Our speakers

Nilang Jain, CIO, GreenGen Family Office

Nilay Arora, VP - Marketing & Business Development, WeChat India

Nilay Arora spearheads the Marketing and Business Operations for Tencent's biggest global product for India - WeChat. Nilay has over 10 years of marketing & product experience across consumer technology & media comprising mobile, internet, social media, online gaming, TV, radio and print. Nilay is also very actively involved part of the management & leadership team driving marketing & product for various business verticals, through last 7 years.

Before joining WeChat, he has worked with Hindustan Times, Radio Mirchi and Ballarpur Industries in various Consumer Marketing Roles. Nilay holds a Masters in Business Administration from IMS [DAVV] and Engineering in Electronics and telecom apart from a being a part of Harvard Strategic Management program.

Nilay is an avid observer of consumer trends & preferences and an expert in carving out market shares.

Nilesh Bhagat, Head - VAS, Roaming & Interconnect, MTS India

Nilesh Bhagat is an astute professional with over 18 years of experience in Telecom & Internet Industry. In his current role, he heads the VAS & Roaming across Data, Voice and Smartphone Business Lines at MTS India and is responsible for the overall growth and expansion of Company’s business.

Nilesh has been previously associated with reputed Companies including Vodafone, Reliance Infocomm, and Satyam Infoway. His extensive experiencesin diverse rolesin Sales & Marketing domainmake him stand out amongst his contemporaries. Entrepreneurial approach & customer centricity is the guiding force that makes him a professional par excellence.

He is Computer Engineer from REC, Surat and has done his MBA in Marketing.

Nilesh Kothari, Co-founder and Managing Partner, Trifecta Capital

Nilesh Kothari has 23 years of corporate finance, underwriting and treasury experience in tech, consulting and financial services. Prior to this he was the M.D. - Ventures and Acquisitions at Accenture plc., a $30 Billion global technology and consulting company. Previously he was CFO of Accenture Credit Services, HeroBPO and Systems America.

He has deep operational experience in building several large businesses and creating successful exits like Zenta. He has experience of Structured Finance and Ratings at ICRA (A Moody’s Associate) and Debt Funds Management at JM Mutual Fund. He has a master of management Studies (MMS) degree from BITS, Pilani and AICWA.

Nilesh Kumar Gupta, Partner, McKinsey & Company

Nilesh Lonare, Associate Director, Growth, Grant Thornton

Nilesh is the Associate Director for Strategy Consulting with the Growth Advisory practice at Grant Thornton Bharat.

Nilesh is an experienced management consultant with over 14 years of experience. He has advised MNCs, Global banks, corporate houses, Family Offices, Private investors and Private Equity firms on a variety of strategic and business planning topics.  He often advises clients across India, the Middle-east and the US geographies, advising them on corporate strategy, investment strategy, business planning and diligence exercises.

Nilesh is a PGDM from IIM Ahmedabad and a B.E. in Information Technology.

Nilesh Patel, CEO, LeadSquared

Nilesh Shah, MD & CEO, Axis Capital

Nilesh Shah is Managing Director and CEO at Axis Capital. He is managing Investment Banking, Broking and NBFC business for the Bank.

He has worked with ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund, Franklin Templeton Mutual Fund and ICICI Securities covering Debt, Equity, Currency and Real Estate markets over last two decades.

Nilesh is a Gold Medallist Chartered Accountant and a Cost Accountant. He is also topper of GFM-25 Course at J P Morgan. Nilesh was the Inaugural Business Standard Fund Manager of the Year- Debt in 2003. Nilesh was also Inaugural CA Professional Manager of the Year 2007 – Private Sector

Nilesh Shrivastava, Manager, Financial institutions Portfolio, South Asia, IFC | @IFC_Investors

Nilesh Shrivastava heads the financial institutions investments portfolio for IFC in South Asia covering India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and other countries. He has been working in the financial sector for over 17 years and has a decade of experience with IFC, investing and working closely with banks, financial institutions and payments companies across South Asia, East Asia and Africa. Currently, he manages 75 clients with invested assets of over $2.1 Bn spanning early stage and mature clients in banking, micro/SME finance, housing finance, infrastructure finance and payment companies. IFC has been among the most active private sector investors in the financial sector in the South Asia across equity, debt and mezzanine instruments building an impactful and profitable financial sector portfolio and Nilesh has been an integral part of the journey. Earlier, he has worked with HSBC in banking roles. He holds an MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata and an engineering degree from Lucknow University.

@nileshs123

Nilotpal Kumar Dutta, Director and Country Manager, HPE GreenLake Cloud Services