Our speakers

Pawan Kumar, Lead - End User Practice, Mosaic Digital

Pawan Kumar Durbha, Sr. Manager-Research, Mosaic Digital (Moderator)

Pawan Parikh, CEO, Safeway Concessions

Mr. Pawan Parikh is the CEO of Safeway, a MAIF 2 & MAIF 3 investment in Indian toll roads. Safeway encompasses 9 roads covering 681 km of national highways, carrying over 100,000 vehicles daily. Prior to joining Safeway in May 2021, Pawan held leadership roles in renowned international organizations in infrastructure, energy, and minerals sectors.

He was the CEO- EPC at Shapoorji Pallonji, one of the largest engineering companies from India, present in more than 35 countries globally. Under his leadership, the organization developed international execution capabilities and successfully executed complex mega EPC projects.

Prior to this, he led Siemens Energy Transmission Division for South Asia with 5 manufacturing units and more than 120 EPC construction Project Sites. Under his leadership, the organisation became an export hub for advanced technologies, centre of competence for large projects executed in Qatar, Bangladesh and, Srilanka, besides India. 

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.