Our speakers

Kutty Dutta, Investment Manager, Coller Capital

Kutty is an Investment Manager based in the firm's London office.

Prior to joining Coller Capital in 2006, Kutty was Head of Development at Invicta Capital, a structured finance advisory firm focusing on film finance. Previously, he worked as an Analyst in the M&A team at Morgan Stanley in London, and as a Relationship Manager in the Corporate banking team at Standard Chartered in London.

L. Sajith Sameera, Chief Information Officer, Nations Trust Bank Plc

Currently the CIO of Nations Trust Bank, the most activated Bank in Digital Space in Sri Lanka which include most popular Digital Lifestyle payment platform - FriMi.
Previously Group CIO of Cargills Ceylon Plc - the largest FMCG / Supermarket Retailer / Financial services agent and Dairy Food Manufactures in Sri Lanka.
He was CIO/Head Of IT Pan Asia Bank, Head of IT Systems in Cargills Bank and Senior Manager Hatton National Bank.

Chartered Engineer (CEng), Chartered IT Professional (CITP), Certified Management Accountant (CMA), Member of Computer Society of Sri Lanka (MCS).

He is a Banking Technologist, over 30 years’ experience in the Information Technology field including 24 years in the Banking / Finance sector, specialized in Digital transformations, Software developments / product architecting / systems implementation & system Integrations.

He was ExCo Member of Computer Society of Sri Lanka (CSSL) from 2017 – 2019 and shared his experience in many public forums / events.

Lahiru Pathmalal, Founder & CEO, Takas.lk

CEO- Co founder of Takas.lk Sri Lanka's largest pure play e Com. Previous to takas, have played a role as a consultant previous presidential election in SL (2009). Have done field research in Afghanistan and have worked for 2 sitting Foreign Ministers in SL and Afgh. Have also been a visiting lecturer in International Relations at the University of Colombo and have published research in International Journals. 

Lakshmanan Narayan, CEO & Co-founder, Unmetric Inc

Lakshmanan (Lux) Narayan is the CEO and Co-Founder of Unmetric Inc, the Social Media Benchmarking company. The company's SaaS platform is is a pioneer in the social media competitive intelligence space, and is fast carving & owning a niche for itself in providing unique analytics across social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube & Pinterest.

Unmetric has operations in the US & India, and Lux divides his time between these geographies. He is also a volunteer and co-founder at ShareMyCake.org (a section 25 company), and a director at Vembu Technologies.

A graduate of IIT Madras & IIM Calcutta, the greater part of his 17 years of work experience have been at the helm of startups. The remaining years encompassed various roles in advertising, media and entertainment - at Lintas and Initiative Media, Middle East, and a brief stint at the erstwhile Amitabh Bachchan Corporation.

Lakshmikant Gupta, CMO, RedBus.in

LK Gupta is Chief Marketing Officer at Pilani Soft Labs (redBus), whom he joined in Feb 2013. With 22 years of experience in diverse marketing areas such as brand management, insights, advertising, media, CRM, retail and digital marketing, LK served as Vice President-Marketing at LG Electronics India till 2012. Before that he spent more than a decade at Gillette and P&G in various capacities in India and Middle East & Africa region. Closely associated with consumer behaviour at every step, LK is a deep believer in the emergent digital media and empowering consumers with best products and services, and using insights and analytics to serve them better. He active on twitter and writes on his blog www.Lkguptaspeak.com. He is based in Bangalore.

Lalit Khosa, Senior Director Sales, Exotel

Lalit Pai, CEO, Nightingales

Lalit is the Co-founder and CEO of Medwell Ventures and the CEO of Nightingales - a Medwell-owned Speciality Home Healthcare enterprise. His key responsibilities include managing operations and scaling up the business across India. He is also a member of the company’s Board of Directors.

An engineer and management graduate by qualification, Lalit is a pharma-entrepreneur at heart. As one of the Co-founders at Cytespace Research Management (a clinical research site solutions organisation), he is developing an international footprint for the company and drives its customer acquisition, strategy and technology programmes.

Lalit’s key skills - building business operations and managing customers across Europe, Japan, South Africa, India, China and the United States - have been demonstrated at various corporate enterprises. Before embarking on his entrepreneurial journey, he headed the Global Data Management Business Unit at Quintiles. Managing key areas such as Cardiac Safety Services and the IVR Business Unit, he also spearheaded the creation of a large off-shore software development operation in India.

His cross-vertical experience includes successful stints at global enterprises such as Citigroup, Tata Industries and PricewaterhouseCoopers. He also worked with MphasiS in Singapore and Shanghai as the Business Manager for the South East Asian business.

