Our speakers
Ambareesh Murthy, Founder & CEO, Pepperfry.com
Ambareesh Murty turned entrepreneur and launched Pepperfry.com in January 2012. In less than three years, he has established Pepperfry as India’s leading Online Furniture and Home marketplace with over a million customers.
Prior to founding Pepperfry, he was the Country Manager of eBay India, Philippines and Malaysia, where he step jumped eBay’s growth by tailoring products and processes to local requirements while delivering a superior customer experience. During his tenure with eBay he also served as the Vice Chairman of the Internet & Mobile Association of India (IAMAI).
Ambareesh started his career with Cadbury’s and has also held senior management positions at ICICI Prudential and Britannia.
Ambareesh holds a B.E. from the Delhi College of Engineering and is an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. In his free time, he closely follows FC Barcelona, loves to read and collects Zippo lighters and memorabilia from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels.
Ambareesh Murty, Founder & CEO, Pepperfry.com
Ambareesh Murty turned entrepreneur and launched Pepperfry.com in January 2012. In the last five years, he has established Pepperfry as India’s No. 1 Online Furniture and Home marketplace processing over 4 million customer orders. Prior to founding Pepperfry, Mr. Murty was the Country Manager of eBay India, Philippines and Malaysia, where he step jumped eBay’s growth by tailoring products and processes to local requirements while delivering a superior customer experience. During his tenure with eBay, he also served as the Vice Chairman of the Internet & Mobile Association of India (IAMAI). Mr. Murty started his career with Cadbury’s and has also held senior management positions at ICICI Prudential and Britannia. He holds a B.E. from the Delhi College of Engineering and is an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. In his free time, Mr. Ambareesh Murty closely follows FC Barcelona, loves to read and collects Zippo lighters and memorabilia from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels.
Ambarish, Partner, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas
Ambarish is a Partner at Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, specifically, an acquisition through a resolution plan under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC).
Ambarish has been involved with IBC from its inception. He has represented resolution applicants in some of the early and highly contested cases of corporate insolvency. Ambarish has also been actively involved on the policy related to IBC, and has assisted in the work of the Insolvency Law Committee, constituted by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs.
Ambarish Datta, MD & CEO, Bombay Stock Exchange Training Institute
Mr. Ambarish Datta is the Managing Director of the BSE Institute Ltd.
Prior to taking up this assignment he headed the Technology Aided Learning group at Reliance Retail Limited. During which he was responsible for a nationwide roll out of e-learning and blended learning programs covering a wide range of learners for shop floor staff to senior managers.
Prior to his stint with Reliance Retail he has handled various portfolios in the IT and learning solutions space. He has over 15 years of experience in sales & execution of technology solutions. Extensive domain knowledge in SCM, Retail, BFSI, eLearning Solutions & Manufacturing businesses. Well versed with global technological progress and trends with proven experience in developing custom software solutions & new product development and the ability to design complex solutions for mission critical business needs.
He has done his SMP from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.
Ambarish Gupta, CEO & Founder, Knowlarity Communications Pvt Ltd
Ambarish Gupta is the CEO and Founder of Gurgaon-based cloud telephony startup Knowlarity Communications. A graduate in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, he also holds an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University, USA. A technocrat at heart, he believes technology holds much potential for changing how the world does business. He started off his career as a researcher for the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics in Germany before joining software major EFI. He has also worked with consulting firm McKinsey & Company as a Senior Associate, and in 2009, founded Knowlarity, which provides business telephony software to some of the world’s leading corporations.
In his spare time, Ambarish can be found reading, listening to music, or taking care of his garden. Extremely environmentally and socially-aware, he believes advances in communications technology can help future generations to minimise their impact upon the planet, while allowing them to lead more rewarding and fulfilling lives. His commitment to this is reflected in Knowlarity’s initiatives such as the Emergency Call Card and CEO-for-a-day.
As the CEO of Knowlarity, Ambarish has used his excellent networking and people skills to gather together a talented and dedicated team that is responsible for the world’s best cloud telephony solutions. He believes in leading from the front, and is always available for advice - or a friendly conversation - to any member of the Knowlarity family.
Ambiga Dhiraj, CEO, Mu Sigma
Known for pressing beyond conventional wisdom, Ambiga Dhiraj has always paved new pathways. Her career began at Motorola’s research arm, developing new ideas, next generation products and technology through a deep understanding of users. She was involved in the early development of mobile technologies, including Bluetooth and the mobile edition of Java.
