Our speakers

Gandharv S. Bakshi, Co-founder & CEO, Lumos

Gandharv Bakshi manages Business Development and Marketing at Lumos. Gandharv previously founded and ran a Performance Management Consulting company (Alitum Solutions). During his time at Alitum, he oversaw client acquisition and managed to secure over 8 clients including the Government of Karnataka. Prior to his stint at Alitum, Gandharv played an important role in starting the Product Marketing division at Tejas Networks (Leading Indian Telecom Product company) and played an important roles in Sales and Marketing for Tejas.

Gandharv completed his MBA from IIM Bangalore and his B.Tech from IIT Madras.

Ganesan Arumugam, Director - Channel sales (India & SAARC), NetApp

Ganesan Mani, Director, Bluebell

Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Chief Operating Officer, Airtel Payments Bank

Ganesh K R, Executive Director, Mergers & Acquisitions-Tax & Regulatory Service, PwC India

Ganesh KR is an executive director in the Mergers & Acquisitions-Tax & Regulatory Service of PwC India. He is responsible for Mergers & Acquisitions in the south zone comprising of Chennai, Hyderabad and Bangalore. Having joined the India firm in 2000 as an associate, Ganesh has spent more than ten years advising Indian and multinational clients in the areas of mergers, demergers and re-organisation, corporate restructuring, foreign investment consulting, establishment of joint ventures, international tax, corporate law and other regulatory issues.

Ganesh has over 13 years of professional experience in the field of taxation, corporate laws, foreign direct investment, regulatory and exchange control matters. He has also provided pre-investment and structuring advice, entry strategies, corporate and regulatory compliances and other legal and procedural issues relating to capitalisation of companies. Ganesh is also an alumni of the Genesis Park programme of PwC Global on leadership development that was profiled by the Harvard Business School as one of the most innovative leadership development initiatives.

Ganesh has been associated with the Mysore Chapter of Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India as faculty member for subjects such as corporate laws and secretarial practice. He is a familiar speaker at various seminars and conferences organised by leading business chambers and associations.

Ganesh is a lawyer, Company Secretary and a Certified Public Accountant (CPA).

Ganesh Lakshminarayanan, CEO Airtel Enterprise Business, Airtel

Ganesh is responsible for strengthening Airtel’s market leadership in the B2B segment further and accelerating growth as enterprises undergo digital transformation to become future ready. He brings with him rich experience in the IT and technology sector. In his last role at Dell, he was the President and MD of Dell India. He has also been an advisor to start-ups like Practo, Belong and Porter and has served on the executive councils of NASSCOM and FICCI.

Ganesh N Prabhu, Professor, Strategy, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore

Ganesh is Professor of Strategy at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. He did his post-graduation from the Institute of Rural Management Anand and is a Fellow (PhD) of IIM Ahmedabad. He teaches strategy and new product development in the MBA program at IIMB. He was earlier a nominated member of the India Design Council. His research has been on technology and strategy and he mentors aspiring entrepreneurs, start-ups, and small firms.

Ganesh Raja, Solutions Architect, Amazon Seller Services Pvt. Ltd

Ganesh Raja is a Solutions Architect with Amazon Seller Services Pvt. Ltd where he is responsible for educating companies with the service offerings of the AWS platform, as well as helping them in their architecture with their best practices to build highly scalable and resilient applications on the AWS Cloud. He is also actively involved in running the AWS Meetup in Bangalore and is passionate about Big Data.

Prior to joining Amazon, he was responsible for working with large International Banks on architecting applications for Performance & Scale. In the past, Ganesh has also lived and worked out of the United States and UK as part of various Services Delivery roles.

Mr. Raja has a Post Graduate Degree from the University of Liverpool specializing in Information Technology. He likes spending time with family and friends and is a music lover. He enjoys travelling extensively. 

Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Principal - Private Equity, Tata Capital Limited

Ganesh Ramakrishnan is a Principal with Tata Capital Growth Fund. He is a founding member of Tata Capital Growth Fund and focuses on investing in technology, pharma, telecom, consumer and education sectors. He began his career as an Analyst with Capital One. He has also worked with IBM, Cognizant and Deloitte. He holds an MBA from IIM Bangalore.

Ganesh Rao, Partner, Trilegal

Ganesh Rao is Partner at Trilegal, and is part of the corporate practice group specializing in asset management and funds.

In addition to his core practice advising GPs, he regularly acts as counsel to LPs (including DFIs, pensions funds, corporations and family offices) on their investments in private funds and other investment programs.

Ganesh has represented clients such as Alta Advisers, Arohi, Australian Super, Bain group, Blackrock, Blackstone, CDC, Clearwater Capital, ICICI group, IFC, ITC group, JM Financial, JP Morgan, Kaizen, Kotak group, Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners, Nalanda Capital, Nomura, Omidyar Networks, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, Saama Capital, State Bank of India group and UTI Capital.

Ganesh has been ranked ‘Band 2’ in Investment Funds, in the Chambers and Partners Asia Pacific Guide 2021. He has also been recently recognized as a Notable practitioner under the Investment funds category by Asialaw Profiles 2021. He was featured as one of the top ‘40 under 40’ Alternative Investment Professionals in India by the Association of International Wealth Management of India and Indian Association of Alternative Investment Funds (2018). Ganesh is also featured as one of the ‘40 under 40’ outstanding legal professionals by Asian Legal Business and Thomson Reuters.

Ganesh is an alumnus of NUJS, Kolkata, India, and is a member of the Bar Council of Karnataka, India. Prior to joining Trilegal, Ganesh was a partner at Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas and AZB & Partners.