Lalit Sarna, CEO, Oxylabs Networks

Lalit Sarna calls himself the Chief Janitor (aka startup CEO)  at Oxylabs, where he is responsible for buying samosas and building teams from scratch to create games that have scaled to 20m+ users worldwide. Having worked in the heart of Silicon Valley for over a decade, his core belief is that Indian teams can produce equally high quality products - if not better.

In addition to building chart topping games, his ninja engineers have built cool stuff like a data backend that has scaled to 5000 queries per second, and an analytics platform that has collected terabytes of data. Their platform can generate games for android, iOs, Facebook, chrome apps etc from a single codebase, and magically enable friends to play with each other across devices and networks. His content rockstars have generated art that speaks for itself - ask Lalit for a demo to see for yourself. What's more, his team regularly kicks his butt at games as they have put in several thousand hours in game play.

Before starting his janitorial foray in India in 2006, Lalit built several teams and large-scale mobile media creation and distribution platforms that are currently deployed across 10 3G operators worldwide and support over 25M users. As a hardcore geek who dreams of multivariate analytics, simulated economies, 3D shaders and rendering engines, he has also convinced USPTO to grant him a few patents.

Lalitkumar Jain, CMD, Kumar Builders

Shri. Lalit Kumar Jain, Present Chairman, CREDAI National & immediate Past President, CREDAI National since March 2011- March 2013. In the past Two years of his stint as President CREDAI he has earned many sobriquet / moniker like “Mr. Incredible”, “Green Man” etc. His indomitable and unflagging energy is evident from his frequent visits to numerous states and city chapters of CREDAI. He made a furore by taking up Mission Transparency that penetrated into Central, State and Municipal bodies. His Mission, ‘Transparency campaign’ compelled the Government to initiate the process of single window concept. A Nostradamus of the Real Estate, he could spot the trends of the sector very easily. He worked earnestly to bring important reforms in the sector, mainly the Administrative reform, the Banking reform, the Taxation reform, the Land reform and eventually brought in the most important the ‘Mind-set reform’. These reforms have helped the industry thrive in a much rational and organised manner. His strict dogmas and hard core principles often put his opponent into an imbroglio. During his stay as President, CREDAI observed an inexorable growth in almost all verticals of its existence, to state a few are: mass developers responded to CREDAI Code of Conduct, the Grievance Re-dressal cell was operational in all states, the committees formed  independently resolved issues, the number of city chapters increased from 75 to 114. Two state chapters were added. His successful canvassing can be seen in responses of Chief Ministers in West Bengal, Karnataka, Andhra and Punjab.

An extrovert by nature, he may be tagged as the most outspoken real estate doyen of this era. His profundity of knowledge, commanding presence and fervid eloquence separates him from masses. He is known for his vehement argument at all level of interactions.

A person embedded with opulent principles and intense zeal towards spiritualism. His moves are often very calculated and supported with scientific premise.

Mr Lalit believes in giving people a lot of independence. Brash and assertive, he despises sterile thoughts. In other words, his name tantamount to hard work, productivity and being fearless. He will never allow fear to govern his actions.

His tenure saw CREDAI scaling colossal heights. His stint as a President exalts many extraordinary achievements like maximum number of written representations to the Ministry of HUPA, UD, PM, FM, Rural Development, RBI, IBA etc. A Draft model book was released on single window concept. A workshop was organised by CREDAI in association with Ministry at GOA on affordable housing and the entire thoughts were captivated in the shape of a book. He gave a clarion call to the nation’s developer’s fraternity to fight corruption in approval process and curb unscrupulous practices in real estate sector. The heat of Mr.Lalit Jain is so intense that no Government policy takes off without CREDAI input. He is genuinely steering the CREDAI initiatives in a world scale, offshore and onshore.

Latif Nathani, MD, eBay India

Latif Nathani is the Managing Director of eBay India and is responsible for leading the eBay business in the country. Latif is an active evangelist of eCommerce’s transformational potential for both Indian online shoppers & entrepreneurs.

 

Latif has 22 years of experience in building and leading high performing global businesses, engineering and marketing teams. He hashad a 15 year career at Microsoft US in various roles, his key achievements include co-founding the Systems Management Server (SMS) and Speech Server businesses.He was also General Manager for Microsoft’s Unlimited Potential Group in India (including equity investments in mobile payments).

 

Most recently Latif served as CEO of a product strategy consulting firm in San Francisco.Among his other roles, Latif was Senior Director, Global Consumer Product Marketing at Symantec Corp, and was a cofounder of eMemories.com

 

Latif holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from University of Arizona and graduated from the City University with a Masters in Business Administration.