Our speakers

Rishabh Chhajer, Head - IT, Dhani

Rishabh Mariwala, Managing Partner, Sharrp Ventures

Rishabh Shroff, Partner (Co-Head Private Client), Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas

Rishabh Shroff is a Partner in Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas. He is based in the Mumbai office of the Firm. After completing his LL.B at the London School of Economics, London, he joined the Firm in September 2007. He was admitted as an advocate in the Bar Council of Maharashtra & Goa (India) in 2007. He is also a Solicitor, the Supreme Court of England & Wales.

Rishav Jain, Director, Alvarez & Marsal

Rishi Batra, Co-founder, COO and CFO, Fashalot

Rishi Batra is co-founder, COO and CFO of Fashalot, India’s first O2O location-based fashion store discovery platform. He takes the lead in overseeing finance and operations, retailer partnerships, offline marketing, team building and strategic management of the organization. Rishi’s exceptional skills and deep understanding of media, retail and digital industries has led to the launch of Fashalot, along with co-founders Amit Koshal and Amit Sharma.

Rishi started his career as a senior analyst with Copal Partners. In his earlier stint as a chief manager with the Times Group, Rishi was leading investments and strategic partnerships in digital, media and travel for Brand Capital (North). He has spearheaded marquee transactions foronline travel, B2B portals, e-commerce, insurance aggregators, social networks, mobile, Internet fashion brand, IT hardware and handset manufacturers like Yatra, Yepme, Indiamart, Matrix Cellular and Policybazaar to name a few. He has also participated in growth initiatives and business strategies of investee companies. With over a decade of experience in scaling up businesses by devising media strategies and investments for market share and revenue growth, Rishi’s contribution in setting up Fashalot has been phenomenal. Rishi works to build a strong and profitable business with an intention to capture 1 per cent of India’s fashion retail market revenues by 2018.

After graduating in mechanical engineering from University of Pune, he went on to pursue MBA from IMT Ghaziabad and FDU, USA. Rishi hails from a well-known business family with a successful chemical business run by his father.  Rishi nurtures his philanthropic side whenever time permits.He participated in spreading awareness on gender equality by joining in the “Kickstart Equality” campaign run by CEQ. Apart from his interest in travel and sports, he loves to spend quality time with his family.

Rishi Gupta, MD & CEO, Fino Payments Bank

As the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Fino Payments Bank Rishi Gupta led the bank to profitability in FY19-20 within 3 years of starting operations. By the end of Q3FY23, the bank registered twelve consecutive quarters of profit, reiterating the robustness of the business model.

In November 2021, under his stewardship, Fino became the first payments bank to get listed on the Indian stock exchanges.

Rishi’s vision to make the bank a preferred choice of customers enables Fino to continue making invaluable contribution to the national agenda of financial inclusion and universal banking access. 

Rishi is currently associated with one of the premier industry associations in the country, ASSOCHAM as the Co-Chairman of the National Council on Banking and Financial Services.

Rishi Gupta, MD & CEO, FINO PayTech Limited

Rishi Gupta is part of the founding team of FINO and is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of FINO PayTech Limited. Rishi has more than 20 years of experience spanning across multiple industries like manufacturing, banking and international institutions. Prior to becoming the MD & CEO, Rishi was serving as the COO and CFO for FINO. He successfully managed to build the operational capabilities, Relationship management and Finance function at FINO.

Rishi's illustrious career began with Maruti Udyog Limited and then joined ICICI Bank where he had exposure to branch banking and corporate banking. Prior to joining FINO, he was working with the International Finance Corporation in New Delhi. He is also the founding member of Business Correspondent Federation of India (BCFI) and the Chairman of its Economic Affairs Committee.
In 2011, 2012 and 2013, Rishi has been awarded "CFO100 Roll of Honor" - an effort to recognize the top 100 senior finance professionals in India. Rishi was also awarded the IMA - “The Indian CFO award for excellence in finance in a startup ” in 2013.

Rishi is a certified Rank Holder Chartered Accountant and Cost & Works Accountant. He did his article training with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). He is a Baccalaureate in Commerce from Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) and had a rank in Delhi University.

Rishi Khanna, MD, Trimaster Holdings & Chairman, TreeForest Investments

Rishi Khiani, CEO & MD, Ant Farm

Rishi Khiani is a cross media veteran with over a decade of experience in the media, internet and mobile space. Currently he is the MD at Ant Farm, an internet and media company that is entering a phase of hyper-growth.

In his last stint as the CEO of Times Internet LTD. ( Indiatimes.com ) he shepherded a team that propelled TIL to the No.1 position. The network saw over a 150% growth in revenue and traffic with a considerable brand revitalization of all its digital assets. Prior to joining Times Internet Limited, Rishi launched Urban Eye Media in 1998, focused on creating high end custom design and development solutions for many leading brands and companies. He was CEO for 'sidewalks of the world', an online store dedicated to offering customers unusual art and home décor products around the World. Rishi joined Web 18, the online division of Network 18 Group as Chief Operating Officer, after it acquired Urban Eye Media in 2006.

Rishi is a graduate in Fine Arts from school of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (U.S.A.).

Rishi Kohli, MD, Monsoon Capital

Mr. Rishi Kohli is the Managing Director & CEO at ProAlpha Systematic Capital Advisors, the Indian subsidiary of Monsoon Capital USA and is the Chief Investment Officer for all the quantitative investment and hedging products at Monsoon. Rishi has been among the earliest players in the Indian derivatives market since its inception in 2001 and was a pioneer in options strategies and managed futures strategy research in his broking days. At Monsoon, from 2007, he ran the earliest buy-side quantitative Indian hedge fund. He has been a speaker at many global conferences like Quant Invest in Paris (which is the largest global conference for quantitative funds and investors), Hedge Funds Asia in Hong Kong, Quant Invest Asia in Singapore and and presented his Funds at the largest global conference in the managed futures space held by Managed Funds Association in Miami, US. Rishi did his Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, in 1999, and his MBA from the Indian Institute of Management at Lucknow, in 2001.