Our speakers

Srinivas Nidugondi, Senior VP and Head, Mobile Financial Services, Mahindra Comviva | @MahindraComviva
Srinivas has over 18 years of experience across industries including financial services, payments and commerce in a variety of business and product related roles and most recently with a specific focus on enabling banking, payments and related services through digital channels.
At Mahindra Comviva he heads the mobile financial Solutions business unit, which currently has over 120 deployments globally, providing services for more than 750 million consumers and processing over 35 billion USD in payment flows. He has not only enhanced the leadership position of Mahindra Comviva in the mobile money space, but expanded the offerings to cover other segments, and thereby have a full suite of products and solutions - across the banking, retail and telecom industries - to meet the requirements of consumers and businesses.
Prior to joining Mahindra Comviva, he established and led the business for online banking and mobile payments at ICICI Bank and also headed product management and business development functions in start-ups and IT product companies. Srinivas has many distinctions including heading India’s first digital only banking offering; defining the World’s first mobile payments interoperability standard; South Asia’s first mobile banking offering; being part of the first nationwide financial infrastructure for MFIs among others.
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Srinivas Padmanabharao, Director - Product Marketing, Akamai Technologies | @akamai
Srinivas Padmanabharao is the Director for Product Marketing, based in Akamai’s Bangalore office. He is an experienced industry professional with 18 years experience in the IT and Telecom industries working across Australia, USA, Canada, UK and India.
As the Director of Product Marketing, he focuses on helping customers understand the role of Akamai solutions in leveraging the power of the Internet to achieve business success.
Before joining Akamai, Srinivas worked with Oracle, IBM and Deloitte and he has a graduate degree in Engineering from IIT Bombay and an MBA from IIM Calcutta.

Srinivasan Vishwanathan, Founder and CTO, Datagres
As founder of Datagres, Srinivasan brings more than 20 years of experience in system architecture, virtualization, storage, and cloud computing solutions to the Datagres team. With over 28 awarded patents in storage and system technology, Srinivasan has served on the Board of Directors for SNIA (Storage Network Industry Association) and the Unix POSIX Committee. As a lead technologist at Sun Microsystems (acquired by Oracle Corporation) and Network Appliance, Srinivasan specialized in next generation RAID, Cluster File Systems, and Data Management. Srinivasan holds a ME in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Srinivasan served as CEO of Datagres till 2015 and currently serves as Chairman of the board.

Srinivasu M N, Co- Founder & Director, BillDesk
Mr. M N Srinivasu is the Director and Co-Founder of BillDesk, a payment and remittance service providing venture of IndiaIdeas.com Ltd. Established in early 2000, BillDesk delivers and manages electronic payments and remittance solutions for various vertical markets, such as banking, telecom, insurance, utilities and financial services.
Prior to founding BillDesk, Vasu worked with Business Consulting unit of Arthur Andersen in India and before that, for over 9 years, with ITC Limited across their various businesses. Vasu completed his MBA from IIM Ahmedabad in 1990 and Bachelors degree in Commerce from Madras University in 1988.

Srinivasu M N(Vasu), Co-Founder & Director, BillDesk

Srinivasu M.N (Vasu), Co-Founder & Director, Billdesk
Vasu is a Director and a co-founder of BillDesk, India's largest Electronic Payments Service Platform.
Established in early 2000, BillDesk delivers and manages a range of specialized electronic payments, remittance and gateway solutions for various verticals markets such as banking, telecom, insurance, utilities financial services and e-commerce businesses.
Today, BillDesk is the Trusted Partner of India’s largest institutions, and it extensive processing network is today used by over 60 of India’s largest banks and many large organizations across diverse industry segments. The BillDesk platform processes a dominant share of the online transactions that are conducted through aggregator platforms, in India.
Vasu holds a PGDM from IIM Ahmedabad. Prior to founding BillDesk, Vasu worked with ITC Limited and Arthur Andersen.
Linked in: http://www.linkedin.com/in/srinivasu

Srinivasu MN, Cofounder, BillDesk

Sriram Kannan, Founder & CEO, Nivaata Systems Pvt. Ltd
Sriram Kannan is the founder & CEO at Nivaata Systems. Nivaata’s innovative technology solutions help organizations to automate and optimize key business areas such as distribution & planning, transportation, asset monitoring, logistics & sales force effectiveness, and realize real top line and bottom line growth.
Prior to Nevaata Sriram was the Chief Innovation Officer at i2i TeleSolutions, Lead Engineer - OMAP software solutions delivery at WTBU Japan and Senior Software Engineer - OMAP Software R&D at Texas Instruments India.
Sriram is a MS, Computer Science from India Institute of Science and B.Sc Physics from Madras University.

Sriram V Iyer, Co-Founder, United Mobile Apps
Sriram V Iyer, Co-Founder, United Mobile Apps (UMA) is also the Technology Editor of YourStory.in. His interests are Mobile / Wireless technologies (esp LTE) , Mobile Operating Systems and Cloud Computing. He has a special liking for dynamic programming languages (esp Python) and dabbles in Ruby, F# and Lisp occasionally.
Sriram was part of the team that had a vision of integrating Mobile and the Cloud as early as 2009. UMA was one of the early adopters of Azure, with their solution (www.usyncworld.com) going live in 2010. It was a unique blend of Open Source Technologies (Glassfish, Java EE) on Microsoft Azure.
Sriram is also the author of ‘Embedded Realtime Systems Programming’ for Tata McGrawHill and has a couple of patents (pending) in the domain of Wireless Schedulability, Dynamic Programming languages.

Srishti Ojha, Founding Partner, Verist Law
Srishti Ojha is the founding partner of Verist Law. Srishti graduated in 2002 from National Law ?School of India University, Bangalore,? with a B.A.LL.B.(Hons.) and a gold medal in international law and holds an LL.M. from New York University School of Law?.
Srishti has several years of ?advisory and ?transactional experience ? ?including listed buy-outs, securities laws, regulatory and advisory including exchange control regulations and ongoing corporate compliance.