Our speakers

Masood Mallick, Managing Director & Group CEO, Re Sustainability Limited

Masood is the Managing Director & Group CEO of Re Sustainability Limited. Over the last three decades, he has worked with leading global corporations, governments, institutions and investors on circular economy, climate change and sustainability issues, across four continents. Before joining Re Sustainability, he served as Managing Director at ERM and was a part of ERM's Global Senior Leadership Team (SLT).

Masood has also advised the Government of India on environmental policy and legislation, including several regulatory standards and the country's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). 

He has led several national and international industry forums in the sustainability and circular economy space and is a recognised thought leader in these areas. He is also a recognized subject matter expert in management of hazardous materials, waste management and rehabilitation of contaminated sites. 

He currently serves as the Chairman of CII National Committee on Circular Economy (Waste to Worth Transformation) and recently also served as the Chairman of ASSOCHAM’s National Council on Environment and Climate Change.

About Re Sustainability

Re Sustainability, a KKR company, is Asia’s leading provider of integrated sustainability solutions. Re Sustainability aims to be a global enabler of circular economy and provides a range of environmental infrastructure, services and circular economy solutions for cities and industries. 

Its businesses include Waste Management (including hazardous, municipal, bio-medical, MARPOL & e-waste); Waste to Energy; Wastewater Solutions, Recycling & Resource Recovery (including plastics, E-waste, paper, ELV’s, C&D waste and a number of other commodities). Re Sustainability also offers EPC services, consultancy and bespoke environmental solutions. 

With a workforce that is over 22,000 strong, Re Sustainability has a global footprint, including more than 100 operating facilities and plants spread across India, Singapore, USA, UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Jordan and Tanzania.

Re Sustainability is independently rated by Standard & Poor’s CSA (earlier known as the Dow Jones Sustainability Index). In January 2025, ReSL was ranked as the highest rated environmental services company globally.

Mathew Cyriac, , Florintree Advisors

Mathew Cyriac is the Co-Head of Private Equity in India.

Since joining Blackstone in 2006, Mr. Cyriac has been involved in Blackstone’s investments in Allcargo Global Logistics, CMS Infosystems, FINO, FTIL, Gateway Rail, Gokaldas Exports, International Tractors, MCX, MTAR Technologies and Nuziveedu Seeds. Mr. Cyriac currently serves on the boards of CMS Info Systems, FINO, Gateway Rail, Gokaldas Exports, International Tractors and MTAR.

Before joining Blackstone, Mr. Cyriac served as Head of Corporate Development & Strategy of iGATE Corporation (NASDAQ:IGTE) and Chief Financial Officer of Quintant Services, where he led all the financing and other strategic transactions of Quintant and its eventual sale to iGATE.

Prior to joining Quintant, Mr. Cyriac was a Vice President in the Investment Banking Group at Credit Suisse First Boston. Mr. Cyriac also worked in the Private Equity Group at Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette and the Investment Banking Division of Bank of America and in the Engineering Division of Tata Motors.

Mr. Cyriac received a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and an M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, where he graduated at the top of his class.

Matthew Driver, Executive Vice President, Head of Services, Asia Pacific, Mastercard

Mausam Bhatt, Sr. Director - Marketing (Mobile and Digital), Flipkart

Mausam heads the Online Marketing and Alliances team at Flipkart. In this role, he is responsible for leading mobile strategy, digital marketing, customer acquisition and strategic alliances for India’s largest e-commerce platform.

Mausam joined Flipkart after having spent more than a decade in Silicon Valley launching and growing market-leading products in a variety of spaces. Prior to Flipkart, he led mobile monetization initiatives at the #1 health care app developer Epocrates. He has also worked earlier as a Product Director for the strategic marketing team at Johnson & Johnson and led product development for Hewlett Packard’s enterprise server division.

He is passionate about the role mobile Internet will play in emerging economies as a great leveler in bringing about equal opportunity and transparency for all.

Mausam holds an MBA degree from Duke University and an MS in Computer Science from University of Arizona.

