Our speakers

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.


Narayanan SP, CEO, NSDL Payments Bank


Narendra Barhate, MD & CEO, SEED Infotech Ltd

Narendra Barhate is the co-founder of SEED Infotech. He is the Managing Director and CEO of the company. He spearheads business development and expansion initiatives of SEED Infotech. A complete techie, he has been instrumental in the keen selection of technologies to be added to the company’s portfolio. Moving towards his pursuit to build the ‘Nalanda’ of modern IT training, he has endeavored to add BFSI, Engineering Services and Healthcare Management practices at SEED Infotech.

He is an alumnus of two of the most renowned educations institutions of India namely – College of Engineering Pune (COEP), and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mumbai. Prior to establishing SEED Infotech, he has worked as a researcher at the DRDO.

His obsession for uncompromised customer satisfaction and quality of services has today made his company the partner of first choice.


Narendra K Saini, CDO | Chief Digital & Data Officer, Lupin


Narendra Murkumbi, MD, Shree Renuka Sugars Ltd

Narendra Murkumbi is the Managing Director (CEO) of Shree Renuka Sugars Ltd. He trained as an Electronics Engineer and then completed his MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad in 1994.

He co-founded Shree Renuka Sugars Ltd. in 1998 and has grown it into a global, sugar and ethanol company with the largest sugar and ethanol production in India and substantial acquisition of mills and sugarcane plantations in Brazil.


Narendra Ostawal, Managing Director, Head of India Private Equity, Warburg Pincus


Narendra Saini, Chief Digital and Data Officer, Lupin


Naresh Malhotra, Director & CEO, Modern Family Doctor Pvt. Ltd.

Naresh Malhotra graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree from St. Xavier’s College, Calcutta University. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1970.

He has over 42 years of experience in India and overseas in various companies including Imperial Chemical Industries, Unilever, Colgate Palmolive, Bukhatir Investments, the U B Group, KPMG, Amalgamated Bean Coffee Trading Company(Coffee Day), Sequoia Capital and Modern Family Doctor.

He has previously served as founding partner and Managing Director of Corporate Finance in KPMG in India and as an Operating Partner at Sequoia Capital India.

Naresh Malhotra is currently a promoter and CEO at Modern Family Doctor.


Naresh Purohit, Director - Systems Engineering, Nutanix India


Narinder Kapur, Correspondent, VCCircle (Moderator)