Our speakers
T P Pratap, Co-founder & CMO, QwikCilver Solutions Pvt. Ltd
Pratap has over 15 years of experience in Strategic Marketing, Product Launch Initiatives, Media Campaign management and Public Relations. He has a passion for new media propositions and innovative ways of reaching out to consumers.
Pratap has been a part of many startup teams across segments and categories - setting up channels of distribution, product development and growing retail networks. He was involved in the launch of leading brands and companies across sectors in India like Timex watches across India, Lighting Business of Wipro Ltd, & Polyurethanes Paints Business of ICI.
He also has experience of the Middle East markets – having handled the marketing function at Kuwait Danish Dairy for the GCC markets for over 3 years.
Pratap has a Bachelors degree in Electronics & Electrical Engineering from BITS Pilani and an MBA from IIM Calcutta.
T R Srinivas, Director, o3 Capital Advisors
TR Srinivas is one of the founders of o3 Capital, and leads the firm investment banking activities in South India. Prior to founding o3 Capital, Mr Srinivas was with TAIB Bank, Bahrain and Jain Group of Institutions, Bangalore. At TAIB, he established their investment banking practice in India and was involved in various public listings, M&A and PE transactions. Mr Srinivas is a CFA from ICFAI, Hyderabad, and an M. Com from Bangalore University.
T S Kandhari, Executive Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Timmy is an Executive Director in the Financial Advisory Service Practice of PwC and also the Leader of the Entertainment & Media practice across India. He is a Chartered Accountant who has over 20 years of experience in corporate tax, domestic tax, international tax, business advisory services and management consulting. He has worked with large Indian and multinational clients in India as well as the United States. He currently has responsibility of Corporate Finance & Investment Banking product area in India.
Timmy has wide experience in mergers & acquisitions. His experience encompasses a broad range of industries including consumer products, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, healthcare and financial services.
Timmy has worked for large domestic and multinational clients and has assisted companies in their proposed expansion plans, strategic alliances joint ventures.
T T Srinivasaraghavan, MD, Sundaram Finance Limited
Mr.Srinivasaraghavan is a graduate in Commerce and holds a Masters in Business Administration from the Gannon University, Pennsylvania.
He began his career as a banker, before moving to Sundaram Finance Limited in 1983. Starting his career as a department manager in the company, he was elevated as its Managing Director in 2003.
Mr.Srinivasaraghavan has over 40 years of experience in the banking and financial services sector and is associated with leading trade related organisations including the International Finance and Leasing Association, UK, of which he is a past President. He is a past Chairman of Equipment Leasing Association (India) and Finance Industry Development Council, the Self Regulatory Organisation for Asset Financing NBFCs. He has served on various Committees constituted by the RBI on NBFC related matters.
Mr.Srinivasaraghavan serves as a Director on the Boards of several companies. He is also a Past President of the 180 year old Madras Chamber of Commerce & Industry.
Mr Srinivasaraghavan was ranked among India's Top 100 CEOs, for three years in succession, 2013 and 2014 & 2015 in the Business Today- PWC rankings and was conferred the Baroda Sun Achievement Award for Leadership, in 2018.
A keen sportsman, Mr.Srinivasaraghavan is widely travelled and has an avid interest in photography.
T V Raghunath, MD & CEO, Kotak Mahindra Capital Company
TV Raghunath is the MD & CEO of Kotak Investment Banking. Prior to this, Raghunath was Head – Group Strategy at Kotak Mahindra Bank.
Raghunath joined the Kotak Mahindra group in 1998 with the investment bank. During his decade-long tenure at Kotak Investment Banking till 2008, he was instrumental in building the M&A franchise of the firm. He has advised a number of clients including, Wal-Mart on its India entry strategy, Standard & Poor’s on its acquisition of CRISIL and Bombay Stock Exchange on its demutualization, among many others.
Whilst Raghunath has assisted several Indian and multinational corporates in their growth and restructuring plans, he is a specialist in Restructuring, Valuations, Deal structuring, Joint ventures and India Entry services. Prior to joining the Kotak Mahindra group in 1998, Raghunath was a Partner with
S.B. Billimoria & Co. which represents Deloitte in India. Raghunath brings to bear a multi-disciplinary background, being an Engineer (IIT, Madras), MBA (IIM, Bengaluru) and a FCA (Chartered Accountant), and with advisory services
experience of over 25 years in various management disciplines, especially financial advisory services.
T. R. Ramachandran, Group Country Manager, India and South Asia, Visa
T.R. Ramachandran is Visa's Group Country Manager for India and South Asia. He is responsible for all strategy development and business operations of Visa in India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Maldives and Bhutan.
