Our speakers

Prakash Sikaria, Business Head - Customer retention, Media & Monetization, Flipkart

Prakash heads Customer Retention and Growth for the company. He manages end to end personalisation across all ecommerce touchpoints. He also ensures that all key decisions have customer centricity and is backed by relevant data driven insights. Additionally, he oversees new growth initiatives like content, monetization, social commerce & digital goods.

Prakash pioneered commerce advertising in India & launched Flipkart ads in 2015.  Before Flipkart he has been an entrepreneur, investment banker, investor etc. He is an alum of IIT Kanpur and Kellogg School of Management. Prakash has over ten years of experience that includes marketing, strategy, partnerships, finance, analytics and sales. He has established track record of leading entrepreneurial initiatives with P&L responsibility. He specializes in defining, launching & scaling products that provide compelling business value.

Pramath Nath, CHRO - Asia Pacific & India, Steam Power, GE Power

Pramod Ahuja, Partner, Tata Capital Growth Fund

Pramod has 21 years of experience in financial services (private equity, public equity and investment banking) in India and the UK, of which 12 years are in Indian PE.

Pramod joined Tata Capital in April 2008. Pramod is a Founding Partner of TCGF, which successfully raised US$240 million from international as well as Indian investors. Pramod has been actively involved in sourcing, evaluating, negotiating and consummating investments across financial services, technology, consumer, pharmaceuticals and manufacturing sectors. Pramod is also actively involved in portfolio management and serves on the boards of Standard Greases and Nearex.

Pramod Bhandari, Head M&A, Essar Oil

Pramod Bhasin, Founder & Former Vice Chairman, Genpact

An industry champion, an entrepreneur and a thought leader-Pramod Bhasin is one of the pioneers who steered India’s rise as a knowledge economy.

Pramod spent 25 years in General Electric (GE) in tenures spanning US, Europe and Asia, and built the GE Capital business in India from ground up, inking strategic partnerships for the growth of the business.

In 1997, Pramod founded Genpact, formerly GE Capital International Services, and set the ball rolling for the concept of business process management. Under his aegis Genpact grew to lay the foundation of the industry, not just in India, but also in China, Eastern Europe and Latin America. Today, Genpact is a giant with 55,000 employees across 17 countries. In 2011, he stepped back from his position as the President and CEO of Genpact to take on a mentoring role as its Vice Chairman.
The entire IT and ITeS industry in India sees Pramod as its champion and guide, and he was named the IT Man of the Year by Dataquest in 2009. He has served as the Chairman of National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) and is the current Chairman of the CII Services Council. He serves on the boards of several organisations as well as educational institutions.

Pramod speaks passionately about entrepreneurship, leadership and skill development and financial inclusion for the unorganised sector. To further the latter, he is currently working to build The Skills Academy, a pioneering institute to enhance employability.

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.