Our speakers

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.

Shirish Godbole, MD & India Head, Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing (MSREI) India

Shirish Godbole is a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley and the country head (India) of Morgan Stanley’s Real Estate Investing business. Mr. Godbole is a seasoned Real Estate Finance professional having worked in this sector for over 20 years in three continents.

Mr. Godbole has focused on real estate investing in India since 2007, initially at Goldman Sachs, where he was Managing Director and country head for Goldman Sachs’ Real Estate Principal Investments Area, and since November 2011 at Morgan Stanley.

From 2001 to 2007, he was based in London and was initially the CFO of Morgan Stanley’s Real Estate Investing Business for Europe and later the Co-head of Morgan Stanley’s Real Estate Debt Financing business for Europe.

He joined Morgan Stanley in 1994 in New York, as part of the Securitized Products Group after having spent several years at AEW Capital in Boston.

Mr. Godbole has received a Bachelor in Commerce Degree from the University of Mumbai and an MBA from Northeastern University of Boston.

Shishir Bhartia, Dy GM, Brand Capital

Shishir is a Chartered Accountant from Institute of Chartered Accountants England and Wales (ICAEW) and an alumnus of London School of Economics (LSE) with over 14 years of experience.

 

He started his career with a Big 4 firm, Deloitte in London in the Audit and Assurance practice. Post which he joined his family business in India and aggressively expanded the warehousing and real estate activities along with an entrepreneurial venture into distribution, franchise network and retail of consumer durables and mobile handsets.

 

He joined Brand Capital in 2008. He heads the portfolios for Healthcare, Wellness and Education sectors which are the fastest growing Brand Capital portfolios. He works closely with Entrepreneurs and CXO teams of high growth potential early stage organisations to help them achieve exponential growth through brand building, resource strengthening, business development strategies and applying best practices.

Shiv Kapoor, VP, Titan capital, Snapdeal

Shiv Khemka, Chairman, The Global Education and Leadership Foundation

Shiv is the Chairman of The Global Education & Leadership Foundation (www.tgelf.org), which identifies, nurtures and supports ethical altruistic leadership potential at schools and colleges. The program reaches about 2,500,000 schoolchildren in 14 countries, and has trained over 70,000 teachers and around the world. Shiv is also a Trustee of The Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation; a founding contributor to the Indian School of Business and the Public Health Foundation of India.

 Shiv was recently awarded the Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award by Tufts University, and the Outstanding Contribution to Education Prize at Wharton’s Reimagining Education Conference. He was elected a Global Leader for Tomorrow (GLT) at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 1997 and was invited to join the Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Education.

He serves on the President’s Leadership Council at Brown University and the Board of Overseers of the Wharton School, the Board of Governors of the Lauder Institute. As one of the founding investors, Shiv also sits on the Council of the Moscow School of Management Skolkovo, and on the Brookings India Initiative Council.

Shiv is Vice Chairman of the SUN Group, a private, family-owned investment group active in several transforming markets around the world, in several industries ranging from oil & gas to technology and infrastructure.

Shiv speaks seven languages including Russian, French, Spanish and Portuguese and is Chairman of the Aikido Aikikai Foundation of India. He is married to Urvashi Rana from Nepal and they have three teenage daughters.

Shiv Kumar Bhasin, Group Chief Technology and Operations Officer (CTO/COO), National Stock Exchange of India Ltd.

Shiv Kumar Bhasin, CTO, State Bank of India