Mr. Aggarwal is a founding member of the core investment team at IDFC Alternatives which set up IDFC’s Infrastructure Funds business currently comprising two funds with an aggregate corpus of US$ 2 billion. He is a member of the Investment Committee and represents the Funds on the Boards of various Portfolio Companies. As a part of the leadership team at IDFC Alternatives, Mr. Aggarwal primarily focuses on origination, evaluation and capital deployment across infrastructure sectors along with managing the portfolio and creating exits. Current specific responsibilities also include fund raising, LP engagement and overseeing the build out of the renewable platform. He has over 19 years of experience across banking and financial services with a focus on equity investing, project finance, fund raising and advisory services.

Previously, Mr. Aggarwal was with Infrastructure Development Finance Company (‘IDFC”) as a senior member of the project finance team and was the lead for originating, overseeing the due diligence and negotiating lending terms for a number of limited recourse financings, mezzanine financings and promoter funding with equity kickers across energy projects. Prior to IDFC, Mr. Aggarwal was with corporate banking group of Standard Chartered Bank where he primarily worked on regional structured finance and project finance transactions.

He is a Certified Treasury Manager and holds a Masters in Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management – Kolkata, India.

Anand has over Twenty One years including 5 years in auditing and over 16 years’ experience in Media / Advertising & communications industry. Experience of managing support functions viz. HR, IT, Admin in addition to the core Finance function – with focus on M&A, Corporate development and integration, financial management, planning, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, system development, cost control & negotiations, taxation, legal, internal control & compliance matters etc. 

He is currently the Chief Financial Officer South Asia of Dentsu Aegis Network and has previously held the position of VP Finance in Lintas India Pvt Ltd (Lowe India – IPG Group) for 8 years handling Media Finance function, SOX, Indirect taxes, Finance systems and has been an Audit Manager with Ernst & Young India for 5 years handling various statutory, Management Reporting, Internal & Taxation Audits.

Mr Anirudh A. Damani is one of the distinctly renowned personalities in the nation and abroad. With his dexterity and proficiencies he created Artha Energy Resources, with the motive of accumulating formidable data about energy infrastructure of India. He also sponsored the dreams of many start-ups which includes OYO rooms, Exotel, Tala, NowFloats, Purplle, LenDenClub, BabyChakra and many others from various sectors like FinTech, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Services, Media firms, Travel and hospitality etc.

This modest human before entering the family business, served a number of multinational companies in the world including Suez Energy, Direct Energy, First choice power and TXU. He also gave his services as National Sales Director for commercial energy broking and helped them with the training and management of the offices in Texas, Illinois and New York.

His 8 years of triumphant entrepreneurial globetrotting began in year 2009, when Mr Anirudh with his two friends took over the debt ridden company Pioneer Energy Resources and affirmed to restructure and restore the company. His achievement with the company in the year 2011 marked his first milestone to the success. The company recorded full year profit and witnessed the inauguration of the offices in Dallas, Houston, Corpus, Christi and Mc Allen in Texas.

In the year 2013 Mr Anirudh said adieu to PER and shifted his base to India for setting up Artha Group focusing on Energy Consulting and Early stage Investments. With the help of Artha India Venture he introduced a unique idea for sustaining investments into start-ups. His determination and hard work paid with the success of OYO group in the nation. Mr Anirudh believes, “It is just holding the hands to support the steps that counts, but guiding the way to the destination is what makes the difference.”  He not only invested the start ups to support their journey but stood by them like a shadow, to guide them towards the light of fame.

Ananya Tripathi currently heads Strategy & Planning at Myntra. Her focus areas include framing Myntra’s business approach, planning and investments (organic and inorganic) based on deep understanding of consumer behaviour, evolving landscape of e-commerce and data backed insights across all business areas.

Ananya has over a decade of experience in strategy, operations and technology across her stints at Myntra, being an Associate Partner at McKinsey and a Software Engineer at TCS. A gold medalist of her Computer Engineering and MBA degree from Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode, Ananya is passionate about making 10x impact happen on the ground.

Anubhav Kapoor is Tata Technologies’ General Counsel and Company Secretary and is based out of Pune. Anubhav is responsible for Tata Technologies’ global legal, IP, regulatory compliance and corporate governance practices and policies. Anubhav has about 24 years of experience. Before joining Tata Technologies, Anubhav has worked with Polaris Software, Domino’s Pizza, Allied Nippon to name a few in a similar role.

