Our speakers

Rahul Raisurana, MD, Standard Chartered Private Equity

Mr. Rahul Raisurana is Managing Director, Standard Chartered Private Equity Advisory (India) Limited wherein he founded and currently heads Standard Chartered’s Midcap focused private equity business in India. His over 20 years of professional experiences includes senior managerial and leadership roles in private equity, corporate and investment banking, corporate finance and risk management with leading global financial institutions in India and USA.

Prior to joining Standard Chartered, he was Managing Director, Investments at IDFC Project Equity Company Limited and co-founded India’s first project-level infrastructure investment fund jointly sponsored by Citigroup and IDFC. Previously he was also a senior member of Deutsche Bank India’s Executive and Management Committee in his capacity as Head of Institutional and Corporate Credits, India. His other professional assignments included roles with Moody’s Investors Services in New York and with Citigroup’s Corporate & Investment Banking group in India.

Mr. Raisurana currently serves as a Director on the Boards of PI Industries Limited, Man Infraconstruction Limited, Bush Foods Overseas Pvt Ltd, Innovative Industries Ltd and Privi Organics Limited. He holds a Masters degree in International Management from Thunderbird, USA, Masters degree in Business Administration from Clark University, USA and a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) degree from the University of Calcutta, India.

    

Rahul Shah, SVP and Business Head - JAPAC, Searce

Rahul Sharma, Co-founder, Micromax Informatics Limited

Rahul Sharma is the driving force behind Micromax, the 10th largest mobile phone company in the world. Under Rahul's leadership, Micromax's innovative product and marketing strategy has revolutionized the smartphone market in India. He has led the revolution of the democratization of technology for the masses by removing barriers for large scale adoption.

Rahul has an understanding of the market which enables him to offer customized and affordable innovations to the Indian consumers. His greatest strength lays in being able to pre-empt the ever evolving needs of the consumers, and being the first one to offer the most innovative and affordable solutions to address those needs. This desire of staying ahead of the curve by constantly raising the innovation bar has helped Micromax become the most popular consumer technology company in India. Rahul to his credit has pioneered many firsts in Indian mobile phone market in India with innovations like the 30-day battery backup, dual SIM phones, QWERTY keypads, universal remote control mobile phones, first quad-core budget smartphone etc.

Rahul along with his team closely looked at the consumer landscape in the country and decided to introduce the ‘Canvas’ range of smartphones which offered a unique amalgamation of superior technology with style. Rahul recently launched his new company YU Televentures Pvt. Ltd. which is a new age technology brand that strives to work with the community to create an ecosystem of connected devices. YU aims to provide an extraordinary product experience while offering differentiated services that delight the consumer.

Rahul and Micromax have been consistently rewarded at some of the most prestigious awards like the ‘Most Promising Company for the Next Decade’ by CNBC Awaaz and the ‘Emerging Company of the Year 2011’. In recognition of his achievements, Rahul was awarded The Forbes Person of the Year in 2010. He has also been awarded the prestigious 'GQ Man of the Year (Excellence in Business)' in 2013, He was among the only Four Indians in Fortune Magazine's Global Power List of 2014- Fortune’s ’40 under 40’ list of 2014. These are just a few of the numerous awards and recognition conferred upon him.

Rahul Sharma, Chief Information Officer, Tata Projects

Mr. Rahul Sharma joined Tata Projects as a 'Chief Information Officer' in April 2022 and is responsible for the IT & Digital Transformation. In this role, he is focused on transforming the IT & function by enabling the digitalization of key business processes and hyper scaling digital platforms. At Tata Projects he has a vision to implement robotics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to create a technology driven project delivery ecosystem.

Rahul has a rich experience of more than 25 years at leadership positions in the Engineering & Construction Industry. He has managed Global Operations Excellence & Digital Enablement groups across continents and worked in Leadership positions in key functions like Information & Digital Delivery, Business Development, Strategic Sales, M&A, Project Management, Project Controls and Engineering Coordination with a team size varying from 50 to 900 personnel in organizations as large as 100K employees and Fortune 200 Companies.

Rahul has obtained his Masters in Construction Management from NICMAR and his Bachelors in Civil Engineering. He is a Certified Lead Auditor for ISO 9001, and has an Honours Diploma in Software Technology and Systems Management.

Rahul Sharma, Sr. Director & Country Manager, Slack

Rahul Sharma, Business Head - North & East, Snowflake India

Rahul Sharma the business head for North India, East India and Public Sector for Snowflake. He has 20+ years of experience in building businesses and before joining Snowflake he helped build the Servicenow, BMC Software business in the North.

He is a data enthusiast and is excited about the future where businesses can unlock from data using pivots like data collaboration and data monetisation.

Rahul Singh, Founder & CEO, The Beer Cafe

Rahul Singh is the founder & CEO of THE BEER CAFÉ, India’s favorite Beer Chain. With 20 locations operational by the end of 2013, it’s poised to become the largest, fastest and most profitable alcobeverage service brand in India. It’s an enterprise with attractive growth opportunity in India’s food service space for its multiple growth drivers ( demographics, lifestyle and urbanization), attractive payback and entry into unexplored format. With 4 awards in its first year of launch ; Images Coca Cola Golden spoon award, India Restaurant Congress award, Times Nightlife award and ET Now business & service excellence award, the consumer and industry has recognized this startup as a blockbuster.

Professional turned Entrepreneur, Rahul has been involved with numerous sports & lifestyle brands for the past 20 years. As CEO, Greg Norman Collection India from 2007-09, he spearheaded the brand’s operation involving sales, marketing and manufacturing. Prior to 2007, he was the Executive Director at Reebok India for 8 years and was part of the leadership team which made Reebok the undisputed market leader. He was responsible for the apparel business at Reebok India and also setup a sound sourcing base for exports from South Asia. His stint as a founder member of Triburg consultants for 5 years, from 1994 to 1999 was spent in pursuing business from numerous international brands like Liz Claiborne, PVH group, Ralph Lauren, Ann Taylor, Nautica, Motherswork, Carligry among others. A Textile Engineer, Rahul brings in an analytical approach to each line of enterprise that he gets into.

Married to a fashion designer with a 13 year old son, Rahul is a gizmo freak, single malt collection, marathon runner and a certified scuba diver. Fortunately, beer is omnipresent in his line of business. 

Rahul Sogani, Partner, Forensic Services, PwC India

Rahul Vig, Director - M&A Tax, Deloitte Haskins & Sells

Rahul is an accredited member of the Transaction services group based in New Delhi. Rahul has over 10 years experience in assisting clients in identifying optimum structures for acquisition, divestitures, business restructuring, JVs, internal re-organization, International and domestic tax including structuring cross border transactions and investments besides handling compliance and regulatory matters. He has handled Tax Diligence, SPA advisory and transaction structuring for clients including PE Funds for investments in the IT ITES, Retail, Real Estate, Pharma, FMCG, Infrastructure and Education space. He also advised foreign companies on entry strategy, M&A’s, inbound/ outbound acquisitions, group reorganisations and advise on corporate taxation matters, treaty planning, exchange control issues and tax compliances.

Rahul Zutshi, General Manager & Head of Corporate Strategy, Ameyo Emerge

Its Rahul Zutshi is the General Manager of Corporate Strategy at Ameyo Emerge. He leads multiple growth initiatives at Ameyo Emerge, a cloud-based contact center software, and is also responsible for managing the Cloud business for India and Emerging Markets. He is passionate about building exceptional customer experiences for brands through technology. He holds a master’s degree in business management from IIM Indore and has over 8 years of experience in consulting and strategy domain.

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