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Nitish Agrawal, Managing Director, Veradis

Nitish Agrawal is a Managing Director at Veradis, a healthcare focused investment banking advisory firm. Based in Bengaluru, Nitish has advised on domestic and cross border M&A as well as equity fund raising transactions across all segments of healthcare including large hospital chains, single speciality formats (maternity, IVF, etc), diagnostics and medical devices, with a cumulative experience of evaluating over 20+ deals in healthcare.

Nitish has had over 15 years of leadership experience in the past across Allegro Capital, GE Capital & Genpact. He is an engineer from IIT, BHU and holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM Calcutta

Nitish Agrawal, Managing Director, Indium

Nitish Agrawal is a Managing Director at Indium, a healthcare focused investment banking advisory firm. Based in Bengaluru, Nitish has advised on domestic and cross border M&A as well as equity fund raising transactions across all segments of healthcare including large hospital chains, single specialty formats (maternity, IVF, etc), diagnostics, medical devices, and healthcare-tech with a cumulative experience of evaluating over 50+ deals in healthcare.

Nitish has had over 20 years of leadership experience in the past across Allegro Capital, GE Capital & Genpact. He is an engineer from IIT, BHU and holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM Calcutta.

Nitish Agrawal, Managing Director, Indium Capital

Nitish Agrawal is a Managing Director at Indium, a healthcare focused investment banking advisory firm. Based in Bengaluru, Nitish has advised on domestic and cross border M&A as well as equity fund raising transactions across all segments of healthcare including large hospital chains, single speciality formats (maternity, IVF, etc), diagnostics, medical devices, and healthcare-tech with a cumulative experience of evaluating over 35+ deals in healthcare.

Nitish has had over 17 years of leadership experience in the past across Allegro Capital, GE Capital & Genpact. He is an engineer from IIT, BHU and holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM Calcutta.

Nitish Asthana, General Manager, ICICI Merchant Services (First Data)

Nitish Asthana is the Head of India Ventures, First Data and also heads the merchant acquiring business for First Data India-ICICI MS. He has overall responsibility over ICICI MS’ revenue lines across the company’s POS and Ecommerce businesses, acceptance and acquiring product solutions, sales, business development and marketing.

Nitish has over 15 years of experience in key leadership roles for large financial services and insurance companies in India. Previously, he was Director- Bancassurance, Partnerships and Group at MetLife India and led the alternate distribution business for the company.

Prior to this, as Senior Vice President at Bharti AXA Life, Nitish led AXA’s entry into the Indian market including securing regulatory approvals for JV and establishing a multi-channel distribution platform. He also launched and grew to scale telcassurance, a unique telecom- insurance distribution business.

Earlier, as Head- Bancassurance Partnerships, he pioneered Bancassurance and helped establish a market-leading business for Aviva Life. He has also in the past been associated with Citibank and Standard Chartered Bank. More recently, Nitish has done consulting work with a global top-three strategy consulting firm to develop market entry strategy in insurance distribution.

Nitish holds a PGDM from Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow and Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) from Shri Ram College of Commerce. He is based in Mumbai.

Nitish Mittersain, Founder, CEO, and Joint Managing Director, Nazara Technologies

Hailing from a textile business family, Nitish was hooked to interactive gaming at the mere age of 7 when he coded his first game. He then went on to setup his own bulletin board service at 14 and finally merged his passion for gaming with the zeal to create something substantial, he founded Nazara Technologies at the age of 19. Nitish led Nazara to a very successful IPO as India’s first gaming company to list with an oversubscription of 175 times.

A sharp-eyed business mind facilitated him to take the Indian gaming industry to new heights with Nazara.Onboarding marquee investors like WestBridge Capital and the famed investor and market expert Rakesh Jhunjhunwala was rather a phenomenon as this was Jhunjhunwala’s first investment in a gaming/tech venture.Furthermore, from Nazara’s stellar growth under the leadership of Nitish led to WestBridge seeing an exit ofINR 1000 Cr with an investment of INR 12 Cr to the company becoming the first public listed gaming company from the country, with a valuation of nearly $1 billion, the success story is an aspiring one.

