Our speakers

Sohil Chand, MD, Norwest Venture Partners | @NorwestVP

Sohil brings to NVP India more than 13 years of financial, investment banking and private equity investment experience from leading global financial institutions. Based in the NVP India Mumbai office, Sohil serves as an advisor on growth equity investments in Indian companies across a wide range of sectors, including telecom, technology, financial services, infrastructure and manufacturing. Sohil advised NVP India’s investments in Asian Genco Pte Ltd. (AGPL), NSE (National Stock Exchange of India, Ltd.), Nueclear Healthcare Limited, Sadbhav, Snowman Logistics, and Thyrocare. Sohil is also a board observer for NationWide Primary Healthcare Services.

Prior to joining NVP India, Sohil was an Executive Director in Goldman Sachs’ Asian Special Situations Group, a balance sheet investing group with over $4 billion under management. Sohil was the first executive recruited for the group’s India business in 2006 and became part of a five-member team in Mumbai tasked with building and running the India business. In this role with Goldman Sachs, Sohil was involved in making over $300 million of private equity and PIPE investments in India.

Sohini Rajola, SVP & Head - Electronic Banking, Axis Bank

Sohini Rajola is the Head of Electronic Banking Group at Axis Bank, the third largest private sector bank in India. She leads the bank’s business across all electronic and digital channels including Internet banking, Mobile Banking and ATMs in addition to driving the Bank’s Customer Initiatives encompassing the pan bank loyalty program and campaigns.

Prior to this she was the head of Cards and Merchant Acquiring business for Axis Bank. She launched the Debit, Credit and Pre Paid Cards at Axis Bank and has been instrumental in driving the Bank’s strategy around payment businesses with many product and process innovations to her credit. Axis Bank is today the fastest growing credit card issuer, the fourth largest debit card issuer and the second largest merchant acquiring bank in the country.

Axis Bank was the first new generation private sector bank to begin operations in 1993 and Sohini joined the Bank in 1998 in their Branch Banking division. She was part of the team that set up the Retail Banking Department at the Bank and launched numerous savings account products for different customer segments including Defence, Corporate Payrolls etc. She was also instrumental in setting up the direct sales channel for origination of Bank Accounts.

She is a B.Sc. graduate with a Management Degree from Symbiosis Institute Pune in 1998.

Sohini Rajola, Head - Digital Banking, Axis Bank

Sohini Rajola is leading digital strategy and transformation at Axis Bank, the third largest private sector bank in India. Her 17+ years of professional experience spans across Payments, Retail Banking and Digital Business.

Her current responsibility at Axis encompasses all digital properties including mobile and internet banking, digital wallet, ATM and branch automation, customer campaigns and loyalty program. Her role extends to driving new technology adoption and nurturing start up initiatives and promoting design thinking.

Prior to the digital avatar, she has extensive experience in the payments business having launched and led the cards and merchant acquiring businesses for Axis bank. She is an MBA from Symbiosis Institute Pune. An indulgent but strict mother of two girls, she loves to play sudoku, scrabble or anything that challenges the mind in her spare time.

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Solomon Prakash, Founder, mGaadi

Solomon Prakash is the Founder of India Drivers Network (mgaadi), a social enterprise that builds a network of commercial drivers in India and offers various services to the driver community through location based technologies. During 2010-12 he was the country head of Ashoka in India and the Global leadership Group member of Ashoka. He founded a non-profit called Maya in 1989 to improve public education and address livelihood issues of poor and disadvantaged communities. He founded Maya Organic, a for-profit marketing and Design Company,which built a network of collective enterprises run by the artisan communities; produce competitive, global market quality products in 4 different sectors.

He founded LabourNet another for-profit social enterprise, to create and enhance job opportunities for the informal sector service workers in urban areas. LabourNet connects jobs and workers, improves work systems at job sites, encourages skill development, and provides access to social security. He is an engineer and spent most of life as a social entrepreneur. Solomon Prakash lives in Bangalore, India.

Som Satsangi, VP & GM, Enterprise Group & MD India, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Som Satsangi is the Vice President & General Manager, Enterprise Group and Managing Director for Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) in India. In this role, he has the countrywide responsibility for revenues and profitability and ensuring the greatest leverage from HPE's Enterprise Group business.

In his 19 years with HPE, Som has served numerous leadership positions and made significant progress strengthening HPE's sales discipline and improving simplicity, predictability and consistency in the way the company works with its partner community.

Prior to this appointment, he was the Vice President of Sales for HPE's Enterprise Group business. In this role, he provided leadership and direction for the growth of Commercial Enterprise and Public Sector accounts for HPE across India; building capacities through development of programs and solutions, enhancing selling capabilities and operational excellence and managing the P&L for this customer segment.

Previously, Som led HPE's server, storage, networking and infrastructure software business in India. This included the market-leading server range comprising HPE ProLiant, Superdome, Integrity and NonStop, as well as storage solutions under StorageWorks and Infrastructure Software such as Insight Software, Virtual Server Environment (VSE) and HP UNIX operating system and HPE Networking.

Before that, as the Director of Sales of HPE India's Technology Solutions Group, he was responsible for overseeing all sales and driving continued growth for this business.

With over 30 years of experience in the IT Industry, Som, a firm believer of talent management, also championed various talent development programs across HPE.

Prior to joining HPE, he led sales and marketing organizations in various Indian IT companies. He is a gold medalist in Engineering from REC Jaipur.

Somya Satsangi, Partner, Amrop

Ms. Somya Satsangi is a Partner at Amrop India and leads the Technology and Digital space. She brings 24 years of rich experience in business consulting and IT industry with global corporations across the US, Europe, and India in varied senior management roles encompassing Business Development, Strategy and Operations. Ms. Satsangi has also advised start-ups, mentoring founders to navigate through the complex start-up process, evolve business models and accelerate time-to-market. Previously, she was VP Corporate Development and Strategy with CA Technologies, managing their key investments and global strategic partnerships. She held key business building roles in Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) in the UK for 7 years which included leading the UK Telecom, Media and Entertainment practice and setting up a successful Government business footprint for TCS in the UK. Ms. Somya Satsangi also spent 12 years with erstwhile Arthur Andersen in Europe and India.

Sonal Dabral, Chairman and Chief Creative Officer, DDB Mudra Group | @DDBMudra_Group

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Sonal Minhas, Co-founder, Twigly | @twiglyfoods

Sonal is a co-founder of Twigly foods, a company he co-founded in September 2015. Twigly delivers freshly made global cuisine at doorsteps of hungry souls. Before starting Twigly, Sonal was a VP at SAIF Partners and headed the F&B investments.

Sonal Shah, Executive Director , SMC Capitals Ltd

Sonal heads M&A and Private Equity Advisory at SMC Group. She has experience of over 20 years across M&A, corporate advisory and strategic consulting. She has advised leading Indian and international companies across areas including M&A, Joint Ventures, Equity/Debt Fund raising and Growth strategy. She has also advised Government of India- Ministry of Food Processing and Ministry of Agriculture and several State Governments on agri/food strategy and its implementation. She has been an active member of Industry Panels for the consumer, food, agribusiness and financial services sectors, for leading Indian Industry Associations. Sonal holds a PGDM from IIM Kolkata and a Bachelor's Degree in Economics (Honours) from Hindu College,  University of Delhi.

Sonali Jindal, Co-founder and COO, Ring/Kishtt