Anubhav has handled multifarious areas such as structuring strategic business contracts, IPR, global compliance design and audits, legal due diligence, M&A, arbitration & litigation management. Also being a corporate secretary he has also dealt with high visibility boards and handled complex matters including those related to corporate governance, sustainability, insider trading, private & public offerings. He is passionate about innovation and IPR and also heads the Corporate Sustainability and CSR practices globally.

Anubhav experience as in-house counsel spans across various industries including automotive, aerospace, pharmaceuticals, food, banking and insurance software’s and engineering. He has helped corporates devise their IP strategy including setting up of an IP department and led IP teams in large corporates. Mr. Kapoor has also handled contracts and litigations involving complex IP issues and handled patent, copyright, trade secret and trademark infringement cases. He has also been involved with IP issues during M&A, spin-out and joint venture deals during his long career. He has spoken on several national and international forums on topics related to IP. More recently he was listed in Intellectual Asset Management (IAM) Strategy 300 (http://www.iam-media.com/Strategy300/) among the world’s leading IP strategist and awarded as Star General Counsel 2017 of the year by Legal Era.

Anubhav is a member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India and a Law Graduate from India. He has also done his Masters in Law from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and MBA in finance & information technology from Institute of Management Technology.

Babu has about 2 decades of HR professional experience and specializes in start-up industry, organisation design and leadership coaching. Babu works very closely with start-up founders at senior management levels and has been part of amazing growth history of India's poster boy in e-commerce, Flipkart. Babu currently heads HR for Shopclues, start-up of the year 2016.

He has worked with high profile start-ups, managed digital transformation for organisations, worked on intra and inter company M&A, effectively leveraged technology on all facets of human resources and has extensive experience in talent management. Babu is and Electronics Engineer and alumni of XLRI. Babu is a design thinker and did his design thinking program through Stanford University in 2015.

Chandru has over 25 years of experience in leading and managing bio pharmaceutical businesses across diverse geographies and segments. He has a proven track record having managed P&Ls and Strategy and Business Development globally. His varied experience straddles start-ups, acquired companies and multiple product segments. In his last role as Senior Vice President – International for Lupin, he headed business operations spread across emerging markets in Asia, Latin America and Africa with directorial responsibility in multiple subsidiaries. Prior to this, Chandru has worked with Wockhardt as General Manager for emerging markets.

At Cipla, he has played a leadership role in its transformation from a “partner led” business model to a business that stands on innovation and meaningful commercial presence in key markets driving initiatives across emerging markets, biotechnology, specialty and consumer health. Chandru championed the creation of a business and innovation incubator called Cipla New Ventures (CNV), where it is nurturing in venture style, businesses that require unique entrepreneurial and start up like eco systems. This included investments in Consumer health, regenerative medicine, drug repurposing and Bio-similar drugs. Cipla Health was recently spun out as a FMCG style consumer health company with a Series A investment from a marquee investor, Fidelity. Its investments in Chase Pharma, an Alzheimer’s company, saw a successful.

His current focus is to build a Branded Specialty business in the US Chandru is an alumnus of IIT Mumbai and IIFT New Delhi.

Imran is a General Partner at Gaja Capital (www.gajacapital.com). Gaja is India’s leading mid-market growth capital firm. Gaja’s aim is to help create India’s next generation of market leaders in sectors such as Education, Consumer, Financial Services and Healthcare.

Imran has 19 years of experience in Private Equity, Pharmaceuticals and Technology services. Prior to Gaja, Imran worked in a variety of roles of increasing responsibility at Dr. Reddy’s and Wipro Technologies.

At Gaja, Imran leads investments in the Education and Consumer clusters. He has been closely involved with Gaja’s investments in Kangaroo Kids (Pre-K and K-12), SportzVillage (Sports management), EuroKids (Pre-K and K12), John Distilleries (AlcoBev), CL Educate (Supplemental Education), Indus World Schools (K12), Educomp (Education- diversified) and Millennium Schools (K12). Imran has post graduate degrees in software engineering from BITS-Pilani and an MBA from IIM-Bangalore.

Mitesh began his career with Mandhana Industries Limited - An apparel manufacturing company in 2001. During the tenure he handled various projects successfully including the Initial Public Offer of the Company in 2010 and also the exclusive global license deal with Salman Khan promoted brand - Being Human Clothing in 2011.

He then went on to joining Ola as CFO in Dec’13 and had been part of the core management team till Jun’16. He has been fortunate to play a pivotal role in the evolution of one of the biggest Start-up stories of India and that has given him some very deep insights into start-up world. In Jun’16, he joined Bookmyshow - Again one of the most fascinating success stories in Indian E-commerce world - as CFO where he spearheads the finance function and plays an active role in strategic business management. With his vast experience in the start-up world, he also plays the role of a mentor to a no. of young start-up entrepreneurs apart from helping them with Angel Investment as well.

Nisheeth is an Associate Partner in the Strategy Advisory Practice, Asia Pacific region. He is an experienced consultant with varied industry and functional expertise. He has more than 12 years of consulting experience at Aon Hewitt and a total of 14 years’ work experience.

His areas of expertise include M&A Advisory, Organization Design and Development, HR Transformation, Leadership Assessment, Employee Engagement. He has rich experience in managing large scale cross border assignments in the aforesaid areas. He also leads the Human Resource Set-up Advisory Consulting space for India, helping clients to transition smoothly ensuring business continuity.

His current focus areas from a functional perspective include HR transformation and transaction support – due diligence and post-merger integration, performance management design, leadership assessment and change management.

Prior to joining Aon Hewitt, he worked with the Corporate HR team of Jubilant Group handling Talent Development and Talent Acquisition for the group. Nisheeth is certified in the administration and assessment of Hogan and Facet5 psychometric tools.

A passionate HR Leader, with versatile experience in managing change , building culture, envisioning and establishing smart solutions for Integrating people practices with ever dynamic business environment, and bringing stability under diversity. The leadership trait is enriched with multi-dimensional industry experience, a rare exposure to Defense Services and meeting minds of a large pool of diverse & aspiring people.

Nivedita started her career as Pilot Officer with Indian Air Force and then moved to Corporate world. Prior to Kaya She was heading HR for Future Retail, India’s leading retail Organization. She has also worked as Group HR Head, Prime Focus Ltd, Chief People Officer, Reliance Health, Reliance Energy, Praxair Ltd. Her leadership trait has been a key success factor in establishing new Greenfield ventures, significant mergers & acquisitions and amalgamation of Public & private enterprises, examining and re-engineering operations and procedures, developing and implementing new strategies.

Nivedita holds an MBA in HR from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies and she also has done her Masters in Psychology from Utkal University.

Padma currently heads the global consulting team at Tech Mahindra – a team of 2,500 people engaged in business & technology consulting, and process advisory & re-engineering services.  As a sponsor and mentor for TechM’s DigitAll program, the development and execution of digital transformation strategy and plans, both internally, and for clients, is one of her key focus areas.

Padma joined Tech Mahindra in 2006, as Vice-President, Strategic Markets & Initiatives, where her responsibilities included expansion to new geographies, as well as Mergers and Acquisitions.  In 2009, Padma moved to the then newly acquired Satyam organization, to lead the post-acquisition program and the integration activities between Tech Mahindra and Mahindra Satyam. She planned and coordinated a range of programs to turn the company around and lay the base for future growth and integration. Padma worked with various cross-functional implementation teams to rapidly deploy a series of initiatives across marketing, HR, finance, sales, legal and operations to successfully carry out this role.

Between mid-2010 and early 2015, Padma was a consultant with Tech Mahindra, working on developing new strategic lines of business in BFSI, especially in the wealth and superannuation space. In particular, she led the creation of a platform-based outsourcing business servicing the Australian investment and retirement savings market.

An alumna of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and the University of Bombay, Padma has more than 28 years of experience in consulting and technology & business process optimisation. Padma joined Tech Mahindra from financial services consulting firm Capco, where she was Country Manager in India, responsible for Capco’s offshore services to global clients such as AXA, Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley, ING, as well as consulting services for domestic clients.

Prior to Capco, Padma was Vice-President of Strategic Accounts and Initiatives at Perot Systems’ Indian subsidiary.  She was responsible for the creation of the financial services practice in the company, which grew to account for more than half the business of the organization, servicing clients such as UBS, Bank of Ireland, MBNA, Merrill Lynch and VOCA. Padma started her career in 1988 with Citicorp Overseas Software in Mumbai, one of the pioneering organizations in offshore technology services for large multinational universal banks, where she specialized in business analysis and application development for the investment banking business.

Mr. Pritesh Vinay is the Head of M&A, Corporate Finance and Treasury for JSW Steel Limited, India’s largest steel company, and he is also the Head of Investor Relations for the overall JSW Group, which is a India headquartered Group with interests in Steel, Power, Infrastructure and Cement. He possesses a rich experience spanning over 15 years in Equity Research, Valuation, Corporate Finance, M&A, and Investor Relations, and has been with the JSW Group for over 4 years.

Prior to joining JSW, he was with Goldman Sachs (India) as the Equity Research Analyst covering the Indian Metals, Mining and Cement sectors and an integral part of the Global Materials Sector Coverage team of Goldman Sachs. Prior to GS, he was working with Edelweiss Capital Limited as the Metals & Mining Analyst for Indian Equities and prior to that with the Aditya Birla Group in India.

Rahul Desai is currently Senior Vice President & Head of Treasury, M&A and Investor Relations at Aditya Birlas Retail Sector comprising of its Apparel & Supermarket Businesses. He has a rich and varied experience of over 20 years in various capacities including Corporate Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions Treasury, Investor Relations, Risk Management & Legal.

Rahul has over his career handled over 10 successful M&As & demergers & divestment spanning the globe from India, UK, US, France, Sweden, Malaysia, Singapore among others. Rahul led the team for one of Indias largest all cash acquisition of Aircel Towers by GTL Infrastructure Limited in 2010 which was a USD 2 Billion all cash transaction. He was instrumental in the formation of Indias First Telecom Tower Company GTL Infrastructure Limited which was formed out of a demerger of GTL Ltd.

In addition to this Rahul has a rich experience in fund raising from both overseas and domestic institutions & has been instrumental in successfully completing many such transactions. Rahul has done his Masters in Management from Somaiya Institute of Management in Mumbai & is a commerce graduate from the HR College of Commerce in Mumbai. Rahul has also been giving lectures at the Somaiya Institute of Management and the Bombay University on various subjects.

Ms. Ruhie Pande serves as Chief Human Resource Officer at Godrej Properties Limited. Ms. Pande serves as Head of Human Resources & Training and Vice President of Kaya Limited at Marico Kaya Enterprises Limited. Ms. Pande has over 15 years of experience and has worked in leading retail brands like ITC Lifestyle Retail and Reliance Brands before joining Kaya Ltd. In her career, she has donned multiple hats and played a crucial role in business partnering. Ranging from being a National Trainer Manager to Divisional HR Manager and HR Head in Reliance Brands. From creating HR strategy supporting business, establishing practices which drive a unique culture at work, to standardization of processes & policies, she has firmly established Kaya HR in the role of Business Partner. She Most Influential HR Leaders in India - CHRO Asia. She won Women Leadership Achievement Award - 4th World Women Leadership Congress & Award (WWLCA). She successfully spearheaded Building capability in the organization through Learning & Development programs, driving innovative remuneration programs, creating the right structure to deliver strategy are amongst many other things. Ms. Pande holds a B.Sc. in Hotel Management from Institute of Hotel Management, Lucknow and has also done a PG Diploma course in Human Resources at Symbiosis college, Pune.

Sandeep leads the entire finance and accounts function at Datamatics Global Services Ltd. He is responsible for Corporate Finance, Accounts, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Planning, Risk Management, Treasury and Taxation.

He has rich experience in various areas, including Corporate Strategy, Mergers & Restructuring, Financial Planning & Analysis, Cost Reductions, Internal Audit, Statutory Compliances, IFRS, Treasury, SAP Implementation and Tax Compliances.

He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) from the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Fellow Chartered Accountant (FCA) from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), a holder of Certificate Course on Valuation by ICAI, Cost Accountant from the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India (ICWAI).

Sandeep has more than 16 years of professional experience, out of which for 9 years he played a key role as CFO/Controller. Prior to joining Datamatics, he worked with Network 18 Media, as VP – Finance and Accounts.

