Our speakers
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.
@Salujanitin
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.
Nitin Singh, MD & CEO, Avendus Wealth Management
Nitin is the MD & CEO of Avendus Wealth Management. He has over two decades of rich experience in private banking, asset management and wealth management. His role and responsibility at Avendus include leading a team of high performing private bankers, product specialists, portfolio managers and strategic business functions to serve large UHNI clients, family offices and treasuries spread across India.
Nitin joined Avendus from Standard Chartered Bank where he was Managing Director & Head of the Wealth Management business. Prior to joining Standard Chartered, he spent 17 years with HSBC in a variety of roles, with his last role as the Global Head of Fund Strategy for HSBC Private Bank, based in London. Nitin holds an MBA degree from IIM, Bangalore and is a graduate in Economics from Delhi University.
Nitin Talwar, Partner, Forensic and Investigation Services, Grant Thornton Bharat LLP
Nitin Thakor, CEO, Thakor Family Office
- Winner, 2020 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year® Award
- Featured in the Harvard Business School Case Study: Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind? Authored by HBS Economist Josh Lerner the case is included in the curriculum for students of the HBS MBA and Executive Education programs.
- Nitin serves on the Advisory Council at the USC Marshall School of Business.
- Nitin is an Alumni of the Harvard Business School.
Nitin Thakor is an entrepreneur, futurist, investor, advisor, and philanthropist who is building his legacy in the service of budding entrepreneurs. He is the Founder and Chairman of GeBBS Healthcare Solutions and CEO of The Thakor Family Office. A widely recognized thought leader and trend spotter in healthcare, he continues to forge new inroads into innovation and champion value-driven, technology-enabled solutions.
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Nitish Agrawal, Managing Director, Indium Capital
Indium is a healthcare focused investment banking advisory firm. Based in Bengaluru, Nitish has advised on domestic and cross border M&A as well as equity fund raising transactions across all segments of healthcare including large hospital chains, single speciality formats (maternity, IVF, etc), diagnostics, medical devices, and healthcare-tech with a cumulative experience of evaluating over 45+ deals in healthcare.
Nitish has had over 18 years of leadership experience in the past across Allegro Capital, GE Capital & Genpact. He is an engineer from IIT, BHU and holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM Calcutta
Nitish Agrawal, Managing Director, Veradis
Nitish Agrawal is a Managing Director at Veradis, a healthcare focused investment banking advisory firm. Based in Bengaluru, Nitish has advised on domestic and cross border M&A as well as equity fund raising transactions across all segments of healthcare including large hospital chains, single speciality formats (maternity, IVF, etc), diagnostics and medical devices, with a cumulative experience of evaluating over 20+ deals in healthcare.
Nitish has had over 15 years of leadership experience in the past across Allegro Capital, GE Capital & Genpact. He is an engineer from IIT, BHU and holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM Calcutta
Nitish Agrawal, Managing Director, Indium
Nitish Agrawal is a Managing Director at Indium, a healthcare focused investment banking advisory firm. Based in Bengaluru, Nitish has advised on domestic and cross border M&A as well as equity fund raising transactions across all segments of healthcare including large hospital chains, single specialty formats (maternity, IVF, etc), diagnostics, medical devices, and healthcare-tech with a cumulative experience of evaluating over 50+ deals in healthcare.
Nitish has had over 20 years of leadership experience in the past across Allegro Capital, GE Capital & Genpact. He is an engineer from IIT, BHU and holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM Calcutta.
Nitish Agrawal, Managing Director, Indium Capital
Nitish Agrawal is a Managing Director at Indium, a healthcare focused investment banking advisory firm. Based in Bengaluru, Nitish has advised on domestic and cross border M&A as well as equity fund raising transactions across all segments of healthcare including large hospital chains, single speciality formats (maternity, IVF, etc), diagnostics, medical devices, and healthcare-tech with a cumulative experience of evaluating over 35+ deals in healthcare.
Nitish has had over 17 years of leadership experience in the past across Allegro Capital, GE Capital & Genpact. He is an engineer from IIT, BHU and holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM Calcutta.
Nitish Asthana, General Manager, ICICI Merchant Services (First Data)
Nitish Asthana is the Head of India Ventures, First Data and also heads the merchant acquiring business for First Data India-ICICI MS. He has overall responsibility over ICICI MS’ revenue lines across the company’s POS and Ecommerce businesses, acceptance and acquiring product solutions, sales, business development and marketing.
Nitish has over 15 years of experience in key leadership roles for large financial services and insurance companies in India. Previously, he was Director- Bancassurance, Partnerships and Group at MetLife India and led the alternate distribution business for the company.
Prior to this, as Senior Vice President at Bharti AXA Life, Nitish led AXA’s entry into the Indian market including securing regulatory approvals for JV and establishing a multi-channel distribution platform. He also launched and grew to scale telcassurance, a unique telecom- insurance distribution business.
Earlier, as Head- Bancassurance Partnerships, he pioneered Bancassurance and helped establish a market-leading business for Aviva Life. He has also in the past been associated with Citibank and Standard Chartered Bank. More recently, Nitish has done consulting work with a global top-three strategy consulting firm to develop market entry strategy in insurance distribution.
Nitish holds a PGDM from Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow and Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) from Shri Ram College of Commerce. He is based in Mumbai.