Our speakers

Jaspal Singh Sabarwal, MD, Everstone Capital

Jaspal is a Managing Director in the Operations Team and is responsible for advising on the operations of portfolio companies as well as the operational due diligence for potential investments.

Jaspal was previously with Coca-Cola for 10 years where he headed the franchise business for India, Maldives and Bhutan. Prior to this, he spent over 6 years with ICI Paints, with responsibility for East India, Nepal and Bhutan, and the UB Group. He holds a Masters of Management from McGill University and a Diploma in Practicing Management from INSEAD, France.

Jaspreet Bindra, Founder, AI Beyond & Tech Whisperer Limited, UK

Jaspreet Bindra, Founder, Digital Matters

Jaspreet is the Founder of Digital Matters, an advisory firm in the areas of Digital Transformation, Blockchain and the Future of Work.

Until recently, he was the Senior Vice President- Digital Transformation, (equivalent to the Chief Digital Officer), of the $20bn Mahindra Group of Companies. He is a Digital Advisor to Mahindra Group, Adjunct Advisor to IDC, and the Emerging Technologies Advisor to Internet and Mobile Association of India. He sits on the Advisory Board of AI firm Findability Sciences and a few other companies in the technology space.

Jaspreet Singh, Trusted Advisor - Partner, Grant Thornton Bharat

Jaspreet Singh, Partner, Grant Thornton Bharat (Moderator)

Jaspreet has over 20 years consulting experience focusing on Digital Technologies, Technology Risk, Enterprise Risk and Emerging Technologies. He is supporting a variety of industries such as GCCs, Financial Services, Telecom, IT/ITES, Ecommerce, Fintech, Professional Services, Consumer and Industrial markets, Pharma, Hospitality, Infrastructure sector, etc.  

Jaspreet has broad?based business perspective with experience advising enterprise? wide Cyber security & IT strategies at Fortune 500 companies across the globe including USA, Europe, Africa, South?East Asia and Australia, etc. 

He is seen as a trusted advisor to many boards and enjoys trust based relationship with CXOs across many organizations. Adept at building relationships with clients, strategic partners, media, and divisions within the corporation. Jaspreet also runs the Virtual CISO office for many of the Firms clients and is a trusted advisor to client on Digital and Cyber Security Strategic initiatives. 

He was one of the starting team members of Cyber Security practice at EY and built a 250+ member team with 20m USD of annual revenue including 5 partners. He was one of the primary team members to setup Managed Services and Centre of Excellence. 

Jatin Singh, Founder & CEO, Skymet Weather Services Pvt Ltd

Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Skymet Weather Services Pvt. Ltd. (erstwhile Skymet), pioneers in private sector initiative in weather forecasting and information services in India.

The company had modest beginnings in 2003 as providers of weather information and infographics to television and print media. Today, the company has ushered in weather solutions for sectors as varied as energy (distribution and renewable), shipping, agriculture (advisories and remote sensing based crop yield, acreage and health estimation), and risk (agriculture and energy) in India following its humble beginnings serving the media industry.

Skymet envisions accurate weather forecasts available to the common man, empower the Indian farmer to plan farm activities weather wise and support Indian industry to take informed risks in the short and long term wherever weather affects it.

Skymet has started an India centric weather website www.indianweatherforecast.comavailable in English, Hindi and Marathi. Plans of launching it in many more Indian languages as well as going global are on anvil.

Jatin is an alumnus of Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi, where his commentary on the political situation in Southeast Asia were published and widely acclaimed, and has a Master’s Degree in International Relations and International Communication from Boston University. He has worked with Associated Press, Aajtak and Headlines Today as a producer.

Jay Gandhi, Partner, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co

Jay Gandhi is a Partner with Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co and is based in the Mumbai office. Jay’s practice encompasses Mergers & Acquisition, Private Equity, Joint Ventures and Investment Funds and he has extensive experience across these areas both on cross-border and domestic deals. 

For over a decade, Jay has been advising several large international and domestic private equity funds, international and domestic banks and financial institutions, multi-national corporations, Indian business houses and family run businesses, on various types of complex M&A deals, private equity and venture capital investments and leveraged buy-outs. He also represents international and domestic fund managers in relation to structuring, formation and regulation of all kinds of alternative investment funds and mutual funds, domestic funds and India focused international funds. He has been involved in strategic joint ventures for setting up several funds and regularly negotiates fund documents on behalf of the GP as well as the LPs. Jay frequently advises on the nuances of a dynamic regulatory regime and evolving trends around inbound and outbound investments, funds, pooling vehicles and financial intermediaries in India. 

Jay is a qualified lawyer and chartered accountant and the dual qualification gives him an edge as a corporate lawyer who needs to understand and advise on transactions that are primarily driven by business related factors. He holds a bachelors in commerce and a bachelors in law degree from the Mumbai University, a Solicitor’s degree from the Bombay Incorporated Law Society and is a member of Bar Council of Maharashtra & Goa. He qualified as a chartered accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and was a practising chartered accountant before pursuing a career in law. Prior to joining the Firm, Jay was a partner at the Mumbai office of another large tier 1 law firm. 

He has recently been involved in some of the largest foreign direct investment transactions that India has witnessed, in the real estate, media and infrastructure sectors. 

Jay has recently been recommended in the RSG Consulting Report for 2017-18 for corporate law. Clients commented that Jay is able to use his legal knowledge “to quickly understand all the commercial aspects of a deal” and offer “expert advice” with “efficient situation based solutions”, and that he has a “knack for anticipating issues and this helps him prepare us for the various situations that may arise”.

Jay Gupta, MD, The Loot (India) Pvt Ltd

Jay Singh, Co-Founder, JSM COrporation

Jayam Vora, Co-Founder & COO, Fitternity.com

A fitness enthusiast and a go-getter by nature, entrepreneur Jayam Vora is the Co-Founder and COO of Fitternity, India’s first and largest discovery and booking platform for fitness services. His fitness journey and challenges along the way drove him to make a platform that is relevant and affordable for Indians to get fit.

Starting his career with a technology start-up in the healthcare space , Jayam has spent the last 5 years understanding and working towards solving challenges faced by the Indian user in their pursuit towards a healthier lifestyle. He aims to use technology and innovation to help leapfrog India’s fragmented & under-explored  fitness industry to a matured integrated fitness ecosystem.

Jayam also represented Fitternity as the only Indian start-up which was a part of the Google Demo Day - 2016 in California, US.

Fitternity is India's largest fitness discovery and booking fitness platform where user’s can discover, try and buy fitness services completely hassle-free. Fitternity , has raised over 15 crores of funding from marquee investors like Exfinity Venture Partners (promoted by TV Mohandas Pai) and Saha Fund (India’s first VC fund focused on women entrepreneurs).