Our speakers

Ravi Bhasin, Senior Partner, AZB Partners

Ravi Bhasin is a Senior Partner at AZB & Partners with over 16 years of experience. His practice primarily focuses on Insolvency Restructuring and M&A.

Ravi has advised clients on various restructuring matters, including on the buy-side from an acquisition perspective in various sectors including pharmaceuticals, real estate, manufacturing, etc.

Ravi has been involved in advising resolution applicants in their acquisition of companies under insolvency, and also advised bidders for companies under liquidation. He has been involved in several successful bids for such acquisitions and has also assisted clients in respect of the final approval of the plan at judicial forums and has also advised in defending challenges to such bids in courts/ tribunals.

His practice area also includes private equity and venture capital transactions, corporate and regulatory advisory, foreign investment, debt funding, insolvency restructuring and acquisitions. He has advised clients (including private equity funds and strategic investors) on various transactions involving equity and debt investments including listed and unlisted non- convertible debentures), and joint ventures.

His experience includes advising on structuring various transactions, advising on entry and exit routes and strategies and also foreign investment regulations amongst others.

Ravi C Adusumalli, Managing Partner, SAIF Partners

Ravi C Adusumalli joined SAIF in early 2002 and is currently the Managing Partner and Head of the India operations. Prior to joining SAIF, Mr. Adusumalli worked at Mobius Venture Capital, Credit Suisse, and Wasatch Funds.

Mr. Adusumalli graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelors of Arts in Economics and Government.

Ravi Chachra, MD, Eight Capital

Ravi Gupta, President, Shree Renuka Sugars Limited

Mr. Ravi Gupta is President of Shree Renuka Sugars Limited, one of the largest sugar and ethanol producers in the world. In a career spanning 24 years, he has been closely associated with Agro Commodity Business in strategic, business management and leadership roles with some of the major giants in Agro commodity business such as Louis Dreyfus, Australian Wheat Board, Bajaj Hindusthan Limited. He was leading Noble India agri business as Managing Director prior to Shree Renuka Sugars Limited. He has been actively involved in sugar and ethanol industry since last 20 years and have worked closely with the Industry and Government for implementation of fuel ethanol program. He is the member of CII National Committee on Bio-energy and various other forums and is a regular speaker at National and International conferences.

Ravi Gururaj, Chairman & Co-founder, Frictionless Ventures

Ravi Gururaj is a serial entrepreneur with 5 ventures and 2 public exits, an angel investor, a mentor to numerous entrepreneurs, technology executive, and ecosystem evangelist. He is Chairman & Co-Founder of Frictionless Ventures where he is building and investing in innovative software products primarily in the cloud, mobile, and big data segments.

Over his 25-year career, Ravi has held wide ranging roles including promoting an STPI unit exporting software components out of India, product management at Intel, served as Managing Director of the Trilogy Software's India engineering center, and founded multiple successful software product ventures two of which were acquired by public NASDAQ listed US technology companies. Ravi is a member of the NASSCOM Executive Council, chairs the NASSCOM Product Council and co-hosts the NASSCOM Product Conclave. He is Charter Member of TiE Bangalore where he launched the Cloud SIG, is Co-Chair/Founder of the Penn & Wharton Club of Bangalore, and is Co-Founder & Co-Chair of HBS Alumni Angels India chapter.

VMLogix, which he founded in 2004 was venture funded by Bain Capital Ventures and acquired by Citrix in 2010. Ravi received his MBA with high distinction as a Baker Scholar from Harvard Business School. He graduated with honors as Benjamin Franklin Scholar from the University of Pennsylvania in the Jerome Fisher Program in Management & Technology receiving a B.S.E. in Computer Science & Engineering from the Moore School and a B.Sc. in Finance from the Wharton School. He was also a research scholar at the University of Edinburgh and schooled at La Martiniere for Boys in Kolkata.

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Ravi Kant, Design Thinking Strategist | CEO & Founder, Innovation Spark Asia

Ravi is a Design Thinking and Innovation specialist from the University of Virginia, with proven expertise in setting up Design Thinking practice and driving the culture of innovation.
Working as Independent consultant, mentor, coach in applied design thinking and design strategy, helping companies across sectors in redesigning their innovation process for product and service improvements, and create a cultural change within the companies.
He has designed and facilitated workshops and Design Sprints at NTPC, Maruti Suzuki, Monotype Solutions, Bobble AI, and 91springboard, to name a few, and collaborated with the Academy of Human Resources Development (AHRD) to conduct Design Thinking Workshops for Professionals at private and public companies, as well as, management students.
In a career spanning over 30 years in Information Technology, he was recently serving as a Business Head at the Royal Bank of Scotland for 15 years, where he was managing Business aligned Technology teams to deliver solutions for Investment, Corporate and Retail Banking businesses.

Ravi Kiran, Co-founder, VentureNursery

Ravi Kiran is a professional business builder, a growth adviser and an active angel investor.

He is the Co-founder of VentureNursery, India’s first angel-backed start-up accelerator. He is also the Co-founder and Managing Partner of Friends of Ambition, arguably India’s first business growth platform for in Middle India - India’s Tier 2 and Tier 3 towns. He is an active investing member of Mumbai Angels and Indian Angel Network.

He is the former CEO -South East & South Asia and Emerging Market Leader-Specialist Solutions for Starcom MediaVest Group [SMG], the World’s largest media network.

Of his twenty year long corporate career, he spent eight years at Lintas India and Initiative Media and twelve years at Starcom MediaVest Group. He has had divisional, country and regional leadership roles, based in Delhi, Mumbai and Singapore. He has built teams and product portfolio, grown businesses and stature for the company, mentored peers in the Middle East, Mexico, Russia, Poland and elsewhere on creating new lines of business.

He also served on SMG’s Global Product Committee and Global Management Group, the company’s apex product and leadership groups respectively.

Since 2003, Kiran has been chairing the marketing committee of the Media Research Users’ Council, India’s premier industry research association. He regularly speaks in industry fora across the region as well as is engaged in teaching assignments as visiting faculty in several business schools in India. Kiran has served on the juries of several industry awards, such as the Bombay Ad Club’s Emvees, the BSR [Business for Social Responsibility] Awards, the AME [Asian Marketing Excellence] Awards, and the Cannes Media Lions.

Kiran holds a Mechanical Engineering degree from University of Kashmir and a Business Management degree from Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi.  He lives in Mumbai with his wife Shalini. His interests include technology, behavioral sciences and philosophy.

Ravi Kyran, CHRO, Bajaj Auto

Ravi Maguluri, CTO- Cloud and Digital Services, Sify Technologies Ltd.

Ravi works with Customers on defining their digital objectives to help devise the right architecture and execution plans. He is responsible for service strategy and product roadmap for Sify’s CloudInfinit and InfinitDigital Platforms that enable customers to execute digital engagement plans. He is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

Ravi Pratap Maddimsetty, Co-founder & CTO, Mobstac

Ravi likes to describe himself as a compulsive technologist‚ with roots in the Linux/open source world, having contributed code and effort to open source projects such as GNOME,  Mono, and libcurl while at college and graduate school. Before founding MobStac, Ravi spent 4 years at a technology startup, Hillcrest Labs, based in Washington D.C., as Manager in its Software Products group, where he was one of the earliest engineers on the team. Hillcrest Labs is where Ravi learnt the ropes of running a start-up as he took on multiple roles in product engineering, customer program management, offshore strategy, and trade show marketing.

Before Hillcrest, Ravi was with Morgan Stanley in New York, as an Associate in its Technology group. Ravi has an M.S. in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis, and a B. Tech in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras.