Our speakers

Prasoon Gupta, Founder & Director, Sattviko Restaurant

Prasoon Gupta, Founder and Director, Sattviko,is a serial entrepreneur and graduate in technology from IIT Roorkee.

Recognized as the youngest “Distinguished Alumni” from IIT Roorkee and one of the youngest charter member of TiE Delhi, he has to his credit an extensive experience in entrepreneurship. Prior to venturing into food and hospitality in 2014, Prasoon founded his education venture „Techbuddy Consulting Pvt Ltd? in 2009 while he was still a student at IIT. During his 4 years at Techbuddy, he not only trained more than 15,000 students across the country but also earned the „Pioneer of Tomorrow? and „India’s hottest startups? awards from reputed publication houses.

His second venture in food, Sattviko restaurants is one of the fastest growing vegetarian food chain of India and has won „India's Best Debutante Restaurant Chain of the Year 2014?. After creating a strong presence in Delhi/NCR,Sattviko is now expanding outside Delhi to Jaipur,IIT Roorkee and Ahmedabad. Apart from Sattviko, Prasoon is also involved as a founding member in a soon to be launched online healthcare venture called „Sawasth?

Prasoon is the founder of a non-profit organization called Swarajneeti, an NGO which dedicated to democratic reforms in India through technological innovations.
He is a travel enthusiast who loves making new acquaintances, particularly with entrepreneurs. As a firm believer in Karma, he has been helping a number of startups and has also invested in couple of them.

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Prasun Gajri, CIO, HDFC Life Insurance

Mr. Prasun Gajri is the Chief Investment Officer of HDFC Life.

Mr. Gajri joined HDFC Life in April 2009 with a rich experience of 14 years in investments and banking industry. He started his career in 1995 with Citibank and was associated with it for over 6 years delivering various roles. He joined Tata AIG Life Insurance Company in October 2001 to start the investment function and stayed there until April 2009, the last role being that of the Chief Investment Officer.

He holds a PGDM from IIM Ahmedabad and is also a CFA Charterholder.

Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Vice - Chancellor, Ashoka University

Pratap Bhanu Mehta is Vice-Chancellor, Ashoka University. He was previously President, Center for Policy Research. He has been a Professor at Harvard, JNU, the Global Faculty Program at NYU Law School. He has published widely in political theory, constitutional law, society and politics in India, governance and political economy, and international affairs.

His most recent publications include The Oxford Handbook to the Indian Constitution (co-edited with Madhav Khosla and Sujit Choudhary); Rethinking India's Public Institutions (with Devesh Kapur and Milan Vaishnav); Non-Alignment 2.0 (with Srinath Raghavan, Sunil Khilnani et al), The Oxford Companion to Politics in India (with Niraja Jayal); India and Multilateralism (with Bruce Jones and WPS Sidhu) and the Burden of Democracy.

Mehta has also served in a number of policy roles including, Member Convenor of the Prime Minister of India's National Knowledge Comission, Member of the the National Security Advisory Board, Member of the Lyngdoh Committee. He Chairs the Jury for the Holberg Prize.

Mehta has a prolific engagement with public affairs. He is editorial consultant to Indian Express, where he writes a regular column. In addition he has written for the Financial Times, and a number of leading national and international publications. He is on the Editorial Board of American Political Science Review and Journal of Democracy.

Dr Mehta holds a BA (first class) in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Oxford and a PhD in politics from Princeton. He received the 2010 Malcom S. Adishehshiah Award and the 2011 Infosys Prize for Social Sciences - Political Science.

Pratap T P, Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer, Qwikcilver

Pratap has been associated with driving and pioneering the Closed Loop Prepaid & Gift Card category in Indian Organised retail categories Via Qwikcilver. These efforts have seen the Gift Card segment powered by Qwikcilver grow by over 250% year on year for the last 5+ years, across 400+ leading corporates, brands & retailers across 450+ towns & cities of India & international markets.

