Our speakers

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.

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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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Pawan Sachdeva, MD - Digital and Health Services Platform, Carelon Global Solutions

Pawoot Pongvitayapanu, Founder, MD, Tarad.com

As the CEO of Tarad, Pawoot is responsible for managing Thailand’s largest “B2C” e-marketplace with over 101,000 merchants. Since Tarad joined Rakuten Inc. (the biggest eCommerce company in Japan) in 2009, Pawoot is spending more of his time driving the eCommerce ventures in Thailand and advocating the progress of the industry. As the President of the Thailand eCommerce association, He will be sharing his domestic knowledge of Thailand and how he thinks retailers can really capture growth in one of the leading Southeast Asia markets.

Payal Shah, Partner & Head of Investments, Axilor Ventures

Payal leads all the early stage funding activity at Axilor. Prior to Axilor, Payal led Acumen’s business development efforts in India, managing fund raising and Acumen’s India partner network. She was instrumental in launching their corporate partnership program and bringing on board the first corporate donor to support Acumen’s India activities. During her tenure, she also served on the Steering Committee of ANDE India, an industry body aiming to support the SGB ecosystem in the country. Prior to Acumen, she was part of Sequoia Capital’s India team for a five year period, starting with the research team and then as part of the investment team. She began her career at McKinsey’s India Knowledge Centre, supporting studies in the media & entertainment sector. Payal has completed her post-graduation from Symbiosis Centre for Management & HRD, Pune.

Payel Chatterjee, Partner -Dispute Resolution and White-collar Crime practice group, Trilegal

PC Mustafa, CEO, ID Fresh

Peeyush Rai, CTO & Co-Founder, Canvera Digital Technologies Pvt Ltd

Peeyush is Chief Technology Officer at Canvera and is responsible for all technology development to serve the needs of the market and also to enable an efficient operational scale up. In 2013 he along with Canvera's Co-Founder Dhiraj was recognized as amongst the top-10 Most Influential People in Photography in India by Asian Photography magazine. Peeyush has been working in the software industry since 1993. Prior to founding Canvera Peeyush was heading newScale's India software development center.

He also setup and headed Centrata's India operations. Peeyush previously worked in Silicon Valley in various senior management roles in the Enterprise Software space at Oracle, Corio & Euclid. Prior to moving to the US Peeyush had a stint in Jamaica helping build the country's citizen ID system - a system that is in use to this day. Peeyush started his career working as a software engineer with Citicorp. He has an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Bombay.