Our speakers
Mahesh Deshmukh, CMD, Chetas Control Systems Private Ltd
Mr Mahesh Deshmukh has 25 years experience in corporate. Well rounded Engineering expertise in developing Embedded technology. Currently he serves as a managing director of Chetas Control Systems Pvt. Ltd.
With Good professional record Mehesh deshmukh has done B.E. (Electronics & Telecommunication) and Diploma in Business Management. Some of his professional achievements are G.S. Parkhe Industrial Merit Award by Mahratta Camber of Commerce Industries & Agriculture for the manufacturing product Ultrasonic Flow Meters in India. Initiated manufacturing unit at Parwanoo-Himachal Pradesh for Battery Powered Ultrasonic Water Meters. Bagged largest order for Multipath Ultrasonic Flow Meters of Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board, Bangalore. Bagged largest order for AMR water metering projects of Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai.
Mahesh Kanchan, CEO, Del Monte Foods India
Mahesh Khaitan, Director, Salarpuria Sattva Group
A well-known leader in the real estate business, Mr. Mahesh Khaitan, is a Director in Salarpuria Sattva Group. With two and a half decades of expertise, he has a credit of executing over 110 projects across the country. A maestro in every aspect of the project from planning to design, construction, coordination, execution and administration, he leaves no stone unturned to ensure that every customer, be it residential or corporate, gets a perfect living or working space.
He is responsible for crafting the Group’s foray into Hyderabad with over 18 million sq. ft. of commercial development in the city, setting up IT Tech parks of global standards. Knowledge City a flagship project of the group is the testimony to his ardent project engineering and development skills.
Well-versed in legal matters and sanctions, Mr. Mahesh Khaitan keeps abreast of the latest technologies and innovations in the business. A people’s person, his relationship with customers and civic agencies have won him a loyal base of admirers, who vouch for his professionalism and humane qualities.
A committed family man, he is also interested in crunching cricket numbers and strategy while off the construction pitch.
Mahesh Kolli, Founder, President & Joint MD, Greenko Wind Project Pvt. Ltd
Mahesh started his career in the energy sector and went on to build his entrepreneurial interests in Information Technology and Environmental space.
He is experienced in the Emissions trading markets and was co-founder, with Anil Chalamalasetty, of Lytag Asia, an environmental solutions company focused on Coal Gasification and transforming waste from thermal power plants into light weight building products. Within Greenko, he is responsible for driving the vision, business development and new project initiatives of the Group.
Mahesh is a regular speaker at Carbon Market & Clean Energy conferences around the world and is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering from Karnataka, India.
Mahesh Krishnan, Angel Investor, Inflection Point Ventures
Mahesh Murthy, Partner, Seedfund
Mahesh Murthy is a founding partner at Seedfund, and has over 26 years of marketing and communications experience, of which 15 years are in online marketing. Mahesh has worked with Grey in India and Ogilvy in Hong Kong, where he won notoriety and awards as a creative director on HP, The Economist, Pepsi and MTV.
He moved to a Silicon Valley firm, CKS Partners (later, USWeb/CKS) as Creative Director, GM and Partner – where he helped launch the first commercial version of Yahoo in 1995 and the Earth’s Biggest Bookstore campaign for Amazon.com in 1997. Mahesh then returned to India to run Channel V, till its sale to Newscorp in 2000 and then founded Passionfund to invest in startups. He also set up Pinstorm in Bombay which is today among the world's leading digital marketing firms.
Mahesh has a passion for early-stage investing and teamed up with Pravin Gandhi and Bharati Jacob (ex-Infinity) in 2006 to set up Seedfund, today a leading early-stage venture capital fund in India.
Mahesh Narayanan, Global Chief Operating Officer, Saavn
Mahesh Narayanan is the Global Chief Operating Officer at Saavn. Based out of India’s Mumbai office, he oversees numerous functions of the company to encourage growth and support Saavn’s expansion. Narayanan is one of India’s top digital business leaders with over 15 years of experience across businesses in the mobile, ad-tech and consumer Internet spaces. He has been featured as one of the Top 99 Tech Indians twice (2012 and 2014), by Exhibit - a leading tech publication. Mahesh has held various senior leadership positions across global technology media companies such as Google, AdMob and Sociomantic. He has been a part of three companies that exited successfully through an acquisition. He spent 7 years at Google India across various functions and was awarded the Google Hero for his outstanding contribution to the organization. He joined AdMob as the Country Manager for India in 2009, and moved back to Google after the acquisition of AdMob.
Mahesh was named the Mobile Marketing Person of the Year at the Indira Marketing Excellence awards in 2011. He has also been featured in the Digital Power 100 list as one of the icons of India’s Digital ecosystem in 2012 by Impact, a leading advertising, media and marketing publication.
Mahesh Pratapneni, Co-Founder & Board Member, MedGenome
Mahesh Pratapneni co-founder and Board Member of MedGenome. He has led strategy, partnerships and corporate development including fundraising for the company. Mahesh is the founder and MD of Emerge Ventures that specializes in incubating product companies in the education, healthcare, and data/analytics sectors. He is known for building outstanding global teams and comes with broad experience in product visualization, development, management and building global delivery models. He holds a B. Tech. degree in Electronics and Communications from IIT Madras and an MBA from IIM Calcutta.
Mahesh Ramamoorthy, CIO, Yes Bank
Mahesh is the Chief Information Officer of YES BANK. In his role, he is leading Technology and Digital transformation for the Bank. Mahesh is also leading new age technologies such as API, AI/ML, BI and business solutions which is going to be driving factor for all new products at the Bank. Mahesh has over three decades of experience in the BFSI technology space in payments & banking technology, product design, business solution and project management across Indian and MNC Banks and technology firms. In his previous role, he was leading the Payments vertical for Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa at FIS Inc. He has also been associated with Barclays Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Aviva Plc, DCB Bank, IDBI Bank and Standard Chartered Bank. Mahesh holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering with a specialization in Electronics from the University of Mumbai and is a certified Information systems Manager and a Marshall Goldsmith certified, Stakeholder centered Coach.
Major Ashish Ahuja, Chief Operating Officer, Fino Payments Bank
Major Ashish is responsible for developing and executing innovative solutions for Fino Payments Bank. In addition to overseeing in house offerings, Ashish manages corporate partnerships and alliances to strengthen the product and service portfolio of the bank.
He is also entrusted with the task of ensuring accessibility of the bank’s products across multiple platforms – digital as well as physical. For smooth and seamless service delivery to customers, clients and merchants, Ashish is also responsible for the cohesive functioning of Products, Technology and Central operations.
Earlier, he successfully managed Fino’s corporate business and retail initiative of Money Marts. An Indian Army veteran with over 27 years of experience that includes military service, banking, corporate business, channel management, retail and more, Ashish’s strength lies in successfully executing complex projects.
Over the years, Ashish has represented Fino in multiple businesses and government forums on financial inclusion, DBT and AEPS amongst others. Ashish is a fitness buff and enjoys squash and golf in his spare time.