Our speakers

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.

Kanchan Jain, Head, BPEA Credit

Ms. Kanchan Jain has 29 years of experience across private credit, corporate and structured finance, loan markets and debt capital markets across Europe and Asia and in various roles across origination, structuring, underwriting and risk. As Head of BPEA Credit Group, Ms. Jain is responsible for the overall business across its investment & non-investment functions. Over the last 11 years, Ms. Jain, along with leadership team at BPEA Credit, has led the creation and build-out of one of the leading private credit management groups in Asia, focused on the fast-growing mid-market corporate sector.

Before moving to India in 2008, Ms. Jain worked for 10 years based out of London as Managing Director at HSBC, and before that as Director at Barclays Capital in the Structured Credit business. Prior to that, Ms. Jain worked in the Asian debt capital markets across debt syndication, loan trading & risk, based out of Hong Kong and in project finance based out of India. Ms. Jain has lived and worked in India, Asia & the UK and holds a Bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering from VNIT and MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata.

Kanchan Samtani, Partner and Managing Director, Boston Consulting Group (BCG)

Ms. Kanchan Samtani leads The Boston Consulting Group’s Corporate Development practice in India and is a core member of the firm’s Technology, Media & Telecommunications practice. Since joining BCG in 2001, Ms. Samtani has worked extensively with clients across the media, wireless and wireline telecom, and emerging-services sectors. Her experience includes helping companies define their business strategies, establish new business units, assess industry landscapes, and conduct deep customer discovery. She is particularly skilled in helping telcos in India optimize their organizations, reduce costs, and integrate multitechnology business units. Before joining BCG, Ms. Kanchan Samtani worked in software training for two years and interned with Morgan Stanley, where she was involved in assessing opportunities in the media sector.

Kancherla Ravindranath, Chairman & Managing Director, Global Hospitals

Founded Global Hospitals, India’s first multi organ transplant centre to carry out liver, kidney, heart, heart-lung, pancreas and bone marrow transplantation (Global performed the first liver, first heart, first twin kidney and first bone marrow transplants in Andhra Pradesh). Developed India’s most comprehensive Hospital dedicated to Gastroenterology and organ Transplantation Centre i.e (Liver, Kidney, Heart, Lung & Bone Marrow).

Kancherla Ravindranath is the Chairman & Managing Director of Global Hospitals, he is head since 1999, Surgical Gastroenterology Dept., Global Hospitals. He is Trustee - Board of Hyderabad Eye Institute operating trust of L.V.Prasad Institute.He is Director-Rainbow Children’s Hospital and President of Endoscopic & Laparoscopic Surgeons of Asia.

He has done his MBBS from Sri Venkateswara Medical College, Tirupati and his MS from Madras University.

Kanchi Gandhi, Senior Vice President and Vertical Head - Trusteeship Services, Kotak Mahindra Trusteeship Services Ltd.

Kanchi is a senior advisor in the Estate Planning business, and heads the team nationally. The business is engaged in offering succession and estate planning solutions to private clients.

She has done extensive work in the area of succession planning; advising HNI families with diverse assets and interests in planning multi-generational structures.

She has 17 years of overall experience in banking and financial services.

Kanchi joined Kotak Mahindra Bank in 2008. Prior to joining Kotak, Kanchi was associated with the equity research team at CNBC TV18.

She is a Chartered Accountant. When she is not advising clients, Kanchi is engaged in reading and
spending time with her family

Kanika Mayar, Partner, Vertex Ventures

Kanika Mittal, Head - Marketing and Brand Communications, Reebok India

Kanika Mittal took up the role as Marketing Head of Reebok India at the definitive moment when the brand
positioned itself as the fitness initiators and authenticators of India. With a healthy challenge ahead of her, she undertook her role with a single minded approach to innovate and introduce fresh ideas in every aspect of business. Some of these initiatives included Reebok’s massive brand campaign featuring 3 fitness icons – MS Dhoni, John Abraham and Nargis Fakri to reinforce the fitness positioning , the path-breaking digital innovation ‘Ignite your Fitness Fire’ and more recently a successful global launch for the Reebok ZQuick. Her leadership also led to clutter breaking Retail, OOH concepts with PR & Digital playing a key role in orchestrating the reach and engagement quotient of various marketing programs. The latest addition to her achievements is the undertaking of John Abraham and Nargis Fakhri as the fitness ambassador for Reebok India.

