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Kedar Rajadnye, CEO, Integrace Health

Kedar Rajadnye is the Chief Executive Officer at Integrace and a member of the Executive Committee. He comes with more than 21 years of experience and has worked with Piramal Healthcare India Ltd, where he was the COO of the consumer products business.

Kedar's entrepreneurial and strategic ability has seen him successfully lead different businesses within the Piramal Healthcare group for the last 14 years. Prior to Piramal, he has worked with the FMCG giant Hindustan Unilever. Kedar is an accomplished leader, with a track record of working with high-growth Pharma and FMCG companies. He brings a great mix of leadership, inspiration, operational experience, technical breadth, and passion for people development.

Kedar Rajadnye, CEO, Integrace Health

Kedar Rajadnye is the Chief Executive Officer at Integrace and a member of the Executive Committee. He comes with more than 21 years of experience and has worked with Piramal Healthcare India Ltd, where he was the COO of the consumer products business.

Kedar's entrepreneurial and strategic ability has seen him successfully lead different businesses within the Piramal Healthcare group for the last 14 years. Prior to Piramal, he has worked with the FMCG giant Hindustan Unilever. Kedar is an accomplished leader, with a track record of working with high-growth Pharma and FMCG companies. He brings a great mix of leadership, inspiration, operational experience, technical breadth, and passion for people development.

Kedar Rajadnye is the Chief Executive Officer at Integrace and a member of the Executive Committee. He comes with more than 21 years of experience and has worked with Piramal Healthcare India Ltd, where he was the COO of the consumer products business.

Kedar's entrepreneurial and strategic ability has seen him successfully lead different businesses within the Piramal Healthcare group for the last 14 years. Prior to Piramal, he has worked with the FMCG giant Hindustan Unilever. Kedar is an accomplished leader, with a track record of working with high-growth Pharma and FMCG companies. He brings a great mix of leadership, inspiration, operational experience, technical breadth, and passion for people development.

Keki M. Mistry, Vice Chairman & CEO, HDFC Ltd.

A Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), Mr Keki Mistry brings with him nearly four decades of varied work experience in the Banking & Financial Services domain.

In 1975, Mr Mistry began his career with AF Ferguson & Co, a renowned Chartered Accountancy Firm, followed by short stints with Hindustan Unilever Ltd and Indian Hotels Company Ltd

In 1981, Mr Mistry joined HDFC Ltd., India's premier housing finance company. Over the years he held several responsibilities, prior to being inducted onto its Board as Executive Director in 1993. He was appointed as the Managing Director in 2000, as the Vice Chairman & Managing Director in October 2007 and the Vice-Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation with effect from January 1, 2010. Mr. Mistry is responsible for the overall functioning of the Corporation.

Mr. Mistry has played a critical role in the successful transformation of HDFC into India's leading Financial Services Conglomerate by facilitating the formation of companies including HDFC Bank Ltd., HDFC Asset Management Company Ltd., HDFC Life Insurance Company Ltd. and HDFC ERGO General Insurance Company Ltd.

Besides being on the board of several HDFC Group companies, Mr. Mistry is also on the Board of Tata Consultancy Services Ltd, Torrent Power Ltd, Griha Investments - Mauritius, Griha Investments Pte Ltd – Singapore and Flipkart Private Limited - Singapore.  He is also on the Advisory Boards of a few Indian Corporates.

Mr. Mistry has been a Consultant to the Commonwealth Development Corporation (CDC) in Thailand, Mauritius, Caribbean Islands and Jamaica, guiding the company to review and evaluate the operations of mortgage financial institutions in these countries. He has also been Consultant to the Mauritius Housing Company and Asian Development Bank.

He is a Member of Primary Market Advisory committee (PMAC) constituted by Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) and was a Member of Corporate Governance Committee constituted by SEBI in 2017 and Chairman of the CII Corporate Governance Committee 2016-17 to 2017-2018. He is currently the Chairman of the Cll National Council on Corporate Governance from 2019-20. He is also a Member of the CII Economic Affairs Council for 2021-22.

Some of Mr. Mistry's important recognitions include, being awarded 'CEO of The Year' under BFSI Category at CNBC Awaaz CEO Awards 2019., 'BMA Management Man of the Year 2016' at the 37th Bombay Management Association (BMA), 'Best Independent Director Award 2014' by Asian Centre for Corporate Governance & Sustainability, the Best CEO Financial Services (Large Companies) 2014 by Business Today magazine, CFO India Hall of Fame by the CFO India magazine in 2012, One of Best CEO for Investor Relations – India at the Thomson Reuters “Extel Awards” – 2012, Best Banker of the Year in 2011 by Financial Express, awarded the QIMPRO Gold Standard 2011– Leader for Quality in Business by the Qimpro Foundation, honored with the ‘CA Business Achiever of the year’ award in the Financial Sector by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) in 2011, declared as the Best CFO in the Financial Services category by the ICAI for 2008, CNBC TV18's Award for the 'Best Performing CFO in the Financial Services Sector' for three consecutive years - 2006, 2007 & 2008 and CFO of the Year for 2008 and selection as the 'Best Investor Relations Officer' in the Corporate Governance poll by Asiamoney (2008).

Kelvin Yap, Vice President, HarbourVest Partners (Asia) Limited

Kelvin Yap joined the direct investment group in HarbourVest’s London-based subsidiary in 2006 to focus on European direct growth equity and buyout investments and became a vice president in 2011.  Kelvin has been involved in several of the Firm’s direct investments, including Avio, Finjan, Minimax, MYOB, Schenck Process, SuperMax, Trainline, and TynTec.  In 2009, Kelvin transferred to HarbourVest’s Hong Kong-based subsidiary to focus on partnership, direct growth equity, and buyout investments in Asia Pacific.  

