Our speakers

Jasmine Kaur, CEO, The Green Snack Co.

The Green Snack Co. is a venture in the health food space which seems to have successfully turned a few myths on their head. First, that healthy food can't be tasty and second, that packaged food can't be healthy. Equipped with her knowledge of Nutrition & Dietetics, Jasmine, a business school graduate decided to switch from her professional calling of Banking & Retail to her personal raison d’être and set out, a year and a half ago, to purse her passion for creating a brand and a product line that is revolutionary in terms of ingredients, technology as well as format, and can truly cater to the massive unmet need for authentic healthy snacking in the country.
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The company has pan India distribution and the products are available in more than 15 cities – via retail, online and Horeca channels. Under Jasmine's leadership, the Green Snack Co, recently got felicitated with the "2016 India Food & Beverages Entrepreneurial Company of the Year Award'' at Frost & Sullivan - 2016 India Best Practices Awards.

Jason Sambanju, MD, Paul Capital

Jason Sambanju joined Paul Capital in August 2007 and is Co-Head of Paul Capital’s Asian operations. Based in Hong Kong, his responsibilities include sourcing, executing and closing secondary private equity transactions as well as the general development of Paul Capital’s business within the region. Mr. Sambanju’s eleven years of transactional experience prior to Paul Capital includes seven years at Symphony Capital Partners where, as a Principal, he sourced, executed, monitored and realised growth equity and buyout investments across a range of industries and Asian jurisdictions. Prior to this, he was an Associate in Deutsche Bank’s Mergers & Acquisitions investment banking group in New York focusing on US-European cross-border transactions.  Mr. Sambanju has dual bachelor degrees from the University of Pennsylvania (from the Wharton School and College of Arts & Sciences) and spent a year at the London School of Economics.

Jaspal Bindra, Executive Chairman, The Centrum Group

Mr. Jaspal Bindra is the Executive Chairman of The Centrum Group – a leading domestic integrated financial services group. He is a seasoned Banker with a successful global MNC career of over 30 years. He was previously the Asia-Pacific Head of Standard Chartered Bank and has also worked with Bank of America & UBS. He has vast expertise in all areas of banking including Treasury, Capital markets, Investment Banking and Consumer Banking.

Under his leadership, the Centrum Group has diversified its operations from a fee based business to a fee cum lending model with the introduction of Housing Finance, SME & Micro Finance businesses.

He is currently the Chairman of FICCI’s Maharashtra Council and a Governing Board Member of XLRI.

Jaspal Singh Sabarwal, MD, Everstone Capital

Jaspal is a Managing Director in the Operations Team and is responsible for advising on the operations of portfolio companies as well as the operational due diligence for potential investments.

Jaspal was previously with Coca-Cola for 10 years where he headed the franchise business for India, Maldives and Bhutan. Prior to this, he spent over 6 years with ICI Paints, with responsibility for East India, Nepal and Bhutan, and the UB Group. He holds a Masters of Management from McGill University and a Diploma in Practicing Management from INSEAD, France.

Jaspreet Bindra, Founder, AI & Beyond and Tech Whisperer Ltd.

Jaspreet Bindra, Founder, Digital Matters

Jaspreet is the Founder of Digital Matters, an advisory firm in the areas of Digital Transformation, Blockchain and the Future of Work.

Until recently, he was the Senior Vice President- Digital Transformation, (equivalent to the Chief Digital Officer), of the $20bn Mahindra Group of Companies. He is a Digital Advisor to Mahindra Group, Adjunct Advisor to IDC, and the Emerging Technologies Advisor to Internet and Mobile Association of India. He sits on the Advisory Board of AI firm Findability Sciences and a few other companies in the technology space.

Jaspreet Singh, Trusted Advisor - Partner, Grant Thornton Bharat

Jaspreet Singh, Partner, Grant Thornton Bharat (Moderator)

Jaspreet has over 20 years consulting experience focusing on Digital Technologies, Technology Risk, Enterprise Risk and Emerging Technologies. He is supporting a variety of industries such as GCCs, Financial Services, Telecom, IT/ITES, Ecommerce, Fintech, Professional Services, Consumer and Industrial markets, Pharma, Hospitality, Infrastructure sector, etc.  

Jaspreet has broad?based business perspective with experience advising enterprise? wide Cyber security & IT strategies at Fortune 500 companies across the globe including USA, Europe, Africa, South?East Asia and Australia, etc. 

He is seen as a trusted advisor to many boards and enjoys trust based relationship with CXOs across many organizations. Adept at building relationships with clients, strategic partners, media, and divisions within the corporation. Jaspreet also runs the Virtual CISO office for many of the Firms clients and is a trusted advisor to client on Digital and Cyber Security Strategic initiatives. 

He was one of the starting team members of Cyber Security practice at EY and built a 250+ member team with 20m USD of annual revenue including 5 partners. He was one of the primary team members to setup Managed Services and Centre of Excellence. 

Jatin Singh, Founder & CEO, Skymet Weather Services Pvt Ltd

Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Skymet Weather Services Pvt. Ltd. (erstwhile Skymet), pioneers in private sector initiative in weather forecasting and information services in India.

The company had modest beginnings in 2003 as providers of weather information and infographics to television and print media. Today, the company has ushered in weather solutions for sectors as varied as energy (distribution and renewable), shipping, agriculture (advisories and remote sensing based crop yield, acreage and health estimation), and risk (agriculture and energy) in India following its humble beginnings serving the media industry.

Skymet envisions accurate weather forecasts available to the common man, empower the Indian farmer to plan farm activities weather wise and support Indian industry to take informed risks in the short and long term wherever weather affects it.

Skymet has started an India centric weather website www.indianweatherforecast.comavailable in English, Hindi and Marathi. Plans of launching it in many more Indian languages as well as going global are on anvil.

Jatin is an alumnus of Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi, where his commentary on the political situation in Southeast Asia were published and widely acclaimed, and has a Master’s Degree in International Relations and International Communication from Boston University. He has worked with Associated Press, Aajtak and Headlines Today as a producer.

Jawahar Srinivasan, Global Head - IT Infrastructure Services, MethodHub Software Ltd.