Our speakers

Krishna Kumar, Founder & CEO, CropIn Technology Solutions Pvt Ltd. | @CropInTech

Mr. Krishna Kumar, Founder & CEO at CropIn Technology Solutions has a strong technical background and has worked extensively with technology all through his illustrious career in the corporate world. He has had a distinguished graph of growth while working with GE where he began with a profile in technology and went to take a role of leadership in Information Management Leadership Program. This tech whiz had an epiphany when he saw the plight the farmers have been facing due to lack of information and changing climatic conditions. It is this conscientious effort that led him to cut short his remarkable corporate career at GE and embark on a startup journey of his own.

A natural ability to lead, a sensitivity and sense of responsibility towards the society directed him to venture into a startup where he used his technical prowess and people skills to develop CropIn.

At CropIn, Mr. Krishna Kumar has made it possible to help the farmers connect to technology in one of the simplest ways and monitor their farms with data collected through this platform. His six sigma green belt certification only fortifies his efforts in this direction.

In his moments of leisure, he enjoys reading, travelling and interacting with people from different fields.

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Krishna Mehra, Co-founder & Vice President – Products & Services, Capillary Technologies

Krishna Mehra, an accomplished and avid technology enthusiast, is Co-founder of Capillary Technologies wherein he defines the Services Matrix and the Product Vision and Strategy for the company. Having noteworthy experience in research and development, Krishna is passionate about the incredible potential of technology changing the way we live and use services.

 

Krishna is also closely involved in sales and client relations and has been instrumental in expanding the Capillary business in key international markets.

Krishna Raghavan, Chief people officer, Flipkart

Krishna Raghavan is the Chief People Officer at Flipkart. He and his team are responsible for designing and driving initiatives to attract and retain world-class talent, build competencies for the workforce while also strengthening Flipkart’s culture.

Krishna took over the role at a crucial juncture for Flipkart - to shape the organizations' people charter for the long-term. He laid out Flipkart's commitment to being inclusive, entrepreneurial & sustainable while focusing on employee experience.

Amidst a raging pandemic that hit the globe almost as soon as he took over, Krishna was faced with the unprecedented challenge of balancing a keen focus on the well being of employees while also ensuring that the country's wheels of commerce continue to stay in motion.

His leadership in steering the company through this time has been nothing short of exemplary and has earned him the respect of leaders across the organization as well as the larger HR community. Prior to his current role, Krishna has been the Technology Head for Flipkart’s Fulfilment and Services, and Customer Experience Groups. In the course of his tenure at Flipkart, he has also spearheaded the launch of the marketplace platform and has led multiple strategic technology initiatives for Ekart. Aside from his strong technical expertise, he is also known to be a people’s leader. A leader who brings with him the right blend of technical and people skills, he has built exemplary engineering teams from scratch with his intuitive people management and sound organisational planning.

With a career spanning over two decades, Krishna is adept at managing cross-functional teams. He has worked across diverse geographies and work cultures and is known to be an active champion of driving a people-first culture in organisations.

Krishna Srinivasan, Vice Chairman & CEO, ISGN Technologies Ltd

Krishna Srinivasan is Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ISGN, the second largest provider of mortgage solutions to the $3 Trillion US residential lending industry.

Prior to joining ISGN, Krishna ran his own venture, Neptune Technologies - a premier technologies, services and systems architecture consulting service company until it was sold to a 3i ventures’ company, Sandhill.

Krishna has a Masters in Computer science from St.Joseph’s College, India. Keenly interested in studying political sciences, he is a scholar at the Princeton University.

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.