Our speakers

Kaushik Sen, CEO & Co-Founder, Healthspring Community Medical Centres

Kaushik has always nurtured a strong passion for reforming the healthcare system in India, and providing consumers with high-quality, excellent service and an ethical option for all their healthcare needs. Today, he has the privilege of witnessing this dream come to life in the form of Healthspring-a growing network of Family Health Experts.  

He received a scholarship to pursue his undergraduate studies in Colby College, USA, and received his MBA from the Harvard Business School in 2003.

Prior to founding Healthspring, he worked with management consulting firm Bain & Co. in Boston, Singapore and Delhi for over 11 years. At Bain, he worked extensively with hospitals, pharmacy and manufacturers of medical devices as well as Private Equity firms, gaining invaluable experience for his current role. When Bain opened an India office in 2005, he was an instrumental member in establishing the office. Kaushik was most recently a Principal at Bain India.

In 2009, he left Bain to co-found Wellspring Healthcare, the parent company of Healthspring. The company’s core mission is to transform the Healthcare Delivery system in India by establishing the pioneering and foremost national primary healthcare delivery network in India, and eventually becoming the most trusted healthcare brand in the country.

At Healthspring, he leads a passionate team of more than 300 medical and non-medical professionals. Healthspring currently provides high-quality primary and secondary healthcare services to close to 2 lakh users, through its 15+ medical centres, and robust Corporate Healthcare program.

He has been a featured speaker in various national and international conferences on Healthcare and entrepreneurship in India

Kaushik Shaparia, Chief Executive Officer, Deutsche Bank

Kaushik Shaparia is the Chief Executive Officer of Deutsche Bank in India and a Member of its Asia Pacific Executive Committee. He is also a Director and NonExecutive Chairman on the Boards of Deutsche India Private Limited and Deutsche CIB Centre Private Limited.

Kaushik has 36 years of extensive banking experience across transaction banking, global markets businesses, debt capital markets and client coverage, including several regional and global roles.

Prior to returning to India in his current role, Kaushik was based in Singapore with a dual portfolio as the APAC Head of Corporate Banking Coverage within Institutional and Treasury Coverage, as well as, the Global Head of Subsidiary Coverage. In these roles, Kaushik was responsible for facilitating greater alignment across the bank’s corporate coverage network globally and for driving the overall corporate client agenda in Asia.

In his previous roles across Trade Finance and Cash Management, he was also responsible for building the bank’s strong Transaction Banking franchise across APAC.

Kaushik holds a Post-Graduate Diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

Kaushik Thakkar, Co-Founder & CEO, Nevales

Kaushik Thakkar is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Nevales Networks. A seasoned business and technology executive with strong commercial focus and hands-on experience, Kaushik has built ventures from inception to corporations with global presence. In addition to Nevales, he was also a part of the founding team and the Board at PortWise (now part of Nexus).

In addition to being a qualified security expert, his areas of expertise include strategic alliances, business development, sales & marketing, new ventures, executive leadership and M&A. An excellent communicator with analytical, people management, and coordination skills, he has built strong and motivated teams and sales forces in the past. Gifted with a deep understanding of the Indian and overseas business cultures, Kaushik has demonstrated his ability to work in diverse environments, managing people from varied backgrounds.

Starting his career in security, he is known today as one of the few, leading technology entrepreneurs worldwide. He actively supports upcoming entrepreneurs and has experience of driving fund-raising from Angel-funding to VC funding. An early investor in Plingm and Nevanta Media, he is also on the Board of Mara Online.

Kaushik holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science and Technology from Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.

Kausshal Dugarr, Founder, Teabox

Kausshal is the Founder/CEO of Teabox, world’s first vertically integrated tea brand that is disrupting a $50 billion industry with its innovations in technology/supply chain. It has raised over $15 mn in external funding and has been widely chronicled as a disruptive idea in a 200-year old industry.

Started in 2013, Teabox has shipped over 40mn cups of tea to customers in 110 countries. Kausshal has also been featured in publications such as New York Times, CNN, Forbes and The Economic Times. Most recently he was selected as one of the 40 Under 40 by Fortune magazine.

Kausshal graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor’s of Business Management from the Singapore Management University (SMU).
 

Kaustav Ganguli, Managing Director, Alvarez & Marsal

Kaustav Ganguli is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal and leads the healthcare practice for the firm in India and the Middle East. Mr. Ganguli has more than 16 years of experience in consulting and industry across the healthcare and life sciences sectors. Till date, he has advised on more than 60 engagements across the healthcare value chain, spanning hospitals, single specialty models, outreach models, diagnostics, pharmacy, health IT, health education, medical equipment and devices and health insurance.

Over the last decade, Mr. Ganguli has advised large international organizations on their India entry as well as many leading domestic organizations on opportunities related to expansion, diversification and growth. Additionally, he has helped several organizations improve their operational performance and advised several private equity funds on transactions in Indian Healthcare space. Mr. Ganguli earned his engineering degree from Jadavpur University and completed his MBA from SP Jain Institute of Management and Research.

Kaustubh Dabral, Global CIO, Dabur India Limited

Kaustubh Kulkarni, Group Head - M&A and Strategic Financing, JSW Steel Ltd

Kaustubh Kulkarni is the Group Head - M&A and Strategic Financing at JSW Steel Ltd. He is responsible for leading M&A, managing the strategic financing requirements of the Group, Treasury Risk management and also handling banking relationships.

He joined the JSW Group in Nov 2017, prior to which he was Managing Director & Head of Debt Capital Markets for Standard Chartered Bank in India, with whom he was for 12 years. Prior to his association with Standard Chartered, he has worked in ICICI Securities and in SICOM and has an overall experience of 22 years in areas of debt capital markets, financing solutions and Treasury management.

Kaustubh Laturkar, Senior Vice President and Head - Digital Transformation, NSEIT

Kaustubh Laturkar has over two decades of enriched experiences in various global markets and industry verticals, across consulting, sales, delivery & business solutioning. He is passionate about art-of-possible within the digital and believes that the ultimate goal of  “Digital Transformation” is leading more about holistic transformation than technology. It is this belief that drives Kaustubh's quest of seeking solutions that simplify the business operations and enable organizations stride towards success. It is therefore no wonder that utilizing RPA and digitalizing workforce to attain and deliver efficiency assumes high focus in his thought process when thinking customer delight.

In his erstwhile role, Kaustubh was part of the Senior Leadership Team at Cognizant and Global Leadership Team of Cognizant’s Digital Business – AI & Data/Analytics practice. He was responsible for large P&L, business and strategic direction for various global markets, running large delivery portfolio & solutioning. He was responsible to run multiple initiatives at BU level to improve digital skilling of thousands of employees and was Center Head for Pune & Mumbai locations for AI & Data/Analytics practice of Cognizant.

Mechanical engineer by education, Kaustubh is passionate about solving complex business problems using power of technology.

Kavi Arora, MD & CEO, Religare Finvest Ltd

Mr. Kavi Arora currently the Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer at Religare Finvest Limited manages the Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) focused commercial lending business of Non Banking Financial Services Company.

Kavi has previously worked at GE Capital, Hong Kong as Director- Secured Assets & Cross-sell and was responsible for acquisition, revenue and delivering the overall profitability in the secured assets business. Additionally, he was also responsible for putting together an effective Customer Retention Strategy by designing the CRM and developing a retention project for existing customers of GE. Prior to GE, over the course of 5 years at ABN Amro Bank ( now RBS), he has worked in various roles like Head of Consumer Bank for South region covering the whole gamut of Banking and Financial services and also as National Sales and Distribution Head for Unsecured Assets covering Personal Loans and Credit Cards.
    
With nearly 20 years of diverse experience within the financial services, Kavi has been associated with reputed companies such as ABN Amro Bank, ATS Services, CitiFinancial, 20th Century Finance, Consortium Finance and GE Capital. Kavi is currently the Co-Chairman of Regional Council on MSMEs for CII in Northern Region and also a part of CII’s National Council on MSMEs.   
 
His has a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce from Punjab University, a Diploma in Systems Management from NIIT and a Master’s Degree in Business Management from University Business School, Chandigarh.

Kavin Bharti Mittal, Head, Product and Strategy, Hike Messenger