Our speakers

Hitendra Chaturvedi, Founder & MD, Greendust

Hitendra is the Founder and CEO of RLC. Before starting RLC Hitendra was the business unit head for $400 million Microsoft’s OEM business in India. Before Microsoft he was instrumental in building an IT enabled reverse logistics company in the US (Newgistics). A computer engineer from IIT with an MS and MBA from US Hitendra has over 20 years of experience in software/IT, multi-channel retail, and supply chain solutions. He has worked for Ernst & Young and A.T. Kearney/EDS. Apart from consulting for large Fortune 100 companies he has successfully held interim CEO and CMO roles for 3 VC funded start-ups.

Hitesh Dhingra, Founder & CEO, Letsbuy.com

Hitesh Dhingra founded LetsBuy.com in July 2009 and in a short period of time made it India’s leading online retailer of branded IT, Communication and Consumer Electronics. He has had extensive experience in setting up key business ventures spanning diverse verticals in the Internet space.

He also co-founded India’s first contextual online advertising network. Hitesh began his career as a Product Manager with a leading IT distributor in Singapore. He also spearheaded ecommerce for a global IT hardware company in multiple countries.

Hitesh holds an MBA degree and lives in New Delhi.He passionately follows key developments in the Internet business. A keen reader, his interests lie in travelling and experiencing adventure sports.

Hitesh Oberoi, MD & CEO, Info Edge India Limited

Hitesh is a Co-Promoter, MD and CEO of Info Edge India Limited. Apart from the country's leading job site, Naukri.com, Info Edge also owns 99acres.com, Jeevansathi.com, and Shiksha.com and has investments in various internet startups as well.

With almost 15 years of experience in the internet industry, he is part of various industry forums. He is a charter member of the TiE, New Delhi and also the past Chairman of IAMAI - The Internet and Mobile Association of India.

Prior to Info Edge, Hitesh worked for almost four years as the Regional Planning and Distribution Manager (North India) for the Ice Cream Division of Hindustan UniLever Limited, the Indian arm of Unilever Plc.

An alumnus of IIT Delhi and IIM Bangalore, he won the Prestigious Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year award along with his Partner Sanjeev Bikhchandani for Business Transformation in 2008.

Hitesh Sachdev, Startup Engagement & Investments, ICICI Bank

Hithendra Ramachandran, Managing Director, Carpediem Capital Partners

Hithendra Ramachandran, is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Carpediem Capital, a private equity fund focused on investing in SMEs in the Consumer and Services sector. He has been part of the team that has built two of India’s largest HR Services firms. He was the founding member of IKYA Human Capital Solutions Limited, now a subsidiary of Thomas Cook (India) Limited. As a key member of the founding team he was member of the board and was instrumental in driving management decisions that helped the company grow from inception to Rs. 1,000 Crs in five years. He was earlier part of the initial team of PeopleOne Consulting, which was eventually sold to Adecco, a swiss based US$ 30 Bn HR Services firm. Hithendra is a Post Graduate in Management and has completed an executive program in Management from IMD Lausanne. Mr. Ramachandran serves on the board of Carpediem’s portfolio company, Adinath Agro Processed Foods Private Limited.

Hitin Suri, Joint Managing Director, Suri Agro Fresh Pvt Ltd

Hitin Suri is the Joint Managing Director of the company and also the Sr. Vice-President of All India Cold Storage Association. He joined the Suri family business after graduating in commerce from Delhi University in 1985 and has more than 20 years of experience in the fresh produce business, and as a third generation member of the company, he has gleaned significant knowledge from his father and family. He is responsible for the infrastructural development of the company and has successfully run the cold storage and packhouse operations for the company for the last 17 years.

Hormuz Mehta, Partner, JSA

Hormuz is a Partner in Disputes Practice Area with a specialization in white collar crimes, penal laws, cross-border crimes, criminal investigations and general corporate criminal disputes. He also has extensive knowledge in corporate litigation in India. Hormuz manages criminal and civil disputes pan India as well as provides advisory services on investigations by Government Authorities (such as CBI, EOW, DRI etc). Hormuz regularly appears in various Courts including criminal courts in Mumbai and Maharashtra.

Hormuz also has vast experience in domestic and international arbitration matters in multiple sectors.

Apart from the above, Hormuz has immense knowledge and experience is various civil disputes and regularly appears in matters before the Bombay High Court and Supreme Court of India.

HP Singh, Chairman & MD, Satin Creditcare Network Limited

Mr. H P Singh is a law graduate and a fellow of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India since 1984. He has over two decades of microfinance experience and pioneered the unique concept of daily collection of repayments of loans. Besides an expert in lending (especially microfinance) he has experience in the field of auditing, accounts, project financing, advisory services and company law matters. His financial engineering experience of almost three decades has helped the Company in operational strategy and efficiency.

He is actively involved in SCNL's day-to-day operations and has been a vital source of inspiration since the Company's inception in 1990. Under his leadership, SCNL has grown into one of the leading microfinance institutions in North India and continues to expand its operations. He has participated in HBS Accion Program on Strategic Leadership for Microfinance in 2009 and leadership program organized by Women's World Banking at Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania in 2011.

HR Srinivasan, Founder, TAKE Solutions

Mr. Harikesavanallur Ramani Srinivasan, age 42, is a prime founder and a member of the board of the Company. In his eighteen years of rich experience in the logistics and SCM industry, Mr. Srinivasan has demonstrated entrepreneurial enterprise in the logistics discipline through sustained performance and innovation. Prior to setting up TAKE Solutions, he was Managing Director, South Asia at SembCorp logistics.

Mr. Srinivasan is on the board of a number of companies across industries viz. technology, logistics & SCM and financial services. He was also instrumental in technology investments of Temasek Holdings. He has been appointed as the President of the TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) Chennai Chapter. As a seasoned entrepreneur, he provides the leadership to support the TiE cause of helping budding entrepreneurs scale up and succeed. He is one of the key members on the CII National Committee on Logistics and also an Advisory Board member of the CII Institute of Logistics. Besides, he has been on the forefront of Indo-Singapore ventures and is also the Secretary of the Indo-Dutch Association.

Mr. Srinivasan holds an MBA degree from RA Poddar Institute, India and is an honours graduate in Mathematics from the Rajasthan University, India.

Hrishi Oberoi, Director, Games & Studios, Digital, Disney UTV

Hrishi Oberoi has to his credit an experience of 12 years in the gaming industry majority of which have been with Indiagames (now Disney UTV). He is currently responsible for the game development studio with the Digital arm of Disney UTV. As a part of his portfolio, he oversees the creative aspect of all games and is also the business head of freemium games where he is responsible for revenue of the game titles.  

He has under his leadership the studio has launched popular games like Cricket T20 Fever, Ra.One, Cricket Fever Challenge, Barfi!, Chennai Express, Hitout Heroes and more.

Hrishi enjoys playing games, learning about new technology, watching movies and listening to music.