Satish is a founding partner of DSK Legal with more than 30 years of rich experience in advising various multinational and domestic companies and funds across sectors and negotiating many complex commercial transactions relating to mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, strategic alliances and joint ventures.

He brings  a very deep understanding of the Indian market and the legal and regulatory regime that governs it, having previously worked for more than a decade  as a partner with a leading domestic law firm as well as an international accounting firm in its tax and business advisory practice. His counsel is regularly sought by Fortune 500 companies and large domestic conglomerates on their Indian operations.

Satish’s  diverse sectoral experience is unmatched in the profession, having advised private equity funds and investee companies in power, education, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, media, financial services, microfinance, and transportation.

Ms. Shafaq Uraizee Sapre is an Executive Partner in Lakshmikumaran & Sridharan and heads the Corporate Practice for the Western and Southern India region. Her practice includes a variety of domestic and international transactions with a focus on providing an integrated solution to clients. She has assisted several Indian and foreign clients in forming joint ventures, strategic collaborations and has also advised them from an Indian legal and regulatory perspective. She has advised major international businesses with their investment strategies, structuring and setting up of their operations in India. She has represented large and medium size companies from Germany and other European countries, in structuring their India business strategies and setting up of their operations in India.

She has advised large domestic and international companies in their inbound and outbound mergers and acquisitions. She has assisted several international and domestic venture capital and private equity funds with respect to the legal aspects of structuring and restructuring investments in India and globally across a multitude of sectors. She has led several legal due diligence teams and renders opinions on issues concerning litigation, arbitration, doing business in India and on contract laws. She has advised clients in relation to transactions involving structured finance and also represented clients in the real estate sector while acting for private equity investors, individual domestic and NRI investors and developers.

Shafaq has about 17 years of experience. She started her career as a litigating counsel for 6 years and thereafter, she was the Head of Joint Ventures at Nishith Desai Associates for 8 years. She was a partner at Bharucha & Partners before joining L&S in 2016.

Shafaq has spoken at several Indian and foreign conferences such as at the conferences organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry, General Counsel Summits and the Munich Private Equity Training 2010 (MUPET 2010). She actively writes for publications such as the International Financial Law Review (IFLR), Indian Business Law Journal (IBLJ), and Indian Venture Capital Journal (IVCJ)

Shivani Bhasin Sachdeva is the Founder, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of India Alternatives. Shivani has over 17 years of venture capital and private equity experience in the USA and in India at top venture capital and private equity funds including IDFC Private Equity, Lightyear Capital and GE Equity where she has been responsible for deal sourcing, execution and monitoring companies across various sectors. Shivani has helped shape strategy at various companies at both the startup stage and growth stage through board level involvement and been instrumental in generating superior returns for her investors. Shivani is an MBA from Wharton and a BA from Mount Holyoke College (Massachusetts).

Ms. Shivani Bhasin Sachdeva is the Founder, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of India Alternatives Private Equity (“India Alt”). India Alt is a leading private equity fund focused on making mid-growth stage investments in India. Leveraging certain underlying themes such as women’s empowerment, India’s consumption story and developing healthcare, the primary focus remains to generate superior IRRs.

The Fund has made marquee investments till date, which include: Gokaldas Intimatewear - India’s fastest growing market leader in the women’s lingerie space which owns the brand “Enamor”; CIBIL - India’s dominant credit information bureau; Seclore - a rapidly growing software product company in the area of Information Rights Management; and Ideacount – an animation training company.

India Alternatives has attracted top talent in the industry and includes industry veterans such as Mrs. Ranjana Kumar (Ex CVCI; Ex Chairperson Indian Bank and NABARD); Kiran Nadkarni (a pioneer in the private equity space with over 25 years of experience, having started ICICI Ventures); Dr. Ajai Kumar (Founder, HCG Multi-specialty Hospital with over 30 years of experience in Radiation & Oncology) and Ms. Veronica John (Ex ADB and CDC; listed as one of Asia’s most influential women in Finance).

Prior to founding India Alternatives, Shivani was a key member of the senior management at IDFC Private Equity where she was responsible for deal sourcing, execution and monitoring in fast growing companies in India. Shivani has made investments and managed portfolio companies in various sectors including infrastructure, real estate (managed the Chalet Hotels of the Raheja’s), domestic consumption, healthcare (first PE investor in HealthCare Global), telecom (invested in Hutchison Essar and Vodafone Essar) and water solutions (invested in Doshion Water Solutions). Her investments have yielded IRRs for investors of between 23% - 171%.

