Our speakers

Nirmal Poddar, President - Manufacturing, Transasia Bio-medicals Ltd

Nirmal Poddar is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Mumbai, having graduated in 1983. He has worked at Godrej & Boyce in various capacities for 20 years. Major experience there has been in R&D / Operations and as VP & Business Head in the field of Machine Tools & Precision Equipment for Defense / Nuclear / Space Programs. In year 2004, he joined Transasia Bio-Medicals Ltd as President Instruments responsible for Domestic Sales & Marketing, R&D and Manufacturing of the Instrument business for Transasia. Lately, he is responsible for all Instrument related R&D and Manufacturing for the entire Transasia Group.

Nirmal Singh, Founder & CEO, Wheebox

Nirmal is Founder and CEO of Wheebox, He is responsible for Wheebox reach across geographies, Product Management and Investor relationship.

Prior to Wheebox, he was a Country Head for Higher Education Business at NIIT Limited. Primarily focused on setting up Talent Centres across India and advising Universities and Colleges to set up COEs.

Previously served in key leadership roles at New Horizons for over five years, as SAARC Head for New Horizons consumer division.

Nirmal has over 16 year of working experience and he is Masters in Business Management and Masters in Education Management.

Nischal Puri, MD, Brandis Manufacturing and Marketing Pvt Ltd

Nischal Puri is the Founder and MD of Brandis Manufacturing and Marketing Pvt Ltd – a brand conglomerate with 2 apparel, innerwear brands in its portfolio and plans to launch 2 more brands in the near future.
 
Brandis is credited to be first company in the chosen space to be PE backed and is emerging as one of the most aggressively growing company in the category and is building world class manufacturing capabilities.
 
Mr. Nischal Puri has been brand and marketing consultant for some of the leading innerwear brands in India. Mr Puri’s professional stint in Jockey India as Head Marketing witnessed the company launching its primary issue.
 
He has been associated with many retail and apparel brands during the career spanning 14 years. An industry thought leader he has avid interest is contributing to the growth of the apparel, retail and innerwear industry
 
Mr. Puri has post graduation degree form JNU and MBA degree from ULH London and mentors MBA students in some of the leading MBA institutes in India.

Nishant Parikh, Partner, Trilegal | @TrilegalLaw

Nishant Parikh is a partner based in Trilegal’s Mumbai office, and regularly represents a broad range of private equity funds, hedge funds, banks and financial institutions on complex corporate transactions, with a particular emphasis on cross-border transactions.

Nishant’s practice focuses on advising clients in evaluating, structuring and negotiating private equity investments and acquisitions, structured financing/investments, restructuring existing investments, exits with strong experience on implementing exit strategies in contentious or distressed situations, and M&A transactions. Of late, he has been involved in effectively strategizing, structuring and successfully implementing exit strategies for some of the biggest funds and financial institutions in connection with their Indian investments. He has extensive experience across several sectors (with particular focus on real estate, banking and financial services, IT/e-commerce, agribusiness in addition to broader manufacturing and services sectors), advising on regulatory issues that typically arise on Indian deals and negotiating with Indian promoters.  Nishant has acted as counsel on numerous headline making transactions over the past decade.

Nishant’s clients include The Blackstone Group, The D. E. Shaw Group, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America-Merrill Lynch, Standard Chartered Bank, Farallon Capital, TPG, 3i Group, Sithe Global, Citadel Investment Group, Nomura, UBS, Black River Asset Management and Citigroup.

Nishant Pradhan, Chief AI Officer, Mirae Asset Investment Managers

Nishant Pradhan, Chief AI Officer, Mirae Asset Global Investments

Nishant Sharma, Managing Director, Kedaara Capital Advisors

Nishant Sharma is a Co-Founder & Managing Director of Kedaara Capital Advisors LLP, an investment advisory firm focused on India. Kedaara enables solution-oriented capital combining deep strategic & operational expertise in focused sectors, consultative approach and global connectivity to deliver superior returns.

Prior to Kedaara, Nishant served as a Principal and one of the core members of the India investment team at General Atlantic (“GA”), one of the leading private equity firms in the world. He has over 10 years of investment advisory experience across financial services (including banking & finance), consumer, information technology and healthcare. He co-led GA’s investments in IndusInd Bank, Jubilant Lifesciences, IBS Software and Cyient.

Nishant sits on the Board of Au Financiers and Au Housing as a Nominee Director. Nishant also serves on the Board of the Harvard Business School (HBS) Club of India and is the Treasurer of the Club.Nishant received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, and an M.Tech. and a B.Tech. in Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 2001.

Nishanth Chandran, CEO & Co-Founder, EBS

Nishanth co-founded and launched EBS in 2005. EBS now has more than 64+ payment options with an uptime of 99.999% and less than 0.001% of online fraud in its entire network of 3500+ merchants.

Prior to launching EBS, Nishanth founded Darwin Technologies which was a software consulting firm focused on Internet Marketing, Ecommerce and software development catering to several clients in US, UK & Europe.

With an experience spanning various ecommerce ventures, Nishanth has focused on innovation and delivering great value proposition for customers.

Nisheeth Jankar, Associate Partner, Aon Hewitt

Nisheeth is an Associate Partner in the Strategy Advisory Practice, Asia Pacific region. He is an experienced consultant with varied industry and functional expertise. He has more than 12 years of consulting experience at Aon Hewitt and a total of 14 years’ work experience.

His areas of expertise include M&A Advisory, Organization Design and Development, HR Transformation, Leadership Assessment, Employee Engagement. He has rich experience in managing large scale cross border assignments in the aforesaid areas. He also leads the Human Resource Set-up Advisory Consulting space for India, helping clients to transition smoothly ensuring business continuity.

His current focus areas from a functional perspective include HR transformation and transaction support – due diligence and post-merger integration, performance management design, leadership assessment and change management.

Prior to joining Aon Hewitt, he worked with the Corporate HR team of Jubilant Group handling Talent Development and Talent Acquisition for the group. Nisheeth is certified in the administration and assessment of Hogan and Facet5 psychometric tools.

Nishesh Dalal, Partner, KPMG India Private Limited

Nishesh has over 14 years of M&A/transaction experience including 10+ years of transaction services experience,  where he has led due diligence engagements primarily for private equity funds, e.g., Blackstone, General Atlantic, Carlyle, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Barings Asia, Navis Capital Partners, etc. and also a year of experience on the buy-side, having worked with a private equity fund  (in 2008).

Nishesh is a member of the Transaction Services practise with a focus on Private Equity.