Our speakers

Shilpa Mankar Ahluwalia, Partner, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co.

Ms. Shilpa Mankar Ahluwalia is a Partner in the corporate advisory group of the Firm and focuses on the banking & finance, mergers & acquisitions, and foreign investment practice areas.

Ms. Ahluwalia advises various companies, banks and financial institutions in connection with their financing activities (plain vanilla and structured financings, loan syndication and guarantee structures, securitization structures, equipment financing and issue of non-convertible debentures). Her clients include the International Finance Corporation (The World Bank), Investec Bank, Barclays Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland, Standard Chartered Bank, State Bank of India, Punjab National Bank, India Infrastructure Finance Company Limited, Deutsche Bank and GE Money. She has also advised several payment services companies such as the American Express Banking Corporation, Microsoft, Paytm, GoIbibo, Flipkart, Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Oxygen in respect of their payment products and services. She has advised several factoring companies on their factoring products and strategies in India.

Shilpa Mankar Ahluwalia, Partner, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co

Ms. Shilpa Mankar Ahluwalia is a Partner in the corporate advisory group of the Firm and focuses on the banking & finance, mergers & acquisitions, and foreign investment practice areas.

Ms. Ahluwalia advises various companies, banks and financial institutions in connection with their financing activities (plain vanilla and structured financings, loan syndication and guarantee structures, securitization structures, equipment financing and issue of non-convertible debentures). Her clients include the International Finance Corporation (The World Bank), Investec Bank, Barclays Bank, Royal Bank of Scotland, Standard Chartered Bank, State Bank of India, Punjab National Bank, India Infrastructure Finance Company Limited, Deutsche Bank and GE Money. She has also advised several payment services companies such as the American Express Banking Corporation, Microsoft, Paytm, GoIbibo, Flipkart, Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Oxygen in respect of their payment products and services. She has advised several factoring companies on their factoring products and strategies in India.

Shilpi Pandey, Chief People Officer, BlackBuck

Shinjini Kumar, Co-Founder, SALT

Shiraz Bugwadia, Senior MD, o3 Capital

Shiraz is a founding partner at o3 capital and has over 2 decades of extensive deal-making experience with a strong focus on the Healthcare and Lifesciences sectors. He has executed several deals worth billions of dollars and is one of the leading Investment Bankers in India.

He has been a keen observer and participant in the multi-fold expansion of India's Healthcare Landscape and has seen the industry grow and evolve to be a key driving force of the economy.

Before co-founding o3 Capital, Shiraz worked at Avendus Capital, where he was instrumental in setting up and leading their Healthcare and Lifesciences practice.

Shiraz holds an MBA degree from Melbourne Business School and is a B.E. Chemical graduate from Mumbai University.

Shiraz Bugwadia, MD, o3 Capital

Shiraz Bugwadia focuses on the Life Sciences and Infrastructure practice. Shiraz has more than 15 years of experience in investment banking and has worked extensively on deals across multiple spectrums of Life Sciences and Infrastructure sectors.

He graduated as an engineer from Mumbai University and completed M.B.A. from Melbourne Business School.

Shirish Andhare, Chief Product Officer, Ezetap Mobile Solutions

Shirish Andhare, Chief Product officer @ Ezetap Mobile Solutions Pvt. Ltd loves to work at the intersection of software, designs and markets to solve hard problems.
As Chief Product Officer, Shirish constantly endeavours to transform customer insights into viable customer propositions. He has worked with leading technology corporations in Silicon Valley & in India. In his last stint before Ezetap, He worked as Senior Vice-President & General Manager, India Region for Naurus Inc., Subsidiary of Boeing Company.

A keen start-up & Entrepreneurship aficionado, he was a resident mentor @ Centre for Innovation Incubation & Entrepreneurship, IIM Ahmedabad for a leading start up accelerator program in India.

He is an alumnus of Stanford University & has completed his M.S, Computer Science & Engineering from University of Texas, Arlington. He completed his Bachelor of Engineering, computer science from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology.

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, CEO, Knowledge Realty Trust

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.