Our speakers

Ravi Shankar Pooli, Country Director - S&W India, Sri Lanka & Maldives, Western Union Services India Pvt Ltd

Ravi Heads business for South and West of India, Sri Lanka and Maldives and also heads Domestic Money Transfer for Western Union in India. He has about 18 years of experience and prior to joining Western Union has worked with leading business groups in India like Xerox, TATA and Reliance. He has held leadership roles across domains including sales, business development, customer service and marketing in these companies. Apart from managing the International money transfer business for the region, he has been instrumental in launching Domestic Money Transfer for Western Union in India.

He has done his B.Tech from IIT Chennai and MBA from IIM Bangalore.

Ravi Srivastava, Partner & Head of Research, Bay Capital Investment Advisors Pvt. Ltd.

Ravi Srivastava is the Head of Research and the youngest Partner in Bay Capital. He drives the entire investment effort from idea generation to final investment and has played an instrumental role in the success of the firm’s flagship product – Bay Capital India Fund, which has been amongst the best performing long only India funds since its inception. Ravi has extensive experience in both public and private transactions. Ravi identified and picked public market stocks like Bajaj Finserv, Nestle India, Britannia and Info Edge for the fund.  On the private side, he has led the investments in businesses like Lenskart, Policybazaar, Delhivery.

Ravi has over a decade of professional experience in investment management, strategy & decision consulting, mergers and acquisitions. Prior to Bay Capital, Ravi was an Engagement Manager with Singapore based strategy consulting firm SLC where he led several engagements with clients across India, Asia-Pacific and US. Prior to SLC, he was part of the Mergers & Acquisitions team of Siva Group in India.

Ravi is an Electronics & Communication Engineer from VNIT, Nagpur and a PGDM from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM A). He is a CFA® charter holder.

Ravi Teja Gupta, Founder, Guptaji Invests

Ravi Upadhyay, Enterprise Digital Natives, Google Cloud India

Ravi Varanasi, Chief Business Development Officer, NSE

Ravi Venkatraman, CEO, Karvy Innotech

Ravi Virmani, Founder & MD, Credi Health Pvt Ltd

Ravi Virmani is the Founder and MD of Credihealth.com, a first of its kind healthcare portal in India. The idea of Credihealth crystalised in Ravi Virmani’s mind in 2013, when he astutely identified a real need in the healthcare industry for widely available credible, reliable, and transparent healthcare information.

Ravi has a solid track record of a successful business leader. In 1990, he co-founded Noble House in a garage and further shaped its growth for over a decade by leading and creating an institution in South Asia of the finest consulting caliber and financial success. He attracted, nurtured and mentored a large team of consultants. Noble House eventually evolved to become Hewitt Associates - India, over time.

After successful stints as MD at Hewitt South Asia and CEO Aventus Consulting (both in Singapore), he returned to India as COO of Max Healthcare immediately before founding Credihealth.
Ravi is an alumnus of XLRI Jamshedpur.

Raviganesh Venkataraman, ED and CEO, Cloudnine Group of Hospitals

Raviganesh Venkataraman, CEO, Cloudnine Group of Hospitals

Raviganesh Venkataraman is currently the Chief Executive officer at Cloudnine Group of Hospitals and based in Bengaluru. As the CEO, Ravi is responsible for the development and execution of Cloudnine’s business strategy, across all functions and business verticals with specific focus on customer experience, clinical quality, operational excellence, doctor relations, talent and leadership development.

 

As a seasoned professional with over 25 years of working experience across verticals, Ravi has been a part of several industries and geographies in India and Asia with proven skills in business strategy, project planning and execution, supply chain management, sales and distribution and organisation development. Ravi was until recently a director on the board of Metro Cash & Carry India and has held leadership roles in the past with Bharti Airtel, Subhiksha Retail, Coca Cola India, Titan Industries and Godrej & Boyce.

 

Ravi holds a Masters in Management studies from SP Jain Institute of Management & Research and a B.E in Production engineering from KJ Somaiya College of Engineering. An avid reader and a perpetual learner, Ravi is fond of literature and a loves classical music.

Ravijot Chugh, Co founder, UpGrad

Ravijot Chugh is the co-founder and heads the product and learning experience at UpGrad. He has previously worked with Housing.com as a product lead and with the Parthenon Group advising multiple companies and private equity investors on the education sector in emerging markets. He also co-founded a social travel startup called 36hrs.in in San Francisco

Ravi holds a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from IIT-Delhi and was part of the Forbes Asia 30 under 30 cohort for 2018.

Ravijot Chugh is the co-founder and heads the product and learning experience at UpGrad. He has previously worked with Housing.com as a product lead and with the Parthenon Group advising multiple companies and private equity investors on the education sector in emerging markets. He also co-founded a social travel startup called 36hrs.in in San Francisco

Ravi holds a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from IIT-Delhi and was part of the Forbes Asia 30 under 30 cohort for 2018.