Our speakers
Shalabh Saxena, Chief Operating Officer, Canara HSBC Oriental Bank of Commerce Life Insurance Company Limited
Shalabh is a founder member & currently heads Marketing, Operations, Information Technology, Customer Retention & Corporate Communication. An MBA in Marketing, he has previously worked with Standard Chartered Bank and ING Life Insurance.
He brings with him a strong retail financial experience of 22+ years in Consumer Banking & Life Insurance Industry. Through his career he has run large profit centre & SBU’s across various business lines in Life Insurance & Retail Banking. Core competence & exposure revolves around Distribution set up & handling sales in large business environment, Marketing, Strategic Planning, Customer Retention, Alliances & Acquisitions, Channel Relationship Management, Market Expansion & Distribution Strategy, Customer Service & Operations.
Shalabh in his current role handles four diverse functions of the company - Marketing (Brand, Digital Marketing, Public Relations), Operations, Information Technology & Customer Retention (Customer Engagement, Customer Experience & Satisfaction). The focus hence is on creating an enabling environment for the brand and work in parallel on various initiatives focused on the Customer.
Shalabh is a self driven professional & brings a high level of energy, dedication and integrity to the work place with a clear focus towards achievement of organizational goals.
Shalabh Shrivastava, Director - Customer Experience, Flipkart.com
Shalabh heads Customer Experience at Flipkart. In this role he is responsible for representing the customer requirements within the organization.
Prior to Flipkart, Shalabh was with Reliance Retail for seven years. He has experience in diverse customer-facing fields such as Strategy, Merchandising, Space Range & Display, Marketing and Loyalty, Analytics & CRM.
Prior to Reliance, Shalabh had management consulting stints in EY & Cognizant, a Corporate Finance stint in ICICI Bank and an Offshoring stint in Infosys.
He is an engineer from IIT-BHU and MBA from XLRI Jamshedpur.
Shaleen Sinha, Managing Director and Head, BCG India Growth Tech
Shaleen leads the Growth Tech practice at BCG India. Growth tech works with leading digital disruptors and startups on range of transformative issues. Prior to this, Shaleen had a mix of operating and consulting experiences in India and US especially in space of consumer and deep tech. In the last stint, Shaleen was CEO at Zivame - a large vertical e-commerce company.
Shalil Gupta , Business Head, Mosaic Digital
Shalil is responsible for research, events and training business that assists clients in improving their capabilities in key process areas. Before this, Shalil was ‘AVP, Research and Consulting’ at IDC India. He has an extensive senior level experience in the ICT industry that enriches his strategic engagements with companies. A much-sought-after speaker at international forums, Shalil also invests his time in leading innumerable focused group discussions in India. With his specialization in the BFSI sector, he covers an array of topics including emerging technologies, digital enterprises, industries and IT sourcing and servicing in his speaking engagements.
Shalil's role extends beyond delivering qualitative research content, and includes preparing forward-looking assessment and analysis and sharing market insights and predictions with senior management teams. He has worked in India, London, Edinburgh, Ireland, Western Europe, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, and Taiwan. During his time in these organizations, he has driven the development of enterprise level technology strategies, managed large transformation and IT programs, and played a leading role in a post-merger IT integration of two banks in the United Kingdom.
A graduate of Computer Science, Shalil holds a postgraduate (MBA) degree from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), a leading business school in India.
Shalil Gupta, Business Head, Mosaic Digital
Shalil is responsible for research, events and training business that assists clients in improving their capabilities in key process areas. Before this, Shalil was ‘AVP, Research and Consulting’ at IDC India. He has an extensive senior level experience in the ICT industry that enriches his strategic engagements with companies. A much-sought-after speaker at international forums, Shalil also invests his time in leading innumerable focused group discussions in India. With his specialization in the BFSI sector, he covers an array of topics including emerging technologies, digital enterprises, industries and IT sourcing and servicing in his speaking engagements.
Shalil's role extends beyond delivering qualitative research content, and includes preparing forward-looking assessment and analysis and sharing market insights and predictions with senior management teams. He has worked in India, London, Edinburgh, Ireland, Western Europe, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, and Taiwan. During his time in these organizations, he has driven the development of enterprise level technology strategies, managed large transformation and IT programs, and played a leading role in a post-merger IT integration of two banks in the United Kingdom.
A graduate of Computer Science, Shalil holds a postgraduate (MBA) degree from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), a leading business school in India.
Shalini Prakash, Principal, 500 startups
Shalini believes in the magic that happens at the intersection of entrepreneurship and technology. Her interests lie in understanding how these intersections can be empowered to create transformational solutions for different ecosystems. Her vast knowledge and experience gives her the unique perspective ability to operate in cross- disciplinary roles and industries, create inter-relations and develop creative solutions.
Currently, the Principal at 500Startups, a global venture capital firm and accelerator based in Silicon Valley with US$250M under management, Shalini takes pride in being at the helm of affairs at the world's most active early-stage investors with a portfolio of over 1,500 companies across 50 countries. She is responsible for 500’s India investments, portfolio and operations. Her focus is to scale 500’s investments, expertise and operations across India and help invest in the region’s most talented, passionate founders and promising startups.
Prior to joining 500, she was working with INKtalks (previously in association with TED) where her roles involved promoting INK’s platform through collaborative programs and partner networks. Apart from these engagements, she was an “Entrepreneur in Residence” at GSF Global Accelerator Program, Mentor in Residence for IDEX Accelerator Program and a Program Manager at Kyron Accelerator Program.
She holds Master of Science (MS) from London School of Economics (LSE), MBA from Liverpool Business School and an Engineering Graduate from RVCE Bangalore.
Shamender Sharma, Head Business Strategy, Khedut Agro Engineering Pvt Ltd
He is the head- Strategy and business development at Khedut Agro Engineering which is India’s largest manufacturer of automatic seed drills and innovative planting machinery. Here he is responsible to set corporate strategic directions (vision and Strategy) & support in decisions on key strategic issues i.e. market entry, acquisitions. He reviews the company’s overall strategy to ensure the organization anticipates and responds to changing business conditions. He serves as principal external representative of the company and develops successful alliances and joint ventures etc.
He has over 15 years’ experience in handling business development for banking, Financial institutions and Agriculture Retail. He is also a part of leading consulting firm “GoldRoof Advisors”, has worked on both private equity transactions and structured finance deals, with specific focus on agro based companies.
Shamsher Puri, MD, Dusters Total Solutions
After successfully completing Mechanical engineering degree from Punjab Engineering college, Mr. Bansal joined Engineers India Limited. In 1983, he left the cushioned corporate job to fulfill his long envisaged dreams.
His first venture started with providing Design consultancy followed by EPC for Sugar plants. Innovation and R&D are the two critical attributes Mr. Bansal has inculcated in the employees and has made them DNA of the group. Later the company ventured into Pre-Fabrication business for Piping, started its own fitting manufacturing capacity and is now one of the leading international engineering enterprises offering a single source solution for piping systems.
Under the supreme guidance and management of Mr. Bansal for last 27 years, the company grew by leaps & bounds and have achieved new heights. But if you take his words it’s just the starting and there is lot to be achieved and to be given back to the society.
The company ventured into Biomass space way back in 2003, when it was just a beginning of green power/ cleantech era. With the years of industry experience and passion to do something new, Mr. Bansal along with the team erected and commissioned 2 biomass plants in the record time of 9 months from the date of starting the civil works.
The vision of setting up these plants was beyond corporate profits & accounts. It was to give back something to the society, something to the farmers, to rural people and something to the State of Punjab where his roots are from.
Shankar Kambam, CEO, Meridian Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Shankar Narayanan, Co-Head, Carlyle Asia Growth Partners
Shankar Narayanan is a Managing Director with the Asia Growth Capital team of global PE fund responsible for advising growth capital investments in India. He is based in Mumbai.
Mr. Narayanan has been in private equity since 1993 with the unique distinction of having run some of the investee companies as a CEO. He has on-the-ground work experience across the country which allows him to have a very practical perspective of growth prospects and challenges across industries.
Since joining the global PE fund in 2004, Mr. Narayanan has led and advised Carlyle on key investments such as Claris Lifesciences, Elitecore Technologies, Repco Home Finance, Tirumala Milk Products, Visen Industries, Value and Budget Housing Corporation, Edelweiss Financial Services, South Indian Bank, Infotech Enterprises; etc. He has also successfully delivered exits from Tirumala Milk Products, Cyberoam Technologies and Repco Home Finance (IPO). He was also actively involved in managing the fund’s investments and exits in Newgen Knowledge Works, Financial Software & Systems, Learning Mate Solutions, QuEST and Sharekhan.
Prior to joining the global PE fund, Mr. Narayanan spent six years at Hathway Investments in Mumbai and during that time served as Managing Director and CEO. He was also with Deutsche Bank Capital Partners, based in Hong Kong, as a Director covering South Asia and India. He was involved in a number of prominent private equity investments in India, including Johnson Tiles, Exide Industries, Hathway Cable, Asianet Satellite Communications, Pushpa Polymers, Tata Infomedia and AFL Limited and served on the Board of Directors of all these Companies.
Prior to Hathway Investments, Mr. Shankar Narayanan worked at Citibank in Mumbai. He received a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from XLRI Jamshedpur where he was a Gold Medalist standing first in the graduating class in the area of Finance & Accounting and a Bachelor of Technology degree in Civil Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi.
Mr. Narayanan is currently on the Boards of Elitecore Technologies, Infotech Enterprises and Newgen Knowledge Works. Previously he served on the Boards of key portfolios such as Repco Home Finance, Claris Lifesciences, Value and Budget Housing Corporation, Visen Industries, Financial Software & Systems, Tirumala Milk Products, Cyberoam Technologies, Learning Mate Solutions, Allsec Technologies, QuEST, Newgen Knowledge Works & Sharekhan.