Our speakers

Srikant Krishnan, Co-founder, dMACQ

Srikant is a Chartered Accountant with 20+ years of experience with big-4 accounting firms. Of which 16+ years were in the mergers & acquisition arena with a focus on Private Equity. Srikant has spent 9+ years in Continental Europe and rest in India. He has worked on several cross-border and capital markets transactions and on various types of M&A deals including PIPEs, MBO, MBIs, LBOs, etc. Srikant brings core domain experience to dMACQ.

Srikant Sastri, Co-Founder, Crayon Data

Srikant Sastri provides strategic leadership as the co-founder of Crayon Data, the ambitious Singapore & India-based start-up, that aims to build a global business around Big Data.

Srikant is a seasoned entrepreneur and bridge-builder. As a successful entrepreneur Srikant had founded Solution - Digitas in 1995 and grew the company to become India and Southeast Asia’s leading marketing services agency. In 2005 he founded Team4U, India’s largest sales force staffing company. Both businesses achieved scale (2000employees, and 15,000 employees respectively) and market leadership before being acquired.

In his most-recent role as VivaKi India Chairperson, Srikant drove an ambitious M&A strategy to help the Publicis Groupe establish digital leadership in India, through the acquisitions of Resultrix, Convonix and Neev Technologies.

Respected as a leading marketing practitioner, Srikant started his career at Unilever and McCann – Erickson and has also driven a big initiative focused towards development issues in Indian society through an initiative called “Growth-for-all’, a movement that brought together individuals, corporations, and non-government organizations in a collaborative setting.

As an active Charter Member of TiE Delhi the Indian Angels Network, Srikant works closely with, and nurtures several tech start-ups, especially those that can make a social impact. Srikant also advises VivaKi and Razorfish-DigitasLBi on how to stay connected with emerging opportunities in the start-up eco-system.

Srikant is an engineer from IIT, Kanpur and an MBA from IIM, Calcutta and his other interests include current affairs, contemporary history, and economic development.

Srikanth Chunduri, Co-founder & Chief Operating Officer, Emart Solutions India

Srikanth Co-founded Emart Solutions in 2009, with a vision to harness the power of technology to help enterprises build sustainable customer experience. Being the Chief Operating Officer of Emart Solutions, he leads the company's overall growth and strategy. Under his leadership, Emart has a record of delivering consistent results, backed by execution excellence and client satisfaction. His ability to understand the unique requirements of clients and deliver novel solutions has transformed Emart as one of the most sought after loyalty services providers managing some of the largest loyalty and engagement programs for Fortune 500 and Forbes 100 companies.

Prior to Co-founding Emart, Srikanth was a Management Consultant with Mitchell Madison Group in New York, wherein he advised Fortune 500 firms on corporate strategy. Srikanth also had a stint as a Marketing Manager Prepaid at Alltel Wireless, a wireless service provider in US. He acquired his Undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Chennai and Postgraduate degree in Master of Engineering Management from Duke University. He is a member of Mensa America and has a passion for advising and mentoring early-stage startups in India.

Srikanth Gopalakrishnan, CIO for HR, Legal and Communications, Deutsche Bank Group

Since joining Deutsche Bank in 2020 as CIO for HR, Legal and Communications, Srikanth has been involved in evolving the Workday footprint in HR and has also been managing the Legal portfolio with the rollout of the new Document Management system for the bank.

With over 22 years of experience in the HR Technology domain, Srikanth has been involved in large projects in the US and India including building HR products for Peoplesoft, Oracle, SAP and Success Factors. He has spent the last five years building products for the manufacturing sector using IoT, Machine Learning and building Business networks at SAP for Industry 4.0.

Srikanth has an M.S in Electrical Engineering from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA and an Executive General Management Programme from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.

Srikanth Iyer, Co-Founder | CEO, HomeLane

Srikanth Nadhamuni, CEO, Khosla Labs India

Srikanth Nadhamuni is a technologist and entrepreneur who spent a decade and a half in California’s Silicon Valley designing CPUs, developing software products and creating internet startups.

 

Srikanth was inspired by his grandfather’s entrepreneurial zeal, who with his 10th grade education travelled globally, imported new equipment and technology and setup several companies in wood and plastics in Mysore, India.

 

Srikanth has a BE from the University of Mysore and an MS in Electrical Engineering from Louisiana State University. He worked at Sun Microsystems on the UltraSparc, the most successful CPU project at Sun. At Intel he worked on the Pentium projects. This was followed by a stint at Silicon Graphics creating an interactive TV platform. In 1996 he joined the initial team of Healtheon | WebMD, a Jim Clark and Kleiner Perkins startup. This was followed by GlobeTrades, an unsuccessful and highly educational startup failure. He moved to India in 2002 to work on social development initiatives and partnered with Nandan Nilekani (then CEO of Infosys) to start the eGovernments Foundation. This NGO focuses on improving municipal governance in 275+ Indian cities through the use of IT-enabled eGovernance products. Following that, he was made the Head of Technology by the UID Authority of India. He setup the Aadhaar technology centre that would design and develop a biometric-based Identity Management system for India’s 1.2 billion population.

 

Srikanth is currently the CEO of Khosla Labs which he and Vinod Khosla setup in Oct 2012.

Srikanth Narasimhan, Director, Veda Corporate Advisors

Srikanth manages client delivery and also leads the initiatives on the technology, internet & ITES sectors. He has over twelve years of well rounded experience in investment banking, private equity and corporate planning. He has advised & assisted many companies in their funding plans and M&A. He has also invested in companies, been on their boards, taken part in their growth strategies and successfully raised funds/acquired businesses for growth.

Earlier, Srikanth was with Ernst & Young, leading the private equity and M&A activities in the technology & services sectors. Prior to that, he was with ICICI Venture, the private equity arm of ICICI Bank (listed on NYSE), investing and managing a portfolio of investments in the IT / ITES sectors. He was also with RelQ Software, the leading software testing services firm in India, managing their corporate planning activities including acquiring a couple of businesses in Europe and raising a round of funding (both equity and debt) for the same. He has corporate experience as well, having worked with companies like TATA Motors and TATA Technologies.

Srikanth is an MBA from IIM Bangalore and holds an Engineering degree from BITS Pilani.

Srikanth Velamakanni, Co-Founder, Group Chief Executive and Executive Vice Chairman, Fractal

Srikanth Velamakanni is the Co-founder, Group Chief Executive and Executive Vice Chairman of Fractal. Fractal is a leading player in the artificial intelligence and transformative enterprise decision making space. Fractal’s mission is to power every human decision in the enterprise and to use the power of AI to help the world’s most admired Fortune 100 companies. Since Srikanth co-founded Fractal in 2000, the company has raised more than USD 300 million from institutional private equity investors. Fractal serves more than 100 Fortune 500 companies with its AI, data and analytics driven business strategies. Under his leadership, Fractal has developed several product lines within the company including Cuddle.ai, Eugenie.ai, Theremin.ai and Qure.ai. Srikanth is the Chair of the board of Qure.ai, that recently raised USD 16MM in funding, less than three years after incubation.

Srikanth is Co-founder and Trustee of Plaksha University, with a strong academic focus on core engineering, AIML and mathematics. Additionally, Plaksha promotes interdisciplinary learning by bringing together science and the liberal arts. A member of the NASSCOM Executive Council Srikanth serves as a subject matter expert on data and AI.

Srikanth’s passion for AI and analytics has made him a thought leader in the space and an admired public speaker. He considers himself a lifelong student of mathematics, behavioural economics, neuroscience and consumer behavior.

Srikrishna Dwaram, Partner, TrueNorth

Sri joined True North in 2006 and is based in Mumbai. He is responsible for investments in primarily Consumer & Technology sectors. He also supports the fundraising and investor relations teams.

Prior to joining True North, Sri was part of the founding team at Yes Bank and also worked in the planning & strategy team at ICICI Bank.

Sri graduated from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad after completing his B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from National Institute of Technology.

Srikrishna Ramamoorthy, Partner, Unitus Seed Fund

Srikrishna Ramamoorthy is a Partner with Unitus Seed Fund. He brings both entrepreneurial and investing perspectives with extensive experience in impact investing and BoP start-ups. Srikrishna joined Unitus Seed Fund in 2012 to setup and lead India operations for the fund. With 23 investments to date, Unitus Seed Fund is the leading venture seed fund supporting startups innovating for the masses in India.