Our speakers

Shivani Poddar, Co-founder and CEO, FabAlley and Indya

Shivani completed her graduation from Hindu College and did an MBA from Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi.  After graduating from FMS, she was a part of the leadership program at Hindustan Unilever and specialized in the Commercial and Supply Chain function.  Post HUL, she worked with Avendus Capital as a part of the Investment Banking team. At HSE, Shivani has been responsible for setting up sales and distribution, sourcing and manufacturing processes, financial systems, and fully integrated supply chain techniques.

In 2011, co-founders Tanvi Malik and Shivani Poddar were both working in corporate fields with promising careers spread out before them. A stray conversation where they bemoaned the lack of affordable, globally trendy fashion in the country for women gave them the idea of starting FabAlley, and later Indya. They saw that women were becoming more discerning; more exposed to “fashion as expression”, but Indian brands and brands that were present in India at the time were not providing the kind of options that were being sought out. This very personal insight started out their fashion entrepreneurial journey – they studied the market size, the brands in the landscape, consumer preferences and realized that there was a serious supply side vacuum. They quit their jobs, moved back to Delhi and started FabAlley within 6 months of that first conversation.

Shivani Poddar, Co-founder, FabAlley

Shivjeet Kullar, CEO, NFX Digital

Shivjeet Kullar has spent over 25 years in advertising. He began his career with agencies like Lintas and Contract. At the age of 29 he became a Creative Director and went on to win over 100 national and international awards, including One Show, New York Festival, Creativity International and JWT - All World Gold.

When he was 37, after winning Delhi Copywriter of The Year he became a partner-consultant to the Advantage Asia group and worked out of their Delhi, Sri Lanka and Jakarta offices.

Among his well known campaigns are the BJP Campaign that won them the previous elections, Shah Rukh Mayur Khan, AC Black Whisky and Bole Mere Lips I Love Uncle Chips.  
Till recently he was a mentor to the ad agency that he founded - K-Factor- which itself has won awards at Delhi Ad Club, Bombay Ad Club and Creativity New York.
He was also a consultant in the event world where  he worked with all the latest event technologies including 270 projection, holograph, ventuz and water projection. Many of the events he has helped to create have won international awards.

For ten years he wrote a column - Dilli To Pagal Hai, which has made him a household name in Delhi, it was later released as a book. He’s collaborated with Shiamak Dawar to write ‘Yes’ - The Musical. (where he worked with Bryan Tellis and Fountainhead). He has also just published a fiction thriller titled ‘Taking The Taj.’ Talks are on to produce it as a film.

His first play ‘Shiva Calling’ will debut on stage later this year.

In 2011 the world renowned Campaign magazine did a survey and ranked him as one of the 10 most high profile creative people in India, the only creative person in Delhi to be named on the list.

He has now moved to the internet domain and launched a ‘first time in the world’ website called adytude.com. The site is achieving remarkable success, was funded by IAN - the largest Angel Netwrok in the world, and has an ultimate valuation of $100 million by Deloitte. It will be launched in 15 countries worldwide in the coming years.

Shoan Shinde, Marketing Director, TurboHire

Shobhit Agarwal, MD, Capital Market, Jones Lang Lasalle

Shobhit Agarwal heads the Capital Markets division of Jones Lang LaSalle, and is based out of the Mumbai office of the firm. The Capital Markets division advises & structures real estate investment transactions on behalf of realty funds, developers and investors. Shobhit has been with Jones Lang LaSalle since March 2000, with pan-India responsibility for the Capital Markets division. He has over 12 years of experience in the property finance and investment sector. He is responsible for overseeing major cross-border real estate transactions.

Over the past 12 years, he has worked with several large real estate developers, investors and funds advising them on strategic planning & investment strategies. He covers advisory, structuring joint ventures, equity raising and advising on disposals and acquisitions in core markets. His clients include Ascendas, India REIT, Kotak, Unitech, Hiranandani, Bata India, Turner Morrison, PVR, various government bodies and Indian & international institutional investors.

He has also been credited with solving problems creatively with new ideas, new methods and procedures within real estate as the structured investments business in India is comparatively new and developing.

Shobhit has a Bachelor of Engineering (Construction) degree from Centre For Environmental Planning And Technology, Ahmedabad, a Masters in Planning degree from School Of Planning And Architecture New Delhi, and a diploma in financial management from NMIMS (Narsee Monjee Institute Of Management Studies), Mumbai.

Shomik Mukherjee, Partner and Head South Asia - Private Equity, Actis Capital

Shomik Mukherjee, Partner, Actis Advisers Pvt. Ltd

Shomik joined Actis in 2007 to advise on new investments strategy in the Consumer and Retail sector. He came from McKinsey & Co. in London where he advised companies on strategic and operational matters and prior to that, worked as a consultant with Accenture and with Unilever in India.

Whether it’s doing the deals no one else can or transforming a family-run regional business into a leading international player, the thrill of developing potential never dies away, nor does Shomik’s desire to use capital to change people’s lives – the lives of the country’s emerging middle class and those of his partners, management teams and investors.

Shomik holds an MBAfrom London Business School.

Shraeyansh Thakur, Principal, Sequoia Capital

Shravan Subramanyam, Managing Director, India and Neighbouring Markets, Roche Diagnostics

Dr. Shravan Subramanyam is Managing Director for Roche Diagnostics India & Neighboring Markets, comprising Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bhutan. Dr. Subramanyam joins Roche with over 15 years of corporate healthcare experience. A physician, with a passion for diagnostics, he is particularly keen on exploring ‘personalized healthcare’, with the goal of providing the right treatment for the right group of patients.

His career spans leadership roles in global healthcare organisations, including Novartis Oncology (New Jersey, USA), Novartis Diagnostics (Hong Kong) and Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics (USA & India). He also briefly managed Ehrlich Laboratory, a private diagnostic center based in Chennai, India. In addition to a degree in medicine from Madras Medical College, Dr. Subramanyam also holds a Masters’ degree in Health Administration at Cornell University, where he served on the alumni board.

At Roche Diagnostics India, he is keen to consistently bring alive Roche’s global philosophy of ‘Doing Now What Patients Need Next’. Roche’s diagnostics solutions in India spans screening to diagnosis, prognosis and monitoring of disease areas including cancer, women’s health, blood safety and cardio-vascular, thereby addressing the diagnostic needs to almost all of India’s key health focus areas.

Shravan Talwar, CEO, Moolchand Healthcare

Shravan Talwar, 42 years, is a co-promoter of the Moolchand Group and a trustee of The Moolchand Trust.  He has served as the Chief Executive Officer of Moolchand Healthcare since 2004 and has played a pivotal role in its transformation.

Shravan is viewed to be a leader in the healthcare services space in India.  He has developed deep expertise in hospital design and development, rebranding and marketing new service development, physician change management and procurement.

He is also an active member of Young Presidents Organization (YPO), Delhi Chapter.

Prior to assuming his current role in 2004, Shravan was associated with McKinsey and Company in Europe, US and India for 6+ years as a part of its healthcare practice and focused on operations excellence, strategy and corporate finance engagements.

Shravan earned his MBA with distinction from Kellogg Business School of Northwestern University and graduated magna cum laude with a BA in Computational and Applied Math and Economics from Rice University.  At Rice he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.