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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.

Leny Thangiah, Head of Research Group - Data-centric Systems, Siemens Corporate Technology

Leny Thangiah is the Head of Data Centric Systems Research group at Siemens Corporate Technology - Research and Technology Center, India. His team of about 20 researchers and architects work in the area of distributed computing platforms and storage, cloud computing and complex event processing, apart from driving technology strategy projects for Siemens.
 
He is a Siemens certified senior software architect. His previous roles in Siemens include Lead Architect for large-scale software platforms. Leny has about 2 decades of experience in engineering software-centric systems, especially that are mission critical and highly available. Prior to joining Siemens in 2007, he has worked in organizations like Honeywell, Rockwell, Samsung and a startup.

Leo Puri, MD, UTI Asset Management Co. Ltd

Mr. Leo Puri is the Managing Director of  UTI Asset Management Co. Ltd. In his career of more than 30 years, he has previously worked as Director with McKinsey & Company and as Managing Director with Warburg Pincus. He has worked in the UK, USA and Asia. Since 1994, he has been based in India.

At McKinsey, he has advised leading financial institutions, conglomerates and investment institutions in strategy and operational issues. He has contributed to the development of knowledge and public policy through advice to regulators and government officials.

At Warburg Pincus, he was responsible for leading and managing investments across industries in India. He also contributed to financial services investments in the international portfolio as a member of the global partnership.

He did most of his schooling at Mayo College in India and has a degree in P.P.E. from New College, Oxford, and a degree in Law from St. John’s College, Cambridge.

He has held non-executive board positions at Infosys, Bennett Coleman & Co., Max New York Life and Max Bupa Health Insurance. He is a member of the CII National Council on Corporate Governance & Regulatory Affairs.

Leo S. Mavely, CEO, Axio Biosolutions Pvt. Ltd

Mr. Leo Mavely is the CEO of Axio Biosolutions Pvt. Ltd, a biomedical startup focused on wound management, and the first company in India to design, develop and commercialize a haemostatic emergency dressing for pre-hospital care. For this product innovation, Axio had recently won CNBC-Samsung Innovation Quotient Award 2012. They were also the finalists of the Piramal Prize in 2010 and was chosen by Dare magazine as one of the 75 best startups to invest in India.

A bioengineer by qualification, Leo has been instrumental in creating Axio with an idea as an incubatee at NirmaLabs, secured DST funding and VC investments to take the idea further to market.

Leonard Menezes, CEO, Ace Alcobev Pvt Ltd

A Management Post Graduate from Mumbai University and a senior alcoholic beverage industry professional with successful track record of over twenty four years of working experience in Marketing, Business Development, Production, Distribution, Brand Management and International Business and Joint Ventures across India, Middle East, Africa and other international markets.

Leslie D'Monte, Executive Editor, VCCircle (Moderator)

Lingraju Sawkar, Kyndryl India, President