Our speakers

Gaurav Dalmia, Chairman & Director, Landmark Holdings (Dalmia Group)

Gaurav Dalmia is a member of a one of the leading industrial conglomerates in India. The Dalmia Group’s interests range from cement, industrial ceramics, engineering, sugar, information technology and investments, with consolidated revenues of $ 1.2 billion.

Gaurav co-founded Infinity, an Indian technology venture capital firm. He is an early investor in and member of the Investment Committee of India Value Fund, a leading Indian private equity fund, which manages approximately $1.5billion. He is also the founder and Chairman of Landmark Holdings, a real estate investment firm, with more than 25 housing projects under development. He is co sponsor of the Evolvence India Fund, an India specific Fund of Funds. He co founded GTI, a long term investment vehicle for India focused investments.

He was selected as a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum in 2000. Gaurav Dalmia received an MBA with Beta Gamma Sigma honors from Columbia Business School.

Gaurav Deepak, Co-founder and MD, Avendus Capital

Gaurav spearheads Avendus Group’s flagship Investment Banking business and leads the firm's international operations. He has worked on several large and complex engagements in M&A, Private Equity Syndication, Equity Capital Markets and Fixed Income. He has more than 18 years of global Investment Banking experience. Avendus Capital is India’s largest investment bank and operates in the private markets, with a strong focus on Digital, Consumer, Healthcare, Industrials, Infrastructure and Enterprise Technology.

Prior to co-founding Avendus, Gaurav worked with ICICI, a leading Indian financial services firm. He holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta and a BTech in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur.

Gaurav Gandhi, Chief Operating Officer, Viacom18 Media Private Limited | @viacom18

Gaurav Is the Chief Operating Officer of Viacom18 Digital Ventures - a division set-up to drive the consumer facing digital initiatives for the company. He has recently launched VOOT - Vaicom18’s Over-the-top (OTT) Video platform. He is also responsible for the overall digital strategy for the company including licensing and partnerships in this space.

Prior to this role, Gaurav was the Group Chief Operating officer of IndiaCast Media Distribution - a strategic joint venture between TV18 and Viacom18 created to monetize all channel & content assets across media, platforms and geographies. At IndiaCast, his mandate was to maximize both revenues and reach for content and services from the group - across both the domestic and overseas markets. He used to oversee the entire domestic distribution of Viacom18 and TV18 channels. In addition he was responsible for building out the entire International business for the group (including Ad-sales, Distribution & Licensing) and expanding the footprint of the channels/content to 135 countries around the globe.

Gaurav joined the group in March 2010 as Viacom 18’s Chief Commercial Officer & Head of International Business. In Jan, 2011 he took over as the COO of Sun18 and in May, 2012 he moved to IndiaCast. In August this year he moved into his current role at Viacom18. An alumnus of NMIMS, Gaurav started his career in advertising with Madison Media handling the Coca-Cola India business. In his next role at Turner International, he handled the research and planning portfolio for all Turner India brands. He then moved to STAR India, where he handled & lead various portfolios – the last being Head of Commercial & Business Planning for the network. He then moved on to set up NDTV Imagine - as a founder member & shareholder - where he was responsible for various business & corporate functions as the Executive Vice President - Business Operations.

Gaurav has a unique distinction of having operationally managed virtually every aspect of the media & entertainment business over his 18-year career and has an in-depth understanding of both traditional & digital media.

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Gaurav Gulati, Partner, M&A Head, India, Accuracy

Gaurav heads the M&A team in India and has extensive knowledge of Indian corporates, various industries and private equity funds. His forte is domestic and cross border transactions.

Gaurav joined Accuracy as a partner in 2015. He started his career in 1998 with Ernst & Young in the Middle East. Subsequently, he moved to Canada to work with Allianz Insurance and gained significant M&A experience in the North American market. During his stint overseas, he worked on various engagements in the Corporate Finance field, covering sectors such as Oil & Gas, Manufacturing and Trading.

He later joined Ernst & Young in India before moving to BMR Advisors as one of the founding team members in Transaction Advisory Services. During the last 10 years, he has successfully led their M&A practice to be one of the leaders in the mid market segment.

Over the course of his career, Gaurav has advised companies on M&A, valuation in the context of transactions, Fundraising and Feasibility studies.

Gaurav Gupta, Principal, A.T. Kearney India

Gaurav is a Principal in A.T Kearney’s Consumer Industries & Retail Practice. He has over 10 years of experience, working primarily with leading companies in retail and consumer goods sector.

Gaurav has a keen interest in the lifestyle & specialty retail space and has deep and practical content knowledge across various functional areas within this sector. Within lifestyle and specialty retail, he has worked with clients on various topics ranging from retail launch, growth strategy, category management and operations transformation.

Gaurav is a co-lead for A.T. Kearney’s apparel and specialty retail sector in Asia Pacific region. He is based out of the A.T. Kearney Gurgaon office.

Gaurav Gupta, Director, Omkar Realtors & Developers Pvt. Ltd

Gaurav Gupta serves as the Director of Mumbai-based Omkar Realtors & Developers Private Limited.  

A MBA from UK, he is a part of the management think tank overseeing Operations, Finance, Human Resources and Legal functions of the company.

Prior to pursuing an MBA from the United Kingdom, he got an opportunity to experience and understand the nuances of promoter-driven businesses in India. Further, his management degree gave him the distinct exposure to working pattern of global corporations. His early post- MBA experience included working with the British Inland revenue department with their taxation division.

He joined Omkar as a Director in early 2005, which largely coincided with the onset of organized growth of realty business in India. With pure focus on expanding operations in Mumbai market, since last eight years, he has played a key role in strengthening the company to a 500-member strong professional entity.

In the recent past, with his active participation, Omkar attracted private equity funding totalling approx Rs 600 crore from leading funds.

Omkar,  an established  market leader in redevelopment arena and a fast emerging brand in luxury residential space in Mumbai has been drawing accolades for its quality deliveries and focused business vision from industry and related stakeholders.

Gaurav Hinduja, Co-founder, Capital Float | @CapitalFloat

From his early days as the head of operations at Gokaldas Exports, Gaurav brings to his start up team at Capital Float a deep understanding of operations and a tremendous drive to win in a fast paced and competitive business environment.

His previous role at Gokaldas, running operations at India’s largest apparel manufacturer employing 40,000 people with $250 million in revenues has transformed Gaurav into an astute business leader, driven by quick and calculated decision making, and a clear vision. At Capital Float, he understands what it takes to build the right team, and while he may run a tight ship, he remains nonchalant about getting the job done, and staying ahead of the game.

Gaurav did his MBA from Stanford University after graduating in Commerce from Christ University. From a business family, and an early stage entrepreneur himself, Gaurav is extremely passionate about the small and medium business community in India and believes that one day Capital Float will create a capital revolution in India.

Gaurav Jain, Managing Director, ColdEX

Gaurav in his role as MD provides strategic support to the business to ensure that ColdEX growth story continues and that we have a sustainable business model. Gaurav's key role today is to steer the group on a pre-determined growth plan, develop and foster relationships with investors and strategic clients and mentor the leadership team. He was nominated for Forbes India Leadership Award 2012.

Gaurav Jain, Principal, Kaizen Private Equity

Gaurav is a Principal at Kaizen Private Equity. Kaizen Private Equity is Asia’s first education focussed Private Equity firm.

He has over 9 years of private equity experience and leads investments in India. He also leads the fund’s research efforts that serve to define the fund’s investment theses, and drives the development of Kaizen’s thought-leadership reports for the Education sector. He has closely been involved with Kaizen’s investments in Altus, K12 Techno, WizIQ, EduPristine and Impartus  He is a silver medallist from NMIMS University, Mumbai, from where he received his MBA.

Gaurav Jain, CEO, Mast Kalandar

Gaurav Jain , Founder CEO, has been a retail enthusiast all his life. He comes from a family with retail consumer background and has always been passionate about this sector.

Gaurav has an MBA from IMT Ghaziabad and B.E. from MNREC Allahabad. Prior to Mast Kalandar, he worked for about 5 years in IT industry. He has had good stints with Planetasia (Microland) and then with Wipro Technologies. He has handled various sales & marketing roles for various geographies like the US, Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia. His strengths have always been to create new opportunities and execute them.

In one of the IT assignments, he got to work with Australian food chains, which made him to start his entrepreneurial journey in retail sector in India.

Gaurav a keen eye for detail and likes to work on processes & systems, which make the operations efficient and scalable.

His hobbies include reading, photography and traveling.