Our speakers

Mridul Mahan, Head - IB Technology for India, Deutsche Bank Group

Mridul Mahan is a veteran with over 20 years of experience in the Financial Services Industry.

He is currently Head of Investment Banking Technology, working towards building upon the engineering culture DNA and develop next generation future proof stacks.  This is strategic to the core of Digital Corporate and Investment Banking going forward.

Mridul joined Deutsche Bank in 2016 as Head of Technology for Deutsche Bank in India and then moved on to become Head of API and Open Banking for Corporate Banking. The remit was to build a full stack open banking platform with corporate clients and other banks and launch a fintech internal to Deutsche Bank.

Before he joined Deutsche Bank, Mridul was Head – GMSS at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, India where he led the technology Infrastructure team, supporting the Bank across the Asia Pacific Region as well as leading the technology infrastructure footprint of the Bank Pan India.

Mrigank Tripathi, CEO, Applied Mobile Labs

Mrigank Tripathi is the founder and CEO of Applied Mobile Labs which is a leader in the mEducation and mobile based lead generation space in India.  The firm was established in 2009 by Mrigank who is an MBA from INSEAD and BE from Nagpur University in Industrial Production Engineering.
Tripathi has previously worked with Text 100, Friday Corporation, Mercer Management Consulting and QED Venture Advisors.

Mrinal Chatterjee, Director of Technology Payments, Amazon

Mrinal is product & technology enthusiast with over 23 year of industry experience delivering world class platforms in enterprise and consumer solutions working with fortune 100 and startups.

Mrinal heads Payments product development in Amazon India building next generation payments product and technology innovation for all Amazon offerings in India. Prior to Amazon, Mrinal was co-founder and CTO of ShopClues.com where he developed the India’s first Managed Marketplace Platform enabling over 100 thousands merchants sell online. Prior to ShopClues, Mrinal has worked for 16 years in Silicon Valley startups like Contenix.com, rownine.com (acquired by Beyondtherack.com), Tablus Inc. (acquired by RSA/EMC) and established companies like Epihpany and Oracle. Mrinal graduated from IIT Bombay and lives in Bangalore with his wife and his dog Sparky (Miniature Schanuzer).

Mritunjay Singh, Executive Director & COO, Persistent Systems Ltd.

Mritunjay Singh (Munjay) is the Executive Director & Chief Operating Officer for Persistent Systems. He brings over 20 years of operations experience at startups and large companies in India and abroad in the Financial Service and Insurance, Retail and Manufacturing industries. Munjay has held various senior level positions in Account Management, Delivery Management and Development Center Management at Infosys, Kanbay, S3C and Tata Steel.

Prior to joining Persistent Systems, Munjay was Development Center Head for a 26,000+ people center in Pune and Delivery Head of the Financial Services ADM unit managing a $400+ million global business. He established the Singapore Development Center and was credited with winning the company's first large outsourcing contract. Munjay was instrumental in formulating key policies for the organization. Munjay also led the Hinjewadi Industry Association in Pune for many years as its President, working very closely with the government to bring about systemic development to the high-tech area.

Munjay has a Bachelor's Degree in Technology in Electronics & Communications from IIT BHU, Varanasi.

Mrs. Chanda D Kochhar, CEO, ICICI Bank

Mrs. Chanda D Kochhar is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of ICICI Bank Limited. She began her career with ICICI as a Management Trainee in 1984 and has thereon successfully risen through the ranks by handling multidimensional assignments and heading all the major functions in the Bank at various points in time.

In 1993 when ICICI decided to enter commercial banking, she was deputed to ICICI Bank as a part of the core team to set up the bank. When ICICI set up the Infrastructure Industry Group in 1996 to create dedicated industry expertise in the areas of Power, Telecom and Transportation sector, she was handpicked and made incharge of the Infrastructure Industry Group. Further in 1998, when ICICI created the Major Client Group to handle the relationships with the top 200 clients of ICICI, she was promoted as General Manager and was made the head of the Major Clients Group. In the year 1999 she simultaneously started handling the strategy and E-commerce divisions of ICICI.

In July 2000, she was chosen to head the Retail Finance division of ICICI and has been instrumental in scaling up the business. In April 2001, she was promoted as an Executive Director, heading the retail business in the Bank. Having joined it during its nascent stage, her strategic thinking and skills to convert challenges into opportunities ensured that within a short span of around 5 years ICICI Bank emerged as the largest retail financer in India. In the process of transforming a small bank into the largest private sector bank in the country, within a decade of its inception, the various steps taken by her also shaped the retail finance industry in India.

In April 2006, she was appointed as the Deputy Managing Director of ICICI Bank, with responsibility for both Corporate and Retail banking business of ICICI Bank and from October 2006 to October 2007, she handled the International and Corporate businesses of ICICI Bank. Once again under her leadership, International banking was the fastest growing businesses within the Bank aiming to cater to the cross-border needs of clients.

In October 2007, she was appointed as the Joint Managing Director & CFO. She was heading the Corporate Centre, was the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and was also the official spokesperson for ICICI Bank. In addition to finance, planning and communications; her responsibilities included the global treasury, principal investments & trading, risk management and legal functions. She was also responsible for day-to-day guidance and administrative matters relating to the compliance and internal audit functions.

