Our speakers

Toshan Tamhane, Sr. Partner, Mckinsey & Co.

Toshan is a Senior Partner in the Mumbai office of McKinsey & Company and joined the firm in 2002. Toshan leads McKinsey’s Payments Practice across Asia, helping traditional banks as well as fin-tech innovators think through their business models, operating strategies, technology issues etc. He also works extensively with private equity funds, SWFs and institutional investors on improving the value from their investments. His other interests include education and public policy. His expertise covers 2 main areas Financial Services & Payments and Corporate Finance and Transaction Advisory.

Toshan is an avid writer and has co-authored several external McKinsey publications over the last few years – ‘India Private Equity – Route to resurgence’ (2015), ‘Mutual Funds – Riding the wave of opportunity & optimism (2015)’, ‘Conglomerate value-creation in the next decade (2012)’, ‘India Banking 2010’, ‘Indian Asset Management Landscape 2012’, ‘Towards Superior Risk Management in Banking’(2009), and ‘New arenas in Indian banking (2013)’. Toshan also has significant buy-side experience, having worked with a leading private equity fund in India, focusing on investments in the financial services and infrastructure space.Toshan has done his Bachelors in Commerce from the University of Bombay and has received his M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad before joining McKinsey.

Tr Srinivas, MD, o3 Capital

T R Srinivas is a MD and co-founder of o3 Capital. Srinivas leads the firm’s investment banking activities in the Industrials and Real Estate sectors.  He has over 16 years of experience and has advised on more than 30 completed transactions totaling to more than INR 10,000 Crores in aggregate value.

Prior to founding o3 Capital, Srinivas headed the India investment banking operations of TAIB Bank, a leading Middle East based investment bank. Srinivas is a CFA and a M. Com from Bangalore University.

Tridibesh Satpathy, CEO, Edusys

Tridibesh is the Founder and CEO of Edusys Services Pvt Limited, a leading global test prep and certification technology platform company with offices in US, UK, India, Germany, Hong Kong and Singapore. Boot-strapped by Tridibesh in 2005 with an investment of Rs. 3 lakhs, Edusys currently has 150,000+ customers from more than 3,500 companies and over 150 countries. In 2011, Edusys was ranked the 5th fastest growing IT company by the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 India Program, and in 2012 Edusys was awarded the Top 100 Asia Red Herring Award - which recognizes the top 100 entrepreneurial companies in Asia-Pacific Region. The company has always been profitable and recently got growth funding from Sequoia Capital.

Tridibesh has done his Senior Mangement Program from Wharton Business School, MBA from IIM Lucknow and Mechanical Engineering from IIT - BHU. Before Edusys, he had worked several companies including IBM, American Express, Wachovia Bank, TCS and Unit Trust of India. An accomplished trainer, Tridibesh has personally taught classes in fields like adult learning techniques, project management, negotiation, quality, human resources, risk management and Information Technology to hundreds of students in US, UK, Australia, Germany, Singapore, Hong Kong, India, UAE and other countries.

He was also the founder and CEO of ExcelAtExams.com, an education venture which he sold to IMS in 2001.

TS Ashwin, MD, Odyssey India Ltd

T.S. Ashwin, Managing Director, Odyssey India Limited, the company that manages the ‘Odyssey’ chain of retail stores, is a first generation entrepreneur. From pursuing C.A., to a stint in Software as a Software Analyst and then onto retailing, Mr. Ashwin is someone who has now been part of the retail industry for more than 15 years.

The first ‘Odyssey’ store was set-up in 1995 in Adyar, a suburb of Chennai. Now there are over 50 stores across various formats spread over 12 cities in India.  While the expansion for ODYSSEY continues, he has now taken the company beyond books and music into niche and lifestyle segments of eyewear, premium writing instruments and toys with the launch of 3 new store concepts to retail them - STYLE i, EDITIONS and TOYOPIA.

Mr. Ashwin has since sold his entire stake in Odyssey India Limited to Deccan Chronicle, the media company, but continues to drive the business.

Tushar Ahluwalia, Co Founder & CEO, StalkBuyLove | @StalkBuyLove

Tushar, an LBS alumni, is the Co-founder and CEO of StalkBuyLove - a fashion focused private label eCommerce company with a unique tech-enabled supply-chain model. Prior to StalkBuyLove, he was the co-founder & CEO of Westwing Group's (Rocket Internet) Indian operations at HeavenAndHome.com, where he built country-wide eCommerce operations in India. 
Tushar believes that a "‎High net realised CLV is the solution to Indian eCommerce".
 

Tushar Kumar, CEO, Medlife

Tushar belongs to the promoter group of India’s leading pharmaceutical company. He comes from a family of Pharma entrepreneurs and was briefly involved in the family-run Alkem Laboratories. He has a rich experience of e-commerce & Pharma business in the global space.

Tushar is an Economics & Statistics graduate. While still in college, he started an international marketing company and with the first venture, itself, he was successful in creating a global footprint. Tushar later joined his family business for the next 3 years and this stint helped him understand better the intricacies of running a business.

Tushar Mehendale, MD, ElectroMech

Tushar Mehendale, Managing Director, ElectroMech, BE (Mechanical Engineering) from Government College of Engineering, Pune (COEP), brings to ElectroMech not only engineering penchant & drive but also the vision of customer focus and service. Following his graduation from COEP, Mr. Mehendale went on to acquire a MS degree from University of Wisconsin, USA in Manufacturing Systems, Engineering & Engineering Management. Mehendale at the age of 24, took over the management responsibility of ElectroMech in January 2000 after the sudden demise of his father Mr. Vinayak Mehendale.

Tushar looks after the entire management of the company and is responsible for the overall coordination of Manufacturing, Design, Sales, Marketing, Administration, Finance, Human Resources & Planning departments. He has been responsible for setting up the largest crane manufacturing facility in the country spread over an area of 10,000 sq meters at Pirangut, near Pune.

Tushar Poddar, MD & Chief Economist, Goldman Sachs

Tushar is chief India economist for Goldman Sachs in Mumbai and is a senior member of the Asia Economics, Commodities and Strategy Research team. He has written thematic pieces on a wide range of topics, including India's growth potential, urbanization, infrastructure, demographics, and developing the corporate bond market in India. Tushar joined Goldman Sachs in 2006 and was named managing director in 2011.

 

Prior to joining the firm, Tushar was an economist at the International Monetary Fund for five years in the Middle-East, African, and Fiscal Affairs departments. He has published papers on international trade, monetary and fiscal policy.

 

Tushar is a member of a policy group on capital flows for infrastructure financing led by the Reserve Bank of India. Tushar earned a PhD and MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Tushar S. Vagal, Head IT, L&T Realty

Mr. Tushar Vagal is the CIO of Larsen & Toubro Realty since Feb 2013. He is a bachelor of Engineering in Production (1990 batch) from Fr Agnel, Bombay, India. He worked on Shopfloors of “Crompton Greaves” & “CPEC CROFT Gear Box Ltd”. He has built career on Three Pillars of Engineering, Finance & Information Technology. He was a part of IT Startups ‘Vision’ & ‘Sahir Projects’ from 1994 for 11+ years.

Tushar Vagal, CIO & Head- Digital, Larsen & Toubro Realty