Our speakers
Gopinath Jayaraj, Chief Information Officer, Tata Motors
Mr. Gopinath Jayaraj is the Chief Information Officer of Tata Motors, India’s leading commercial vehicle and car manufacturer. Gopinath holds the responsibility of leading the IT and digital agenda of the organization across all business units and operating locations on Tata Motors. This includes digitizing and modernizing enterprise business processes across both customer and manufacturing systems, as well as enabling the entire fleet of products with connected vehicle technology.
Prior to Tata Motors, Gopinath was heading Whirlpool Corporation's India Technology Center. His early career was with the Tata group, with a long stint at Tata Technologies, heading global delivery of software and engineering services.
Gordon Fairclough, South Asia Bureau Chief, The Wall Street Journal | @WSJIndia
Gordon Fairclough is the South Asia bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal, overseeing coverage of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and Maldives, with a team of more than 20 reporters. Prior to coming to New Delhi, Mr. Fairclough was the Journal's Central Europe bureau chief. He has also served as a correspondent in China, Korea and Southeast Asia. He has reported for the paper from more than two dozen countries. He was part of the team that won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, which honored the Journal's coverage of China. He is a graduate of Yale and the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.
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Gourav Chindlur, Co-founder and COO, Vizury Interactive Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Gourav co-founded Vizury in 2008 after realizing that the performance of display advertising can be improved dramatically by studying user micro behaviours. He currently heads all mobile business and product initiatives for Vizury. He was earlier the head of product management and prior to that, he was the head of operations and analytics and has been been instrumental in Vizury's global expansion and growth.
Gourav has significant experience performance display advertising, programmatic media buying and using data in driving advertising goals for global brands. He is well versed with internet related technologies, ad tech platforms and big data analytics and has held speaking assignments around these in several countries.
Prior to Vizury, Gourav was a part of the Business Value Group at Trilogy, Inc where he was involved in developing customer acquisition strategies for Auto manufacturers and Telecom operators across US & India markets. He has also worked with the mobile apps development team at Motorola.
Gourav is a Computer Science Engineer from RVCE, Bangalore, and has an MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode. He also holds a patent in the field of radio communications.
Gourav Rakshit, COO, Viacom18 Digital Ventures.
Gourav Rakshit is currently the Chief Operating Officer of Viacom18 Digital Ventures. As part of the role he is responsible for driving the growth agenda of the network’s digital businesses. Since joining Viacom18 Digital Ventures Gourav has built a strong and robust digital ecosystem with VOOT, India’s first and only multi-platform kids’ app, VOOT Kids and the recently announced VOOT Select. Under his aegis VOOT has witnessed exponential growth with achieving a new viewership benchmark of 100 Million MAU’s, emerging as the most engaged premium AVOD platform with 100 billion minutes of watch time in the year.
Prior to joining Viacom18 he was President and CEO of People Group that owns and operates Shaadi.com. A University of Rochester and IIM Ahmedabad alumnus, Gourav has an in-depth understanding of digital disruption and a proven track-record of envisioning subscription growth. Over the course of 11 years at Shaadi.com, he has been instrumental in building one of India’s most iconic brands and a robust consumer subscription play, while delivering one of the few profitable P&Ls in the Indian internet ecosystem.
With over 2 decades of experience in Consumer Technology, IT and FMCG sectors, Gourav started his career with Nestle and took two more stops – Planetasia and Infosys Consulting before joining People Group. At Planetasia, he had his first brush with the media & tech industry, and at Infosys he successfully led consulting engagements for diverse consumer clients including Apple, Safeway and Wells Fargo.
Gourav has been a leader both on and off-field and is a true sports enthusiast at heart. He has represented school & college teams in football, rugby, cricket, squash, pool and table tennis, captaining them in many instances. As a working professional he continues to explore newer avenues to further his sporting passion
Goutam Datta, Chief Information & Digital Officer, Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance Co. Ltd.
Govind Kanshi, Technical Director, Microsoft Technology Center
Govind works as Technical Director at Microsoft Technology Center. He helps enterprise and ISV customers adopt pragmatic solutions. His expertise lies in developing solutions and finding/fixing bottlenecks. Outside work, food, books and movies, travel keeps him busy.
Govind Rajan, Chief Strategy Officer, Snapdeal | @Snapdeal
Govind is the Chief Operating Officer at FreeCharge and Chief Strategy Officer at Snapdeal. Prior to his appointment at Snapdeal, he served as Chief Marketing Officer (B2C) at Bharti Airtel, where he was responsible for revenue and market share growth, customer life cycle management, and building marketing capability across the organisation. Concurrently he also served as CEO - Airtel Money (Airtel M-commerce Services Limited) leading Airtel's foray in the exciting world of mobile money and payments.
At FreeCharge, Govind is spearheading the payments business and has been instrumental in launching the FreeCharge wallet in September 2015. Before joining Airtel, Govind was with Hindustan Unilever (HUL). He joined HUL as a Management Trainee in 1997 before serving in various marketing and leadership roles. While at HUL, he was the Regional Vice President South Asia for Skin Cleansing and prior to that, Vice President for the Skin Care business. He also served as the Customer Marketing and Sales Operations Head of HUL. Govind has a Masters in International Business from Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) and a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical
Engineering from the University of Madras.
Govind Setlur, Founder & CEO, Wibmo Inc
Former CTO, Silicon Valley Bank, California, Mr. Setlur brings over 30 years of technical management experience across large organizations and start-up companies, both in the US and India. This includes financial institutions such as Silicon Valley Bank, Wells Fargo Bank, as well as companies such as AT&T, KPMG, and UPS.
Mr. Setlur holds a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and a master’s degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
Govinda Giri, Founder, Sagoon
But, that is what exactly defines this extraordinary visionary who went to the US to chase his big American dream, struggled for a bit doing odd jobs and finally landed a dream job at the Pentagon, Department of Defense as an IT engineer.
Time passed and something within him started to feel amiss. To everyone’s surprise, he left his dream job and set himself on a quest to developing a search engine that could provide relevant and personalized search results. From the confines of his basement, he started building the search-engine in 2009 under the name Sagoon. That was just the start.
By 2014, he realized that user’s behaviour with respect to their online lives was changing. And that’s when he decided to change the direction of Sagoon from Search to Share. In 2014, he pivoted Sagoon as a social commerce platform to change the way people use social media. His vision for the world was also realized by his two other visionaries, Kabin Sitoula and Swati Dayal who today are the founding pillars of Sagoon. Under Govinda Giri’s leadership, Sagoon has already tasted the success of Sagoon V1, Sagoon V2, two uber-successful rounds of mini-IPO and the launch of our first Android app.
Govindaraj Avasarala, Head - Enterprise Marketing, Vodafone Idea
Govindaraj heads enterprise marketing at Vodafone Idea Business Services. He is responsible for enterprise brand, strategy, insights, digital marketing and customer engagements across India. Over 19 years of experience, he has worked with startups, consulting, and global companies. The passion areas include grass-root innovation, books and yoga.