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Pavan Kumar VBS, CBO, iD Fresh Food

Pavan Singh, Deputy General Manager (Marketing), Amul

As National Marketing Head of the core dairy business of Amul India (GCMMF), Pavan's portfolio includes its flagship dairy categories along with wide range of emerging and upcoming product categories. His responsibility include continuous growth acceleration in volumes and value, enhancement in market share as well as portfolio profitability, category expansion, synergistic businesses diversification, macro supply chain management, customer base expansion, penetration into new geographies, investment planning and general health management of the business. For Pavan's portfolio, he is also responsible for long term strategic planning, creating business roadmaps including macro-forecasts for both demand and supply side of the business. In addition, Pavan heads Amul’s business for all verticals, through offline Modern Trade and online E-grocery channels. He is also responsible for new business diversification synergistic with his portfolio, including identification, development, evaluation, commercialization and eventual launch of new products. Pavan also part of the core team of brand custodians for Brand Amul responsible for planning and executing all activities aimed at managing & strengthening equity of the umbrella brand. He has received the Best CMO Award in March 2016, at Pitch CMO Summit and is also Director on Board on three organizations as nominee of Amul (GCMMF).

Pavitra Shankar, Executive Director, Brigade Enterprises Limited

Ms. Pavitra Shankar is an Executive Director at Brigade Enterprises Limited, a publicly listed real estate development company, based in Bangalore, India. To date, Brigade has built over 66 million square feet across the residential, office, retail, hospitality and education sectors in South India. Pavitra has over 18 years of experience in consulting, private equity and real estate development. At Brigade, she is responsible for the strategy and growth of Brigade’s residential business, with a strong focus on sales, marketing, finance and customer experience. She also drives technology initiatives and digital transformation within the company.

Prior to Brigade, Pavitra ran Legion Real Estate in Menlo Park, California, which provided business development and real estate marketing consultancy to Indian developers targeting the NRI market in North America. Prior to Legion, Pavitra was responsible for portfolio analytics and fund operations at Rockwood Capital LLC in San Francisco, a real estate private equity firm with over $8 billion in assets under management through commingled funds and separate accounts. She has also held positions in Willis Towers Watson, a human capital consulting firm, in their Retirement Practice and Corporate Finance teams.

Pavitra holds a Bachelor's Degree in Economics and Mathematics from the University of Virginia, and a Master's in Business Administration in Real Estate and Finance from Columbia Business School, where she received the prestigious Alexander Bodini Real Estate Fellowship.

Pavninder Singh, MD, Bain Capital

Mr. Singh joined Bain Capital in 2001. Prior to joining Bain Capital, Mr. Singh was the co-CEO of Medrishi.com, a healthcare services site. Prior to that, he was a consultant at Mercer Management Consulting where he consulted in the e-commerce, retail, and energy industries.

Mr. Singh received an MBA from Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar. He received a BA from Harvard College.

Pawan Bakhshi, Head - Airtel Money, Bharti Airtel

Dr. Pawan Bakhshi has about 20 years of experience out of which the last 10 have been with Bharti Airtel in various roles. He has been credited with several firsts in the mobile industry, including introduction of Knowledge Management, e-learning, eCommerce, Mobile Commerce, etc. He is currently Business Head - Airtel Money, Airtel's mCommerce venture.

He has been focusing his attention on mobile commerce for the last several years, besides pioneering mCommerce in Airtel, he has done extensive work in South Asia as the co-lead for mCommerce for SingTel’s International Group covering 7 developing countries in Asia.

Dr. Bakhshi has a PhD in Management from Dr. B.R. Ambedkar university, Agra and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IMI, New Delhi. His undergraduate degree is in Economics from Delhi University.

Pawan K. Kumar, (IRS), Deputy Managing Director, India Infrastructure Finance Co. Ltd.

Pawan K. Kumar (IRS), Deputy Managing Director, India Infrastructure Finance Co. Ltd.

Sh. Pawan Kumar is an IRS Officer of 1990 Batch and passed M.Com from Shri Ram College of Commerce. He holds an M.Phil in the area of Accounting and Finance from Department of Commerce, Delhi School of Economics. He is a Fellow Member of Institute of Cost & Works Accountants of India. He joined  Income-Tax Department as Assistant Commissioner of Income-Tax in Delhi.

He worked as a Director from 2002-08 on deputation to the Ministry of Corporate Affairs. He was closely involved in the setting up of Serious Fraud Investigation Office, execution of MCA-21 program and also on setting up of National Foundation for Corporate Governance. In the period 2009-12, He joined as Director (Tax Policy) in the Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance. He was also a member of an international expert group constituted by UNCITRAL for working on Indicators of International Commercial Frauds.

He worked as a Commissioner of Income Tax in Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan dealing with corporate and non-corporate appellate matters. He had been appointed as a member of the Committee constituted by the CBDT for drafting Tax Accounting Standards. He has also been a member of Committee on Income Computation & Disclosure Standards-MAT issues.

He worked as an Executive Director in IBBI and looking after the work relating to registration, monitoring and inspection of service providers in the IBC ecosystem consisting of insolvency professionals, registered valuers, insolvency professional agencies, registered valuer organizations and information utility.

Presently, he is working as a Deputy Managing Director in India Infrastructure Finance Company Limited looking after Credit Appraisal, Risk Assessment, Price Structuring, Policy Formation, Risk Containment, Portfolio Management, Finance and all other work related to the functioning of IIFCL and its subsidiaries.

Pawan Kumar, Lead - End User Practice, Mosaic Digital

Pawan Kumar Durbha, Sr. Manager-Research, Mosaic Digital (Moderator)

Pawan Raj Kumar, Founder, Supa Star Foods

Pawan Raj Kumar is Founder of SUPA STAR FOODS, a very young company focusing on bringing healthy and yet very tasty F&B options to the consumer. This 6 months old company is already selling its products at more than 1000 retail outlets in various parts of the country and is expanding very fast. Currently the company is selling SUPACORN branded sweet corn products but will soon be  launching more products and categories under the umbrella brand SUPA.

Pawan is a strong believer that route to health and fitness is through sustainable lifestyle changes without any sharp turns or flights. SUPA carries this philosophy by bringing healthy food options that not only give joy to the body but also to the soul.

Apart from running SUPAFOODS, Pawan also leads a very successful business in commercial food service equipment called Continental Equipment. This company supplies to some of the biggest foodservice names in the country including various hotels and QSR chains.

Over the years, Pawan has set up and run other businesses including another fitness and nutrition based venture called ACTIVEKARMA. He has extensive experience in operations management and deep understanding of real life situations in operations and business management. He has led large-scale service operations and business development with large multinational clients in India.

Pawan is an Engineering Graduate and an MBA.

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