Our speakers

Sanjay Nayak, CEO & MD, Tejas Networks

Sanjay Nayak is the Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of Tejas Networks, a leading optical networking product company from India. Mr. Nayak is a technologist with over 20 years of industry experience in India as well as the USA. Prior to founding Tejas, he held senior management position in globally leading Electronic Design Automation companies such as Synopsys (where he was the Managing Director of Synopsys-India) and earlier at Cadence Design Systems.

Mr. Nayak holds a M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University, Raleigh and B.E in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra.

Sanjay Nekkanti, CEO, Dhruva Space

Sanjay Ojha, Senior Partner, Business Transformation Services, IBM Consulting, India & South Asia

Sanjay is leading IBM’s pivot to AI & Cloud in the new paradigm through his role as leader for Business Transformation Services in India. He drives client mindshare on transformation led by AI, Digital and functional consulting ie, customer, talent, finance and supply chain. He works across industries including Banks, Telcos, Retailers, Media, Industrial and Government sector.

Before IBM, Sanjay was a Managing Director at Accenture in New York office, where he led Applied Intelligence and Digital business for Financial Services in North America. He helped clients reimagine their business models by embracing Artificial Intelligence and Analytics. He joined the firm in 2009 to help launch its Analytics business, grown it to global scale over a decade, that included building a global data science team of 1000+ practitioners across five markets.

In his prior work life between 2000-2009, Sanjay was instrumental in setting up GE Capital’s Analytics Center of Excellence at Bangalore, a first of its kind in India, that serviced businesses worldwide. Subsequently, he joined the leadership team of Genpact that was spun off from GE, and moved to Charlotte, North Carolina to set up Analytics virtual captives  for the US Banks.

Sanjay is an analytics and data native who is well versed with machine learning, data science, data engineering and artificial intelligence technologies, and its application to solve industry problems.

Sanjay Purohit, Founder, Director & CEO, iProf Learning Solutions India Pvt. Ltd

Sanjay is an expert in business innovation and process transformation and has extensive experience of leading transformation projects across several industries and organizations. He has experience in technology, textiles and outsourcing services industries and has worked in USA, India and Singapore.

Prior to starting iProf, Sanjay was a managing director with New York based business restructuring firm LMCO. As part of his role at LMCO, he oversaw restructuring at prominent organizations such as Silicon Graphics and Great wide. He has led several organizations through transformation phases as a CEO. He was the CEO of USD 600M textile firm Dan River in the United States. Dan River's transformation under he has been featured in several business periodicals and is a University of North Carolina Business School case study. In addition to Dan River, Sanjay has also been the CEO of BPO organizations Colwell and Salmon, Cartel; and manufacturing firm Best and Baker.

Earlier in his career, Sanjay has worked with AT&T Wireless and Motorola when they had just entered the Indian market. He was also part of the founding team at outsourcing firm Epicenter Technologies. His first job was as an IAS officer.

Sanjay is an MBA (Gold Medalist) from IIM, Ahmedabad and holds a Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from IIT, Mumbai.

Sanjay Sacheti, India Country Manager, Olam Agro India Ltd

Sanjay Sacheti is the Country Head since the year 2003 for Olam's Indian business which comprises of supply chain management of various agri commodities like Cashew, Coffee, Cotton, Rice, Sugar etc. He has been with Olam since the year 2000, and has experience of around 22 years in the areas of Finance, Commercial and agri commodity management.

He is a Chartered Accountant and a Company Secretary, and has prior experience of working with corporates like Hindustan Unilever, AgroTech Foods and the Tata Group. 

Sanjay Sancheti, Country Manager, Olam Agro India

Sanjay Sacheti is the Country Head since the year 2003 for Olam's Indian business which comprises of supply chain management of various agri commodities like Cashew, Coffee, Cotton, Rice, Sugar etc. He has been with Olam since the year 2000, and has experience of around 22 years in the areas of Finance, Commercial and agri commodity management.

He is a Chartered Accountant and a Company Secretary, and has prior experience of working with corporates like Hindustan Unilever, AgroTech Foods and the Tata Group.

Sanjay Sethi, CEO & Co-Founder, ShopClues.com

Sanjay is widely recognized as a marketplace ‘guru’ and a product visionary with expertise in building complex ecosystems for ecommerce. As Co-founder of ShopClues, he is committed to delivering a truly enjoyable shopping experience for customers on this state-of-the-art online platform. Sanjay has enjoyed a successful career of over 20 years in Internet product development, including ecommerce marketplaces, online payments, operations and trade logistics.

