Our speakers

Shrirang Tambe, Founder& MD, OUREA Capital Advisors

Shrirang Tambe is the founder and Managing Director of Ourea Capital Advisors. His expertise lies in advising and nurturing growth oriented companies across various domains of growth capital. Till date, he has worked with more than 50 companies in the last five years across sectors.He has built a niche advisory offering in OureaCapital Advisors whereby any growth oriented company can avail services across value chain right from formulating the strategy and business plan, raising capital to monitoring the on ground execution of those plans.

Prior to Ourea Capital Advisors, he was a fund manager with a US based private equity fund "Clearwater Capital Partners". He was responsible for right from initial identification of investment to execution and extensive post investment asset management. He has also been involved in large LBO transactions in Indonesia and Thailand.

Prior to Clearwater Capital Partners, he was a part of cross border M&A team at ANZ investment Bank in their Merger & Acquisition team in Mumbai whereby assisting Indian companies in European acquisitions was his key role. He started his career with PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

He has been a visiting faculty to many business schools in Mumbai in the area of corporate finance and valuation.

He has been a speaker at various conferences in India for prestigious institutions such as ICAI, various chapters of CII and SME Chambers and also at Global Distressed Debt Conference in London in 2007.

As a passion to nurture entrepreneurship among students, he is a speaker on entrepreneurship and finance at various colleges on behalf of NEN Global, one of the largest NGO promoting entrepreneurship across India.

He is a Chartered Accountant by qualification.

Shruti Shibulal, Director, Avant Garde Hospitality

Shruti Shibulal is young Entrepreneur and Director of Avant Garde Hospitality. She is a food enthusiast at heart and loves to dine at restaurants all over the world. Before becoming an entrepreneur, Shruti interests and experiences ranged from good food, company of friends and live music to experimenting in chemistry lab and working in an investment bank on Wall Street. As a director in AGH she plays a supporting role to Abhijit Saha in important company matters while learning about the various aspects of the restaurant business. Her interests, interpersonal and analytical skills, and belief in the company vision and philosophy allow her to help drive AGH to be one of the best hospitality companies.

She cares a great deal about contributing back to the community at large, an ideal that with which Avant Garde Hospitality is in tandem with. Shruti believes that education among the underprivileged is the key to uplifting society and as such she is currently serving as a Trustee and Member of the Management Council for The Samhita Academy on Bannerghata Road, Bangalore.

Shruti Singh, Joint Secretary, DPIIT (Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade), Ministry of Commerce & Industry

Ms. Shruti Singh, a 2004-batch IAS officer of Punjab Cadre, has completed her Bachelor’s degree in History, followed by a Master's in Public Administration. She was Ludhiana’s first woman Municipal Corporation (MC) Commissioner. She was also appointed as the Chairman of Ludhiana Improvement Trust in addition to being the MC Commissioner and Chief Administrator of the Greater Ludhiana Area Development Authority (GLADA).

Born in 1982, Ms. Shruti Singh has served as the Deputy Commissioner in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar and Jalandhar. She has worked in various capacities in the Department of Finance, Industries, Revenue, etc. She is currently deputed as Joint Secretary at Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade and is driving the Startup India initiative. Throughout her tenure, she has been instrumental in supporting various regulatory reforms and initiatives for strengthening the startup and innovation ecosystem in India.
 

Shruti Walia, Head of HR, Cure.fit (cult.fit)

Shubhada Rao, Group President & Chief Economist, Yes Bank | @YESBANK

Dr. Shubhada Rao is the Chief Economist at YES BANK. She is responsible for the Economics Knowledge Banking providing macroeconomic research outlook at the Bank. She is a member of YES Bank’s Asset and Liabilities Committee (ALCO). Shubhada brings with her over 25 years of experience in academia and industry wherein she has pioneered research design geared to facilitate business decisions.

Prior to joining YES BANK, Shubhada has worked with Kotak Institutional Equities as Chief Economist, with Bank of Baroda as Economist with Risk Management and as Head, Economic Advisory at CRISIL Advisory Services. She also served as Chief Economist with Times Bank. She began her career in banking with ICICI in their planning and treasury department after completing a PhD in Economics from the University of Mumbai.

Shubhada is an active member of the Economics Committees of Industry Associations and is a member of CII National Economic Policy Council, New Delhi, Co-Chair of Economics Committee at ASSOCHAM and a member of the Monetary Policy Group - Indian Banks’ Association (IBA). She had also served as Chairman of Economics Committee of Bombay Chamber of Commerce & Industry between 2009-11.

Shubham Bansal, Co-Founder, TinyOwl Technology Pvt Ltd

Shubhreet Kaur, VP, Hill & Knowlton

Shuchi Kothari, Director, DSP HMK Holdings Pvt Ltd

Shuchi Pandya, CEO & Co-founder, Pipa+Bella | @pipabella

Shuchi Pandya is CEO/Co-Founder of Pipabella.com - a fast-fashion digital brand of affordable jewellery for the young, fashion-conscious woman in India. With a vertically integrated supply chain, Pipa + Bella has become a synonymous brand with unique, quality jewellery at affordable prices. Shuchi started her career at Hindustan Lever, where she worked on the Pears brand before venturing into creating her first venture - Blue Banyan - a fair-trade accessories company that retailed across 250 stores in India. Shuchi holds a BS in Economics from the Stern School of Business, NYU and an MBA in Finance and Entrepreneurial Management from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

@shuchipandya

Shuchita Choudhry, Senior Associate, Trilegal