Our speakers

Jayanth Narayanan, Co-founder, Mani's Dum Biryani

Jayanth Narayanan is the founder director of QSR chain Mani's Dum Biryani (www.manis.in) and the author of India's most popular blog on the restaurant business Restobizindia (www.restobizindia.com).

Jaydeep Barman, Co-Founder & CEO, Faaso's Food Services Pvt. Ltd.

Jaydeep Barman is the co-founder and CEO at Faaso's which is a quick service restaurant that serves up wraps, that is, rolls with fillings. Set up in 2004 with seed capital of Rs 8 lakh, Faaso's is opening a new store practically every month, at a cost of Rs 10 lakh to Rs 20 lakh each.

Jaydeep thought of the idea for Faaso's based on the Kati rolls he had seen in his hometown of Kolkata, West Bengal. After his MBA, Barman moved to Pune, Maharashtra to work for Brainvisa Technologies. In Pune, Barman met Kallol Banerjee who was also an alumnus of IIM Lucknow and they both founded Faaso’s as a part-time business in 2004.

Jaydeep has a degree in production engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, an MBA from IIM-Lucknow and has done a management programme at INSEAD, France. Subsequently he moved to London to work as a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Co. for 5 years before moving back to India to work full time at Fasso's.

Jaydeep Nargund, Head Services, Akamai Technologies

Jaydeep Nargund is the Sr. Service Line Manager at Akamai Technologies region. Akamai Technologies, Inc. provides services for accelerating and improving the delivery of content and applications over the Internet, from live and on-demand streaming videos to conventional content on Websites, to tools that help people transact business.

He has been with Akamai for more than 5 years and has played various roles in this tenure at Akamai. Jaydeep holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Bangalore University. In his previous work life has been involved in various technical leadership positions with major IT services organizations. 

Jaydeep Shetty, CEO, Mineral Fashions Pvt Ltd

After having worked in Media, Cinema and Retail, I have had an exciting career graph with almost no dull moments.

Specialize in incubating new ventures and have worked on Operations and Marketing across varied product and service groups. Huge ability to multitask both large and small projects.

Strong skills in business planning and reducing complexity in operations and merchandising.

I have had intense exposure to senior management professionals in top international companies, as well as design service providers across the globe. Can work with people of virtually every country or culture with ease.

I possess an informal management style and am low on theory, high on execution.

I have been profit centre head for three businesses in Future Group Retail.

Specialties: Branding and Identity, Operations Business Development and Incubation of New Businesses

Jayesh Bhargava, Head - Sales, Corporate Trust and Loan Agency, HSBC

Mr. Jayesh Bhargava is Senior Vice President at HSBC Securities Services in Mumbai. He heads the sales team of Corporate Trustee and Loan Agency business in India which comprises of escrow services, Bankers to Issues and Trustee products. He has a rich experience in the banking and financial services industry for more than 15 years. He was working with the Deutsche Bank Corporate Banking division in the German Mid Bank segment prior to his role with HSBC.

He is a Chartered Accountant and a Cost Accountant by profession.

Jayesh Taori, Associate Vice President - Primary Market Relationship, NSE

Shri Jayesh Taori, Associate Vice President, Primary Market Relationship, National Stock Exchange is currently Heading the SME platform and supporting the SMEs of our country to list on NSE Emerge.

He is a Company Secretary and fellow member of ICSI, India and ICSA United Kingdom and has over 16 years of experience.

Jayesh, joined NSE in 2007, as a part of the Membership team handling member registration, compliances & other membership continuation processes. In the year 2011, he was pulled to be part of a project team for the launch of a platform for growing SMEs to list on the stock exchange. The platform was successfully launched in 2012 and was named NSE Emerge. Further, he also actively contributed to the launch of Emerge-ITP, an Institutional Trading Platform for start-ups and young companies to list without an IPO in the year 2013. Jayesh continues to play a pivotal role in engaging with stakeholders like SEBI, Merchant Bankers, State Governments, Industrial Associations, MSMEs and managing primary market relationships.

Jennifer Choi, VP, Industry and External Affairs - EMEA

Jennifer Choi manages EMPEA’s member and industry engagement initiatives. Jennifer runs the association's regional Member Councils, and works with EMPEA's Legal and Regulatory Council to encourage policy frameworks that support the growth of the asset class. A frequent speaker and commentator on the industry, Jennifer also oversees the association's communications with the media and non-industry audiences, as well as EMPEA's institutional partnerships and global collaboration efforts.

As EMPEA’s first research director from 2006 to 2011, Jennifer built EMPEA's content portfolio, including the EMPEA Insights and Private Equity Impact Case Studies series, and led the creation of the industry's first global database of private equity activity in emerging markets.

Prior to EMPEA, Jennifer was a consultant with Boston-based Stax Inc., leading due diligence engagements and providing advisory services and portfolio company strategic planning support for the private equity industry. Jennifer’s previous experience includes organizational development and strategy consulting for clients in the healthcare, financial services and pharmaceutical sectors.

Jennifer holds a Masters in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University and a B.A. summa cum laude in Economics and Political Science from Augustana College.

Jeremy Foo, Principal & Co-Founder, Foundation Private Equity

Jessica Wong, Partner of Cyber Carrier Vice President of Investment, Yeahmobi | @YeahMobiInc

Being Vice President of Yeahmobi Investment, Founder & Managing Director of Cyber Carrier VC Fund, Ms. Jessica Wong is a dynamic professional and a specialist in business network consolidating. She is responsible for all Yeahmobi’s investment operation in India, which covers business development, brand building and management, investment strategic planning and execution, and post-investment incubational management etc.

Jessica Wong has extensive experience in the field of venture capital investment for TMT project and corporate clientele business development through association with hi-tech companies, fund managers and other investors in China, India and the US.

Jessie paul, CEO, Paul Writer Advisory

As the Chief Marketing Officer of Wipro?s IT business, and previously as the Global Brand Manager at Infosys, Jessie Paul has used marketing innovations to communicate brand values in a frugal, yet effective manner.

She quit Wipro Technologies, to start her own enterprise focused on providing a marketing backbone for B2B brands. "India has a fairly immature marketing ecosystem for B2B brands. we are good at innovation but not at marketing. I want to help change that through (her new firm) Paul Writer Strategic Advisory, she says. She plans to be a trusted advisor to emerging B2B brands, providing them with strategic marketing advice, crash courses and by building a network for B2B marketers to brainstorm. The vocational coffee planter has given a personal touch to her new company's name. Over a century ago, her grandfather was a writer, a trusted executive on an estate who took care of everything from marketing crops to accounts. It's the same kind of trust Paul now wants to build with her future clients.