Our speakers
Kalpesh Kikani, Managing Director & Senior Partner , AION Capital
Kalpesh has been investing in India for over 20 years. Previously, he was a part of ICICI Bank’s senior management team, as the Global Head of Special Situations & Structured Finance, where he was responsible for running India-focused investment teams based in Mumbai, Singapore and London. Prior to this, Kalpesh established and headed the corporate and investment banking business for ICICI Bank UK PLC focusing on leveraged and structured finance transactions with teams based in the United Kingdom, Germany and Belgium. Over the course of his career, Kalpesh has deep experience in investing in Indian enterprises in the area of distress, structured equity and credit investments.
Kalpesh Maroo, Partner, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India
Kalyan Madala, CTO | Technical Sales Leader | IBM Technology Sales | Asean, IBM Global Markets - Cloud Platform Sales
Architect with broad experience in all aspects of software development life cycle and specializing in the Architecture domain. Direct experience with financial sector, SOA, frameworks, consulting and grid/cloud computing. Interested in software development optimization, Business-IT Alignment and cost optimization.
Specialties: IT Consulting, Service Oriented Architecture, Integration Architecture, Building Frameworks, Financial Sector Solutions, Software Development Optimization, Architecture Definition and Development, Software Architecture and Design Patterns.
Kalyan Manyam, Founder and CEO, Mojostreet
Kalyan Manyam is the Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer of Mojostreet Infomedia Services Private Limited. Kalyan Manyam also co-founded Indyarocks Media Services Private Limited in 2006 which operates an entertainment based social network in India, indyarocks.com.
Prior to Indyarocks, he was heading the APAC sales/alliances for a niche US based Product Company. At the age of 23 he also had co-founded a health care technology firm – Innova Health Systems Ltd. which got acquired later. He is an active member of TiE Hyderabad chapter and has been on the program committee for TiE-ISB connect conference for 2 years. He is also an active member of Naandi foundation.
Kalyan has a B.Com degree from Osmania University and a Masters in Information Sciences from Michigan University.
Kalyan Sivalenka, Founder & Managing Director, Springforth Capital Advisors | @SPRINGFORTHCAP
An astute finance and investment advisory professional who believes in strong ethical and professional conduct of business. Before founding Springforth he had over 14 years of wealth and investment banking experience with Kotak Mahindra Bank, CITI Bank and HDFC Bank. He was responsible for teams and profit centres through his career and has sharp business instincts and wide network that helps put clients and the organisation on strategic optima.
He is a CFA Charter Holder from CFA institute USA and did his Masters in Business Management. He was pre-placement mentor for IIT-Chennai and guest lecturer for Business Schools in Osmania University.
Apart from being an academician and executor, he is an accomplished orator and enjoys theatre & traveling. He has a voracious appetite for learning and is fascinated by the domains of Behavioural Economics and Financial Quant.
@kalyansivalenka
Kamal Arora, Vice-President, Netmagic
Corporate Executive and Business Development Professional: I have been fortunate to enjoy a classical Business Development Career that has included key positions with well-known firms and brands, including Tata, Reliance, Punj Lloyd, Sify Technologies and NTT. Career Track: Professional growth through positions such as Sales/Business Development Manager, Sales Head, Regional Sales/ Business Development Manager, Associate Director, Associate Vice President and Vice-President. Core Expertise: With fair understanding of Network, IT & Application Services, my core expertise lies in enabling sales/ selling of integrated Data Center, Cloud & Infrastructure Management Solutions. Appreciated for work contribution and promoted in a year or less, at most of the assignments.
Entrepreneurial Experience/ Start-up/Turnaround Management: I have 19 plus years of experience with belief in “never say die” attitude and work with the motive in bringing positive, substantial difference at all my assignments. I have successfully started and run my two ventures for nine years. Post being an entrepreneur, I took up assignments with large players to deliver two successful start ups. I am highly resourceful and well networked to deliver faster return over investments.
Proven Record - Across All Major Corporate Functions: I am skilled in all areas of executive management, including developing operations, marketing, product design and expanding into new industries and markets. I possess P&L experience and have consistently exceeded company objectives achieving double-digit gains in revenues and profits.
International Experience: My career has given me opportunity to do business in North America, Europe and U.A.E.
B.E. (Electronics & Telecommunications), Global Business Management (IIMC), ITIL V3F, PMP, VSP 5.0
Kamal Bajwa, Chief Customer Operations Officer, Tatasky Ltd
Kamal Bajwa and her team are responsible for both design & delivery of the customer experience across multiple channels for TataSky customers. After an almost 3 years long stint in her current role, Kamal can credit herself & her team as a very active contributor to revenue-generation initiatives too.
Kamal is not a typical Service-professional. Her overall experience of almost 25 Years encompasses strong & successful stints in Operations, Sales, General Management and Training/Learning & Development. She specializes in Greenfield/Strategic Project Management with special focus on operational cross-functional process “set –up” and “re-engineering”. Apart from DTH, Kamal has hands-on functional experience in various capacities / roles with leading companies, across industries, namely, Telecom, BPO/ITES, Banking and Office-Automation.
As an important “Execution-Partner” of Business, Kamal has successfully managed/participated in multiple, multi-function, large-scale projects in outsourcing, especially in Telecom domain. She has a rich and diversified experience in partner-managed-operations management in both International and Domestic context.
Kamal Bali, President & Managing Director, Volvo Group, India
Kamal has been spearheading reputed Indian as well as multi-national organisations as President & CEO for over two decades. Since 2014, he is the Managing Director and the President of Volvo Group in India.
An alumnus of St. Joseph’s Academy, Dehra Dun and IIT Roorkee (1981), Kamal has had an illustrious career spanning over 42 years, largely in automotive and engineering industry, including with organisations such as Eicher, Escorts, SAME Deutz-Fahr and Singapore Technologies Kinetics.
In September 2023, Kamal was felicitated with "Bharat Ratna Sir M Visveswaraya Memorial Award 2023" by the Governor of Karnataka. Earlier in 2019, Kamal was Polar Star: Commander” by Their Majesties,the King and Queen of Sweden for his untiring support to the Swedish commerce & industry in India.
Respected for his values’ based leadership and strong ethos, he is the recipient of the prestigious “2019 Machinist Lifetime Achievement Award” by the Times of India Group for his outstanding contribution in the field of Manufacturing.
Kamal was also felicitated with the Economic Times Inspiring CEO 2021
A thought leader, Kamal also wears governing council hats with distinguished institutions from industry, academia and public sector, including the following:
− Chairman, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Southern India (2023-24)
− Chairman of the Board, Swedish Chamber of Commerce India (2018 onwards)
− Independent Director on the Board of commercial entity of ISRO, Govt of India
− Member of Board of Governors, India Institute of Technology-Gandhinagar
− Governing Borad Member of Xaview Institute of Management(XIMB)
− Governing Council member of SDM-IMD management institute, Mysore
Kamal Kashyap, Director, Data management, HPE India
Kamal Khushlani, MD and Founder, Mufti