Our speakers

Sanjoy Bose, EVP Sales and Marketing, Wibmo Inc

Sankalp Agarwal, CEO, TravelTriangle

A technology maven with entrepreneurship in his Marwari blood, Sankalp Agarwal is the Co-founder and CEO of TravelTriangle, India’s first full-stack holiday marketplace. He believes every difficult problem has a simple solution and you just have to be innovative enough to find it. At TravelTriangle, he leads the company vision and is intrinsically involved in fundraising, business growth & creating a Sankalp has completed his B.Tech as well as M.Tech in Computer Science from the prestigious IIT Kharagpur. He held a highly lucrative post at Adobe before his own entrepreneurial venture with TravelTriangle.  Sankalp has even etched his name in the record books. He, along with 17 other team members, are mentioned in the Limca Book of Records for solving the World’s Largest Jigsaw puzzle. Striving for excellence in every aspect of his life is Sankalp’s sole mantra. His spirit and dedication is also demonstrated by his academic and extracurricular achievements.

A state topper in Class 10 Boards from Rajasthan, he has designed his own LINUX user interface like KDE, while in college. His innovative nature led him to tackle several technological gaps in his day to day life such as an automated birthday wisher on Facebook to avoid the wrath of his huge friend network, Dictionary Bot in Google Talk to understand the English vocabulary better while chatting with friends & an Expense Manager to make monthly expenditure reports for his mom. Besides his interests in reading and watching movies, Sankalp has backpacked with friends to several off-beat destinations in India and abroad. He is also an accomplished sports person who won Gold Medals in Hockey during his college days. As an avid traveler himself, Sankalp aims to make the entire travel experience simply amazing for customers.

Sankar Chakraborti, Head - CRISIL Ratings, CRISIL Ltd.

Sankar heads the Business Development function for CRISIL Bank Loan Ratings. He has set up a large team of more than 120 relationship managers spread across 65 cities across the country. His team is credited with taking the concept of Bank Loan Rating to the farthest corner of the country and bringing unprecedented number of corporates including large number of SMEs under the rated universe.
Before CRISIL Ratings, Sankar has been with CRISIL Research since year 2000 and helped expand the research business of CRISIL, which today is India’s largest independent research house. During his tenure with CRISIL Research, Sankar has closely worked with credit analysis and risk management teams of banks in India.

Sankar was also deputed to Standard & Poor’s, Tokyo in 2006-2007 from CRISIL. During his stint in Tokyo he has interacted and worked with investors and bankers across the Asia Pacific region who looked at India for investment opportunity.
Before CRISIL, Sankar has worked with leading information and research services companies in India since the early days of this industry.

Sankaran Naren, CIO, ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund

Over the last 9 years with ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund, S Naren has managed flagship schemes like Infrastructure Fund, Discovery Plan and Tax Plan. In his current role, he is CIO - Equity and Fixed Income. He is also fund manager of Dynamic and Top 100 Fund.

He has 24 years of experience in broking, project finance, investment banking and fund management.

He holds a B-Tech degree from IIT Madras and PGDM from IIM Kolkata.

Recently he won the Business Standard Best Fund Manager Award - Equity. The products managed by S Naren have won many accolades in the past from both domestic and international agencies of repute.

Sanna Vohra, Founder, The Wedding Brigade | @TWeddingBrigade

Sanna Vohra is the Founder and CEO of The Wedding Brigade, an inspiration, planning, shopping, and services portal for Indian weddings. The company recently raised its seed round of funding lead by Blume Ventures. Prior to The Wedding Brigade, she worked in technology investment banking at Morgan Stanley in New York. She graduated Magna cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Brown University in 2012, where she co-founded the university's largest student-run business.

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Santanu Dutt, Sr. Architect & Technology Evangelist, Amazon Seller Services Pvt. Ltd

Santanu Dutt is a senior Architect and Technology Evangelist with Amazon Seller Services Pvt. Ltd where he is responsible in educating companies with the service offerings of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform, as well as helping them in their architecture with their best practices to build highly scalable and resilient applications on the AWS Cloud. He has also been a regular Speaker at premier industry wide conferences like Nasscom, eTailing, Infocom, TIE, Cloud Connect among others evangelizing on technologies like Cloud Computing and Big Data.

Prior to joining Amazon, he was responsible for working with large Indian enterprises and System Integratorson Infrastructure Migration, Virtualization, Consolidation and Systems Management. In the past, Santanu has also lived and worked out of the United States and the UK as part of various Services Delivery roles.

Mr. Dutt has a Bachelor’s Degree in Electronics from the Mumbai University.

Santanu Mukherjee, Chief Innovation & Strategy Officer, Janalakshmi Financial Services

Santanu is a banking and payments industry professional with over 25 years expertise in Asia Pacific Central Europe Middle East and Africa (APCEMEA) markets. He has worked in diverse business and functional roles, covering General Management, Retail Banking, Emerging payments and technologies, Strategic & Solutions Sales, Product and Risk Management.

He currently works at Janalakshmi Financial Services (JFS) an Indian microfinance company serving the urban poor. He started his career in the financial services industry with ANZ Grindlays / Standard Chartered Bank where he held positions of increasing responsibility for over 15 years mainly in the consumer and business (SME) banking divisions.

Santanu joined Visa in 2001 as the Country Manager & Managing Director for India and South Asia. In 2009, he moved to Singapore to take on an expanded regional role in Emerging Products and Innovations Group with responsibility for mobile, e-Commerce, proximity and personal payments solutions. Santanu is a qualified Chartered Accountant.

Santanu Paul, CEO and MD, TalentSprint

Santanu is CEO and MD at TalentSprint, a high growth venture he co-founded in the area of professional skills development, employability, and inclusion. He drives strategy, growth and execution, and is building a high performance organization where world-class professionals can deliver exceptional value to customers and all stakeholders. The vision is to transform TalentSprint into a global leader by 2015.

From 2003-2008, Santanu served at Virtusa Corporation as Senior Vice President, Global Delivery Operations, and Head, Indian Operations. From 1999-2003, Santanu worked in Boston as Chief Technology Officer of Openpages and Viveca, a B2B technology startup. He began his career in New York at the famed IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. His work on technology spans 20 international papers and 2 United States patents.

Santanu received a B.Tech. from IIT Madras and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor where he received the prestigious Rackham Pre-doctoral Fellowship and IBM Canada Fellowship. He is a Distinguished Fellow of IDRBT (set up by the RBI), a Distinguished Fellow of the Skoch Foundation, Vice President of ITsAP, and Director of TiE Hyderabad. His views and opinion pieces have appeared in the Economic Times, Financial Express, Business Standard, Hindu Business Line, Times of India, Hindu, and BBC online.

Santosh Desai, Managing Director & CEO, Future Brands Ltd

Santosh is the ceo and managing director of Futurebrands India Ltd. Before taking up this assignment, he was the President of McCann-Erickson, one of India's premier advertising agencies.

A post-graduate from IIM Ahmedabad, Santosh spent 21 years in advertising and was strategically involved in building key brands for a range of local and multinational clients. He has been a guest lecturer at various national & international universities and has addressed the global management boards of several multinationals including Microsoft, Philips, Hershey's, Unilever, Coke and Reckitt Benckiser.

His principal area of interest lies in studying the relationship between culture and brands. He has been writing a weekly column for the Times of India for over a decade and is author of Mother Pious Lady- Making Sense of Everyday India, a book that examines how the everyday life of middle class India has evolved.

Santosh Kumar, Head & VP - Government Engagement, South Asia, Mastercard