Our speakers

Konda Vishweshwar Reddy, MD, Citadel Research and Solutions

Konda Vishweshwar Reddy is an entrepreneur with an engineering background. He had spent more than a decade in United States, working initially as a  Design engineer in a defense electronics firm in United States. He later promoted Reddy Electronic Corporation which manufactures electronic subassemblies for Defense & Aerospace industry.

In 1991, he sold his business and returned back to India.Back in India, he founded two technology and innovation related businesses and has been a serial entrepreneur ever since. He divested the major stake in Health Care India to the Apollo hospital group. He sold the major IPR’s of Citadel Research and Solutions (formerly known as Citadel Health) to GE and Wipro. He has been MD & CEO of GE-MSIT (1999-2003) and MD & CEO of Wipro-HCIT (2003-2005). With his deep knowledge in Healthcare Informatics, he was a significant contributor to Health Unite, the Government of India project on Standardization in Health Informatics.

Mr. Reddy is currently the Managing Director of Citadel Research and Solutions, a company in which he holds significant stake. Citadel owns a major stake in Medvarsity, an Apollo- NIIT joint venture company. He has also invested and acquired a major stake in Emedlife, a Delhi based Insurance broking firm from the Dabur group.

Mr. Reddy is an angel investor in startup companies including Sristek, a CRO and Adventure trails India. Mr. Reddy is also a founder Director of Apollo Health Street – an IT, ITES Company. His other businesses include real-estate, algorithmic trading, mechanical design and  retirement homes.

Kopin Tan, Head, Barrons APAC

Kopin Tan is Editor of Barron’s Asia, a financial news website launched in 2014 that provides sophisticated advice in English about Asia and international investments. Barron’s Asia is the first overseas expansion for Barron’s, which was founded in 1921 and published by Dow Jones, which also publishes the Wall Street Journal.

Before this, Kopin was Senior Editor and an established columnist based in New York. He wrote the front-of-the-book “Streetwise” column, offering a forward-looking take on the financial markets, illuminating market trends and identifying investment themes and ideas. He also writes many cover stories and feature articles for the magazine. He has also written other widely-read columns including “The Trader,” about the U.S. stock market, and “Striking Price,” about the options markets.

Prior to joining Barron’s, Kopin was a special writer at Dow Jones Newswires. His column, “Options Report,” ran daily in the Wall Street Journal. He has also covered mergers and acquisitions, and private equity. Kopin was previously a litigation attorney.

In 2011, Kopin was awarded the prestigious East-West Center Fellowship to China and Hong Kong. In 2006, he was part of a team that won an award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) in the breaking news category. In 2002, he won the Harrison Roth Memorial Award for best options coverage.

Kopin received a Master’s of Art (journalism) from New York University. He also has a law degree from the National University of Singapore, and was called to the Singapore bar as an advocate and solicitor of the Singapore Supreme Court.

Kosturi Ghosh, Partner , Trilegal

Ms. Kosturi Ghosh is Partner and Deputy Head of the corporate practice group of the firm. Ms. Ghosh has been actively involved in several high profile in-bound and outbound acquisitions and joint ventures. She specializes in advising multinational clients on their entry into India - advising on commercial, regulatory and strategic matters, on setting up processes and procedures to ensure compliance in India, structuring investments and exit options. Some of her notable clients include Telenor, Merrill Lynch, Vodafone, Tribune, Philips, VF Brands, DE Shaw, Olam International Limited, Wipro, Quest Global, Regenersis PLC, IFC, TE Connectivity, Eredene Capital PLC, NewQuest Capital Partners, and Chrysler, etc. Recognized as a leading individual, she was praised for being “an intelligent, business-minded lawyer with exceptional negotiation skills and on-point experience.” - RSG India 2015. Ms. Ghosh has recently won the special jury award-Women in Legal Leadership-at IDEX Legal Awards 2016 and was also featured in ’40 Under 40’ in Asia Pacific by Asian Legal Business. She is an Alumnus of the University of Pune, ILS Law College and is a member of the Bar Council of Karnataka. Ms. Kosturi Ghosh has completed Executive Education Programme 2016 from IIM-A.

Kota Subrahmanya, Director, Central Data Systems Pvt Ltd

Kounal Gupta, Founder & CEO, Henry Harvin Education

Kounal Gupta is an Indian entrepreneur, author, and keynote speaker.[1] He is the founder of Henry Harvin Education, a leading career and competency development organization headquartered in Noida, India and San Francisco, USA. Gupta is recognized as one of India’s youngest successful Edtech entrepreneurs and is known for inspiring teenage entrepreneurship.[2][3]

Gupta is the author of The Only Content Writing Handbook You'll Ever Need and has also published 6 research papers including an Award-Winning Research Publication in Six Sigma domain by IEEE. He is also a keynote speaker and is often seen at conferences and industry events.

Gupta is a multi-award-winning entrepreneur and has been featured for his accomplishments in several media outlets such as Aaj Tak, News World India, NewsX, Economic Times, Business World, Hindustan Times, The Hindu, Pioneer, Statesman, India Today, and others.

