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Ram Gopal, Chief Executive Officer, Barclays Bank India

Ram Gopal, CEO, Barclays Bank India

Ram contributes to the in-country leadership of Barclays in India, with focus on strategy and execution. For the onshore business, he is responsible for the design and execution of a country strategy that supports the financial performance and market position of the banking entity in India. For the offshore and the Private Bank businesses, he provides effective support to the Country Manager in the discharge of governance responsibilities. He has been in this role since October 2017, is a member of the Country Management Committee, and until recently on the Board of Barclays Shared Services and Barclays Technology Centre, India.

Prior to this role, he was the Chief Operating Officer for the Retail and Corporate Banking division (GRCB) since July 2007. In 2009, he was the acting MD of the GRCB division in India.

Prior to joining Barclays, Ram spent 11 years at Standard Chartered UAE and three years at Citibank, India prior to that. He is a member of the CII National Committee on Banking and its National Committee on Financial Markets; FICCI’s Committee on Banking; ASSOCHAM’s National Council for Banking and European Business Group Banking & Finance committee where he represents the industry interests. Ram is an alum of the Sri Sathya Institute of Higher Learning; holds an MBA from the University of Chicago, a CFA charter holder and currently pursuing a PhD from the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.

Ram Kishan Verma, The Chief Mentor, Resonance Eduventures

Mr. Ram Kishan Verma, an edupreneur synonymous with success in cracking IIT-JEE, was born in a small village in the Kota district in the state of Rajasthan. He excelled throughout his schooling, in himself clearing the IIT-JEE and as an Electrical & Electronics Engineering student at IIT-Madras. After completing his B.Tech. in 1994, he joined BHEL as a Trainee Engineer .

Following a brief stint at BHEL, destiny brought him into coaching education which at that time was emerging in Kota and he joined a reputed coaching institute in Kota as part of the Physics Faculty in 1995 and continued there till 2001. Through his sincerity, dedication and hard work, he earned respect from his students and became very popular amongst the student fraternity, as RKV Sir , for his in-depth subject knowledge, unmatched teaching skills and passionate aptitude for the coaching profession.

The dream of becoming an edupreneur resulted in the genesis of Resonance, founded by Mr . R.K. Verma in 2001 at Kota itself. Since then, Resonance has taken leaps and bounds forward under his leadership and his persistent quest to take it to the pinnacle of success & excellence.

Ram Rastogi, Head- IMPS, National Payments Corporation of India

Ram Rastogi is a career  banker  with over three decades of hand - on experience in the areas of banking and emerging payments domain with expansive domain knowledge in Mobile, Digital Payments, E Commerce, M-Commerce and EBPP.

He was closely associated with State Bank’s strategies in the area of design and implementation of Payment systems - ATM Deployment, Debit cards, prepaid cards, Merchant Acquiring Business and Mobile Banking Service “State Bank Freedom”. He is currently responsible for driving next generation, 24*7 real-time, channel agnostic, remittance service - Immediate Payment Service (IMPS).

Ram was instrumental in creating a collaborative, unique interoperable payment platform for all stake holders (Banks, Prepaid Instrument Issuers and Telco led Mobile Wallets), to reach the entire unbanked area in real time in a cost effective manner.

Ram Vaidyanathan, AVP and Head- Environmental Sustainability, Godrej Industries limited & Associated Companies

Ramakant Rai, Partner, Trilegal

Ramakrishna Karuturi, MD, Karuturi Global Ltd.

Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi is the Founder and Managing Director of Karuturi Global Ltd. Under his dynamic leadership, Karuturi Global has become the world's largest producer of cut-roses by identifying Kenya & Ethiopia as a hub for cultivation and export of roses.

Mr. Ram Karuturi is widely regarded as the pioneer of cut flower revolution in the World. Mr. Ram Karuturi was instrumental in acquiring 3,11,000 Ha of land in Ethiopia for strategic foray into Agriculture production.

Mr. Ram Karuturi has been nominated as the Top 20 CEOs from Africa by the Initiative for Global Development (IGD) for commitment towards poverty reduction in Africa.

Sai Ramakrishna Karuturi holds a Bachelor's degree (Rank Holder) in Mechanical Engineering from Bangalore University and an MBA (Dean's Honor) from Case Western Reserve University, Ohio.

Ramakrishna NK, Co-founder & CEO, Rang De and Habba

Ram is the co-founder & Chief Executive Officer of Rang De. He was chosen for the Ashoka Fellowship in 2012 in recognition of Rang De's game-changing efforts to lower the cost of credit. A firm believer in the social business model, he started Rang De in 2008 as a platform to raise social investments for individuals. His conviction that there is a need to lower the cost of microcredit has been instrumental in shaping Rang De's values and beliefs. Prior to starting Rang De, Ram worked as Principal Consultant for Vignette Europe Limited and has consulted for some of the world's best companies.

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Ramakrishnan Gopalan, Head - Products, India and South Asia, Visa

Current Position and Responsibilities 
Ramakrishnan Gopalan is the Vice President, Head of Products & Solutions for India and South Asia. In this role, he leads the product team in developing the strategy and the long-term design for the growth of Visa’s product propositions in the region, including India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and Maldives. 

Previous Positions  
Prior to joining Visa, Ramakrishnan (Ramki) was with Citi in India and Singapore for nearly 20 years, where he held various positions across Asia Pacific in cards, lending, client engagement, risk mitigation, product development and digital channel teams. Most recently, he was the Director of Strategic Initiatives for Citi’s Regional Cards and Loans team where he drove the digital acquisitions framework of clients with a bespoke strategy using alternate data across markets.

Other Information 
Ramki holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management and a Bachelor’s in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology. He will be based in Mumbai and sit on the INSA leadership team as well as the Asia Pacific Product Leadership team. In his spare time, Ramki enjoys spending time with his family biking together to explore new places around town.

Ramakrishnan Kalyanaraman, Senior Managing Director – Strategic Relationships, Spark Capital Advisors (India) Pvt Ltd