Our speakers

Kailash Nath, AVP - Head of Seed, Chiratae Ventures

Kailash Vaswani, Deputy Chief Financial Officer, ReNew Power Ventures

Kailash is the Dy. Chief Financial Officer at ReNew Power. He has more than 17 years of hands-on experience in corporate finance and investing. He spearheaded a team that resulted in US$200M fund raise from Goldman Sachs for ReNew Power as a startup in 2011 and has since then been responsible for all fund raised at ReNew. As part of ReNew, he has lead the cumulative debt raise in excess of US$3 bn. for the various projects of the Group and cumulative equity raise of US$ 1.1 billion from marquee global investors such as Goldman Sachs, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, Asian Development Bank, JERA, CPPIB and Global Environment Fund. He has also led large scale acquisitions for ReNew. Prior to ReNew Power, he worked in Corporate Finance and Investments division at Saffron Asset Advisors and Aditya Birla Group. His key strengths include fund raising, transaction structuring, negotiations and corporate finance.

Kaivaan Movdawalla, Director- Healthcare Consulting, Ernst & Young

Kaivaan is a Director in EY’s Performance Improvement practice in India. He has been associated with Ernst & Young for more than 13 years with a dedicated focus on healthcare consulting in the last decade. He has led and executed end to end advisory solutions spanning strategy, operations transformation and business systems across various sectors including provider care, diagnostics and pharmaceuticals. In addition, he has been actively involved in creation of thought leadership, contributing to a number of publications and articles in the area of healthcare (topics such as Re-engineering Healthcare, Universal Health Cover, Call for action – Oncology & Infertility, Innovation in Healthcare, and Fostering Quality Healthcare for All). He has also been associated with various healthcare industry bodies in their representations to the government in regard to regulatory reforms especially around healthcare pricing currently.

His passion is working with provider care chains and their PE investors to transform & consolidate operations and significantly improve operating margins by pulling key cost and revenue levers.

His experience with key provider care clients include key corporate chains namely Fortis, Max, Medanta, Manipal, HCG, Care, Global, KIMS, Columbia Asia, Medica, Cloudnine etc and PEs namely Carlyle, Advent, Temasek, TPG, True North, ICICI Venture, Olympus etc on their healthcare investments where he was worked with them actively in their pursuit of operational excellence.

Kajal Ilmi, MD & CEO, AVIOM India Housing Finance Private Limited

Kalpana B, CEO and Chief Thinker, Grant Thornton dGTL

Kalpana has over 24 years of professional services experience. She heads GT dGTL a venture of Grant Thornton that would focus on emerging technologies and Digital Finance. Prior to joining GT, she ran her own digital consulting start up for a year and half. She earlier pent 21 years with KPMG. The last eight years that she was Partner at KPMG she headed emerging tech, ran the UK corridor and was lead partner for three global platinum accounts. She has significant experience on working with UK region for over 15 years cross clients like HSBC, Unilever, Diageo, Tesco, SAB Miller, Myntra FlipKart, etc.

She brings the business perspective to investing in emerging technologies and likes to call herself as a Func Tech specialized in Finance.

She is passionate about human centered design and AI and has trained 500 plus clients and professionals in skills of the Future enabled by digital dexterity

She has excellent connections in the Indian tech start up landscape and has participated in large innovation programs of Fortune 500 and FTSE 250 clients integrating the New with the Old.

Kalpesh Desai, Director, BMR Advisors

Kalpesh joined as a Senior Associate in corporate tax team of BMR in 2004 and has been advising clients in financial services sector; during this period he assisted in structuring venture capital funds, assisted in structuring inbound and outbound investments including advising entry, exit and cash repatriation strategies.

alpesh holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Mumbai and is a qualified Chartered Accountant. He is based in Mumbai.

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.