Our speakers
Parth J. Shah, Founder president, Centre for Civil Society | @ccsindia
Parth J. Shah is founder president of the Centre for Civil Society. CCS advances social change through public policy. Their work in education, livelihood, and policy training promotes choice and accountability across the private and public sectors. To translate policy into practice, CCS engages with policy and opinion leaders through research, pilot projects and advocacy.
Parth taught economics at the University of Michigan before returning to India to start CCS. He has published academic articles in the areas of development economics, welfare economics, business-cycle theory, free or laissez-faire banking, and currency-board systems. He has edited Morality of Markets, Friedman on India, Profiles in Courage: Dissent on Indian Socialism, Do Corporations have Social Responsibility?, and co-edited Law, Liberty, and Livelihood, The Terracotta Reader, and Agenda for Change. He writes regularly in newspapers and magazines.
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Partha Dey, Sr. General Manager, ICICI Bank
Mr. Partha Dey serves as a Senior General Manager at ICICI Bank and has more than two decades of professional experience. He currently holds multiple responsibilities and one among them entail resolution of stressed assets. As part of the same, he has been closely involved in implementing a diverse array of resolution mechanisms over the last few years entailing both recapitalizations and business restructurings.
Prior to this, Mr. Dey was with ICICI Venture, the private equity arm of ICICI Bank. Before moving to ICICI Venture, Mr. Dey served as General Manager of the Project Finance business at ICICI Bank and was actively associated with evolution of infrastructure financing in India spanning all its sub-sectors over more than a decade. He led financing of a significant number of landmark infrastructure transactions with successful outcome. He also has experience in consulting with focus on operational turnaround and business strategy.
He graduated from IIT Kharagpur (B.Tech) and IIM Calcutta (MBA).
Parthiv Kamdar, Partner, Deloitte
Parthiv is a Partner with Deloitte’s direct tax practice with over 15 years of experience. He specializes in M&A and has vast experience of advising clients on succession planning, promoter level restructuring, corporate restructuring, domestic and cross border M&A, capital restructuring, post-merger/ acquisition global integration,, etc. from a tax & regulatory perspective.
He has led and managed engagement for several large, complex, multinational clientele, including large Indian multinational having presence in various overseas countries. These companies included large listed companies and large business houses in India.
He has authored articles on various subjects such as Limited Liability Partnerships Act, Substantial Acquisitions of Shares and Takeover Code, etc. He is also a speaker at various seminars conducted by professional bodies such as ICAI and ICSI.
Parvez Umrigar, Co-head, Structured Investments Group, Piramal Enterprises Ltd
Mr. Parvez Umrigar has been involved with the India Infrastructure Industry since last 15 years. He had a stint of a decade with Gammon Group where he gained the experience to work on Infrastructure projects. He was the Managing Director of Gammon Infrastructure Projects Limited, among the fore most companies to enter PPP space. He had worked with the Group for 13 years.
After Gammon, he was the Managing Director and CEO for Welspun Infratech Ltd. Welspun Infratech, was mandated to participate in opportunities present in Infrastructure space in India. He also chaired the Board of Leighton - Welspun, the company incorporated in India by Leighton Group. He had a 2 year stint with Welspun Group as Managing Director and CEO of Welspun Infratech Limited.
Presently, he is working as Co Head in the Investements arm of Piramal Enterprises Ltd.
Pau Abello, MD, Roca Bathroom Products Pvt.Ltd
Pau Abello is the Managing Director of Roca Bathroom Products Pvt. Ltd, 100% subsidiary of Spanish worldwide sanitaryware leader Roca Group. He is widely credited in India in making a dynamic organization with new product portfolios, innovative marketing approach, greater focus on consumer preferences and broader B2B channels. For all the Roca Group brands in India, mainly Parryware.
Pau has been associated with Roca Group for the last 17 years. Out of these, he spent 13 years in the corporate financial department of the company and about 3.5 years as Corporate IT Director. Since September 2013, he has helmed the company’s growth and has been engineering diverse strategic changes across businesses and divisions.
Under his leadership, the company has undertaken several significant initiatives like centralizing of warehouses, instituting fresh commercial policies, reinforcing quality standards in existing departments, setting up new technical offices and making requisite investments for the expansion of installed capacities in vitreous china and faucets.
Pau has a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Studies and an MBA from Europe’s top management institute, Escuela Superior de Administración y Dirección de Empresas (ESADE) in Barcelona. He is an enthusiastic philatelist and is also an ardent outdoor adventure lover who regularly participates in mountain biking expeditions in Europe.
