Our speakers

Sourabh Anand, Associate Partner, Social Finance India

Sourabh is an Associate Partner at Social Finance India, a not-for-profit set up with the aim of scaling outcome-focused interventions through innovative financing. He is a part of the founding team and is working on designing and operationalizing the India Education Outcomes Fund (IEOF), a first-of-its-kind outcomes fund that will crowd in and disburse $1 billion to improve education outcomes in India by 2030.

Prior to joining Social Finance, Sourabh has worked in various roles at IDFC Bank, Deloitte Consulting, and GE Capital. His work over the last decade has largely focused around consulting in the areas of infrastructure development and finance, including advising govt. agencies on structuring public-private partnerships (PPPs). At IDFC Bank, he was involved in designing and rolling out their CSR programmes in education, health, and livelihoods development.

Sourabh has also supported high-level committees and task forces set up by the Govt. of India for policy development in the infrastructure sector including the National Transport Development Policy Committee and the Expert Group for Modernization of Indian Railways. He completed his bachelor’s in commerce from Delhi University and post-graduation in management from the Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar.

Sourabh Chatterjee, President, Head - Technology, Digital Sales, Travel at Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Ltd.

Sourabh Chatterjee is Head of IT, Web Sales and Travel at Bajaj Allianz General Insurance. A passionate digital enthusiast, he is responsible for digital strategy and delivering innovative solutions for the company. He also handles Web Sales and oversees travel channel for the company.

His ideology is to create, implement, secure and deliver better and faster solutions. Some of his fields of expertise include e-commerce, technology innovations, enterprise portals, social media analytics, mobile applications, IT strategy and planning. Sourabh has around 20 years of IT expertise with a successful track record in creating business value through innovative use of technology in the life and general insurance space in the US and India.

Prior to joining Bajaj Allianz in 2015, Sourabh worked with ICICI Lombard as Vice President – Application development for over 4 years. Before that, Sourabh played multiple leadership roles across delivery, consulting and sales in the US geography for Infosys Technologies from 1999 to 2011.

Sourabh is an Electrical Engineer and is an MBA from INSEAD.

Besides work, Sourabh loves reading fiction, travelling and spending time with his 12 year old son.

Sourabh Tomar, Head- UPI & IMPS Product, National Payments Corporation Of India (NPCI)

Sourav Das, Sr Finance Manager-Mergers & Acquisitions, Hindustan Unilever Limited

Sourav Sinha, CIO, IndiGo Airlines

Currently, CIO with IndiGo Airlines from May 2018 spearheading several business and technology initiatives. Responsible for formulation of IT strategy and its implementation, driving digital transformation and decision sciences and business intelligence initiatives with the mandate of improving overall efficiency of internal processes, customer services and data driven decision making.

As Senior Vice President – Information Technology with Oman Air from June 2013 thru' April 2018. Strategized and managed IT for the Airline and other subsidiaries such as Ground Handling, Cargo and Airline Catering. Lead technology facilitator for the new Muscat International Airport.

As Senior Vice President and CIO for Kingfisher Airlines from June 2008 thru’ June 2013. In addition, involved with different pioneering information technology transformation initiatives of the UB Group – a US$ 5.5 billion conglomerate.

As Vice President (Head of Group IT) of Qatar Airways Group from October 2004 thru’ June 2008. Formulation of IT strategy, strategy implementation and managing IT operations for the Airline (Qatar Airways), Doha International Airport, Qatar Aviation Services, Qatar Duty Free and Qatar Aircraft Catering Company. Was also the Lead Facilitator in IT strategy formulation, system requirement planning and vendor selection process for Hamad International Airport.  Director on the Board of SITA S.C. (2006-2007).

As the Chief Executive Officer of the IT subsidiary of Singapore Airlines (JV of Tata Consultancy Services and Singapore Airlines) from April 2001 – October 2004.  

Worked with Tata Consultancy Services in different roles, location and capacity over a period of 13 years (1991 – 2004).

Over 29 years of experience in the Information Technology industry of which the last 16 years as CIO of Qatar Airways Group, Kingfisher Airlines, Oman Air and currently with IndiGo Airlines.

Recipient of Asian CIO Leadership award in 2015 and Top 100 Middle East CIO Award for driving business decision making and innovative practices in 2017 and 2018.
Member of New Normal Think Tank team of International Air Transport Authority (IATA) to formulate and prioritize strategies for IATA.

Member of IATA Digital Transformation Advisory Committee of IATA.

Sourjyendu Medda, Founder & co-CEO, DealShare

SP Narayanan, Head mCommerce, Idea Cellular

SP Narayanan is currently the Business Head – m-Commerce in Idea Cellular Limited managing Idea Money and business correspondent activities in partnership with Axis Bank.

Prior to this he was National Head for VAS in Idea Cellular. He had created a strong VAS ecosystem in Idea with in-house building blocks and over 200 third party content and application partners for VAS.  Narayanan has strengthened the VAS organization in Idea by introducing consumer centric organization structure across corporate and circle teams.  Prior to Idea Cellular, Narayanan has worked with Vodafone India Limited    as Country Head VAS and in Reliance Communications in VAS leadership position.

Prior to his telecom stint, Narayanan has worked with ICICI  Ventures for 2 years as Chief - Incubator Fund nurturing and funding early stage start ups .Earlier, Narayanan has worked with ICICI Limited in various positions  (Last position held : Senior Vice President ) for 10 years  handling a portfolio of  Debt and Equity funding to over 200 corporate entities in Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry spread across all sectors / industries.

Narayanan is a B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from IIT Varanasi (Formerly ITBHU) and a PGDM from IIM Ahmedabad.

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Sreedhar Prasad, Partner, KPMG India

Sreedhar has a professional experience in Consulting - Strategy & Operations/Process advisory and Information technology with experience in serving national and multinational clients representing diverse industry segments.

Specialties: Key areas of expertise include Strategy build, Operations advisory, Mid-market promoter advisory, Cost Management, Organization design, Business Process Re-engineering/ Improvement, Outsourcing Advisory, Risk Management, Business Continuity Planning.

Possesses extensive knowledge and understanding of the business in the Ecommerce & Consumer Internet, Financial Services - NBFC, FMCG and hospitality domains.

Current responsibilities include Business Development, Practice Management & Solution building. Currently focusing on advising Indian Promoters and medium sizes companies in scaling up as well as new organization design.

Sreenivas Karanam, Founder & CEO, Cooltok

Sreenivas is the Founder, CEO of cooltok where he led the product development on technology and strategy. cooltok got acquired by Kirusa Inc, USA in May 2014.

He has over 17+ years of experience in Innovation, Product Engineering  and management across multiple technology domains.
Prior to cooltok, he worked in Broadcom as Senior Manager, WLAN System Design Team, where he led several WLAN, WLAN-BT combo chip design teams, spanning over SISO, MIMO and ensured successful high volume deployment of these chips in world’s top mobile customers like Apple, NOKIA, Samsung and retail customers like DELL, HP etc

Sreenivas has worked in Athena Semiconductors, a WLAN based startup in Bangalore, as a System Architect where he played a key role in delivering their successful Wireless LAN chip and the company was later acquired by Broadcom Corp, USA in 2005. He worked in Wipro Technologies on various audio, video  technologies  for some of the most successful start-ups like Telogy Networks, Silicon Spice etc. He also worked in Radar Division of Bharat Electronics Limited , Bangalore.

He graduated with a BE in Electronics and Power from VNIT,Nagpur (formerly VRCE, Nagpur) in 1996.