Our speakers

Nitin Jain, CEO, Global Asset & Wealth Management, Edelweiss Financial Services | @EdelweissOnline

Nitin Jain heads the Global Asset & Wealth Management Group at Edelweiss which advises Sovereign Wealth Funds, Pension Funds, Institutional Investors, Financial Sponsors, Owner/ Promoters, Family Offices, on investments as well as financing and funding strategies across domestic and offshore markets, comprising of over USD 6 Billion of assets under management. The business encompasses the entire range of asset management services focussing on Alternative Credit Strategies, Equity Mutual Funds, Multi-strategy Funds & Distressed Assets.

Nitin has played an integral role in the Edelweiss’ transformation from a boutique investment bank into a diversified financial services company, and is member of the core management committee. Highly regarded as a strategic thought leader within the group, extensive multi asset class investment experience across local and global markets.

Nitin is actively involved with EdelGive Foundation - the strategic philanthropic arm of the Edelweiss Group and is a part of their investment committee. Nitin has done his B.Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, with Post Graduation in Management from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. Nitin is married and has two children.

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Nitin Jain, Partner, PWC

Nitin Jain is the Banking & Financial Services Partner for PwC, India and focuses on Strategy & Digital for Banking, Insurance and Capital Markets on business transformation, operating model, digital transformation, cost efficiency and go to market strategy. He has led and been involved in many strategic and transformation engagements with large private & public sector banks, wealth managers, insurers and other financial institutions including digital lending and partnerships.

Over the past 23 years, he has worked at C Level positions where he was instrumental in setting up and running private banking, financial services distribution, asset management, insurance and capital markets broking. Over the years, he has created digitally led asset-lite models for businesses that have resulted in double digit ROE for stakeholders. He has a track record of setting up multiple successful greenfield businesses, reinvigorating businesses and turning loss making units in profit within a short span of time.

Nitin Kulkarni, ED & COO, Persistent Systems Ltd

Nitin Kulkarni is the Chief Operating Officer of Persistent Systems Limited. He earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering in Electronics from Mumbai University in 1988 and a Master’s Degree in Engineering in Electronics from VNIT, Nagpur University in 1991. Prior to joining Persistent Systems Limited in 2006, he worked with NELCO, Mumbai from 1991 to 1992 as a Senior Systems Engineer. He subsequently worked with Siemens Information Systems Limited from October 1992 to February 1996 as a Senior Systems Analyst and with Infosys Technologies Limited between May 1996 to November 2006 in various roles in two tranches ranging from Project Manager to Assistant Vice President and Development Center Head.

Nitin Kulkarni is now designated as an ‘Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer’ of the Company.

Nitin Mehta, CCO and Head Digital Business, Bharti AXA Life Insurance

Nitin Mishra, SVP - Product Management, Netmagic

Nitin Mishra is Senior Vice President, Product Management at Netmagic, an NTT Communications Company. Among his colleagues at Netmagic, he is known as the Man Who Builds Tomorrow. In his 14 years at Netmagic, Nitin has been at the forefront of productizing future technologies helping Netmagic enter new business areas before its competition and gain first mover advantage. These include the complete hosting and managed Hosting, Cloud computing, DRaaS & Security services service portfolio.

Tracking what Nitin is working on is the best way to know what new products and services will be introduced in the datacenter business. One of his key achievements has been the conceptualization and developing a go-to-market strategy for its fastest growing service line - SimpliCloud and expanding the services into areas like Tiered storage and complementing with cloud based Web firewalls like services

As one of the earliest team member, Nitin has also played a crucial role is other aspects of the business including helping bringing in early investors, managing various aspects of marketing, solution engineering and sales.

Nitin's responsibilities in prior positions with companies such as VSNL and HCL Comnet have spanned hands-on Internet operations, product and project management. AT HCL Comnet (1998 to 2000), Nitin was instrumental in their Remote Infrastructure Management (RIM) services rollout.

As a key contributor to the evolution of the Datacenter industry in India and a core member of Netmagic's start-up team, Nitin has a wealth of knowledge and expertise on the enterprise IT infrastructure environment.

His authored articles have appeared in many industry publications and he frequently speaks on Cloud & Infrastructure Management at various industry events. Nitin holds an engineering degree in computer science from VJTI in Mumbai and a PGDBM degree from XLRI in Jamshedpur.

His favourite books include The Fountainhead, Jonathan Livingston Seagull and The Alchemist. Always a man of action, he lives by his favourite quote (Hindi), “Jab soch gehri ho, to iradein kamzor pad jate hain” (When one thinks too deeply and beyond a point, one loses his conviction and it results in inaction).

