Our speakers

Ramu Raghavan, Regional Sales Manager, HPE

Ramya Hariharan, Partner, Udwadia Udeshi and Argus Partners

Ramya is a corporate lawyer who specialises in mergers and acquisition, general corporate advisory, projects and banking and finance. She is also a qualified company secretary.

She graduated as a lawyer in 2002 and after a stint in litigation practice, moved on to Amarchand Mangaldas to practice corporate law. In June 2009 she quit Amarchand to co-found Argus Partners. Argus Partners has recently merged with Udwadia and Udeshi, a Mumbai based firm to constitute Udwadia Udeshi and Argus Partners. The firm has offices across the country in Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore and Chennai besides Kolkata. The firm specialises in transaction advisory as well as dispute resolution. Ramya is the partner in charge of the Kolkata office of UUArgus.

Rana Atheya, CEO, Dogspot.in

One needs to have absolute passion and true canine love to take the risk of pursuing a hobby and turning it into a business venture. Mr. Rana Atheya’s love for dogs has served him to establish India’s most visited dog portal, DogSpot.in. As an entrepreneur and a pet lover, Mr. Atheya realized the need of genuine and scientific information about dogs available to the users to make the right decision for their pets. Before setting up the e-commerce division of DogSpot in year 2011, he built a community of pet owners to share experience about pet behaviour. He is responsible for setting the overall direction and product strategy for DogSpot. He leads the expansion of communities and content strategy for the company and manages the development of its core technology and infrastructure. With his vision and technology prowess, Mr. Atheya envisions to make DogSpot a multibillion dollar business in next 5 years. As a leader, he firmly believe that the company’s best assets are the employees and he aims for building a workplace that respects diversity, work life balance, performance and cross group collaboration. He invests in the training, development and recreational activities of the team by offering innovative HR policies. Before founding DogSpot.in, he has performed product management roles at Indiatimes, Ibibo and Aircel. He holds his MBA in Engineering Management from Coventry University, UK. He is actively associated with various support groups that feed stray dogs such as Friendicoes. Apart from his love for pets, Mr. Rana Atheya also takes out time to pursue his hobby of photography.

Rana Kapoor, Founder, Managing Director & CEO, Yes Bank | @YESBANK

Mr. Rana Kapoor is the Founder, Managing Director & CEO of YES BANK, India’s fifth largest private-sector bank. A career banker and an entrepreneur since 2003, he completed 36 years of distinguished service in the banking sector on 1st of June, 2016. His vision of building the finest quality bank of the world in India by 2020 has seen YES BANK emerge as a high quality, state-of-the-art institution.

Those who know Mr. Kapoor well, marvel at his ability to not just set 3x the amount of work for himself everyday but also motivate his leadership to go beyond their call of duty. This has led to the coinage of a philosophy, which he likes to term ‘Professional Entrepreneurship’ at
YES BANK. No wonder that in just 12 years, YES BANK has emerged as one of the safest and fastest growing private sector Banks in India. Under his leadership, YES BANK was recently recognized as the “Bank of the Year - India” by The Banker magazine, London, part of the Financial Times group UK, and has also become one of the youngest banks to be featured in Forbes Global 2000 list.

An innovator and a pioneer, Mr. Kapoor, has in many ways redefined banking by employing ‘knowledge’ as a key differentiator in the financial services sector. He started YES BANK through a differentiated knowledge-driven approach with a special focus on the sunrise sectors of India, such as food & agribusiness (F&A), healthcare, education, infrastructure, hospitality, media & entertainment and renewable energy. He is also one of the first true champions of the cause of 'Responsible Banking' in India, where the concepts of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Sustainability are integrated in Business Focus.