Pratap has also been a part of transnational corporates across segments and categories - setting up consumer adoption initiatives through marketing campaigns, new channels of distribution, product development and growing retail networks in India and overseas. He has a passion for new age Startups, technology marketing for evangelizing innovative ways of reaching out to consumers. Pratap has a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics & Electrical Engineering from BITS Pilani and an MBA from IIM Calcutta.

Prateek Agarwal, Co - founder, Bite Club

Prateek Bhajanka, Chief Field CISO, Field CISO Advisory

Prateek Kapadia, CTO, Flytxt

Prateek manages Flytxt’s technology roadmap, with a special strategic focus on R&D and IP creation and protection. Prateek’s 15 years experience pans across mobile network and application innovation, wireless data network management, and cryptography applications. In his last appointment, with the Center for Excellence in Telecom at IIT-Bombay, Prateek contributed to the IEEE 802.16m standard and co-invented a mobile social network application platform. Previously Prateek held technology lead position for the packet data services at Reliance Communications and developed cryptographic software at Algorithmic Research Ltd (Israel).

Prateek Pashine, President-Enterprise Business, Reliance Jio

Mr. Pashine joined the Reliance family in 2018 and has been working on building the new-age Enterprise business. Prior to Jio, he has spent over two decades with the Tata Group in the Tata Administrative Service starting in 1995 and managed roles in diverse industries which includes hospitality, software, real estate and telecom equipment & services. Mr. Pashine has been recipient of the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship and attended Fulbright-CII Fellowship programme for Leadership in Management at the Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA, in 2006. He has been the Chairman and Board Member on the board of WBA (Wireless Broadband Alliance), a global organization having leading telecom operators from across the world as its members. He has served on the Board of WiMAX Forum, an industry-led, not-for-profit organization formed to certify and promote the compatibility and interoperability of broadband wireless products. He has been on the Board of Tata Communications Sri Lanka business, and part of the several joint CII-government initiatives. He was also a member of Intel’s global communication industry board of advisors. Mr. Pashine has an MBA from IIM, Bangalore in Corporate Strategy and Marketing with an Engineering degree in Electronics. He loves to spend time on adventure sports and playing squash, table tennis and cricket. He is a recipient of many sporting awards at Club level and inter-corporate level.

Prateek Verma, Head of ePharmacy business and Senior Vice President, Tata 1mg

Prateek Verma heads the ePharmacy business at Tata 1mg, where he has been a driving force in the company’s growth from its early days to its position as a trusted healthcare platform with millions of users. He has built and scaled Product Management and Marketing teams at Tata 1mg, with his vision and expertise making a transformative impact on the healthcare industry.

Beyond his role at Tata 1mg, Prateek serves as a board member of 5C Network, a prominent digital diagnostics company, providing strategic guidance to further advance healthcare accessibility.
Prior to this journey, Prateek developed his expertise in scaling consumer products at Healthkart. He holds a degree from IIT Kanpur.

Pratibha Jain, Partner, Nishith Desai Associates

Ms. Pratibha Jain is a Partner and Head of the New Delhi Office of Nishith Desai Associates, an Indian firm with a global outlook. Ms. Jain's also heads the Regulatory practice at Nishith Desai Associates. Her areas of practice include banking and finance, mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments and structured finance.

She was till recently the Vice President and Counsel for Goldman Sachs in Mumbai, India. She has earlier worked with Sullivan & Cromwell, LLP in their New York, Tokyo and Hong Kong offices and with Skadden Arps Slate Meagher and Flom, LLP in their Hong Kong office.

Ms. Jain's educational qualifications are Bachelor of Economics (B.A.) and Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degrees from the University of Delhi; a Bachelor of Civil Law (B.C.L.) degree from the University of Oxford, where she was a St. Catherine's College Bursary holder; and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree from the Harvard Law School, where she was a Samuel Morse Lane Fellow.

She is admitted to the Bar of the State of New York in the USA and the Bar Council of Delhi in India. She has keen academic interests and was a Visiting Lecturer at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research article on “Multiculturalism and its Impact on Women’s Rights in India” was published in the Berkeley Journal of International Law.