Our speakers
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.
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