Paul Basil, Founder & CEO, Villgro Innovations Foundation
Paul Basil is Founder and CEO of Villgro Innovations Foundation Over the last decade, Mr. Basil has worked in discovering thousands of innovations and innovators, incubated around 100 rural businesses and these have impacted over 5 million house-holds in rural India with many of these innovations. He also co-founded Villgro Innovation Marketing Pvt Ltd, a unique retail chain for innovative products targeting the rural poor. He also has contributed to building the social enterprise eco-system in India. Unconvention, India’s leading conference on innovation and social entrepreneurship, Wantrapreneur, a social business plan competition, a Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship that focuses on research and education, Villgro fellowship that recruits global mid career professionals to experience social entrepreneurship, championing the ANDE Chapter (Aspen Network for Development Entrepreneurs) to grow intermediaries that can support small and growing businesses etc., are some of his achievements in building the eco-system in India. Mr. Basil was awarded the Ashoka Fellowship in 2002 for his outstanding social entrepreneurship in setting up Villgro. He has also been conferred the Samaj Seva Bhushan Award and the Star Entrepreneur Award.
Pavan A. Gupte, Independent Advisor, Former Head of Asia, Hermes GPE and Chief Strategy Officer, CVCI Private Equity
Mr. Gupte is currently an Independent Advisor to a select group of International Institutions and Family Offices. He was previously the Chief Strategy Officer and a member of Management Committee of CVCI Private Equity, investing in businesses across Global Emerging Markets. In 2010, he helped merge Gartmore Private Equity with Hermes Private Equity to be a founding member of Hermes GPE, a $8b AUM Global Private Equity specialist in London, where he became the Head of Asia. During 2003-2010, he was a founding member of Gartmore Private Equity, a $3b AUM division of Gartmore Investment Management, where he led coverage of European and the Emerging Markets for Fund investing and Co-investing as Dy. Managing Director. From 2000 till 2002, Mr. Gupte was in London as a Principal and a founding member of Adams Street Partners, a global private equity business, where he co-led the Asian Fund investment team. Prior to his involvement in private equity, he worked at KBC Bank NV’s Indian business, where he led the building of the corporate credit business and at ICICI Ltd., focusing on lending to greenfield and brownfield projects in Western India.
Pavan has earned a B.Com. degree and an M.B.A. degree, both from Mumbai University and has completed the Executive Course on Private Equity from Harvard Business School. He has been a regular speaker, particularly on subjects such as Private Equity in Emerging Markets, Asset Allocation and Indian Private Equity at various Global Private Equity events since 2004. During 2003 till 2011, he has been an Advisory Board member of numerous private equity funds investing in Europe, China, India, Australia and across Asia.
Pavan Chavvakula, Chief Operating Officer - Business Transformation, Apollo Health
Pavan Choudary, Chairman and Director General, Medical Technology Association of India
Mr. Pavan Choudary is the Managing Director of Vygon, a leading French Multinational in the field of Healthcare, He is the bestselling author of Healthcare and Management books like The Rx Factor and How a Good Person Can Really Win. He also has as his co-authors Dr. Kiran Bedi, the Lieutenant Governor of Pondicherry & Mr Anil Shastri, Ex Union Finance Minister. He has done a column with the Times of India, currently writes for Firstpost and is the TV Host of “Hum Aisey Kyun Hain” where he takes up several healthcare issues with leading doctors and policy makers of the country.
Two areas in medicine are especially close to his heart, Patient Safety & Quality in Healthcare and Safe Neonatal Vascular Access. He is the main person behind the Neonatal PICC movement in India. He is also one among the only two industry members, nominated by the GOI on the DTAB Sub Committee for provision of compensation for Medical Device Malfunction.
He is the recipient of several awards like the Intellectual Icon of the year award, Business Excellence Award, Eric Hoffer Award etc. He sits on some of the most prestigious advisory boards/boards of India in the commercial and socio-political space. Notable among these from the healthcare point of view are Medical Technology Association of India, Transasia Biomedicals, Lal Bahadur Shastri National Memorial Trust, Executive Access, Bhartiya Videsh Niti Parishad, Blue Circle (Unified Leadership Pvt. Ltd.) and Wisdom Village Publications.
He is consulted by leaders from different works of life on business & life. For more details, visit www.pavanchoudary.in.
Pavan Kumar V B S, CBO, iD Fresh Food