Ravindra Pandey

Shri Ravindra Pandey, a post graduate in Chemistry, joined the State Bank of India as a Probationary Officer in 1985.

Shri Pandey has held various assignments in the Bank, both India as well as abroad in his career spanning 36 years.
He has extensive knowledge and leadership experience in Digital Transformation, Digital Banking, Payment Solutions, Retail, Corporate and International Banking.

In his current assignment, as the Deputy Managing Director & Chief Information Officer of the Bank, he is leading the entire IT Ecosystem of the Bank including running of the Bank’s Core Banking System, Digital Channels as well as more than 400+ applications. He is further making the Bank future proof by implementing emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Analytics, Robotics, Blockchain etc.

Shri Pandey has held the post of DMD (Strategy) & Chief Digital Officer of the Bank and has headed the Bank’s Jaipur Circle in his previous assignments. His international experience includes CEO, SBI Paris (France) operations.

Dilipkumar Khandelwal

Dilipkumar Khandelwal is the Global Chief Information Officer for Corporate Functions, Global Head of Technology Centres and Chief Executive Officer for Deutsche India, at Deutsche Bank Group.

He joined Deutsche Bank in 2019, after having worked at SAP for over 18 years. In his last role, he was President of the SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud business and Managing Director for SAP India.

Dilip is focused on delivering front-to-back technology solutions in an innovative and forward-thinking manner to drive digital transformation at Deutsche Bank. He is also tasked with improving the bank’s technical competence to provide best-in-class technology services which directly impacts the bank’s delivery to external clients and regulators.

Outside Deutsche Bank, Dilip is a member of the NASSCOM Executive Council and is on the Governing Council for International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad. He is also on the advisory boards of some venture capital firms and is extremely passoniate about mentoring start-ups.

Dilip is a graduate of Engineering from Mumbai University and holds a MBA from the Indian School of Business.

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Jaideep Mehta

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 Indi

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Anand Kumar Bajaj

An IIM-A alumnus and a Chartered Accountant, Anand Kumar Bajaj is the Founder, MD & CEO of PayNearby. With over 21 years of experience in Digital Payments and Mobility, Anand holds six patents in banking technology and has worked earlier with YES Bank, ICICI Bank, and Ernst & Young. Previously, he was the President and Chief Innovation Officer at YES Bank, where he led several high-impact programs in digital payments. At PayNearby, Anand steers the company’s strategic direction and growth, and he, along with his team, is committed to enabling the reach of digital payments and financial services at the first mile by empowering retailers.

KNC Nair

KNC Nair has been in the IT profession for over 4 decades, spearheading digital transformation and technology-driven innovations in the banking and financial services domain.

As CIO, he has been spearheading the e-transformation in the Muthoot Group which has 5000+ branch network and 35,000+ employees. He is also the current CEO of Muthoot Systems & Technologies Pvt Ltd, Infopark, Kochi, and the software development subsidiary of the Muthoot Group. Prior to this, he was the Chief Knowledge Officer in Enzen, Bangalore for 4 years heading its BFSI Consulting, Knowledge management, software quality assurance & process excellence.

KNC was CIO of the Federal Bank for over a decade and transformed the traditional bank into a leader in technology infusion. While in the Bank, he pioneered the deployment of rural ATMs starting in Kerala in early 2000 which was followed by all banks to provide customer convenience and reduce transactions cost.

He served the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for 12 years in the areas of financial software systems development, Rural Credit Information Systems, Statistical Analysis, and Securities Trading. He was selected to the Indian Statistical Service (ISS) in 1980 and served in a couple of Govt. of India Ministries in New Delhi working in statistics and computer related areas for 4 years.

KNC started his long career in IT as a Systems Analyst in the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Bombay in 1978.

KNC has also served the following Committees as a member.

1. RBI Working Group on Critical Infrastructure Protection
2. RBI Working Group for Business Rules formulation for RTGS
3. IBA Committee on Computerisation in the banking industry.
4. Member of Board of Information Systems Audit & Control Association (ISACA), Cochin Chapter.

Major Ashish Ahuja

Major Ashish is responsible for developing and executing innovative solutions for Fino Payments Bank. In addition to overseeing in house offerings, Ashish manages corporate partnerships and alliances to strengthen the product and service portfolio of the bank.   

He is also entrusted with the task of ensuring accessibility of the bank’s products across multiple platforms – digital as well as physical. For smooth and seamless service delivery to customers, clients and merchants, Ashish is also responsible for the cohesive functioning of Products, Technology and Central operations.  

Earlier, he successfully managed Fino’s corporate business and retail initiative of Money Marts. An Indian Army veteran with over 27 years of experience that includes military service, banking, corporate business, channel management, retail and more, Ashish’s strength lies in successfully executing complex projects.

Over the years, Ashish has represented Fino in multiple businesses and government forums on financial inclusion, digital payments, direct benefit transfer (DBT) and Aadhaar enabled payment systems (AEPS) amongst others.

Ashish is a fitness buff and enjoys squash and golf in his spare time.

Deep Agrawal

Deep Agrawal is Director and Head of Payments at PhonePe. He oversees the entire Payments suite of offerings across the PhonePe ecosystem. He joined PhonePe two years ago.

Prior to this, Deep was Executive Vice President, Digital Banking at YES BANK where he was responsible for the YES BANK’s emerging payments area with a special focus on launching innovative products catering to various segments of customers across Corporate and Retail use cases. He was responsible for the creation of the Go-to-Market strategy and then launching and scaling products and businesses such as UPI, Bharat Bill Pay (BBPS), IMPS, Aadhaar Enabled Payment System (AePS) to industry-leading positions. He has worked on innovative programs such as YES SIMsePAY and YES Money which have contributed significantly to the Financial Inclusion agenda. These businesses have received several awards from notable entities such as Nasscom, Finnoviti, SKOCH, Golden Peacock, NPCI and MasterCard. He has represented YES BANK at Steering Committees of NPCI and at other industry forums such as IBA which help shape the entire digital payment ecosystem of the country.

He holds an MBA from Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies and a B.Tech degree in Computer Science Engineering from Vishwakarma Institute of Technology.

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Ankit Bhatnagar

Ankit has over 15 years of experience in BFSI and specialises in Banking Technology Management. He has worked across Banking and Fintech Industry in several roles across Business, Product Development and Project Management. He co-founded Payso, a Payments Fintech Company specializing in QR Payments which was acqui-hired by Mwipe. He also led the Product and Innovation, Transaction Banking Group at Kotak Mahindra Bank as the Vice President.

Prashanth Kamath

Prashanth is a Senior WW Product Manager at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, managing a portfolio of NonStop OS, Virtualization and Security. In his role Prashanth owns the strategy, roadmap, customer satisfaction and ecosystem enablement for the portfolio. He has done post graduate diploma in software enterprise management from IIM Bangalore and has a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics & Communication from NIT Surathkal. Prashanth is with HPE for 11 years and has prior experience in communication software engineering.

Shailesh Paul

Current Position and Responsibilities
Shailesh Paul is Vice President and Head of Merchant Sales & Solutions India and South Asia. He is responsible for leading Visa’s merchant acceptance strategy, Visa’s merchant, acquirer and payment facilitator partnerships as well as the CyberSource business in the subcontinent.

Previous Positions
Shailesh joined Visa in 2006 and until recently led Merchant Partnership Development & Co-brands for Asia Pacific, based in Singapore. He was previously Head of Product Development, Asia Pacific at Visa and was the regional lead for core product development & specialized sales. Prior to that at Visa, Shailesh was Regional Director, Debit Products for Southeast Asia & Australia. Shailesh joined Visa from Standard Chartered Bank where he was Head of Credit Cards and Personal Loans, Qatar and held various management positions in India.

Other Information
Shailesh holds an undergraduate business degree and MBA, both from India. His international career spans leadership positions in Asia Pacific, India and the Middle East. He is a regular contributor and participant at industry platforms as a speaker and panelist in many industry and public forums which include Mapic India (India Retail Forum) 2019 and 2021, ET Cards & Payments Summit 2019, TechCircle Pay-IT Conclave 2018 and 2020, to name a few.

Shalil Gupta

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.

Sourabh Tomar

Sumedha Bose

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.