Our speakers

Gurshabad Grover, Senior Policy Officer, The Centre for Internet and Society

Gurshabad Grover is a technologist and legal researcher, working as Senior Researcher at the Centre for Internet and Society. His writing focuses on network security & privacy, internet governance, and censorship & surveillance in India.

Gurumurthy G, CEO, Dynaspede Integrated Systems

Gurumurthy G is the Director and Chief Operating Officer at Dynaspede Integrated Systems (P) Limited. Here he is responsible for financial growth of the company and delivering significant contributions to profit levels. Earlier he was the Head - Operations and prior to that the Sector President at Dynaspede Integrated Systems (P) Limited.

Gurumurthy has completed an Advanced Management Programme, General Management from IIM Bangalore & holds a BTech, Electrical and Electronics degree from National Institute of Technology, Calicut.

Gustaf Ericson, Senior Manager, Bain & Company

GV Prasad, Co Chairman and MD, Dr Reddy's Laboratories

GV Ravishankar, MD, Sequoia Capital India

Ravi Shankar is a Managing Director with Sequoia Capital India. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital, Ravi Shankar worked at McKinsey & Company in Mumbai, where he advised senior management of top Indian companies on a variety of issues including business building, channel management and leadership development. Prior to McKinsey, Ravi Shankar worked at Wipro Technologies in their Embedded and Internet Access division.

At Wipro, Ravi Shankar helped several venture-backed networking start-up clients design and build customer premise equipment for next generation applications like VoDSL and Internet over Cable.

Ravi Shankar received an MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad where he was awarded the President’s Gold Medal. He also holds a BE in Computer Science and Engineering from REC Trichy.

Gyan Pandey, CDO, Voltas Ltd.

H. B. Singh, Chairman & Managing Director, Hydroair Tectonics (PCD) Ltd

Mr. H.B. Singh, Chairman & Managing Director, a highly qualified and internationally renowned technocrat with over 30 years of experience in the field. Guided by him a team of well qualified and highly experienced engineers and associated staff members steer the company’s projects. Mr H.B. Singh has done M.Tech from IIT Kanpur with Advanced Course from EPA, U.S.A..

Hadi Badri, CEO-Economic Development, Dubai Department of Economy & Tourism

Hadi Badri is the Chief Executive Officer of Economic Development at the Dubai Department of Economy & Tourism.

Hadi has held various management roles at Emaar Properties, including as CEO of Emaar International ($1.5bn Revenue, $0.4bn EBITDA), Group Chief Strategy Officer at Emaar and Chairman of Namshi ($0.4bn Net Revenue). Prior to joining Emaar, Hadi was a Principal at Bain & Company, where he led a range of complex strategy and organization projects across industries.

He was also an investment professional at The Carlyle Group and Dubai International Capital. Hadi has served as a Board Director for Emaar Properties in 15 companies across Real Estate, E-commerce and Hospitality, including Emaar’s real estate development businesses in India, Turkey, Pakistan, Morocco and Jordan, Namshi (Fashion E-commerce) and Rove Hotels (Hospitality).

Hadi has also served as a Board Director at Sandooq Al Watan (Private Sector Not-for-profit) and Rivoli Group (Retail) and as a Member of Investment Advisory Committees at Middle East Venture Partners (Venture Capital) and Carlyle MENA Partners (Private Equity).

Hadi is an honors graduate in Economics from Tufts University in Massachusetts, USA.

Hanmant Ramdas Gaikwad, CMD, BVG India Ltd

Mr. Hanmantrao R. Gaikwad is founder chairman of BVG India Ltd, a Bharat Vikas Group company. Starting with 8 people in 1997, BVG has crossed mark of $150 million as total group turnover in 2012 with 26,000+ employees across the country.

Bharat Vikas Group has businesses spanning facility management, horticulture, land development, engineering, electrical projects, municipal waste management, waste to energy generation, renewable energy, sugar manufacturing etc.

BVG India Ltd, Flagship company of Bharat Vikas Group, is India’s leading integrated services company.

Mr. Gaikwad is from a farmer family of a small village Rahimatpur in Satara District. He has inherited and preserved old ascetic values of simplicity and honesty from his family.

While studying he formed society Bharat Vikas Pratisthan in 1993 to do something different for the our great nation. Under BVP, he raised fund to help poor students for their eduction.

While working in Tata motors, he requested management for job opportunities for un?employed rural youths. TATA Motors was kind enough & gave opportunity in Housekeeping with 8 people in 1997. Due to Quality services, hard work and commitment strength gone up to 200 people within year, then left Tata motors and started full-time business in the name BVG INDIA LTD with its first client as TATA Motors. Sincere efforts helped increasing client list to 350+. Which includes eminent government properties like Rashtrapati Bhawan, Hon. Prime Minister’s House & Office, Hyderabad House, Parliament House, Parliament House Library, Vigyan Bhawan, Delhi High Court etc.

Some other prominent clients are Safdurjung Hospital, Indian Railways, Bharat Electronics Ltd, Nuclear Power Corporation of India, ONGC, Mantralaya – Mumbai, TATA Motors LTD., G.E. Power Controls, I.T.C.? across country, Bajaj Auto Ltd., Mahindra and Mahindra, Swami Ramdeoji’s Maharaja Patanjali Yogpeeth Haridwar etc.

Hardika Shah, Founder & CEO, Kinara Capital

Hardika Shah is the Founder & CEO of Kinara Capital, a socially conscious FinTech that is powering the financial inclusion of small business entrepreneurs in India.

While studying at Columbia Business School, Hardika was highly motivated to address the missing middle credit gap for MSMEs that stifles entrepreneurship in India, the land of jugaad. The success of the business school pilot became the genesis of her journey into social entrepreneurship and she wrapped up her life in Silicon Valley and headed to Bangalore to build Kinara Capital.

Prior to launching Kinara, Hardika had built a storied career in Management Consulting with Accenture and worked on complex projects across multiple industries and countries. She still made time to serve as a pro-bono mentor for many years at top social entrepreneurship programs at Santa Clara University, Stanford University, Columbia University, Accenture Development Partnerships and the Acumen Fund. 

Globally recognized for her passion and innovative approach, Hardika is a notable Ashoka Fellow, won the Financial Inclusion Award by Sankalp Forum, and won the People’s Choice Award at Wall Street Journal’s Financial Inclusion event.Hardika holds a B.A. in Computer Science from Knox College in Illinois. She earned her MBA from a joint program with Columbia Business School and UC Berkeley-Haas School of Business.