Our speakers

Mayur Sirdesai, Partner, Somerset Indus Capital Partners

Mayur has over 25 years of experience in Healthcare/ Pharma and FMCG and has worked in various roles like Private Equity, Strategy, Advisory Services, Operations, Manufacturing and Marketing in this sector. Currently, Mayur runs a Healthcare focused PE fund called Somerset Indus Capital Partners focused on investments in products and services platforms in the SME sector of Healthcare in India.

He has made several investments across Pharma, Nutrition, Medical Technology, Diagnostics and Healthcare Delivery.  He has a strong network across the Indian Healthcare sector at the Senior Management Level and in the past, has worked in large professional companies like IMS Health and Colgate Palmolive as well as his family run organization – Kare Group in an entrepreneurial capacity. He has also built start ups in the areas of Medical Devices and Stem Cell Banking and Research.

He has also been involved in the Healthcare start up space wherein he has mentored several healthcare entrepreneurs and is an Investment Committee member of a Healthcare Start up Incubator called Health Start in Delhi. He has also helped in the organisation of a Healthcare conference on Digital Healthcare with the TiE Pune chapter last year.
 
Mayur attended IIT Bombay between 1983-87 wherein he did his B. Tech in Chemical Engineering followed by a Masters in Chemical Engineering at Pennsylvania State University in 1989 and a MBA at University of Texas at Austin in 1991. Being from a family with a lifelong association with Pharma, Mayur naturally moved into the Pharma/Lifesciences sector which he has been part of in various roles throughout his career.

Mayuresh Kini, COO, PayU Finance

Mayuresh Kini is the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer at PayU Finance. In his dual role Mayuresh is instrumental in spearheading the organization’s strategic moves aligned to its vision of creating a full-stack digital financial services platform to serve all financial needs of consumers in India.

He is responsible for leading and scaling the company’s overall growth and business operations for LazyPay, India's preferred Buy Now Pay Later solution and PaySense, a full stack personal loans company. His role includes overseeing design and implementation of business strategies, fund raising and developing and implementing financial procedures to improve and maintain the financial health of the firm.

With a career spanning over two decades focused on financial services, Mayuresh has donned many hats across the spectrum covering finance, strategy, private equity/venture capital and management consulting, both in India and abroad. He joined PaySense as the COO and CFO in 2018, and when the digital credit platform was acquired by PayU, took over as the COO and CFO of PayU Finance, one of the leading digital lenders and the NBFC unit of PayU. An alumnus of IIM-Ahmedabad and a qualified Chartered Accountant, Mayuresh has previously worked with Ernst & Young, McKinsey & Co., and Faering Capital, among others.

MD Ranganath, Chairman, Catamaran Ventures

Meena Ganesh, Co-Founder, MD & CEO, Portea Medical & Partner - GrowthStory

Meena is one of India’s foremost business leaders and most successful entrepreneurs with nearly three decades of experience in industries including healthcare, consulting, technology, outsourcing, education and e-commerce.As the MD & CEO, Meena heads Portea Medical, India’s largest and fastest growing home healthcare company, which she co-founded in July 2013.

Till February 2013, Meena was a promoter and board member of TutorVista, and CEO and MD of Pearson Education Services.As a partner of the platform, Growthstory.in, she is also co-promoter of nearly a dozen, new-age Internet / Technology enabled start-ups. A few of them that are leaders in their category include Bigbasket.com - India’s premier e-grocery retailer, home solutions company - HomeLane, Food Tech company - FreshMenu, and Bluestone.com – India’s leading online jeweler.

Meena has also co-founded Customer Asset, one of India’s pioneering BPO companies which she sold to ICICI OneSource. She also had a five year stint with Microsoft India‚ during which she set up multiple business units including Microsoft Consulting‚ Internet and Application Development/Business services units. During the initial 11 years of her career, Meena was with PricewaterhouseCoopers and with NIIT.

Meena is a PGDM holder from IIM Calcutta has a graduate degree in Physics from the Madras University.In 2015, Meena was among the 7-member jury for the inaugural Economic Times Startup Awards and in November of the same year, was selected by Fortune India as one of the 50 'Most Powerful Women in Business.'

Meena serves as a member of the CII-Innovation & Entrepreneurship Council.

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Meena Ganesh, CEO, Manipal K 12

Meena Ganesh is the CEO of Manipal K-12 Education, which is a joint venture between TutorVista.com and Manipal Education and Medical Group. TutorVista through its global business provides Supplemental education services for international markets using its proprietary technology platform and the services of teachers from India. The solutions offered by Manipal K-12 Education include ICT based solutions to enhance the teaching learning process in the domestic education sector in India. These solutions come from the 10 year old group company Edurite Technologies. Under her leadership, Manipal K-12 Education has entered into the space of school management and supplementary education.

Prior to this, Meena was the CEO of Tescos operations in India, the Tesco Hindustan Service Center. The Tesco HSC is the core IT and back office support organization for the entire global operations of the business.

Before coming on board Tesco Meena co-founded one of India's pioneering BPO companies; CustomerAsset which she sold to ICICI OneSource. She was the Chief Operations Officer of CustomerAsset and helped build the organization to nearly 4000 people servicing large corporate customers in UK and US markets.

During her five-year association with Microsoft India, she set up multiple business units for them including Microsoft Consulting Internet and Application Development/Business services units. She was with PricewaterhouseCoopers and with NIIT during the initial 11 years of her career.

This PGDM holder from IIM Calcutta has a graduate degree in Physics from the Madras University.

Meenakshi Vajpai, CIO, Vodafone

Ms Meenakshi Vajpai has more than 25 years of experience in IT strategy, architecture, core telecom and enterprise IT operations.  She has envisioned and led various organisations from diverse sectors in their efforts of organizational transformation through the use of technology spanning internal functions, customer experience as well as innovation for revenue.

She has held a number of senior management positions across industries wherein she has driven strategy and execution of new business initiatives. Her initiatives have won her several awards, including CIO 100, Digital transformation Icon and at international forums.

At Vodafone Idea, Meenakshi leads IT strategy and policies across all businesses and partners.

Meera Chopra, VP & Global Head of Advertising Sales, Vuclip

Based in Delhi, Meera runs Vuclip’s global ad business. Specifically, she develops strategic account plans for the partners with eye toward identifying creative, revenue?generating initiatives. As part of the Vuclip management team, she also works across internal cross-functional teams to develop and execute programs to increase the accessibility, relevance and preference of Vuclip.

Prior to joining Vuclip, Meera was the National Sales Head with Times Internet Ltd. She has more than a decade of experience in business development and corporate sales having worked with leading media houses such as Networkplay and Komli Media.

Meera Sanyal, Member, AAP

Former CEO & Chairperson of RBS India, Meera is a Senior Executive who is a Non- executive Board director of Financial services firms, NGO’s and Educational Institutions. She was invited by Secretary of State Hilary Clinton to join her International Council on Women’s Business Leadership (ICWBL), is a member of the Global Board Ready Women’s group (GBRW) and of the National Executive Committees of FICCI and CII. She is also a Board member of Pradan,  AIESEC India, Jaihind College and LiberalsIndia for Good Governance – the Indian Liberal Group. Meera has been a banker for over 29 years, with a wide array of experience ranging from Investment Banking to Operations & IT. She has a keen interest in Public Policy &Governance, Financial Inclusion and Women’s Empowerment and a deep understanding of the economic, social and political situation in India. She has recently stepped down as CEO of RBS India to devote herself to social, economic and political causes that she is deeply passionate about.

Meera Shankar, Former Ambassador to the United States of America, GOI

Ms. Meera Shankar has had a distinguished career in the Indian Foreign Service which she joined in 1973. Ms. Shankar was India’s first woman Ambassador to Germany from 2005 to 2009. From 2009 to 2011, she served as India’s second woman Ambassador to the USA; the first one being Vijay Laxmi Pandit. As Additional Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs, Ms. Shankar headed the Division dealing with International Organisations and Security issues.  She has long experience of dealing with India’s neighbours, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka and SAARC in the Ministry of External Affairs and of economic diplomacy as Minister (Commerce) in the Indian Embassy in Washington in the nineties in the early days of Economic Reforms . As Director, Ms. Shankar worked in the Prime Minister’s office for six years under four Prime Ministers. She has also headed the Indian Council of Cultural Relations as its Director General. Ms. Meera Shankar now serves on the Boards of several Companies as an Independent Director and on the Governing Body of a not for profit think tank.

Megha Aggarwal, Founder and CEO, Leap Skills Academy

Megha is a skill development specialist and has been associated with several international and domestic organizations like the University of Pennsylvania, Asian Development Bank, the Planning Commission, the Azim Premji Foundation and the Wadhwani Foundation. An ex-investment banker who worked in London and New York for several years, she was a Chevening Scholar at the London School of Economics and is an alumnus of the University of Oxford and St Stephen's College.