Before IDFC Private Equity, Shivani spent 14 years in the US where she completed her education at two Ivy League institutions and worked at top notch global venture capital and private equity funds. Immediately prior to IDFC Private Equity, Shivani worked with Lightyear Capital, a private equity fund based in New York, where she was responsible for evaluating both growth equity and venture investment opportunities in sectors including education and financial services. Before Lightyear Capital, Shivani worked at the private equity arm of General Electric and the Investment Banking division at Credit Suisse First Boston, New York.

Shivani has been an active member on the boards of all her portfolio companies where she has been instrumental in guiding management teams and shaping strategy. Shivani has been on the Board of HealthCare Global (South Asia’s largest cancer care provider), and currently sits on the Boards of Gokaldas Intimatewear (India’s leading women’s innerwear company that owns the brand “Enamor”), Seclore Technology (rapidly growing software product company) and Ideacount Education (an animation training company).

Shivani is a frequent speaker at multiple domestic and international conferences on private equity including the Indian Venture Capital Association, AVCJ, and SuperReturn in Europe.

Sukhmeet is a Principal Consultant and leads the M&A Transaction Services and Career (Talent) Consulting business of Mercer in India. Sukhmeet has more than a decade of consulting experience and has led projects across 10+ countries in Asia region. He has partnered with numerous Indian and multinational clients to address their human capital challenges resulting from business transformation, restructuring and various types of transactions including mergers, acquisitions and divestitures from pre-deal to post-deal integration stages. In the last 6+ years at Mercer, he has advised on nearly 50 M&A transactions in diverse industries like IT / ITeS, Telecom, Pharmaceuticals, Manufacturing, etc. including some of the biggest deals in the region.

Sukhmeet has an MBA degree from XLRI, India and holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Computers) degree from Mumbai University.

Sunil Mishra is the group ChiefStrategy Officer - Housing.com, PropTiger.com and Makaan.com. Currently leadingthe complex project of integration of businesses and driving the Strategy &Corporate Initiatives of the merged entity. He joined PropTiger.com as theChief Business Officer in April 2015 and overlooked three sub-businesses –Primary Residential Sales, Developer Marketing Campaigns, and Data &Consulting Insights.

With an overall industry presenceof 22 years, Sunil has extensive exposure of building businesses and hisexperience spans across sales & marketing, private equity, managementconsulting and business analysis. Prior to joining PropTiger.com, Sunil workedfor 6 years as the CEO of Karvy Private Wealth, the wealth management arm ofthe Karvy Stock-Broking Group. He was the founding member of Karvy PrivateWealth since early 2009, and built this business in India and the Middle East.

Sunil worked at Bharti Airtelprior to Karvy, and he was the Regional Head of Marketing, responsible for aUS$ 800mn revenue pool. He had joined Bharti Airtel after returning from Londonin 2003 where he worked for WorldTel (a United Nations-backed entity) as aFinancial Analyst and later on as a Project Manager, working on investmentsmade in countries like Zimbabwe, Tunisia, Bangladesh, Mexico and India.

Sunil brings to the C-league aunique blend of experience – spanning the hyper-competitive mobile telecomindustry, the HNI-facing Wealth Management business in the fragmented financialservices sector, and now in the Consumer Internet sector through online realestate. Simultaneously, he has also accumulated a unique set of skills – frombeing a Private Equity Financial Analyst (WorldTel) to being a ManagementConsultant (KPMG) and finally building a world-class business of scale andimpeccable processes (Karvy Private Wealth). He carries a multi-geography &multi-cultural experience, having worked in India and abroad.

Sunil earned his MBA from theIndian Institute of Management in Bangalore. He has a Bachelor’s degree inElectronics Engg from VJTI, Mumbai University.

Sunil is a self-confessedInternet and social media freak and is an avid Tweeter on diverse subjects(@Smish2020) of leadership, strategy, current affairs and urban living. Hewrites a blog, www.sunilmishra.in. He is a voracious reader and an ardentstudent of management and leadership practices. He is also the author of a book'Return of the Hypotenuse (Poetry in Math and Science)', published in 2015.

