Our speakers

Nitesh Ranjan, General Manager, Union Bank of India

Nitesh Ranjan is General Manager at Union Bank of India, heading Treasury & Business Strategy. He has an accomplished career of 18+ years across government sector and banking, having served in important roles such as Chief Economist, Chief Investor Relations Officer, Head of Balance-sheet Management Group, and as Regional Head of bank’s operations across Union Territory of Chandigarh, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh.
He is director on board of Fixed Income, Money Market and Derivatives Association of India (FIMMDA) and SBI Global Factors Ltd. He is also a member of India Forex Committee (IFXC). He was earlier associated with CII as working group member of its National Committee on Banking (2016-17), RBI’s committee on review of priority sector norms (2012), and Economic Affairs & Policy Committee of Bombay Chamber of Commerce & Industry (2011). He has also published an occasional paper with grant assistance from NABARD on ‘role of commodity futures on price stabilization’ (2005).

Nitesh Singh, Founder, Uddeshya Technologies

Nitesh Singhal, VP Prepaid Cards & E-Commerce, Oxigen Services India Pvt Ltd

Nitesh Singhal leads the ecommerce, consumer wallet and prepaid cards business at Oxigen. He brings to Oxigen more than 11 years of experience from leading consumer oriented companies and global financial institutions in the US and India.
Prior to Oxigen, Nitesh was at American Express leading the risk policy and new product development for prepaid products in Asia Pacific. Before joining American Express, Nitesh was part of the core payments group at PayPal in the bay area and led projects in user experience, product management and product innovation.
Nitesh started his career in South Florida working in product development for multiple startups in telecom, biometrics and satellite radio industries.

 

Nitesh received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from IIT Roorkee. He holds an MBA from the Stephen M Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. He has filed two US patents in the areas of payments and communications

Nithya Easwaran, Managing Director, Multiples Alternate Asset Management

I joined Multiples in May 2010 after a 10-year stint with Citibank in structured finance and debt capital markets. I felt excited to embark on a new learning journey with people I had known and respected for more than a decade, and nervous about living up to the confidence reposed in me to succeed in a business that I had never done before.

At Multiples, I focus on the financial services sector, corporate action-led situations and in creating a franchise for Multiples with top corporate houses in India. I have brought my strengths of structuring, execution and managing relationships to the fore in marquee transactions like PVR, IEX and Arvind Fashions and have been able to generate positive influence in my portfolio companies. I have explored a new dimension- understanding people, their motivations, and values- while working on developing our proprietary Leadership Energy Level Framework to analyze the DNA of entrepreneurs and management teams. I continue to learn every day on what it takes to identify, nurture and exit an investment successfully.

It is a matter of joy and pride to be part of building an institution with a lofty vision, collaborative win-win culture, and focus on delivering value to our investors and portfolio companies. Multiples have created a strong bond amongst the team by engaging with each member as a person and a professional, so much so that the families of the team members are its biggest votaries.

I enjoy spending time with my "almost a teenager" son and love reading - lately neurosciences and the origin of homo-sapiens have been holding my attention. I like the calm and beauty of nature and aspire to spend more time in its embrace. I spend a small portion of my time on weekends teaching Maths to disadvantaged children. On my long list of things I wish to do in the near future are learning Sanskrit and photography.

Nitin Agarwal, President & Group CIO, Edelweiss Financial Services

Nitin Agarwal has over two decades of experience in global service and IT project delivery across banking, retail and healthcare companies in APAC, Europe and USA.

Prior to joining Edelweiss, he set up three companies as founding  member – BrainVisa Technologies (eLearning Platform and service for Global Fortune 500), BigShoeBazaar (Yebhi.com - eCommerce), and Incred (NBFC & Housing Finance Company). He has also been associated with and provided technology solutions for companies like UPS, Microsoft, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Morgan Stanley, Citibank, among others.

Nitin is a Silver Medallist from IIT Delhi. He is an avid traveller and a foodie and enjoys a game of squash.

Nitin Agarwal, AVP & Head of Marketing, ShopClues.com | @ShopClues

Nitin Agarwal is AVP, Marketing at ShopClues.com. Passionate about consumer behaviour and brand promotions, he is an astute marketer who brings his combined expertise in technology, data analytics and marketing to his role at ShopClues.com. His key focus areas are branding, media planning, rolling out campaigns in offline and online channels etc. He helms activities directed at augmenting the e-commerce player’s customer engagement/retention and acquisition.

