Our speakers

Sheshadri Savalgi, CFO/Finance Director, General Mills, India

Shilpa Kulkarni, MD, Zodius Capital

Shilpa leads the development of our Digital Services companies. She also manages our investor relationships and corporate transactions. Shilpa has previously managed corporate development and Investments function at WNS, prior to which she was a venture investor at eVentures India where her investments included Mentorix (sold to Lionbridge), Intigma (sold to Emptoris). Shilpa began her career as an Investment Banker with JP Morgan Chase.

Shilpa Kulkarni, Managing Director, Zodius

Shilpa Kumar, Partner, Omidyar

Shilpa is a Partner at Omidyar Network India, a social impact investment fund

Shilpa provides overall leadership, including strategy and investments, across the areas of Digital Society, Urban Governance, Access to Justice and Property Rights initiatives. She also leads policy work in Financial Inclusion and in development of the Non Profit sector strategy.

Shilpa has spent more than three decades with the ICICI Bank group (India’s largest private sector bank). A key part of her career was in financial markets, building and shaping what is today the bank’s treasury/global markets business. She served as MD & CEO of ICICI Securities, India’s largest retail broker & a leading investment bank in the country. Shilpa has held board positions in several organisations: ICICI Securities, ICICI Securities Prime Dealership, ICICI Home Finance, Clearing Corporation of India and National Investment and Infrastructure Fund.

She has also served on regulatory committees including SEBI’s Secondary Markets Advisory Committee, RBI’s Technical Advisory Committee and RBI’s Mohanty Committee on Monetary Policy. She has also held positions in industry bodies like FIMMDA (as Chairperson), FICCI / CII (Capital Markets Committee) besides serving on the Advisory Committees of the National Stock Exchange, Bombay Stock Exchange and National Securities Depository Ltd.

Shilpa is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata.
 

Shilpa Mankar Ahluwalia, Partner, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co.

Ms. Shilpa Mankar Ahluwalia is a Partner in the corporate advisory group of the Firm and focuses on the banking & finance, mergers & acquisitions, and foreign investment practice areas.

Ms. Ahluwalia advises various companies, banks and financial institutions in connection with their financing activities (plain vanilla and structured financings, loan syndication and guarantee structures, securitization structures, equipment financing and issue of non-convertible debentures). Her clients include the International Finance Corporation (The World Bank), Investec Bank, Barclays Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland, Standard Chartered Bank, State Bank of India, Punjab National Bank, India Infrastructure Finance Company Limited, Deutsche Bank and GE Money. She has also advised several payment services companies such as the American Express Banking Corporation, Microsoft, Paytm, GoIbibo, Flipkart, Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Oxygen in respect of their payment products and services. She has advised several factoring companies on their factoring products and strategies in India.

Shilpi Pandey, Chief People Officer, BlackBuck

Shinjini Kumar, Co-Founder, SALT

Shiraz Bugwadia, MD, o3 Capital

Shiraz Bugwadia focuses on the Life Sciences and Infrastructure practice. Shiraz has more than 15 years of experience in investment banking and has worked extensively on deals across multiple spectrums of Life Sciences and Infrastructure sectors.

He graduated as an engineer from Mumbai University and completed M.B.A. from Melbourne Business School.

Shirish Andhare, Chief Product Officer, Ezetap Mobile Solutions

Shirish Andhare, Chief Product officer @ Ezetap Mobile Solutions Pvt. Ltd loves to work at the intersection of software, designs and markets to solve hard problems.
As Chief Product Officer, Shirish constantly endeavours to transform customer insights into viable customer propositions. He has worked with leading technology corporations in Silicon Valley & in India. In his last stint before Ezetap, He worked as Senior Vice-President & General Manager, India Region for Naurus Inc., Subsidiary of Boeing Company.

A keen start-up & Entrepreneurship aficionado, he was a resident mentor @ Centre for Innovation Incubation & Entrepreneurship, IIM Ahmedabad for a leading start up accelerator program in India.

He is an alumnus of Stanford University & has completed his M.S, Computer Science & Engineering from University of Texas, Arlington. He completed his Bachelor of Engineering, computer science from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology.

Shirish Deodhar, CEO and Co-Founder, Sapience Analytics

Shirish Deodhar provides overall leadership at Sapience Analytics (www.sapience.net). The company’s eponymously named,  patent-pending and award-winning product helps build ‘A Mindful EnterpriseTM’, and thereby ensures that employees and teams can achieve significant productivity improvement coupled with greater work-life harmony.

Shirish is a serial entrepreneur, whose previous two software companies had successful exits to global majors - Symantec Corp. in 1999, and Symphony Services Inc. in 2004. Subsequently, as head of their Pune subsidiaries, he helped achieve rapid business growth to 600+ employees and over $25 million revenue in 3.5 years each.

Shirish has done his B-Tech (EE) from IIT Mumbai, followed by a Master’s degree from USA. He holds a US patent and filed two more recently, has presented ten technical papers, won several excellence awards, and has written a book titled ‘From Entrepreneurs to Leaders’ published in 2010 by Tata McGraw-Hill.