Our speakers
Krishna Tammireddy, Co-Founder & Chief Sales Officer, JunoTele
Krishna led BlackBerry's Sales & Marketing of App Store business in the Asia- Pacific, Africa & Middle East Regions. Previously Krishna worked with Cellmania a leading App Platform as India Head, and Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) as Head of Sales & Marketing -India. He had earlier worked with such companies as Telstra & Gametel in Australia and was responsible for Content Business Development, strategy and operations. In a career spanning over a decade, Krishna has developed strong market insights and understanding of the global mobile services industry.
Krishna Vinjamuri, Principal, Lightbox
Krishna was part of the original Lightbox team, having joined Sandeep since the Sherpalo days. As a thought partner to the founders, he drives performance at the portfolio companies by tracking and benchmarking their key operating drivers against peers, as well as supports exit planning and execution.
He has been investing in the Indian startup sector for the last six years. He loves to meet teams that leverage technology to bring new business models to markets.
Trained at IIT and battle hardened at start-ups in the US, he returned to India to get an MBA from the Indian School of Business. He worked at Tata Teleservices where he was instrumental in setting up new lines of business (M2M communications and Mobile Healthcare). He also executed distribution partnerships with HCL and HUL to expand company’s footprint for data and voice businesses. Prior to joining Tata Tele, Krishna was a management consultant at Boston Consulting Group where he advised clients in developing strategy & execution.
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Krishnan Dharmarajan, Executive Director, Centre for Digital Financial Inclusion, CDFI
Krishnan Dharmarajan heads the Centre for Digital Financial Inclusion (CDFI), Institute for Financial Management and Research as its Executive Director. The Centre aims to develop and scale digital payment innovations and digital financial products and platforms aimed at poor or otherwise excluded population segments. CDFI partners and supports various organizations, including Government agencies in India at the Central and State levels, in evolving program implementation frameworks that leverage technology to provide benefits to the poor. The emphasis has been on re-imagining service delivery to the poor around innovations in the financial space.
Prior to joining CDFI, Krishnan was Commissioner (Systems), CBEC, Govt of India where he worked on conceptualization and establishment of the Goods and Services Tax Network. Krishnan also worked for five years at the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India as Principal Consultant and Advisor for India’s National e-Governance Plan, where he was variously responsible for Program Monitoring, Strategic Planning, Capacity Building, Institutional Restructuring and Multilateral Funding for large e-governance programs.
This was preceded by 18 years of work spanning establishment of nation-wide indirect tax systems, telecom regulation, revenue administration and systems engineering.
Krishnan received Government’s commendation for development of a mobile banking framework for the unbanked in the year 2010. He is recipient of the President of India’s award for distinguished service in the year 2006. Krishnan took early retirement from the Indian Revenue Service in 2014. He is a Computer engineer and a post graduate in management.
Krishnan Ganesh, Founder and CEO, Tutorvista
Krishnan Ganesh is the Founder and Chairman of TutorVista.com (www.tutorvista.com), a personalized, 24 hour online tutoring and test prep service. Ganesh founded TutorVista.com in 2005 and serves as the company's CEO. He is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the company's business operations.
A seasoned entrepreneur, Ganesh has a strong history of starting greenfield ventures and helping them develop into robust and successful entities. Ganesh began his career as Founder and CEO of IT&T Limited, India's premiere IT and network services company, where he took the company public in 2000. After eight years at IT&T, he then went on to become the CEO of Wipro British Telecom/Bharti British Telecom where he turned around a drowning company on the brink of bankruptcy into a cash break even company. His next venture was as CEO and Founder of Customer Asset/ICICI OneSource, India's top BPO company, where he developed the company's staff from zero to 4,000.
Ganesh has a post-graduate degree from the Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta as well as a Mechanical Engineering degree from Delhi University. Ganesh currently serves as a member of the visiting faculty at Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (Mumbai), Indian Institute of Management (Calcutta) and Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad. As an educator, he has also conducted workshops on the topics ranging from Managing Exponential Growth, Entrepreneurship Challenges in Today's World, and Motivating Employees in High-tech Industries.
Krishnan Neelakantan, Senior Director - Investments & Growth Strategy, Ankur Capital | @ankurcapital
Krishnan Neelakantan is Senior Director - Investments & Growth Strategy at Ankur Capital. Krishnan has extensive experience in financial markets and investment research, as well as social development consulting. He spent 17 years in equity markets, starting as an equity research analyst at ICICI Securities and then taking on the roles of Market Strategist and Head of India Research at CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets; as one of the leading advisors to foreign institutional investors (FIIs) investing in Indian equities, he and his team were regularly rated at the top in the annual Investor Polls conducted by Asiamoney and Institutional Investor. He then changed tracks to join Samhita Social Ventures as Managing Director to build-up the organization’s profile as a specialised social consulting firm. Krishnan remains on the Board of Directors at Samhita, is on the Board of Mentors for IvyCapital Ventures and is a Patron of Adarsh, a Kochi-based NGO focussed on children with disabilities. He B.Tech degree from IIT, Bombay and a Post-graduation in Business Management from the XLRI, Jamshedpur and has completed executive development programmes of London Business School and University of Chicago, Booth School of Business.
Krishnan Raman, CEO, Flutura
Krishnan Raman is Co-founder and CEO of Flutura, a Decision Science & Analytics organization. Flutura is a specialist analytics organization operating at the intersect of Men, Machine and Big Data analytics. Flutura has been identified as one of the top 20 most promising Big Data start-ups across the globe by leading analyst magazine CIO Review. In the short period that Flutura has been in existence, it has won many accolades like being - Winner at TiECon 2014 Lightning Pitch, Winner at Zinnov awards 2014, Identified amongst Top 10 innovative products at InTech50 2014, Identified amongst Top 5 at Microsoft Solution Excellence - Code for Honor, Winner at TechSparks 2013 etc.
Krishnan in a thought leader in Analytics with over 20 years’ experience in the industry and regularly speaks at International forums. Some of his recent speaking assignments were the prestigious HANA 2014 Insider event in Orlando, Demo Enterprise event in San Francisco and at the SmartData Summit in Dubai. He was recently recognized as being one of the "Bulls of Technology" by the TechExecs Network in Houston.
Prior to founding Flutura was the Global Head of Business Analytics at MindTree Ltd, a business unit that he had incubated from scratch and scaled to a 1000+ member team. An entrepreneur at heart, before Mindtree, Krishnan had founded Atma Consulting, a Vertical Service Provider delivering process automation solution to Auto & Auto Ancillary companies. He was a strategy consultant focused on IT strategy with the Strategic Change practice at PwC.
He holds an MBA in Marketing and Systems from SP Jain and a B.Tech from National Institute of Technology, Calicut.
Krishnan Vishwanathan, Founder, Kissht
Krishnan is the founder and CEO of Kissht and in his role leads the overall strategic way forward for the company while directly overseeing critical go-to-market functions. A consummate entrepreneur and startup professional, Krishnan started his career as a technologist at startups in the bay area where he developed some of the latest innovations in networking and wireless, including 4 patents to his name. Subsequent to his MBA, he joined McKinsey & Company in the financial services practice before finally going back to his entrepreneurial roots with Kissht.
At McKinsey & Company, Krishnan has served over 15 banks and NBFCs on a variety of topics. These topics include product design, risk strategy and risk model development, operations transformation and lean processes, digital and mobile delivery of services and technology architecture. Krishnan has vast policy and regulatory experience and was a core part of the policy group within McKinsey & Company financial services practice. Krishnan has assisted various committees of RBI, IRDA and Ministry of Finance on topics ranging financial inclusion, payments etc. Krishnan’s cross-functional expertise across technology and retail financial services has helped him create the disruptive innovation that Kissht.
Krishnan has a B.Tech from IIT Delhi, and an MBA in strategy and finance from the Yale School of Management. He has a keen interest in photography and is an avid squash player and hiker.
Krishnaprasad Shastry, Distinguished Technologist, EG CTO, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
KrishnaPrasad Shastry is a Distinguished Technologist and head of Advance Development Center, part of Hewlett Packard Enterprise CTO office. In this role he is responsible for driving strategic programs and advance development in emerging technologies like blockchain, AI and intelligent edge.
In his 15 years with HPE, Prasad has led several research and advance development activities in the areas of big data, software accelerators, in-storage computing and memory-driven computing.
Krishnava Dutt, Founder and Managing Partner, Argus Partners
- 'Leading Lawyer' for Corporate and M&A and 'Recommended Lawyer' for Finance, Private Equity and Investment Funds, Restructuring and Insolvency and TMT in the Legal500 Asia-Pacific Guide 2024.
- ‘Legal Icon’ amongst India`s top 100 lawyers in the India Business Law Journal`s, ‘A-List 2022-2023’.
- Chambers & Partners Global Guide 2023 and 2022 for Corporate/M&A and Asia-Pacific Guide 2024, 2023 and 2022 for Corporate/ M&A and Restructuring/Insolvency.
- ‘Highly regarded’ in M&A in the IFLR1000 (Euromoney publications) 2022, 2021 and 2020 Rankings.
- 'ALB India 2020 Super 50 Lawyers' by Thomson Reuters` Asian Legal Business.
Krishnava is the Founder and Managing Partner of one of India’s leading law firm Argus Partners. Krishnava has spearheaded the growth of the firm which now has offices across four cities namely Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, and Kolkata and has consistently been ranked amongst India’s top law firms. During his illustrious career Krishnava has been the lead adviser in some of the largest and most complex M&A and financing transactions.
He is regularly sought out by some of the largest corporate houses, financial institutions and their boards for his knowledge and deep understanding in the field of corporate governance and board advisory. He is regarded as a leading figure in legal advisory on whistleblowing (including fraud), consequence management, board responsibility, board succession and board disputes.
Krishnava has received numerous recognitions and awards, including:
Krishnava Dutt, Managing Partner, Argus Partners
Krishnava Dutt’s experience encompasses the entire repertoire of corporate commercial practice including mergers and acquisitions, private equity, banking and finance and commercial disputes.
Krishnava has closely worked with several large corporate groups, investors, private equity funds and renowned banks and financial institutions. He has also worked closely with both the government at the centre and state governments in India while advising on several transactions including disinvestments of public sector undertakings and framing of policies. Clients have deeply appreciated his strong financial, accounting and business acumen, which helps in providing a well-rounded commercially prudent legal advice to clients.
Krishnava has been identified by India Business Law Journal as one of India’s top 100 lawyers and is mentioned amongst the India A-List lawyers of 2017. Describing him as “a sharp, distinctive individual who has made the most of the booming Indian infrastructure market” RSG Consulting (London) has identified Krishnava as being amongst the leading second generation of Indian corporate lawyers. Chambers and Partners has identified Krishnava as a leading lawyer in India.
Krishnava serves as an independent director on the board of directors and committees (including as Audit Committee Chairman) of several internationally reputed listed companies.
Krishnava started his legal career at Calcutta High Court. After a short stint at the high court, he joined ICICI Bank in Mumbai where he gained several years of experience in handling transactions involving stressed assets and the international banking sector. He joined Amarchand Mangaldas in 2005 and was made partner in 2007. He retired from Amarchand Mangaldas in June 2009.