Our speakers

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

Shiv Shivakumar, Former Group Executive President- Corporate Strategy & Business Development, Aditya Birla Group

Shivakumar Ganesan, Co-Founder & CEO, Exotel

Shivakumar Ganesan is the Co-Founder/CEO at Exotel, a business phone system on the cloud targeting SMEs in India.

Prior to Exotel, Shivku (as he is more commonly known) started, built, learnt and abandoned Roopit - a medium agnostic C2C marketplace. As an entrepreneur bootstrapping his start-up, he had only two people taking calls (one of them himself) and in the process he would miss a lot of calls. Each call was an important lead that could make or break his idea and affect customer satisfaction. He wanted a solution that would ensure he never missed a call and could track all phone conversations. Not finding anything in the market that fit his requirements, Shivku decided to build one instead. This led to a pivot and the rest will hopefully be history.

An alumnus of BITS - Pilani, Shivku started his career at Yahoo! as an Intern. He went on to write code for products like Yahoo Hotjobs, Yahoo Maps, Yahoo Communities etc. winning accolades and building long lasting friendships along the way. Shivku was awarded the Yahoo Ratna (Best Employee Yahoo - India) in 2005 and 2007 and the Yahoo Superstar (Best Employee Yahoo - Worldwide) in 2008. He has two patents in web crawling technologies. He then joined Flipkart.com as VP - Products and Technology, and started building their ERP system while helping hire the core engineering team.

At Exotel, Shivku along with his co-founders, Ishwar Sridharan (whom he met at Yahoo), Siddharth Ramesh (who studied computer science with him at BITS Pilani) and Vijay Sharma (whom he met at National Entrepreneurship Network) are looking to solve telephone and SMS related pain points of small & medium enterprises in a scalable & cost efficient manner.

Shivam Bajaj, Founder and CEO, Avener Capital