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Satyan Gajwani, CEO, Times Internet Ltd

Satyan Gajwani is the CEO of Times Internet Limited. Times Internet Ltd. is the largest Indian digital company, according to Comscore. Times Internet Ltd. owns and operates all major digital initiatives for the Times Group, including ventures in news, business news, lifestyle, music, video, local, e-commerce, deals, mobile, MVAS, and digital investments.

Satyan's goal is to operate Times Internet Ltd. as a collective of nimble startups with a dedicated focus on making each business a success in its respective vertical.

Satyan earned his Bachelors in Mathematical and Computational Science from Stanford University, and earned his Masters in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford as well. He previously worked at Barclays Bank in New York, and moved to India four years ago as Director of New Media for The Times Group.

Satyen Jain, CEO, Pride Hotels

Mr. Satyen Jain, a Chartered Accountant and MBA, is a Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Company. Mr.Satyen Jain oversees the implementation of the ongoing projects and has a keen eye upon applying International standards in F&B, Hi-tech Connectivity, room facilities, soft furnishings and hardware at the Pride Hotel sites.

Satyen V Kothari, Chairman/Founder, Citrus Payment Solutions Pvt Ltd

Satyen is the Chairman/Founder of Citrus Payment Solutions. He leads overall strategy, product, user experience, marketing, and strategic alliances for Citrus.

He spent 15 years in the Silicon Valley establishing companies in the areas of marketing automation, social e-commerce, and strategy/design consulting. He loves questioning the status quo and pushing the boundaries of what the accepted norms are. His career has included stints with several start-ups and larger companies such as Intuit, First Data, Cisco, AOL, Yahoo, frog Design & Apple. This has involved being an entrepreneur, a mentor, an investor, a consultant, and an educator in start-ups, Fortune 500 companies, incubators, and educational institutes across the United States, Europe, and Asia.

He secured a Masters from Stanford University in tech entrepreneurship/HCI/Computer Science in 1996, and has a BE in Computer Science/Engineering from Bombay University (1995). He is an occasional kite-surfer, alternative travel fan, and a dedicated consumer of gourmet mixology.

Saugat Roy, Principal Consultant, ERM: Environmental Resources Management

Over 20 years of professional career in sustainability helping corporations andGovernment’s reduce risk and manage their sustainability goals in business. Livedand worked in three continents, stationed at Germany, USA, S Korea, S Africa andIndia at different phases. A strategist and an implementer who worked in seniorleadership positions with responsibilities for technical delivery, risk advisory, business development and leading a team of skilled professionals. Specializes indriving improvement in environmental, social, health & safety and broader sustainability performancethrough impact analysis, risk management and assurance systems. Proven capacity in stakeholder management, brand management and leading any changemanagement within organizations. Efficient technical and managerial skills,recognized high performer, innovative and articulate with skills to conceptualizeneed, design solutions, manage and deliver business outcomes. An effectivecommunicator with an ability to address grass root and boardroom challengesseamlessly.Saugat has worked with Financial Institutes (Donor / PE / VC/ Impact funds/ ECAs) on a number of assignments for portfolio management, project finance or equity investments advising ondue diligence, capacity building, developing ESGmanagement systems,monitoring and performancedisclosure. Saugat routinely engages on behalf of lending banks or funding agencies therefore familiar with international benchmark standards (IFC-PS, OECD, ABD, and KfW)and regulatory requirements. He has also worked with clients in high hazard industry sectors such as oil and gas, mining, infrastructure and construction and polluting medium and small-scale enterprises sector on behalf of the investors.

Prior to joining ERM, Saugat worked for a leading oil and gas company engaged in upstream, midstream operations in Asiaand North Europe and in a FMCG company, responsible for EHS across multiple facilities.  His key responsibilities included EHS complianceand driving performance enhancement programs on behalf of his employer.

Saugata Bhattacharya, Exec VP and Chief Economist, Axis Bank

Mr. Saugata Bhattacharya is Senior Vice President and Chief Economist at Axis Bank. He was previously with Unilever in India and with Infrastructure Development Finance Company (IDFC). He has studied at the Delhi School of Economics and Oxford University.

He was a member of the RBI’s Group on of Monetary Policy (2010) and the Finance Ministry Group on Estimating Foreign Savings (2011). He was part of the Core Group supporting the Percy Mistry Committee on Making Mumbai an International Financial Centre in 2007.

He is a member of the CII National Growth and Investment Council and a Special Invitee to the CII Western Region Council. He is a columnist for the Financial Express, and a regular contributor to other newspapers.

Saurabh Adeeb, Head of Operations & Partnerships, The/Nudge Foundation

Saurabh is the Head of Operations at The/Nudge Foundation, a non-profit that exists to alleviate poverty, sustainably and scalably. Having been closely involved since the foundation's inception, he is, by his own admission, excited by the vision of building a world class organization in the development sector and bringing about sustainable change among the youth. In his earlier stints, he has spent 15 years in the corporate sector working with companies like Google where he led and grew the strategic publisher partnerships business by 60%, and Motorola where he led key software deliverables for flagship mobile handsets. He had also cofounded a startup that he shut down prior to joining The/Nudge.

Saurabh completed his engineering from BIT Ranchi and has an MBA from ISB Hyderabad.

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Saurabh Aggarwal, Founder & CEO, Octro

He has successfully led Octro since 2006, from when Octro created the world’s first Mobile VoIP client, before shifting focus to mobilizing locally popular games. Currently, Octro's three games, Octro Teen Patti, Octro Rummy and Octro Tambola stand amongst the top 5 in the gaming section for India, making Octro Inc. the largest mobile gaming company in India.

Saurabh is a technologist with business vision. Through Octro, he has built one of the most complex backend, powering game developers to build highly engaging multiplayer games, catapulting those mediocre to outstanding. Moreover, he uses his business acumen to create mass following for these games, cutting through social classes by re-imagining Indian games made in India for Indians.

Before Octro, Saurabh was the Co-Founder of PDA apps, the creator of VeriChat, a mobile IM solution, that got acquired by Intellisync in 2005. Saurabh started his career at Packeteer Inc. where he was part of the core engineering team. He holds an MS in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Saurabh Agrawal, Chief Strategy and Investment Officer, Mafatlal Family Office

Saurabh Arora, Founder & CEO, Airwoot

Saurabh believes that it's an era of internet of customers and social media plays an important role in connecting billions across the globe. Saurabh realized that there existed a huge gap in technology that would allow brands to deeply engage with their customers on social media and that was the trigger to build Airwoot: a company that brings artificial intelligence together with customer intelligence to drive customer delight. Saurabh sees a world where the brands have the power to engage with their customers on social media to the “power of one” and getting to know them like never before. Prior to kickstarting Airwoot, Saurabh worked as a doctoral researcher at Hasso-plattner Berlin in the area of security & usage control of data.

Saurabh Arora, CEO & Co-founder, Lybrate

Saurabh Arora is the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Lybrate, India’s first and largest mobile healthcare communication and delivery platform. With Lybrate, he is striving to make healthcare more accessible in India and bridge the demand-supply gap of healthcare experts by seamlessly connecting doctors and patients with the help of technology and letting them communicate using mobile phones.

Saurabh brings huge entrepreneurial product experience to the venture. Prior to founding Lybrate, Saurabh worked with Facebook Inc in the United States where he connected SMEs and large advertisers to their customers using Facebook Ads.

While working with Facebook, Saurabh decided to come back and fix the fundamental issue that plagued the Indian healthcare, which was inaccessibility of doctors. He noticed that people were blindly relying on chemists, who were not even qualified to prescribe medicines, for fixing their health problems. The thought of the situation being much grave in tier 2 and 3 cities, and the conviction to find out a solution, prompted Saurabh to incorporate Lybrate, where he connected patients to doctors much in the same way he connected SMEs and large advertisers to their customers using Facebook Ads in Facebook.

Lybrate provides people the opportunity to seek multiple opinions from doctors and bridges effectively the yawning demand-supply gap of healthcare experts in the country. With a strong network of 80,000 doctors from across India, Lybrate acts as the world’s largest online Out Patient Department (OPD).

Saurabh is an MBA from Columbia Business School. He pursued his Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering from the country’s premier Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi.