Our speakers

Gaurav Kataria, Chief Digital and Information Officer, Sai Life Sciences Ltd

Gaurav Kataria is Chief Digital and Information Officer (CDIO) at Sai Life Sciences, a leading CRO-CDMO providing drug discovery, development and manufacturing services to innovator pharma companies and biotechs worldwide. In his role as CDIO, Gaurav is responsible for driving the organization’s digital and IT strategy in line with its vision and global growth aspirations. He is also responsible for IT and cyber security for the company.

In a career spanning over 21 years, Gaurav has rich experience across digital transformation, technology, consulting, marketing & strategy.

Prior to Sai Life Sciences, Gaurav was a P&L leader at Cyient responsible for formulating the digital strategy, building digtal products and delivering digital solutions for its Aerospace and Defense (A&D) customers globally. He was also the Global Chief Information Officer overseeing the IT strategy with a focus on adopting technology to drive business process change. He also chaired the IT Security Council (acting as the CISO).

Previously, Gaurav was at Feedback Consulting, where he headed the consulting practice for the Customer Division with client acquisition and P&L responsibilities. He also led select strategy consulting assignments across industry sectors. At HCL Technologies, he was the head of Marketing & Strategy for Key Accounts and lead the innovation program across the firm. He worked closely with the CEO's office on multiple strategic initiatives.

Gaurav is an Advisory Board member for the Global Intrapreneur Institute (GII). He has been a mentor to start-ups and was an invited member of the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) National Innovation Committee from 2011 to 2013.

Gaurav holds an engineering degree with a Masters of Sciences (MS) from BITS, Pilani and executive business education from Harvard Business School Publishing, Boston, MA.

Gaurav Khera, Partner, Risk Advisory, Deloitte India

Gaurav Khungar, MD, o3 Capital

Gaurav Khungar is a Managing Director of o3 Capital. He has over 18 years of investment banking experience and has advised on more than 60 transactions across sectors such as auto, consumer, industrials and telecom.

Gaurav focuses on the firm’s investment banking activities in the Consumer Markets, Life Sciences and Industrial sector. Prior to joining o3, Gaurav was Managing Director & Head of Corporate Finance at Religare Capital Markets, and before that, he was a partner at KPMG Corporate Finance, where he was heading the Delhi office as well as the Practice Head for Industrials. He has also had stints with Rabo Bank and Lazard in his early career.

Gaurav is a graduate from University of Delhi and holds an M.B.A. from University of North Carolina.

Gaurav Khurana, Head-New Partner Acquisition, PAYBACK India

Gaurav Khurana is the Head of New Partner Acquisition at PAYBACK India. He is responsible for undertaking strategic decisions for partners’ acquisition, along with delivering on PAYBACK’s goal.

With over 15 years of experience in sales, marketing and product management, customer engagement, loyalty, consumer research and insights; Gaurav brings to the company marketing techniques and methods garnered across various industry segments like automobiles, financial products and consumer Market Research.

Prior to joining PAYBACK, Gaurav was associated with American Express Group for six years. His expertise revolves around sales, brand and product management, customer engagement, loyalty and consumer research and insights along with marketing analytics. Gaurav’s business acumen enabled the company to explore and successfully drive many deals in loyalty space like Samsung, Unilever, Trident Hotels, Carzonrent, Easy Cabs and many more.

Gaurav Kumar, Founder and CEO, CredAvenue

Gaurav Kumar is the Promoter, Co-Founder of the Vivriti Group and CEO of CredAvenue Private Limited.

Vivriti Group was founded in 2017 and comprises a debt platform -CredAvenue, an NBFC and an AMC.

Conceptualised with a vision to deepen debt markets in India, CredAvenue’s online platform offers complete, end to end debt market solutions to all participants. It is India’s  largest tech enabled online debt platform with over 500 Lenders/Investors,  1000+ corporate borrowers and has facilitated debt volumes of over INR 55,000 Crores.

CredAvenue offers comprehensive debt discovery, execution, monitoring,  analytical, risk management solutions  and has specialised platforms for- Pool transactions, Bonds, Loans, Colending and Supply chain platform.  

Gaurav has over 15 years of experience in financial services and is an industry expert in debt capital markets, structured finance, financial inclusion, fintech and digital lending. Gaurav is also on advisory board of fintech and consumer tech companies.

Gaurav Malhotra, MD & CEO, Bourn Hall International India Pvt. Ltd.

Gaurav Malhotra is the Managing Director and CEO of Bourn Hall International in India. Gaurav has over nineteen years of experience in healthcare domain, in leading business and change management across MNCs, start-ups, joint ventures and re-engineering organisations. His practice spectrum includes assignments in Leadership position in General Management, Consultancy, Sales, Marketing and Business Development. He had the opportunity to significantly alter the business landscape by leading and shaping therapy areas and building significant partnerships with the medical fraternity/stakeholders.

He was the MD & CEO of Patni Healthcare Limited.He was the Founder & CEO of Medfort Hospital, which achieved Top 4 Eye-Care Player leadership position in India in two years of its inception. He has also been with as the Business Head-South Asia for Bausch & Lomb and Business Director for Johnson & Johnson Medical.

He is an MBA graduate from XIM-B and an active member and guest speaker at various national and international industry forums and reputed educational institutes. He is a Healthcare Council Member of Gerson Lehman Group. He is also a mentor & strategic advisor to many healthcare start-ups, Private Equity investors as well as established healthcare companies. He is a member of the Corporate Advisory Board of prestigious SRM University. He is strategic advisor to middle east based leading executive search company Health Talent Consulting.

Gaurav Malik, Managing Director, Olympus Capital Holdings Asia

Gaurav Malik is responsible for Olympus' investments in India. Gaurav has over 11 years of experience in private equity investments as well as mergers and acquisitions in Asia. An IIT and IIM alumnus, he was with ABN AMRO and Donaldson-Lufkin & Jenrette before joining Olympus in 2002.

Gaurav Mathur, Founder & MD, Invent Capital

Gaurav Mathur is the founder of InVent Capital, a private equity fund focused on control investments in the Indian consumer sector. Previously, he was a co-founder and managing director at India Equity Partners, where he led investments in financial services, consumer goods and the HR services sector.

Prior to that, he worked with JPMorgan’s private equity division and Deutsche Bank’s high yield capital markets group. He has served on the board of several Indian mid-market companies including well known consumer names such as Domino’s Pizza (Jubilant Foodworks), MTR Foods, Sumeru (Innovative Foods), Sagar Ratna Restaurants, Manappuram Finance and Sintex Industries. He holds an M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and a Bachelor in Economics (Honours) from Delhi University.

Gaurav Mehra, Partner, Kaizen Private Equity

Gaurav joined Kaizen in 2015 and leads the fund’s Education Technology investments. Prior to joining Kaizen, he co-founded Saba and helped build it into a $150 million public company and a global leader in Talent Management software solutions. With 25 years in building technology and scaling global product and service operations, Gaurav helps portfolio companies shape defensible growth strategies. Gaurav holds BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Gaurav Midha, CISO, GIC of India