Our speakers

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.

Harish Bahl, Founder and Chairman, Smile Group

Harish is a serial entrepreneur who has successfully founded and built some of the leading e-commerce and digital media companies across Asia and other emerging markets. He is the founder of Smile Group, India-based Asian Internet Group, which has extensive holdings in the consumer internet and digital media space. As a business builder, he partners with the best entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and global companies to build digital companies from scratch, expand operations and increase their footprint by rolling out internationally.

Harish Bijoor, CEO, Harish Bijoor Consults Inc

Harish Bijoor is a Brand thinker and practitioner. He runs a unique boutique consulting outfit branded “Harish Bijoor Consults”, a brand name that has a consulting presence across the markets of Hong Kong, Seattle, London and the Indian sub-continent. He has spent his career across aggressive realms of FMCG, Telecom and Consumer Durables. He is considered a marketing practitioner and thinker who is ahead of the consumer thinking curve, year on year.

He is an actively sought public speaker in the country at forums that relate to General Management, Marketing, Sales, Retailing, Consumer Behaviour, Techno-branding  and allied areas. He has recently published a book titled, “Marketing Trends – Smart Insights into the world of Indian Business” He is currently involved in his second book on core-branding. The book is titled, “Brand Irrationals: a fundamental journey into brand-think” Harish has simultaneously been commissioned to write a book on “Customer Service mechanisms” at play in contemporary marketing contexts.

Harish is actively involved in research relating to Rural Consumer Bahaviour, Rural Retail Networks and Trade mechanisms at play. The current research exercise he is involved in spans a 6-year period covering 84,850 consumers across India.

@harishbijoor

Harish Chander, Executive Vice-President, Edelweiss Financial Services

Harish has over three decades of experience in working with SBI, IDBI & Edelweiss (the largest players in the respective fields in India) in project & infra financing documentation, distress asset investing, asset resolution and recovery. Harish was Head of Project & Infrastructure Financing (Loan & Security) Group at IDBI. He was also the legal and resolution head of the Stressed Assets Stabilisation Fund where he handled revival, restructuring and resolution of Assets aggregating more than USD 2 billion. He has vast experience across various legal resolution mechanisms and has a deep understanding of structuring and documentation related to the resolution of troubled assets. Additionally, he has five years of experience as a lawyer in the courts from the district level to the Supreme Court of India. He holds a degree in Law with distinction from Punjabi University in India.

Harish Kumar.G.S., Country Manager - BFSI Vertical, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Harish Mehta, Chairman & MD, Onward Technologies Ltd.

Harish Mehta is the Chairman and Managing Director of Onward Technologies Ltd. And Deputy Chairman & Managing Director of Onward Novell Software (I) Pvt. Ltd. Mr. Mehta is also co-Promoter of Infinity venture Fund. Infinity Venture Fund is an Institutionalised Angel Fund aimed at promoting IT entrepreneurs.

He is Managing Trustee of TPATI. (Trust to Promote Advanced Technologies in India.) TPATI hosted ICCC-2002, an International Conference on Computers and Communications in August, 2002 at Mumbai. He has successfully chaired major Indian and International conferences like Cybercity, NASSCOM, VLDB'96, ICVC'99, ICCC 2002 and others.

He was also the co-founder and Jt. Managing Director of Hinditron's Computer Group and One of the chief architects for realizing Hinditron- Digital Joint Venture in India.

Mr. Mehta has been the founder member of NASSCOM ( National Association of Software & Service Companies) and former Chairman. He was the First President of TiE - Mumbai Chapter. TiE (The IndUS Entrepreneurs) is a non-profit global network of entrepreneurs and professionals, established to foster entrepreneurship and nurture entrepreneurs. He is a Trustee on TiE Global Board. He is also an advisor to American India Foundation (AIF).

Harish Menon, APJ Product Head, Akamai

Harish Menon joined Akamai in 2009 and currently is the Head of the Web Experience Product line; responsible for technologies that help organizations have high-performing, secure, and personalized web experiences on any device, across Asia Pacific & Japan. Harish is responsible for identifying and executing key product initiatives to grow Akamai’s Web Experience products portfolio in APJ, which includes initiatives and innovations in both the consumer web space and the enterprise cloud area. In his current role, he has brought to market new services and partnerships applied towards strategic initiatives such as cloud computing, site & application acceleration, mobile optimization & big data.

Harish has over 9 years of work experience in varied roles such as Product Management, Pre-Sales, Account Management, Business Development and Channel Management. Harish holds an MBA from Symbiosis International University, specializing in Marketing & Finance.