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Shri Subhash Chandra Garg, Secretary-Ministry of Finance, Department of Economic Affairs

Shri Subhash Chandra Garg assumed responsibilities of the Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Government of India on 12th July, 2017.  He belongs to the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), 1983 batch, Rajasthan cadre.  Sh. Garg has degrees in Commerce and Law from the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, India and is a professionally qualified Cost and Works Accountant and a Company Secretary.

Sh. Subhash Chandra Garg was Executive Director in the World Bank Group for Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Sri Lanka from November, 2014 to July, 2017.  Mr. Garg served on the Board of Directors for the International Bank for Reconstruction & Development (IBRD), the International Development Association (IDA), collectively referred as the World Bank, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA).

Sh. Garg has over 34 years of experience in administration, management and public policy, in finance and several development sectors - agriculture, education, energy and rural development. He has managed government finances both at the Centre and in the State of Rajasthan.  In Government of India, he worked as Director in the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) and Joint Secretary in the Department of Expenditure (DoE), in the Ministry of Finance and in the State of Rajasthan in various capacities as Secretary (Expenditure), Secretary (Budget) and Principal Secretary of Finance.  He also occupied other senior positions in the Central Government as Joint Secretary(Agriculture) and Additional Secretary(Cabinet).

 

Shri. K. J. George, Hon'ble Minister, Large and Medium Scale Industry, Government of Karnataka

Shri. KELACHANDRA JOSEPH GEORGE, Hon’ble Minister for Large and Medium Scale Industry, Sugar, Information Technology & Bio Technology, Science & Technology, Government of Karnataka, Bangalore, is an Industrialist and Planter by profession and a Social Worker. Started his political career by joining Indian National Congress during 1968, since then he is an active member of the Party.

He had started his political career as President, Gonikoppal Town Youth Congress during 1969. During 1972-73, he was a General Secretary to Coorg District Youth Congress Committee later during 1973-75 and then he became President of Coorg District Congress Committee. He was a Treasurer of the Karnataka Pradesh Youth Congress Committee during 1975-78 and later became President of Karnataka Pradesh Youth Congress Committee during 1979-82.

He was also a National General Secretary of the Indian Youth Congress Committee during 1982-85. In 1985, contested from Bharathinagar Assembly Constituency and entered for the first time (1985-89) the prestigious State Legislature as its Member. He also held a high profiled position in the Party and Secretary of the Congress Legislature Party.

During 1989, he was the Minister in the Council of Ministers headed by Late.Shri. Veerendra Patil (who termed as an Iron Man of the State) and held the Portfolio of Transport, Food & Civil Supplies (1989-90). Now, these portfolios are shared by two individual Ministers. He was the Minister in the Cabinet headed by Late Shri. S. Bangarappa and held the portfolio of Housing and Urban Development (1990-94). Now these portfolios are shared by three Ministers. He had identified himself in the government as a Champion of Minorities under the able leadership of Late Shri. Bangarappa. He was a model in the Cabinet for his simplicity and generosity mixed with sincerity and honesty.

During 2008 general election to the assembly, for the third time and during 2013 General Election for fourth time he was elected from Sarvagnanagar Assembly Constituency from Bangalore Urban.

During 2013 He was the Minister for Home Affairs (19.05.2013 to 30.10.2015). During 2015 he was the Minister for Bangalore Development & Town Planning (30.10.2015 to 18.07.2016). He once again become the Minister for Bangalore Development and Town planning (26.09.2016 to 17.05.2018). His winning continued during 2018 general election to the assembly, he was elected again from Sarvagnanagar Assembly Constituency for the fifth time and he was become the Minister for Large & Medium Scale Industry, Sugar, Information Technology & Bio Technology, Science and Technology. (08.06.2018 to 27.12.2018)

He was being an MLA for five terms (during 1985-89, 1989-94, 2008-13, 2013-2018 & 2018 to till date), the Congress Party has recognized his services and awarded him suitably several highly responsible portfolios.

He is an instrumental in initiating a move to attract the Naxal Force by mooting a package for their demands and welfare inviting them to surrender themselves voluntarily. Now he is a Minister for Large & Medium Scale Industry. (28.12.2018 till date)

Shri. Raj Kumar Singh, Honourable Union Power and New and Renewable Energy Minister,

Shrija Agrawal, Associate Editor, Mosaic Digital (Moderator)

Shrini Viswanath, Co-Founder, Upstox

Shrini Viswanath is the co-founder of Upstox. He joined brothers - Raghu Kumar and Ravi Kumar to set up RKSV Securities in 2009 solely for proprietary trading purposes.

Shrini started with a simple goal to innovate and alter the way investor’s trade in India.

He is on a mission to make trading easy, fast, and secure for all. With an unwavering commitment to identifying emerging technologies and driving innovation, he drives strategic development to bridge the gap between traditional and next-gen broking products.

Shrini’s dream is to merge intuitive design with sophisticated technology to create easy-to-use and powerful applications across platforms. He started his career as a Software Engineer at Cerner Corporation and shortly after moved to Morgan Stanley as a Technology Analyst. Shrini worked at Citibank in Chicago before he moved to India and co-founded Upstox, to disrupt the low-cost digital brokerage space with cutting-edge technological innovations. The company is based on a quality-oriented, yet cost-effective business model designed to offer the least expensive brokerage service with the best platforms.

Shrini holds a BS degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.

Shripad Nadkarni, Founder & Director, Marketgate

Shripad is a founder Director at MarketGate Consulting and brings an experience spanning over thirty years to help companies achieve superior business results and enhance brand value. He has worked across a multitude of sectors from financial services to automobiles and entertainment to petrochemicals. Shripad's breadth of experience prior to consulting covers industries such as healthcare, consumer goods and food & beverages. He has led sales and marketing teams for over fifteen years and has steered diverse businesses in the course of his career.

Shripad was Vice President-Marketing and Business Head for New Beverages at Coca-Cola India for over five years beginning 2000. His major achievements include achieving market leadership for brand Thums-up, Sprite and Maaza and preference leadership for brand Coca-Cola through the memorable “Thanda Matlab Coca Cola” campaign. He also led the advertising of core brands for India, Indonesia, Rural China, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Prior to this he was Vice President-Marketing for the Johnson & Johnson Consumer Business and also headed the Vision Care profit center.

Shripad is an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and has contributed articles to leading business dailies and magazines.

Shripal Gandhi, Founder & CEO, Swipe Telecom India Pvt. Ltd

CNBC Young Turk, Shripal Gandhi is the founder and CEO of Swipe Telecom. Building the multi-million dollar company from scratch, Shripal has played a crucial role since the inception and subsequent global expansion of Swipe. With over a decade of industry expertise in diverse verticals under his belt, Shripal has successfully taken Swipe from being a nascent organization to the apex market leader in several states in the country. With a growing pan-India presence, focus on innovations and eyes set on international markets, Swipe Telecom has flourished with Shripal at the helm of affairs.

Always an overachiever, Shripal graduated top of his class from the University Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, transitioning to the prestigious University of California, Riverside (UCR) to complete his MS in chemical engineering. Having written several papers in reputed scientific journals to universal critical acclaim and with 11 patents in Nanotechnology under his name, Shripal was noticed by a leading nanotechnology company, Unidym (Palo Alto, CA, USA), where he drove the developments for commercialization of transparent conductive film applications. During his tenure at Unidym, Shripal worked with industry leaders like Samsung (Korean Division), Motorola and Apple, developing next generations touch screen technologies for handsets and portable navigation devices and other consumer electronic products in USA, Korea and Japan.

He was also a research scientist and a project leader at Nanomix (Emeryville, CA, USA), contributing to fundamental nanoelectronic breakthroughs that resulted in several intellectual property and trade secrets. As an application development scientist, he was instrumental in developing infrastructure, processes and technologies for solution phase deposition of functional nanomaterials.

Shripati Acharya, Co-founder, Managing Partner, Prime Venture Partners

Throughout his career, be it as a business lead at Cisco or as a co?founder of Snapfish, the world’s largest photo site acquired by HP or at Transarc, which was acquired by IBM, Shripati has combined his passion to build great teams, an extraordinary desire to excel and a keen eye for spotting the tales. He is known for being astute with a razor sharp intellect and a Zen?like devotion to data driven decision?making.

Shripati has also worked alongside Mr. Nandan Nilekani on the UIDAI project. Having spent substantial parts of working career in the United States and India addressing worldwide markets, Shripati brings a global management perspective. His passion for Indian business was seeded when he interned for Boston Consulting Group in India and has grown through investments in and mentoring of Indian online startups over the last decade.

Shriram Krishnamachari, Head of Sales & Business Development - India, Intuit

Shriram Krishnamachari is responsible for leading the development and execution of the region's strategic plans, Go to Market implementationand ensure highest levels of customer satisfaction.

 

Shriram brings anin-depth understanding of India SMB market, forging strategic partnerships and building scalable business from scratch. He has over 20 years of sales leadership experience in the SAARC market. Before joining Intuit, he served as Head Channels & Alliances at Adobe India. In this role, he was responsible for partnerships, operations and new initiatives to drive exponential growth in the SAARC market.

 

Prior to joining Adobe, Shriram was India Country Manager at Macromedia Inc. He has worked with Wipro Infotech as National Business Manager, Product Manager and other key roles.

Shriram Vijayakumar, Founder & CEO, DaVita Care India

Shriram's inspiration to start NephroLife in India began with a revelation that - "Every year, 300,000 people need some form of renal replacement therapy in India but less than 10% of them have access to kidney care, and most of them die in the first year."
Shriram started NephroLife in 2009 with an angel investment from serial entrepreneur, Dev Kumar Roy, to establish the first-of-its-kind, technology-enabled, and dedicated kidney care community in the country with a strong focus on improving the clinical outcomes, quality and longevity of life for patients with kidney disease.

In 2011, after closing a second round of funding with VC major New Enterprise Associates and DaVita Inc. - a US-based Fortune 400 Company and one of largest kidney care providers worldwide, DaVita India was born. With the aid of a robust online monitoring system, networked dialysis machines, holistic medical care focus, and an outcomes-based healthcare approach, DaVita India is improving the overall value delivered to patients via its standalone as well as in-hospital business formats, and is committed to pursuing its mission of being the Provider, Partner and Employer of Choice.

Today, DaVita India is present across 8 cities and partnered with multiple leading hospitals and nephrologists across the country, and has emerged as India’s leading provider of innovative, high quality and no compromise kidney care.

Shriram began his career at Mars & Co. Management Consulting Firm in New York. During his time there, he advised Fortune 500 Companies in FMCG, Automotive and Health Insurance verticals in the United States, China, Hong Kong and India. He then returned to India as CEO of NU Hospitals, a nephro-uro speciality hospital.  He was also an advisor to InstaHealth Solutions, a Healthcare Information Systems Company. He has a double major in Economics & Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon.