Our speakers

Maninder Saluja, Partner, Private Equity, Quilvest

Mani is a Partner based in and responsible for the oversight of Quilvest's Hong Kong office, from where he co-manages QS GEO PEP, Quilvest's Global Emerging Opportunities Private Equity Program. In addition, he sources and executes direct and co-investment opportunities primarily in Asia and Latin America as well as selectively in Central & Eastern Europe and Africa.

Prior to joining Quilvest, Mani worked at Alvarez & Marsal, a prominent crisis management and restructuring advisory firm, where he worked with creditors and distressed companies in various operational and financial turnaround situations across the United States and Latin America. Prior to A&M, Mani worked as the Director of Finance and Strategic Planning for a communications provider in the Northeastern United States. His responsibilities included capital raising, M&A, partnerships, plan development, and product pricing.

Mani started his career in the Media & Communications and International investment banking practices of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, both in New York and Hong Kong, where he worked on a variety of high yield, M&A, restructuring, public and private equity transactions. During his time at DLJ, Mani worked on transactions across the US, Western and Eastern Europe, Latin America and Asia.

Mani received his MBA from the Harvard Business School and a BBA with a concentration in finance from the University of Michigan. Mani is a board member or observer on a number of Quilvest's fund and direct investments. In addition, Mani is an Advisory Council member of EMPEA, the Emerging Market Private Equity Association.

Manish Agarwal, CEO, Nazara Technologies

Manish Agarwal is the CEO of Nazara Technologies Pvt.Ltd. He is a self-confessed intrapreneur, where he incubates new ideas working with startups and has been a marketer par excellence with global brands where he has scaled new businesses to great heights. He lives his dream of showcasing world class Indian mobile games in the global market place. He is an alumnus of IIM A and NIT Warangal.

Manish Bhatia, President - Technology, Analytics, and Capabilities, Lendingkart

Manish Choksi, Vice Chairman, Asian Paints Limited

Manish Dalal, Member, Mumbai Angels

Mr. Manish Dalal is the Vice President for Verisign, Asia Pacific. Manish leads the business development, marketing, and partner management activities of the Naming business in Asia-Pacific. Prior to Verisign, Manish was Yahoo's Senior Director of mobile products for India. He worked with Yahoo! for approximately 5 years and helped build the mobile and broadband business at Yahoo!

Before joining Yahoo!, Manish was a Principal at Strategy Consulting Firm Pittiglio Rabin Todd McGrath (PRTM), where he spent several years consulting to senior management in blue-chip telecom companies like Qualcomm, Cisco, and Qwest. Prior to PRTM, Manish led Motorola's product management efforts in the cellular messaging space where he was responsible for product innovation and development in the short messaging and multimedia messaging space. Manish holds a Bachelor Degree in Computer Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology (US), a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University (US), and an MBA from the U.niversity of Chicago (US). 

Manish Dureja, VP - Marketing, Jet Airways

Mr Manish Dureja an Indian National, joined the Company in May 1999 as a Marketing Manager. He has a diversified experience of 15 years in Marketing, CRM, Loyalty, Business Development, Pricing, & Revenue Management. In the year 2007 he was deputed to Jet Airways, United States of America, where he was responsible for the Marketing & Sales function during the initial startup phase. In April 2011 he moved back to India as Vice President - Marketing. Currently he is responsible for Passenger Marketing, In-flight Entertainment, design and development of Products, Ancillary Revenues and JetPrivilege. 

Manish Dureja, MD, JetPrivilege

Manish Dureja is the Managing Director of Jet Privilege, based in Mumbai. He has been at the helm of Jet Privilege, since its inception and has overseen the stupendous growth of the company, which, over a year and half, has established itself as India’s leading loyalty and rewards management company.

Manish is an active member of many professional societies and is a thought leader on marketing, loyalty programme design & development, strategic planning, airline revenue management and CRM. He has extensive practical, hands-on experience working in the USA, Canada and India.

Manish Gupta , CEO, Indegene Lifesystems Pvt Ltd

Manish Gupta co-founded Indegene in 1998. He is Chief Executive Office and is responsible for overall realization of the company’s vision. In the last decade, he has led the company’s strategy, M&A, capability development and globalization initiatives. He spends his time across the company’s US, China and India offices driving thought leadership, organizational development and market expansion initiatives. He is one of the industry’s foremost leaders in building deep multi-national healthcare focused teams. Prior to starting Indegene, he was associated with Infosys Technologies. He holds a B. Tech from IIT–BHU, Varanasi, and an MBA from the IIM, Ahmedabad.

Manish Gupta, Sr. Director & General Manager for Data Centre & Compute Solutions, Dell Technologies India

Manish Gupta is the Sr. Director & General Manager for Data Centre & Compute Solutions at Dell Technologies India. He manages the solutions around Server, Hyper Converged Infrastructure and Networking portfolio for the India geography. 

Manish brings in varied professional experience from the IT industry having worked in various leadership positions for organizations such as IBM and Lenovo over the last many years. In addition to the managing the India geography, he has led large business teams across global markets such as Asia Pacific, Latin American, Central and Eastern Europe and Middle East. He is a Fulbright scholar and was awarded the Fulbright – Nehru Fellowship for Leadership in Management by the US Department of State.

He has travelled extensively across the globe and brings with him vast knowledge and experiences on people, culture, technology and business.

Manish has a B.E. degree from Panjab University and has done his Post Graduate in Management from Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow.

Manish Gupta, Associate Vice President- Investments, TVS Capital

Manish is with TVS Capital since June 2008 and currently focuses on investments in sectors like agriculture, food processing and restaurants. He brings with him nine years of professional experience across multiple industries - food, food service, consumer, capital goods, power and oil & gas.

Manish has joined TVS Capital after spending two and half years in equity research for global sell side equity research houses as part of Irevna (A division of CRISIL Ltd.). Prior to joining Irevna, he was with Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited for almost two years in the commercial role.

Manish has done Executive program in Strategy from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (India). He is a CFA (from CFA Institute, USA), Chartered Accountant (India) and a Company Secretary (India). Manish has All-India merit ranks in Chartered Accountancy and Company Secretary program. He is also a University ranker in graduation course and is a national scholarship holder.