Our speakers

Praveen Sinha, ?Co-founder & MD, Jabong

Praveen Sinha has played a fundamental role in establishing Jabong.com as a brand. In his current role at Jabong.com, he is a Co- Founder and a Managing Director of the company. Praveen’s role encompasses looking after the entire Operations capability along with Supply chain management.  Praveen is an accomplished management consultant and executive with his association / work experience ranging from industry leaders like Mckinsey, Microsoft and MarutiUdyog to diverse small businesses/startups. He is a successful turn-around specialist, specializing in not only strategizing but also implementation, improving operations, and building management systems and process. An alumnus of the reputed Delhi College of Engineering and Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Praveen brings to the table vast corporate experience with an uncanny knack to build a business from scratch. 

Besides this, he also acted as an energy advisory and auditor for plants in China, Thailand, Taiwan and India across sectors - cement, steel and power plants.

Building a business from scratch and taking it to the peak of success is a passion with Praveen and before Jabong.com, and he has proved that as part of office mobile release team for Microsoft, for US based startup Akeebo and consumer durable startup AquaBrim.

Praveen has always been fascinated with the growing e-commerce concept in varied sectors. One of the driving forces behind the formation of Jabong.com was Praveen’s sheer passion and interest in the e-retailing sector and its growth potential.

Praveen’slinkedin profile has also made it to "Power Profiles 2012: The most Viewed Professionals on LinkedIn in India".

Praveena Gundiah, Sr. Director and Head of Commercial India, Iron Mountain India Pvt. Ltd.

Praveena Rai, Chief Operating Officer, NPCI

Ms. Praveena Rai is Chief Operating Officer of NPCI (National Payments Corporation of India). She is responsible for running the business, the products, the operational and technical delivery. Passionate about payments and technology as drivers to economic value, she helps NPCI attain it’s strategic objectives of offering simple, secure and seamless digital payments experience to consumers and users across the ecosystem - that can lead to rapid digitalisation of India.

During her professional journey of two and half decades, she has built expertise across banking verticals in Cards, Retail, Commercial Banking and various facets of the payments space.

She has worked with Kotak Mahindra Bank leading the cash management portfolio, with HSBC for a 10 year stint including heading payments for the bank’s Asia Pacific region, and with Citigroup across roles for South Asia.

Ms. Rai holds a PGDM from IIM Ahmedabad, and is an Engineering Graduate from College of Engineering, Guindy.

Praveena Rai, COO, National Payments Corporation Of India (NPCI)

Praveer Roy, COO, Loylty Rewardz

Praveer is the Chief Operating Officer of Loylty Rewardz Mngt Pvt Ltd. Praveer holds the responsibility of driving forward a substantial part of Loylty Rewardz, mainly focused on delivering value to our customer and partner organizations. It is also Praveer’s focus area to constantly prepare the organization to achieve our tomorrow’s goals. Towards this, Praveer manages our critical functions such as technology, business architecture, operations, mobile, analytics, marketing and partner relationship management. Praveer has played a critical role in the growth of Loylty Rewardz from its inception days when Praveer was a member of our Business Advisory Board before taking on the full time role as the COO.

Praveer is a member of the Founding Class of the Indian School of Business and a CPA from the United States. Praveer is also a Chartered Accountant and has previously worked with the leading global organization such as Capgemini, Sumitomo, Deloitte, etc. in different geographies including in India, Middle East, Europe and in the US. While at Capgemini, Praveer was instrumental in building their SEPA (Single Europe Payments Area) Payments Practice based out of The Netherlands. Praveer was also a key contributor to some of Capgemini’s large global deals in financial services and consumer goods verticals such as the Royal Bank of Scotland, IKEA in Sweden and Coca Cola in the US.

A published author of the literary fiction Alternate Journeys, Praveer is also a voracious reader, an amateur philosopher, an ardent traveller and an adventure enthusiast.

Pravin Gandhi, Managing Partner, SEED FUND

Pravin Gandhi is a Managing Partner in SEED FUND, an early stage fund launched in 2006. He is also a Managing Partner of Infinity Venture Fund, an early stage fund launched in year 1999-2000. With operational & management experience spanning 30 odd years, he was one of the early IT entrepreneur having promoted Hinditron in 1972 and a successful IPO in 1988.

He has been an angel investor in various IT Companies since with several Board Directorship in listed and unlisted companies including significant Shareholder & Director of Schiller Healthcare.

Mr. Gandhi is a graduate in Industrial Engineering from Cornell.

Prayaag Kasundra, Founder & CEO, BookAdSpace.com

Driven by passion and vision, Prayaag is responsible for constantly re-aligning strategies to make  bookadspace better platform for clients. He spends time designing product features, finding solutions to  technical problems and planning product roadmap. He is responsible for defining sales strategies and even occasionally does sales pitches too. By the way he also writes help articles and even designs graphics for say website, brochure.
 
Software Engineer by education, he started with small web solutions company upon finishing graduation after working as freelance developer and contractor. He has architected many web solutions and has broad knowledge of computing & web technologies. He finds hidden pleasure in building something amazing.

Prayank Swaroop, Principal, Accel Partners

Prayank is a Principal with Accel in India. He has more than a decade of experience across investing, product management, product marketing and engineering. Prayank focuses on investments in commerce (B2C/B2B) and mobile sectors at Accel. Has led investments in MechMocha, Bizongo, Quiklo and Mubble. And, is closely involved with Accel India's investments in TaxiForSure (now merged with Ola Cabs), BookMyShow, MySmartPrice, Power2SME and a number of mobile businesses. He is also currently looking at growth investments from Accel India.

Prior to joining Accel, Prayank worked at Adobe Systems and Standard Chartered Bank. He has an integrated master's degree in Mathematics and Computing from IIT Delhi, and an MBA from Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.

Twitter: @prayanks

Prayank Swaroop, VP, Accel Partners

Prayank is a Vice President at Accel India. At Accel, Prayank focuses on ad-tech, consumer internet and mobile investments. Some of the investments he has been involved with are Mysmartprice, TaxiForSure, BookMyShow, Eventifier, Collectabillia and Bluestone.

Before joining Accel, Prayank was a Product Manager at Standard Chartered Bank where he worked on mobile banking and trading products. Previously, Prayank had spent several years in key engineering, evangelism, and sales positions at Adobe Systems. Prayank holds an MBA from the Indian School of Business, and an Integrated Masters in Mathematics and Computing from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

Preet Matani, Executive Director - Healthcare, PwC