Now, Nazara’s acquisition kitty includes a bunch of premium companies, each a leader in its space. The strategic and well-informed acquisitions by Nitish Mittersain’s Nazara like Next Wave Multimedia (Number 1 mobile cricket game in the world), Nodwin Gaming (Largest esports company in India), Paper Boat Apps (Leaders in kids’ ed-tech space) has catapulted the company’s portfolio to an all-encompassing one in the gaming space in India and worldwide.

Nitish has also served as the chairman of the Mobile Value-Added Services Expert and on the Asia board of the MEF (Mobile Ecosystem Forum), a global association for mobile content and commerce. He has also beenwidely recognized for his contribution to the gaming and digital entertainment industry internationally.

Investing in and mentoring multiple start-ups independently from Nazara, he is however wise enough to know that all work no play is not the way to go. So, when not at work, Nitish likes to relax and play a range of woodwind instruments such as the clarinet and saxophone. He is a member of a jazz band called the Jazz Junkies that has been playing in Mumbai clubs for over 20 years. He is also a Level 2 practitioner of Krav Maga, a type of martial arts and also a trustee of the Dr. B. K. Goyal Heart Foundation and the Dhanvantari Foundation.

Nitish Mittersain, MD, Nazara Technologies

Nitish Mittersain is the Founder and CEO of Nazara Technologies. Incubated in the year 2000, with its headquarter in Mumbai, Nazara Technologies is a leading mobile games developer and publisher that caters to large mobile consumer base in India and emerging markets including the Middle East and Africa. Nitish is instrumental in the ideation and reviewing performances of games developed at Nazara Technologies. Nitish aims to combine technology with a compelling experience to create innovative applications to the mobile environment. Under Nitish’s leadership, Nazara has been ranked amongst the top 2 mobile companies in terms of deck presence and WAP revenues in India and amongst the top 3 in the UAE and has ranked 17th in Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 - India in 2010. With Nitish’s substantial experience and expertise, Nazara has managed to secure exclusive distributing for EA mobile games across the Middle East, Africa, Srilanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

Nitish has served as the Chairman of the Mobile Value Added Services Expert Committee (2009-2010) of the Indian Merchants Chambers, India's oldest business organization. Nitish is also on the Asia board of the MEF (Media Education Foundation), a global association for mobile content and commerce and takes active participation on matters related to drive market growth. He has been widely recognized in the industry for his contributions to the gaming and mobile VAS industries in India.

When not at work, Nitish likes to relax and plays a range of wood-winds instruments such as the clarinet, soprano saxophone, and flute. Being a jazz music aficionado, Nitish plays an alto saxophone and is a part of a jazz band called Jazzy Joe and Jazz Junkies that performs in many of Mumbai's clubs and pubs.

Nivedita Nanda, CHRO, KAYA Ltd

A passionate HR Leader, with versatile experience in managing change , building culture, envisioning and establishing smart solutions for Integrating people practices with ever dynamic business environment, and bringing stability under diversity. The leadership trait is enriched with multi-dimensional industry experience, a rare exposure to Defense Services and meeting minds of a large pool of diverse & aspiring people.

Nivedita started her career as Pilot Officer with Indian Air Force and then moved to Corporate world. Prior to Kaya She was heading HR for Future Retail, India’s leading retail Organization. She has also worked as Group HR Head, Prime Focus Ltd, Chief People Officer, Reliance Health, Reliance Energy, Praxair Ltd. Her leadership trait has been a key success factor in establishing new Greenfield ventures, significant mergers & acquisitions and amalgamation of Public & private enterprises, examining and re-engineering operations and procedures, developing and implementing new strategies.

Nivedita holds an MBA in HR from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies and she also has done her Masters in Psychology from Utkal University.

Noopur Chaturvedi, Chief - Corporate Business & Alliances, Airtel Payments Bank

Norbert Fernandes, Director, TR Capital

Ntasha, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Ankurit Capital