Our speakers

Saran Chatterjee, CEO, Housejoy

Saran is currently the CEO of Housejoy. Prior to this, Saran was with Flipkart as VP of Product Management and a key part of the leadership team for close to 3 years. He played a key role in scaling Flipkart by shaping the company strategy, setting up and hiring the product management, design and operations org, heading the consumer experience and platforms teams and running P&L for the advertising business. Before Flipkart, Saran was with Yahoo for about six years in various roles, including senior director for global product management, business management & operations director, among others.

Sarang Lakare, Founder & CEO, Volare Technologies (IntouchApp)

Sarang is an innovator by mind and entrepreneur by heart. He has a BE from COEP (College of Engineering Pune) and Ph.D. in Computer Science from State Univ of New York at Stony Brook. He holds 5 US patents and has over 40 publications to his name. After 12+ years experience working at 2 startups and a Fortune 100 company he moved back to India to pursue the dream of starting up on his own. He is passionate about using mobile technology to simplify life. His current startup is building an innovative Contacts Manager app for the smart phone called "InTouchApp", that promises to simplify how we interact with other people, businesses and organizations. InTouchApp has been downloaded over 2 million times globally and is gaining accolades all over the world. Most recently, TIME magazine mentioned InTouchApp as a successful product coming out of the upcoming global tech hub of Pune city.

Sarangdhar R Nirmal, CMD, Prabhat Dairy

Sarang Nirmal, a quiet, yet effective Chairman, is known for completely changing the landscape of the regional dairy industry today. Through the now eminent company Prabhat-which is one of the INDIA’s leading Milk & Milk products company, this self-made millionaire revolutionized the way everyday people perceived about dairy products, and how the innovative dairy products offering should be part of everyone's daily diet. He built an empire based on the concept that farmer should not only be made a part of quality and clean milk collection but he should act as ‘PARTNER IN PROGRESS’ resulting in producing well-organized solid platform for manufacturing quality and international standards driven dairy products, and that they should be available in effective and affordable pricing for daily consumption to each consumer class. He was one of the first to believe in the "Collective Working" concept, and he actually executed this ideas through ‘PRABHAT QUALITY MISSION’ where each farmer along with his family is a part of the idea of clean and quality milk. Thus, the foundation that he built for the farmers were smaller as compared to earlier scenario but considerably now has revolutionized the movement which changed the dynamics of PRABHAT Group. His vision “To be a highly respectable and leading milk food company, that is committed to thoughtful and sustainable socio-economic development” now has become a legacy for each element associated with Prabhat.

What truly remarkable is that Sarang Nirmal brought the company to greatness in spite of all odds, adversaries which he is faced in beginning, the journey was not so easy, but with immense dedication & passion he successfully build and executed the ambitious plan which helped accomplished numerous milestones further strengthening the PRABHAT forever. His deep knowledge in Agriculture and bonding with the farmers facilitated him a lot. He found a need and serviced that need. Now, his ideologies and guidance had reinvented that company. Most people never have the opportunity to do that once in their lifetimes. Sarang Nirmal has performed it twice. First being the most important key strength in building foundation of Prabhat and second being the most loved Chairman by employees, stake holders and all the farmers associated with it, this is his legacy and way of working which made him earned the title of MOTE ANNA (Big Brother) among all the farming and dairy community.

In his respect and his numerous contributions during his tenure he has been felicitated by numerous awards from Government of India, many dairying and agricultural communities. His four guiding stars INTEGRITY - COMMITMENT - INNOVATION & PROGRESS today are the cornerstones of PRABHAT enriching and enhancing everyone’s lives.

Saransh Aggarwal, CLO, Cognizant

Saransh Agrawal, Global Head - Learning & Development, Cognizant

Saransh Agrawal is Global Head of Learning & Development at Cognizant, leading an award-winning team to drive capability development for the company’s associates. His team is focused on implementing talent development strategies aligned to business growth and creating an agile learning ecosystem for associates to fuel their continuous professional development – whether it’s to stay up to date with the latest emerging technology skills, get ready for the next project, or pursue growth aligned with their personal or professional ambitions. The Cognizant L&D team regularly earns industry recognition through Brandon Hall HCM Excellence Awards and the Association for Talent Development.

Saransh has more than 20 years of experience spanning talent development, performance consulting and learning technology. He holds an MBA in Industrial Management from NITIE (IIM-Mumbai). He has also achieved credentialed coach (ACC) from International Coaching Federation (2015-18).

Sarath Chandra, Chief Information Officer, Airtel Payments Bank

Mr. Chandra is the Chief Information Officer at Airtel Payments Bank, the first payments bank in India. In this capacity he drives digital innovation and transformation of products and services. With close to two decades of work experience, Sarath has worked with tech giants like Google, Amazon and Yahoo. In the past, Sarath has also worked as an Agile Coach and also, an entrepreneur with his venture in the tech space.

Sarath Naru, Managing Partner, Ventureast

Sarath is the Founder and Managing Partner of Ventureast, one of India’s longest-standing venture capital institutions investing in pioneering sectors since the mid-90s. Ventureast manages over $300 million having made close to 100 investments. Sarath has successfully pioneered investments in new sectors and investing approaches that many others have shunned. But, he has also collected enough tips on perhaps what not to do, as one aspires to build a great company.

In the past, Sarath sold soap at Procter & Gamble USA, and worked in British American Tobacco subsidiary (VST Industries, Hyderabad). As an entrepreneur, he has built a trading business between India and the USA, covering engineering & fashion goods, and printing related services. He has a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and an MBA from Booth, University of Chicago. He has been associated at Board level positions with the IVCA, ABLE, IITM R&D Park, ICRISAT, Ascent Capital, etc.

Saravanan. M, Co-Founder & CEO, Bharath Home Medicare Pvt Ltd

A multi-faceted healthcare professional who has held senior management and leadership roles across India, far East and MENA regions in multinationals, such as Pfizer, Wanbury and Insta Health Solutions before laying the foundation for Bharath Home Medicare (Home Healthcare Company with pan India presence).

Sarit Chopra, Partner, Special Situations, Bain Capital

Sarth Jain, Managing Director, Xponents