in various locations including Mumbai, Pune, Goa and Gujarat. He is an alumnus of IIM Bangalore and VJTI Mumbai.

Jitendra is Founder and MD of Citrus Pay, a leading digital payments company in India. He has more than 12 years of work experience in banking and financial services industry and considered an expert in payments industry. Prior to Citrus, he was working with ICICI bank for 7 years, wherein he was part of founding team of Retail cross sell and Investment banking division in the bank. During his last stint with the bank, he led the whole initiative of stitching a joint venture between ICICI bank and First Data in Indian market. This was a unique JV ever done between a bank and an independent payments company.

In last 4 years, he has grown Citrus in to 300 member+ strong team and raised over USD 30 million so far. Citrus counts its investors base from Sequoia Capital and E-context Japan to Ascent Capital in Series C round. He has graduated from Sydenham College, Mumbai and a qualified Chartered Accountant.

Gagan Singla is the Chief Marketing Officer of Angel Broking and the core member driving Angel in its growth trajectory in the digital world. A technologist by training and marketer by passion, Mr Gagan Singla is one of those rare professionals who can simultaneously handle responsibilities of a marketer and a data scientist.With unmatched skills in Marketing, Technology and a thorough understanding of Analytics, Mr Singla is leading the Digital Transformation at Angel Broking. Mr Singla’s Core Competencies include digital and mobile strategy, digital marketing and scaling, customer analytics and insights, product management, data and technology driven enterprise transformations, brand building, Corporate Communication and E-Commerce. With more than 12 years of experience – primarily in delivering large analytics-driven transformations across multiple sectors and geographies, Mr Singla is the go-to man when it comes to devising strategies that are extremely focused and stakeholder-specific. In his eventful professional career, Mr Gagan Singla has worked with prominent names like  Hughes, PwC, Deloitte and Quikr India with extensive assignments in the UK and the USA. Apart from his inspiring and insightful speeches, Mr Gagan Singla has also co-authored multiple research publications in the area of Graph Theory and Data Mining from the esteemed American Mathematical Society. Mr Gagan’s reputation as an influential personality comes with his membership of the Advisory Board of the prestigious DMAI (Data-driven Marketing Association of India). A Graduate in Computer Science & Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi and Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) in Finance and Systems from Indian Institute of Management (IIM) - Lucknow. His deep understanding of technology and customer behavior, coupled with his affable nature, make him a highly distinguished individual. 

Niren is a Managing Director at Norwest (NVP) India and has been leading NVP India for over 10 years. Niren brings more than 20 years of Investing, entrepreneurial, financial and operating experience from leading global financial institutions to consumer and technology companies.

Niren focuses on both Private equity and late stage Venture investments with special interest in sectors such as Financial Services, Internet, Consumer and Technology. Niren has overseen more than 30 investments at NVP India and has directly facilitated 14 such investments. Investments include Cholamandalam Finance, Pepperfry, IndusInd Bank, ING Vysya, Jain Irrigation, RBL Bank, Quikr.com, Swiggy.com, RevX, Shriram City Union, Yes Bank, Five Star and Kotak Bank. Niren also has a strong exit record having overseen more than 15 exits, of which he has directly facilitated significant exits for 9 of his companies

Prior to joining NVP India, Niren was the Senior Director of Strategy and Ventures at eBay Inc. (Nasdaq: EBAY) in California, where he helped drive the worldwide strategy across eBay’s Global Marketplaces. Prior to eBay, Niren was part of the original team at Baazee.com, Inc., the leading Indian eCommerce player in the mid-2000s (which was eventually acquired by eBay). Prior to his entrepreneurial journey, Niren was an investment banker with KPMG focusing on the Financial Services and Technology spaces and before that, a Registered Equity Dealer on the Bombay Stock Exchange.

Niren is a rank holder Chartered Accountant and a Gold medallist Masters in Commerce from University of Mumbai.