Our speakers
Krithiwas Neelakantan, Director - Channels, India & SAARC, Palo Alto Networks
KRS Jamwal, Executive Director, Tata Industries
KRS Jamwal, as Executive Director of Tata Industries, is responsible for the incubation of new ventures (such as Tata Health and Tata UniStore) as well as investments made by Tata Industries in new businesses and start-ups.
Mr Jamwal is on the board of Tata companies such as Tata UniStore, which owns Tata CLiQ, a one-of-a-kind, leading multi-brand, e-retail platform; Tata SmartFoodz, a foodtech company offering delicious ready foods using proprietary technology (where he serves as Director and Chairman of the Board); Inzpera Healthsciences, a health sciences company that markets palatable and efficacious therapeutic products (where he serves as Director and Chairman of the Board); and Tata Medical & Diagnostics, a leading-edge healthcare solutions provider (where he serves as Additional Director). He is also a member on the board of the overseas subsidiary of Tata Industries — Qubit Investments Pte (Singapore). He represents Qubit on the boards of: Flisom AG, which manufactures flexible, lightweight solar modules at market-comparable efficiency and costs; i3 Equity Partners, a Tel Aviv based technology incubator in IoT (Internet of Things) and industrial IoT; and SDX Partners LLC, USA, which provides seed funding to student-initiated business ideas at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston.
Prior to joining Tata Industries, he served as Vice President, strategy, Group Corporate Centre, Tata Sons, supporting the then Group Chairman, Ratan Tata on special assignments such as the Investment Commission (2005-2009) and the US-India and UK-India CEO Forums.
Mr Jamwal started his career with TAS (formerly known as Tata Administrative Services) in 1989. His initial assignments, such as with the Indian Hotels Company Ltd. (Taj Group of hotels), included project management for setting up new hotels and flight catering units, with subsequent responsibilities relating to strategic planning and mergers and acquisitions. He holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad, where he was awarded the scholastic gold medal and the KV Srinivas Award for the best all-rounder. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in technology in petroleum engineering from the Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, and was awarded the scholastic gold medal and the best student shield.
Kshama Fernandes, Managing Director & CEO, IFMR Capital | @IFMRCapital
Kshama Fernandes is the Managing Director and CEO of IFMR Capital, a leading non-banking finance corporation in India that has successfully used the structured finance approach for promoting financial inclusion. Kshama has extensive prior experience across financial advisory, consulting, and academia. She has been a member of various High Powered Committees setup by the Government of India and has worked on consulting assignments for the World Bank, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Ministry of Finance, Government of India, and NSEIT. She was a core committee member of the Percy Mistry Committee on making Mumbai an International Financial Centre and also developed the SEBI mandated certification programme for derivatives for the National Stock Exchange (NSE) and NCDEX.
Kshama has been featured by FMO as a role model in banking. She is also a recipient of Accion’s Edward W. Claugus award for leadership in financial inclusion.
@Kshamafernandes
KT Prasad, MD & RVP, India & SAARC, Zendesk
KT Prasad is the MD & RVP, India and SAARC for Zendesk. In his current role, he is responsible for Business growth with a focus on helping organisations transform their customer service with beautifully simple solutions.
He has a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) degree from the Karnatak University and over 22 years of management experience in some of the top companies from the software and services industry.
Kuljit Singh, Partner, Ernst & Young
Kumar Ashish, General Manager, ICICI Bank
Kumar Ashish is an MBA from Mumbai University. Before his management degree, he did post graduation in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University. He has also completed the OD Certificate program with the NTL Institute, USA and is a certified Organisation Development facilitator.
He is currently a general manager and Country Head of ICICI Bank’s Rural Micro-Banking and Agriculture Business Group. He has been working with ICICI, since 1999, in a variety of jobs viz. Treasury, Merchant Banking, Retail Assets & Liabilities, Agriculture Loans and Corporate Finance. He was responsible for the growth of ICICI Bank’s SME business, from April 2003 to March 2007, where he managed Transaction Banking, Treasury & Trade Finance solutions and Business Loans to SMEs, as head of the Bank’s Business Banking Group.
He began his career in 1994 and has rich experience in marketing and branch management in FMCG and Retail Financial Services industry, before joining the ICICI group in Nov 1999.
In his current profile, he is responsible for
(i) banking solutions to the entire agriculture value chain viz. Farmers, SMEs & Large Agri Companies
(ii) consumer loans to rural India
(iii) Micro Finance and
(iv) Financial Inclusion through Micro-Banking.
Kumar Karpe, CEO, TechProcess Solutions
Kumar Karpe has more than 19 years of experience in the Information Technology Sector. He has held key leadership positions in IBM India & ASEAN / South Asia and has played a pivotal role in the decision making & go to market strategies. Business Today magazine had featured Kumar among the "Top 25 Hottest Young Executives in India ".
Kumar Ketkar, Chief Editor, Dainik Divya Marathi
A journalist who knows the pulse of the social, political and economic fabric of Maharashtra and a scholar of the same on the global front. Kumar Ketkar is active in journalism for last 40 years. He had started his journalistic career with Economics Times. He has worked with The Observer, Maharashtra Times, Loksatta as a editor. Kumar Ketkar has also got the prestigious Padmashri award for his journalistic work.
Kumar Shah, Head of Strategy and M&A, Micromax Informatics Ltd. | @Micromax_Mobile
Mr. Kumar Shah leads the strategy and investment program at Micromax. He is responsible for actively sourcing and partnering with companies from major technology markets across the world that align with Micromax’s long-term strategy.
Prior to joining Micromax, Kumar worked with a global growth stage private equity firm and helped build out their South Asia fund and investment strategy. He also has additional experience working with an early stage VC firm, a technology consulting firm and bulge bracket investment bank.
Kumar has an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from the University of Mumbai and a MBA from the Wharton School.
@kumarshah
Kumar Sharadindu, Managing Director & CEO, SBI Pension Funds