His exemplary contributions towards fostering Entrepreneurship in India, strengthening key growth sectors including Financial Services, Agribusiness and Tourism, amongst others, as well as promoting bilateral relations with strategic partner countries has been recognized by organizations around the world. Mr. Kapoor was recently felicitated for his “exemplary contribution to entrepreneurship and innovation” by the prestigious India Business Forum , annual flagship conference of the LBS India Club of the London Business School (LBS)

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Rana Mehta, Partner & Leader Healthcare, PwC

Dr. Rana Mehta has leads the Healthcare Advisory at PwC. His extensive client experience, which includes some of the largest integrated health systems and payers in the Asia, Middle East and Africa has allowed him to pioneer innovative solutions that improve quality and cost for all stakeholders in the delivery system – patients, providers and payers.

Ranga Iyer, Healthcare Consultant, Former MD, Wyeth India

Ranga  is  an Advisor / Consultant to various Companies in the Pharma Industry in the areas of Mergers, Acquisitions, Collaborations, Business Strategy and Business Development  and has closed  four acquisition deals in Pharma till now :

Ranga is also an Independent Director on the Boards of Sanofi India Ltd and Atul Biosciences Ltd, Chairman of Cybernoid Healthcare Pvt Ltd and  Chairman of the Advisory Board of Duraent Biologicals  

Prior to this, he was the Managing Director of Wyeth Limited subsidiary of Wyeth USA for 10 years till end Oct 09.He joined Cyanamid in 1980 became the CFO and Finance Director of Cyanamid India Ltd in 1986, transitioned to Wyeth in 1998 and rose to become its Managing Director in the year 2000.   

Academically, Ranga holds a Post Graduate degree in Commerce and MBA in Finance from Bombay University. Has also attended Executive Programs in ISB ( Hyderabad ) and Harvard ( USA )

Ranga has also been :
-President of Organisation of Pharmaceutical Producers of India (OPPI) from 2007 to 2009 and Vice President for 4 years earlier. During the span of these 6 years  He has worked on behalf of the Pharma Industry with the Govt. of India on matters relating to Drug Pricing Policy, Intellectual Property Rights regulations and Regulatory Policy.

-President of American Chamber of Commerce, Mumbai Chapter.

-Managing Committee Member of Bombay Chamber of Commerce for 4 years and of Indian Merchants Chamber for one year.

In recognition of his contribution to the industry, he was adjudged as the 33rd most influential person in the Global Pharmaceutical Industry by World Pharmaceutical Frontiers in 2009, a leading UK Pharma magazine.

Ranganath Sadashiva, CTO Hybrid IT, HPE

Ranganath Sadasiva , CTO, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Ranganath Sadasiva is the Chief Technology Officer, Hybrid IT for Hewlett Packard Enterprise, India.

Ranganath is responsible for bringing in thought leadership across HPE Hybrid IT business and delivering best in class technology experience for customers. 
He works closely with the enterprise segments, understanding their business and technical needs, developing HPE’s point of view aligned to HPE Technology Vision.

With more than 25 years of experience in the technology industry, Ranganath is an accomplished Technologist and Management Executive across core ICT technologies working predominantly in the India and Asia Pacific & Japan region. He has done various customer centric roles across Sales, Product development and Consulting in these geographies. Before joining HPE, Ranganath served as Director, Enterprise Research for IDC India and was responsible for the overall Enterprise research in areas including Hardware - Server, Storage and Networking, Enterprise Software, Enterprise Services and emerging technologies like Cloud, IoT, AI, Big Data etc. Prior to IDC, Ranganath served as Regional Sales Director for Spectra-APJ and EMEA and earlier as Director, Product Management, Asia Pacific and Japan for HPE Storage. He has also held management roles with HCL Infosystems and CADD Centre. Widely known in the Industry for his insights on Technology and its articulation, he is a regular speaker at Customer & Industry forums. He is also a Mentor of change with Niti Aayog, Government of India.    

Ranganath Sadasiva has a Master of Business Administration Degree in Marketing from Bangalore University and a Bachelor of Engineering Degree in Electrical Engineering from BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore

Ranghan Venkatraman, Chairman & CEO, Azur Global

Ranjan Bose, Director, IIIT, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi