Our speakers

S. Balasubramaniam, CFO, Zensar Technologies

S. Balasubramaniam aka Suby, has over 28 years experience in Finance and Commercial functions. He graduated in Commerce from St.Xavier's College, Calcutta in 1978 and is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, and an Associate Member of the Institute of Cost & Works Accountants of India. He started his career in Dunlop India Limited and then moved on to successful stints in senior positions with diverse range of exposure to industries from Polyester, Plantations, and Pharmaceuticals and has signifcant experience in handling the challenges of the Financial Management and operating efficiences in demanding envoirnments. He joined Zensar as its Chief Financial Officer in Oct 2005 and has been part of the core team ever since then.

Outside Finance, he loves meeting people and public speaking on a diverse range of subjects and lists Technology,Economics, Hindustani Classical Music and Reading, as his interests.

S. Balasubramanianm, CFO, Zensar Technologies

S. Balasubramaniam aka Suby, has over 28 years experience in Finance and Commercial functions. He graduated in Commerce from St.Xavier's College, Calcutta in 1978 and is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, and an Associate Member of the Institute of Cost & Works Accountants of India. He started his career in Dunlop India Limited and then moved on to successful stints in senior positions with diverse range of exposure to industries from Polyester, Plantations, and Pharmaceuticals and has signifcant experience in handling the challenges of the Financial Management and operating efficiences in demanding envoirnments. He joined Zensar as its Chief Financial Officer in Oct 2005 and has been part of the core team ever since then.
Outside Finance, he loves meeting people and public speaking on a diverse range of subjects and lists Technology,Economics, Hindustani Classical Music and Reading, as his interests.

S. G. Shyam Sundar, Sr MD, IDFC

Shyam has over 14 years of experience in the Indian infrastructure sector. He began his career as an investment banker with ICICI Securities (ICICI's investment banking JV with JP Morgan) handling private equity placement, debt syndication and M&A related deals in the energy and telecom sectors. Subsequently, he moved to the Infrastructure group of ICICI Bank and after that to Infrastructure Development Finance Company (IDFC), to undertake project finance activities in the telecom sector. He joined IDFC Private Equity in its formative days and has made over 11 investments in a range of infrastructure sectors - power, telecom, oil&gas, roads, ports, airports, shipping and logistics. In the last 5 years, he led 3 successful IPOs of his portfolio companies - GMR, GSPL and Ashoka.

He was a member of CII National Committee on Transport and Infrastructure Committee of Bombay Chamber of Commerce. Currently, he is a member of CII National Committee on Shipping.

Shyam received an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta, and a BE (Mechanical) from Anna University, Chennai. Shyam is married and has a 4 year old daughter. He is an avid cricket fan and opens the bowling for IDFC's cricket team at local tournaments.

S. Harikrishnan, Partner, Avigo Capital Partners

S. Harikrishnan is Partner in Avigo Capital Partners and heads the fund's Mumbai Office. Hari has more than 14 years of diversified experience in Investments, Capital markets and Manufacturing. Before Avigo, Hari was with Wall Street firm Lazard advising Emerging Market PE Fund for 2 years. Before moving to Lazard, Hari was part of the founding team of UTI Ventures and was with that firm for more than eight years. Hari has particularly focused on tracking and analyzing sectors undergoing rapid development such as consumer retail, infrastructure services, niche manufacturing, life sciences, media and alternative energy. In last 11 years in Private Equity Hari was closely involved with 20 cross-sector PE transactions of which majority of them in Infrastructure and consumer sector. Harikrishnan is a qualified Engineer and MBA.

S. M. Sundaram, Partner & Chief Financial Officer, Baring Private Equity Partners India

Sundaram is a Partner and Chief Financial Officer of Baring Private Equity Partners India with over 20 years of professional experience.  Prior to Baring, he was the Group CFO of Cybernet-SlashSupport (CSS), a leading IT Services company headquartered in San Jose, California with operations in about 10 countries. He was part of the management team which helped in scaling up CSS from a start-up to about US$ 70 million curently.  At CSS, Sundaram was responsible for the entire Finance & Accounting function, M&A strategy, corporate planning, fund raising and enhancing shareholders’ wealth.  In addition to being the CFO, he was also the Chief Legal and Risk Officer for all group companies.

Till 2000, Sundaram was also part of the senior management team at the Sanmar Group, one of India’s large and highly respected industrial houses.  A significant part of his 11-year stint with the Sanmar Group was in a key role as Executive Assistant to the group’s Chairman. He started his career as a Senior Executive with the TVS Group, one of India’s largest and oldest industrial groups.

Sundaram is a Chartered Accountant, Chartered Financial Analyst, Cost Accountant and Corporate Secretary and also holds a MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.  Over the years, he has been a visiting professor at the Institute of Chartered Accountants and an Academic Advisor to the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts in India. He is also a keen sports enthusiast and an avid quizzer.

S. Nandakumar, Founder & CEO, Perfint Healthcare

Nandakumar S (Nandu) is CEO and Co-founder, Perfint Healthcare (www.perfinttech.com). Prior to co-founding Perfint, Nandu worked with Cognizant Technology Solutions as Director Process Excellence, with Ambit Corporate Finance as COO and with GE Healthcare as VP  Finance. Nandu is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow and Government College of Engineering, Tirunelveli.

Perfint Healthcare is a 4 year old healthcare devices start-up, based in Chennai, India. PIGA CT, the first product from Perfint, is a CT guided Robotic Assistance device for soft tissue interventions like Biopsy, RF Ablation, Drug Delivery etc of the Thorax, Abdomen and Pelvis. PIGA CT meets international safety and regulatory requirements and delivers an accuracy level that comparable to the best of its kind in the world. Radiologists can accurately access difficult to reach tumors as small as 1 centimeter without the need for open surgery, using PIGA CT. Perfint is currently working on its next product - a therapy platform, that would work with PIGA CT. IDG Ventures and Accel are investors in Perfint.

S. R. Jagadale, Chairman & MD, Shreem Electric Ltd.

Mr. S. R. Jagadale is the  Chairman & MD of Shreem Electric Ltd. He founded “SHREEM” LT & HT Capacitor manufacturing unit in Jaysingpur in 1962. Prior to that he served as Sr. Engineer with Premier Automobiles & TELCO for 14 years.

“SHREEM” Group of Industries are presently employing 1400 staff & workers  having their offices at Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Pune, Jabalpur, Baroda, Kolkata, Panchkula etc. The group is engaged in manufacturing of Power Equipments upto 220 KV and undertaking Turnkey Project upto 400 KV.

“SHREEM” Group of Companies have been appreciated and awarded a number of times by Govt. of India and State Governments for quality products & entrepreneurship.

S. Ramakrishnan, Chief Financial Officer, Quess Corp Limited

S. S. Acharya, CMD, NSIC (SRI Fund)

Dr. Subhransu Sekhar Acharya is the Chairman- cum- Managing Director (CMD), The National Small Industries Corporation Ltd., A Public Sector Organization of Government of India.  Prior to his present assignment, Dr. Acharya was the Chief General Manager, Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI), New Delhi.

Dr. Acharya is a Ph.D. in Management, Post Graduate in Science (M.Sc.), a Post Graduate in Business Administration (MBA) and a Certified Associate of Indian Institute of Banking & Finance (CAIIB). He has experience of over 3 decades in various facets of MSME Financing and Development including Credit, SME Rating, Risk Management, Bills Financing, New Product Development, Business Planning, Entrepreneurship Development, Innovation financing, Micro-Finance, Start-Up mentoring etc.

Dr. Acharya was a recipient of Prestigious Chevening Fellowship wherein, he underwent a course in Environment Management & Sustainable Development. The program was organized by University of Bradford and University of Manchester, UK on behalf of British Foreign Office who administer the Fellowship through British Council. During his stint there, he had exposure to the working of SMEs in UK where he worked on establishing the commercial benefits of adopting environment friendly technology by comparing the same for SMEs of India and UK. Besides, he has also attended “SME Cluster Development Program” at the prestigious International Training Centre of ILO at Turin, Italy.

Shri Acharya was invited by World Bank to discuss India’s SME Development
Financing Story at Harare, Zimbabwe. He is regularly invited by various B’Schools / Universities / IITs etc. for delivering talks and taking sessions on various facets on a whole range of topics ranging from “Corporate Social Responsibility”, “Entrepreneurship”, “MSME Financing”, “Financial Inclusion”, “Motivational aspects” etc. Shri Acharya has several publications / articles published in various journals to his credit.  He has co-authored to book on Managing Innovation & Incubation titled “Seed to Sapling” : The Incubator Way”.

Dr. Acharya is an adjunct Professor in Innovation & Entrepreneurship Area at ‘Birla Global University,’ Bhubaneswar.

S. Sriniwasan(Srini), Managing Director, Kotak Reality Fund