Our speakers

Manish Tewari, Co-founder, Pokkt.com

A veteran of a half dozen startups, Manish is an accomplished entrepreneur and leader with a strong history of designing and delivering new products to emerging markets. He currently serves as Co-Founder and CTO at Pokkt where he leads the teams responsible for the development and operation of software and systems powering the mobile industry's leading revenue optimization solution for freemium app developers.

Before Pokkt, Manish was the Founder/CEO of Koovs.com, India's leading Fashion Ecommerce portal. During his tenure, Koovs became the only Indian Ecommerce company to be listed on London Stock Exchange AIM Market with a market cap more than 100 million dollar. At Koovs he was focused on innovation in Operations, Technologies and Marketing Services.

Prior to Koovs, Manish has worked in different technical roles in various top startups like Tavant Technologies, Ketera Technologies and Minglebox Communications. Manish holds a Bachelor of Technology in engineering from IIT BHU. His current area of interest are Scalable Architectures, Distributed Design Patterns, NoSQL and Functional Programming.

Manish Vij, Founder and CEO, SVG Media Pvt. Ltd.

Manish Vij, is the Founder & CEO of SVG (Smile Vun Group). He is a veteran of the digital media industry and has over 12 years of experience in the internet domain.
 
Manish has founded leading internet companies in areas of digital marketing and e-commerce with international joint ventures and leading venture capital firms. Manish’s entrepreneurial ventures include:

• Quasar - A joint venture with WPP is an award winning and leading digital marketing agency in India

• SVG Media - SVG Media, a Smile Vun Group company is the Largest Indian Digital Media Network with over 150 Million Unique Visitors. SVG Media started its India operations in 2006 and is the launch pad for successful digital advertising technology media businesses. SVG Media houses leading Performance, Mobile, Social, Data Targeting and Rich Media businesses such as Tyroo, DGM, Seventynine and Komli. Through its four entities, SVG Media represents more than 70% of India’s Internet base. SVG Media is a joint venture between Vun Network and Smile Group and is funded by Xplorer Capital

• SeventyNine - A leading mobile advertising company in India, revolutionizing the space through its path breaking technology to serve videos in mobile applications. Seventynine was successfully sold to Gruner+Jahr, Europe’s leading magazine publisher in 2012 and later in December 2014 was acquired by SVG Media.

• Letsbuy.com -  India's leading online electronics and IT retailer that was funded by reputed venture capitalists (now sold to Flipkart)

Prior to establishing SVG and Vun Network, Manish was associated with Rediff.com for over 4 years and he also started India’s first digital classifieds business - kabadibazaar.com in 1999.

Manish, an MBA in marketing is not only a pioneer in the internet marketing space but also one of the youngest dotcom entrepreneurs. Manish has represented the Indian digital industry in various domestic and international industry forums, events and seminars.

Manisha Girotra, CEO, Moelis India

Manisha Sood, Country General Manager, Fitbit India | @FitbitIN

Manisha Sood is the Country General Manager-India for Fitbit. Manisha has joined the company in August 2015, and was previously the Director, SMB for Microsoft India. At Microsoft, Manisha was responsible for leading the sales and marketing function of the Small & Medium Enterprise Business within India. Prior to Microsoft, she was at SanDisk where she was Country Manager & Director for the India & SAARC region for over six years. She has to her credit launching the SanDisk business in India and taking the brand to the leadership position. Manisha also evangelized Marketing for SanDisk in driving the brand's first ever TV campaign in the world which was later introduced in US and Latin America region. In her career spanning over 25 years, Manisha has been in country head roles for over a decade-and-a-half. Prior to SanDisk, Manisha worked with Kodak India Ltd. as General Manager, Digital Capture and Home Printing for 10 years and with Modi Olivetti as Business Manager. Manisha has over two dozen leadership awards and citations to her credit including the Top 10 Most Influential People in Photography award five times in a row for her incessant contribution to the Indian imaging sector. She was also listed among the 10 Women on Top in Indian IT by The Economic Times and Telecom's Women Team by the My Mobile magazine. Manisha holds a bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Bombay University and a Diploma in Computer Science from IITC Mumbai.

Manju Murthy, Co-Founder & CEO, Fortune Payment Solutions India Pvt Ltd

Manju Murthy is CEO and Co-founder of FortunePay. He has nearly 25 years of experience in payments, technology and consulting, about 12 years of which were in the US. He has about a decade of experience in the payments industry, including having helped develop mChek (as part of his previous entrepreneurial venture) and as an international payments consultant for Intel. He leads FortunePay, a Bangalore-based third-party payments processor, which offers innovative and affordable commerce solutions to merchants to enhance customer engagement and revenues.

He got his engineering degrees from Bangalore University and University of Texas at Austin, and a MBA from Bauer College of Business, University of Houston.

Manjula Pooja Shroff, Chairperson, Kalorex

An edupreneur, she is regarded by many as the change agent for schooling in the state of Gujarat. As Chairperson of Kalorex, she has been instrumental in founding and managing several premier schools. Kalorex, since its inceptions in 1995, is a name synonymous to professional and excellence in schooling. It has in its umbrella, the Delhi Public Schools, Calorx Olive International School at Ahmedabad and Calorx  Public Schools across the Western Belt of India with 40+ educational Institutions. Kalorex has recently forayed into the international territory with fresh footprints in the UAE. Kalorex is recognized as a quality conscious group with a focus on Innovation and use of Technology in Learning. The one of its kind, sector specific Calorx Teachers’ University is developing a creed of teachers to fill the quality gap of Human Capital.

She is a postgraduate from York University and executive alumni from London School of Economics. Holding a post-graduate degree from Utkal University and is a Graduate of Management Education Programme IIM, Ahmedabad.

Her concern for the marginalized and those with special learning needs is evident through the projects Visamo Kids and Prerna - a school for dyslexics.

Recipient of several awards, among them, the prestigious Secular India Award from the President of India, Shri Shankar Dayal Sharma & Woman of the year by American Bibliography Society, North Carolina.

An avid outdoor person, she has tried her hand in adventure sports like sky diving, parasailing, snorkeling, skiing, trekking and white water rafting. Has participated in a few running marathons, is an enthusiastic cyclists and has attempted cross country rides. Besides herself participating in cylothons, has been promoting the cause of green earth by encouraging young riders from ages 3 -16 years to pick up their cycles and ride.

@Manjula_Pooja

Manmeet Vohra, Director - Marketing and Category, TATA Starbucks

Winner of the 2016 “Digital Marketer of the Year”, 2011 Powerbrands Hall of Fame “Most Dynamic Marketing Professional of the Year’’ and “100 Most Talented Global Marketing Leaders” Award 2014. Manmeet joined Tata Starbucks Private Ltd in July 2013 as Director - Marketing and Category. She led the brand launch in Pune, Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad and is responsible for marketing, product management and loyalty.

Prior to that, as Marketing Director TAG Heuer and had her finger on the pulse of all India Marketing of TAG Heuer thereby, contributing to making it the leading brand of luxury watches in India.

Graduated in B.Com (Hons) from the prestigious Sri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC), Delhi University in 1999, before completing Post Graduation from the leading Marketing Communications institute - Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA) in 2002.

She has been extensively covered in various articles in leading newspapers and magazines and been a special guest speaker at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad, Mudra Institute of Communications Ahmedabad (MICA), S.P. Jain Institute of Management Mumbai, Symbiosis Pune (SCMHRD). She is also part of the Marketing Advisory Council of S.P. Jain Institute of Management.

@ManmeetVohra

Manmohan Agarwal, Co-Founder, Yebhi.com

Manohar Atreya, Head, Technology, o3 Capital Advisors

Manohar Atreya heads investment banking for the tech/BPO sector at o3 Capital. He has more than 15 years of experience in the Tech sector in M&A, strategy, sales and operations. He has interacted and worked extensively with CXO and senior management of Fortune 2000 corporations, a multitude of entrepreneurs, and a host of midsized companies. He is a specialist in M&A and fund raising, and actively tracks the Indian tech industry. He has been dealmaker in multiple M&A transactions in the recent past, including aerospace engineering, financial services, IT services and product development.

Manohar Chapalamadugu, Founder & CEO, Agile CRM

Manohar Chapalamadugu is the founder and CEO of Agile CRM. Based in Hyderabad, Agile offers a complete sales and marketing SaaS app for small businesses. Prior to AgileCRM, Manohar was the founder CEO of ClickDesk. He has over 10 years of experience working with startups and holds a Master's from State University of New York and a Bachelor's from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani.