Our speakers
Manoj Gopalakrishna, MD, Becton Dickinson India Pvt Ltd
Mr. Gopalakrishna sees BD as a platform to ensure that good quality healthcare is available to the Indian population at affordable prices.
An alumnus of Wharton School and Georgetown School of Business, Manoj Gopalakrishna started his career with Hindustan Latex, where he was involved with the marketing operations of the company. While at Hindustan Latex, Mr. Gopalakrishna partnered with BD on injection safety issues, especially in syringes and admired the company for its values and mission, which led him to join it in 2009.
Mr. Gopalakrishna has almost two decades of experience in the healthcare sector in India mainly revolving around building and executing public-private partnerships. Under his leadership, Becton Dickinson is now closely working with the government for good clinical practices as part of the business strategy. Mr. Gopalakrishna is committed to aid the growth of BD in the Indian market by enhancing partnerships and relationships.
Mr. Gopalakrishna sees BD as a platform to ensure that good quality healthcare is available to the billion plus Indian population at affordable prices.
BD operates in India through a wholly-owned subsidiary, BD India Pvt. Ltd. BD has a manufacturing facility in India, a highly automated plant at Bawal, Haryana. This facility produces products recognized around the world, including disposable needles, syringes and catheters.
Manoj Gupta, Founder, Craftsvilla.com | @craftsvilla
Manoj Gupta is the Co-Founder of Craftsvilla, a leading ethnic online platform in India. Craftsvilla was established in 2011, with a vision of making the brand a go to destination for anything and everything ethnic. A passionate entrepreneur, Manoj and his wife Monica were inspired to make a difference to the lives of underprivileged artisans across the country As a co-founder of one of India’s fastest growing e-commerce platforms, Manoj is CEO of Craftsvilla.com Prior to Craftsvilla, Manoj was Principal at Nexus Venture Partners where he was helping early stage companies and passionate entrepreneurs to build scalable business. He has also been a board member with various ecommerce companies enabling him to get an in-depth understanding of the e-commerce industry. Manoj also started a Tech company in US in San Diego which was later acquired.
Manoj has completed his B.Tech, Engineering from IIT- Mumbai and MS in Electrical Engineering from University of Illionis at Urbana Champaign. He has CPhil in Electrical and Electronics engineering from University of California, San Diego and an alumina of IIM-A batch 2006 where he completed his MBA.
Manoj loves to travel and run.
Manoj Gupta, Head VAS, Micromax Informatics Ltd
Manoj Kumar Gupta is the Head, VAS at Micromax Informatics Limited. He carries over 13 years of Sales & Marketing Experience with last 10 years experience in the Telecom Space with domain expertise in Revenue Marketing across Telco’s OEM through use of Value added Services. In current assignment at Micromax he built-up a revenue vertical delivering Revenues worth Rs. 700 Mn within first 12 months of operation
Prior to Micromax he led Similar Assignments with Samsung as Lead Architect – Content & Value Added Service delivery & growing the Revenue Wallet to over INR 1000+ Mn as well as at Bharti Airtel Limited Where led Delhi Team to Break Barriers of 300 Mn monthly revenues at one the Toughest Telecom Circles such as Delhi.
Other noted Achievements he was instrumental in bringing a paradigm shift by pioneering to engage Content Partners on Business Commitments instead of the much abused Minimum Guarantees practices followed earlier.
He is a MBA (Marketing & IT) from I.P. University,Delhi and B.Sc. (Electronics) from Hindu College;Delhi University.
Manoj Gupta, Principal, Nexus Venture Partners
Manoj is Principal at Nexus Venture Partners. He is very active in Internet, Wellness and Agri/Rural ecosystem in India and has been involved in grooming highly scalable businesses in these sectors. He is on the board of companies like Deccan healthcare, Sohanlal and SEDEMAC. Prior to Nexus, he co-founded a semiconductor technology company, WIT, in US which was later acquired by Chrontel.
Manoj has an MBA from IIM, Ahmedabad, B.Tech from IIT Bombay, MS from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and CPhil from University of California, San Diego. He has published several papers in IEEE journals and has filed several patents in the US.
Manoj Kumar, Co-founder & CEO, edabba.com
With 18 years of experience in retail, consumer electronics and consumer durables, Manoj holds a degree of electronics engineering from REC calicut and management from IIM Lucknow. In his corporate stint he has indeed created the company from scratch into an organization with 3000+ employees and $320Mn sales. CEO turned founder, his aim is to build the biggest consumer centric ecommerce company that fulfills aspirations of people in smaller towns of India.He started the first brick,click and flip company in India edabba.com.
Before starting edabba.com he has worked with top Indian houses in different capacities(mangement trainee to CEO) future group, rpg retail, BPL, bajajelectricals,Blowplast and Godrej.
He has been been awarded multiple accolades at a national level. Given his multi disciplinary background .
Manoj Patkar, Executive Director & Partner, 7i Advisors LLP
Manoj has over 10 years of experience in Strategy Consulting & Investment Banking, across diverse sectors including healthcare, chemicals, financial services, manufacturing, FMCG, and telecommunications. He has earlier worked with Accenture India as a strategy consultant. He was Associate Vice President at Equirus Capital Private Limited for almost five and a half years. Manoj holds a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad.
Manoj Paul, MD, Equinix India
Manoj Shikarkhane, CHRO, LTIMindtree
Manpreet Singh, CDO and TMT Leader, PwC India
Manu Chandra, Founder & Managing Partner, Sauce.vc