Our speakers

Nitai Utkarsh, Lead - Investment Strategy & Chairman's Family Office, Hero MotoCorp

A Financial Services professional with deep expertise in Family Office and the Investment Advisory space, Nitai is the Lead for Investment Strategy and Chairman’s Family Office at Hero MotoCorp Ltd., world’s largest two-wheeler manufacturer.

Nitai has been exposed to different aspects related to running Family Offices and investing in various asset classes. He has been actively participating in capital markets globally over more than two decades, giving him years of rich experience and an extensive network. Over time, Nitai has led multi-functional teams at Private Banks, Institutional and Boutique, Multi and Single Family Offices.

One of the first professionals to work on the Multi-Family Office concept in India, Nitai was key to developing and executing the first commercial launch of an MFO offering in the country. Having set up teams and processes for pioneering Multi-Family Office firms and subsequently for large Single-Family Offices, Nitai has spearheaded many firsts in the Family Office space in India.

In addition to multi-asset capital market investments across the globe made over the last two decades, Nitai specializes in early-stage investment transactions. He has invested in sectors as diverse as air purification, electric vehicle manufacturing, co-living, edtech, social media, ride sharing, logistics SaaS, mobile entertainment, sports tech, consumer products, rooftop solar, EV charging infra, B2B business platform, last-mile mobility, smart kitchen devices, and more.

Nitai has set up two large Single-Family Offices from ground up, laying down frameworks around family constitution, wealth structuring, estate management, family business lifecycle, succession planning, legal, taxation, and accounting overview, and global cross-jurisdiction matters.

Nitai holds a degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology and MBA from the Indian Institute of Management.

Niten Malhan, Managing Director, Warburg Pincus India

Niten Malhan is a Managing Director with Warburg Pincus India Private Limited. He has been with Warburg Pincus since 2001 and focuses on the firm's investment activities in India. He has been involved with a number of the firm's investments in India across various sectors including healthcare, infrastructure, real estate, and industrials. Previously, he was a director of business development at Stratum8 Corporation, a Silicon Valley start-up. He also worked as an Engagement Manager with McKinsey & Company in New Delhi, Jakarta and Boston.

Mr. Malhan holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT-Delhi and an M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He serves as a director on the boards of ACB Limited, Dainik Bhaskar, Havells India, Lemon Tree Hotels, Metropolis Healthcare and Punj Lloyd.

Nitesh Aggarwal, Chief Investment Officer, Baldota Family Office Fund

Nitesh Aggarwal is the Chief Investment Officer at Baldota Family Office fund with a deployable corpus of $130mn. The investment focus in to largely invest in the unlisted space into start-ups and VC/PE funds. They have already deployed ~40mn across 35 funds and 25 start-ups across India/US and Israel.

An alumnus of Indian Institute of Management - Bangalore, he has over 17 years of experience investing in the PE/VC asset class.

Nitesh was earlier associated with funds like Q Investments, New Enterprise Associates, and Edelweiss, among others.

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.