Our speakers

Anant Kochhar, Founder, Yippster Technologies

Anant is the co-founder of Yippster, an Indian operator billing startup. Yippster's mission is to usher in the future of operator billing, and to harness the full potential of this payment system for the growth of premium paid content and mobile apps ecosystem.

Anant was previously working in the field of cyber security for 6 years, mainly as a consultant with National Informatics Center(NIC). He dropped out from his engineering and math BS degree at New Mexico Tech, and is an autodidact.

Anant Kulkarni, Managing Partner, Milestone Religare Investment Advisors Pvt Ltd

Anant jointly leads the management of Milestone Religare and has more than 19 years of overall work experience of which around 17 years were in the financial services & the Indian PE & VC capital markets. In his earlier organization he was overseeing US$ 225 mn investments into sectors including manufacturing, auto components, life sciences, media and entertainment. Earlier to this he served at JM Financial as Executive Director, IL&FS Investment Managers, UTI Exchange & BOI Finance.

He is a B.E. Mechanical from PDA Engineering College, Gulbarga University, Karnataka, Executive Special Management Programme from IIM Calcutta.

Ananta Barua, Executive Director, SEBI

Mr. Barua has been with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) since 1992 till date. He is currently holding charge of the Investment Management Department - Division of Funds 1, 2 & 3, Debt Markets, Alternative Investment Funds (AIF), Portfolio Management Schemes (PMS), Investment Advisory Services, Mutual Funds, Foreign Institutional Investors and Custodians (FIIC), Collective Investment Schemes (CIS), Parliamentary Affairs and Regional Offices.

 

Mr. Barua has been associated with various responsibilities including the development of policy, framing of regulations on securities market. He is also associated with developing the regulatory framework governing the capital market in India (SEBI-1992-2011) and Bahrain Monetary Agency (BMA), Kingdom of Bahrain (BMA/CBB-2004-2006).

 

Prior to joining SEBI in 1992, Mr. Barua worked with the Industrial Finance Corporation of India from 1990. He was also the advisor at the Bahrain Monetary Agency (BMA)/ Central Bank of Bahrain between 2004 & 2006.

 

Mr. Barua holds Bachelor's degree in Commerce and a Bachelors degree in Law (LLB) both from the University of Delhi. He has also acquired a Diploma in Management from Delhi.

Ananth N G, Whole Time Member, SEBI

Mr. Ananth Narayan is currently a Whole Time Member of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), looking after Market Regulation Department (MRD), Alternative Investment Fund and Foreign Portfolio Investors Department (AFD), Enforcement, Enquiries & Adjudication Department (EAD), Office of Investor Assistance & Education (OIAE), and Department of Economic & Policy Analysis (DEPA).

Prior to this current role, Ananth has had extensive experience of academia, governance, and international banking.

Between 2018 and 2022, Ananth was an Associate Professor at S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research (SPJIMR), Mumbai. He also served on several boards, including as Independent Director on SBI Capital Markets, Additional Director (appointed by RBI) on Yes Bank Ltd., Public Interest Director (appointed by SEBI) on NSE Clearing Limited.

Between 2009 and 2017, Ananth was with Standard Chartered Bank, last as Managing Director & Regional Head of Financial Markets, ASEAN and South Asia. Between 2006 & 2009, he was with Deutsche Bank, last as Managing Director, Global Rates, South Asia. Between 1993 & 2005, he was with Citigroup, last as Director, Financial Markets, South Asia.

Ananth has also served on several RBI and SEBI committees and working groups.

Ananth holds a Post-graduate Diploma in Management from Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, and is a Bachelor of Technology (Electrical Engineering) from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

Ananth Narasimhan, CEO & Founder, At your price

Ananth Narasimhan is the CEO of Atyourprice.in which is a distressed inventory travel site which allows users to bid for a flight ticket, on a reverse auction model.

