Our speakers

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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Krishanu Chakravarty, CEO, Farmers Fortune India Pvt. Ltd.

Krishanu Chakravarty is a global business leader with 20 years of domestic and international experience in fmcg and agri commodity. He has worked at leadership positions in 3M and Olam International in India and overseas. Currently he is working as CEO of Farmer Fortune India Private Limited spearheading the supply chain of food and agro commodity wing of STAR AGRI.

Krishanu has a strong track record of setting up, turning around and heading business verticals across different phases of business- start up, growth, stability and maturity. During his stint as Business Head Spices for Olam International, he served as Executive Committee member of World Spices Organization.

With his extensive experience of African and Indian markets and customer interface across the globe he has played an instrumental role in formulating innovative strategies to gain competitive advantages through green field projects like building Packaged Food Business from scratch in West Africa for Olam International as well as through Merger & Acquisition route as in case of Spices business.

Krishna Agarwal, Director, Delivery, Affine Analytics

Krishna has a strong belief in the power of analytics to fundamentally alter the way businesses operate. He sees mathematics & common sense as becoming more ‘common’ with India being at the forefront of this upcoming industry.

He is an engineering graduate from IIT Bombay with an MBA from IIM Lucknow. Having nearly a decade of experience servicing clients in multiple geographies, Krishna brings with him a unique blend of technical expertise, mathematics acumen and business domain understanding.

Krishna Bhojkar, Head Production Planning, Skoda Auto Volkswagen India Private Ltd.

An ardent engineering and management professional with 24 years of experience in automotive, 2 years in manufacturing and 2 years in agriculture and sourcing. Rich experience in Projects, Life cycle management of products and plants, having completed 2 greenfield,  2 brownfield, 1 capacity enhancement and several products launches and Factory Digitization.

Currently working as Head Production Planning Vertical, with responsibility for Domains like Body, Paint, Car Assembly, Engine Assembly & Machining, Plant Engineering, Digitization and Industry 4.0, Controlling and Project Management.

Deeply involved in building Plant Strategy, developing Future Factory & Digitization  roadmap, Strategic inputs for upcoming Products for Indian Plant. Significant contributions for rolling out new initiatives like Innovation, Capital invest reduction & technology localization, Technology and Supplier day etc. Implemented digitization in planning department. Under his leadership Indian plant won 2 Innovation awards at Volkswagen Brand level, team India received recognition for frugal innovations. Initiated and developed digital planning team for Volkswagen Group in India. Lead the implementation of largest roof top Solar in Indian Automotive sector.

Passionate about Developing and mentoring people, created the Learning Team concept and established Knowledge sharing through the teams.     
Has lead many improvement initiatives in area of Quality, Product Development, Innovation Awards and Idea Management. Enabled and lead entire production team in merger (between Skoda and Volkswagen).

Krishna Jha, Investor, IAN

In the year 1999, Krishna Jha, then 25, quit his programmer job with Citicorp to co-found ITFinity, one of the first wireless data companies globally. The call was on the adoption of the phone from then expensive talking device to an extended Internet and data screen. Joining as angel investors were folks like Rajat Gupta from McKinsey, Ashish Dhawan from Chryscap, Naren Gupta from Windriver-Nexus etc.

ITFinity went on to create significant innovations in telecom software and consumer services space, with a customer list comprising of top-most telcos and device-manufacturers. The company was highly profitable and ranked among Deloitte Fast 500 tech companies for three years in running.

In early 2007 the company was acquired by OnMobile, the telecom spin-off from Infosys, providing a 10x returns to ITFinity's angel investors.

Krishna now runs TelNet Ventures which is an investor & co-founder to very early stage Mobile & Internet startups in India.

Krishna Kumar, CEO & Founder, Simplilearn Solutions Pvt. Ltd

Krishna Kumar is the founder & CEO of Simplilearn.com, one of the leading players in online education and training for professional certification courses. Krishna Kumar, an engineer by education from NIT, Surathkal, is an extremely energetic and result oriented person with 13 years of experience in the IT industry. He started his new venture Simplilearn.com in 2009, and escalated it to one of the largest players in online education globally. Simplilearn today, in a very short span of time, stands to be the largest player in project management and IT service management area. Almost 75,000 professional across 150+ countries and trainers have used the learning methodology provided by Simplilearn to grow their career, and these numbers are increasing at a rapid speed. It provides self-paced learning content, online tests and remote instructor support at various time zones.

 

Krishna, started his career with Infosys as a software engineer, but soon his entrepreneurial spirit inspired him to start his own venture - Tech Unified. Krishna was the Co-founder & COO of TechUnified, which was acquired by a public listed company in February, 2007.  Tech Unified, prior to its acquisition, was known for its gamut of world class products in areas of mobile banking, voice banking and telecom self-care. Krishna is known for his entrepreneurial achievements with a positive track record of establishing new ventures in the field of IT and nurturing it to new heights.

Krishna Kumar, Founder & CEO, Simplilearn

A serial entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in Information Technology, Mr. Kumar has a successful track record of building new ventures. He imagined the need for constant reskilling and lifelong learning way before it got established as the only way for professional advancement.

Simplilearn’s humble beginning as a blog to one of the largest global player in professional certification training is a testimony of his vision, grit and execution.
It is his passion for learning and doing things differently that honored him as one of the most influential business leaders. He was awarded the CEO of the year in 2016 by The CEO Magazine and was identified as Fortune 40 Under 40 leader three years in a row. He was also part of Economic Times 40 under 40 business leader.

Before Simplilearn, he was Co-founder & COO of TechUnified that got acquired by a public listed company, Org informatics Ltd, in Feb 2007.