Our speakers
Percy Avari, Country Manager, Aramex
Percy is the Country Manager for Aramex in India, one of the leading global providers of logistics and transportation solutions, currently listed on the Dubai Financial Market (DFM: ARMX).
He holds a post graduation in accountancy qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in 1991. His business management experience began in 2002 when Aramex was looking for a grooming a local Country manager in India. He has 19 years experience in the logistics industry. He started his career with Aramex – India in 1997 as the financial controller of India. Over the last 13 years he has contributed to Aramex India's growth from a 4 office wholesaler to Middle east to a global logistic service provider providing end to end logistic through a network of 27 office and a network of 950 locations through franchisees.
He is an active member of express and e-commerce industry in India and is on the boards of Express Industry council of India (EICI) and the Internet and Mobile association of India (IAMAI). He has also been honored with the CEO of the year award by the Express logistics and supply chain conclave in 2008.
Peter Frykman, Founder and Director, Driptech
Peter Frykman builds technology and teams to end poverty. As a graduate student at Stanford he developed innovative laser manufacturing technology to make drip irrigation appropriate and affordable for small-plot farmers. He founded and led Driptech to sell over 25,000 acres of affordable irrigation in India, China, and Africa. Today, as Board Director and trusted advisor, Peter guides Driptech and other social enterprises on human-centered design, product development, marketing, fundraising, and team-building. He is based in Pune, India.
Peyush Bansal, Founder & CEO, Lenskart.com | @Lenskart_com
Peyush Bansal has established himself as not just a passionate online entrepreneur with 4 successfully running portals, but also an expert in the eyewear industry. He embarked on his journey with internet-based innovations when he founded India’s first online campus classifieds portal, Searchmycampus.com in 2007. The portal helped college students meet their basic needs of finding affordable accommodation, books, tutorials, food etc.
After attaining sufficient success and profound knowledge in the domain of e-markets, the online enthusiast incepted Valyoo Technologies in 2008. With his unique ability to connect the dots from strategy to tactics, he laid the foundation of Lenskart.com in November 2010. The company, since then, has been driven to success with an aim to provide great value for money and customised eyewear products. After getting a good grip over the eyewear market, he started targeting other verticals like watches, bags and jewellery with his other ventures WatchKart.com, JewelsKart.com and BagsKart.com in 2011.
His deep understanding of human capital, organisation development and finance has brought in a revolutionary transformation in his ventures. Under his dynamic leadership, LensKart has emerged as the industry leader in its category and has been instrumental in the success of the company in a fiercely competitive market.
Phanindra Sama, Co-Founder & CEO, Redbus
Phanindra Sama “Phani” is Co-Founder & CEO of redBus.in, India’s largest bus ticketing company.
Founded in Aug. 2006, redBus today has operations across 25 states and offers services for ~39,000+ routes and has built relationship with about 1500+ bus operators and 40,000+ travel agents.
redBus is amongst Forbes top 5 startups to watch in 2010. redBus is ranked no#1 amongst the fastest growing companies in India in a survey done by All World Network. And is also awarded India’s best internet startup, 2010 by IMAI.
Phani is ranked no# 3 amongst India’s Most Promising Entrepreneurs by Business World. He has been chosen as a Global Shaper 2011 of the World Economic Forum. He was awarded Entrepreneur of the year award under IT, ITES category by ET NOW, the BITSAA 30 under 30 award and Ranked 4 in ‘Impact digital power 100’ in India in 2013. He is also selected as Endeavor Entrepreneur and TiE Entrepreneur.
He was a State ranker in Intermediate examination, Andhra Pradesh Sr. Secondary Board, graduated with distinction from BITS-Pilani, and worked with Texas Instruments, Bangalore before he co-founded redBus.
Philippe Micone, Founder, Noovoleum
Philippe Micone founded noovoleum in 2022 with 2 co-founders, leveraging technology and AI to sustainably collect used cooking oil from communities. Philippe obtained his Ph.D. in chemical engineering (Ecole Polytechnique Montreal) specializing in AI models for gas sensors. After working for the green tech start-up Odotech developing the European and African markets, Philippe joined Shell where he was leading the conventional O&G and biorefinery technology licensing in South East Asia. After leaving Shell, Philippe became the project director of the Sherdar Autsralia Bio Refinery and recently was in the same position for the First Resources Bio Refinery.
Pinak Chakraborty, CIO, Airtel Payments Bank
Piruz Khambatta, CMD, Rasna Pvt. Ltd
Piush Kothari, Head Strategy, Digital business and Customer Analytics, Aditya Birla Payments Bank
Piush Kothari, from Aditya Birla Group, currently Heads Strategy, Digital business and Customer Analytics for Aditya Birla Idea Payments Bank. A member of the launch team, he has been contributing in creating the overall Bank proposition. As the Digital Business Head for ABPB, he is responsible to create the propositions across UPI, Mobile Banking and Internet Banking while customer experience at the heart of these digital products. Before this, he was a part of the Chairman’s office at the Group. The office works closely with the Group Chairman and advises him on strategic and operational issues across businesses. As a part of the office, his portfolio included working with the 11 Financial Services businesses within the Group (across Insurance, Asset Management, Lending, Securities Broking and Wealth Management) and the Chemicals businesses of the Group across India, Thailand and Germany.
Before joining Aditya Birla Group, Piush has held roles in the Lubricants business of Shell and in Accenture Strategy Consulting. In his eight plus years at Accenture, he has advised clients in Oil and Gas, Metals and Mining, Infrastructure and Private Equity on a variety of areas important for their businesses.
A commerce Graduate from St. Xavier’s, Calcutta, Piush completed his post-graduation from IIM Calcutta in 2002. He is a keen observer and strong believer in the Financial Services and Fintech future of India.
Piyush Agrawal, CEO & Founder, Superprofs.com
Piyush is a graduate from IIT Kanpur and Stanford University. After completing a master’s program at Stanford University, Piyush returned to India to set-up Aurus Network with the vision of enabling a million teachers connect with a billion students using technology. Piyush and the team developed a cutting edge technology which enabled various education & training institutes to deliver HD quality live classroom sessions at extremely low internet speeds (as low as 100 Kbps). This led to setting up of 100s of remote classrooms across the country where students could come and attend the live classes being delivered from top cities. Later, the team launched SuperProfs (stands for “Super Professors”) to make the classes of the best professors/teachers for various competitive exams available to students online itself, so that the students could attend the classes from their home. Today, more than 15 lakh students use SuperProfs every month and study from India’s Best Professors!
Piyush has been awarded the prestigious MIT Review Innovators Under 35 award (India) and is a co-author of 8 international publications, including 2 journal papers and 1 best student paper award winner at ACM Multimedia (Germany), along with being a co-author of 1 US patent.
Piyush Chowhan, Vice President & Chief Information Officer, Arvind Lifestyle Brands
He is an experienced professional working in areas of retail strategy, business analytics, customer loyalty and CRM, retail business consulting and supply chain management.
As CIO for Arvind Brands, he is responsible for IT strategy and execution of technology for all its brands business. With experience 20+ years in setting up new strategic groups, BU’s in areas of business, finance operations and analytics to achieve strong business benefits.
He possesses a strong domain knowledge in retail, e-commerce and supply chain management while working for global retailers like Walmart, Target, Circuit City, Tesco, Best Buy etc. He has set up and managed competency centers/ teams for retail and supply chain as shared service or captive units. He also has an exposure in building practice/ COE in business analytics and retail consulting.
With various publications under his name, Piyush is also proficient in Program Management, P&L Management, Business Consulting, PMO setup, ERP Implementation.
He has been featuring in many IT related events, Guest lecturing and published his views in many magazines like ETCIO, AIM.