Our speakers
Prasad Pai, Enterprise Architect - AI & Data, Niveus Solutions (Part of NTT Data)
Prasad Pillai, Co Founder & CEO, Elsys Intelligent Devices Pvt. Ltd
Prasad is the prime-mover and chief strategist at eLsys. His passion is in building solutions for common everyday problems employing modern electronics and internet technologies.. He is now passionate about facilitating next-gen accident detection and analysis systems in India. Prasad and his team developed and successfully crowdfunded a first of the kind technology in India around Internet of Things powered safety gadget with focus on connected cars and emergency management on Indian roads.
Prior to co-founding Elsys, Prasad gained over 15 years of experience in product design and development in high technology areas like fiber lasers systems, optical amplifiers and consumer hardware devices. Along with relevant small and startup company exposure Prasad has also gained experience at large corporations like Microsoft Redmond and Toro Corporation in USA working as their engineering consultant for new consumer product development initiatives.
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Prasad Shetty, Managing Director, Forensic & Litigation Consulting, FTI Consulting
Prasad Shetty is a Managing Director in the Global Risk & Investigations practice at FTI Consulting and is based in Mumbai, India. His areas of expertise include forensic accounting, bribery and corruption reviews, employee misconduct investigations, internal audit and management reviews. Prasad has multi-geographic work experience including India, Africa, Middle East, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
Prasad has over 15 years of forensics and risk consulting experience. Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Prasad was an Associate Partner with Ernst & Young for over six years and was the lead on multiple forensics investigations in the Indian sub-continent and Africa. Before Ernst & Young, Prasad worked with KPMG in India for over six years in risk consulting and revenue assurance. Before joining the “Big Four”, Prasad worked with Hutchison Essar Limited (now Vodafone) and AF Ferguson & Co. (now a member of Deloitte).
Prasad has been a speaker at several events and seminars on corporate governance, compliance, bribery and corruption, commercial disputes and arbitrations. He has also conducted various trainings for multinational corporations on managing fraud risks, employee code of conduct violations and improving corporate governance.
Prasad is a Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and he has a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce from Mumbai University, India. He has also cleared the Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) examination.
Prasad Tilve, Head Business Development & Strategy, CapitaLand India, Data Centre Group
Prasad brings over 25+ years of experience in Sales and business development, focusing on large technology services in Data Center, Cloud, Managed Services, Managed Security services, and Solution Sales across all verticals.
Prasad currently Heads Business Development & Strategy for CapitaLand India Data Centre Group, and his role entails Sales, Strategic Partnerships, New Product Development and P&L.
His prior stint of 10+ years with NTT Global Datacenters and Cloud services has diverse
expertise in Sales, Strategic Alliances, Channel Partners Ecosystem, Government & PSU vertical.
Before managing Datacenter sales, Prasad has spent 5 years at ADC Krone (TYCO) with P&L responsibility as Regional Manager and Datacenter Specialist. Other rich start up experiences, including TVS Interconnect, WQ Systems, and Online Netsys, make him the perfect Go to market individual. Innovative thinker with broad-based expertise in Start-up operations, with a sound understanding of IT practices and the underlying framework of IT products and services.
Prasad.P, Group Executive Vice President, Food and Agribusiness Strategic Advisory and Research, YES Bank
Prasad P. has been with FASAR team of YES BANK since 2008. His previous professional assignments have been across food & agri value chain including start-ups and organised players ranging from BASF Chemicals, Reliance Retail amongst others. He has functional expertise in upmarkets sales of agri-inputs to handling procurement of agricultural commodities besides agri exports.
Prasad is trained in agriculture and agribusiness management; and has a Bachelors degree in agriculture from GB Pant University, Pantnagar and later in Agribusiness management from MANAGE, Hyderabad.
Prasan Dhar, Partner - Banking and Finance, Trilegal
Prasan is an experienced debt finance lawyer and regularly acts for lenders as well as sponsors on significant and complex debt finance mandates. He has particular experience in special situations, distressed debt and restructuring and insolvency matters.
His clients include several private credit funds and platforms, international banks development finance institutions and multilateral lenders.
Prior to joining Trilegal, Prasan worked for many years in the finance practice of a global law firm in London, advising on high-value emerging markets transactions.
Prasanna Bora, MD - Lifesciences, o3 Capital
Prasanna heads the Lifesciences practice at o3 Capital. He has over 17 years of experience in investment banking and has closed multiple transactions across sectors with a special focus on Healthcare and Pharma. He has product expertise in Private Equity Syndication, M&A and Structured Credit.
Prior to o3 Capital, he has worked with HDFC Bank in their investment banking division.
Prasanna holds an MBA degree from IIM Kozhikode and completed his graduation from Mumbai University.
Prasanna Bora, Director, Corporate Finance, o3 Capital Global Advisory | @o3capital
Prasanna is a Director at o3 Capital Global Advisory, a leading investment banking firm. He has 11 years of overall corporate experience. He has extensive deal making experience across infrastructure, industrials, financial services and environmental engineering. Prasanna is a BE from Mumbai University and holds an MBA from IIM Kozhikode.
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Prasanna Kumar, Director, Sophos
Director sales , South Zone & Sri Lanka with 20plus years of experience in Cybersecurity industry. Prasanna is self assured, analytical thinker. He can easily take control of situations and turn thoughts into action. He takes charge, speaks up and makes sure others are heard too. He is a continuous learner, follows situational leadership style and can make things happen. He has a mature, sophisticated, tolerant multicultural attitude and an ability to adapt in an ambiguous environment and extend beyond proven abilities.
Prasanna Lohar, Head Technology - Innovation & Architecture, DCB Bank
Prasanna Lohar is currently working as Innovation Head & Technical Architect at DCB Bank. He is practicing Innovation Implementation & Architecture Orchestration at DCB.
Prasanna has been responsible for launching the Global Innovation Accelerator Program – “DCB Bank Innovation Carnival” which will bring on Unique Experience of Innovation generation thru Hackathons & Accelerator programs in India. He is also an active leader of various Blockchain Forums & Fintech Forums.
As part of DCB’s Digital Transformation,he is closely associated with New & latest technology Assimilation, Experimentation, Innovative Customer Servicing & Engagement, Robust Architecture Implementation, Fintech & Startup Alignment, Open Innovation practices, Collaboration with other Banks on Blockchain initiatives.
At DCB he has worked as Digital Banking Head & is a part of various deliveries like India’s first Aadhaar & Biometric enabled ATM, Paperless A/c Opening - Zippi, India’s first Omni-Channel Framework for Bank, Mobile & Internet Banking Initiative, Unified Payment Interface (UPI), Bharat Bill Payment, API Management, Switch & Cards relevant initiatives.
He has over 16 Years of Industry Experience in Engineering and Development, Product Development, Organization Strategy & Governance, Risk Audit Compliance Management, Business Process Management, Enterprise Architecture, Mobile Apps, Digital Transformation, Fintech, E-Commerce, Payments, Platform and Product Innovation, Data Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Open Stack, Cloud Computing, Analytics, Big Data, IOT, BlockChain, UI-UX, Product Roadmap Strategy, Business Development.
In 2016-2017 he has bagged many Leadership awards TOP 50 CIO, Top 100 Innovative CIOs, Digital Leader of the Year , Top 20 BFSI leadership and has appeared in many BFSI Conferences as a Key-Note Speaker.