Our speakers

Rajiv Vasudevan, Founder and CEO, AyurVAID Hospitals

Rajiv Vasudevan, founder of AyurVAID, is responsible for providing leadership and operational excellence to all aspects of the business.

Rajiv has worked in a diverse set of leadership roles in the private and government sectors including operations as well as profit center management roles at Godrej and Motorola (Country Head, PSG, India & SAARC). He also served the Government of Kerala as CEO-Technopark, Director-Kerala State IT Mission, and later as Special Officer - Biotechnology.

Rajiv holds a B.Tech (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering from NIT-Calicut and a MBA from the prestigious Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. He qualified as an ‘assessor’ of the National Board for Accreditation for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers (NABH), Quality Council of India in 2007, making him the first person from the Ayurveda sector to receive this accreditation. Further, Rajiv is a member of the technical committee constituted by the Government of India for formulation of NABH accreditation standards for Ayurveda hospitals.

He has served on the Board of Directors of State Bank of India, Kerala LHO, and is currently a member of the Board of Governors of his alma mater, NIT-Calicut.

Rajmohan Krishnan, Principal Founder & MD, Entrust Family Office

Rajmohan Krishnan is the Principal Founder & Managing Director at Entrust (https://www.entrustfamilyoffice.com/). With his deep understanding of the financial services industry and over two decades of advisory experience spanning Real Estate investments, Business Succession, Estate Planning and Social Enterprises Investments, Raj is one of the most renowned Family Office advisors in the country. Before founding Entrust, Raj was part of the team that founded Kotak Wealth Management and was responsible for the P&L in both North and South India. During this and previous stints, Mr. Raj mentored some extraordinarily successful wealth managers in the country.

Founded in 2013, Entrust is a boutique multi-family office dedicated to providing advisory on both investment and non-investment requirements for high-net-worth individuals, customized to the needs of each client. Some of their services include legacy and succession planning, wealth management, real
estate property management, accounting, taxation, concierge services, CFO services and more. The company has single family and multifamily office services as well as personal investment management.

Entrust has won multiple awards for its work, including the ‘Family Office of the Year’ at the AISL Edition II Summit 2024 (hosted by Grant Thornton Bharat and CEO Club India) and the ‘Best Family Office’ for their work with the Nilekani Family office at the Family Office Excellence Awards 2024 (hosted by India Sotheby’s International Realty, CNBC TV18 and Grant Thornton Bharat). Being one of the earliest SEBI registered Investment Advisory firms in India, Entrust is currently handling an AUM over INR 15,000 Cr and boasts of an impressive clientele of HNIs from Forbes top 100 families, including Nandan Nilekani, Co-founder of Infosys.

Rajmohan’s latest book, Wise Wealth, espouses his philosophy about creating wealth wisely in an ethical, and transparent manner - wealth that leaves behind a lasting legacy and a better world. It recounts personal experiences, practices and insights from 35 top business leaders of India and how
they’ve strived to transform their businesses into globally competitive, ethical, humane organizations. Some of the personalities featured in this book are household names like N.R. Narayana Murthy, Anand Mahindra, Uday Kotak and Ajay Piramal. The book chronicles Rajmohan’s interactions with these
luminaries and explores elements revolving around the topics of wealth, entrepreneurship, values and ethics, philanthropy and the need to create lasting change.

Rajneel Kumar, Business Head Expansion Projects & Head of Products, ZEE5 India

Digital, Telecom and Media and Entertainment sectors. He holds a management degree from Symbiosis Institute of Foreign Trade. Prior to joining ZEE5 India, he has worked with industry leaders including Viacom18 Media Pvt. Ltd., Balaji Telefilms, Mobile2Win Pvt. Ltd and so on, while also testing entrepreneurial waters.

He has been championing the cause of digital innovation and growth through his participation in industry forums such as IAMAI, DMAi, etc. and speaking at major Indian & International forums such as IBC, MWC, NAB, etc.

At ZEE5, Rajneel is leading the charge on the Product Management Function as also building on the Expansion Projects on the platform.  As Product Head, Rajneel is responsible to make sure that product is leading in terms of features and functionality in the market. Customer experience and optimised journey is something which is of utmost importance to him, along with making sure that business KPIs are met. Along with working of product development, Rajneel is focussed on working on innovations, to make sure ZEE5 is preferred partner to rollout various new initiatives with companies like Google, Apple, etc.

Rajnesh Trivedi, President, Investment Banking, & Head of Sustainable Investment Banking (SIB), YES Securities

Rajnesh Trivedi is President Investment Banking team at YES Securities, a 100% subsidiary of YES BANK. Rajnesh has 18 years of Corporate Finance and Investment Banking experience having worked across sectors. At YES Bank, / YES Securities, Rajnesh has led over 25 successful M&A, PE and ECM transactions in domestic markets as well as cross border. Additionally Rajnesh leads the Sustainable Investment Banking (SIB) division of YES BANK, which focuses on providing Investment Banking & advisory services to businesses operating in the area of renewable energy, environmental services, healthcare, education, social & financial inclusion.  