Maya John, Chief People Officer, VerSe Innovation

Mayank Bathwal, CEO, Aditya Birla Health Insurance

Mayank Bathwal is the Chief Executive Officer at Aditya Birla Health Insurance Co. Ltd., a joint venture between Aditya Birla Group and MMI Holdings of South Africa. He has been with the Aditya Birla Group for 26+ years, and has held multiple leadership roles across insurance, financial services, manufacturing, energy and power, in India and Indonesia.

He set up Aditya Birla Health Insurance in 2015, and under his leadership, within a short span of time, ABHI has grown into one of the recognized and fastest growing health insurance company in India. Mr. Bathwal spearheaded a very well diversified strategy of entering the health insurance market with a differentiated business model which focuses on the ‘health’ in health insurance, thereby challenging the traditional approach of the industry thus far.

He is a fellow Chartered Accountant and a member of the ICWA and ICSI. He is the co-Chair of FICCI Health Insurance Committee and is also actively involved with a number of industry forums such as CII and IAMAI.

He is an avid reader, a fitness enthusiast, and passionate about every Indian having easy access to health insurance.

Mayank Choudhary, Sr. Investment Specialist, Asian Development Bank

Mayank Choudhary is Principal Investment Specialist, with the Private Sector Operations Department at the Asian Development Bank. Mayank has eighteen years of corporate finance, investment banking, private equity and project finance experience. Prior to ADB, he has worked at Macquarie Capital, SUN-Apollo Real Estate and International Finance Corporation (IFC). He has an MBA degree from the Indian Institute of Management (Ahmedabad).

Mayank Jain, Principal, Stellaris Venture Partners

Mayank Jalan, MD, Keventer Agro Ltd.

Mr. Mayank Jalan is the Managing Director of Keventer Agro Ltd. A first-class degree holder in Mechanical Engineering from University College London, he also has a degree in Business Finance from the prestigious London School of Economics. His core strength is managing strategic growth while ensuring a level of profitability essential for generation of internal funds that fuel rapid growth.

His proficiency in managing a complex supply chain has delivered steady top-line increments as well as bottom-line accruals.

While gaining some practical know-how at the University College London and London School of Economics, Mr. Jalan has acquired significant do-how as a Research Analysis Expert in Credit Agricole Indisuez in London. He has also worked with Smifs Financing Ltd. in Kolkata, India, marketing Mutual Funds.

Mr. Jalan's all-encompassing interest in markets and brands, and products and processes has led him to create a team of competent professionals who direct and operate the vital functions at the Keventer Group. This young but wise leader has been successfully steering the Keventer Group, one of the fastest growing groups in eastern India that has been making game-changing forays into several spaces - edibles, exports and real estate.

A keen sportsman, Mr. Mayank Jalan's sports interests include golf, squash, cricket, rugby, badminton, and swimming, alongside reading and music.

Mayank Kumar, Co-founder and MD, Upgrad

Mayank Kumar is the Founder and CEO of UpGrad (www.upgrad.com), India’s first full-fledged online education company. Mayank co-founded UpGrad together with serial entrepreneur and philanthropist Ronnie Screwvala and secured $16m of capital to grow the venture into India’s most meaningful education business.

Before founding UpGrad, Mayank was Vice President Education at Bertelsmann, Europe’s largest media and education conglomerate, where he oversaw Bertelsmann’s education strategy and its multi-million dollar investments in India. In this capacity, Mayank further served as Board Member of iNurture (www.inurture.com), India’s No. 1 provider of industry-specific academic programs.

Prior to joining Bertelsmann, Mayank was a Senior Principal at The Parthenon Group, where he advised global clients in the education sector across all geographies including China, Southeast Asia,
India and South America and participated in deals worth $1.5bn flowing into the education sector.

Before joining The Parthenon Group, Mayank worked at the Tata Strategic Management Group, advising Tata’s strategic direction. Mayank holds a BTech from IIT Delhi and a MBA from Indian School of Business (ISB).