Our speakers

Raghunandan G, Co-founder, TaxiForSure.com

Raghunandan G is Founder and Director at www.TaxiForSure.com. He has degrees from IIM Ahmedabad and NITK Surathkal. After a successful 3-year stint with Feedback Ventures as a Consultant; he decided to follow his heart to become an entrepreneur. He is an avid reader and an encyclopedia in his own rights and hasn’t lost touch of the technology prowess from his days back in Texas Instruments.

Raghunatha Reddy, Executive Vice President & Head IT, UTI Mutual Fund

Mr. Reddy joined Unit Trust of India (UTI) in April 1991 and since then has played a critical role in driving numerous initiatives at https://www.utimf.com. In his capacity as EVP and Head IT, he makes technology decisions and works closely with the UTI Senior Management for new initiatives. As a Technology provider in the organization, he carries mandate to improving productivity, increasing process efficiency, driving down costs, carry out digital transformation initiatives and undertake innovation projects.

Currently, leading the digital transformation effort at UTI by working with Accenture team . He is a post graduate from Sri Venkateswara University and Master in Business Administration from Ambedkar University. He takes an active interest in synthesizing technology with business outcomes. His passions include reading, exploring new gadgets and playing badminton with fellow CIO’s. One day he wishes to start his own technology company.

He has been honoured with several awards and accolades in the information technology and information security areas by leading Media and organizations in India.

UTI AMC, India’s most trusted Wealth creators and always has the interest of its investors in its heart. UTI AMC group has three wholly owned subsidiaries UTI International Ltd, UTI Retirement Solutions Ltd and UTI Capital Private Ltd. The institution has shown great resilience and has grown from strength to strength overcoming economic turbulence and global turnarounds.

UTI has Asset Under Management (AAUM) at Rs.1,54,939 crore and has four public sector financial institutions (State Bank of India, Life Insurance Corporation of India, Bank of Baroda and Punjab National Bank) as shareholders (74% stake) and T Rowe Price , a leading US Asset Manager holding 26 % stake . UTI AMC group will now embark on a hybrid cloud journey to digitally transform themselves.

Ragini Bajaj Chaudhary, CEO, Gray Matters Capital (India)

Ragini Bajaj Chaudhary is the CEO of the India arm of Atlanta headquartered impact investment firm Gray Matters Capital. With more than 16 years of experience in microfinance, impact investment and development finance, Ragini is leading the team in India to improve the access and quality of affordable private school (APS) education through pre-school, K12 curriculum, 21st century skills and non-academic infrastructure building solutions.

Ragini is on the Board of Gray Matters Capital’s investees - Indian School Finance Company and Address Health.

Prior to joining Gray Matters Capital, Ragini provided strategic and operational direction to the Poorest State Inclusive Growth (PSIG) Programme, a financial inclusion project of the Department of International Development, UK which focused on 12 million low income households in 4 states across India.

Ragini also served as the Chief Investment Officer heading operations at Mi India Capital Consultants (Dia Vikas Capital) and as a Project Co-ordinator at CARE India managing a portfolio of diverse activities ranging from capacity building, setting up micro-enterprises and co-ordinating livelihood restoration projects. For seven years, she worked in the capacity of Director – Training at EDA Rural Systems Pvt. Ltd.

Ragini is a management graduate from Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA) and has qualified as a Management Accountant from Chartered Institute of Management Accounting (CIMA), UK.

Rahoul Jain, MD, Capricorn Food Products India Ltd

Rahoul Jain, Managing Director of Capricorn Food Products India Ltd., is a Chemical Engineer by qualification and hails from punjab settled in chennai for the last 35 years. He is from a business family who identified the potentials of Food Industry and promoted Capricorn Food Products India Limited and Shuchi Beverages Ltd., with the objective of manufacturing and selling of fruit pulps and concentrates, frozen fruit dices and vegetable etc., by setting up multiple state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in Andhra Pradesh,  Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra. Over the years, he has acquired vast knowledge in the field of Food Processing and has been successfully running his enterprise over the last 15 years. His extensive growth in such short span has also had him nominated twice in the elite league of India’s Emerging Entrepreneurs at the Emerging India Awards held by CNBC TV-18, CRISIL and ICICI Bank. He further has elaborate plans to establish to further bring about both Vertical and Horizontal growth in his enterprise by setting up many more factories across India and overseas in the years to come. 

Rahul Ambegaoker, Vice President and Sales Head, NTT

Rahul Anand, Founder & CEO, Hopscotch

Rahul Anand is the CEO and Founder of Hopscotch.in, a leading discovery-based e-Commerce destination for Indian moms. Launched in 2012, Hopscotch is transforming the Indian shopping experience and offers a wide range of curated children’s merchandise at affordable prices. The online destination has featured over 2,500 local and international brands across multiple product categories including clothes, shoes, toys, accessories and home. Given the breadth of exciting offerings, Hopscotch.in has developed a community of passionate customers from all over India and has established unique relationships with vendors who value the opportunity to be featured on its platform. Prior to Hopscotch, Rahul was a director at Diapers.com, and earned his MBA from Harvard Business School.

Rahul Baunthiyal, Group Vice President-HR, Hinduja Group

Rahul Bhalchandra, Co-Founder & CEO, YLG Salon

Rahul, CEO and Co-Founder YLG, founded India's fastest growing salon and spa in May 2008. He brings 17 years of experience in diverse industries such as Retail, dot.com and Manufacturing. He has proven expertise in turning around retail business (He spearheaded Health & Glow's growth into India's No.1 Health & beauty Chain) and brings high level domain expertise in the Health, Beauty & Wellness sector. He has exposure to best practices from International Retailers.

Prior to founding YLG, Rahul was Head - Wellness business for the Future Group. He built the Health & Beauty Category, set up the beauty salon chain "Star & Sitara" for the company. He was instrumental in setting up India's first Gym Chain in Malls in a JV with Talwalkars for the Future group. He has played a key role in bringing about the Sachin Tendulkar - Future Group initiative "Sach". Before Pantaloon, Rahul headed the retail business for Arvind brands where he managed brands such as Arrow, Lee, Wrangler and Excalibur. His entry in retail began as the Business Head of Health & Glow, which even today continues to be the most successful format of its kind in India. Rahul has also dabbled with dot.com as Business Head for e-RPG Cricket Portal. Rahul started his career with the RPG Group, working at RPG Cables and Ceat Ltd, in various marketing & sales responsibilities.

He is a Post Graduate from IIM Calcutta and has a B.Tech (hons) from IIT Kharagpur.

Rahul Bhasin, Managing Partner, Baring Private Equity Partners India

Rahul Bhasin is the Founder and Managing Partner of Baring India, and a Senior Partner and Global Board Member of Baring Private Equity Partners (BPEP) International. He is also a member of the Investment Committee of Baring Vostok Capital Partners, and has been an Advisory Board member of the ING Group in India. He has crafted the strategy and execution processes for the investments by the Predecessor Funds since his joining in 1997.

Mr. Bhasin served as the Chairman of Mphasis Limited (now a Hewlett-Packard subsidiary) and oversaw its transformation from a 120-man, US$ 6 million revenue, loss-making company into a 43,000 employee, US$ 1.2 billion revenue, US$ 200 million net profit-making enterprise. In addition, for most of the past two decades, he has served as Chairman or member of the boards of RMZ Corp, JRG Securities (now renamed as Inditrade Capital), Secova, PharmArc, and Auro Mira Energy, among many others. He has also served as the Chair of the Audit and Investment Committee of HOEC, one of the largest independent Oil & Gas players in India. As a senior member of the Baring India team, he has spoken at various conferences in India and overseas, and is a member of the ‘CEO Forum’ at The Economist corporate network, and a charter member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs). His views are regularly sought by the media in India. He presently serves on the boards of Sphaera Pharma, Auro Mira Energy, and RMZ Corp.

Prior to Baring India, Mr. Bhasin joined Citibank in London as a member of the Global and Emerging Market Asset Allocation Committee of the Global Asset Management Group, where he was responsible for asset allocation on a sector and regional basis for all global portfolios. He has actively invested in and managed funds across various asset classes including derivatives in Latin America, Eastern Europe, Russia, Asia, and India. He oversaw and drove business start-ups across multiple geographies in different asset management business. Prior to moving to London, He was the youngest Independent Treasurer to date at Citibank, managing the treasury for Northern India. He has been a public spokesperson on matters of economic policy and administrative efficiency and efficacy, and has given guest lectures at several educational institutions including Wharton, Harvard, and his own alma mater, the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

Mr. Bhasin has a Post-Graduate Diploma in Management (MBA) from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad, Asia’s premier business school.

Rahul Bothra, CFO, Swiggy