Rajnesh leads some of YES Bank’s key lending relationships in the healthcare sector & has led multiple investment banking transactions including across M&A, Private Equity & Capital Markets.

Rajnish Dhall, CEO & MD, Micro Housing Finance Corporation Ltd

Rajnish completed his P.G.D.M from IIM (Ahmedabad), after which he worked with American Express Bank in a variety of roles and locations (Mumbai, Singapore, London) for 17 years. He left the Bank as a Senior Director in 2006 and returned to Mumbai to work in the social sector and initially joined Aangan, an NGO which works with children in state run children homes.

In 2008, he co-founded (along with Madhusudhan Menon and Nachiket Shelgikar) Micro Housing Finance Coproration Limited ("MHFC") to provide housing finance to lower income households (mostly from the informal sector) in urban India. The promoters believe that one of the issues stalling the development of low income housing is the lack of finance available to lower income families (especially those without documentation to prove incomes) to buy such homes and hence set up MHFC to specifically address this gap. Over the last 5 years, operating in 5 major states, MHFC has sanctioned home loans aggregating about Rs 150 cr to about 3500 financially excluded families. The company has not had any NPAs till date.

Rajnish is also on the Justice Dhanuka court appointed committee to look into the infrastructure of Mumbai municipal schools, and the Boards of Aangan and Ummeed (an NGO which helps children with development disabilities).

Rajnish Khare, Head - Digital Transformation & Mobility Banking, HDFC Bank Ltd

Rajnish Khare is a senior Banking Professional, having 20 years of experience with HDFC Bank, Citibank, Standard Chartered, Reliance Retail and ICICI Bank.

He is currently, Head Digital Transformation, Social Business & New Media and Mobility Banking and is responsible for Digital, Social & Mobility Strategy for HDFC bank and inculcating Innovation as a culture & using innovation as a strategic differentiator to gain leadership position in chosen markets.

Earlier, he was Chief Innovation Officer for Citibank and prior to that Head - Remote Banking. Digital Payments & Business Innovations, at Standard Chartered Bank, a leading UK based Bank with strong presence in Asia. He specializes in Digital, Mobile, Social Strategy Formulations and Execution and has a versatile domain knowledge in BFSI sector.

He has extensive depth in Digital, Social, Mobile, Self Service Industry, Digital Payments, Business Innovations, Technology Space, Outsourcing Models, IT Networks set up & management and Purchase/Partner Management. 

Rajnish Kumar, CTO/Co-Founder, Ixigo.com

Rajnish would better be known as a Code Ninja (Kiai!), considering his history of technology lifecycle management and several J2EE applications to his credit (used by Amadeus even to this date). Sticking close to his love for both technology and travel, he co - founded ixigo.com with Aloke in June 2006. He is the mean - lean - and - codes - clean kinda guy, heading the Technology process at ixigo.

Rajnish Kumar, Head Digital and Direct to Consumer, ITC Limited

With over 20 years’ experience in the business of International Sourcing, Retail Merchandising, Business Consulting and Digital Transformation of large enterprises, Rajnish has a knack for delivering      profit oriented results in a short span of time. Being in leadership roles for two decades, Rajnish has started businesses from the scratch, built winning global teams, and added profit lines successfully across many different industry segments. His varied experience from sourcing products internationally to setting up retail businesses in rural India to consulting the worlds biggest brands on Tech transformation and finally driving the digital and direct to consumer strategy for India's most admired company, enables Rajnish to have a unique perspective, unbound by traditional thought and ways of working.

Rajnish is a published author and loves to pen down short stories in his free time.

Rajshekhar Joshi, Head (Digital Technologies and Transformation), Group IT, Aditya Birla Group

Rajshree Bakshi, Global Vice President - Marketing , Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces

Rajshree is an experienced hospitality professional with over 18 years of hospitality insights. She has a master’s in marketing and finance and joined the Taj in 1997. Overseeing the company’s worldwide marketing, brand communication, advertising and Loyalty-CRM, Rajshree plays a role in balancing the structured, analytical thinking of science, plus the creative processes of communications, with a bottom-line focus of finance.

Her career highlights include setting up the first online customer feedback system for Taj Hotels Palaces Resorts Safaris, the first Sales force automation system and also the first enterprise level data warehouse system as a stepping stone to customer analysis.

During her tenure, she has contributed to the organization by working on various strategic initiatives including the new brand architecture, and the earlier one. She has also been involved in development of several key award winning global advertising campaigns, creating new products including Taj Weddings, Kids@Taj, Taj Safaris, Vogue Wedding Shows, Taj Wedding Studio and anchoring many customer research and focus groups. Actively involved in brand standards and brand frameworks. Rajshree and her team work closely with hotels to ensure authentic and on brand customer experiences. Her recent milestones has been the unveiling of Tajness philosophy across all Hotels.

Actively involved in community development in India, Rajshree has been championing the cause of education for girls over the last few years.