Our speakers

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.

Major Ashish Ahuja, Chief Operating Officer, Fino Payments Bank

Major Ashish Ahuja has been associated with the Bank since inception and took charge as the Chief Operating Officer in June 2020.

Major Ashish is responsible for developing and executing innovative solutions for Fino Payments Bank. In addition to overseeing in house offerings, he manages corporate partnerships and alliances to strengthen the product and service portfolio of the bank. 

For smooth and seamless service delivery to customers, clients and merchants, Major Ashish ensures cohesive functioning of Products, Central operations and other affiliated functions.

An Indian Army veteran with over 28 years of experience across military service, banking, channel management, retail and more, Major 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, digital payments, direct benefit transfer (DBT) and Aadhaar enabled payment systems (AEPS) amongst others.

Malay Bhowmik, Head Enterprise Business, Persistent Systems

Malay has decades of experience in identifying, developing, and exponentially growing new markets, building diverse and inclusive teams, and adopting the right technologies to enable successful digital transformation in enterprise. He is proficient in looking at the big picture, interacting with customers, and comprehending requirements.

Malay Bhowmik, Google Business Unit Enterprise Head, Persistent Systems