Mrutyunjay Mahapatra, Former MD & CEO, Syndicate Bank

Mrutyunjay Mahapatra is a well-known figure in Indian Banking. He is currently a member of the Governing Council of RBI Innovation Hub and a member of the Board of Supervision at NABARD. He is also a distinguished visiting professor at Manipal University’s T. A.  Pai Management Institute. He advises and consults a number of Indian and global Banks, Corporates and fin-tech companies.

He started his professional career in SBI in 1982 and held senior and CXO level assignments in India, UK and USA. He has set up many new businesses like Leasing, Private Equity and Insurance for SBI.  He was the Deputy Managing director in SBI, leading global strategy, Marketing, New Businesses, digital, analytics and IT initiatives. As CIO of SBI, he established the innovation, data analytics, enterprise architecture verticals which was instrumental in creating many path breaking products like YONO, Loan Life Management System, SBI Chatbot etc.

From 2018 to 2020, he was the CEO of Syndicate Bank, and led the transformation and repositioning of one of the India’s oldest and largest banks. 

A writer in leading newspapers and a known public speaker, he is considered a thought leader in the Indian BFSI sector. He has won several awards and accolades and has served in various RBI and Government Committee besides being member of different corporate boards. He is an avid blogger and is active in the lecturing circuit. He produces videos on different transformative subjects mostly for his own You tube channel.

Mudit Kapoor, Assistant Professor - Economics & Public Policy, Indian School of Business

Mudit Kapoor is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Indian School of Business (ISB). He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Maryland, College Park. His primary research interest is in Development Economics. Some of his recent research projects are a study of Chit Funds (an indigenous finance industry in India) as an innovative access to finance for low-income households; the impact of interest rates on household consumption; and the impact of financial constraints on firm productivity.

Mudit Khosla, CEO, Tradus.com

Mudit Khosla is the CEO of Tradus.com which is a player in the Indian e-commerce space. It operates a marketplace model for merchants and sellers which is similar to the way eBay India, Snapdeal and Junglee are run.

 

Prior to Tradus, Mudit was CEO at Seventymm.com, an e-commerce company which sought to sell physical movie rentals via an online medium. Earlier, as Founding Member of Yatra.com, he provided strategic vision and operational leadership and before that he was the founding member of digital commerce vertical at Times of India Group (Indiatimes.com). He has spent a total of 10 years in the e-commerce segment and has seen it grow from a non-entity to a large market.

 

Currently he is also on the advisory Board of a bunch of startups and entrepreneurial ventures.

Mudit Saxena, Group CEO, CARE Hospital

Dr. Mudit Saxena is a highly accomplished administrator with a Masters in Hospital Administration and MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. He did his MBBS from SMS Medical College, Jaipur and pursued academics with Johns Hopkins University, U.S.A. and Singapore Management University.

Mudit has over 18 years of experience in leadership roles in corporate, trust and public sector healthcare organizations. He started his career serving at primary health centres in rural India. He later joined as the pioneering member of the first Private Medical College in the state of Rajasthan in India.

He worked with tertiary care superspecialty chain - Wockhardt Hospitals at key positions and later headed the Fortis Hospital at Cunningham Road, Bangalore. Dr. Saxena went on to serve the flagship hospital of Fortis – FMRI, Gurgaon as the Program Director.

Before joining CARE Hospitals he was associated with HCG Enterprises Ltd. – the leading Cancer Chain of Hospitals in India as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) managing the operations of key hospitals. He launched HCG Homecare Services and spearheaded strategic initiatives for the Group.

Currently, he serves as Group CEO for CARE Hospitals – the fifth largest chain of hospitals in India. The group operates through 14 hospitals with over 2200 beds in 6 cities across 5 states in India.

Dr. Mudit has served as Chairperson, Key Speaker and Panelist at various international and national healthcare forums. He was Chairman at the Healthcare World Asia Conference 2013 (Singapore), Key Speaker at Healthcare World Asia Conference 2014 (Singapore) and UK India Healthcare Summit 2016, organised by the BSICC at UK Parliament, London. He was also on the panel on sectoral investment in India and South Asia at the recently concluded Healthcare Business International 2017 (London). For his deep and incisive knowledge of Indian Healthcare Industry, Dr. Mudit has been awarded by ASIA One as the World’s Greatest Leaders in Asia and GCC (Healthcare) at Dubai in May 2017. He was also adjudged the Indian Affairs Health Administrator of the year 2017 at India Leadership Conclave, Mumbai in August 2017. He has also been a mentor and guide to over 30 students across the country as well as abroad.

Mudit Seth, Co-founder, SilverPush

Mudit Seth is the CMO and Co-founder of SilverPush, APAC first Cross Device and Mobile retargeting company. SilverPush is a USA registered company, which was founded in Oct 2012.

Mudit is part of GSF accelerator (India) and 500 startups (US) in 2013. He has over 6 years of experience in digital advertising space. He has earlier worked with Tyroo Media and Adglobal360. SilverPush is his second startup. His 1st startup Wisetouch was made and sold profitably. At SilverPush he is responsible for company’s global sales and marketing, vision and strategy.