Our speakers

Subrata Dutta, Ex-MD, Samsonite-South Asia

A Management Consultant in the area of Business Turnaround and Growth Strategy, Subrata Dutta heads his own outfit ‘Turnaround Consultants’. With over 24 years of extensive background and marketing experience with esteemed brands,  Subrata Dutta’s latest tenure was with Samsonite in the capacity of Managing Director.  He headed the India & Middle East operations for Samsonite till 2012.

His tryst with marketing began when he joined one of the biggest selling cosmetic brands, Lakme as their Assistant Manager. His 9 year long experience with Lakmé honed his expertise in the consumer products segment.  Subrata also had the opportunity to work with brands like Calvin Klein & Elizabeth Arden perfumes & skin care,  to move on to join Pepsi Foods as Vice President for the on premise business which gained him the necessary experience in the food and beverage sector. From there on, he remained deeply engaged and provided his marketing proficiency to some of the biggest names in the industry including Swedish Match - Wimco and Himalaya Herbals.

Subrata has been instrumental in the growth of Samsonite. Through his business acumen and his understanding of the Indian luggage market, Subrata has successfully created benchmark for Samsonite and American Tourister.  Under his leadership the company has grown from strength to strength over the past 6 years, with a  4 fold growth in business in India and Middle East. Today Samsonite and American Tourister are on a fast-track to success with Samsonite opening at least 8-10 new stores every month pan India.

Subrata holds a Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, (IIT) Kharagpur and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore. An avid traveler, Subrata never lets go of an opportunity to travel, especially if it includes a long drive.

Subrata Kumar Nag, Group CEO & Executive Director, Quess Corp

Subrata Kumar Nag is the Group CEO & Executive Director of our Company. A seasoned finance professional with over three decades of experience, he is responsible for implementing the Company's overall long and short term strategies.

He has been a part of Quess since 2008. Prior to joining us, he was the Vice President – Finance and Company Secretary of Ilantus Technologies Private Limited. He holds a Master’s Degree in Business Management from the University of Calcutta and is qualified from the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI).

Subrata Mitra, Partner, Accel Partners

Subrata focuses on technology and Internet investing. Subrata served on the boards of Small-device (now a part of Digital Chocolate) and Mu Sigma, and is currently on the boards of Perfint, Flipkart, Myntra, and enStage. Before joining Accel India in 2008, Subrata was a Partner at Erasmic Venture Fund. Prior to Erasmic, Subrata was MD, India, for Tavant Technologies, Inc., a U.S.-based mortgage solutions company, which was acquired by privately held Ameriquest Mortgage Capital in 2004 (Ameriquest has since merged into CitiCapital).

 

Previously, Subrata was the Founder of Firewhite, Inc., which was acquired by Ubiquio, Inc., and later merged into Mobile Planet. Subrata started his career at IBM's prestigious T.J. Watson and Santa Teresa Labs, working in the Software R&D groups. Subrata holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, an MS in Computer Science from the University of Delaware, and a B.Tech in Computer Science from IIT, Kanpur, India.

Sucharita Mukherjee, CEO, IFMR Holdings

Sucharita is currently the CEO of IFMR Holdings, is a Trustee and Vice Chair of IFMR Trust, and has been a part of the IFMR Trust Executive Group since 2008. She is a director on the board of all IFMR Trust group companies and was the founding CEO of IFMR Capital, from its inception till 2012. She has recently been appointed as a member of the India Advisory Committee to the UNEP Inquiry into a Sustainable Financial System. Previously, Sucharita led the origination and structuring effort in credit derivatives and structured finance for corporates at Morgan Stanley in London where her work included developing innovative asset-backed financing structures in areas such as intellectual property and health-care receivables. She was also part of the credit derivatives team at Deutsche Bank in London, structuring credit-derivatives-linked repackaged investments for financial institutions. She graduated with an MBA from IIM, Ahmedabad, and has a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Delhi University.

Sucharita Mukherjee, Vice-Chair, IFMR Trust & Chief Executive Officer, IFMR Holdings

Sucharita is currently the CEO of IFMR Holdings, is a Trustee and Vice Chair of IFMR Trust, and has been a part of the IFMR Trust Executive Group since 2008. She is a director on the board of all IFMR Trust group companies and was the founding CEO of IFMR Capital, from its inception till 2012. She has recently been appointed as a member of the India Advisory Committee to the UNEP Inquiry into a Sustainable Financial System.

Sucharita was honored with the title of 40 under forty by Economic Times and Spencer Stuart in -2016 and she was also featured in ET’s list of Corporate India's fastest rising women leaders.

Previously, Sucharita led the origination and structuring effort in credit derivatives and structured finance for corporates at Morgan Stanley in London where her work included developing innovative asset-backed financing structures in areas such as intellectual property and health-care receivables. She was also part of the credit derivatives team at Deutsche Bank in London, structuring credit-derivatives-linked repackaged investments for financial institutions. She graduated with an MBA from IIM, Ahmedabad, and has a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Delhi University

Suchi Mukherjee, Founder & CEO, Limeroad.com

he only Indian to receive the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Scholarship for studying Economics at Cambridge University in 1994, Suchi graduated from St. Stephens College, Delhi University and procured her master’s degree in Finance & Economics from the London School of Economics where she won the British Chevening Scholarship.

Creating and scaling businesses which impact people's lives deeply using technology has been her sole passion. Starting from the early years in finance, where she was part of teams that designed India’s first special purpose financing vehicle, and then the world’s largest aviation insurance company via a transatlantic merger, Suchi has had an illustrious career. Her successful stint at eBay encapsulated Suchi as a part of the relatively early team building out the UK business, creating earning opportunities for millions of sellers.  UK ultimately went on to become the second largest eBay market in the world. Subsequently, as an executive management team member at Skype, she led teams that designed and launched the biggest upgrade in Skype’s history since launch, thus enabling free peer-to-peer multiparty video and screen share. Finally there was Gumtree - UK's largest online classifieds business, where Suchi was Managing Director & CEO, helping millions of women and men find incredibly useful daily life savers.

Suchi calls herself a Delhi girl who has come home after over 15 years to build LimeRoad.com, a venture conceived after the birth of her second child, while snatching a few minutes of me-time flipping through a magazine.  Nothing, she felt, gave unhindered access to a rich breadth of product across South-East Asia, in an interface that was as easy as flipping a magazine.  Thus grew the idea of the platform, the proposition and the interface. Driving for lasting impact has been a core theme for her. She has also been selected as one of 15 women worldwide - high potential leaders under 40  for driving change and impact, showcased & celebrated at the World Women’s Forum in Deauville, Paris, 2010. She has great admiration for people who have questioned status quo and made lasting change happen in their own contexts, and all her core partners reflect the same grain.

Suchita Salwan, Founder & CEO, Little Black Book

Suchita Salwan is the founder & ceo of Little Black Book (www.lbb.in)- a web and app based local discoveries & recommendations platform. Little Black Book reaches out to over a million users every month, and is available in Delhi, Delhi, Bangalore and Bombay (launching soon). The platform sees some of the biggest brands in the world- including Airbnb, Samsung, Taj, Pepsi, Coca-Cola, Nestle- and a plethora of local brands connect and engage with a local audience.

She has graduated from Delhi University with a degree in Economics, after which she worked with Wizcraft and the BBC. Her forte and domain interest lies in Marketing, Social Media, Brand Building and Sales. She started Little Black Book as a platform for young, urban audiences to access the best things that were happening in their city- across interests and locations. Today, she runs LBB with her co-founder Dhruv Mathur and 50 colleagues.

Sudarshan Jain, Secretary General, Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance

Sudarshan has a strong passion for healthcare and the education sector. Currently, he is the Secretary-General of the Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance (www.ipa-india.org), Senior Advisor - Apax Partners and Board member of multiple organizations. He has served in several leadership positions for over 40 years in Healthcare industry (Lupin, Johnson & Johnson, Piramal, Abbott) and was formerly the Managing Director at Abbott Healthcare Solutions.

His current Board engagements include Abbott India, Healthium Limited (Apax portfolio company), Zandu Chemicals Limited, Indian Education Society (IES), Advisory Board of Narsee Monjee University, Mumbai (NMIMS). He is the Visiting Faculty at Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad. He has contributed in shaping the healthcare policy and improving access to healthcare in India.

Sudarshan is an Alumnus of St. Stephens College, Delhi University and Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad.

Sudesh Menon, CEO, Waterlife India Pvt. Ltd

Sudesh Menon, has led both start ups and large multinationals in India and globally. An experienced and distinguished professional with International experience, Sudesh is widely credited with pioneering the concept of sustainable community water systems in India.  

Sudesh co-founded Waterlife which has grown rapidly and occupies a unique and leadership position in the Water Space.

Before coming back to India, Sudesh was country head for General Electric based in Kuala Lumpur. He is credited with some of the major strategic initiatives across Asia and bringing a solutions approach to some of the largest businesses. He was also instrumental in the start up team that brought GE Fanuc Automation into India and successfully grew the business.

Sudesh is a B.Tech from IIT, Kharagpur and holds a degree in Management.

Sudhanshu Mishra, VP Enterprise Business, Ozonetel