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Nikhil Arora, VP Marketing & Digital, droom.in

Nikhil is an award winning marketeer having 14+ years of experience. He has built a strong foundation in traditional brand marketing & further augmented it with digital expertise by working across digital first brands across FMCG & Consumer Electronics firms like Nestle, Samsung, Marico & Pepsi. He has delivered disruptive growth by turning around different challenger brands P&Ls, eCommerce business responsibility & led the organisation's entry into a new category with NPD deliveries. He has led digital transformation projects & innovative digital marketing initiatives to deliver strong business growth.

He is an MBA from IIM Lucknow & has done his engineering from PEC Chandigarh. He has an inherent interest in the way digital interaction is changing the marketing landscape & the opportunities this change provides. He loves to watch movies & listens to a diverse genre of music, enjoys playing tennis & is an avid quizzer. He loves the mountains & is happy to explore them both riding on his 22 year old Bullet & on foot, trekking.

Nikhil Barshikar, Founder and Managing Director, Imarticus Learning profile | @imarticus

Nikhil Barshikar is the Founder and Managing Director of Imarticus Learning, India’s leading Financial Services and Analytics professional education institute offering comprehensive classroom and online programs to professionals and learning management and training delivery solutions to large scale organizations.

Nikhil holds a joint MBA from Columbia University and London Business School, and spent the first fifteen years of his career across a smorgasbord of roles within Investment Banking across India, UK, Japan and the US with Lehman Brothers and Nomura.

In his last stint at Nomura (erstwhile Lehman Brothers), he served as an Executive Director-the youngest in the history of Lehman Brothers, and Head of Nomura’s Offshore Strategy for Asia and established operational support for the local domestic FII business and the local asset management venture. He was a key member of the Global Equity Operating Committee, India Strategic Project Management Office and Prime Financing working group. He also served the steering committees of India Strategy PMO, CLS implementation, Global Prime build out and Global Risk.

Nikhil Chandak, Managing Director & Head Investments (Family Office), JM Financial Ltd

Nikhil Khattau, Managing Director, Mayfield

Nikhil Khattau is an experienced banker, entrepreneur and venture investor who has built and invested in companies in India since 1995.  Nikhil also has an additional 10 years of international work experience. Nikhil focuses on the agriculture, financial services, retail, consumer services and media sectors in India.

He sits on the boards of Securens Systems (monitoring and surveillance), Matrimony.com (world’s largest marriage portal), Joguru, Inc. (trip planning platform named “Triphobo”), Marico Ltd. (packaged consumer goods, listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange) and Kaya Enterprises (listed, specialty skin care).

Nikhil was the founding CEO of SUN F&C Asset Management, one of the first private sector mutual fund companies in India. Under his leadership, the firm successfully acquired two other mutual funds, and built one of the top-ranked India funds. Nikhil successfully sold the business to the Principal Financial Group, USA in 2004.

Nikhil’s prior experience includes working for Ernst & Young’s Audit and Corporate Finance practices in New York and London from 1986-1995, where he successfully advised a number of mid-market companies on their acquisition and divestment strategies. He also helped set up the firm’s investment banking advisory operations in Russia.

Nikhil received his Bachelor’s degree in Commerce from University of Mumbai and is an associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Nikhil Khekade, Chief Staff Officer and Head- Digital Transformation, Medikabazaar

Nikhil Kolur, Partner, Deloitte India

Nikhil helps organizations make their strategy blueprints a reality by unlocking the full power of their human capital. His areas of expertise include operating model design, strategic workforce planning, performance management, M&A, leadership development and change management. He has led and successfully delivered engagements across Media and Entertainment, Oil & Gas, Pharmaceuticals, Chemicals, Telecom, Financial Services and Heavy Manufacturing sectors. Besides his primary work areas, Nikhil has an interest in start-up incubation and corporate governance excellence. He has conducted primary research in these areas which have been published in leading Indian business publications (ET, Mint, Business Standard, NHRDN etc.).

Nikhil Korgaonkar, Regional Director-India and SAARC, Arcserve

Nikhil Korgaonkar has 21 years’ experience, during which time he has focused on building and motivating cross-functional teams as well as managing and driving partner and customer relationships in a variety of industries.

At Arcserve Nikhil is managing India & SAARC responsibility for over 4.5 years.

At Veritas, before joining Arcserve, he was responsible for revamping the channel sales team as well as building channel confidence and establishing the go-to-market strategy in India following the company’s split from Symantec. Before joining Symantec in 2013, he spent over seven years in various regional leadership positions at Dell where he was recognised as one of the company’s most successful managers. Notable milestones in his tenure at Dell were winning the most coveted deal UID & management, growth of the SMB business in India including driving the move to a hybrid model combining direct and indirect sales which led to significant productivity improvements.