Koushik Chatterjee, Group Executive Director , Tata Steel

Chatterjee was appointed Group Executive Director (Finance & Corporate) in September 2013 and had an overall responsibility for Group Finance and Corporate Function which amongst others included, Financial Performance & Reporting, Mergers & Acquisitions, Risk Management, Corporate Finance, Legal & Compliance, Regulatory Affairs, Strategic Procurement, Financial Planning, Information Technology, Group Investment & Portfolio Management, Insurance & Board Governance. In February 2016, Chatterjee was appointed as Tata Steel’s Executive Director for Europe in addition to his current responsibilities and was re-designated as Group Executive Director (Finance, Corporate & Europe). Chatterjee has been re-appointed as Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer with effect from November 9, 2017.

In the last 14 years, he has enabled Tata Steel to ride out of unprecedented challenges following the global financial crisis and led the Company to raise over US$60 billion of gross capital funding. He provided leadership and hands on experience in developing M&A strategy, transaction planning, structuring and execution planning for acquisitions with transactions value aggregating to more than US $15 billion in India, Europe, Canada, Africa, Thailand, Singapore and Australia. He also steered the Company in developing a structured divestment strategy with multiple portfolio exits aggregating to over US $3 billion.

Koushik Chatterjee is an Honours Graduate in Commerce from Calcutta University and a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. Chatterjee joined Tata Steel in 1995 and was appointed Vice President (Finance) in 2004. During his tenure, Chatterjee led the first overseas acquisition of a steel manufacturer by the Company – NatSteel Asia and subsequently led the acquisition of 1.7 MnTPA Millennium Steel (now Tata Steel Thailand) in Thailand. In 2006-07, he played a critical role in the acquisition of Corus Group Plc.

Koustav Chatterjee, Industry Principal, Healthcare and Life Sciences Practice, Frost & Sullivan, North America South East Asia

Functional Expertise

  • Experienced (10  years) front-end healthcare consultant with a demonstrated history of working in the management consulting industry
  • Skilled in business strategy , merger and acquisition, market research, product branding and competitive intelligence.
  • Public Speaker and responsible to deliver both onsite and offsite consulting engagements related to healthcare information technology, medical devices, medical imaging, IVF and pharmaceutical solutions
  • 3 times "President's Club Member" award winner. First ever and only winner of Chairman’s Club award in 2021

Industry Expertise

  • Working with global healthcare CXOs (North America, Europe and Japan) and co-building growth strategies for major digital health spend categories including AI,  EHR, revenue cycle  management, health information exchange, clinical decision support system, blockchain, patient engagement platform, care coordination solution and data analytics What I bring to the Team
  • Cross-border experience in client relationship management
  • Sound primary and secondary research capabilities
  • Excellent business presentation & public speaking skills
  • Adequate ability to perform qualitative & quantitative analysis

Career Highlights

  • Active involvement in client-centric growth consulting engagements and syndicated research projects
  • Delivered a workshop presentation on the Global Healthcare AI market at GDS Summit 2019, Georgia, USA
  • Remained a key analyst partner for global healthcare IT conglomerates at leading industry conferences across North America and Asia Pacific
  • Published articles in renowned online journals and being quoted by global news papers
  • Prior to Frost & Sullivan, pursued 3 years with Beroe Inc, a boutique procurement advisory firm
  • Won 8 professional awards in a career of 10 years for driving thought leadership, business development and global citizenship.  
  • Lived and worked in India and US

Education

  • MBA/PGDM with New Delhi Institute of Management, New Delhi, India. First Class
  • BS in Statistics, Mathematics, and Computer Science with Bangalore University, India, First Class

KP Balaraj, MD, Sequoia Capital India

KP is a co-founder and Managing Director with Sequoia Capital in India, where he focuses on both venture and later stage investments. Sequoia is a global leader in venture capital and growth equity investments, and invests across high growth sectors such as consumer services, financial services, IT, mobile, healthcare and infrastructure services. KP received an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Business Management from Brigham Young University Hawaii. He is based in Bangalore. KP grew up in Chennai and is a former top ranked national level tennis player.

Kranti Hindwani, Video Collaboration - Business Development Manager - West, Logitech

Kris Gopalakrishnan, Co-founder Infosys, Chairman Axilor Ventures, Chairman CII Council on Start-ups

Mr Senapathy “Kris” Gopalakrishnan served as the Vice-Chairman of Infosys from 2011 to 2014 and the chief executive officer and managing director of Infosys from 2007 to 2011. Kris is one of the co-founders of Infosys.

Recognized as a global business and technology thought leader, he was voted the top CEO (IT Services category) in Institutional Investor's inaugural ranking of Asia's Top Executives and selected as one of the winners of the second Asian Corporate Director Recognition Awards by Corporate Governance Asia in 2011. He also was selected to Thinkers 50, an elite list of global business thinkers, in 2009. He was elected president of India's apex industry chamber Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for 2013-14, and served as one of the co-chairs of the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2014.

In January 2011, the Government of India awarded Mr. Gopalakrishnan the Padma Bhushan, the country’s third-highest civilian honour.

Mr Gopalakrishnan serves on the Board of Governors of Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, is the Chairman for the Board of Governors of IIIT- Bangalore, and is on the Board of Trustees of Chennai Mathematical Institute.

Mr. Gopalakrishnan holds a master’s degrees in physics and computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

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