Kelvin joined HarbourVest from Deloitte in London, where he managed merger and acquisition (including demergers and IPOs) due diligence for both private and public transactions in the Corporate Finance Transactions Services division.  Prior to that, Kelvin was a senior associate at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.  

He received a BC with a double major in Accounting and Finance from Monash University in Australia in 2001. Kelvin is a Chartered Accountant with The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia. In addition, he received the Chartered Financial Analyst designation in 2007 from the CFA Institute. He speaks fluent Cantonese, Indonesian, and Malay.

Keshav Baljee, Founder & CEO, ZiP Rooms

Keshav is a Co-Promoter of BSE / NSE listed Royal Orchid Hotels Limited and the founder of Spree Hospitality. His pedigree in hospitality and technology led him to launch Zip Rooms in 2015.

Keshav is an alumnus of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, the Engineering School (Computer Engineering), University of Pennsylvania. He was enrolled in the Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology, and was a Joseph Wharton Scholar. He subsequently did an MBA at the Indian School of Business (ISB, Hyderabad).

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Keshav Baljee, President, Royal Orchid Hotels Ltd

Keshav Baljee is currently President of Royal Orchid Hotels Limited. He is deeply involved in driving the expansion process of the group, to achieve its immediate goal of a pan-India presence by 2010. He not only designed the group’s ambitious expansion strategy, he is also instrumental in turning the group into a hotel development company from an operating one. His involvement in expansion extends to include evaluating and selecting from the funding sources in the market. His role in the company diversified when he recently took on the role of directing various PR, HR and marketing initiatives within the organization.

An alumnus of the Wharton School, USA and the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, Keshav has a strong academic background in finance and corporate strategy. He has a background as an Investment Banker, and has worked with Lehman Brothers and UBS in the mergers and acquisitions department prior to returning to India.

Ketan Doshi, MD, Pay Point India Network Ltd

Mr. Ketan Doshi, Managing Director of Pay Point India Network is a first generation entrepreneur who has set up several companies. After completing his Masters in Financial Services Management, he founded Win Win Securities Pvt. Ltd. in the year 2000 at the young age of 25. This company provides comprehensive investment solutions ranging from Financial Planning, investment advice and facilitating investments in Equity, Mutual Funds, Insurance, Wealth and Portfolio Management for senior management of large Indian enterprises. The clientele of Win Win included some of India’s best known HNIs. The company is now run by a team of professionals.

In 2005, he founded a pre-school in association with Kidzee, acknowledged as the best franchisee in Western Zone of India. This is also now run entirely by professionals.

This first generation entrepreneur’s obsession with the financial sector and providing unmatched service levels led him to found Pay Point India Network in 2008. The company is a provider of online payment solutions and a business correspondent to India’s leading banks. The prepaid payment instrument service provider has now applied for a Payments Banking License.

Headquartered in Mumbai, the company has an electronically connected distribution network of 12000+ Customer Service Points across India. The company offers services under four main verticals: financial products, utility payments, recharges, and bookings. Over 60 service providers including leading names like State Bank of India, IRCTC, Reliance Energy, BSNL, MTNL, BMC, Tata Sky, Dish TV, Indigo have partnered with the company. Complemented by a robust infrastructure and customer centric approach, the company’s strong & professional team has served over 18 million satisfied customers.

Ketan Kapoor, Co-founder & CEO, Mettl

Ketan holds an Engineering degree from IIT- Roorkee (1997-2001) and an MBA from IIM Calcutta (2002-2004). Before co-founding Mettl, Ketan led the marketing division at Isango, helping turn the start-up into one of the world's premier sellers of tours, trips & activities. He was also instrumental in setting up the eco-system for India's first mobile payment & transaction platform in Indepay networks. As CEO, Ketan brings a wealth of focus, drive and energy to the Mettl team.

Ketan Patel, CEO, Mswipe

In his role as Head-E-Commerce, Ketan is in charge of setting up a dedicated vertical for the fast growing e-commerce business out of Corporate Banking Vertical.
Ketan started his career in 2000 with Kotak. He was part of Kotak Securities for 2 years as Head, Gujarat Region, India for Online Trading. After 3 years with Kotak Securities he was transferred to Kotak Mahindra Bank in October 2003. He was part of the mortgages team and headed the western region.

Subsequently, in May 2008, he was transferred to Kotak Wealth Management, the Private Banking arm of Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd., where he assumed the role as Team Head focusing on NRI Business.

In 2010, he moved to UK to set up the Private Banking Business for Kotak Group and was heading it till March 2015. He has moved across continents post that to expand the business. Ketan holds a Masters Degree in Management Studies from Mumbai University.

Ketki Paranjpe, Managing Director, India & West Asia, L Catterton Asia

Ms. Paranjpe is Managing Director at L Catterton Asia, focusing on the India market. Ms. Paranjpe has over twelve years of experience in investment management and corporate advisory across Mumbai, Singapore and London.

Ms Paranjpe, joined L Catterton Asia in 2009 and worked on the first two investments made by the Fund in Sincere Watch Limited and Charles & Keith Group out of Singapore before relocating to India in 2011 to focus on India investments of the Fund. She has been involved in sourcing, executing, monitoring and exiting the Fund's investments in India.

Ms. Paranjpe holds a MSc. Finance and Economics, from The London School of Economics and Political Science; an MA Economics from University of Mumbai, and a BA in Economics from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, India.