With a B.Tech from IIT-Madras and a Masters from the University of Illinois, Urbana, Narasimhan worked for United Airlines in Chicago and as an airline consultant for Sabre. Returning to India, he focused on creating software for the travel industry, played the role of consultant for Jet Airways to set up the revenue management department, and started Ghumo.com - an online travel search engine, before co-founding Atyourprice with funding from Mumbai Angels.

Ananth Narayanan, CEO, Myntra | @myntra

Ananth Narayanan is the Chief Executive Officer at Myntra, the country’s largest m-commerce platform for fashion and lifestyle products. He is responsible to drive Myntra's aspiration to transform how people shop for fashion online and also focus on building category leading Fashion brands.

Featured as one of “India's Hottest 40 under 40 Business Leaders” in 2014, Ananth has deep expertise in driving performance improvement and has a particular passion for product development. Prior to joining Myntra, Ananth was a Director at Mckinsey & Company and has worked with the firm for 15 years across four offices (Chicago, Shanghai, Taipei and Chennai). His role entailed leading the Product Development practice in Asia and working with companies on strategy, operations and organisation. He has successfully helped companies streamline operations and supply, improve product development, develop strategies, business plans and organisational models.

Ananth has a Bachelor degree in Engineering from University of Madras and a Masters from the University of Michigan, in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research. He is on the Industry Advisory Board of University of Michigan’s Tauber Institute.

Ananthan NS, Senior Investment Officer, IFC

"Ananthan is a Senior Investment Officer with International Finance Corporation (World Bank Group) in the Manufacturing, Agribusiness & Services group and leads Agribusiness investments for IFC in South Asia. He has over 17 years of experience across Private Equity, M&A / Corporate Finance and Client Coverage in a wide range of sectors in India. Prior to joining IFC, Ananthan has worked with Standard Chartered Bank, Kotak Investment Banking and IL&FS. He holds a PGDM from Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad and Bachelor's degree in Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani."

Ananya Birla, Founder, Chairperson and Director, Svatantra Microfinance

Ananya Birla founded Svatantra Microfinance Pvt. Ltd at the age of 17 and in just over three years as the Chairperson and MD, she has established herself as a successful entrepreneur. When the risk perception in the industry was very high, Ananya in her independent capacity, played a significant role in changing minds in the regions where Svatantra operates. She is currently the Co-Chairperson of ASSOCHAM's Microfinance Council of India. Under her leadership Svatantra has won the “Gold Award for Best Start-Up” (Skoch Financial Inclusion and Deepening Awards, 2014), “Spirituality @ Work: Sach Bharat Samman” (Sach Bharat Confluence 2015) and has maintained a quality loan portfolio, offering one of the lowest interest rates in the country. She has also won titles like 'Leading Woman in Microfinance' (iiGlobal Business Information Pvt Ltd) and ‘Corporate Debutant’ (Hello! Hall of Fame Awards 2016) amongst others. One of the fastest growing microfinance institutions, Svatantra is differentiated by a 0% default rate as well as 100% cashless disbursements, and has been a driving catalyst for change in the industry. Svatantra is also currently pioneering cashless collections. True to her entrepreneurial spirit, Ananya is currently in the process of launching another venture in the ecommerce space, which revolves around travel and design. She has also co-founded the MPower movement, an awareness initiative to alleviate the stigma associated with mental health. 

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Ananya Tripathi, SVP Planning & Strategy, Myntra

Ananya Tripathi currently heads Strategy & Planning at Myntra. Her focus areas include framing Myntra’s business approach, planning and investments (organic and inorganic) based on deep understanding of consumer behaviour, evolving landscape of e-commerce and data backed insights across all business areas.

Ananya has over a decade of experience in strategy, operations and technology across her stints at Myntra, being an Associate Partner at McKinsey and a Software Engineer at TCS. A gold medalist of her Computer Engineering and MBA degree from Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode, Ananya is passionate about making 10x impact happen on the ground.

Anchit Nishant, Customer Engineer, Google Cloud