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Nita Kapoor, COO, Godfrey Phillips India Ltd

Nita Kapoor, Chief Operating Officer, Domestic of Godfrey Phillips India has the rare distinction of being the only woman leader on the Indian Tobacco Industry’s turf.
As COO, Domestic, she helms management and supervision of all functions of the domestic businesses, comprising Tobacco, Tea, Chewing Masala and Confectionary. She commenced her career as a Management Trainee at Mudra Communications (1986-2002), affiliated to Reliance Industries. Owing to her impeccable performance records, she was sponsored for the Management Education program right at the onset of her tenure and for the next 16 years, she worked on myriad portfolio of both national and international repute. Many renowned brands like Rasna, Vimal, GNFC, Mobil, Nestle, Frito Lay, McDonalds, and Dabur are to her credit. As an expert in the Consumer Products sector, she worked her way to head Mudra’s Delhi branch before she moved on to Godfrey Phillips India in Marketing.

At Godfrey Phillips (2002 - 2012) as Director Marketing, she rejuvenated and energized the cigarette brand portfolio and was also accorded responsibility of CSR, Corporate Communication and Identity. Here too, she was sponsored for the prestigious Advanced Management Program (2008) at the Harvard Business School. Post the program, after a year as an understudy to the then CEO, Nita was appointed as the COO for Domestic Business (2013- present).

As leader and guiding force for all functions including Human Resources, Finance, Corporate Affairs, Legal, Corporate Development, IT , Operations, R&D, Marketing and Market Research, her responsibilities also include overseeing the Sales and Distribution network that has some 500 direct sales employees, 700 distributors with over 8,00,000 retail outlets across India associated with the Company.

As COO, Domestic, she has been working towards expanding the company’s portfolio from a purely Tobacco dominated one to a diversified one with focus on Tea, Pan Masala & Mouth Fresheners and Confectionary. Aggressive business goals and a result-oriented approach have provided an impetus not just to the brands, but also to related areas of product development and operations. Her leadership stresses on organization design and strategy that drives innovation, nurturing talent and building leadership, uniform culture of productivity, transparency and collaboration, and a strong P&L focus and ownership across organisation.

In her belief that a social culture has strong impact on both organization and brands, she has been the key driving force behind conceptualizing and launching the Company’s key CSR initiative – Amodini and encouraging the employee involvement in them. Nita continues to expand her horizons using her immense and enriched experience in the corporate arena to lend her expertise in various industry and trade bodies. As Director of TII, an industry body for Tobacco, Nita worked towards creating a better business environment and advocate for better Industry representations to the Government. She is also a core member of the FMCG Committee of FICCI and is actively involved in resolving issues related to policy & strategy, capacity building and global recognition to the Indian FMCG industry.
Accordingly, Nita Kapoor has been celebrated on Impact’s ‘Top 50 Influential Women’ for two consecutive years, one of her many accolades.

Nita is a firm believer in individual social responsibility and serves as a Non-Executive Director of Muskaan, an organisation working for the intellectually challenged. She is also a firm supporter of cause marketing and believes that a brand can only be sustainable if it is all-inclusive and all-encompassing of diverge strata of society. She endeavours that responsible organisations should work towards the greater good of the society and evangelizes it through her blogs on social media platforms.

Nita is married to Sushil, President  & CEO Technical Textiles Business at SRF Limited and they have a daughter, Aparajita, who is currently pursuing her PGDM at Harvard.

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

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.