Prior to assuming the company's leadership, Sanjay was Vice President - Products and was responsible for providing the products and processes needed to create and run an efficient marketplace at ShopClues.com.

In his previous assignment, Sanjay has been the Global Product Head for Shipping & Logistics, Payments & Billing for eBay, at its headquarter in the Silicon Valley. He is a graduate in technology from Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi) and Indian Institute of Technology - Banaras Hindu University.

Sanjay Sethi, Managing Director & CEO, Signature Agri Ventures Ltd.

Mr. Sanjay Sethi was recognised for his noteworthy contributions to improve the agribusiness and food security situation in African countries and he won the prestigious “The  Africa Food Prize 2013 Award” at Kampala, Uganda. He was also felicitated on behalf of His Highness Sheikh Saud Bin Saqr Al Qasimi, The Ruler of Ras Al Khaimah, UAE. He was also felicitated as per the traditions of Tivland in Nigeria by the then Minister of Commerce and Industry – Governor Samuel Ortom.

Mr. Sanjay Sethi led  Africa and Asia focused teams on agribusiness investment, developing and managing large commercial farms, agri infrastructure and agri business companies. Mr. Sethi undertook many infrastructure projects like setting up India’s first Mega Food Park for Patanjali Ayurved and India’s first Free Trade Warehousing Zone.  Mr. Sethi lives in Dubai and has held senior leadership positions in various reputed international companies in India, Africa and Middle East.  He started his career in 1991 from National Dairy Development Borard, and also worked for Hindistan Unilever, Sputnik Overseas, Premium Farm Fresh Produce, Tachnopak Advisors, Arshiya Internattional, Jain Irrigation, ETG and recently as Managing Director of Signature Agri Ventures Ltd. He is a Graduation in Agriculture and MBA from Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA).

Mr. Sethi’s publications ‘Land of Opportunities - The Food Industry in India’ and  ‘Building Exponential Growth in India’s  Agricultural Exports’  have been widely referred by decision makers in government and private sector world over. Mr. Sethi has a distinguished track record as a Strategist, Entrepreneur,  Business Leader,  Change Agent and a  Thought Leader.  He was invited to speak at business forums all over the world on the topics of food security,  investment opportunities in Agriculture and building  Africa’s  Agribusiness. He has been a Founding Representative from his company to G8‘s “New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition” and  World Economic Forum’s “Grow Africa” initiative which transformed the investment climate in African Agriculture.

Sanjay Sharma, Co-founder & MD, Aye Finance

Sanjay Sharma co-founded Aye Finance, a young organization driving innovation that delivers customer centered and affordable loans to micro enterprises which had so far been excluded from the financial system in India. Sanjay considers it his calling, to transform the financing of underserved micro enterprise in India. Though hard business metrics determine the success in a job, Sanjay also measures the progress of Aye with the thousands of happy customers his organization has empowered and made self-reliant.

With his IIT-IIM pedigree, Sanjay’s stellar achievements spanning 30 years in consumer lending, are no surprise. His transformational leadership has pioneered the launch of direct banking in HDFC Bank in the 90s ; established consumer lending and credit card operations at ICICI; catalyzed StanChart(UAE) to top of the industry in customer satisfaction and made Max New York Life Insurance a leader in underwriting and  claims processes. In 2003 he set up Tamweel PJSC- the first sharia compliant Housing Finance company in UAE. This become the largest housing finance company in the country and consistently won the top industry awards in the region between 2003 and 2009.

Under Sanjay’s leadership, Aye Finance has become a vibrant and deeply engaged team that is rapidly setting new standards in building a quality loans portfolio in an inclusive manner.

Sanjay Siboo, Country Manager - Cloud Services, IBM India/South Asia

Sanjay Siboo is the Country Manager, Cloud Services, Offerings Management & Development for Global Technology Services (GTS) for IBM India/South Asia.

In his current role, Sanjay manages Cloud Services offerings portfolio and works closely with sales and coverage leaders for the positioning and deployment of various Cloud offerings for India/South Asia. In addition, he interacts with customers for positioning and strategizing cloud offerings. He also supports Business partner route for various cloud offerings which includes enablement, business plan. Prior to this role, Sanjay was Service Product Line Leader for System Services in ITS for ISA.

Sanjay has broad experiences in various aspects of business, ranging from business leadership, product management, account management and business development both from a technology and geographic perspective.

Sanjay holds a degree in Electronics & Electrical Engineering from the BITS Pilani and executive PGDBM from SIBM Pune.