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Rajiv Saxena, Head- Mergers & Acquisitions, Essar Group | @Essar

Rajiv joined Essar in September 2005, as Head of M&A. At Essar, he led the acquisition of Algoma Steel, Canada and Minnesota Steel, USA. Prior to joining Essar, Rajiv was an investment banker with Lazard, the international investment bank, for 12 years. At Lazard he was involved in advising leading global companies in the transportation/logistics, petrochemicals, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, electricals and consumer goods sectors.

Rajiv started his working career in the financial services industry in 1984 and has a total work experience of 24 years. He is an MBA from the Asian Institute of Management, Manila, Philippines and a Commerce & Law Graduate from Bombay University.

Rajiv Sharma, CEO, Sterling Hospitals

Rajiv is the CEO of Sterling Addlife India Limited that owns and manages largest chain of corporate hospitals in Gujarat under the brand name of Sterling Hospitals. Under his leadership, from a single hospital in Ahmedabad, Sterling hospitals has emerged to be the largest and dominant chain of corporate hospitals in Gujarat with 6 operational Hospitals in major cities in Gujarat with more than 1000 beds under management.

 

He has a career spanning 18 years across various functions ranging from Sales & Marketing to Consulting and M&A. He has a diverse work experience in industries such as Oil & Gas, Consumer Durables and in Healthcare in Indian and international markets. Rajiv is a member of healthcare committee of FICCI - Gujarat.

 

Rajiv is a B.E.(Mechanical) with Honours from PEC Chandigarh and a postgraduate in management from IIM, Ahmedabad.

Rajiv Sodhi, Chief Operating Officer, Microsoft Corporation (India) Pvt. Ltd.

Rajiv Sodhi is the Chief Operating Officer for Microsoft Corporation (India) Pvt. Ltd.

In his role, Rajiv drives end-to-end operations of Microsoft India. Before taking up this role, he was leading Microsoft’s partner business strategy for India He had also led the cloud and server business for Microsoft in India where he was responsible for driving the overall strategy and general management of the business.

Prior to Microsoft, Rajiv was the MD of GoDaddy India where he set up the Indian business. It was under his leadership that the company became the largest domain registrar in the country and the largest region for GoDaddy worldwide.

Rajiv has over 18 years of experience in building technology businesses in India and his focus has been on driving adoption of Internet and cloud based technologies amongst small and medium businesses. Rajiv has worked in diverse areas such as incubating SaaS based businesses, channel and distribution sales, product marketing, and technology evangelism.

An alumnus of the Harvard Business School, Rajiv completed his Engineering degree from Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Pune University, specializing in Computer Science. He is based in Gurgaon, India.

In his spare time Rajiv enjoys astronomy, travelling and spending time with his family.

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.