Our speakers

Sukanto Aich, Director, Times Private Treaties

Sukanto Aich is a Senior Executive with a proven track record of building successful businesses, delivering rapid revenue growth and creating operational structures to sustain growth and profitability. In his current capacity as Director for BCCL Private Treaties, Sukanto leads a group of professionals who works with their portfolio clients to enhance Enterprise Value.

In his previous assignment Sukanto was the COO for the Enterprise Services business of Bharti Airtel for its South Hub operations managing revenues in excess of Rs. 1000 crores and working closely with leading corporate clients in the IT and ITES space.

Sukanto has done his MBA from IIM Calcutta and has worked closely with the senior management teams in leading Indian organisations like Bharti Airtel and HCL Group.

He likes reading and travelling. One of his recent memorable trips was to Egypt and he is currently working on a biography of Barrack Obama, the president of USA.

Sukesh Chandra Gain, Senior Vice President & Head of Revenue and Operations, Birla Fertility & IVF

Sukhmeet Singh, Career (Talent) Consulting and M&A Transaction Services Leader – India, Mercer

Sukhmeet is a Principal Consultant and leads the M&A Transaction Services and Career (Talent) Consulting business of Mercer in India. Sukhmeet has more than a decade of consulting experience and has led projects across 10+ countries in Asia region. He has partnered with numerous Indian and multinational clients to address their human capital challenges resulting from business transformation, restructuring and various types of transactions including mergers, acquisitions and divestitures from pre-deal to post-deal integration stages. In the last 6+ years at Mercer, he has advised on nearly 50 M&A transactions in diverse industries like IT / ITeS, Telecom, Pharmaceuticals, Manufacturing, etc. including some of the biggest deals in the region.

Sukhmeet has an MBA degree from XLRI, India and holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Computers) degree from Mumbai University.

Suku Bhaskaran, Director, GD Goenka World Institute

Professor Suku Bhaskaran, PhD Monash University (Australia), has served in senior academic positions in top-tier international institutions including Victoria University (Australia), The Melbourne University (Australia) and The Pennsylvania State University (USA). He commenced his sojourn in India in 2010 as a Visiting Professor (Strategic Management) at the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode. In late 2011 he joined GD Goenka World Institute-Lancaster University.

Suku has an international research, teaching, training and consultancy profile: lead-managed more than 40 major research, training and consultancy projects in countries such as Australia, China, Thailand, Malaysia, Myanmar and Indonesia; published more than 100 articles in top-tier scholarly and professional journals; received awards, honors and citations for research excellence and academic leadership; serves on the Editorial Board of several international scholarly journals; addresses various industry and academic fora in several countries as an Invited Speaker; served as Consultant to the Australian Government’s “Excellence in Research for Australia” initiative; served as Intreader (Reviewer of International Standing) for the Australian Research Council (Australia’s peak R&D Agency).

Sulakshan Kumar, Co-Founder & Director, Mysmartprice

Sumant Batra, Insolvency Lawyer, President, Insolvency Law Academy

Sumant Batra is an insolvency lawyer of global eminence. A Distinguished Fellow of the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs, and Visiting Professor of National Law University, Delhi, Batra is ranked amongst the top 30 global restructuring lawyers.  He also holds the distinction of being the only International Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy from India.

As senior consultant to the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank Group, OECD, and Asian Development Bank, he has been deeply involved in insolvency reforms, globally. He has also been deeply engaged in development of the insolvency policy and industry in India, and is considered as one of the key architects of Indian insolvency industry.

He is Past President of INSOL International and holds the distinction of being the youngest and the only Asian ever to have been elected as President of the 43 years old global organisation representing the insolvency industry.

Ranked as No. 1 insolvency lawyer of the country for many consecutive years, he has advised in nearly all big insolvency cases.

He is the Founder of Insolvency Law Academy,  the country’s first institute of excellence in insolvency set up to complement the efforts of the policy makers and market institutions in developing a robust insolvency framework and industry in India and beyond.

Batra’s book, Corporate Insolvency Principles and Practice is considered amongst the most authoritative scholarly work on insolvency. His most recent book, The Jaypee Infra Insolvency Saga, tells the story of India’s most complex insolvency case.

Sumant Kasliwal, Founder & CEO, 20Dresses.com

Sumant Kasliwal is Founder & CEO of 20Dresses.com, an online fashion personalisation and styling destination for women. Sumant is a Chartered Account and started his career with Arthur Andersen. For most of his 15 yrs of professional career, he has worked in Private Equity & Venture Capital space with ICICI Venture focussing in investments in Technology, Media and Retail businesses. Sumant also headed the online business of STAR TV and Business Strategy at Microsoft before moving to entrepreneurship.

Sumant Sinha, Chairman, SaVant Advisers

Sumant Sinha is the Founder and Chairman of SaVant Advisers, a high end financial advisory and consulting firm.

Sumant was the COO at Suzlon Energy Ltd, the world's third largest renewable energy company where he oversaw the complete refinancing of debt as well as various functional areas for the company.

Prior to Suzlon, Sumant has served as group CFO for the Aditya Birla group as well as CEO of Aditya Birla Retail. He was responsible for some of the largest acquisitions by the group including Novelis and Idea Cellular.

Sumant has a B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management and a Masters degree from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.

Sumat Chopra, Co-founder & CEO, Ekstop.com

Previously worked as a Senior Associate at Goldman Sachs, New York with ten years of experiences across technology, retail, & other sectors in trading, investment banking and risk and also in private equity investing. He founded an online grocery shopping platform for college campuses and also worked for Microsoft. Born and raised in Mumbai, he moved to the U.S. to study computer science and business at Carnegie Mellon University and Harvard University. He has an MBA from INSEAD with an exchange at Wharton.

Sumedha Bose, AGM - Research and Solutions, Mosaic Digital

Sumedha is the Product Lead of Sales Edge, India’s only Growth Acceleration Platform. She is also responsible for c-suite research programs such as CFO research, CEO Research, and other CXO research conducted to understand the technology landscape of India. She is well established as a sought-out advisor to many industry technology provider leaders across multiple functions such as marketing, sales and product solution development helping them understand the nuances and deal with the dynamism of the market at large.