Our speakers
Amar Merani, CEO, Xander Finance Pvt. Ltd
Based in Mumbai, Amar heads Xander's credit platform in India. He brings with him over 15 years of investment banking experience and has worked on several marquee M&A and private equity transactions, IPOs and follow on equity offerings, as well as Project and Structured Finance transactions.
From 2007 to 2012, Amar headed the real estate vertical of Kotak Investment Banking which raised over US$1.5 BB of equity for leading real estate developers in their public or private equity offerings to international and domestic institutional investors. He also led corporate restructuring and advisory assignments for leading real estate and infrastructure groups. During his tenure at Kotak, the firm was conferred the "Best in Equity Financing" awards in the Euromoney Poll for Real Estate in 2010 and 2011.
Earlier, from 2004 to 2006, Amar was with Lazard India where he helped revive the firm's M&A franchise by generating and executing several transactions in the Telecom, Media and Technology sectors. Amar has also worked at IL&FS in the Corporate Lending, Project Finance Advisory and Infrastructure Debt Syndication team where he was responsible for the financial closure of one of India’s first BOT toll-road projects, and advised several power and telecom companies on project financing. He started his career with a stint at PwC in their Consulting practice in Mumbai.
Amar is an electrical engineer from VJTI, Mumbai and holds an MBA from NMIMS, Mumbai where he specialized in Finance and Operations.
Amar Singh, Founder and CEO, Clove Dental
A serial entrepreneur and seasoned executive with over twenty years of senior management and entrepreneurial experience in healthcare and software industries. Has worked in a spectrum of business environments from early stage companies (Clove, Simplexis, Amitive) to mid sized companies (i2, Bain&Co) and large companies (SAP, P&G).
Currently, is the founder and CEO of India's fastest growing chain of high-quality dental clinics. Healthcare in India lags behind WHO world averages and need for deploying good quality infrastructure is critical. Clove began operations in mid 2011 and as of November 2024 had over 550 dental centers offering all aspects of dental care to Indian consumers. Company is adding 90-120 centers every year as the infrastructure deployment tries to catch up to the need that exceeds 2500 new clinics every year (across India).
Also recognized leader in the cloud computing space having built one of the industry's leading and patented software application development platform (Amitive). In late 2010, GXS acquired Amitive's platform and migrated its entire application portfolio onto Amitive's platform.
A change agent with proven experience building products and companies both inside a large company and outside. At SAP, he lead and built SAP's RFID business into one of its fastest growing business units. In addition as SVP of Supply Chain, Product Lifecyle Mgmt. and Manufacturing solutions, managed a team of over 500 professionals and lead one of SAP's product areas globally and helped grow the business. At Simplexis he built a leading public sector procurement technology company. A company he started with some Harvard Business School colleagues and Senator Lamar Alexander who remained chairman of the company until company was sold in 2002.
He enjoys traveling, golf, tennis and spending time with family. He can be reached directly at amar@amarsingh.org
Amardeep Sibia, CEO, SatSure Ltd | @sat_sure
Amarendra Sahu, Co-founder & CEO, Nestaway
Amarendra Sahu (CEO), along with Jitendra Jagadev (Director), Deepak Dhar (CBO) & Smruti Parida (CTO) founded NestAway Tecnologies Pvt Ltd in January 2015. NestAway is India's fastest growing "Home Rental Network" attempting to provide better rental solutions via design and technology. NestAway helps you find, book & move in to a rental home of choice across Indian cities - all from within an app. Not just that, NestAway will help you move-in, ask for services, from tap leakage to door lock repairs, pay your rent and finally move-out - again all within the app. 10,000+ people call us home. 2000+ home owners call us friend's. NestAway is building India's much needed social infrastructure of affordable city housing. They say we suffer from a rare condition frequently observed among poets - 'imagination & empathy' & it's fatal.