Over the last 7 years as part of the Marketing team at Reebok Kanika has had a range of incredible results across the Communications mandate including Integrated Marketing, Corporate Communications and PR, Research, Product launches and transitioning to a new positioning for the brand. Through marketing innovations, topical digital initiatives and an ability to optimize her budget for best results, Kanika has helped Reebok gain a strong foothold in the consumer mind and heart space while keeping commercial and business objectives at the heart of all strategy.  She has been an integral part of the leadership team and has effectively led the communication of the brand to convey their reinforced fitness positioning.

Kanika has many successful campaigns under her belt including the recent ‘Live with Fire’ campaign featuring MS Dhoni, Nargis Fakhri and John Abraham, the highly innovative ZQuick Campaign, the clutter breaking EasyTone campaign, the campaign which transformed Reebok into a fitness brand - CrossFit and RealFlex and more.

Her work at Reebok has been much awarded in the form of - The ABBYs award, Exchange4Media Award and the Campaign India Digital Award for EasyTone Digital Campaign in 2010, The Exchange4Media ((IODSA) Award and OAC Awards for EasyTone and Zigtech OOH Campaign in 2011, The EMVIES for Reebok’s partnership with the movie GOAL.

As a professional, Kanika is insightful, hands-on, and believes in managing her team by empowering them. Kanika completed her Bachelors in Commerce from Delhi University followed by a 2 year MBA from MICA wherein she majored in Brand Management and ranked in top 10% of her batch.

Kanika Tekriwal, Founder and CEO, JetSetGo Aviation Pvt. Ltd.

A pursuer of optimism, drive, and excellence - Ms. Kanika Tekriwal, CEO & Founder, JetSetGo, first entered the aviation industry at the age of 17, hustling college and a full-time job. Her dream is to enable the fastest possible connectivity from point A to point B.

With over a decade of hands-on experience in the aviation industry, Kanika Tekriwal is redefining what it means to fly through pioneering JetSetGo which currently manages and operates India’s largest private jet and helicopter fleet. Through analysing the market, Kanika identified the two main concerns of jet owners with JetSetGo she went about fixing this.

Kanika is pioneering air taxis with intracity connectivity in India using EvTOL’S. Her focus is on using the third dimension, the sky, as the future of transport.

Her expertise and vision have brought her the National Entrepreneurship Award from the Govt. of India and numerous coveted lists, such as Forbes’ 30 Under 30, BBC’s 100 Most Inspirational Women, Women Transforming India by Niti Aayog, Young Global Leader by World Economic Forum, CNN’s 20 Under 40, Game Changer by Times She Unltd and Leading Wealthy Women under 40 List by Hurun India.

Kanika Tekriwal, Founder, JetSetGo

Meet Kanika Tekriwal, one of the 100 most inspirational women chosen by BBC and 30 entrepreneurs under 30 recognised by Forbes Asia amongst others. An entrepreneur who is a relentless pursuer of hope, positivity and drive. Her energy is infectious. A marathon runner, a painter, a traveler and more, she is redefining her life every day.

JetSetGo
JetSetGo - India’s first and only market place for private jets is an interactive technology driven platform enabling users to search and charter aircrafts and helicopters across India.

Kanika has been working in the aviation industry for almost a decade now since she was 17 years old. She started working in the industry when private jets in the country were far and few! Besides India she has also worked abroad and seen the industry grow (and shrink, of course) and learnt a thing or two about the industry. JetSetGo is the result of this varied experience.

Over the past few years she noticed the frustration of customers while dealing with charter brokers and operators. Customers felt that there was a need for a professional and comprehensive charter service providing a variety of aircrafts with a transparent pricing system. Given that the private aviation industry in India is still nascent, users are generally recommended aircrafts that suit brokers more than the users themselves.

JetSetGo endeavours to change this and make private jet charter very economical and simple.