Our speakers

Mamta Sundara, General Counsel, United Spirits Limited - a Diageo Group Company

Ms. Mamta Sundara is the General Counsel of United Spirits Limited – a Diageo Group Company. She’s also a member of the Executive Committee at USL. She has over 18 years of experience as a legal professional both in house and in private practice across a diverse range of industries from telecom to consumer durables and geographies including India, Singapore and the UK. Prior to joining USL, Ms. Sundara worked with Diageo for six years both in the UK and India. Her last role with the company was General Counsel of Diageo India Pvt. Ltd. Prior to joining Diageo, she worked at British Telecom for four years in their Global Services division at Singapore. She also worked with leading law firms J. Sagar Associates and India Law Associates. Ms. Sundara’s entrepreneurial drive prompted her to co-found Law School Tutorials (LST), a distance education platform helping students prepare for the law school entrance exams. She is also a consultant with India Law Info, a legal services portal for internet and software companies. Ms. Mamta Sundara studied Law at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore.

Manan Gupta, Display Lead- Optimization Practice, Google

Manan currently manages a team of Display marketing experts at Google. He is responsible for the overall strategy to increase ROI on display spends for top advertisers globally, through product improvement, automation and efficient servicing. Before joining Google, Manan was leading the App acquisition and Social Media performance marketing teams at Quikr.

In a career spanning more than 11 years, Manan has worked in multiple industries and functions, online marketing being one of them. Manan is also passionate about growth of sports in India, and was a co-founder of a sports marketing and consulting start-up. Manan is an IIT Kharagpur and IIM Indore graduate.

Manan Khurma, Founder, Cuemath

Manas Datta, Group CFO, Wockhardt

Manas Datta, Group CFO of Wockhardt has rich experience of 30 years in the field of Corporate Finance, Treasury, M&A, Taxation etc. in large Indian conglomerates like AV Birla Group, Chambal Fertilisers, The Oberoi Group.

Mr. Datta has been instrumental in Transformational Change Management in MIS, Business Planning and reporting in Wockhardt and has extensive experience in capital / debt raising in Domestic and international markets.

A Cost Accountant by training and Alumnus of IIM (Ahmedabad) Mr. Datta is also an avid reader and loves to watch Soccer. He is also an ardent fan of Kishore Kumar.

Consecutively in March 2016, March 2017 & March 2018, Mr Datta has been conferred with "Role of Honour for CFO 100" for exceptional calibre and contribution to the world of finance by CFO India. He was conferred with “Most Influential CFOs of India” by Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) in June 2016. Mr. Datta has also been awarded the  “Best CFO With  Exemplary All Round Performance - 2016 ” in Asia CFO Excellence Award presented by CMO Asia on 5th August 2016 in Singapore. Mr. Datta has also been awarded the ‘Super Achievers Awards for CFO Of The Year - 2016’ by the Stars in the Industry Group on November 2016 and also October 2017. He was also honoured with ‘Indira Brand Slam CFO Leadership’ award on 26th September 2017 at a glittering ceremony at Indira Group of Institute – Pune.

Mr. Datta has also been awarded the “Best CFO With Exemplary All Round Performance” - 2018 in Asia CFO Excellence Award presented by CMO Asia on 1st August 2018 in Singapore.

Manas Mehrotra, Managing Trustee, Greenwood High International School

Manas is a qualified member of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, Bachelors of Law, MBA (Entrepreneurship) from Babson College (USA). He has earlier worked with Ernst & Young as Global Tax Advisor.
 
It is in this inexhaustible treasure of knowledge in varied discipline that has helped Manas, as he is popularly known in the academic circles, into shaping Greenwood High Schools (with a family of 3800 members i.e. 3300 students and 500 staff ) into what they are today - a harmonious blend of technological and traditional values in education.

His leadership qualities are evident in the way he manages the team and allow them to be creative at all levels in Greenwood High. Under his leadership the school has won more than 7 national Awards in excellence in last 2 years.

He believes that Education is a dedicated service, hence focus and involvement is extremely necessary and crucial. Branching out of school can only happen when you have a sound example to be proud of. It is not about focusing on numbers and cities but to have few schools with best of infrastructure and self focus to make sure quality of education is imparted.

His aim is to create high quality institutions, and all our schools will have around 15 acre campuses and will be equipped with state of the art infrastructure, facilities and something unique in them.
 
Presently, we are building 3 new Greenwood High campuses two in Bangalore- one on Bannerghatta Road which is spread across 15 acres and the second one on Sarjapur Road - a complete International Branch on a 14 Acre Campus and one in Kolkata in New Town (Rajarhat), spread on a15 Acres.

Manas Nath, National Manager - CloudSystem, HP India Sales Pvt. Ltd.

Manas Tandon, Principal, TPG Growth India

Manas Tandon joined TPG Growth in 2010 and is a Director based in Mumbai. Prior to joining TPG in 2010, Manas was a Vice President at Matrix Partners India where he led growth deals in Financial Services, Internet and Mobile. Previously he was based in Boston for many years and was part of the founding team of three successful technology start-ups.

He has an MBA from Wharton where he was a Palmer Scholar and a B. Tech. from IIT Kanpur. He has eight US patents to his credit and has authored several papers. Manas currently represents TPG on the boards of several portfolio companies including AGS, Flexituff and Sutures.

Manasa Rajan, CEO, Jupiter Meta

Manasa is a founding team member of Jupiter Meta, where she heads all business endeavours. Following over a decade in the consumer behaviour function, she will now direct marketing and operations, including building the Jupiter Meta brand, liaising with celebrities, artists and brands, driving partnerships and associations, and planning and operationalising the asset classes. Manasa will also lead brand and enterprise communications. 

In addition to working on PR for Indiabulls’ IPO, Manasa’s career thus far has centred around health coaching and food design. Her business acumen and considerable industry knowledge laid the foundations for a food startup, which helped her communicate with numerous food brands. At Curefit, she was in charge of nutrition and health products and doubled up as a health expert. 

Manasa has donned different hats while interacting with varied clients—she has been a coach, an entrepreneur, and an analyst of behavioural aspects of the Indian consumer. She has interacted with these clients through brands involved in financial services, holistic health, fitness and food products, nurturing meaningful change amongst people in the food-health ecosystem. 

Manasa’s foray into the metaverse is an extension of her understanding of business opportunities and learnings in consumer behaviour. She aims to bring people new immersive experiences by fashioning ideas on how we interact, advertise, and participate with popular culture. 

Manasa holds an MBA from Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies with additional degrees from Stony Brook University and Cornell University.
Manasa, unsurprisingly, loves food and travel and follows the science around health & longevity. 

Manasij Ganguli, Co-founder & CEO, ThreadSol

Manasij Ganguli is the chief executive at ThreadSol, a one of a kind startup working in the sewn products domain. Pioneers in Enterprise Material Management, with products intelloBuy and intelloCut, ThreadSol is saving manufacturers in 50+ factories and 8 geographies (India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Thailand, Turkey and Vietnam) 10% of their fabric cost amounting to millions of dollars. ThreadSol is set to launch their third product intelloTrace in China in September 2015 which will bring the technology used by Apple and Google to sewn product manufacturers. 18 months young and seedfunded by Blume Ventures in 2014, ThreadSol is profitable and running on 100% quarter on quarter growth.

Manasij Ganguli has 13 years of experience writing code for multinationals like Boeing and Visa in UK and US. Leading a team of 60 with offices in 7 locations, Manasij works as the Chief Everything Officer heading the business development by the day and doubling as the coder by the night. Manasij is an avid blogger and an enthusiastic cyclist. Prior to ThreadSol, Manasij was the early member of a valley based startup - Terracotta which had a 90 Million dollar exit in 2012.

Manav Bansal, CIO, Neev Fund

Manav has over 20 years experience in PE and investment banking. Prior experience includes heading India operations for Brightlink Partners Inc., being a founding member of Maquarie’s infrastructure team in India and Director at SNC-Lavalin India infra fund. Manav has also worked at advisory/corporate finance at PwC and KPMG. Manav holds a MBA and an engineering degree.