Prior to joining ShopClues.com, Nitin bootstrapped a health and nutrition start-up, Health Raga and was instrumental in setting up its e-commerce channel. He has over seven years of experience working in diverse industry sectors such as automotive, banking and e-commerce. He has been associated with some of the most renowned organisations in the world including Gulf Oil Corporation Limited, Ashok Leyland and Genpact.

Nitin has an MBA from the prestigious XLRI, Jamshedpur and a B.Tech degree in Computer Science from JIIT, Noida. He enjoys travelling to islands and is a certified advanced open water diver.

Nitin Bawankule, Director, Ecommerce, Local & Media, Google India

Nitin Bawankule is Industry Director of Ecommerce, Local & Media for Google India. He is responsible for driving Google’s advertising business for his set of verticals, focusing on acquisition, retention and partnerships. 

Prior to this he was Director in Dell for Asia Pacific Japan Region, managing Software and Peripherals portfolio. He has also been the Director for Inside Sales for Dell India; managing large inside sales team to run India sales. Nitin is a seasoned Sales and General Management veteran with over 16 years of experience in the Consumer and IT industry spanning Consumer Electronics, Telecom, and IT. He has extensive experience in direct sales management and Channel Management for Consumer and Corporate sales. 

In these roles, Nitin has successfully built and managed geographically disbursed teams in different types of corporate environment. Nitin has also held position as Regional Sales Manager in Motorola and Sales Manager in Whirlpool and Godrej-GE Appliances.

Nitin Bhandari, Vice President – Payments, Digital Channels, Reliance Jio | @reliancejio

Nitin Bhandari is a Digital leader with 20 years of global experience across Payments & Telecoms industries. He specializes in creating & executing digital strategies, accelerating adoption through smart technology interventions, nurturing partner ecosystems, and inducing long-lasting behaviour change. He has played key roles in the launch of mobile wallet, digital payments, Internet of Things (M2M) and Mobility services in India; 3G, Fixed-Mobile-Convergence services in Europe and establishing product innovation, idea-2-market function and executing digital strategies for firms in Europe & APAC.

Nitin is a known speaker at business events globally and has co-authored "GB924-Service Model Framework" published by TeleManagement Forum. Nitin holds a Bachelor of Technology (Hons.) in Computer Science & Engineering from the Institute of Technology, BHU.

Nitin Chugh, Managing Director & CEO, Ujjivan Small Finance Bank

Nitin Chugh joined Ujjivan SFB in August 2019 as President and took over as the Bank’s MD & CEO from December 1, 2019.

Nitin is a career banker with over two decades of experience in retail banking. He has worked with Standard Chartered and HDFC Bank for over 21 years, of which the last 18 plus years were at HDFC Bank. His last role at HDFC Bank was as Group Head for Digital Banking. He is a well-regarded banker with varied and rich experience across sales, liabilities, assets, credit card, channels, HNW, marketing and customer service. Nitin is best known for his work in digital banking at HDFC Bank, where he oversaw and led the digital transformation of the Bank from 2013 to 2019.

Chugh holds a Bachelor of Technology degree from NIT Kurukshetra and completed his MBA from All India Management Association.

Nitin D Parekh, Chief Financial Officer, Cadila Healthcare Limited

Shri Nitin D Parekh possesses brilliant academic track record. He has consistently secured ranks and earned number of prizes, medals and certificates in several exams. He possesses six qualifications like B. Com., LL.B., CA, CFA, MBA from IIM, Ahmedabad and MBA in Pharma Management from ICFAI University. 

Shri Nitin Parekh is serving as the Group Chief Financial Officer in Cadila Healthcare Limited, the 4th largest Pharmaceutical Company of India with an annual turnover of more than Rs.14000 crores and has 35 years of post-qualification experience.

Shri Nitin Parekh is recipient of “League of Excellence 2020” award from CFO, India. He was declared as the Best CFO in Healthcare sector for 2012 and also for 2017 by Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.  He is chosen amongst the top 100 CFOs of India for eight times in succession by CFO, India. SAP has selected him amongst the top 25 Digitalist Thought Leaders of India for 2015. He has also received Business World-Best CFO of India Award 2017 for Healthy Balance Sheet Management-Large Corporates. 

He has penned a number of articles, related to academics and professional topics, which are published in leading newspapers and magazines. He is a regular speaker at several forums including Big 4 firms, CRISIL, CARE, Dun & Bradstreet, ET Summit, CFO India, IIM-Ahmedabad, IIM-Udaipur, CA Institute, CMA Institute, ICFAI business school, Nirma University etc.