Our speakers

Salil Gupta, CEO, Khyati Foods Pvt Ltd

Mr. Salil Gupta is the Chief Executive Officer of Khyati Foods Pvt. Ltd. a leading global organic products supplier from India. He is a competent professional with over 15 years of experience in Sales & Marketing/ Business Development/ Supply Chain Management/ Team Management & Operations and also a proactive leader and planner with expertise in strategic planning, market plan execution, new product development, account management and pre-sales efforts. He has more than 10 years of experience in heading the management of entire value chain of Organic Products at Khyati. At present Due to his efforts and leadership Khyati Foods has initiated organic farming and has strengthened thousands of farmers in central part of India to produce organic crops and supply processed products to European and American destinations. The company is also involved in value addition activities of organic agriculture especially in Soya with a 36,000 MT per annum soy processing unit based on extrusion expelling process to produce organic soya cakes, soya oil, value added products and graded beans. Prior to joining Khyati in 2006 he has worked with Sonata Software, RS Traders, Almighty Foods and JVS Foods (UNWFP ancillary).

Salil has done B.Tech. in Food Engineering, M.Tech. in Energy and Electrical Engineering from MANIT Bhopal, PGDBA - Marketing & Operations from K.J. Somaiya Institute of Management Studies and Research Mumbai a leading business school in India.

Salil Pitale, Jt. MD & Co-CEO, Axis Capital Ltd.

Salil has over 24 years of experience across Investment Banking, Corporate Banking, Project Finance, and Equity Research. His experience includes over 18 years with Axis Capital / Axis Bank, where he has built corporate relationships and led multiple sector practices in Investment Banking. He is a Computer Engineer from VJTI, Mumbai, and an MBA from IIM, Lucknow.

Salil Thanawala, Head of Global Family Office, Lighthouse Canton

Salil Thanawala brings over two decades of experience in capital markets and private wealth management to his role as Executive Director of Wealth Management at Lighthouse Canton. Previously, he held leadership positions at Edelweiss Group/Nuvama Wealth, where he established his expertise in global derivatives trading and risk management. He has partnered with some of India's most prominent families, crafting bespoke financial solutions and facilitating private deals to fuel their business growth and wealth preservation.

Salil's impact extends beyond traditional wealth management. He has guided families through the establishment of family boards, charter reviews, and risk management strategies, ensuring the long-term sustainability of their wealth across generations. He has also played a key role in securing private equity and credit deals for their business ventures.

Salil's an MBA in Finance and Strategy from the Indian School of Business.

Salman Ebrahim, Director - Private Equity, M&A Director - Private Equity, M&A Rassmal Investments LLC

Salman Hussain, VP - BD & MD, India & Middle East, Vuclip

Salman has over 10 years experience in the mobile media space. He runs business development and strategy in India for Vuclip. Prior to Vuclip, he worked for Verisign, Al Ebda IT, and Electronics for Imaging.
 
Salman holds a BS from Aligarh Muslim University.

Saloni Nangia, Senior Vice President, Technopak

Saloni Nangia is Vice President (Retail & Consumer Products) at Technopak, one of India’s leading management consulting organisations, specialised in retail, consumer products, fashion, healthcare, hospitality and consumer insights. Technopak is currently working closely with the Indian travelling consumer, travel retail and new airport developments in India.

Over the last 13 years, Saloni has worked in the areas of business strategy and India entry strategy with a wide range of Indian and International clients. She has worked on consumer insights, market research, business planning, strategy and implementation for consumer products and retail for clients in India, Asia, Europe and North America.

Saloni has a Master’s Degree in International Business from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi and is a Science Graduate from Lucknow University, India.

Sam Santhosh, CEO & Chairman, MedGenome Labs Pvt Ltd

Mr Sam Santhosh is an entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in initiating and running successful businesses.

Sam is currently the Chairman and CEO of MedGenome Inc - a genomics-based research and diagnostics  company delivering the best of health care by decoding genetic information contained in an individual’s genome. MedGenome is the first mover and market leader in genomics-based diagnostics and research from India with international  offices in San Francisco and Boston.

Sam is an investor and mentor for many companies and is currently a board member at Impelsys Inc, New York, ePay Healthcare, San Francisco, SciGenom Labs, Cochin, Emerge Ventures, Singapore and the Centre for Commercialization of Antibodies (CCAB) Toronto, Canada

Prior to this Sam was the CEO and Managing Director of California Software Limited (Calsoft) from 1992 - Feb 2012. He founded Calsoft in 1992 and under Sam's vision Calsoft rapidly grew from a niche player in the Silicon Valley to a global player with over 1200 employees and presence in 8 countries. Sam took Calsoft public and listed  the company in the Indian Stock Exchanges. From 2004 to 2009, Sam focused on inorganic growth through eight acquisitions including companies in U.S, UK, Japan and India. Post 2009, he oversaw the sale of the Calsoft group companies to different buyers across the world.

He has been constantly retooling himself and has attended various training programs in different U.S universities including MIT. In 2010, he completed the Executive Education program at the Singularity University in Sunnyvale, California. Sam has an engineering degree and an MBA (majoring in Management Information Systems) from India's premier institute, IIM Calcutta.

Samar Singla, Founder and CEO, Jugnoo

Mr. Samar Singla, Founder and CEO of Jugnoo is a serial entrepreneur. An alumnus of IIT Delhi and a Physicist by education, Mr. Singla sold his first company, Prodigy foods and followed it with his second venture Click Labs, a profitable SaaS technology solution provider. Jugnoo, his third venture, aims to be an instant on-demand mate for all the daily needs of its customers and uplift millions of people socially and economically by providing them better income and life quality.

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Samarth Kholkar, Cloud Ecosystem Sales Leader, IBM India/SA

Samarth Kholkar, Leads Cloud Ecosystem Sales for IBM India/South Asia. He is responsible for leading development and execution of the region's Cloud Ecosystem organization. Cloud is a key strategic initiative for IBM globally.

Samarth is involved in Planning & Developing Joint Go to Market for Tech StartUps, ISVs & Born on the Web organizations with Key focus on fast growth industries like Media, E-commerce & IT/ITES Companies.

Samarth has a total experience of over 10 years in Sales & Marketing. At IBM, he has led multiple transformational deals from business development stage to closure in new technologies like Analytics, Mobility & Cloud. He has worked extensively in the Indian SMB space and driven multiple initiatives for IBM within the same.

He started his career as an Entrepreneur and continues to work very closely with the StartUp Ecosystem in India. Samarth is an Engineering graduate from University of Pune and holds an MBA in Marketing.

Samay Kohli, CEO, Grey Orange Robotics

Samay is the Co-founder and CEO of Grey Orange, a fast-growing hardware startup that’s disrupting a deeply unorganized industry, Warehousing. His team is building an army of thousands of robots (called Butlers) to take over the warehouses and distribution centers.

Grey Orange is venture backed by some of the very best Venture firms (Tiger Global and Blume Ventures), angel investors, and an advisory panel of technical experts and entrepreneurs who have led billion dollar companies.

Samay has been a keynote speaker at several prominent conferences including Nasscom’s Engineering Summit and CII Innovation Summit.

Samay Kohli is an alumnus of BITS Pilani, has completed his degree in Economics and Mechanical Engineering. Before co-founding Grey Orange, Samay was the Team Lead of Team AcYut that had created India’s first Humanoid that won several medals at RoboGames (San Francisco).

Apart from his technical know-how Samay has helped the BITS Pilani team win a number of accolades and has also reprented India at various countries such as USA, Japan, S.Korea, Germany etc.