@amarendrasahu
Amaresh Chakrabarti, Senior Professor and Chairman, Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing (CPDM), Indian Institute of Science (IISc)
Amarinder Dhaliwal, Head (E-Commerce), Times Internet Limited
Amarinder Dhaliwal, Head (E- Commerce) at Times Internet Limited, has a rich experience in managing online businesses, sale & marketing and investment banking.
During his thirteen years of professional experience, Amarinder has held various challenging and leadership roles. He was not only head of business for online commerce, auctions, auto (zigwheels.com), astrology (astrospeak.com) but was also national head of magazines & Int'l sales of Times Group.
Corporate planning & strategy, decision making related to product configuration, pricing and promotion across markets, evaluation of business proposals, performance monitoring and Innovation incubation are some of the areas in which Amarinder excelled during his stint at Powergen. Apart from this, he was also deputy manager at SBI Capital Markets.
With an exceptional track record in developing online properties in shopping, auto, astro and auctions domain, Amarinder is now in exploring latest developments and mapping trends in online consumer behaviour.
Amarinder holds technical and management degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, respectively.
Amarinder Singh, CEO, Clove Dental
A serial entrepreneur and seasoned executive with over twenty years of senior management and entrepreneurial experience in healthcare and software, Amar is passionate about creating successful products/companies in a dynamic eco-system. He currently heads Clove Dental, a rapidly expanding network of state-of-the-art dental clinics in Delhi NCR and the Chandigarh Tri-city Area. Founded in 2011, the network reflects a mission to identify and address oral healthcare needs in India by providing high-quality dentistry infrastructure for the Indian consumer.
A change agent with a proven record of building products ahead of the competition curve and reenergizing the lifecycle of existing products, Amar served global software concern SAP as senior vice president, Global Division, where he managed a team of over 500 professionals. While at SAP, he led and built SAP's RFID business into one of its fastest growing business units.
During his career as an entrepreneur, he has incubated successful companies across geographies. He created a niche for himself in the cloud computing space by building Amitive, now a leading (and patented) software application development platform.- In late 2010, GXS Solutions, a provider of monitoring, reporting and management solutions, acquired Amitive's platform and migrated its application portfolio onto Amitive's platform.
Additionally he co-founded Simplexis, a leading public sector procurement technology company in 2002. Simplexis delivered comprehensive eProcurement services to school districts and their suppliers nationwide throughout the U.S.
Amarinder holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, a master’s degree in System Design (Gold Medalist) from Waterloo, Canada and a formal degree in mechanical engineering. He enjoys traveling, golf, tennis and spending time with family.
Amarjit Batra, Country Manager, OLX
Amarjit Batra is a Sales & Marketing professional focused in the Internet space. Amarjit has successfully launched and grown Internet businesses in the C2C, B2C and B2B domains in India region.
Amarjit joined the OLX team in Dec 2008 to take over the responsibility to build and grow the India business for OLX. As the Country Manager for OLX India, Amarjit leads the category development efforts, executes marketing programs to create brand awareness and improve user engagement, build strategic partnerships and formulate strategies for driving growth. As a senior member of the OLX team, Amarjit also contributes to the Global Business Development initiatives for OLX and reports to both Fabrice Grinda and Alec Oxenford, Co- CEO and Co-Founders of OLX, Inc.
Prior to OLX, Amarjit was at eBay India, where he was heading the New Business and Global Trade business and was a part of the India Management team. In a 5 ½ year stint at eBay (and erstwhile Baazee), Amarjit has handled many roles in Category Management, Strategic partnerships, New Business, Rural Initiatives and Ad Sales.
Before eBay, Amarjit has done Business Consulting for Procurement Auction and B2B auctions businesses handling leadership and Business Development responsibilities with reputed corporate clients across India. As a common thread across his experience in the Internet, Amarjit has specialized in making markets online more efficient.
Amarpreet Kaur Ahuja, Country-Head HR, AstraZeneca
Amb. Dunston P, Chief Executive Officer, Royal office of HH sheikh Ahmed Bin Faisal Al Qassimi