Our speakers

Puneet Bhatia, Senior Director-Real Estate, ICICI Venture

Puneet Bhatia is Senior Director at ICICI Venture and has 25 years of diversified experience spread across Investment Banking, Private Equity, Lending and Structured Finance in Indian real estate. Prior to joining ICICI Venture he was Director and Head Investments at Mirae Global Investments heading all Real Estate Investment initiatives of the Group in India.
His association with the Real Estate Industry dates back from 1994, the beginning of organized real estate Investment Banking, Consulting and Agency business in India. As one of early stage real estate professional, he played a pivotal role in shaping markets, providing Agency services, working in International Property Consulting organisations and largest private sector Bank as well as pioneering investment in Private Equity/Mezzanine finance (First FDI player to do Mezzanine Finance) . In India, he has been amongst key first set of employee in IPCs like Colliers, JLL, Property Services Group in ICICI Bank, Wells Fargo Bank; having closely witnessed and worked through many economic cycles in India. In the Private Equity/Mezzanine Finance, he has lead team of professionals to invest, manage and successfully exit ~USD 500 million at Wells Fargo and closed a ~USD 250 million office platform with Canada Pension Plan and Investment Board while working at Shapoorji Pallonji Group.
Puneet is also eminent member of RICS (The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors), Chairperson and Member of Global list of Trained Assessors for RICS.

Puneet Chandok, President, AWS India and South Asia (AISPL)

Puneet leads the AWS business in India and South Asia. As the country MD, he leads the entire portfolio of AWS Services, and helps organizations innovate and transform using AWS.

AWS is India's most comprehensive and broadly adopted Cloud platform, we work with customers to help retire their technical debt and drive innovation through our advanced services including Data and Analytics, AI/ML, IoT, etc.

Prior to joining AWS, Puneet held leadership roles with McKinsey & Co. and IBM Global Services. As a Partner at McKinsey, Puneet built and led several practices, digital and technology capabilities across India and Asia.

Puneet holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from the Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta (IIM-C).

Puneet Gupta, , Founder Member IFMR Trust & CFO IFMR Holdings

Puneet is a founding member of IFMR Trust and its group companies. He serves as a Director on the Trustee Company that manages the governance of the IFMR Trust Group. He has played multiple executive roles across the IFMR Trust Group since 2008, the last one being as the CFO of IFMR Holdings, an entity that has promoted IFMR Capital and IFMR Rural Channels. Prior to that Puneet was a part of IFMR Rural Finance,  an entity that conceptualised the KGFS model, used by IRCS as well as built a strong technology platform to offer multiple financial services to customers.

Puneet represents IFMR Trust as a promoter director on the board of several group companies and also serves on the board of IIT Madras’ Rural Technology Business Incubator.

His formal career began with ICICI Bank where he worked for a period of 7 years in various roles and capacities. Amongst other roles, he coordinated the work of the micro finance practice at ICICI Bank and his responsibilities included identification and development of new channels and products for reaching out micro financial and rural financial services. He has worked extensively towards the creation of facilitative infrastructure for the delivery of micro financial services in India and has worked with microfinance related equity funds to help them raise capital.

He is a commerce graduate with a Master’s degree in Rural Management from Institute of Rural Management Anand.

Puneet Jain, VP & Lead - Corporate Treasury, Karan Thapar Family Office

Puneet Kaur Kohli, Chief Technology Officer, Universal Sompo General Insurance Co. Ltd.

Puneet Khurana, Vice President & Head - HR, Training, Policybazaar.com

A seasoned HR leader with a diversified experience across industries and verticals. He has worked in IT, ITES, R&D and BFSI verticals for India, North America, Middle East and Singapore and has been pivotal in forming HR strategies and compliances for Fortune 300 organizations.

He has worked with renowned companies like Hero Group, Dell, IBM, Stryker Global and currently, is a Vice President & Head – HR and Training with India’s largest Insurance web aggregator, Policybazaar.com. Under his leadership, Policybazaar has seen immense growth in manpower and won several awards in the HR arena including BML Munjal Awards for Business Excellence through Learning and Development, “Gurgaon Best Employer” and “Great Places to Work”.

Puneet Kothapa, Executive Director, Narayana Group of Educational Institutions

Puneet Nanda, Managing Director & CEO, ICICI Venture Funds Management Company Limited

Mr. Puneet Nanda is Managing Director and CEO of ICICI Venture Funds Management Company Limited with responsibility and oversight of all verticals across its diversified alternative asset management platform.  Mr. Nanda joined ICICI Venture in June 2020.  Prior to joining ICICI Venture, Mr. Nanda served as Deputy Managing Director of ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company Limited, one of India’s largest life insurance companies with an AUM of over USD 20 billion as of March 31, 2020.  Mr. Nanda served on the Board of ICICI Prudential Life Insurance from August 2010 until June 2020.  He joined the company at its start-up stage in January 2001 to head the Investments function. During his 19+ years at the company, he was responsible for initially building and thereafter nurturing the high quality investments program of the company across asset classes including public and private equity, public and private debt, real estate and strategic investments.  Subsequently, since 2010, his role was expanded to include oversight of other business functions of the company.  He has also served on the Board of ICICI Prudential Pension Funds Management Company as its Non-Executive Director between 2009 and June 2020. An engineer-MBA by qualification, his experience spans around 28 years in financial services having worked in ICICI Securities and J.P. Morgan earlier.

Puneet Suri, Director, Brand Capital

Puneet did his graduation in Engineering (Electronics & Communication) from Punjab Engineering College followed by MBA from IIM-Ahmedabad. He has over thirteen years work experience in private equity, principal investments and consulting/ advisory services. His advisory experience prior to private equity career focused on financial modeling and feasibility assessment, transaction origination, business valuation, business planning and implementation assistance.

Puneet started his career with Godrej Consumer Products Ltd. and thereafter worked for KSA Technopak, E & Y and A.T. Kearney. His last assignment was as Senior Vice President with Sun Group, a leading principal investor and private equity fund manager in Russia, India and other emerging markets.

Puneet is interested in reading and golf.

Punit Goyal, Co-founder (Chief of Fundraising and Partnerships), BluSmart Mobility