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. 

Lakha Nair, Managing Director - Corporate Finance, Axis Capital Limited

Lakha Nair  - Managing Director - Corporate Finance- Axis Capital Limited. She has handled over 200 transactions, across capital market products including Initial Public Offerings, Follow on Offerings, Private Placements, Qualified Institutional Placements, Buybacks, Open Offers, Delisting’s, etc across various sectors. A Chartered Accountant by profession, she has over two decades of experience in Investment Banking and have worked on various marquee and pioneering capital market transactions. She has actively participated in various regulatory discussion papers and was member of the subcommittee that worked on the disclosure requirements for Insurance Companies doing IPO.

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 S Chowdhary, Chief Technology Innovation Officer, Lightstorm

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.