Our speakers

Pradeep Goel, MD, Prudent Arc Ltd.

Pradeep Goel, CMD, Prudent ARC Limited; Chairman, ASSOCHAM National Council for ARCs & Vice -Chairman, ARC Association

Work experience of 27 years as an industrialist, entrepreneur in the field of Iron and Steel. During all these years, he has been actively involved in establishment of businesses such as Power Projects – Thermal, Hydro & Solar and Pharmaceutical, Engineering, Ship-breaking, Real Estate and so on. He has vast experience while having combined knowledge of the domestic conditions as well as global. During his visits world-over for different sectors of industries that he was involved in, his hand on experience has given him a global outlook on most of the industrial sectors. Thus creating a Vision, Knowledge-base and Understanding of all aspects, which are required for running a successful industry / organization in specific sectors and otherwise too.
He is Chairman of ASSOCHAM National Council for ARC ‘s & Vice -Chairman of ARC Association.

Pradeep Gupta, Chairman & MD, Cyber Media (India) Ltd.

Pradeep Gupta is the Chairman of the CyberMedia Group, South Asia's first and largest specialty media house, with 15 publications, 12 websites, 100+ events and weekly TV programs in the infotech, telecom, consumer electronics & biotech areas. CyberMedia’s brands include Dataquest, PCQuest, Voice&Data, BioSpectrum, DARE, MIT’s Technology Review, CIOL.com and Global Services. The group's media services include market research (CMR) and content outsourcing (Content Matrix Inc). CyberMedia is a public company.

Pradeep is also an Angel investor and a mentor to a number of entrepreneurs. He is the co-founder of Indian Angel Network. He is the Chairman of the Board of Advisors of IIT Alumni Trust. He is the President of the Association of Indian Magazines. He is also on the Board of UTI, IIT Mandi, TiE Global, PanIIT India and Kaleidoscope Entertainment.

He is the recipient of the Distinguished Alumni award of IIT Delhi and the Helen Keller award for working in the disability sector.

Pradeep is an Engineer from IIT Delhi (1975) and an MBA from IIM Calcutta (1977).

Pradeep Hirani, Chairman, Kimaya Fashions Pvt Ltd

Armed with an experience of over 20 years in Luxury Fashion Retail, Mr. Pradeep Hirani anchors India’s largest Multi Designer Fashion House - KIMAYA Fashions Pvt. Ltd. With 24 stores spread across India, UAE and Pakistan, KIMAYA was the first Indian fashion house to scale up the country’s designer wear industry, both in terms of footprint and experience.

Mr. Hirani constantly endeavors to revolutionize the buying pattern of the quintessential Indian woman and open up new vistas in the domain of luxury fashion. As a testimony, he laid the foundations of “KARMIK” - an innovative brand that retails prêt collections by Leading Designers at an average price of $100!

Under the aegis of Mr. Hirani, KIMAYA has won a number of awards along its journey since its inception in 2002. The company is an ISO 9001 certified Fashion House that has won the “Star Luxury Retailer of the Year Award” for 4 years in a row.

Having pursued his Masters in Business Administration from NMIMS, Mumbai, Mr. Hirani is responsible for developing the expansion strategy for the group. He is also an anchor and a regular speaker at various retail forums like IRF, RAI, IFF, and VC-Circle.

He is an advisory board member and goodwill ambassador to Fashion Institutes like The New School of Design (Parsons), National Institute of Fashion Technology, WLC College India, G.D. Goenka, and Pearl Academy of Fashion amongst others.

Pradeep Kumar, CEO - Government Business, Vakrangee Limited

Pradeep Kumar is an ex-IRS officer with a MBA and B.Tech in telecommunications. He has more than 18 years of experience in Global Business Development and execution of large public sector IT projects.

Prior to joining Vakrangee, he has consulted several large corporations on World Bank and Asian Development Bank projects.

Pradeep Lokhande, CEO, Rural Relations

Pradeep Lokhande’s goal to reach out and contribute to the development of rural India inspired him to embark on a mission 20 years ago, which is today known as Rural Relations. Banking on one of his prime area of interests, Information Technology, Pradeep installed used computers in rural secondary schools, where the interest and curiosity of students is very high. Till 2009 Rural Relations was able to install 20,000 used computers directly or indirectly across 10 states in India.

Post the success of this initiative, Pradeep embarked on yet another movement named Non-Resident Villagers (NRV) movement. With the help of NRV, till date 3,280 Gyan-key libraries in rural secondary schools have been established. In addition to this Pradeep is also credited with the game changer initiative villagewiKY, which is an open information platform of key and feeder villages of India.

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Pradeep Sampath, COO, MMP Mobiwallet Limited (mRupee)

Pradeep Sampath is the Chief Operating officer of MMPL, the Mobile Payments arm of TataTele Services Limited. He has over 18 years of experience in the areas of Sales & Operations across Payments, Network and IT. His last assignment was with ElectraCard Services (P) Limited where he was responsible for Sales & Business Development for Switching & Card Management Solutions. He was managing the Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa Operations based out of Dubai. His experience spans across companies like Network Solutions Limited, Wipro Limited, Infotech Group, IBM India Private Limited and Euronet Services India (P) Limited.
 
He has completed his Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics & Instrumentation) from Bharathidasan University. He has also pursued his Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration from the Loyola Institute of Business Administration.

Pradeep Singh, Director, Valuations & Modeling, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India LLP

Pradeep has an experience of around 16 years in valuations. Throughout his career, Pradeep has assisted and lead in various engagements spanning valuation of shares, businesses, intangibles, portfolio valuations, for a host of purposes including fund raises, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and regulatory purposes and across a variety of sectors including healthcare, technology, infrastructure, energy, consumer and manufacturing.

Pradeep has also assisted clients in financial modeling and corporate finance engagements.

Pradeep has served a large number of Indian and International business groups / companies in listed and private space.

Pradeep Tagare, Investment Director, Intel Capital | @intelcapital

Pradeep is an Investment Director at Intel Capital India, and is responsible for investments in technology-related companies in India and South Asia. His portfolio in India includes companies such as One97/PayTM, Hungama.com, Nxtgen Datacenter, healthkart.com, Persistent Systems, etc. Prior to Intel Capital India, he was with Intel Capital in Silicon Valley and invested in enterprise software companies. He has over a decade of operating experience at leading technology companies in Silicon Valley, including starting his own venture-backed mobile software products company. Pradeep has a MS(EE) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a BE(EE) from the University of Bombay(VJTI), and is a Fellow of the Kauffman Fellows Program.

Pradipta K. Mohapatra, Chairman, CFI Ltd.

Pradipta K Mohapatra is the President and CEO of the Technology Businesses of the RPG Group, which comprise companies in the IT, bio-tech, pharma and communication sectors. Pradipta is an alumnus of the Jamnalal Bajaj and Harvard Business School.

During the 90s, he was responsible for pioneering India's entry into modern organized retailing through the Foodworld, Musicworld, Health & Glow and Giant Hypermarkets stores.

He lectures in a number of business schools in India and abroad, and is represented in the Governing Councils of three Business Schools and Board of Studies of two prominent universities. He led initiatives to get industry and academy to work closer together as Chairman of the Education Sub-Committee of Confederation of Indian Industries for three years, and is currently the Chairman of the Southern Region of CII.