Our speakers

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

Kamal Nath, CEO, Sify Technologies

Kami Narayan, Co-CEO, PreMedia Global

Kami Narayan is the Co-Chief Executive Officer of PreMedia Global and plays a pivotal role in managing its global operations and overall administration. Prior to co-founding PreMedia, Kami headed Mergers & Acquisitions at OfficeTiger, where she was also responsible for project implementation. Earlier, she worked at her family business group, where she conceptualized and executed several strategic initiatives. Kami started her career with Arthur Andersen business advisory practice helping multinational companies negotiate joint ventures and set up
operations in India.

Kami is a gold-medalist from the National Law School of India where she graduated with the BA, LLB (Hons.) degree, and also holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Kamlesh R. Tejwani, Chairman and CEO, AllGreen Energy

Mr Tejwani has over 25 years of experience in capital markets, renewable energy and entrepreneurship. He is experienced in developing, implementing and operating projects and Companies within the Renewable Energy sector. Over the past 20 years Mr. Tejwani has successfully led as CEO two publicly-traded companies listed on US National stock exchanges, with overall responsibility for strategic planning, business development, budgeting and forecasting, mergers and acquisitions, SEC reporting and capital fundraising.

Mr. Tejwani has served as Vice Chairman of Environmental Power Corporation (EPC) from August 2007 to August 2010. From July 2003 to July 2006, Mr. Tejwani served as President and Chief Executive Officer of EPC. EPC is a developer, owner and operator of clean energy production facilities, which utilize agricultural and food by-product waste to cost-effectively produce methane gas while also generating significant quantities of carbon offset credits and helping address waste management issues.

Mr. Tejwani has also served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Air-Cure Technologies, Inc a publicly-traded manufacturer and marketer of air pollution control systems.

Kamlesh Sajnani, MD, IMS Learning Resources

Mr. Kamlesh Sajnani having completed the Masters degree in Commerce, has rich experience within the service industry having worked with Taj Air Caterers (Indian Hotels), Mumbai and Saudi Arabian Airlines, Saudi Arabia for about ten years. In 1994, he took over the reins of IMS. When Mr.Sajnani took over IMS was a primarily a distance learning organization. However, under Mr.Sajnani it now has expanded to a Multiple Test Training portfolio with on ground operations in more than 90 cities nationally training more than 50000 students annually. IMS has further branched into formal education and has a Management College - Praxis Business School in Kolkata in 2007, which operates as a fully immersive facility for students from across the country spread across a 10 acre residential campus. Another entity IMS Proschool initiated in 2009 - has been initiated to fulfill the need of Skill development and up-gradation of the students at various strata specially targeting the BFSI, Retail and Hospitality industry.

Kamlesh Vora, Sr. EVP & Head - Customer Experience, Kotak Mahindra Bank

Kamlesh Vora heads Customer Experience at Kotak Mahindra Bank. He is responsible for bringing the
voice of the customer at the centre of decision-making and influencing change basis customer
feedback – be it in terms of process simplification, leveraging technology or reimagining the entire
journey end-to-end.
Kamlesh joined the Kotak Group in 2006 and over the past 15 years, has held a number of diverse
roles across the Group encompassing sales, leading business channels, spearheading digital initiatives
at Kotak Life and now heading customer experience at Kotak Mahindra Bank.

With over 25 years of work experience, Kamlesh’ s professional tenure spans across Electrical, Office
Automation, Service and Life Insurance industries.

Kamlesh is an Engineering Graduate from Mumbai University and holds an MBA from Narsee Monee
Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai. He has also completed Mastering Design Thinking
programme from MIT Sloan School of Management. 

Kanchan Jain, MD & Head of India Credit, Baring Private Equity Asia

Ms. Jain has 26 years of experience across financial markets in Europe & Asia in credit across deal origination, structuring, underwriting, portfolio & risk monitoring and fund management. Ms. Jain as head of BPEA India credit, along with her team has nearly 10 years of experience of in India credit. Prior to joining BPEA, Ms. Jain was Chief Risk Officer for Religare Finvest Limited, a SME & mid-market focused NBFC, responsible for managing risk across all businesses. Before that, she worked for 10 years in London as Managing Director at HSBC and previously as Director at Barclays Capital in the Structured Credit business. Before her stint in London, Ms. Jain worked in debt capital markets across debt syndication, loan trading & risk functions covering the market in Asia and was based out of Hong Kong with Peregrine Fixed Income Limited.

Ms. Jain has lived and worked in India, Hong Kong & the UK. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering from VNIT and MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.