Our speakers

Pramod Maheshwari, Chairman, Managing Director & CEO, Career Point

For last 15 years of his passion & excellence for guiding students to achieve the epitome of success in various competitive examinations has given coaching a new dimension in India.

Pramod was born & raised in Kota. He received his B.Tech degree from IIT, Delhi in the year of 1993. Same year he founded Career Point to impart quality education for engineering & medical aspirants. He pioneered the Kota Coaching System and introduced the concept of group coaching in India. It is his vision and initiative, by virtue of which Kota has reached to a respectable status in the arena of coaching for IIT-JEE, AIEEE, Pre- Medical and NTSE, KVPY Science Olympiad examinations.

Pramod is the mentor of thousand of IITians, NITians, Doctors and Scholars. Today, He is nationally renowned for developing and implementing the effective teaching and learning methodologies to get the maximum output in competitive examinations. As a career author and councellor, he writes for various publications, leading news dailies and conducts seminars & workshops.

Pramod Menon, Executive Director, PwC

Pramod Saxena, Chairman & Managing Director, Oxigen Services (India) Pvt. Ltd | @oxigenwallet

Pramod is the Chairman & MD for Oxigen Services which was founded by him in 2004. Oxigen is India’s largest service aggregator and distributor for micro-payments and is India's first company that digitized cash and distributed micropayments and has a mobile as well as Kiosk Banks. He Co-Chaired FICCI's Telecom Committee for years contributing liberally towards corporate social responsibility, health and educational causes. His other Entrepreneurial Ventures – Oxigen Online Services India Pvt. Ltd., Chorus Call Conferencing Services India Pvt. Ltd., Oxigen Inc. USA, Mpower Softcomm Pvt Ltd, Green Grameen Micro Finance & Aarambh Ventures.

Pramod is also an Investor and mentor in early stage seed funds viz Unitus Seed Fund and IvyCap Ventures.

@PramodSaxena10

Pranav Atit, Partner - Corporate | M&A I Private Equity I M&A Restructurings, Trilegal

Pranav Bhasin, Sr. Vice President & Head Of Product, MakeMyTrip.com

Pranav Bhasin is Senior Vice President - Online Product, leading Online Product development since January 2015. He joined MakeMyTrip.com in 2011 as Director - Mobile, Innovation & Content, leading the Mobile agenda. He has been instrumental in establishing mobile channels for all the MakeMyTrip businesses.

Pranav set up the product and revenue delivery functions for mobile and under his guidance his team launched notable innovative applications like Route Planner and TripIdeas. He garnered global recognition for MakeMyTrip’s mobile dev efforts such as PhocusWright Award for Most Innovative B2C Company (2013) and the Eyefortravel Award – Best Mobile Strategy and Best Mobile Solution (2012). He has over 15 years of experience in technology space specifically in Internet and Mobile related technologies. Prior to joining MakeMyTrip, he was Founder & CEO of Lifeblob.com, a social timeline service. Earlier, he was a part of the team that bootstrapped Austin-based Trilogy’s operations in India.

Pranav holds a Computer Science degree from Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology. Besides technology, his other passions include Cycling, Running and Photography.

Pranav Jhawar, Executive Director, JICS Losgistic Ltd

Pranav Jhawar young and dynamic businessman, he did his Graduation in Industrial Engineering and Business Management from United States of America. In Last 8 years, as a director of the group in the areas of Warehousing of commodities & Logistic, Agricultural Equipment Manufacturing and Automotive Engineering Industry by his knowledge and ability he made the group technically more advanced. During initial years of his business journey under guidance of his Grandfather Late Shri Jai Narayan Jhawar and Father Shri Anil Jhawar he has given new heights to the business. In 2009, Mr. Jhawar corporatizes the whole business and given a dynamic look.

Mr. Jhawar is Executive Director in M/s JICS Logistic Limited a leading warehousing and logistics solution provider in India with a capacity of 3.5 Lac MT of warehousing capacity equipped with owned Laboratories and professional staff. In 2011 by inviting an institutional investor (ILFS) to the group Mr. Jhawar has set a mark in the warehousing industry for all the solutions under the single umbrella. Now under guidance of Mr. Jhawar, JICS become a Brand in the industry and now coming with a owned capacity of 4.5 Lac MT capacity on PAN India Level.

Mr. Jhawar is also director in M/s Indra Marshal Power Private Limited a leading and 45 year old company in sector of Agricultural Engineering in Indore, Indra Marshal is a all India level Brand with dealer network of 350 dealers and PAN India presence. Now under directions of Mr.Jhawar Indra Marshal is entering into sector of manufacturing of Power Generating Sets, Power Tillers, Rotary Tillers and Lightweight Commercial Vehicles.

Pranav Jyoti, Chief Investment Officer, Royal office of HH sheikh Ahmed Bin Faisal Al Qassimi; Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Mirai Capital Global

Pranav Marwah, Co-Founder, ThinQbate

Pranav moved back to India from the United Kingdom in 2011, after earning a degree in law at the University of Warwick. His initial career plan involved joining the fourth-generation family business - this changed quite quickly when he became acquainted with India’s vibrant and burgeoning start-up ecosystem. Pranav’s first investment stemmed from a passion for technology and sport. Encouraged by the overwhelming success of the company, and stimulated by the time he spent with the young and dynamic founders, he was inspired to forge a more unique career path for himself. In 2015, Pranav conceptualised and founded 'thinQbate', Mumbai’s foremost start-up incubator, focussed on building sustainable growth across a variety of sectors. Pranav remains actively engaged with each of thinQbate’s portfolio companies and derives tremendous satisfaction from helping build early-stage companies in sectors ranging from agri-tech to smart water management from the ground up. Independent of this, Pranav has also built a portfolio of investments in companies in the sports sector, making a total of 24 direct investments over the last 5 years.

Pranav Pai, Founding Partner, 3one4 Capital

Pranav Parikh, Managing Partner - Private Equity, Nuvama Asset Management

Pranav Parikh is the Managing Partner and heads Private Equity at Nuvama Asset Management. He has over 20 years of successful investment experience in US and Indian Markets.

He has a long-standing buy-side experience across the most sophisticated capital structures and various strategies including public and private equity as well as credit strategies.

Having been credited for creating one of the first successful incubation in India by a foreign fund and the first 100% private equity owned company to have raised $100 million in secured debt locally in India. He has been recognized in the past as Private Equity Deal Maker of the Year, India by the Global M&A Network, New York.

Pranav has led early stage investments in Edelweiss and sits on the board of companies such as Bridgei2i Analytics solutions (Data analytics, AI, Digital Enterprise), Tonbo Imaging (Electro-optics and sensing technology) and Revv (car sharing and subscription platform).

He is C.F.A. charter holder from CFA Institute, USA and holds a B.E. in Industrial Engineering from MS University, Baroda and graduated with honors in the M.B.A. program from University of Texas at Arlington, with a concentration in Finance.