Our speakers
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.
Nandini Mansinghka, CEO, Mumbai Angels
Nandini Mansinghka is the CEO of Mumbai Angels, a premier platform for startup and early-stage venture investments, based out of India.
One of the key architects of the start-up investing ecosystem in India, Nandini is passionate about democratizing investments in early stage start-ups, making this asset class an integral part of any meaningful investor portfolio. She believes investors need to allocate 4-5% of their portfolio to start-up investing and follow a two-pronged strategy of discipline while building the portfolio alongside hunting for multi-bagger unicorns.
Nandini has been a serial entrepreneur and angel investor since 2010. She had founded Idyabooster, a platform for investments in content and Digibooster, a data-driven influencer marketing platform. Nandini was on the board of TIE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) Mumbai for a couple of years. In her corporate avatar for about 12 years, she held senior positions in J.P. Morgan and Bennett Coleman and Co. Ltd (Times of India Group).
Nandita Parekh, Partner, CNK & Associates LLP
Nandita Prabhu, Director - Capital Markets, IFMR Capital
A Chartered Accountant by profession, Nandita has worked in a variety of roles within commercial banking with ICICI Bank & Standard Chartered Bank over the past 9 years including origination / relationship management, risk management & operations and within various businesses such as consumer loans, SME & Financial Institutions. Her most recent stint was with Standard Chartered Bank in Mumbai as the Business Lead for Microfinance.
Currently handling Investor Relations at IFMR Capital, she is responsible for bringing mainstream investors into sectors that impact the financially exlcuded thereby offering commercial & social returns on investments.
Nandkumar Saravade, Ex CEO, Reserve Bank Information Technology Pvt Ltd (ReBIT)
Nara Lokesh, Minister for IT, Electronics & Communication, Panchayat Raj and Rural Development, Government of Andhra Pradesh
Nara Lokesh serves as the Minister for Information Technology, Panchayati Raj and Rural Development in the Andhra Pradesh Cabinet. He is currently working to position Andhra Pradesh as a technology hub of the future and is working to create an innovation driven environment. By taking several radical decisions in the Rural Development sector, he has accelerated the reach of development benefits including roads, LED lighting, water piping, etc. to the remotest of villages across the state.
He had previously served as Vice President at Heritage Foods Limited and was instrumental in doubling the revenue and foraying into major Tier I and Tier II cities in South India. He is credited to have laid the foundation for a comprehensive operations framework to deliver best-in-class customer service, drive innovation and ensure the high level of quality that Heritage Foods is today known for. He continues to serve as Non-Executive Director of Heritage Finlease Limited. During his earlier tenure at World Bank from August 2004 to January 2006, Lokesh was involved in several World Bank supported capacity building Projects in e-governance, connectivity solutions etc. across the globe.
Lokesh earned an MBA from the prestigious Stanford University Graduate School of Business and holds a BSc. with specialization in Management Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon University.
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Narayan Seshadri, Chairman & CEO, Tranzmute Capital & Management
Narayan K. Seshadri leads Tranzmute Capital & Management, which he co-founded to, assist business families and emerging entrepreneurs grow their latent and new businesses rapidly, guide them on governance at both corporate and family levels and assist them with their wealth deployment. With total “hands-on” involvement, Tranzmute focuses on providing Ideas, Management and Capital to transform such businesses into robust and rapidly growing enterprises. Tranzmute’s relationship includes families with businesses in diamonds and jewellery, mining, automotive, IT hardware, software products and services, food processing equipment and financial services.
He is an independent director on boards of several listed and large unlisted companies some of which were in the process of transformation and active board participation was required.
In 2006 he established a Special Situations Fund to invest in distressed and latent undervalued businesses. Prior to that he led KPMG Consulting, India after it he merged Andersen’s Business Consulting practice into it. He turned around the combined practice in a year and made it one of the largest profitable consulting practices in India. He was also a member of KPMG, India Advisory Board, and an oversight body of all KPMG practices in India.
In 1998 he became one of the 4 member India Country Leadership Team of Andersen. He was instrumental in formulating a strategy for the next phase of growth, implemented it and helped achieve 100% year-on-year growth for several years in a row. He created and led Andersen’s Business Consulting practice building it into a highly profitable business in 2 years. He was on the Andersen Global CEO Advisory Council, one of the 20 select global partners.
Narayan’s global career spans over 30 years across disciplines including accounting, auditing, litigation support, restructuring, management consulting, investing and business management.