Our speakers
Jim Campbell, Director-Financial Compliance, APAC, Verint
Jim is a veteran of the telecommunications industry and currently works with Verint as the Director of Financial Compliance and Partner Manager for the APAC region. He has over 20 years’ experience working at NEC, NICE, Avaya, and Genesys. In his previous role at Genesys, Jim was the APAC Director of Customer Success and before that the APAC Solution Lead and subject matter expert for WEM. Jim has an MSc in Telecommunications and a BA in Economics. Originally from Perth, Australia, Jim now lives in Singapore with his family.
Jimmy Mahtani, Head, India Investments, Baring Asia
Mr Jimmy Mahtani heads the India investment team of Baring Private Equity Asia Group, an Asia dedicated investment management firm with US$ 2.5 bn under management. At Baring Asia, Jimmy has led investments in metals (Bhushan Power & Steel), organic textiles (Pratibha Syntex), edible oils (KS Oils), retail financial services (Karvy Stock Broking & Sharekhan), engineering & construction (Rithwik Projects) and real estate services (RSP Design).
Prior to Baring, Jimmy worked with General Atlantic Partners and helped establish their practice in India. Previously he was with the North America investment banking teams at Bear Stearns and Merrill Lynch. Jimmy graduated with honours from Georgetown University.
Jinesh Shah, Founding Partner, Omnivore Partners | @OmnivoreFund
Jinesh Shah is the co-founder of Omnivore Partners, a venture fund investing in early stage Indian start-ups developing breakthrough technologies for food, agriculture and rural livelihoods.
Omnivore invests in the following domains:
1) Agriculture Technology
- Digital platform, big data solutions
- Precision agriculture, Internet of Things
- Remote Sensing, UAVs, farm automation
- Sustainable inputs
2) Innovative Food
- Branded products, novel ingredients
- New food processing technologies
- Value chains linked to farmers
- Traceability, food safety and nutrition solutions
3) Rural Livelihoods
- Water management
- Fintech for farmers
- Efficient energy tech
- Supply chain tech
Jinesh is a Director for multiple Omnivore-backed startups, including Stellapps Technologies, Barrix Agro Sciences, Retigence Technologies and FR8. Previously, Jinesh was the Vice President and CFO at Nexus Venture Partners, one of India’s leading early stage venture capital funds, where he lead the finance organization and also few select portfolio investments. He earlier served in Finance roles with Datamatics (leading Treasury/M&A), Patni Computers (initiating the IPO process), and HCL Technologies (founding the BPO business).
He is a Chartered Accountant with B.Com from R. A. Poddar College and an MMS (Finance) from the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS).
Jitendra Gupta, Managing Director, PayU Payments India
Jitendra is Founder and MD of Citrus Pay, a leading digital payments company in India. He has more than 12 years of work experience in banking and financial services industry and considered an expert in payments industry. Prior to Citrus, he was working with ICICI bank for 7 years, wherein he was part of founding team of Retail cross sell and Investment banking division in the bank. During his last stint with the bank, he led the whole initiative of stitching a joint venture between ICICI bank and First Data in Indian market. This was a unique JV ever done between a bank and an independent payments company.
In last 4 years, he has grown Citrus in to 300 member+ strong team and raised over USD 30 million so far. Citrus counts its investors base from Sequoia Capital and E-context Japan to Ascent Capital in Series C round. He has graduated from Sydenham College, Mumbai and a qualified Chartered Accountant.
Jitendra Gupta, Co-founder,CitrusPay &, Managing Director, PayU India
He has more than 12 years of work experience in banking and financial services industry and considered an expert in payments industry. Prior to Citrus, he was working with ICICI bank for 7 years, wherein he was part of founding team of Retail cross sell and Investment banking division in the bank. During his last stint with the bank, he led the whole initiative of stitching a joint venture between ICICI bank and First Data in Indian market. This was a unique JV ever done between a bank and an independent payments company.
In last 4 years, he has grown Citrus in to 300 member+ strong team and raised over USD 30 million so far. Citrus counts its investors base from Sequoia Capital and E-context Japan to Ascent Capital in Series C round. He has graduated from Sydenham College, Mumbai and a qualified Chartered Accountant.
Jitendra Gupta, Founder & CEO, Jupiter
Jitendra Kumar, CTO, Simplilearn
Jitendranath Patri, Chief - Marketing Brand & Customer Loyalty, Central (Future Group)
Jitendranath Patri, is currently the Chief of Marketing & Head of Customer Loyalty for Central. Central is the fashion department store from the Future Group and is located in Bangalore.
His journey has taken him through the world of advertising, Direct Marketing & database management where he spent close to 12 years with Mudra, JWT, WCJ, RMG Connect & IQMen Data Solutions; IT marketing with SAP & from 2008 he has been with Central.
In the last 8 years tenure at Central he has played a pivotal role in making Central a fashion destination; in launching the Loyalty Program - which in the last 4 years of its launch contributes to 78% of overall sales.
He is presently working on bettering customer experience at store; using social media to better engagement with loyalty customers.
Jitesh Nair, Country Lead - Hybrid IT Services, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Work Experience
2015 – Present: Lead, HIT Services in Advisory & Professional Service Unit
2006-2015: Various roles in HP /HPE. Last Assignment Large Deal Architect
1996-2006: Tata Telecom / Avaya Global Connect
Education
BE – Electronics & Communication
Post Graduate Dip In Management
Engagement with Customers for Identifying their Business IT Challenges/Requirements and Address the same with Right Solution Framework
Driving Business solution from Data Center Design Build to Hybrid IT
Managing the Business Unit
Jitin Sethi, Partner, L.E.K Consulting
Jitin Sethi a partner at L.E.K. Consulting’s Global Education Practice. He is a founding member and leader of the GEP. Jitin has delivered education cases across the globe, and has extensive experience across all education segments, including K-12, Higher Education, Transnational Education, English Language Training, Education Technology and Corporate Training.
Jitin is focused on the education work in emerging markets, where he has advised leading clients and investors on marquee deals. He works closely with private equity clients, tertiary institutions and school companies on investment opportunities, full potential assessment, business plan development, pricing uplift opportunity, and go-to-market strategy. Jitin holds a Bachelor’s of Engineering from Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University and an MBA from the Indian School of Business.