Our speakers

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

Nanda Rackanchath, Chief Human Resources Officer, Tata Chemicals

Mr. Nanda is currently the Chief of Human Resources at Tata Chemicals Limited, based in Mumbai. Tata Chemicals is an 80+ year old Tata Group company with interests in Basic Chemicals (Soda Ash, Salt, Sodium bicarbonate, Bromine, Cement etc) & Specialty Chemicals (Agri Chemicals, Nutritional ingredients, Advance Silica) with manufacturing facilities spread across India, UK, USA and Africa.

Mr. Nanda has been associated with the Tata Group since 2006 when he joined to head the Human Resources function at Tata Communications Ltd. In May 2012, he moved to Tata Chemicals and is a member of the Executive Committee, overseeing the global functions of Human Resources & Administration, Corporate Communications, Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility.

Mr. Nanda has nearly 37 years of rich experience across varied sectors like manufacturing, trading, retail, consumer durables, FMCG, telecom and services across several companies in India and overseas. He has completed his Post Graduation in Human Resources and has also done several professional certification & executive development programmes including an MDP at the Wharton School of Management as part of a Business Leaders Programme for transitioning from Functional to General Management. Prior to joining the Tata Group, he has held various staff and line responsibilities in the areas of Human Resources, Manufacturing and Procurement across Murugappa Group, OTE Group, Landmark Group and Amararaja Group.

Mr. Nanda has been associated with the Ethics function as the Chief Ethics Counselor for over 14 years across both at Tata Chemicals and Tata Communications. He is also a Trustee on several of the company’s social sector initiatives like TCSRD, Okhai and Uday. Mr. Nanda is a professional member of NHRD, ISTD and NIPM and also represents the company and industry in several forums within CII, BCCI and EFI.

Nandakumar S, Founder & CEO, Perfint Healthcare

Nandakumar S is the Co - founder, Perfint Healthcare Pvt Ltd, Nandu started his career in GE Healthcare and held various responsibilities in Supply Chain, Operations, Six Sigma, Sales and Finance. Nandu was part of the team that helped build a strong Technology, Manufacturing and component sourcing base while also establishing a robust sales and service set-up for GE Healthcare in India. He was lastly the Vice President - Finance for GE Healthcare in India. Nandu is a Certified Master Black Belt in Six Sigma.

After GE, Nandu had a brief career outside healthcare as Director - Process Excellence at Cognizant Technology Solutions and COO at Ambit Corporate Finance before co-founding Perfint. Nandu has been awarded the Indira Innovation Award and Udyog Rattan Award by Institute of Economic studies and has been a regular speaker on Healthcare, Entrepreneurship and and Innovation at various forums. Nandu is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow and Government College of Engineering, Tirunelveli.

Nandi Vardhan Mehta, CFO and Investment Committee Member, KAAF Investments

Nandini Chopra, Partner, KPMG Corporate Finance

Nandini Chopra is a Partner in KPMG's M&A practice and leads the Consumer and Retail practice. She is also the firmwide sector lead for Food and Agri. She has over 20 years of experience of which 15 years are with KPMG. She specializes in mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity and valuations. Prior to joining KPMG, she spent 5 years with SBI Capital Markets working on IPOs and debt syndication. She is an Engineer from BITS Pilani and an MBA from XLRI, Jamshedpur.

As practice head for Consumer Markets, Nandini primarily leads all deals in the food, drink, consumer goods and retail sectors. Among other, she has led marquee F&B transactions like the sale of Bush Foods, a leading basmati player, to Hassad Food of Qatar (which witnessed Standard Chartered PE exiting their investment), a recent fund raise from Rabo PE and Proparco for Prabhat Dairy, JV partnership with Mount Shivalik Breweries with Molson Coors of UK and entry and subsequent exit of Fonterra New Zealand with Britannia. In the FMCG sector, she led the sale of Femcare to Dabur, Godrej’s first overseas acquisition in the UK and also sold a clutch of fabric care brands like Genteel to Godrej. 

Nandini Chopra, Managing Director, Alvarez & Marsal

Nandini Chopra is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Corporate Finance in Mumbai, with more than 20 years of experience in M&A, sales and divestitures, joint venture advisory, private equity raises, IPOs, debt syndication and valuations.

Her primary areas of concentration are in M&A and PE advisory and valuations. She has worked with clients across a range of industries, and specializes in Consumer and Retail. Before joining A&M, Ms. Chopra spent 15 years with KPMG India in the Corporate Finance practice, where she most recently served as Partner. There, she led M&A transactions in the consumer and retail sector and successfully closed marquee cross-border transactions, assisted large Indian corporates in private equity fund raises and India entry assessment & partner search assistance for global companies.

In her prior experience, she also set up valuations practice covering M&A valuations, financial reporting, litigation and dispute valuations, tax and regulatory valuations and PE portfolios. In this role, she led the swap ratio determination for mega mergers like the Vedanta Group consolidation globally and Satyam Computers with Tech Mahindra.

She spent five years with SBI Capital Markets, the investment banking arm of India’s largest commercial bank, State Bank of India. At SBI Capital Markets, she worked on large capital market raises including IPOs and rights issuances. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from BITS Pilani, India and an MBA from XLRI Jamshedpur, India. An Indian national, she is fluent in English and Hindi.

Nandini Chopra, Managing Director, Alvarez & Marsal

Nandini Chopra, Executive Director, KPMG

Nandini has over 18 years of experience of which 13 years are with KPMG. Nandini focuses on the Consumer and Retail sector and has worked on assignments in mergers & acquisitions, divestments, joint venture advisory, inbound entry strategy, financial restructuring, private equity and valuations.

Prior to joining KPMG, she spent 5 years in Investment Banking with SBI Capital Markets. She specializes in the Consumer Markets and Retail sectors with specific focus on the retail, FMCG and food and beverages sector. Her work includes M&A transactions and valuations as also assisting clients on their inbound entry strategies, market assessments, partner searches. Her retail clients include Tesco, Pantaloon, Shoppers Stop, Starbucks, Metro Cash and Carry, Dairy Farm among others. She is also a member of the CII National Committee on Retail.