Our speakers

Swarup Mohanty, CEO, Mirae Asset Investment Managers (India)

Swati Bhargava, Co-founder, CashKaro.com | @Cashkarocom

Swati Bhargava is the Co-Founder of CashKaro.com, India’s largest Cashback & Coupons site. At CashKaro, Swati spearheads the Marketing & Business Development team and is responsible for Investor Relations. She is amongst the top 10 women entrepreneurs in Indian ecommerce industry as quoted by Economic Times and one of the top social media influencers in the country. Swati has also represented India at the coveted Blackbox Connect - Female Founders Edition - powered by Google in Silicon Valley, California and is an active keynote speaker in India and internationally.

Swati is an alumnus of the London School of Economics and has worked at Goldman Sachs in London for 5 years before starting UK Cashback business Pouring Pounds along with her husband & Co-Founder, Rohan. The couple launched CashKaro.com in April 2013 in India and pioneered the concept of cashback. CashKaro works with 1000+ retailers including Amazon.in, Jabong, Paytm, ShopClues etc and its members can earn up to 30% Extra Cashback on their online orders.

CashKaro.com raised Rs 25 crores in its Series A funding led by Kalaari Capital, one of India’s leading venture capital firms and recently raised undisclosed amount from Ratan Tata, chairman Emeritus of Tata Sons.

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Swati Gupta, Founder, Industrybuying.com | @industrybuying

She has an experience of over 12 years in Management Consulting, Supply Chain Management and Private Equity Operational Advisory Business. Swati pursued BE in Computer Science from Delhi College of Engineering and completed her MBA from Carnegie Mellon University. Her professional career began with the role of a consultant in the reputed firm, Bain and Co., located in Boston. She further supervised the setting up of India Operations at Opera Solutions-a famed Data Analytics company based in New York, growing it to 100+ employee strength.

Swati Mehta, Director - Healthcare, o3 Capital

Swati has over 15 years of deal-making experience across Private Equity, Mergers & Acquisitions and Equity Capital Markets. She has concluded transactions aggregating to $1.6 Billion in Healthcare and related verticals.

Prior to joining o3 Capital, Swati has worked in the Investment Banking division of UBS, Equirus Capital and IDFC.

She is a Chartered Financial Analyst, (CFA Institute, USA), holds an MBA degree from Symbiosis University and is a graduate from Shri Ram College of Commerce.

Swayamjit Mishra, Partner, BCG

Swet Sarika, Assistant Editor, VCCircle

T C Meenakshisundaram, Founder & Managing Director, IDG Ventures India

Mr. TC Meenakshisundaram (TCM) is Founder & Managing Director of IDG Ventures India Advisors. He has over 32 years of industry experience, including 13 years of venture experience. Mr. Meenakshisundaram serves on the Board of Lenskart, Zivame, Agrostar, Fintellix, e-Shakti, Creditmantri, Cloudcherry among others. Earlier as part of Walden International’s team, he was involved with investments in Mindtree, Venture Infotek and Jobstreet. Prior to IDG Ventures, Mr. Meenakshisundaram served as the Chief Financial Officer and President - Corporate Services at Venture Infotek, a leading payments processing company in India. Prior to Walden International, he has worked for 14 years at Wipro where he last served as General Manager - eCommerce Division. Mr. TCM Meenakshisundaram is a Charter Member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), Chennai and a Chartered Accountant by qualification.

T K Kurien, Chief Executive Officer, Premji Invest (PI)

T K Kurien (TK) is the Chief Executive Officer at Premji Invest. PI is the investment office sponsored by Mr Azim Premji, Chairman of Wipro Ltd.

Prior to his current role TK was Vice Chairman & CEO of Wipro Ltd.

In his career spanning over three decades, TK has held several leadership positions encompassing strategic and operational roles.

TK began his career with Wipro in 2000 and has been instrumental in building and scaling many of Wipro’s successful businesses. As a transformational and inspirational leader, he has started and also scaled several diverse businesses in Wipro including Wipro Eco Energy an analytical startup, Business Process Services, Media, Telecom and Consulting business divisions at Wipro. TK is credited with playing a catalytic role in achieving global recognition and leadership for these businesses.

A strong votary of women’s rights, TK is a recipient of the 2014 Women’s Empowerment Principles (WEPs) Leadership Award -- a joint initiative of UN Women and the UN Global Compact – for Wipro’s proactive commitment to gender equality.

In May 2014, the American India Foundation, committed to catalyzing social and economic change in India honored TK for his corporate and philanthropic leadership.

TK also served on the International Business Council of the World Economic Forum as well as being a member of the Technology subcommittee of the World Economic Forum.

Before joining Wipro, TK served as the Managing Director of GE X Ray from October 1997 to January 2000. Prior to that, he was the CFO of GE Medical Systems (South Asia).

An influential speaker, TK is a Chartered Accountant by training and has several technology patents to his credit. He has an abiding interest in strategy and history and is an avid runner.

T N Giridhar, CEO India & Managing Director, Lincoln International

T. N. Giridhar is a Managing Director and CEO of Lincoln International’s India office. In this capacity, Giridhar is responsible for the overall strategy and business development of Lincoln India. He is also involved in extending the firm’s network in its key neighboring countries. Giridhar has over 20 years experience in the financial services business in Mumbai, Hong Kong and London. He has worked with public listed and private companies; worked on capital raising through public listings, Private Equity transactions, bond placements, M&A transactions in India, Europe and cross-border with financial and strategic buyers.

Prior to joining Lincoln International in 2011, T.N. Giridhar worked with ICICI Securities, India’s leading Investment bank as head of Advisory and head of Financial Institutions group. Before moving to ICICI, Giridhar worked as Director - India Business at Arkios Ltd, a UK based mid-market specialist. Prior to joining Arkios he worked as Associate Director at Communications Equity Associates, a US headquartered firm and prior to that as Vice President at Kotak Securities - Goldman Sachs. T.N. Giridhar holds an MBA degree from Sri Sathya Sai University and a B. Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Andhra University.

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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.