Our speakers

Matthew Driver, Executive Vice President, Head of Services, Asia Pacific, Mastercard

Mausam Bhatt, Sr. Director - Marketing (Mobile and Digital), Flipkart

Mausam heads the Online Marketing and Alliances team at Flipkart. In this role, he is responsible for leading mobile strategy, digital marketing, customer acquisition and strategic alliances for India’s largest e-commerce platform.

Mausam joined Flipkart after having spent more than a decade in Silicon Valley launching and growing market-leading products in a variety of spaces. Prior to Flipkart, he led mobile monetization initiatives at the #1 health care app developer Epocrates. He has also worked earlier as a Product Director for the strategic marketing team at Johnson & Johnson and led product development for Hewlett Packard’s enterprise server division.

He is passionate about the role mobile Internet will play in emerging economies as a great leveler in bringing about equal opportunity and transparency for all.

Mausam holds an MBA degree from Duke University and an MS in Computer Science from University of Arizona.

Maya John, Chief People Officer, VerSe Innovation

Mayank Bathwal, CEO, Aditya Birla Health Insurance

Mayank Bathwal is the Chief Executive Officer at Aditya Birla Health Insurance Co. Ltd., a joint venture between Aditya Birla Group and MMI Holdings of South Africa. He has been with the Aditya Birla Group for 26+ years, and has held multiple leadership roles across insurance, financial services, manufacturing, energy and power, in India and Indonesia.

He set up Aditya Birla Health Insurance in 2015, and under his leadership, within a short span of time, ABHI has grown into one of the recognized and fastest growing health insurance company in India. Mr. Bathwal spearheaded a very well diversified strategy of entering the health insurance market with a differentiated business model which focuses on the ‘health’ in health insurance, thereby challenging the traditional approach of the industry thus far.

He is a fellow Chartered Accountant and a member of the ICWA and ICSI. He is the co-Chair of FICCI Health Insurance Committee and is also actively involved with a number of industry forums such as CII and IAMAI.

He is an avid reader, a fitness enthusiast, and passionate about every Indian having easy access to health insurance.

Mayank Choudhary, Sr. Investment Specialist, Asian Development Bank

Mayank Choudhary is Principal Investment Specialist, with the Private Sector Operations Department at the Asian Development Bank. Mayank has eighteen years of corporate finance, investment banking, private equity and project finance experience. Prior to ADB, he has worked at Macquarie Capital, SUN-Apollo Real Estate and International Finance Corporation (IFC). He has an MBA degree from the Indian Institute of Management (Ahmedabad).

Mayank Jain, Principal, Stellaris Venture Partners

Mayank Jalan, MD, Keventer Agro Ltd.

Mr. Mayank Jalan is the Managing Director of Keventer Agro Ltd. A first-class degree holder in Mechanical Engineering from University College London, he also has a degree in Business Finance from the prestigious London School of Economics. His core strength is managing strategic growth while ensuring a level of profitability essential for generation of internal funds that fuel rapid growth.

His proficiency in managing a complex supply chain has delivered steady top-line increments as well as bottom-line accruals.

While gaining some practical know-how at the University College London and London School of Economics, Mr. Jalan has acquired significant do-how as a Research Analysis Expert in Credit Agricole Indisuez in London. He has also worked with Smifs Financing Ltd. in Kolkata, India, marketing Mutual Funds.

Mr. Jalan's all-encompassing interest in markets and brands, and products and processes has led him to create a team of competent professionals who direct and operate the vital functions at the Keventer Group. This young but wise leader has been successfully steering the Keventer Group, one of the fastest growing groups in eastern India that has been making game-changing forays into several spaces - edibles, exports and real estate.

A keen sportsman, Mr. Mayank Jalan's sports interests include golf, squash, cricket, rugby, badminton, and swimming, alongside reading and music.

Mayank Kumar, Co-founder and MD, Upgrad

Mayank Kumar is the Founder and CEO of UpGrad (www.upgrad.com), India’s first full-fledged online education company. Mayank co-founded UpGrad together with serial entrepreneur and philanthropist Ronnie Screwvala and secured $16m of capital to grow the venture into India’s most meaningful education business.

Before founding UpGrad, Mayank was Vice President Education at Bertelsmann, Europe’s largest media and education conglomerate, where he oversaw Bertelsmann’s education strategy and its multi-million dollar investments in India. In this capacity, Mayank further served as Board Member of iNurture (www.inurture.com), India’s No. 1 provider of industry-specific academic programs.

Prior to joining Bertelsmann, Mayank was a Senior Principal at The Parthenon Group, where he advised global clients in the education sector across all geographies including China, Southeast Asia,
India and South America and participated in deals worth $1.5bn flowing into the education sector.

Before joining The Parthenon Group, Mayank worked at the Tata Strategic Management Group, advising Tata’s strategic direction. Mayank holds a BTech from IIT Delhi and a MBA from Indian School of Business (ISB).

Mayank Kumar, Senior Principal, The Parthenon Group

Mr. Mayank Kumar is a Senior Principal in The Parthenon Group's Mumbai office. Mr. Kumar has advised clients in the education sector on market potential, growth and market entry strategies, investment decisions and revenue and profit uplift strategies across geographies including extensive work in India, China, and Southeast Asia. Mr. Kumar has served clients across education sectors with a focus on early years, K-12, and education technology implementation. Mr. Kumar has also worked with various private equity firms on conducting due-diligences in the areas of education, healthcare and commerce. His consulting experience also includes assignments in strategy formulation, operational excellence, policy development and investment decisions for clients across industries including healthcare, telecom, automotive and consumer goods. Prior to Parthenon, Mr. Kumar worked at the Tata Strategic Group. He has a Bachelor's degree from IIT-Delhi and an MBA from Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.

Mayank Prakash, India Business Head, Nazara Technologies

Mayank Prakash joined Nazara technologies in 2011 and is currently Heading India Business. Mayank have worked in Automotive and telecom sectors in various roles like product marketing, strategic planning and business development. Mayank is an Electronics & Telecomunications engineer from DCE and did his PGDM from IIM Lucknow.