Our speakers

Mani James, Chief Business Officer, Mosaic Digital - A HT Media Group Company (Moderator)

Mani Mamallan, Founder, Electronics Payments and Services

Mani Mamallan started his career in the banking domain with Punjab National Bank and moved over to UTI (now Axis Bank). Prior to joining C-EDGE Technologies Ltd, a JV of TCS and SBI, he was Vice President and Head of FSSNeT, the services arm of M/s. Financial Software and Systems.  Here, he spearheaded activities in the payments systems domain including, but not limited to, securing accounts like Bank of Maharashtra, where he bagged the mandate for deployment of 350+ ATMs on an outsourcing model for the Bank. Prior to FSS, he was the COO of India Switch Company (ISC) where he was instrumental in introducing new services, setting up the first shared ATM network in India and introducing the first ever ATM outsourcing in India. Prior to ISC, he was a Senior Manager at UTI Bank, where his achievements include setting up the Bank’s ATM Switch, IP network etc.

He is known for his deep knowledge in the retail technology banking space, including the microfinance domain. He commands respect for his Business acumen, strategy and vision among professionals, peers and even among the present CMD’s of Public and Private sector Banks.

He graduated from Madras University and completed his post graduation in Communications and Networking from National Centre for Software Technology (NCST).

Mani S G, COO & President, Ashok Leyland

Manik Arora, Founder & MD, IDG Ventures India Advisors Pvt Ltd

Mr. Manik Arora is Founder & Managing Director of IDG Ventures India Advisors. IDG Ventures manages over US$6 Billion globally and has a portfolio of over 200 technology companies. Manik currently serves on the Board of Directors at Vserv Digital, Brainbees (Firstcry.com), Ozone Media and Sourcebits Technologies. He has over 16 years of industry experience, including 8 years of venture investing experience.

 

Prior to IDG Ventures, Manik was at Battery Ventures in Silicon Valley where he led the firm's India practice and worked with General Atlantic in Singapore. At Battery and GA, he worked on India technology investments such as Travelguru (acquired by Travelocity) and Patni Computers (IPO).

 

Manik was part of the founding management team at GA-backed i-DNS.net International, the global leader in multilingual Internet DNS technology. Previously, Manik managed global outsourcing initiatives for American Express in New York and ran sales and marketing for MasterCard in Singapore. His early career was at The Boston Consulting Group in India and South East Asia advising clients on strategy, operations and organizational building.

 

In 2012, Manik was named on the ‘Digirati’ list of Top 25 Powerful People in Indian Digital Business. He is a Kauffman Fellow at the Center for Venture Education and a Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE). Manik holds a Bachelors degree in Economics from Swarthmore College where he received a McCabe Fellowship to pursue his MBA from the Sloan School of Management at MIT.

Manik Nangia, Director & Chief Digital Officer, Max Life Insurance

Manik leads Digital Transformation, E commerce sales, Marketing and Product Management for Max Life. Max Life is India’s 4th largest Life Insurance Company and has been on a steady growth path for the last half decade (having grown at 28% in the fiscal FY 17).

Along with a passionate team, Manik works to understand consumer behavior and tailor intuitive journeys to create value in core business of life insurance. They deploy process and digital capabilities to improve how the company attracts and services customers for greater life time value. They are tasked to innovate to discover value from new frontiers through customer experience, Proposition design and a combination of these to tell compelling stories in the Indian marketplace.

Manik has 18+ years of experience of which the last 12 have been with Max Life. In these years he has worked in a variety of roles spanning from sales to product management. In his last role as the strategy leader, Manik set up Business Analytics as a center of excellence, contributing immensely to all areas of the business value chain.

Manik is passionate about attracting and developing talent and relentlessly pursues excellence in each part of the business that he has been responsible for. A management graduate from IMT Ghaziabad, he has worked in financial services with the ICICI group (consumer banking and Life Insurance), ABN AMRO Bank.

Manikandan Unnikrishnan, Regional Sales Leader, Poly

Manikandan is responsible for Poly Business in Western and North India. Manikandan works with customers across different verticals like Financial, Manufacturing, IT/ITES, and Hospitality on how Collaboration technology can help them accelerate their business outcomes. We work with our customers and partners, together we were able to deploy technology that has a direct positive impact on the customers' business.

Maninder Saluja, Partner, Private Equity, Quilvest

Mani is a Partner based in and responsible for the oversight of Quilvest's Hong Kong office, from where he co-manages QS GEO PEP, Quilvest's Global Emerging Opportunities Private Equity Program. In addition, he sources and executes direct and co-investment opportunities primarily in Asia and Latin America as well as selectively in Central & Eastern Europe and Africa.

Prior to joining Quilvest, Mani worked at Alvarez & Marsal, a prominent crisis management and restructuring advisory firm, where he worked with creditors and distressed companies in various operational and financial turnaround situations across the United States and Latin America. Prior to A&M, Mani worked as the Director of Finance and Strategic Planning for a communications provider in the Northeastern United States. His responsibilities included capital raising, M&A, partnerships, plan development, and product pricing.

Mani started his career in the Media & Communications and International investment banking practices of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, both in New York and Hong Kong, where he worked on a variety of high yield, M&A, restructuring, public and private equity transactions. During his time at DLJ, Mani worked on transactions across the US, Western and Eastern Europe, Latin America and Asia.

Mani received his MBA from the Harvard Business School and a BBA with a concentration in finance from the University of Michigan. Mani is a board member or observer on a number of Quilvest's fund and direct investments. In addition, Mani is an Advisory Council member of EMPEA, the Emerging Market Private Equity Association.

Manish Agarwal, CEO, Nazara Technologies

Manish Agarwal is the CEO of Nazara Technologies Pvt.Ltd. He is a self-confessed intrapreneur, where he incubates new ideas working with startups and has been a marketer par excellence with global brands where he has scaled new businesses to great heights. He lives his dream of showcasing world class Indian mobile games in the global market place. He is an alumnus of IIM A and NIT Warangal.

Manish Bhatia, President - Technology, Analytics, and Capabilities, Lendingkart

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.