Our speakers

Prashant Gupta, President and CEO, abof.com

Mr. Prashant Gupta, a highly reputed senior member at Aditya Birla Group, heads Aditya Birla Online Fashion (abof), the group’s vehicle for foraying into pure-play fashion e-commerce space. abof went live in September 2015 as the first fashion portal going live from any of India’s large conglomerates. It was the fastest concept-to-launch business that came up in about 8 months”

A young dynamic IIM A pass-out, Mr. Gupta is known for his strategic and business acumen and also for his focus on team development. Before being tasked with incubating and building up a portfolio of e-tailing businesses for Aditya Birla Group in 2014, Mr. Gupta headed the Chairman’s Office for about 3.5 years wherein he assisted Mr. K M Birla in strategic planning and monitoring the diversified businesses. His team advised the Chairman on strategy and operational issues in each business such that he had an independent point of view (in addition to the CEO’s view) on them.

A computer science graduate from IIT Delhi, Mr. Gupta completed his MBA from IIM Ahmedabad in 1999 and graduated with a gold medal. He joined McKinsey in 1999 where he spent over 10 years and served a wide variety of clients across sectors like Infrastructure, Construction, Power, ITS/BPO, Oil & Gas, Retail/Consumer, and Life Insurance. He was a partner at the firm before joining the Group in 2010.

Prashant Jain, Director, o3 Capital | @o3capital

Prashant leads the Healthcare practice at o3 Capital. He has over a decade of investment banking experience and has advised on several completed transactions encompassing the healthcare domain of hospitals, pharma, CRO, medical technology, diagnostics and retail pharmacy chains.

Prior to o3 Capital, Prashant worked with JP Morgan Chase - debt capital markets team, where he handled the UK and Eastern Europe debt underwriting.

Prashant Jain, CFO, Instamojo Technologies Pvt Ltd.

Prashant is currently the CFO with Instamojo and is deeply involved with the ever evolving digital payments landscape. He has around 20 years of diverse experience as a Chartered Accountant covering Consulting (Deloitte, KPMG, etc) and Industry (Tracxn Technologies and the most recent being Instamojo). The key areas of work involve fund raising activities and also working with regulators for business and regulatory landscape.

Prashant Jain, Director - Cloud Operations, CtrlS Datacenters Ltd

Prashant Jain handles the public cloud operations of Ctrl S Data Centers ltd.  He has a Masters Degree In  Computer Engineering from Wright State university, Ohio, USA.

Prashant ran and consulted for several companies in IT, eCommerce, Call centers, Gifting, Data centers, Cloud Computing, Training, Web hosting , Web design, Online marketing and Social media. He built several business models, profit centers, SBUs and companies successfully. He has been an innovator in the internet industry from starting one of India's first eCommerce companies, to being a leading web development company, to being one of India's first cloud computing providers and India's first fcommerce company.

Prashant Kumar, Director, ChrysCapital

Prashant has been with ChrysCapital since March 2016 and focuses on the consumer and the manufacturing sectors. Previously, he was with Warburg Pincus, where he focused on the consumer, manufacturing and infrastructure sectors. Prior to that, Prashant worked at Karsch Capital Management, a New York-based hedge fund, and at SUN Capital, an emerging markets focused private equity firm. He began his career as a consultant with McKinsey & Company in India. Prashant received an MBA from Wharton, University of Pennsylvania, a post-graduate diploma in management from Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata and a BS in electrical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi.

Prashant Kumar, Head IT, BMW Group India

Prashant Mehta, Partner, Lightbox

Prashant is a Partner at Lightbox, a Mumbai based venture capital firm investing in consumer technology companies. 

After an MBA at Wharton, Prashant began his career in finance at Lehman Brothers where he understood the art of investing in emerging markets. Keen to learn more about how technology was changing the world, he moved to Silicon Valley to join Yahoo where he led commercial operations that generated over $150 million in annual revenue.

Having seen the promise of technology in emerging markets, Prashant and his family moved to Mumbai in the midst of the world financial crisis to lead an early stage technology start up – Komli Media. Over the next five years, first as COO and then as CEO, Prashant led an incredibly talented team to position Komli as Asia’s leading advertising technology company. Along the way, they grew revenues 50x and expanded into 10 new international markets.

In 2014, Prashant joined Lightbox. Most recently, he led the $185MM investment commitment from Reliance in AI-platform Embibe. This is the largest AI investment in education any where in the world.

Prashant Ojha, Head - Sales & Marketing - India, Srilanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan, EA

Prashant Ojha is the Head, sales and marketing - South Asia Region at Electronic Arts. He has 22 years of experience in Sales, Marketing, and Business Development - leading Global Brands in Mobile VAS, Digital Entertainment, Youth Lifestyle and Retail Businesses in India and South Asia.

Proior to EA he was the head sales and operations at Sony Playstation India and was responsible for Sales numbers and inventory planning for both software & hardware. Prior to this he was the business head at EA  where he managed the packaged goods business for Electronic Arts in India.

Prashant is an MBA, Marketing & Finance from RA Podar Institute of Management and BSc from University of Rajasthan.

Prashant Parameswaran, Managing Director, Kottaram Agro Foods Pvt Ltd

Mr. Prashant Parameswaran, Managing Director, Kottaram Agro Foods, has packaged the humble Ragi (Finger Millet)  into tasty, delicious, healthy, breakfast options under the brand name SOULFULL. The company was formed in 2011.

Post his Mechanical Engineering from PSG College of Technology, Prashant successfully setup business units from scratch in India in the field of distribution and retail under the Kottaram Group umbrella. He is armed with an MBA from Babson College and experience with international firms like Limited brands and Information Resources Inc.  ; where he was a Director supporting the Marketing Strategies team at Safeway Supermarkets out of their California headquarters till 2009.

Prashant Prashar, Founder & CEO, Peperone

Mr Prashar is the principal architect of the company’s current growth strategy.He is having Management degree in International business & carries more than 7 years experience in sales & marketing in various sectors.

Prashar governs all the strategic level development, product design & implementations for the organization. He has an eye of detailing & always passionate about to build, lead & grow dynamically.