Our speakers
Prashant Goyal, Director - Data Centre Solutions, CBRE India
- Expert in structuring complex, high value, data centre transactions to businesscritical milestones
- Expertise in data centre consulting and colocation data centre markets across Asia Pac
- Complex TCO financial modelling comparing colocation vs self-perform vs cloud
- Site Sourcing, managing RFP / RFI process, HOTs & SLA negotiation
- MBA (Marketing), B.E. (Electronics) Mumbai University
- Certified Data Center Professional – EXIN
- Amazon Web Services Business Professional
- Amazon Web Services Professional Services – Cloud Advisory
- Member of CoreNet India Chapter
- Member of CIO Klub
Prashant is member of the executive team in India and is a subject matter expertise in Data Center Solutions. He leads the Data Center Practice team for Advisory & Transactions Services in India and is based in Mumbai. Prashant is responsible for growing the data center business for investors, providers as well as occupiers in the region. Aside from managing India business, Prashant works very closely with US, EU & APAC Data Center Solutions teams on multi-market pursuits.
Prashant has ~21 years’ professional experience in Sales & Product Management functions in the Enterprise Data Center & Cloud solutions. Prashant is a domain expert and has developed key skills in client management, advisory, marketing and deal negotiations.
SPECIALIST SKILLS:
Prashant was previously with Tata Communications Ltd; where he built, expanded and managed the Data Center business and launched Cloud Computing business. He led the transformational deals initiative with the Service Providers segment in India and SAARC region. He spearheaded the new business development efforts with Enterprise customers and System Integrators in Europe & Middle East regions.
Aside from Tata Communications, his tenure also includes positions with Virtela Technology Services, Bharti Airtel and many more.
PROFESSIONAL AFFLIATIONS AND EDUCATION
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, Head-Corporate Centre, L&T Group
- AI, Cloud & Data Centre
- Innovation Fund
- Electronic Products & Systems
Currently serving as Head of the Corporate Centre at L&T Group, Mr. Prashant Chiranjive Jain is responsible for envisioning and incubating new businesses in line with the L&T’s Lakshya Plans, while leveraging L&T Group synergies and market opportunities.
He provides strategic leadership to the following businesses, focusing on their growth, profitability, sustainability, synergy and executive outreach:
Prashant Chiranjive Jain is a transformational leader at the crossroads of technology, energy and sustainability. With over three decades of diverse experience spanning Energy, Fossil Power, Renewable Energy, Oil & Gas, ERP & IT Consulting demonstrating leadership in Sales & Business Development, Corporate Strategy and P&L responsibility.
Recognized as Asia’s Most Promising Business Leader and a Global Sustainability Leader, he is known for combining technical depth with strategic foresight to shape digital-industrial convergence and accelerate the energy transition across Asia.
Prashant Chiranjive Jain holds a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from NBKR Institute of Science & Technology and an Executive MBA from ESMT Berlin, where he received the President’s Award.
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.