Our speakers

Nagaraj V Mylandla, Managing Director, Financial Software & Systems Pvt. Ltd.

Nagaraj V Mylandla is the founder and Managing Director of FSS - Financial Software & Systems, a global payments technology and transactions processing leader headquartered in Chennai, India.

Nagaraj is an MBA in International Marketing and Finance from University of Nebraska, Omaha. He has worked briefly for First Data Corporation and ACI, both electronic payment pioneers, based in Omaha.

In 1991 equipped with banking expertise that he gathered in India, education at UNO and a vision to bring payments technology to India, he created FSS-Financial Software & Systems, envisaging a phenomenal growth in the payments industry in India. The Indian subcontinent with a population of over 1 billion was a virgin market as far as electronic payments was concerned with virtually no ATMs or any other Retail delivery channels.

The opportunity to transact with a billion plus populace was the basis of the FSS story. Nagaraj moved to India and got involved in building ground level understanding of payments among Indian banks and strategically built the company into a thought leader in the payments industry. The company today is respected as a technology first in the region with unique installations and a portfolio of achievements in the Payments industry.

After more than two decades, FSS covers the entire payments ecosystem with a wide spectrum of products, solutions and services, on hosted and outsourced model. FSS is amongst the best of breed global payment systems companies with revenues over USD 104 million in FY 2014.

Nagaraj has pioneered online cards and payment networks in India through retail delivery channels like ATM, PoS, and Internet & Mobile. Under his visionary leadership, FSS has conceptualised and implemented Aadhaar Enabled Payments System  (AEPS),  a  robust  and  scalable  technology  platform  for  leading  banks  in  India  to  drive  financial  inclusion initiatives of the Government in the rural and the unbanked market. These technology solutions for Inclusive banking are interoperable, channel agnostic and easy to deploy. Some of the FSS innovations include Bank-On- Wheels, Tablet Banking and Pun Grain, a solution facilitating Government Grain Procurement Systems for the Indian states of Punjab and Haryana.

Nagaraj Mylandla today steers the overall organization with specific focus on development of international business within FSS.

Naina Lal Kidwai, Chairman- Max Financial Services, Former Chairman-HSBC India

Ms. Naina Lal Kidwai is Chairman, Max Financial Services and Senior Advisor, Advent Private Equity. She is also a Non-Executive Director on the board of Nestle SA and CIPLA Ltd and has been Past President of FICCI (Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry). She retired as Executive Director on the board of HSBC Asia Pacific and Chairman HSBC India. She is also the Chairman of the Harvard Business School, South Asia Board. Previously, Ms. Kidwai has been Vice Chairman and Head Investment Banking at JM Morgan Stanley, managed the Western India operations and Investment Banking Operations of Standard Chartered Bank. An MBA from Harvard Business School, she has been recognized in India and abroad with several awards and listings for leadership and business. Ms. Kidwai has been repeatedly ranked in the Fortune global list of Top Women in Business, and listed in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times Global Listing of Women to Watch and by Time Magazine as one of their 15 Global Influentials 2002. Ms. Naina Lal Kidwai has been a recipient of the Padma Shri from the Government of India for her contribution to Trade and Industry in 2007.

Nainesh Jaisingh, Md & Global Co-Head, Standard Chartered Private Equity Advisory

Nainesh Jaisingh, Managing Director, SCPE, is a Partner with Standard Chartered’s Asian Private Equity business, and has been with the business since 2000.

In 2001, he co-founded Fin Ventures, a global Venture Capital Fund sponsored by Standard Chartered Bank, headquartered at Singapore. In 2003, Nainesh was instrumental in the launch of the Merlion India Fund, a JV between SCPE and Temasek, Singapore.

With SCPE, Nainesh has made and managed successful investments in several sectors - Software/BPO, Engineering, Pharmaceuticals, Shipbuilding, Auto Components, Power Generation, Travel, and Financial Services. He serves on the Board of Directors of several companies.

Nainesh is an Engineer with an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.

Nalin Bansal, Chief of Corporate Business and Key Initiatives, NPCI

Nalin is a Product & Business Strategy Professional with a rich experience of 20+ years on global assignments covering Technology, Telecom & Payments domain.

He has spearheaded the launch of many initiatives in the telecom and payments business and incubated new age payment solutions with organizations like Airtel, MasterCard and NPCI. He has also been an advisor to multiple start-ups for their go-to-market strategy.

He started his career with Bharti Airtel in 2001 and was a part of the India’s telecom revolution. He had been responsible for spearheading some key projects for Airtel which included Strategic outsourcing, Telecom roll outs, Tower cost optimization and GIS based Market planning. Later as part of the principal team at Bharti group he evaluated and executed projects in new areas like DTH, Mobile wallets and International acquisitions. At MasterCard he led the product launch for and their Bill Payments platform in India.

Presently he is serving as Chief of Corporate Business and Key Initiatives at National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI). Under his leadership, NPCI was able to swiftly launch the prestigious Bharat Bill Payment System (BBPS) platform for Reserve Bank of India (RBI), National Common Mobility Card (NCMC) for Transit operators and Smart Cities and rolled out solutions in the area of Contactless Payments, Secure Online Commerce and Tokenization.

At NPCI, he has been contributed extensively in building the ecosystem of payments enabling Governments, Corporates, Merchants, MSMEs and driving consumption for consumers in all segments. In his current role he is tasked to set up partnerships to drive new use cases for Fintech, Startups & Merchants not just in payments but also in areas of loyalty, analytics and identification.

Nalin is a Communications engineer from University of Pune and holds a Master’s degree in Diploma (Strategy) in Business Management from FORE, Delhi.

Nalin Kumar, MD, Rabo India Finance Ltd.

Nalin Kumar is the Managing Director and Head of Merger & Acquisition and Equity Capital and Advisory in India. Nalin has over 17 years of experience encompassing M&A, Debt, Equity Capital Markets and Banking.

Nalin started his banking career with HSBC in 1993. Thereafter he moved into investment banking with J.P. Morgan Chase. He had worked in New York, Singapore and Hong Kong offices of J.P. Morgan Chase initially supporting the Project, Structured Finance and Restructuring Groups in Asia, and subsequently as a key member of the Asian M&A effort working on several landmark transactions across industry verticals in key Asian markets.

He joined DSP Merrill Lynch in their Indian operation in the year 2001. Here he led important M&A and Capital Market transactions across sectors. Prior to Rabo India he was with JM Morgan Stanley, where he was working since 2005. At JM, he lead the Financial Sponsors Group and worked across sectors.

Nalin is a MBA from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta and holds a Bachelors degree in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur.

Nalini Venkat, President - Strategic Partnerships & Head - Institutional Business, Digit Insurance

Namit Chugh, Principal, W Health Ventures

Namita Dalmia, Principal, Omidyar Network

Namita is a principal at Omidyar Network where she leads education investments in India.  Prior to joining Omidyar Network, Namita spent five years as associate director at Central Square Foundation, where she led the education technology vertical. She helped to incubate and invest in non-profit organizations and partnered with the government.

Previously, Namita was a design analyst at Education Elements, working closely with the engineering and consulting team to design a hybrid learning management system.Before Education Elements, she worked with the National Knowledge Commission, supporting the Prime Minister’s Office to develop policy encompassing education and related areas.

Namita received her MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and received a dual degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology.

Namrata Bostrom, Co-Founder & CEO, POPxo.com

Namrata Bostrom drives the commercial aspects of the company. She combines a background in management consulting with a love for fashion and a flair for marketing and branding.

Namrata’s vision is to grow POPxo into India’s largest digital media platform for women, helping readers learn about new trends, identify the best merchandise, and make informed purchase decisions. She also wants to help kick-start the emerging field of native advertising in India, offering to brands a range of innovative digital advertising formats that are both engaging and cost-effective.

Namrata has lived and worked in 4 cities around the world, growing up in Delhi, attending University in Oxford, and working in London and Singapore.

In London, Namrata worked with EDITD, an innovative fashion data analytics start-up, helping them grow sales and define the product roadmap. Prior to that she spent three years with the Boston Consulting Group where she worked with some of the world's largest banks and retailers, on pricing, new market entry and operational efficiency projects.

She has a Masters in Economics from Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar, and an MBA from London Business School, where she was a C200 scholar. Namrata also led London Business School's flagship entrepreneurial leadership series (the TELL Series).

Namrata is an incessant traveller, hopping across continents in a bid to discover local cultures through hidden cafes, restaurants and bars. She's been known to attempt to recreate those local cuisines (with limited success) in her own kitchen.

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Namrita Mahindro, CDO, Aditya Birla Group