Our speakers
Jagdish Narayanan, Chief Information Officer, Reliance Jio Payments Bank
Jagdish Narayanan, Chief Information Officer, Reliance Jio Payments Bank
Jagdish Narayanan is the CIO of Reliance Jio Payments Bank and Financial Services. With an experience of over 28 years’ in BFSI, he has led technology at digital fintechs such as Jio Payments Bank and Financial Services and Aditya Birla Payments Bank, as well as been a senior technology leader with large multi-national financial institutions such as Citi, Barclays, Bank of America.
As CIO of innovation-focused digital fintech banks, Jagdish has the unique experience of launching startup banks from scratch in all aspects, including product conceptualization and design, and end-to-end implementation including infrastructure, applications, strategy, vendor management, team buildout, and customer rollouts.
He has deep knowledge of global businesses in the domains of digital wallets, digital payments, paperless and friction-free e-commerce, Cash Management, Payments, Liquidity Management, Trade Finance, by virtue of experience in heading large global technology portfolios across regions such as North America, EMEA, and Africa.
Jai Rupani, Head, Dinesh Hinduja Family Office
Jai is a man who wears many hats. As the Head of the Dinesh Hinduja Family Office (DHFO), he oversees investments across all asset classes for the group: real estate, equities, bonds, structured products, private equity, and venture capital. Mr. Rupani led the real estate development efforts at Gokaldas Lifestyle, a group company of DHFO, for several years before taking the helm at the family office.
Before joining the Gokaldas Group, Mr. Rupani was part of the investment team at True North (erstwhile India Value Fund), a USD 2.2 billion private equity fund in Mumbai. During his tenure at True North, Jai led the investments into Merucabs (one of India’s first taxi-aggregation companies) and ACT Broadband (a leading IPTV and broadband service provider). Prior to True North, Mr. Rupani was an investment banker with The Royal Bank of Canada Capital Markets Group in their San Francisco office for several years. At RBC Capital Markets, Jai was integral to the technology investment banking team managing IPOs, private placements, and M&A deals. He has completed his formal education at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (BBA) and the University of Texas at Austin (MBA) in the United States. In his free time, he enjoys mentoring start-ups, playing golf, and spending time with his family.
Jaideep Hotha, VP & Head New Products, Hungama Digital
As a part of the Senior Management at Hungama I am responsible for launching new products and services on Music, Games, Videos and other VAS offerings across Telcos, Devices and ISPs Globally.
Jaideep Mehta, Managing Partner, IAN Alpha Fund (Moderator)
Jaideep Mehta, CEO, Mosaic Digital & Head - Mint (Moderator)
Jaideep joined the company in October 2017 to set the company on a new, accelerated growth path. He is an advisor to CEOs and business leaders of investment and tech ecosystem. From macro-economic trends to technology disruptions, and market and industry analysis, he has blogged, written and presented on a wide range of topics.
Prior to his current role, he was Managing Director - IDC India and South Asia. Under his leadership, IDC India was conferred the CIO Choice Award for “IT Advisor of the Year” three years consecutively in 2014, 2015 & 2016. Jaideep has been awarded the “Patrick J McGovern IDC Entrepreneur of the Year 2015” for consistent excellence in leading the South Asia team to success and “Leadership Award for Contribution to Market Research” by the World Marketing Congress in 2014.
Before IDC, he was based in London, UK and worked at Gartner for over 5 years where he was Regional VP, Sales & Business Development – EMEA and prior to that, he spent more than 2 and a half years in the Indian outsourcing sector, most notably at Zensar Technologies where he spearheaded the set up to their Financial Services practice in Europe. During the late nineties, he was in the software sector.
Jaideep is a graduate from the Shriram College of Commerce, Delhi University and holds an MBA degree from the Manchester Business School, UK. He enjoys reading, the occasional game of tennis and driving to remote parts of Indi
Jaidev Rajpal, Partner, McKinsey & Company
- implementing purchasing transformations at two of the top five Indian generics companies to improve profitability and build sustainable capability
- applying digital and analytics capabilities to drive a supply-chain transformation for a leading pharmaceutical company
- leading organization assessment and capability building of top 40 executives for several healthcare clients
A partner at McKinsey’s Gurugram office, Jaidev helps pharmaceutical and medical-device companies grow strategically, strengthen management oversight, and ensure processes comply with regulatory standards.
Working for over 20 years in the pharmaceuticals space has helped Jaidev develop deep knowledge of the complex and highly regulated industry. He has helmed several end-to-end transformations for eminent healthcare companies and has also worked with senior-level executives to improve organization design and culture.
Examples of his recent work include the following:
conducting multiple due-diligence processes in the active-pharmaceutical ingredient industry, assessing target molecules and helping craft production strategy
Jaikrishnan G, Partner, Financial Services Consulting, Grant Thornton Bharat
Jai carries with him over 19 years of experience of Financial Services space advising large NBFCs, Banks and Fintech's. In his previous assignment he was playing a leadership role with FS Strategy and Operations practice for KPMG, India.
In his new role with GT he will be heading the Financial Services consulting practice at Grant Thornton, India. He will further enhance our Global presence by working along with global leaders and actively pursuing corridor opportunities for GT.
Having worked across many large transformation engagements in his previous role, Jai brings his global consulting exposure and Indian market experience to the firm. He has authored many popular thought leaderships in financial services space and is recognized as a leader in this space.
Apart from successfully running his consulting practice, he has an extensive social profile including being founder, advisor and board member with a number of NGO’s and Social welfare organizations.
Jai has worked with large family run business houses advising them on their investment strategy and diversification decisions. He is also an advisor to the board of directors of 4 large startups in the Fintech, Edtech and social development space in India. Jai has lead engagements where he has set up the several Banking and Non banking organizations ground up from inception to operationalization.
Subject matter expert in Retail Finance, Gold Loan, Asset finance, Micro Finance, Housing Finance and MSME Finance. Proficient in designing and implementing Performance Dashboards, Governance Models, Distribution networks, Market entry strategy Turn around and Business Expansion plans.
Jainee Nathwani, Head - CSR & Sustainability, United Breweries Ltd.
Jaiprakash Choudhary, Director Of Engineering, RIVIGO
A graduate from IIT Delhi with over 10 years of experience in building impactful business solutions. An advocate and follower of creating technical solutions that impact people's life. Have designed and lead teams to create scalable and end to end solutions from scratch that have with-held test of time.
Leading the Engineering efforts at Rivigo in transforming logistics. Joined Rivigo in 2016 as a developer and lead the efforts to create a marketplace. With time started handling varied products and have successfully led Rivigo into building transformational products. With the leadership and guidance have strengthened the tech infrastructure, making it secure and robust.
Prior to Rivigo, was working with Snapdeal where lead the efforts on digital marketing. Had led the team to create impactful solution that helped product visibility and sale.