In addition to his knowledge of the IT industry, Nikhil Korgaonkar has cross-industry experience of working with multinational corporations in healthcare ( Wockhardt) and international logistics ( DHL). Nikhil Korgaonkar graduated as a Bachelor of Engineering (Instrumentation) from Mumbai University and holds a Masters degree in Management Studies from the Sydenham Institute of Management Studies. He is also an alumnus of INSEAD where he did his Executive MBA.

Nikhil Kumar, MD, TD Power Systems Ltd

Nikhil Kumar is the founder and Managing Director of TD Power Systems (TDPS), manufacturers of large electric generators for turbine driven power plants up to 200 MW.  Founded in 1999, TDPS manufactures generators for steam turbines, gas turbines, hydro-electric turbines, diesel and gas engines and also builds thermal power plants on an EPC basis up to a size of 150 MW.  TDPS listed on the BSE and NSE in September 2011.

Nikhil is an engineer from NIT Suratkal.  He enjoys a competitive game of badminton; in his teens he was in the Asian Games squad for India as well as State Champion of Karnataka. He loves outdoor sports - scuba diving, trekking, skiing are his favourites.

His wife, Lavanya Sankaran, is an accomplished literary fiction writer. They have one daughter, Aarya, and live in Bangalore

Nikhil Naik, Director, Global Content and Distribution, Vuclip

With over 9 years of ‘digital’ experience under his belt, Nikhil currently heads the Global Content and Distribution division of Vuclip, the leading premium mobile video on demand (VOD) service for emerging markets where he is responsible for forging longstanding partnerships with key telecom operators, content and media partners, ad networks and device manufacturers.

Nikhil was amongst the first few hires at Vuclip and this provided him quasi-entrepreneurial experience and an all-round exposure into varied aspects of digital business. He was instrumental in designing the company’s business model, designing its organizational structure and serving as an expansion specialist for the markets in Africa, Middle East & South East Asia.

At present, he is concentrating his efforts on expanding the depth and breadth of Vuclip’s subscriber engagement in emerging markets of the world by making them access content that meets their interest. This entails building and strengthening the network of partnerships with content providers across various markets in South Asia, South East Asia, Africa and the MENA region.
 
Nikhil is also involved in Vuclip’s distribution business and has worked with leading handset brands, ODMs such as Samsung (MEA, India, Singapore), Nokia (Finland, US), Micromax and Xiaomi and browsers such as, Firefox (US, Asia, Africa), Opera and UC Web to name a few.

Nikhil began his career with Tata Docomo, a telecommunication JV between Indian multinational conglomerate Tata and Japanese telecom giant, NTT Docomo as Business Manager in charge of the Internet Business. He was responsible for handling all products and partnerships related aspects of Internet business. Some of the clients and products that he handled include Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, Opera and Vuclip.

During his association with Tata Docomo, he channelized his efforts towards launching projects including Facebook Telco partnership (first in Asia), Opera net pack (first in Asia), Yahoo-Docomo Co branded Start page (first in Asia), Twitter on text (first in Asia), email on SMS service (first in India), Pay by Character SMS service (first time for any Telecom company), Multi screen mobile TV (first in India) and Google Search (GMAPI).

Nikhil is a computer engineering graduate and holds an MBA degree in Marketing.

Nikhil Narendran, Partner, Trilegal

Nikhil Narendran is a Partner in the TMT team of Trilegal and has more than 12 years of experience in the technology, telecom, media, and commercial law practice areas.

Nikhil has substantial experience in advising companies such as Telenor, Meem, Sembcorp, Robert Bosch, Thomson Reuters, and Accenture on IP disputes, licensing, structuring, technology transfers, commercial IP utilization, re-negotiation and content liability laws. Nikhil has substantial experience in advising telecom and technology companies such as Truecaller, HP, AWS, and Amazon on a range of regulatory and contractual matters such as in relation to content liability, cyber security and data protection.  

He was the winner of the ITechLaw Association's (formerly Computer Law Association) Travelling Fellowship Award 2011, as a part of which he worked at six European firms specializing in TMT. He was the Chair of ITechLaw Substantive Law committee on Interactive Entertainment & Media and is on the board of directors of the ITechLaw. He has been recognized in the Who’s Who Legal Telecommunication, Media and Technology and Who’s Who Data, IBLJ and Chambers and Partners. He recently authored a chapter on Big Data in State Possession as a part of the handbook on Blockchain for Property Governance published by the India Property Alliance. He recently co-authored a chapter on accountability in the publication Responsible AI-A Global Policy Framework. This was released in Boston in May 2019 and was released in India by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology in August 2019.