Ram is also focused on driving the company's innovation strategy which includes growing eCommerce, mobile payments, deepening the acceptance footprint, and building an electronic payments ecosystem which is secure and reliable. He will be instrumental in enhancing cashless payments and supporting financial inclusion in the region. Ram brings a wealth of knowledge to Visa with more than 25 years' experience across retail banking, payment products, wealth management and insurance.
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T. Shivaraman, Vice Chairman, Orient Green Power
Mr. T Shivaraman, aged 45 is the Managing Director & CEO of Shriram EPC Ltd., a flagship Company of the renowned SHRIRAM Group, headquartered in Chennai.
Mr Shivaraman is an under graduate in Chemical Engineering and a post
graduate in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras. He started his career as a Management Trainee at ICI India Limited with its fertilizer plant in Kanpur and has 23 years of experience in plant operations and project engineering. He has been involved in engineering, procurement and construction business since 1992. He has experience in technical handling of projects, studying its viability and feasibility and overall in-charge of technology and tie up of technical collaboration with domestic and foreign parties.
T.R. Ramachandran, Group Country Manager, India and South Asia, Visa
T.R. Ramachandran is Visa’s Group Country Manager for India and South Asia. He is responsible for all strategy development and business operations of Visa in India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Maldives and Bhutan.
Ram is also focused on driving the company’s innovation strategy which includes growing eCommerce, mobile payments, deepening the acceptance footprint, and building an electronic payments ecosystem which is secure and reliable. He will be instrumental in enhancing cashless payments and supporting financial inclusion in the region. He brings a wealth of knowledge to Visa with more than 25 years’ experience across retail banking, payment products, wealth management and insurance.
Prior to joining Visa, Ram was the Managing Director of Aviva Life Insurance in India for six years, over which time he contributed to significant organizational change which resulted in overall company growth. Before that he was with Citibank, N.A, for 19 years, serving as the Country Head of Cards and Head of Retail Banking, India. During his time there he held positions in marketing, product management, mortgages and business banking, and was part of the start-up team that launched consumer banking products.
Ram has a MBA from the Bharathidasan Institute of Management and is an alumnus of the CSEP Management Program from Columbia Business School, New York. He is an avid reader, volunteer and golfer.
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T.R. Ramachandran, Group Country Manager India & South Asia, Visa
T.V. Mohandas Pai, Co-Founder & Chairperson, Aarin Capital
In a career spanning over 30 years, Mohandas Pai has served in the areas of finance, accounting, information technology, human resources, education, social impact innovation, policy formulation, heritage preservation, philanthropy, and the venture and startup ecosystem.
Mohan is currently the Chairman of Aarin Capital, Chairman of Manipal Global Education, an Advisor to the Board of Manipal Education and Medical Group, a Member of the Boards of Havells India, a Member of the Board of Ascendas Property Fund Trustee, the Trustee-Manager of Ascendas India Trust, Member of the Boards of Manipal University and the Institute of Public Enterprises, Chairman of the FICCI Skills Committee, President of the All India Management Association, Chairman of the Regulatory and Financial Technology Committee of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (“SEBI”), Founder-Trustee of the Akshaya Patra Foundation, an Investment Committee Member of the SIDBI India Aspiration Fund and the India Fund of Funds, and a Member of the Board of the National Stock Exchange of India.
He was awarded the Padma Shri award by the President of India in 2015 and the Karnataka Rajyotsava Award in 2004. Mohan has helped launch over 14 different investment vehicles across private equity and venture capital which have cumulatively invested in over 250 companies with a capital base of $400+ Million. Mohan is also an Investment Committee Member of the SIDBI India Aspiration Fund and the India Fund of Funds which has a corpus of $1.8 Billion. His family office has invested in over 30 different investment vehicles to grow the startup ecosystem in the country. He is consistently named as one of India’s top angel investors.
Mohan served as a Member of the Board and CFO at Infosys, one of India’s largest software services companies. He was voted ’CFO of the Year’ multiple times - ‘CFO of the Year’ in 2001 by IMA India, the ‘Best CFO in India’ award from Finance Asia in 2002, and ‘Best Chief Financial Officer in India’ in the Best Managed Companies poll conducted by Asia Money in 2004. At Infosys, he also spearheaded the first listing of an India-registered company on NASDAQ and the first sponsored secondary offering of American Depositary Shares by an Indian company, besides leading multiple business units over 17 years.In 2000, he co-founded the Akshaya Patra Foundation, Bangalore - a mid-day meal program for school children. Today, this program feeds over 1.6 million children each day in 13,500+ government schools across twelve Indian states. Mohan also supports over a dozen other non-profit institutions and organizations in multiple impact areas in India.
Mohan holds a bachelor’s degree in commerce as a University Rank Holder from St. Joseph’s College of Commerce, Bangalore, a bachelor’s degree in law (LLB) from Bangalore University, and is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India as an All-India Rank Holder. He is based in Bangalore, India.