Our speakers

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.

Nitin Bhandari, Vice President – Payments, Digital Channels, Reliance Jio | @reliancejio

Nitin Bhandari is a Digital leader with 20 years of global experience across Payments & Telecoms industries. He specializes in creating & executing digital strategies, accelerating adoption through smart technology interventions, nurturing partner ecosystems, and inducing long-lasting behaviour change. He has played key roles in the launch of mobile wallet, digital payments, Internet of Things (M2M) and Mobility services in India; 3G, Fixed-Mobile-Convergence services in Europe and establishing product innovation, idea-2-market function and executing digital strategies for firms in Europe & APAC.

Nitin is a known speaker at business events globally and has co-authored "GB924-Service Model Framework" published by TeleManagement Forum. Nitin holds a Bachelor of Technology (Hons.) in Computer Science & Engineering from the Institute of Technology, BHU.

Nitin Chugh, Managing Director & CEO, Ujjivan Small Finance Bank

Nitin Chugh joined Ujjivan SFB in August 2019 as President and took over as the Bank’s MD & CEO from December 1, 2019.

Nitin is a career banker with over two decades of experience in retail banking. He has worked with Standard Chartered and HDFC Bank for over 21 years, of which the last 18 plus years were at HDFC Bank. His last role at HDFC Bank was as Group Head for Digital Banking. He is a well-regarded banker with varied and rich experience across sales, liabilities, assets, credit card, channels, HNW, marketing and customer service. Nitin is best known for his work in digital banking at HDFC Bank, where he oversaw and led the digital transformation of the Bank from 2013 to 2019.

Chugh holds a Bachelor of Technology degree from NIT Kurukshetra and completed his MBA from All India Management Association.

Nitin D Parekh, Chief Financial Officer, Cadila Healthcare Limited

Shri Nitin D Parekh possesses brilliant academic track record. He has consistently secured ranks and earned number of prizes, medals and certificates in several exams. He possesses six qualifications like B. Com., LL.B., CA, CFA, MBA from IIM, Ahmedabad and MBA in Pharma Management from ICFAI University. 

Shri Nitin Parekh is serving as the Group Chief Financial Officer in Cadila Healthcare Limited, the 4th largest Pharmaceutical Company of India with an annual turnover of more than Rs.14000 crores and has 35 years of post-qualification experience.

Shri Nitin Parekh is recipient of “League of Excellence 2020” award from CFO, India. He was declared as the Best CFO in Healthcare sector for 2012 and also for 2017 by Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.  He is chosen amongst the top 100 CFOs of India for eight times in succession by CFO, India. SAP has selected him amongst the top 25 Digitalist Thought Leaders of India for 2015. He has also received Business World-Best CFO of India Award 2017 for Healthy Balance Sheet Management-Large Corporates. 

He has penned a number of articles, related to academics and professional topics, which are published in leading newspapers and magazines. He is a regular speaker at several forums including Big 4 firms, CRISIL, CARE, Dun & Bradstreet, ET Summit, CFO India, IIM-Ahmedabad, IIM-Udaipur, CA Institute, CMA Institute, ICFAI business school, Nirma University etc.

Nitin Deshmukh, CEO, Kotak Private Equity

Nitin Deshmukh is the founding member of the structured Private Equity practice at Kotak Group and has played the pivotal role in building this business. With over 19 years of experience in Venture Capital (VC) & Private Equity (PE) investing, Nitin has seen the growth of the VC and PE space from being a mere nomenclature to being one of the most preferred financing vehicles in the country today.

Prior to this Nitin was Director with SEAF, a US headquartered Venture Capital fund before it joined hands with Kotak and the founding member of the India Team of Dresdner Kleinwort Capital when it started operations in India in June 2001. Prior to joining Dresdner, Nitin had a long stint of over 12 years with ICICI Venture, the PE and VC arm of the ICICI Group from its inception in 1989 to being its Chief of Private Equity Investments heading its funding and investment management activities of various Funds, till the early part of this decade.

Nitin actively served as a member of Investment Committees of various Funds at ICICI Venture and also on the boards of several ICICI Venture investee companies.

Nitin holds an MBA degree from University of Bombay. Earlier he earned his Masters Degree in Pharmaceutical Technology from UDCT, Bombay. He also completed the Post Graduation Programme in Pharmaceutical Technology at the University of Ghent, Belgium.

Nitin Goel, Partner - Real Estate Investments, Milestone Capital Advisors Ltd

Nitin is the Partner for the Development Funds at Milestone Capital Advisors. He has over 16 years of experience across real estate private equity investments, structured finance and business strategy. Having vast experience in sourcing investments, structuring JVs and exits across various geographies in India, Nitin previously served as the Co-Fund Manager of AIG Global Real Estate Fund, co-managing US$280 million India fund and as National Head, Origination - Real Estate Finance at ICICI Bank Ltd.

Nitin is an engineer from MNIT, Allahabad and a MBA from IMT, Ghaziabad.

Nitin Gupta, Founder & CEO, Sickle Innovations Private Limited

Nitin is a Product Design graduate from the Indian Institute of Science. Upon graduating in 2013 he founded Sickle Innovations. After completing his Mechanical Engineering in 2008, Nitin was a Scientist at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for three years. His interests span arts, science and sport. He is an active cyclist and biker. He belongs to a town primarily driven by agriculture, and at Sickle, brings his experience to understand users’ needs in a better way.