A computer engineer and an INSEAD MBA graduate, Tanushree Bagrodia is a global finance professional with experience of diverse cultures, businesses and leading organizations in different roles. She has worked as an investment banker in London with diverse banks such as HVB (now Unicredit), Merrill Lynch and KBC Financial Products, executing some of the world’s ‘first of their kind’ transactions across multiple countries and sectors before returning to India in 2010 to join IDFC. Not only has she been an advisor in M&As but also lived through an acquisition and post-merger integration. She has experienced M&As from valuation, value creation and sustainability point of view.

Since 2013, she has been the Chief Financial Officer and Vice President - I.T of NRB Bearings Limited, a Rs. 700+ Crores company. Despite being amongst the youngest CFOs, she has been ranked amongst the top 100 CFOs in the country for 2 consecutive years. She held the position of Co - Chair of the Indian Merchant Chamber’s Corporate Governance Committee in 2011, and is an invitee member of CII’s National Committee of CFO’s. She has been invited by Oracle, Deutsche Bank, M&M and various educational institutes such as Thakur College of Management, Thadomal Shahni Engineering College, Jai Hind College, VESIT, ICAI to speak on varied topics from risk management & digital transformation to women empowerment and leadership.

Mr. Tarun Katial, with an experience of over 20 years in the industry has been instrumental in revolutionizing the media and entertainment landscape in India. He is accredited for creating iconic and clutter breaking content across television and radio.

As the Chief Executive Officer of Reliance Broadcast Network Limited (RBNL), a diversified media house, he has laid the foundation for 92.7 BIG FM, India’s largest radio network. He has also anchored the company’s foray into the television broadcast sector with BIG Magic, a light-hearted family entertainment channel and BIG Ganga, the leading regional general entertainment channel of Bihar & Jharkhand.

Having spent over two decades in the Indian media industry, Mr. Katial has successfully produced and marketed shows across genres including reality, soaps and comedy on television to retro programming on radio. Some of the popular shows that he spearheaded include Kaun Banega Crorepati, Indian Idol, Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi, Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahi, Khatron Ke Khiladi, Crime Patrol, Fame Gurukul, Khulja Sim Sim and more recently Akbar Birbal, Suhana Safar with Annu Kapoor and Nayak with Sanjeev Srivastava.

Mr. Katial is a firm believer towards creating social impact and has conceptualized marquee properties such as BIG Green Ganesha an award winning and much celebrated initiative which creates awareness about the importance of ecological practices during the festival of Ganesh Chaturthi with the vision for a better eco-friendly future.

He has been recognized for his contribution across the media fraternity. He was part of the team that won the first Media Gold at Cannes. His other eminent achievements include being voted NewsCorp Achiever for Asia, featuring in the ‘India Today 30 on 30’ and Economic Times Young Leaders list and CNBC Young Turks, in addition to winning the first TV Programming Award at Indian Telly Awards.

In his distinguished career, he has successfully held leadership positions at conglomerates such as Star TV and Sony Entertainment Television. His ability to grasp what captivates the Indian consumer stems from his early years in the advertising industry, where he worked with renowned agencies such as Saatchi & Saatchi, Enterprise Nexus and Ogilvy & Mather.

Mr. Katial is a regular speaker at reputed industry forums. He has been a Jury chair for the Ad club Abby and DMAI, committee member with FICCI and CII, Board of Governor at MICA and Vice President at Association of Radio Operators for India (AROI). He also regularly contributes op-ed pieces on the outlook and future of media in India.

When he is not programming your entertainment, he can be found indulging in his passions - reading, travelling, teaching and practicing Vipasanna.

Vishal has over 18 years of experience in origination and execution of investment banking transactions. He has successfully closed several ‘first of its kind’ transactions in India across domestic/cross-border M&A and fund raising mandates.

Vishal leads the Investment Banking practice for Technology, Media & Telecom (TMT), Banking & Financial Services (BFSI) and FMCG sectors.

Vishal joined YES Bank in May 2006. Prior to joining YES BANK, Vishal was with Marsh & McLennan, a Fortune 100 financial institution and with Ernst & Young Transaction Advisory Services. Vishal is a BE (Electronics) from Delhi College of Engineering and an MBA from NMIMS, Mumbai.