Our speakers

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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.

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.