Our speakers
Amit Ranjan, Co-Founder, SlideShare
Amit heads SlideShare’s Delhi office. He focuses on product management, content and community. Before co-founding SlideShare, Amit had a career in consumer goods marketing and sales. His previous employers include PepsiCo, Asian Paints and Godrej. He holds an MBA from the Faculty of Management Studies, University Of Delhi and a mechanical engineering degree from REC/NIT, Jaipur. Amit is an active participant in the Indian startup circuit, speaking frequently about building and scaling startups.
Amit Roushan, Co-Founder & Head of Product, Playo
Amit Sathe, Buisness Head - Commercial Buisnesses, The Phoenix Mills Ltd
With an experience spanning 15 years Amit is a well known name in the Real Estate industry. His success as a real estate professional is been credited for his out of the box thinking and innovative approach. This creative streak gets displayed from his initial phase of his career with Advertising and Media companies like O&M & JWT . Amit forayed into real estate with Damac Holdings Dubai; which gave him an International perspective to market real estate projects .Post which he has had successful stints with the best real estate developers in India and presently heads the Commercial Business for the Phoenix Mills Group - The pioneers in bringing the mixed used development concept to the market.
His understanding and focus on Commercial and Retail developments has helped the group to expand its commercial portfolio across India and the success of the Marketcity Kurla project stands testimony to the fact that it’s becoming a Commercial destination of its own.
Ever enthusiastic, he is an avid reader & a sportsman and believes in playing the game to only WIN.
Amit Saxena, Chief Technology office, Reserve Bank of India|Innovation HUB
Amit Shah, Senior President & Country Head Corporate Strategy, YES BANK & Executive Director, YES Global Institute
Amit Shah, a senior leader at YES BANK and founding member of YES Global Institute, YES BANK’s practicing think-tank, is a ‘design-thinker’ and TEDx speaker with extensive experience in transformational leadership in the financial services and consultancy sectors across the world, and has made valuable contributions to the public understanding of FINTECH and Digital Banking.
Recently recognized by LinkedIn as a key social media influencer with his profile featuring among the LinkedIn Power Profiles India 2016, Amit has been instrumental in creating and strengthening the ‘YES BANK’ brand over the last eight years. During his tenure, the bank’s profit has grown more than 10x, and the bank has emerged as one of the Top 500 Banking Brands globally.
His responsibilities include business strategy, planning & analytics, marketing, internal & external communication, branding, digitalization, public & social policy advocacy, CSR strategy and sustainability initiatives.
Prior to joining YES BANK, Amit has worked with organizations like TSMG and L&T. He has completed his MBA from NITIE - Mumbai and Engineering from NIT - Surathkal.
Amit Sharma, Vice President & Head of HR, India, Volvo Group
Amit Somani, Chief Products Officer, Makemytrip.com
Amit Somani is the Chief Products Officer for MakeMyTrip, heading the online product portfolio along with User Experience and Content. Amit comes with over 17 years of experience and has worked with Google and IBM where he was Head for Mobile Products for Google for Asia-Pacific and Director for the Enterprise Search and Discovery business at IBM based out of San Jose, California.
Amit has published several papers, holds seven patents and is the recipient of three IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement awards.
He holds a Bachelor's in Technology degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Insititut of Technology-Banaras Hindu University (IT-BHU), India (Gold Medalist) and an M.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Among his interests, Amit is a cricket enthusiast, enjoys reading and is a fusion chef.
Amit Soni, Principal, General Atlantic | @generalatlantic
Amit Soni joined GA in 2008 and has worked in our New York, London and India offices. He is based in the firm’s Mumbai office where he focuses on investments in the firm's Internet & Technology sector, including IT services.
Amit is closely involved with General Atlantic’s investments in BillDesk, CitiusTech, IBS Software and Mu Sigma. He has played an active role in General Atlantic’s investments in House of Anita Dongre (formerly known as AND Designs), Kaspersky, MedExpress, Red Ventures, Hexaware and Infotech Enterprises.
Prior to General Atlantic, Amit worked at 3i Plc’s India office and focused on investments in the automotive, media, and oil & gas sectors. Amit has previously worked with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and was instrumental in setting up the largest HIV/AIDS prevention program in India. He has also been a consultant with McKinsey & Company.
Amit earned his M.B.A from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and his Bachelors of Technology in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
Amit Thakkar, Senior Vice President - Private Equity, Indiabulls Asset Management Company Ltd.
Amit Thawani, Executive Director, Nomura Financial Advisory & Securities (India) Private Limited
Amit is an Executive Director in Nomura India Investment Banking and has 14 years of investment banking and corporate finance experience in India. He is responsible for coverage of Real Estate and Infrastructure sectors and Financial Institutions Group (FIG) in India. Amit has been associated with several large capital raising situations including REIT products with DLF Assets, Religare, L&T, IL&FS etc.
Prior to joining Nomura, Amit worked with KPMG Corporate Finance for 7 years advising on cross-border M&A and private equity capital raising transactions across sectors including financial services, industrials, real estate, etc
Amit is a Chartered Financial Analyst, Chartered Accountant and Company Secretary by qualification. He is also associated with Indian Institute of Management (IIM) for guest lectures / recruitment processes.