She has played a number of key roles in Mu Sigma right from its start-up stage. She initiated and led the marketing and innovation functions, talent management, and the client services organization to serve Fortune 500 customers across different industry verticals through a global delivery model. As part of the senior executive team, she has helped grow Mu Sigma from a young startup to a unicorn company. All through, Ambiga has championed the integration of design thinking into the art of problem solving in Mu Sigma.
She is a fan of Herbert Simon and is passionate about research, technology, psychology and application of these towards understanding how people consume and engage with analyses and insights.
Ambiga holds an M.S in Computer Engineering from Wayne State University with a focus on Artificial Intelligence, and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University.
Ambrish Bajaj, Head of Mobile, Jabong.com
Ambrish leads web and mobile product management at Jabong.com. Prior to that, he worked with Paytm where he worked in both mobile marketing as well as product management roles as Paytm evolved to be India's largest mobile payment and recharge company. He has worked on startups in the past- one of them is a ride sharing website named Easy2commute.com, started in 2009, and is a leading site to enable users to find carpools. The other venture he co-started was iApply.in, a SAAS based education marketing company in 2011.
Ambrish Singh, Managing Director - Head of Loans & Principal Investments (India), Nomura
Ameera Shah, MD, Metropolis Healthcare Ltd.
- Most powerful women in Business by Business Today 2018
- Most powerful women in Business by Fortune India 2017, 2018
- Forbes Asia listed Ms. Shah in Asia’s Most Powerful Women 2015
- ‘Young Global Leader’ list brought out by the prestigious ‘World Economic Forum’ in 2015
- 40 under 40 years by Economic Times & Spencer Stuart (2014).
- Bloomberg. ‘Exemplary Women Leadership award’ at the World Women Leadership and Congress awards 2014.
- Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award’ in 2011 organized by Entrepreneur India and Bloomberg
For the last 20 years, Ms. Shah has focused on delivering sustained growth, built and led corporate functions, including finance, strategy, business process optimization, innovation, investor relations, etc. Under her leadership, Metropolis raised the bar of diagnostic accuracy, technological equipment, customer experience and research-driven, empathetic service. Ms. Shah has been responsible for corporatizing Metropolis by setting protocols, hiring expert professionals for the management team and bringing together a fully actualized board.
Named amongst ‘Asia’s Most Powerful Women in Business’ by Forbes Asia and ‘Fifty Most Powerful Women in Business’ by Fortune India, Ms. Shah is recognized as a global thought leader in the healthcare industry. She has also played an instrumental role in changing the pathology industry landscape in the country; from being a doctor-led practice to a professional corporate group in an extremely unregulated, competitive and fragmented market.
Ms. Shah received a degree in Finance from The University of Texas at Austin and has also completed the prestigious Owner-President Management Program at Harvard Business School.
Ms Shah is also an active financial investor and business mentor. Passionate about the women leadership and empowerment, she has committed to supporting budding women entrepreneurs. This led her to set up Empoweress, a not-for-profit platform for women-led businesses to find advice, mentorship and micro-funding. Launched in 2017, the platform incubates more than 50 women-led businesses already.
An eminent industry spokesperson, she has been featured as a speaker in various National and International forums, industry events and conclaves organized by IIM, Harvard Business School, TedX, CII, FICCI, Twitter amongst others. She has also been elected the Secretary of the IAPL (Indian Association of Pathology Laboratories) and has served as the Chairperson of the ‘FICCI Health services Western Subgroup’ that drives policy decisions at the Center.
Ms. Shah is an independent director on the board of reputed Indian companies (Kaya, Torrent Pharma, Shoppers Stop) and is also an advisor to Baylor College of Medicine. She is also on the global advisory board of AXA, a Paris headquartered company with 700 Billion $ under asset management.
Notable Awards and Accolades
Ameera Shah, MD & CEO, Metropolis Healthcare | @MetropolisIndia.
Ms. Shah has evolved Metropolis from its single pathology laboratory status to a fully integrated multinational chain of 125 diagnostic centers and 800 collection centers across the globe including UAE, South Africa, Mauritius and Ghana.
Ms. Shah is an eminent industry spokesperson and has been featured as a speaker at various National and International forums such as TedEX, Harvard Business School, CII (Confederation of Indian Industry), IIM (Indian Institute of Management) - Ahmedabad and many such reputed institutions. She has also been elected the Secretary of the IAPL (Indian Association of Pathology Laboratories) and is the Chairperson of the ‘FICCI Health services Western Subgroup’ that drives policy decisions at the Center.
@AmeeraShah