Our speakers

Manish Chaturvedi, Founder & MD, Induss Strategy Financial Advisors

Manish Chaturvedi is a distinguished leader in global capital markets, with over two decades of experience spanning investment banking, corporate finance, asset, and wealth management. He has been featured among The Economic Times Young Entrepreneurs Under 50 (2025), Powerful Business Leaders to Watch by The Leaders Group (2024), recipient of the Excellence Award by APAC Insider (2024), and recognized among India’s Fastest Growing CEOs by The CEO Magazine (2018). He was honoured as a young business leader from Asia at Royal Westminster Hall in London in 2018 and was featured among Innovative Leaders to Watch by Silicon India Consultants in 2017. As one of the pioneer members of the Economic Times India Leadership Council, he is widely regarded as a trusted voice and knowledge partner across industry platforms in India and globally.

Over the years, Manish has built Indus Strategy into a globally recognized investment-cum-advisory platform, seamlessly combining local insight with international expertise. Headquartered in India with a strategic footprint across Southeast Asia, MENA, the UK, and the USA, Indus brings together proprietary capital and managed mandates to deliver high-impact, cross-border financial solutions across asset classes, sectors, and business lifecycles.

To date, Indus has advised on transactions collectively worth close to USD 5 billion. Apart from conventional corporate finance and investment solutions, Indus’ deal pipeline includes marquee mandates such as the structuring of listed bonds on the Singapore Exchange, financing SPACs listed on the NYSE, secondary placements in global decacorns, and complex cross-border M&A. While sector-agnostic, the firm has developed deep domain strength in IT, BFSI, infrastructure, food & beverage, e-commerce, digital-first companies, education, healthcare, hospitality, real estate, and EPC.

Manish’s advisory relationships span corporates, sovereign wealth funds, institutions, family offices, global funds, and ultra-HNIs—enabling Indus to deliver bespoke capital and investment strategies tailored to diverse mandates. He currently serves as Strategic Advisor to a Mauritius- and Cayman-based multi-billion-dollar hedge fund, leading an India-focused quant strategy, and continues to advise Caribbean nations on capital mobilization for critical national development projects. His recent domestic investments in unlisted markets have yielded over 4x returns.

Backed by a Board of Advisors with over 150 years of global C-suite experience, Indus embodies a rare convergence of innovation, strategic depth, and a truly global outlook rooted in Indian origin.

Manish Choksi, Vice Chairman, Asian Paints Limited

Manish Dalal, Member, Mumbai Angels

Mr. Manish Dalal is the Vice President for Verisign, Asia Pacific. Manish leads the business development, marketing, and partner management activities of the Naming business in Asia-Pacific. Prior to Verisign, Manish was Yahoo's Senior Director of mobile products for India. He worked with Yahoo! for approximately 5 years and helped build the mobile and broadband business at Yahoo!

Before joining Yahoo!, Manish was a Principal at Strategy Consulting Firm Pittiglio Rabin Todd McGrath (PRTM), where he spent several years consulting to senior management in blue-chip telecom companies like Qualcomm, Cisco, and Qwest. Prior to PRTM, Manish led Motorola's product management efforts in the cellular messaging space where he was responsible for product innovation and development in the short messaging and multimedia messaging space. Manish holds a Bachelor Degree in Computer Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology (US), a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University (US), and an MBA from the U.niversity of Chicago (US). 

Manish Dureja, VP - Marketing, Jet Airways

Mr Manish Dureja an Indian National, joined the Company in May 1999 as a Marketing Manager. He has a diversified experience of 15 years in Marketing, CRM, Loyalty, Business Development, Pricing, & Revenue Management. In the year 2007 he was deputed to Jet Airways, United States of America, where he was responsible for the Marketing & Sales function during the initial startup phase. In April 2011 he moved back to India as Vice President - Marketing. Currently he is responsible for Passenger Marketing, In-flight Entertainment, design and development of Products, Ancillary Revenues and JetPrivilege. 

Manish Dureja, MD, JetPrivilege

Manish Dureja is the Managing Director of Jet Privilege, based in Mumbai. He has been at the helm of Jet Privilege, since its inception and has overseen the stupendous growth of the company, which, over a year and half, has established itself as India’s leading loyalty and rewards management company.