Nitin Nayar, Founder & Managing Partner, Filter Capital India

Nitin launched Filter Capital India in 2018. Nitin brings 14 years of investment advisory experience from his tenure with the India affiliate of US-based global investment firm Warburg Pincus LLC, including six years as a Managing Director (2012-17), where he spearheaded the company’s investment advisory activities in the technology sector in India. In his role as Managing Director, Nitin evaluated close to 300 opportunities in technology and tech-enabled businesses including Internet and e-commerce, software and IT services, payments, logistics, education and health. He oversaw investments of over $200 million in three notable Internet and software businesses: Quikr, CarTrade, and Capillary Technologies.

Nitin Padmawar, Co founder and CTO, Martjack

Nitin Padmawar, Co-Founder and CTO at Reasoning Global eApplications Ltd. is a serial entrepreneur who has co-founded a software services venture before co-founding successful B2B2C SaaS based Omni-channel digital commerce startup Martjack Enterprise (martjack.com) with group of like minded mates.

Nitin is excited about technology and its application to business problems. At Martjack Nitin has been instrumental in architecting and designing a scalable & reliable cloud based platform which forms the heart of its enterprise offering and also powers its catalog and demand aggregation platform martjack exchange. His roles have typically comprised of Product management & Technology leadership, including module planning, development to strategizing the entry into new business line through product route.

In his first venture, Technobahn InfoTech, Nitin was instrumental in developing core solutions for various enterprise clients and his experience is broadly varied across mobile, Internet & enterprise applications.

Deriving from his broad experience, Nitin has been working on technologies that leverage cloud computing, social media, the Internet and mobile platforms to build the next generation digital commerce solutions at Reasoning.

In his own words, Nitin says, “I love how technology is able to drive so much impact on our day to day lives and I enjoy building tools & solutions that impact the daily lives & businesses of people. At Reasoning, we are really excited about working on next generation concepts & solutions in the backend which end up providing amazingly simple to use solutions to businesses. The most difficult task for any technology is to solve business problems behind the scenes without exposing the complex nature of the solution to the actual business users. This is what I love about technology and the reason why we started Martjack in the first place”.

Nitin Potdar, Partner, J.Sagar Associates | advocates & solicitors

Nitin specializes in Public and Private, Mergers & Acquisitions, including De-mergers, Business-Restructuring, Asset & Share Purchase deals, Joint Ventures and Strategic alliances, Private Equity and General Corporate advisory.

Nitin has a vast experience with transactions related to Foreign Direct Investments & Exchange Controls Regulations. He has advised several multinational companies on financial & technical collaborations in India, and strategies / options for commencing operations & consolidations in India, in a cross section of industries including Construction & Engineering, Pharma, Education, Manufacturing Consumer & Industrial Products. He is known for offering practical and solution-oriented business advice to clients. He is a keen observer of the evolution of the law regulating Takeovers in India. He has been part of several high profile corporate takeover battles including, defending hostile bids.

Nitin also has extensive experience in Private Equity transactions including leveraged buyout transactions & exits. He has provided strategic advice to a variety of companies receiving Private Equity investment.  Prior to joining JSA, Nitin was a Partner with Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff & Co. Prior thereto, he worked with Crawford Bayley & Co. as a Senior Associate. Nitin is a frequent speaker at several conferences and seminars organized by leading industry, institutions, and chambers on subjects like, Takeover Code, M&A, and structuring of Joint Ventures.

He was member of the International Bar Association – Anti-trust section & India Advisory Group. Currently, Nitin is a member of the Executive Committee of the Maharashtra Chamber of Commerce & a Member of the Managing Council of the Chamber of Tax Consultants.

Nitin Saluja, Founder & CEO, Chaayos | @chaayos

Nitin is a Chaiwala, who is Mechanical engineer by education and helped save his clients millions of dollars in his past life as a management consultant. He is the founder of Chaayos, NCRs biggest chai cafe chain. With their amazing chais, Chaayos is trying to revolutionise the way India drinks Chai. Nitin is a big Formula 1 fan and in his free time he likes to work upon his daughters puzzle books.

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Nitin Shakdher, Founder & CEO, Green Capital Single Family Office

Nitin Shakdher is a professional institutional investor as the Founder & CEO at the Green Capital Single Family Office with the core focus on PIPE (private investment public equity), debt, private equity, venture capital, real estate, asset management, value investing & investment research. He is part of the 3rd generation of the Shakdher Family.

The Green Capital Single Family Office is a buy side only SFO and has proprietary assets under management of 300 million usd spread across India, UK, USA, France, Germany, Tokyo, Hong Kong,
Singapore & Dubai.

The Green Capital network deal flow extends across London, New York, Dubai, Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo & India. His investing relationships are across multi asset classes: private equity, venture capital, primary & secondary placements, real estate, hedge funds, private debt, pension funds, family offices, insurance companies & sovereign wealth funds.

Nitin Shakdher is a thought leader, panelist, moderator, speaker on numerous investing forums, events, industry meets and is a contributor to editorial syndicates for his views on multi asset class investments, asset allocations, trends, capital markets and early stage growth businesses in
emerging markets.