Our speakers

Kunal Sood, Managing Director - Private Equity, Pantheon

Kunal Sood, Managing Director, Pantheon Ventures

Kunal Varma, Co-Founder and CEO, Freo

Kunal Varma, the Co-Founder and CEO of Freo, is a seasoned entrepreneur with a rich background in technology and business development. Before Freo, he successfully founded and led Tapstart, a job discovery platform, and Aspirare in the learning and assessments space.

His career also includes significant experience in engineering management at Texas Instruments, where he worked on next-generation semiconductor products. Kunal holds a B.Tech in Computer Science from IIT Roorkee and an MBA in Marketing & Strategy from ISB Hyderabad.

He is known for his dynamic leadership, deep involvement in all aspects of business growth, and passion for fitness and food.

Kunal Wadhwani, Principal, HDFC Capital

Kunal Wadhwani is a Principal at HDFC Capital, the real estate private equity platform of HDFC Group, where he is responsible for Investments and plays a central role in driving the investments function. Kunal was part of the initial core team that established HDFC Capital in 2016 and is a member of the Internal Investment Committee at HDFC Capital.

With over 20 years of experience and more than USD 5 billion in cumulative real estate investments, Kunal brings extensive experience across debt and equity investments, with expertise in deal sourcing, underwriting, structuring, development oversight, portfolio management, and special situations, with a focus on affordable and mid-income housing.

Prior to HDFC Capital, he was part of the investment team at HDFC Asset Management Company, managing the Real Estate PMS platform, which received multiple awards including “Best Real Estate Fund” (2013–2015) and “Real Estate Fund of the Decade” (2016) by CNBC-Awaaz.

Kunal holds a Master’s degree in Real Estate Development from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a Master’s in Management Studies, and a Bachelor’s in Computer Engineering from the University of Mumbai.

Kunnal Sharma, Sr. VP & Head - Global Remittances, TimesofMoney

Kunnal spearheads the Global Money Transfer business at TimesofMoney. He is also in charge of the network and sales development for TimesofMoney’s and India branch offices.

With over 13 years of experience across customer service, operations and product development, he currently heads the sales & business vertical.

Prior to his current role, he has worked across different functions and managed key areas of product management and compliance.

He holds a Master’s degree in Management. He likes to interact with students and has a passion for reading & sketching.

Kush Mehra, Chief Business Officer, Pine Labs

Kush has rich experience of over 14 years in the payment industry and possesses extensive knowledge of the cards ecosystem. Prior to joining Pine Labs, Kush held leadership positions in Visa Inc., American Express and Citibank, spanning 10 years. Kush holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Delhi University and a Master's in Business Administration, Marketing from Fore School of Management. Previously he was associated with VISA, American Express and CitiBank.

Kushal Agarwal, Partner, Aspada Investment Advisors

Kushal is Partner and CFO at Aspada Investment Advisors. Kushal leads the agriculture portfolio at Aspada and serves on the boards of most of their agri-focused companies. Further, he leads the initiatives on fund raise - both debt and equity for the entire portfolio. Kushal is passionate about working with organizations in their formative phase and is closely involved with portfolio companies in their strategic and financial planning, process implementation, performance management and risk management. His previous engagements include Financial Controller at an e-commerce start up and significant stints at ITC – one of India’s largest conglomerate and PWC. Kushal is a meritorious Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and a graduate in commerce from St. Xavier's College, Kolkata.

Kushal Agarwal, CFO, Aspada Investment Advisors

Kushal is the CFO of Aspada Investment Advisors which advises Aspada Investments and the SONG Fund - both early stage venture funds focused on agricultural supply chains and technology, healthcare and financial services businesses in India backed by investors such as Soros Economic Development Fund, Omidyar Network and Google. Kushal is closely involved with portfolio companies in their strategic and financial planning, process implementation, performance management and risk management. He currently serves on the Boards of Schedulers Logistics and Allfresh Supply Management. His previous engagements include Financial Controller at Zovi.com and significant stints at ITC Ltd and PWC. Kushal is a meritorious Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and a graduate in commerce from St. Xavier's College, Kolkata.

Kushal Nahata, Co-Founder & CEO, FarEye

Kushal Nahata is passionate about using technology to solve everyday challenges pertaining to deliveries. With global logistics networks and supply chains becoming the lifelines of sustenance, there is a huge price to pay as a result of operational inefficiencies and blindspots in the system. Starting his entrepreneurial journey, right out of college he started by developing a real-time vehicle tracking system (along with his co-founders) and was quick to sense an industry need - the speed at which they need to digitally transform their landscape. This led to the building of FarEye’s intelligent low-code platform which gave unique customization capabilities to enterprises and reduced the time to go-to-market with the transformation.

Since 2013, FarEye has been empowering the movement of  multi-million dollar deliveries right from groceries to apparel to medical equipment to truckloads of Ferro alloys with end-to-end and real time visibility. With FarEye, enterprises exactly know where their goods are, when they will arrive and in what condition, this helps them achieve cost and resource optimization.

Kushal’s vision is to make deliveries and the delivery experience better by transforming logistics operations in a way that each stakeholder in the supply chain is empowered to make meaningful decisions with predictive visibility. With FarEye, he aims to plug the inefficiencies that make deliveries cost intensive and turn it into a profit center and brand differentiator.

Kushal Pratap Singh Rathore, CEO-Founder, Indifoot