Manish is an active member of many professional societies and is a thought leader on marketing, loyalty programme design & development, strategic planning, airline revenue management and CRM. He has extensive practical, hands-on experience working in the USA, Canada and India.

Manish Gupta , CEO, Indegene Lifesystems Pvt Ltd

Manish Gupta co-founded Indegene in 1998. He is Chief Executive Office and is responsible for overall realization of the company’s vision. In the last decade, he has led the company’s strategy, M&A, capability development and globalization initiatives. He spends his time across the company’s US, China and India offices driving thought leadership, organizational development and market expansion initiatives. He is one of the industry’s foremost leaders in building deep multi-national healthcare focused teams. Prior to starting Indegene, he was associated with Infosys Technologies. He holds a B. Tech from IIT–BHU, Varanasi, and an MBA from the IIM, Ahmedabad.

Manish Gupta, Sr. Director & General Manager for Data Centre & Compute Solutions, Dell Technologies India

Manish Gupta is the Sr. Director & General Manager for Data Centre & Compute Solutions at Dell Technologies India. He manages the solutions around Server, Hyper Converged Infrastructure and Networking portfolio for the India geography. 

Manish brings in varied professional experience from the IT industry having worked in various leadership positions for organizations such as IBM and Lenovo over the last many years. In addition to the managing the India geography, he has led large business teams across global markets such as Asia Pacific, Latin American, Central and Eastern Europe and Middle East. He is a Fulbright scholar and was awarded the Fulbright – Nehru Fellowship for Leadership in Management by the US Department of State.

He has travelled extensively across the globe and brings with him vast knowledge and experiences on people, culture, technology and business.

Manish has a B.E. degree from Panjab University and has done his Post Graduate in Management from Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow.

Manish Gupta, Associate Vice President- Investments, TVS Capital

Manish is with TVS Capital since June 2008 and currently focuses on investments in sectors like agriculture, food processing and restaurants. He brings with him nine years of professional experience across multiple industries - food, food service, consumer, capital goods, power and oil & gas.

Manish has joined TVS Capital after spending two and half years in equity research for global sell side equity research houses as part of Irevna (A division of CRISIL Ltd.). Prior to joining Irevna, he was with Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited for almost two years in the commercial role.

Manish has done Executive program in Strategy from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (India). He is a CFA (from CFA Institute, USA), Chartered Accountant (India) and a Company Secretary (India). Manish has All-India merit ranks in Chartered Accountancy and Company Secretary program. He is also a University ranker in graduation course and is a national scholarship holder.

Manish Jain, Managing Director, SSG Advisors

Mr. Jain, MD – Head of India at SSG Advisors, has over 17 years of experience in the investment industry with significant knowledge and track record in special situations investments across sectors. He’s been instrumental in helping SSG grow its investment footprint in India during the last 4 years.

Previously, Mr. Jain was a Senior Vice-President at Clearwater Capital Partners, responsible for managing investments across a wide spectrum of industries with a special focus on asset resolution and real estate investments. He started his career as an Investment Analyst at the International Financial Corporation as part of the Global Financial Markets division where he was responsible for new deals and portfolio management in the financial services sector.

Mr. Jain holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

Manish Jaiswal, MD & CEO of Magma Housing Finance & SME Business, Magma Fincorp

Mr. Manish Jaiswal is the MD & CEO of Magma’s Housing Finance and SME Business.  He is a Mechanical Engineer from VNIT, Nagpur and has done his Fast Track General Management from IIM, Bangalore.

 Mr. Jaiswal has deep sectoral experience of 28 years. In his last assignment, he led CRISIL’s businesses of Risk Advisory, Research and SME and Ratings. Mr Jaiswal has been an eminent member of SEBI committee of Corporate Bonds and Securitization Advisory Committee (CoBoSAC) & RBI’s Committee of Revitalisation of Distressed Assets. He has also advised the primary pension funds of the country EPFO & PFRDA. 
 
In his prior stints, Mr Jaiswal has set up Emerging Local Corporates and SME Banking in Citigroup. He pioneered the first of its kind SME Banking alliance between Fullerton & Centurion Bank of Punjab.  Mr Jaiswal started his career with Eicher Motors and has held key positions in the companies in the BFSI sector over last two decades.
 
During his career span, Mr. Jaiswal has built and managed assets of more than 25,000 crores and has been involved in SME ratings of over 150,000 entities