Our speakers

Nupur Garg, Founder, WinPE

Nupur Garg is a leading investor in private equity and venture capital and an expert advisor to large institutional investors. She is the founder of WinPE (https://winpeforum.com), a not-for-profit initiative to enhance gender diversity in the investing ecosystem. Nupur serves as an independent director on the boards of companies including Indigo Paints Limited, Kerala Infrastructure Fund Management Limited, and SIDBI, the Indian development finance institution. She is an independent member of the investment committee at the Fund of Funds managed by the National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF), the quasi-sovereign wealth fund sponsored by the government of India, and an advisor to and a member of the investment committee for the Dutch Good Growth Fund (DGGF) investment funds mandate given by the Dutch government for investments in SMEs in frontier markets across 75 countries. She served for 3 years as an external expert on the investment committee for the INR 10,000 crore Fund of Fund for Start-ups for investing in the Indian start-up ecosystem. Nupur advises select fund managers on a confidential basis on matters related to institutionalization, best practices, and governance. She also mentors female entrepreneurs across various platforms. Nupur was listed in the Forbes W-Power list of Self Made Women in 2020, among India’s top 100 Women Leaders in Finance (AIWMI 2019), awarded the Women Empowerment Entrepreneur Award 2019-20 and the Business Excellence and Innovative Best Practices - Academia Award 2019. In her last and most recent full-time role, Nupur led the private equity and venture capital funds business in the region for IFC and is widely credited with establishing IFC’s brand and credibility as one of the most respected institutional investors in this space. Under her stewardship, the portfolio doubled in size and returns, moving from a negative IRR to delivering gains for the first time in its history. Nupur is a CA and an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management, with executive education from Harvard Business School. Nupur loves to spend time with her mother, husband, and 6-year-old son, travel to new places, read and do 1000-piece puzzles.

Nupur Garg, Regional Lead - South Asia, Private Equity & Venture Funds, International Finance Corporation (IFC) | @IFC_org

Nupur is the regional lead for IFC’s private equity & venture funds business in South Asia. Based in New Delhi, she has been covering IFC’s private equity fund activities in South Asia since 2011, including originating, negotiating and closing private equity and venture fund investments on behalf of IFC, and supervising the portfolio, including serving on investee fund advisory committees. Nupur joined IFC in mid-2007 as the Regional Risk Officer for South Asia, responsible for designing and integrating risk management frameworks within investment operations across IFC’s industry sectors.

Nupur has deep experience in the South Asia region, including structuring and implementing complex business transactions and partnerships in a variety of settings. Prior to joining IFC, Nupur was the Regional Chief Financial Officer covering South Asia for Wolters Kluwer, one of the world’s largest publishers of material for the scientific and technical sector. There, she was part of a 3 person team leading integration of 6 acquisitions and setting up independent business operations in the region. Previously, she has worked in finance and consulting roles at Discovery Networks and PwC.

Nupur holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the MIT Sloan School of Management, has executive education from Harvard Business School and is a Chartered Accountant.

Olivia Ouyang, Investment Officer, International Finance Corporation

Olivia Ouyang is an Investment Officer with the Private Equity & Investment Funds Department of IFC, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group. In her capacity as Regional Lead for South Asia, she is responsible for developing IFC's fund investment and supervision program, as well as originating co-investment opportunities. Prior to moving to Mumbai and covering South Asia, she spent three years as Regional Lead for East Asia and led IFC's fund investment program in China and Southeast Asia.

Prior to IFC, Ms. Ouyang spent eight years in management consulting, investment banking and private equity, with McKinsey, Morgan Stanley and Jupiter Partners respectively. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Stanford University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Om Manchanda, CEO, Dr Lal PathLabs | @lalpathlabs

Dr. Om Manchanda is the Chief Executive Officer of Dr Lal PathLabs Ltd. He is alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad. Om has over 26 years of work experience. After graduating from the IIMA in June 1990, Om joined Unilever Group Companies (now Hindustan Unilever) as a management trainee. He worked for HUL for nearly 10 years in various positions such as Area Sales Manager, Innovation Manager - Beverages, Senior Brand Manager and Business Manager.

After HUL, he moved to an American company Monsanto India Limited as their National Marketing Manager and thereafter as their National Sales Manager in 1999. Early 2003, He joined Ranbaxy Laboratory Limited in their Global Consumer Healthcare Division and worked initially as General Manager - Marketing and then General Manager - International & Innovation before joining Dr Lal Pathlabs in October 2005.

He has successfully led the transformation of Dr Lal PathLabs in the last 11 years from a family run business to a professionally run listed company. In Dec. 2015, Dr Lal Pathlabs had a blockbuster listing on National Stock Exchange.

Om is the recipient of many awards. Notable ones are CAME innovation awards in HUL, Achiever of the Year Award in 2014, presented by CEO India as a part of CEO Awards 2014. Also the finalist in EY entrepreneur of the year 2015 awards.

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Om Manchanda, CEO, Dr Lal PathLabs

An IIM-Ahmedabad alumini, Dr. Om Manchanda started his career with Hindustan Lever Limited (HLL) as a management trainee in the year 1990. His next stint was with Monsanto, a biotech company, where he was part of a team that successfully launched their first ever biotech product Bt-Cotton as the head of Sales and Marketing. In 2003, he thus joined Ranbaxy as Head - Marketing and later moved as Head-International and Innovation group, Consumer Healthcare Division. Ultimately, in 2005, he left it to join Dr Lal PathLabs Pvt Ltd as the COO. Since 2008, he is the CEO of the company and has transformed the company from around Rs. 40 crores to Rs 675 crores company in the current Financial Year.

Omar Al Yawer, Partner, Ruya Partners

Omkar Shirhatti, Co-founder and CEO, Karza Technologies

Oscar Pereira, Director, Cheryl's Cosmeceuticals Pvt Ltd

Mr. Oscar Pereira together with his wife Mrs. Cheryl Pereira is the founder of Cheryl’s Cosmeceuticals Pvt. Ltd. He is an acknowledged Cosmetologist and renowned for his ground breaking work in evolving breakthrough products for skin, hair and body care.

He has written avidly on skin and hair care and has appeared on various TV shows as an expert in the field of beauty treatments. He has also pioneered the concept of holding seminars for training and updating beauticians on the latest treatments and developments. He is also a seasoned professional who has developed the company’s activities to encompass a wide range of skin and hair care treatments.  

He is a post graduate from TISS with specialization in HR and always had a holistic approach towards human empowerment and felt that if we look good, we will feel good and this thinking together with his passion for doing something meaningful in this domain, fuelled his interest in the beauty industry.

The inspiration to set up Cheryl’s Cosmeceuticals mainly stems from his continuing commitment, mission and personal longing to offer a solution for every major skin and hair concern, to research, develop, manufacture and market a range of skin and hair care products to meet those concerns and to be and remain a pioneer and leader in the field of cosmetics.

His constant interaction with the market led him to believe that today’s fast paced life has led to a new breed of customers who demand a instant and dramatic metamorphosis of their skin and hair and have grown weary of experimenting through trial and error in order to find the right product suited for their skin type and condition. This led him to manufacture high end cosmetics for different skin types and concerns and using the latest technology to fulfill the DNA of Cheryl’s which is “Skincare That Works”

Cheryl’s Cosmeceuticals actually started production about 25 years ago and today the Company has a pan India presence, with a wide distribution network covering the length and breadth of the country and a strong customer base of thousands of beauticians, who are successful beauty professionals.

Mr. Pereira is committed to the continuous pursuit of research and development of formulations using the latest technologies and effective ingredients, to deliver outstanding results in resolving skin, hair and body care concerns.

His mission is to offer a solution for every major skin and hair concern, to research, develop, manufacture and market a range of skin and hair care products to meet those concerns and to be and remain a pioneer and leader in the field of cosmetics.

He drives the business development, marketing, finance and operations of the company and is also solely responsible for creating formulations of products that are manufactured by the company.

In October 2013, Cheryl’s Cosmeceuticals was acquired by L'Oreal Paris, the largest cosmetic and beauty company in the world. This is L’Oreal’s first acquisition in the Indian market, which will help the company strengthen its position in the highly competitive Indian salon market.

Jean-Christophe Letellier, Managing Director, L’Oréal India, said: “This is an attractive opportunity for L’Oréal in India as it broadens the product offering of our Professional Products Division in this country to also include skincare products and services. It will further enhance our leadership position in the very dynamic professional products market where we are present with our brands - L’Oréal Professional, Matrix, and Kerastase.”

Ozi Amanat, Partner, K2 Global

P Rammohan, Founder & MD, Medypal

Rammohan is presently Founder and Managing Director of Commerzpoint Networks Pvt. Ltd which owns and runs “Medypal” a recently launched healthcare market place. Previously co-founded Healthsprint Networks in 2006  India’s 1st Health Insurance Exchange which touched 100 million lives and was acquired in January 2013 . Rammohan holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Medical instrumentation and  a Certified six sigma green belt. Prior to his entrepreneurship journey spent 20+ years holding leadership roles in GE Medical systems, Philips and Siemens.