Our speakers

Rohit Agarwal, Entrepreneur, Investor & Former GM, Amazon Education

Rohit Agarwal is the former General Manager of Education at Amazon. His last company TenMarks was acquired by Amazon in 2013. Prior to Amazon, Rohit has been a founder and senior executive at several startups that have been acquired by the likes of IBM and Cisco.

Rohit Agarwal, CEO, Founder, Framebench technologies

Rohit Agrawal, CEO, Mcapital & CFO, Mswipe

Rohit Agrawal is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Mcapital, he is also the Chief Financial Officer at Mswipe Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Mcapital is into the business of lending to small and ,medium businesses. It is a 100% subsidiary of Mswipe Technologies Pvt. Ltd. - an independent POS merchant acquirer and network provider. RŽhi?? a Cha??e?ed AccŽ???a?? b? ??Žfe??iŽ? hŽld? a bachelŽ??? deg?ee i? cŽmme?ce f?Žm I?dŽ?e University. He brings with him more than 15 years of corporate experience in banking and new age businesses. Prior to joining Mswipe, Rohit was the National Head of Ecommerce and New Age business at Kotak Mahindra Bank and was instrumental in setting it up and building the Ecommerce and new age business at Kotak. He worked with Kotak Mahindra Bank for 15 years and handled key portfolio in the Corporate Bank. At Mswipe, Rohit leads the entire accounts and finance team along with managing investor relationship and driving entire lending business for the group.

Rohit Bhayana, Managing Partner and Co- founder, Lumis Partners

Rohit is the Managing Partner and co-Founder of Lumis. Working across a global footprint, Rohit has created strategies & built a synergistic portfolio of businesses; run technology businesses; managed M&A; and led large Outsourcing Initiatives.

In Lumis, Rohit has been actively involved in the critical blocks across - building the Team, executing the Operating philosophy of the fund, and honing on the thematic synergy in multiple ecosystems and portfolios that have been built. He directly owns the fund's strategy in Supply Chain and has been actively building the Portfolio.

Before Lumis Partners, Rohit was at GE, and in his last position, he led GE's Software business (GESS), which eventually merged with Genpact. Rohit's career at GE spanned across multiple businesses including leading GE's Global Outsourcing Initiative.

Rohit is a postgraduate from the London School of Economics and an Engineer in Computer Science from Delhi University.

Rohit Chaddha, Co-founder & CEO, Food Panda

As the founder, Mr. Rohit Chadda was the key strategist in establishing foodpanda to what it is today - the largest online food ordering platform globally with a presence in 45 countries across 4 continents and a coverage of over 22,000 restaurants. Foodpanda is currently live in over 200 cities globally in less than two years from its inception.

He spearheaded the brand to make it one of the top food ordering platforms by concentrating on optimizing operations and increasing customer reach through most optimal online & offline marketing channels. He has associated the brand with all the big-wigs like Pizza Hut, Dominos, McDonalds and KFC on one platform spoiling the customer for “choice”.    

Rohit has had the distinct honour of receiving the ‘Aditya Birla Award’ for Business Leadership for two consecutive years in 2007-08 & 08-09. He has been featured on priciple television networks and TV shows like CNBC TV18 Young Turks & CNBC Awaaz Entrepreneur. Additionally, top international magazines like Fortune and Forbes have featured a cover story and a case study respectively on Foodpanda and him.

Before venturing out on his own, Rohit was previously an investment banker and has worked with Bank of America Merrill Lynch in London, Hong Kong as well as Mumbai. With regrads to education, he is an MBA from IIM Calcutta and a Computer Engineer from Delhi College of Engineering.

Rohit Dhar, President - Products, upGrad

Rohit, an entrepreneur himself, had co-founded Brainybatch Internet, India’s first lending platform focused on making education affordable by providing short-term. He has vast experience in managing products for leading companies like OLX, Flipkart, e-Bay, PayPal, and StubHub. He is the Head of Products at upGrad and leads the entire Product, Data Science, Analytics, and Design verticals.

Rohit Gera, MD, Gera Developments Pvt. Ltd

Rohit Gera is the Managing Director of Gera Developments Pvt. Ltd. He has a Bachelor degree in Science with a double major in Building Construction & Project Management and Economics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

He has completed the Advanced Management Development Program in Real Estate at The Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

He has been a member of the Executive Committee of CREDAI Pune Metro since 1999 and currently serves as the Vice President of CREDAI (Pune) Metro.

Rohit Gulati, CEO, UTI Capital

Rohit Gulati is the CEO of UTI Capital, a subsidiary of UTI AMC Limited. UTI Capital inter alia, is the Investment Manager of UTI Structured Debt Opportunities Fund 1 (SDOF), an INR 800 cr category 2 AIF, focussed on generating superior risk adjusted returns in structured debt opportunities across sectors.

Rohit has more than 21 years of work experience. Besides Investing and fund raising, he has had a wide range of experience in the various facets of Corporate Finance, including Stressed Assets Management, Investment Banking, Valuations and Restructuring Advisory. Prior to joining UTI Capital, he has worked with Religare Capital Markets, ICICI Securities, ICICI Bank and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Rohit is a Chartered Accountant and a Commerce graduate from Delhi University.

Rohit Gupta, Chief Financial Officer, NIIT Ltd | @NIITLtd

Rohit Gupta joined NIIT's leadership team in April 2011 as its Chief Finance Officer. Rohit has over 25 years of experience in Driving Enterprise Cost and Financial Management Strategy formulation. He previously held the position of Chief Financial Officer at Virgin Mobile India and has a strong track record of driving operational improvements in processes in telecom and IT industries.

At NIIT, Rohit has spearheaded various initiatives including the recent Scheme of Arrangement exercise as part of Business Transformation, BalanceSheet restructuring, Cost Management and Fund raising. Earlier he led EVA Implementation project which has helped ensure financial discipline across the company. Rohit has a background in Operations, Accounting, Finance, planning & Budgeting, International Taxation, Revenue Management, Treasury Management, Cost Management and Legal & Secretarial Management which enables him to manage tough business decisions.

A B.com (Hons) from Delhi University and a Member of Chartered Accountants of India, Rohit has also worked with DCM Shriram Group, Hutchison Max Group, British Telecom Group, and Bharti Airtel Limited.

Rohit Jain, Principal, SAIF Partner

Rohit Jain joined SAIF in 2013 and is currently Principal. Prior to joining SAIF, Rohit has had a long career in leading technology companies both in US and India. He has worked with Microsoft, IBM Research and Google in various technology and product roles in areas such as distributed systems, mobile, search and advertising, and cloud infrastructure systems. He has published numerous research papers and holds multiple patents in these areas. He was also the co-founder of Mobisoc, a mobile technology startup. His primary area of focus is early stage investments.
 
Rohit has a B. Tech from  IIT Delhi and MS from University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, both in Computer Science.