Our speakers

Ranjith Menon, Executive Director, IDG Ventures

Mr. Ranjith Menon is Executive Director at IDG Ventures India Advisors. He has been in the industry since 2000 and in the venture investment advisory since 2007.

Prior to IDG Ventures, Ranjith worked with Cyient (earlier Infotech Enterprises), India's premier Design Engineering and GIS Company. As Manager-Marketing he played a key role in conceptualizing and launching new service offerings for the Aerospace vertical, which is one of the largest offshore Aerospace practices out of India. Earlier in his career, Ranjith has served as a stress test engineer at Infotech Enterprises and also gained shop floor experience at Bharat Earth Movers Limited, India's largest earth moving equipment manufacturers.

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Ranjith Mukundan, Co-founder & CEO, Stellapps Technologies Pvt. Ltd | @stellapps

Ranjith Mukundan is the CEO & Co-Founder of Stellapps Technologies, a Internet of Things (IoT) company currently focused on the dairy supply chain.  Stellapps has successfully deployed its proprietary hardware and software applications across India and abroad.  Ranjith was previously with Wipro Technologies as the Global Head of the Telecom Value Added Services (VAS) Practice.  He also oversaw a Centre of Excellence (CoE) focused on product innovation and intellectual property creation.  Ranjith has over 20 years of software industry experience, including shadow P&L and technology consulting (e.g., to Nomura UK). He has a MS in Telecom & Software Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago.

Ranu Vohra, Co-founder, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Avendus Capital

Ranu heads Avendus and is responsible for its overall growth. He has spent the last 20 years in the Indian financial services industry, concluding several marquee transactions in Investment Banking and Private Equity. Avendus is a leading provider of financial services with an emphasis on customized solutions in the areas of investment banking, wealth management, asset management and credit solutions. Avendus relies on its extensive experience, in-depth domain understanding and knowledge of the regulatory environment, to offer customized solutions that enable clients to meet their strategic aspirations.

Avendus has a strong track record of cross-border transactions and has helped multiple clients benefit from opportunities across geographies. Avendus’ wide range of clients is testimony to its ability to serve its corporate clients throughout their life cycle – from growth stage funding to complex, large sized transactions later in the cycle. Avendus Capital Inc. and Avendus Capital (UK) Pvt. Ltd. located in New York and London respectively are wholly owned subsidiaries offering M&A and Private Equity syndication services to clients in the respective regions.

From being known as Coolstartups, operating from above a garage in Mumbai in 1999, to becoming a company of 325+ employees that is consistently ranked as India’s top name in investment banking, Avendus has carved a niche for itself by partnering with exceptional entrepreneurs, family offices and corporate treasuries.

Prior to co-founding Avendus, Ranu worked with a Tampa (USA) based technology and media investment bank, Communications Equity Associates (CEA), and Hinduja Finance, a diversified financial services firm.

He holds an MBA from the Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), Delhi and a BTech in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi.

Ratan Jalan, Founder & Principal Consultant, Medium Healthcare Consulting

Ratan Jalan founded Medium Healthcare Consulting in 2009 driven by an urge to ‘make a difference in healthcare’. Innovation in business models and patient empowerment have been at the core of what he does. Ratan has over three decades of experience across diverse industries and functional responsibilities. He started his professional career in the information technology industry with HCL Technologies and then moved to advertising at Lintas (now Lowe).

Earlier, Ratan was the CEO of Apollo Health and Lifestyle Limited, part of the Apollo Hospitals Group for almost a decade. He created some of the most successful and innovative healthcare formats in the country such as a nationwide network of The Apollo Clinic and The Cradle, South Asia’s first boutique birthing centres. In 1996, as President, Ratan set up India’s first hospital architecture and consulting firm Asian Health Services, a JV with ServiceMaster, a Fortune 500 company. He was awarded the Marketing Impact Award by S P Jain Institute of Management and has been nominated as one of the 50 most influential professionals in retailing. He is an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur and Harvard Business School.

Ratan Jalan, Founder & Managing Director, Medium Healthcare Consulting

Ratan is widely regarded as a rare thought leader in the healthcare industry. It was a strong urge to make a difference in healthcare that led him to set up Medium Healthcare Consulting.

At Medium, Ratan plays a pivotal role in shaping Medium’s philosophy with particular thrust on innovation, execution and patient-centricity. He is personally involved in each engagement often setting up near-impossible internal benchmarks. His thought-provoking writings and talks on a wide variety of subjects continue to inspire many in the field.

Before founding Medium Healthcare, Ratan was the CEO of Apollo Health and Lifestyle Limited, part of the Apollo Hospitals Group, for almost a decade. He created some of the most successful and innovative healthcare formats in the country such as a nationwide network of The Apollo Clinic and The Cradle, South Asia’s first boutique birthing centres. He also led the strategic marketing initiatives and international projects for the group.

In 1996 Ratan, as President, set up India’s first hospital architecture and consulting firm Asian Health Services, a JV with ServiceMaster, then a Fortune 500 company. In a short span of three years, the firm became the undisputed leader in the field and had served leading organizations like Wockhardt
Hospitals, Escorts Hospital, Max Healthcare, Aditya Birla Foundation, BLK Hospitals, IL&FS and Gleneagles Hospitals.

He has over four decades of experience across diverse industries and functional responsibilities. He started his professional career in the information technology industry with HCL and then moved to advertising at Lintas (now MullenLowe Lintas Group). During his ten years there, he led work for major
Indian and international brands.

Ratan Jyoti, Chief Information Security Officer, Ujjivan Small Finance Bank

Ratan Kesh, Executive Director & COO, Bandhan Bank

Rathin Lahiri, CMO, Meru Cabs

Rathin brings with him 22 years of experience in Sales & Marketing and running Digital Businesses. His goal is to build the Meru brand, drive consumer demand and grow the Digital Business. He is an MBA from SP Jain Institute of Management & Research. His key stints have been with the UB Group, HUL, eBay and Microsoft. Prior to joining Meru he was the CMO of a startup which was engaged in launching a coalition loyalty program.

Ratna Viswanathan, CEO, Microfinance Institutions Network (MFIN)

Ms. Ratna Vishwanathan has served MFIN for the past one year as the designated Deputy CEO and Compliance Officer on behalf of the RBI after MFIN was assigned to be a SRO. She brings to MFIN a combination of government and development sector experience. Belonging to the 1987 batch of the Indian Audit and Accounts Service, Ms. Vishwanathan comes with extensive experience across a range of departments of the Government of India including Defense and Prasar Bharti. In the development sector she has served at very senior levels in well-known international NGOs such as Oxfam and VSO. Ms. Ratna Vishwanathan steered these entities through critical change management processes as they transitioned from international liaison offices to ‘full-fledged Indian entities’.

Ratnesh Mehra, Director, CX Strategy & Transformation, Oracle India

Ratnesh Mehra is the Customer Experience Strategy & GTM Leader for Oracle India .

With over 23 years of experience in the IT Industry with a proven leadership in Customer Experience, CRM consulting and delivery, ‘Ratnesh   comes with invaluable CX knowledge of the market and domain .and has  helped leading organizations in India as well as globally to strategize, design and build world class Customer experience platforms.

He has well rounded experience in area of Customer Experience, Digital Marketing, Social CRM, Voice of Customer, Customer Analytics and B2B interactions.

He has worked previously as head of Customer Experience competency for KPMG and IBM among others.

Ratnesh is based out of Bangalore and is a passionate old hindi songs buff and a foodie to the core.