Our speakers

Manish Makharia, Executive Director, TVS Capital Funds Limited

Manish has over 15 years of Investment Banking and Corporate Advisory experience in India. He has advised corporates from across sectors including consumers, infrastructure, media, financial services, natural resources, metals, education etc. Apart from having wide relationships and deep sector knowledge he also has valuable experience of working across investment banking products including Private Equity advisory, Mergers & Acquisitions, Capital Markets, structuring, financial engineering and valuations. Manish was instrumental in setting up Mid Market investment banking practice at Kotak Mahindra Group and as head of the practice led many transactions. He brings deep expertise in proactive deal sourcing, structuring, valuation and negotiations. One of the critical skill sets which he adds to the team is strategizing exits with a view to maximize value since he has extensive experience on IPOs and strategic sale.

He is a Chartered Accountant by qualification and was an All India rank holder from November 1995 batch. Before TVS Capital Manish has worked with SBI Capital Markets, Ernst & Young- Corporate Finance and with Kotak Investment Banking.


Manish Malik, VP - Gaming, Hungama Digital Media

Manish Malik is Assistant Vice President, at Hungama Digital Media Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. He plays a vital role in creating and executing robust business models in the connected device environment comprising of Mobile, PC, Tablet, DTH & Internet TV's. His expertise lies in Business Development, Marketing, Strategic Alliances, Content Negotiation and Syndication. At Hungama, Manish spearheads Gaming & Applications across multimedia and device environments. Under his leadership, Hungama has emerged as one of the largest application developers in South Asia, and Hungama Game Studio is one of the leading game developers on the Web, Mobile and DTH platforms. He also manages one of India’s largest social- gaming portals thegamebox.com.

Manish has over ten years of experience across industry verticals - FMCG, Consumer Durables, Retail & Digital Entertainment and business functions - Brand / Product Management, Marketing & Business development. Prior to Hungama, He worked with Reliance Retail in the Marketing & Customer Activation team and preceding which he was heading the gaming division at Reliance Webstores. A major part of Manish’s experience has been working with MNC's in a startup environment where he has contributed significantly to the organizations performance and growth.

Manish holds a Master’s degree in Management with specialization in Marketing and Sales and has graduated from Narsee Monjee College of Commerce and Economics.


Manish Mehta, Managing Director, Samara Capital

Prior to joining Samara Capital, Manish worked with the Private Equity Fund at Lehman Brothers in New York. Before that, Manish was a Principal in a $10 billion multi-strategy hedge fund at Barclays Global Investors. Manish also briefly worked in Real Estate Private Equity at Grove International Partners (Soros Fund) where he was covering India investments primarily in the hotel sector. Manish began his finance career with Lehman Brothers in 2001 in New York.

Manish earned his Masters in Business Administration from the Harvard Business School where he graduated with Distinction. Manish also has a Master of Science in Transportation & Logistics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and received his Bachelors degree in engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorke where he was the top ranking student in his class. Manish is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).


Manish Mittal, Director - Research Analytics, AbsolutData Research & Analytics Pvt Ltd

Manish has over 14 years of rich Market Research & Analytics Experience across the Indian and Middle East market. 

During the tenure of his career he has worked with leading research firms such as Nielsen, Synovate (Now Ipsos) and Market Probe with the last one being specialist in customer loyalty assessment.  

He specializes in Customer / Employee Experience (Churn, Satisfaction, Acquisition, and Loyalty), Pricing, Brand Assessment, New Product Development / Line Extension, Volume Forecasting across CPG, Retail, Telecom, Media, Automotive, PSUs sectors. 

In his present role at Absolutdata, he is responsible for mentoring strategic projects, building client relationships, instrumental for new product / solutions development for the organization and also managing a business line. 

Manish is very passionate about Market Research & Analytics and its potential impact, thus, he mentors students at business schools like IBS, MET, Rizvi, Xaviers. 

Manish has a Masters degree in Management Studies from the University of Mumbai.


Manish Mody, Lead - Financial Services, Intel Technologies


Manish Nihalani, Chief Operating Officer, Alchemist Asset Reconstruction Company Ltd.

Manish Nihalani is the Chief Operating Officer of Alchemist Asset Reconstruction Company Limited and has been associated with the Company since 2016.

He leads strategy for acquisitions and resolution and provides strategic direction and guidance for the entire ARC operation. He has been responsible for distressed portfolio management from acquisition to the resolution. He has been instrumental in business development including asset evaluation and Institutional / banking relationship for the Company. He has driven the growth trajectory of Asset Under Management of the Company from INR 500 crore to INR 2,000 crore.

With a total experience of 21 years, Mr. Nihalani was in the field of banking, distress assets management, restructuring, turnaround of retail portfolio / SME and large corporate, managing institutional relationship, asset acquisition & evaluation, investments & fund raising. He started his career with Aditya Birla Group and Joined ICICI Bank and worked on Asset Resolution and later joined one of the largest PRA of ARCIL in NPA resolution.

Mr. Nihalani is Commerce Graduate and earned a Master degree in Finance.


Manish Patel, MD & CEO, Mswipe

Manish is the CEO of Mswipe and has 20 years of experience leading sales. Prior to Mswipe, he co-founded Milestone Merchandise, an Alcobev distribution company with FY012 sales of Rs 140 crores. Manish has a degree in Medicine from Mumbai University.


Manish Rathi, CEO & Founder, RailYatri.in

Manish has a Masters in Computer Science from Western Michigan University and has more than 20 years of industry experience working with Bell Labs, July Systems, and GlobalLogic. His area of expertise lies with designing and engineering scalable Consumer Products/Services which utilizes networked information models.

Having worked closely with Indian Railways for more than 3 years - Manish has hands-on experience of how information operates and data flows in Railway networks.


Manish Sabharwal, CEO, Team Lease Services Pvt. Ltd

Manish is currently the Chairman and co-founder of Teamlease Services, India’s largest staffing and training firm. The firm now has 250 training centers and over 75,000 employees in 770 cities/ towns across India.

Earlier he co-founded India Life, an HR outsourcing company in 1996 that was acquired by Hewitt associates in 2002. Consequently he was Managing Director of Hewitt Outsourcing (Asia) in Singapore.

Manish is a member of the Prime Ministers Council on Skill Development and serves on various state and central government committees related to education, employment and employability.

He got his MBA from The Wharton School and is an alumni of Shriram College, Delhi and Mayo College, Ajmer.

 


Manish Shah, EVP - Digital Channels, Kotak Mahindra Bank

Manish is part of the core team that drives Kotak Mahindra Bank’s digital-first banking strategy and leads the team that manages the bank’s digital channel initiatives across mobile and internet banking.

Since 2012, Manish has led the implementation of key digital banking initiatives related to the Kotak mobile banking app, net banking and conversational banking, including the launch of the AI-powered Keya chatbot and WhatsApp Banking.

He has experience of over two decades in the digital and financial services sector. Prior to joining Kotak, Manish worked with ICICI Prudential Life Insurance, Apnaloan.com and GE Plastics.

Manish is an engineer and has completed his MBA from Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai