Our speakers

Muralikrishnan B, Country Manager, eBay India

Muralikrishnan B. is the 36 year old dynamic Country Manager of eBay India. Murali is responsible for leading the eBay business in India, the Philippines & Malaysia & is an active evangelist of eCommerce’s transformational potential for both Indian online shoppers & entrepreneurs.

Murali joined eBay in 2005 and has held a variety of leadership roles in eBay India, most recently as Sr. Director – Marketing & Product Management. His many achievements included driving a scalable hybrid local development model which significantly enhanced and localized eBay India’s user experience. Murali is also responsible for building the eBay India brand & is focused on driving eCommerce trial amongst Indian internet users & fostering buyer engagement. Murali was also responsible for leading eBay India’s foray into Mobile Commerce.

In the course of his career, Murali has worked with Asian Paints managing Sales & Administration in various rural markets. Transitioning into the New Economy in 2000, he played a significant role in starting up India’s largest cybercafé chain, Sify Iways, at Sify Corp and later led Product Management for Sify’s Consumer business.

Murali is a Mechanical Engineer from Osmania University, Hyderabad and an alumnus of IIM Calcutta. An enthusiastic sports fan especially passionate about Cricket & Squash, Murali is also a photography buff spending his spare time behind the camera capturing nature, landscapes and architecture. He is currently relishing the joys of parenthood and bringing up his son.

Murli Ravi, Co-founder, Unicorn Venture Capital

Murli Ravi has been involved in over 25 companies spanning a wide variety of industry sectors and stages of development across Singapore, India, Silicon Valley, New York and Australia. His roles have included being co-founder, board member, venture capitalist, founder advisor and operating executive. He currently holds honorary roles as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence and Guest Lecturer at INSEAD and NUS Business School. He was previously Head of South Asia at JAFCO and an investments professional at Temasek Holdings.

Murli has been on the Internet since the early 90s and is a self-taught (but sadly lapsed) Perl programmer. He has lived in Singapore, India, Taiwan, Malaysia and the US, and speaks and reads some Mandarin Chinese.

Murli Ravi, Head of South Asia Investment, Jafco Asia

Murli Ravi joined JAFCO Asia in 2008. He is currently Head of South Asia Investments. He is based in the Singapore office and is responsible for investments in South Asia. During his tenure so far, he has served on the board of 12 portfolio companies. Among others, his current board appointments include Consilium, CustomerXPs, Microland, Microqual, Mistral, Mozat and Vriti .

Prior to joining JAFCO Asia, Murli worked in investments, consulting and research at Temasek Holdings, RedPill Solutions and INSEAD, during the course of which he acquired knowledge of industries such as mining, telecom/media, consumer goods, agriculture and alternative fuels. Transactions he has worked on have spanned a wide range of sizes, ranging from early-stage venture deals to significant minority stakes in large-cap public companies.

Murli obtained the CFA charter in 2006, holds an MSc in Financial Engineering from Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) and received a Certificate in Computational Finance from Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, USA). He was awarded the SIA-NOL undergraduate scholarship to study engineering at the National University of Singapore. 

Murugavel Janakiraman, Founder & CEO, Matrimony.com Limited

In 1997, Murugavel Janakiraman pioneered online matchmaking in India with the launch of BharatMatrimony, which is today the world’s largest and most trusted matrimony service. The company is powered by 4000+ employees across 180+ branches in 20 major cities in India.

He had his humble beginnings as a programmer and used spare time to build a Tamil Community Site to connect NRIs in the US, back in 1997.

Twice he was nominated by The Economic Times for the “Entrepreneur of the Year” award. Besides being awarded Digital Entrepreneur of the Year by WAT, he was also Chairman Emeritus of the IAMAI (Internet and Mobile Association of India).

Musthafa PC, CEO, iD Fresh Food (India) Pvt. Ltd

BE in Computer Science from NIT Calicut; MBA from IIM Bangalore; Worked with Motorola, Citibank & Intel before venturing into iD in 2008 along with my cousins. iD now employs around 1000 people & feed around a million people on a daily basis. We now sells 50000 kg batter per day resulting in "a million idli a day". iD is funded by Helion ventures.

MVS Murthy, ?Head Product Management, Savings Account & Loyalty, ICICI Bank

M V S Murthy, is a consumer marketing professional and brings to the table over 15 years of work experience. During this time he has transitioned from conventional advertising, into digital marketing and then over to the marketer's side. He has been an ICICI Banker for a large part of his career.

The roles he has handled include those of client servicing and account planning, interactive strategy, key account management & business development. With ICICI Bank he has worked on new Customer acquistion both at retail and corporate levels. He was the Head of Product, Portfolio & Marketing for Privilege Banking at ICICI Bank

At present he looks after New Product Development for retail liability products and also the bank's My Savings Rewards Loyalty Program. He is a digital migrant and is presently working on being digital to stay relevant in blurring geographies and data driven marketing.

N Venkat, Co-Founder, CEO/MD, Vyome Biosciences

Venkat has more than 25 years of experience in successfully leading and growing consumer products and life sciences companies in India. He has held senior leadership roles in leading consumer goods companies CavinKare and Emami and was instrumental in their all-round growth, contributing across all corporate functions. Venkat also significantly contributed and gained rich experience in leadership roles at life sciences companies Shantha Biotechnics (now a part of the Sanofi Aventis group) and Aurobindo Pharma. He has a Bachelors degree in mechanical engineering and holds an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad.

N. Vaghul, Former Chairman, ICICI Bank Ltd

Mr. Vaghul has 49 years of experience in the financial sector and has been the Chairman of Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India Limited for 16 years, and of ICICI Bank for the last three years. Prior to this, he was Chairman of the Bank of India and Executive Director of the Central Bank of India. He was chosen as the Businessman of the Year in 1992 by Business India, a leading Indian publication, and has served as a consultant to the World Bank, the International Finance Corporation and the Asian Development Bank. Mr. Vaghul was also a visiting Professor at the Stern Business School at New York University.

Mr. Vaghul is Chairman of the Indian Institute of Finance Management & Research and is also a board member of various other companies, including Wipro Limited, Mahindra & Mahindra Limited, Nicholas Piramal India Limited, Apollo Hospitals Limited and Himatsingka Seide Limited.

N. Viswanathan, Head Big Data,Cloud & Legacy Transformation, L&T Infotech

Mr. N. Viswanathan - Head Big Data, Cloud & Legacy Transformation, leads the Strategy and the ‘Centre of Excellence’ (CoE) of L&T Infotech. Viswanathan is a frequent speaker at major conferences in India & abroad. He has published Technical papers as well as articles in magazines like Information Week. Viswanathan is a TOGAF Certified Enterprise Architect. His interest areas are Performance Engineering & Enterprise Architecture. He plays an advisory role to many projects & clients and is a Technology Evangelist.

N.K. Ranganath, CEO, Grundfos India

N K is the Managing Director of Grundfos Pumps India Pvt. Ltd. from its inception in 1998. He completed his Mechanical Engineering from College of Engineering, Guindy in 1978 and his Post Graduation in Business Management from XLRI, Jamshedpur in 1980. He has over 28 years of experience covering marketing, sales, design, project management, finance and HR. Prior to joining Grundfos Pumps, he was a Director of IAEC Industries making boilers, burners, pollution control equipment, incinerators and energy recovery equipment.

He has earlier worked in the Middle East erecting captive power plants up to 5MW and Transmission and Distribution lines. His first job was with Eicher Tractors.

His job has necessitated travel to many countries and he has been involved in technology transfer to India from other countries. Grundfos India under him has been very successful and also has the distinction of having one of the first green rated buildings in India. His focus has been on water and energy conservation and he is the Chairman of the CII-GBC water management council. He is also active in the Madras Management Association and is a member of the Executive Committee.