Our speakers

Hari Hara Mishra, Director, UV Asset Reconstruction Company Ltd.

Hari Menon, Co-founder & CEO, Bigbasket.com

Hari Menon is the CEO of BigBasket.com, a company he co-founded in December 2011 with a vision of setting up India’s finest online food and grocery company. With operations having commenced in Bangalore, Hyderabad and Mumbai, BigBasket.com plans to expand to another 10 cities over the next 2 years. BigBasket.com delivers the entire range of groceries, fresh fruits and vegetables, fresh meat, dairy products, processed foods, toiletries, personal care products, gourmet foods and a wide range of household products. Their range has about 10,000 products.

 

Before his entry into grocery e-tailing,Hari was the CEO of a vocational training company called IndiaSkills, a joint venture between City & Guilds, UK and the Manipal Education group. Prior to IndiaSkills, Hari co-founded Fabmall - a pioneer in internet and grocery retail.

 

An aluminus of BITS-Pilani, Hari started his career with ORG Systems, subsequently moving on to work with many of the best and respected names in the country, including TVS Electronics, Wipro Infotech, Planetasia.com and Integrated Data Systems.

Hari Nair, Director - Digital Business, Sony Music Entertainment

Hari is currently heading Digital business of Sony Music Entertainment India. He has more than 16 years of industry experience and  has been in the digital space, especially mobile value added services, for over a decade. Last heading the P & L for Mauj Telecom; content & operation divisions for Comviva & Soundbuzz (Motorola). Prior to that he was with Reliance & Repro, where he was responsible for building and delivering technology solutions.

Hari Shankar Mishra, SVP- Customer Experience, Future Generali India Insurance Company Limited

Head of Customer Experience at Future Generali. Responsible for setting up the Service-Structure and Customer-Culture of the organization which is recognized by customers and partners alike. Managing the Customer Insights program and Insurance Awareness and Consumer Education activities. Also designated as the Grievance Redressal Officer (GRO). With his Service Leadership, the organization has received many national and international awards and recognitions viz. Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service, Medallia Expy Award, Impresa Award for Fair Business and others. Recognized as 50 Most Influential Customer Service Professionals by CXELA.

Hari Srinivasan, Senior Manager (Products & Solutions), Equinix

Hari TN, Head HR & Strategic Advisor, Big Basket and The Fundamentum Partnership

Hari is a senior seasoned HR Leader whose career could be broadly divided into two chunks:
The first 14 years were spent with Tata Steel. Of this the first 11 years were spent as a mechanical engineer on the shop floor, in procurement, and in corporate planning. The next three years were in HR helping restructure the company to cope with post-liberalization challenges where CIS countries were dumping steel at below our cost prices.

The next 18 odd years were with a string (5 of them) of agile and high-growth start-ups. The first four saw successful exits (Daksh was acquired by IBM, listed Virtusa on NASDAQ, Amba Research was acquired by Moody’s and TaxiForSure was acquired by Ola). In each of these startups, he played a key role in shaping their growth and exit.

In addition, during the last 5 years, he has been an advisor and sounding board to numerous young entrepreneurs and startups. He has straddled the entire start-up ecosystem (mentor at accelerators like Techstars, Silicon Road and NUMA; he is an advisor to an early stage VC fund as well as a late stage VC fund set up by Nandan Nilekani and Sanjeev Aggarwal).

He has studied at IIT & IIM and worked at an executive level with multiple start-ups/scale-ups. His strength and passion are in scaling organizations through clear thinking and relentless execution. Because of his education and aptitude, he has good understanding of a wide range of topics that matter for any business.

LinkedIn had identified him as the one of the Top Voices in India for three years in a row (2016, 2017, and 2018).  He has written and shared learnings extensively on various platforms and has authored 3 books in the last three years. The fourth one is slated to be published by Penguin in August.  His recently Co-authored books are
a) Cut the Crap and Jargon – Lessons from the Startup Trenches
b) Cutting the Gordian Knot – India’s Quest for Prosperity
c) Saying No to Jugaad – The Making of Bigbasket.
d) The fourth one slated for publication in August is, “From Pony to a Sustainable Unicorn”

Hariharan Iyer, Group CIO, Raymond Group

Hariharan Iyer is a hands-on technologist, speaker, writer, and futurist who helps disseminate future technology trends that assist individuals, forums, organizations, and industries to have an effective strategic plan to the future and protect themselves today. Having developed, owned & monetized more than 17 IPs in the field of AI, ML, DL, IOT, AM, and Alternative energy propulsion & harvesting systems, he has a vastly varied experience of real-world innovation from idea to industrialization. He has been in leadership profiles for the past 24 years and currently leads Raymond enterprise as their Group CIO.

He is a marked outdoorsman, a survival specialist,  an Everester, a licensed PPL pilot, and a DIY tinkerer who loves to take a daily risk and enjoy each day as an adventure.

That sums him up….a nonconformist adventurer of life.

Harinarayan Sharma, Chief Strategy Officer, Manipal Health Enterprises Pvt. Ltd

Hari, Chief Officer- Strategy and Business Development, Manipal Health Enterprises Limited (MHEPL), has completed his Management studies at the XLRI, Jamshedpur and is a Fellow member of the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India. He has over 27 years of work experience spanning across corporate finance, investment banking and Corporate Strategy

Hari has been with the Manipal Group for close to nine years. His association with the Group commenced in 2004 in the Healthcare vertical, Manipal Health Systems, which lasted for over four years. During this period, when he was responsible for driving the group’s initiative for expansion of the healthcare delivery business, the group completed the acquisition of management control of 7 hospitals. Further he was actively involved in Equity fund mobilization initiatives of the company. Since April 2011, he has taken the responsibility for driving the group’s healthcare strategy which includes establishment of green field hospitals, expansion, development of new lines (alternate formats) of business in the healthcare space.

Before joining the Manipal Group, Hari worked for over six years with IL&FS in the Investment Banking team. Prior to this, has been with the Tata Steel Group for 12 years, based out of Jamshedpur.

Harinder Sawhney, Executive Director, JM Financial

Harinder Sawhney is Executive Director of JM Financial's Private Equity Fund. He has been with the Fund for about 3 years and is managing investments in microfinance, retail, farm equipment, offshore logistics, etc. His prior experiences transcends both buy and sell side in India and the US.

Harinder Takhar, CEO, Paytm Mobile Solutions

Harinder Takhar is the CEO of Paytm Mobile Solutions Pvt. Ltd. At 34, he brings over a decade of rich strategy and product management experience.

While graduating in engineering from DCE, Harinder founded an internet services company, Xs Corps, which was sold in 2000. Harinder then worked with One97 Communications Limited, before going on to complete his MBA from INSEAD.

He moved to Finland subsequently, joining the business development team at Nokia. Some enriching years later he joined RIM in Canada, gaining insights in product management.

His true calling – the growing arena of eCommerce has brought him back to India.

Harinder now owns strategy and direction at Paytm, the growing online destination for prepaid recharges.

His other keen interests include star-gazing and Origami.