Our speakers

Kartik Jain, EVP, Head Marketing & Customer Analytics, HDFC Bank | @HDFC_Bank

Kartik Jain is responsible for Advertising, Marketing Communication, Regional Marketing, Digital Marketing, Customer Analytics and Campaign Management for HDFC Bank, India’s second largest private sector Bank. Prior to joining HDFC Bank, Kartik has worked in sales, marketing and strategy roles with organisations in Insurance, Consulting and Consumer Goods.

Kartik was recognised as amongst the top 3 most influential CMOs by Pitch in 2015 and CMO with the Best Digital Presence in 2016. He was Marketer of the Year (Banking) at the IAA (International Advertising Association, India) Leadership Awards 2013. He was awarded Best CMO of the Year (General Insurance) by the CMO Council India in the 1st CMO Awards 2009. He is a British Chevening Scholar and  has a background in engineering from IIT Mumbai and business management from IIM Kolkata.

Kartik Prabhakar, Head of General Enterprise Business, Slack

Kartik Prabhakar is Head of General Enterprise Business for Slack and a technology industry executive with over 12 years of experience in building and scaling businesses. Extensive background in PLG companies & general management, Kartik has spent the last couple of his career scaling SaaS organisations by helping them achieve their scaled revenue targets. Before joining Slack, Kartik held leadership positions at MongoDB & Oracle.

Kartik Srivatsa, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Aspada Investment Advisors | @AspadaInv

Kartik Srivatsa is the Co-Founder Managing Partner of Aspada that manages a group of early stage impact investment funds focused on improving agricultural supply chains and delivering affordable healthcare, education and financial services to the emerging middle class segment in India backed by investors such as Soros Economic Development Fund, Omidyar Network and Google. Prior to Aspada, Kartik was with Lightspeed Venture Partners, a global venture capital firm with over $2 billion under management, where he was a founding member of the India office. Earlier, he was a management consultant with McKinsey and Company. Kartik received a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

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Kartik Varma, Co-founder, Proptiger.com

Kartik Verma is the co-founder of PropTiger.com. It is India’s largest online real estate services business with a presence across 8 of the country’s largest real estate markets and has been funded by Accel and SAIF Partners.

 

Previously, Kartik co-founded iTrust Financial Advisors a hybrid online and offline platform to help middle class Indians with their investment, insurance, loan, tax and financial planning activities, and successfully sold the business to the Karvy Group.

 

Over the past 6 years, Kartik has been a personal finance columnist for the Economic Times, Indian Express, Mint, Outlook Money, Money Today and regularly appears as a real estate and personal finance expert on CNN-IBN, Bloomberg, ET Now, NDTV Profit and CNBC.

 

Kartik has an MBA from Harvard Business School and an LLB from London School of Economics. He has over 10 years of experience on Wall Street, investing money for Ziff Brothers Investments and thereafter for The Childrens Investment Fund, based out of New York and London. Prior to this he was an M&A banker at James D Wolfensohn, Inc. in New York, focusing on real estate, gaming and hotels.

Kashyap Dalal, CEO, Inkfruit

Kashyap and Navneet (Co-founder) started Inkfruit.com in May 2008 with the goal of being India's first co-creation based lifestyle products brand. In last 3 years, Inkfruit has consolidated its position as the first and largest co-creation based lifestyle brand in India and the most active artist community in the country, with all products being created through community participation. Building on its strong community and brand, Inkfruit has diversified to include Apparel, Footwear, Bags and Accessories into the list of offerings for its fans and followers.

The vision behind Inkfruit is to build it into the largest online products brand, offering distinctive high quality products at attractive prices across all Lifestyle product categories.

Prior to starting Inkfruit, Kashyap was working with Hindustan Unilever Ltd as a Sales and Marketing Manager. Kashyap holds a PGDM from IIM Lucknow and is a B.Tech from IIT Bombay.

Kashyap Deorah, Author of The Golden Tap, .

Kashyap Deorah is an entrepreneur and investor. Over fifteen years, he has split his time between Silicon Valley and India building global technology companies. Besides India and US, he has done business in China, South East Asia and Northern Europe. Kashyap has started and sold three companies, worked with public companies in the US and India, invested in a score of startups, and mentored many more. He started his first company RightHalf.com during his final year at IIT Bombay in 2000. After an acquisition by a Silicon Valley company, Kashyap spent seven years in the US. He returned to India in 2007 to start Chaupaati Bazaar, a phone commerce marketplace, then merged it with India’s leading retailer Future Group. In 2012, he co-founded mobile payments company Chalo and sold it to San Francisco based OpenTable, a leader in the restaurant reservations space. He is passionate about traveling to new places and telling a good story. He lives in New Delhi with his wife and three year old son. Hear him tweet @righthalf.

Kashyap Mehta, Head E-Commerce, Infiniti Retail Ltd

Kashyap is currently spearheading the ecommerce and all multi channel initiative for Infiniti retail (A Tata Enterprise) in the capacity of Business Head. His role is charted with developing strategy, preparing business plan with successful execution and operating P&L responsibility for massively-scalable and economically sustainable platforms that help extend the reach, growth and value as a standalone business vertical within Infiniti retail ltd. He comes with a strong 360 degree experience of working in various critical ecommerce functions like Internet Marketing, Product, Category Management and Operations. After working for 10 Years into ecommerce industry with some of the major players like eBay, Novator and Rediff, he has developed a bird’s eye view for this industry. He enjoys to work with a entrepreneurial bend of mindset and build things from scratch.

He was a core part of Baazee.com team (Oct 2001 to May 2006) and worked in various roles of category management and later in Marketing at eBay Motors India (eBay bought over baazee in Jun'04). He was instrumental in building the Computer & Peripherals category which contribute for more than 30% of revenues for the company. With eBay Motors as Buyer Marketing Manager; he prepared the blue print of entire dealer buyer marketing program and finally rolled out successfully.

Kashyap Vadapalli, CMO & Head - New business, Pepperfry

Kashyap brings to Pepperfry.com, diverse and rich experience in Marketing, Sales and Business Strategy. Prior to joining Pepperfry, Kashyap was the Chief Marketing Officer of eBay India and has had prior stints at Google and Tata Interactive Systems in marketing and business development.

An Electronics Engineer from Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi and an MBA from IIM, Calcutta, Kashyap began his career in consumer goods sales and marketing with Cadbury.

At Pepperfry, Kashyap oversees all aspects of marketing including brand, digital marketing, social media, insights, creative, corporate communications and popular culture. He additionally leads the development of new categories and business segments for Pepperfry. 

Katelyn Donnelly, Executive Director, Pearson

Katelyn Donnelly is an Executive Director at Pearson where she leads the Affordable Learning Fund, a venture fund that invests in early-stage companies serving low-cost schools and services to schools and learners in the developing world and seeks market-competitive returns. Katelyn is also an active advisor on Pearson's global strategy, efficacy, research and innovation agenda, as well as a consultant to governments on education system transformation and delivery. She serves as a non-executive director and strategic advisor for several start-up companies across Europe, Asia and Africa. Previously, Katelyn was a consultant at McKinsey and Company in San Francisco and New York and graduated from Duke University with high distinction in economics.

Kaushal Biyani, Senior Partner and Head Structured Credit, Alpha Alternatives Holdings Pvt. Ltd.