Our speakers

Raman Ahuja, Senior Advisor, Resurgent India Limited

In a career spanning 22 years, Raman held leadership roles managing businesses, creating & executing business strategy and building successful start-ups in Agriculture, Food and Beverage, and has extensive experience in working with emerging modern Indian retail. After obtaining an MBA from University of South Carolina in the USA, he started his career in India with Unilever India, where he did several roles including leading the branded food exports business. Subsequently as a Business Head, he built the Fresh Produce business of FieldFresh Foods Pvt. Ltd - co-owned by Bharti Enterprises, Rothschild & Del Monte Pacific and was instrumental in helping build the fresh produce supply chain for Bharti  Retail. More recently, Raman was the CEO the South Asia operations with one of the largest, privately owned Swiss companies -Firmenich, S.A., expanding the company’s flavours business in the region.

In his career Raman has the unique experience of working alongside daily wage workers, farmers, entrepreneurs, farmer cooperatives, company boards, global retail giants, universities, foundations, multilateral institutions, research organizations, government agencies, & ministries.  The work profile has an added dimension – working at the intersection of food-water-energy, businesses have had an impact on livelihoods, while delivering profits to shareholders.

Raman Dhillon, Head Digital Transformation, Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited

Raman Khanduja, VP and Head Business Development, India, Visa

Raman Khanduja is the Head of Business Development for Visa in India and is responsible the country Sales and Client Strategy. In this role, he works with leading banks in India and constructively engages them to integrate Visa products and solutions to drive business growth. Prior to this role Raman led Business Development for South Asia which included five countries Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Maldives and Bhutan. He has diverse experience of over 14 years spanning across in Banking, Consulting and Analytics. Prior to joining Visa in 2009, Raman has had stint at HDFC Bank managing their Product & Portfolio for their Commercial Cards Business. His work experience also extends across Retail Strategy at Centurion Bank, Credit Analytics at American Express and Management Consulting with Pricewaterhouse Coopers.

Raman holds a Post Graduate Diploma from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta and a Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering from T.I.E.T, Patiala.

Raman Pillai, Director IT, Ather Energy

Raman Pillai, Director - IT, VerSe Innovation

Raman Shukla, COO, Vserv Infosystems Private Limited

Raman Talwar, CEO and Founder Director, Simulanis

Raman Talwar  is a well decorated, top-rank holder and a multi-award winning Masters in Chemical Engineering with Honours in Research (MEng. Hons.) from the University of Manchester (UK).  On the back of some ground breaking research work in a specialist domain, he has received prestigious accolades from the university and several nominations from industry during his time in England. 

Whilst taking on challenging assignments ably testifying his impressive technical and transferable skill-set, he has the experience of working for some of the world’s most respected FTSE-100 companies in the FMCG, Engineering Consultative and Process Design industries. His core interests lie in the development and application of process simulation and optimization models to solve real world problems. He also takes a keen interest in the field of computer-aided design and development of process safety solutions applicable across a range of industries including oil & gas, pharmaceutical and chemicals.

Ramashrya Yadav, Founder & CEO, Integrow Asset Management

Mr. Ram Yadav, Founder & CEO, of Integrow Asset Management, is an alumnus of Harvard Business School. He is a leading proponent of India’s real estate industry with a deep interest in bringing transforma onal change to the sector. Mr. Yadav has over 20 years of experience in Construc on, Real Estate, Banking & Investment. He has built mul ple businesses from scratch. His thought philosophy is firmly rooted in mul ple small steps aggrega ng to quantum leaps and exponen al impact.

Integrow Asset Management, is India’s first real estate-focused asset management company. Integrow is at the forefront of the financializa on of Real Estate assets of every class and aims to democra ze ownership by ensuring every Indian has a Real Estate Wallet. He is also a board member of India’s first listed Proptech Company Aurum Proptech, which has several investments in property technology companies in areas of CRM, Block chain, Frac onalized ownership, Metaverse, Co-Living and Co-working so ware pla orms. Prior to this, he was CEO of Real Estate Advisory Prac ce, Edelweiss Financial Services Ltd.

Ramasubramaniam R, Chief Information & Technology Officer, TTK Prestige

Ramaswamy Gopalkrishnan, VP & Head - East Region, Brand Capital

Ramaswamy Gopalkrishnan (Rama) is a certified Chartered Accountant and also a Company Secretary.

Rama has over 25 years of experience in M&As as well as Investment Banking in companies like J M Financial & Investment Consultancy Ltd, Standard Chartered Bank, Aditya Birla Group and now investment experience at Brand Capital.

Amongst his diverse and vast set of achievements, the notable are advising a leading group in South India on their hugely successful hostile take-over of a listed abrasive company and executing the listing of shares of Birla Global Finance.  He was also a pivotal member at Standard Chartered Bank of M&A and Takeovers division.

During his current stint at the Times Group he was part of the core team that put into operation the path breaking venture – Brand Capital, which now has investment of over Rs. 6000 cr..

Ever since, he has been a key member of Senior Management team wearing several hats including being one of longest serving member of the Investment Committee. Currently he spearheads the innovative structuring and legal team while also heading the business operation for the Brand Capital - Eastern Region.

Rama takes his inherent fostering qualities into his relaxation time too by nurturing the little garden that he has put out for himself, a privilege of a lucky few in a city like Mumbai.